Wuv...true wuv...

Sophie made these a few days ago. Totally funny! Maybe she has a future as a romance writer? It freaks me out though when my kids do/say things and I have no clue where their ideas came from. I asked her where she got these ideas and she just said she made them up. We haven't watched any Disney movies lately and I never in my life have talked about "true love" with her.

Flattery will get you everywhere

At bedtime last night Luke snuggled up to me. He put his face close to mine like he was going to give me a kiss. Instead he sniffed me and then declared,"You smell not disgusting!" Great. Glad to know.

Conversation with Noah

Me - sitting in my room trying to read my scriptures
Noah - Mama, I can jump on your bed?
Me - yes
Noah - jumping, but I hope it doesn't turn into lick or ish
Me - ? Why would the bed turn into licorice????
Noah - Because ours do, but yours doesn't
Me - Your bed turns into licorice?
Noah - yeah
Me - why?
Noah - because

You know you live in the South when...

This is the truck that comes to pump your septic tank.

It was a dark and stormy night...

We have had a lot of stormy weather here in NC for the past week. My kids went to 1 half day of school last week because of ice and snow. On Friday we had another snow/ice/rain storm. Our power was off for 3 hours or so in the afternoon and then it went off again just as I was getting ready to leave Friday night for my book club. I was suffering from a severe case of cabin fever and SO wanted to go. The roads were just wet, so off I went.

Everything was uneventful until my drive home. I got within 100 yards of the entrance to my neighborhood and found an enormous tree had fallen across the road. There is only one entrance to use so I could wait, for who knows how long, or I could brave the DARK, narrow, winding country roads out here to go around and get to our road from the other direction. Of course I am not patient and take off into the wind and rain. It took about twice as long as I thought it would and I was really nervous at one point because I thought I was completely lost. It is so lonely and dark out here and of course my imagination was feeding me all sorts of interesting scariness. I did pass a few farm houses, but they didn't have power and were completely dark. I found out my GPS was out of battery and the cord was missing. I said a prayer, kept going, and finally found a landmark! One u-turn and I was back on track.

So I finally make it to our road coming from the other direction only to find...ANOTHER fallen tree blocking the road!

I only had to wait about 10 minutes though. A crew was already there cleaning it up.

Joey

Noah has developed quite the attachment to me lately. If he had he way he would physically be touching me all day, every day. I tease him that he should have been born a kangaroo.

Happy Groundhog Day!

It feels a little like the Groundhog Day movie in our house. We are going on our 3rd day of school being canceled. Even a little bit of ice or snow on the roads and they don't have school. It is getting a little crazy. We have been out and about safely since Monday on roads that are completely clear except in neighborhoods and tiny side roads.

We did get to go see our local groundhog this morning though. Woody saw his shadow, but that is because he was inside an auditorium basking in the glow of TV cameras. Being indoors was a good thing though because I forgot Luke's coat. It is February, pouring rain on top of snow and I let my child out of the house with no coat. Hmmm...Mother of the Year here I come.

An Auspicious Day

On February 1, 1960 4 freshmen from North Carolina A&T sat down at the lunch counter of the Greensboro Woolworths and asked to be served. Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain sat and studied quietly all day, then came back the next and the next and for many more days. Soon hundreds of other students were joining them in Greensboro, then in other cities in North Carolina and across the south.

Greensboro's sit in was not technically the first in our country, but it is important in history for the huge momentum it gave to the civil rights movement. For 15 years some in Greensboro have been working on creating a museum to honor these men and our civil rights history. Today it finally opened. It is a good day for our city.