Thursday, June 02, 2005

Jonathan's Story

Today Jonathan wrote a short story.
His assignment was as follows:
Write me a story about a train ride. Use these words in your story -
forest
fun
conductor
crossing
cow
family
railroad

Here is his story ~

One day my family was having fun in the forest. Then a train came. The conductor came out and said, "Do you want a ride?"
So we said "yes."
So we went on the train. We went past a cow and thrug (through) a railroad crossing. Then we came home.
The end.

We did help him on the quotations & punctuation of the question. Other than that, the story is his. :o) We think he did a great job!!

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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

That is disgusting!!

Nicholas has learned a new phrase.
Last night I bought some relish to go with the hot dogs. I wanted the kids to try it, because I always have them at least taste something before they can declare they don't like it. I like relish, so I thought they might too.
I should preface the next bit - the boys like to read Jef's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic books. In one of those books, Calvin's mom tells him she's making monkey heads. Calvin's dad goes on and on about how gross and disgusting they are, and how HE won't eat them, etc. I thought that was actually a good idea, because Calvin then ate the monkey heads, which were actually stuffed green peppers.
So back to my kids ... now, they are pretty smart, and after having read "Calvin & Hobbes" they certainly won't be falling for any monkey head schemes. But, I had to give it a try with the relish. So I told them it looked like boogers. They all laughed.
Nicholas said, "Eeewww! Dat is disgusting!!" He actually got out the disgusting intelligibly. It was SO funny!!!
Now he's saying it more. This morning he told me his wet pull-up was disgusting. He's very cute. :)

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Monday, May 30, 2005

Two Weeks

Since it has been two weeks since Tina & I started counting calories, I thought I would post my results. My daily limit on calorie intake is 1800.

May 16 ~ 1650
May 17 ~ 1520 (exercised)
May 18 ~ 1687.5
May 19 ~ 1070
May 20 ~ 1680
May 21 ~ 1725
May 22 ~ 1689
May 23 ~ 1747.5
May 24 ~ 1802
May 25 ~ 1200
May 26 ~ 1375.25 (exercised)
May 27 ~ 1775.5
May 28 ~ 1465
May 29 ~ 1810
May 30 ~ 1696
I am pretty sure Tina is doing better on consistently exercising. I am going to work on that more these next two weeks. :)

posted by Sonja @ 1:04 PM 1 Comments

Melancholy Monday

Today is Memorial Day. I learned today that if one has a flagpole in one's yard, on Memorial Day you keep it at half-staff until noon, then raise it to full staff. This is to honor both those who died and those who didn't. Isn't it cool that we live in such a country where our military is voluntary, and our freedoms are protected? I've wondered how it must've felt to live under Sadaam's regime. You wouldn't be able to trust the military because they weren't there to protect you, they were there to enforce Sadaam's rules/laws/ideas. That must have been scary.
We never really think of how protected we are. How nice it is to live in a country where you are relatively safe. We aren't required to join the military. So there isn't any fear of that your growing up years. We are so free that we have fights over who gets to be in the military & who gets to go out on the front lines. Amazing.

Thank you, servicemen & women, all of you who have laid down your own agendas to serve America! Whether you are a life-long military person, or a national guard person, thank you for protecting me, my freedom and the American way of life. I salute you!! (not that that means much of anything ... but you all do deserve the honor, respect & support of all Americans)

Today is cool and overcast. Jef is studying, Nicholas is napping (hopefully), the boys are playing Nintendo, and I am blogging, chatting & surfing the net. We're pretty boring. We don't like crowds a whole lot, so we tend not to go out to things on holidays. The only holiday we really go out and do stuff on is the Fourth of July. We have been going down to Ruston Way for four years now. So we know the kind of crowds and are prepared for it. :) We tend to shy away from crowds at new things. :)
We are still waiting and hoping and trying to rest in God, to see what He does concerning Jef's job and our future.

What are your thoughts on Memorial Day? What do you think of our military system? Do you feel safe in America? I am so glad President Bush is our president again. He makes me feel safe. I haven't felt safe like that since Ronald Reagan was in office. :)

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