February 19, 2007

  • A Week's Worth of Sharing

    It's been a while since my last entry.  What in the world have I been doing in the interim???

    We had more cold weather last week and burrowed into our house, as much as our appointment schedule would allow!  We kept the fireplace roaring and tried to stay toasty.

    Luci's daycare had a Valentine's Day party.  Even though, in our home, we don't really do the whole Hallmark Valentine's Day thing, Luci took individually wrapped fruit snacks with little red squares of fancy-cut construction paper (hot glued to the snacks) for each of her friends.  "To: Bob From: Luci" was the extent of her "cards" for the party.  She was pleased and that was all that mattered.

    I spent the afternoon on Valentine's Day in the dentist chair getting my permanent caps cemented into my mouth.  I'm so glad I don't have to take the time to "glue-in" my temporary caps each time I need to leave the house.  I was using Fixodent and if I slightly touched the back of the caps with the tip of my tongue, they fell out!  I couldn't eat or drink in public once I "put in my teeth," and putting on lip gloss could easily pop those teeth right back out onto my lip!

    Luci's been doing GREAT!!! these past few weeks.  No more half hour fits (they've been chiseled down to 2 minutes - max) and she is so much more agreeable.  It makes it easier to have conversations *with* her, rather than feel like I'm barking orders and edicts *to* her.  We're amazed at the VERY sudden change in her behavior.  She's the cutest little thing and a huge tease!

    Jesse took off Saturday and we went shopping together.  Just errand-type stuff, but it was nice to have him with us.  He treated us to lunch at Chili's.  But . . . his stamina failed him after our Sam's shopping trip and he never made it next door to Wal-Mart!!!!  He went home with some of the children and I think I ended up with just Annamarie at WalMart. 

    Luci had spent the first half of the day alone with me.  Luci and I went to Toys R Us to get Rissy (and Annamarie, whose b-day is next month) some gifts.  Luci was great!  Didn't ask or whine for one thing.  I've never taken her to Toys R Us and she might have been overwhelmed at the size and selections!!!

    Yesterday, Sunday, we did nothing except watch one movie after another while Jesse was at work.  I've been on a movie ordering frenzy trying to find suitable movies for the children.  The older girls are getting too old for cartoons and need something more stimulating.  I was able to buy Seasons 1-3 of The Waltons, Seasons 1-3 of Little House on the Prairie, a set of 12 Shirley Temple movies, and 3 individual movies from PBS.

    All three girls LOVED Shirley Temple.  I asked them if they had any idea how old she is since the movies were made before I was born.  Rissy was pretty sure Shirley Temple must be about 6 years old by now . . . maaaaaybe 7!!!  I told them Shirley Temple was as old as Grandma Theurer or Aunt Doris.  After hesitating a moment and thinking about what I had told them, they burst out laughing and told me I hadn't fooled them one bit!!!  "Verrrrry funny, Mom!"  So, Shirley Temple remains immortalized as a 6 (or maaaaaybe 7) year old!  Now Rissy is tap dancing on all of our tile floors and up and down on the step-up stool in the kitchen!  Bojangles, watch out!