Red Envelope Day

Do you know about Red Envelope Day??

I found out about it through various websites and e-mails and wanted to share.
We all know where the new President stands on abortion. This week many folks are sending him a message (literally!) in RED......
Here are the details:Get a RED envelope.

On the front address it to:
The White House
President Barak Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

On the back of the envelope write this message (or something similar):
This envelope represents one child that died because of an abortion. It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of this world. Responsibility begins with conception.

No need to put anything inside the envelope! Just seal it, stamp it, and send it off.....on/around March 31st!

Please join me, and the thousands of others, by sending a quiet, yet powerful statement by filling the President's mailbox with these RED letters!It's no coincidence that they will be arriving around Holy Week.

If you have further questions, you can go here to find out more about the project.

Day 25

"I want to ride the Daddy Horse, the wild Daddy Horse!" -Megan

"Is the Daddy Horse out there?"- Hannah (from inside the bathroom, with fear in her voice that she might be suddenly attacked by the Daddy Horse upon exiting)

Day 24

No
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO
nOOOO
NNNNooo
no, no, no, no

These are all recent quotes by none other then my little "No Angel" Kate. It appears that "no" and "mine" are her new favorite words. Yeah for us.

Imagine the word "no" said in a high pitch, low pitch, drawn out, short and curt, repeated, loud, soft, happy and not so sweet voice. Those are all of the ways she says it!

Day 23

Passing a truck Meg exclaims, "mom, I saw a doughnut truck!"
Hannah replies with, "he must be taking doughnuts to people who don't have any."

This is all in reference to Grandma working at the food pantry and giving people food who don't have any right now.

Day 22

On the way home from church today (just meg and i in the car) I asked her what her story was about. This is how the conversation went.

Me: Meg, what was your story about in Sunday school today?
Meg: About a little boy.
Me: Was something wrong with that little boy?
Meg: No, he had some bread.
Me: What did he do with that bread?
Meg: He gave it to the disciples.
Me:What did they do with it?
Meg:They gave it to Jesus and he broke it into fishes.
Me:Wow! He made bread into fishes? Then what?
Meg: He gave it to all the people to eat.
Me: Was there enough or did they run out?
Meg: There was enough, they even had some left over!
Me: God really is BIG isn't He. He took a little boys lunch and fed a lot of people and even had some left!
Meg: Yeah mom, we sang "My God Is So Big" too.

Day 21

Charlie is currently taking classes on Saturday mornings as a review for a certification test that he will take later this year. The girls are very curious about his "school" and if it is like his. So as we were getting ready to head out to a pancake breakfast Meg started asking about his school. These were her questions:

Mom, what is daddy's teacher's name?
Does daddy sing songs at his school?
Does daddy sit down or stand up at his school? (I think this one came from walking by my classroom at BSF and seeing us stand to sing hymns).

I love how she tries to wrap her brain around stuff that she is unfamiliar but familiar with.

Day 20

On Meg's winter coat, a part of the zipper busted off. So...being the creative (not) mom that I am, I put a safety pin on so that she can zip it up with that. Hasn't been a problem for her at all.

However, out of no where, we were reading books on our bed and she asks me, "Will my safety pin grow up to be a zipper?"

In her eyes, everything is growing up to be something...

Day 19

Every morning there is a discussion that goes something along these lines at my house.
Mom: Hannah and Megan, go grab some clean panties before you put your clothes on.
M/H: Ok mom, what color do you have on today?
Mom: (whatever color)
M/H: I am going to wear (whatever color) today too.
Mom: Ok, go find some but M/H put some (whatever color) on too, so I don't know if there is another one that color.
M/H: I will go check to see if there are mom, ok?

Day 18

Kate: "hi Bubba"-usually said to either Lucy (cat) or Rudy (dog) in a high pitched slide.

This is, by the way, her second sentence. Her first being, "go dogs go." Which was also Megan's first sentence-also their favorite book at the time. Kate's vocabulary is starting to increase, her animal sounds are taking off, her love for music/dancing/singing is just beginning and her ability to chatter and boss her sisters around pretty funny to listen to.

Day 17

While talking about our recent trip to CA and our most favorite parts, I had this conversation with Megan.

Megan: I liked the Dumbo ride.
Me: Yes, and you liked the roller coaster too.
Megan: Yeah. I did. But Grandma Peggy didn't.
Me: Sure she did, why did you say she didn't like it?
Megan: Because she screamed the whole time.
Me: (laughing) Megan, that didn't mean she didn't like it. She really did like it, that is just what you do on roller coasters.

Day 16

Megan: "Mom, your daddy is in heaven?"
Me: "Yes, Meg"
Megan:"How did he get there?"
Me:"Jesus carried him."
Megan: "Did he carry your grandma too?"
Me: "Yup"

Day 15

Hannah: Can I play with my cousins after I sleep?

Meg: I LOVE my cousins!

Sophie, Grace, Georgia and Ainsley are here for the week. Along with their parents of course, my sister Abby and BIL Brandon. The girls are in heaven with their cousins here. Can't get enough! Very fun ages-all under 7. My three girls are squeezed in between her youngest two.

Day 14

Meg: Mom, why that truck doesn't have a head on it?

In reference to a semi truck that was missing the cab. She's my observant one. Can pick a "which one of these doesn't belong" thing out of the sky!

Day 13

The girls have a kid's cd that plays in my car. One song has a few lines and they go like this:

Jesus, Jesus
Come and live in my heart

This song has prompted many a conversations but I thought this one was especially sweet.

Hannah: Mom, does Jesus live in my heart?
Mom: Yes, Hannah-if you ask Him to.
Hannah: I have. Does He live in Kate's heart?
Mom: No, Kate has to ask Him to.
Hannah: (singing) Jesus, Jesus, come and live in Kate's heart.
Hannah: Now does Jesus live in Kate's heart?
Mom: Oh Hannah, that was very sweet but Kate needs to ask Jesus to live in her heart.
Hannah: But I sang and asked Him to live in her heart.
Mom: I know you did and that was super nice but Kate needs to do it on her own.

Oh my, doesn't that just melt you heart? I almost started crying when she sang her two little lines.

And the answer is....

chunks of throw up. Yes, she never even woke up. Backing up a little bit-Meg has had a pretty bad cough all week. So, it wasn't unusual to hear her hacking at night. Often I would go up and give her some water or re dose some cough med's to break it up for her. Well, she had been hacking so hard that it made her toss up some of what she ate for dinner. Not so fun but at least she didn't remember it so she wasn't traumatized by it.

Thanks for all of the great guesses both by email and commments but no one got it right. Twenty Angel points down the drain. Better luck next time!

Day 12

This is going to be a contest. Yes, the correct guess/answer will win 20 angel points.

Megan woke up this morning and said, "Mom, there are crumbs in my bed."

Now...I don't let them eat in bed. So here is the contest-what were the "crumbs" that Meg was talking about?

Day 11

Hannah came up to me with a whole ensemble of dress up clothes on frantically asking, "Mom, can you unsnap my blue bag (purse) so that I can put a credit card in it."

My, OH my are we in trouble. I think we should start movie nights with Dave Ramsey videos. Where does she learn this kind of stuff. Besides, I know what you are thinking but I don't even own a blue bag! Maybe every other color but not blue!

Day 10

As the girls were playing in the basement and I was on the main floor paying bills, I heard some crying and asked what was going on.

From the bottom of the stairs Meg shouts up, "I've got two crying girls down here!"

Day 9

All of us are a little under the weather here-runny noses and some coughs-nothing too serious. However, some serious situations can occur when we aren't feeling too well and one did today at lunch.

Hannah and Megan sit right across from each other and as they were eating their mac and cheese, Meg coughed and Hannah yelled, "Megan coughed a noodle at me!" True enough, when Meg coughed, a noodle flew out of her mouth across the table and landed in front of Hannah. Almost in her bowl!

Intermission Day 8

We colored Easter eggs today. Above is Hannah dipping an egg in the dye. Below is Meg doing the same. Both have their "headbands" on. Although Hannah's is more like a Rambo-band.

Meg adding the finishing touches with some glitter paint on the dried egg.

Charlie and I got away for a few days, sorry for the lack of posting. We haven't ever left the girls together at the same time, so after three years, we thought we might sneak away for two nights. We went up north to Shanty Creek, at in TC on the way up, skied all day and had dinner in Petosky. It was nice but so very strange to not have to worry about what time we ate or got up or what we did. Charlie kept saying, "you are being so indecisive." I was being indecisive because it didn't really matter, it was just fun being together.

So, back to our month of quotes.

Tonight at dinner I asked the girls if we could ever go away again for a couple of days.

Meg's response, "Yes."

Hannah's response, "No, you sleep here."

I guess that answers that. We'll be going away again in about three years.

Thank you Grandma Grandma and Grandma Linda for taking such great care of us while mom and dad were gone! You guys are the best!

Day 5

Every night since the girls have turned three, they play games with daddy at night before bed. Well, Grandma Linda came to visit for a few days and daddy was talking up how much Grandma Linda liked to play Uno.

So on our family walk before baths tonight, Megan said this to Grandma, "Daddy says that you are a good Uno-er."

Well Grandma's Uno skills proved true when she won a game later tonight. Hannah proclaimed, "Grandma, you ARE a good Uno-er!"

Day 4

Megan, "Mommy, can I wear some panties...on my head?"

Mommy, "Sure Meg."

Day 3

Mommy, "Megan, go get me a Kleenex so that I can wipe your nose."

Megan, "I just licked it."

Mommy, "Um...No. Now go and get me a Kleenex."

Day 2

This one makes me laugh more and more every time I say it out loud. Today, while eating lunch, Rudy had to go outside. Then Meg pronounces from her seat this statement, "Mom, if Rudy walks backwards...she'll fall down."

Mind you, Rudy is our dog. Have you ever seen or even thought of a dog walking backwards? What in the world made her think of that?!

The Month of March

This month I am going to try a new little something to keep me blogging. I have fallen off the wagon in a bad way and really...it's therapeutic to do. So, this month I am going to try and do a quote a day (from my little bundles of giggles, squeals and squeaks). I will try and post a picture too but that is a huge task in itself. I have to add that I was motivated to do this by a most important birthday Grandma today. So in honor of her special day...

As we were pulling out of the garage, still on the driveway, mind you-Hannah blows me over with this question.

"Mom, if God lives in my heart...how did He make me?"

On a side note: Sometimes I'll tell you my responses and other times we'll just let them be my little secret. That way you won't be able to tell how smart or not-I really am....