Hey Cats,
In midst of a busy season i must pause to tell you that Atley had his first soccer game on Saturday and scored two goals! After one of his goals he came over to the sidelines, ran by, and shouted, "i love you mom!" as he ran past. It was really cute and i hope he still does it the day he plays in his first World Cup. :) He just loves organized play! Anyhow, he was the smallest, youngest kid out there but you would have never known it. There were some kids that were most likley 1st graders but that didn't stop him from runnin' under them and stayin right up on the ball. I, of course, yelled the whole game from the sidelines. It was so much fun. However, the best part of the game for me as a mom was at one point when Atley was sitting on the sidelines and a kid from the other team got hurt and went running over to his parents. Atley, as soon as he noticed, got up and went over to him, bent down and put his arm around and talked to him to try console him. I don't care if he never scores another goal, so long as he continues to grow a heart of compassion for others.
I was thinking today about how, even in our children, we begin to see their little spiritual gifts develop. I think about Kenna and they way she loves to worship and Atley with how he loves to cheer people on and take care of them and you just really begin to see their little gifts and abilities develop early. It's just really cool. We don't deserve any of it.
As a side note, by dear daughter spent most of the game with my small trial size bottle of lotion rubbing it all over whoever would let her...not sure where that fits in the spiritual gift test!
Much love to you all!
Meow.
Mandycat
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Hi Cats,
Liz, I love the YMCA story! What maddening feats we achieve for the sake of efficiency!!! I love you and I imagined your skinny naked butt!!! I laughed outloud. All is well in the land of corn and coal! We are finally in our house and settling in as well as we can. Scott works alot right now, adjusting to the job, but loves it overall. I start working part-time after labor day at a little pre-school called Jumpstart! I am excited! I also plan to tutor and host people from the BCH in my home. Liz---I feel like Mrs. Eubanks, but 100times less graceful! Anway, I love and miss you all! We will be in K-town the last weekend in September, perhaps we could meet for lunch--Catty-Bets-Klep???? See ya
Liz, I love the YMCA story! What maddening feats we achieve for the sake of efficiency!!! I love you and I imagined your skinny naked butt!!! I laughed outloud. All is well in the land of corn and coal! We are finally in our house and settling in as well as we can. Scott works alot right now, adjusting to the job, but loves it overall. I start working part-time after labor day at a little pre-school called Jumpstart! I am excited! I also plan to tutor and host people from the BCH in my home. Liz---I feel like Mrs. Eubanks, but 100times less graceful! Anway, I love and miss you all! We will be in K-town the last weekend in September, perhaps we could meet for lunch--Catty-Bets-Klep???? See ya
Friday, August 22, 2008
Boxwoods
Our house has 3 boxwood bushes that sit right outside our front door. Every time I pass by them around mid-August and into fall I always think of old Johnson Hall. Every door to that dorm had boxwoods planted outside of them. Does anyone else recall that smell?
If you need to be reminded you're all welcome to our house for a little sniff...oh the nostalgia!
Liz
If you need to be reminded you're all welcome to our house for a little sniff...oh the nostalgia!
Liz
Thursday, August 21, 2008
For a Good Laugh...
Chrisandchadgetskinny.wordpress.com
They are sort of catlike in the attempt to keep up with each other, don't you think?
Meow.
Mandycat
They are sort of catlike in the attempt to keep up with each other, don't you think?
Meow.
Mandycat
who can follow that?
after lizzie's post, nothing will seem as entertaining. i'll keep mine short and informational. thanks for the prayers, the politte clan is doing better. the kids are over their virus and are now fighting off and ear infection and a diaper rash from hell with a yeast infection, but they're on the upswing. my labwork came back and whether or not it was parvo-virus, i had already been exposed to it earlier in life and had anti-bodies to protect me. yay! gotta love protective antibodies. i have been on insulin for 2 days, now, and i'm not sure how that's going, yet. it caused me blood sugar to drop way too low yesterday, so I think they will have to adjust my dosage. we'll get it figured out, hopefully before I go into a diabetic coma.
we are enjoying a little bit of johnson reunion time, as Marcus and Amanda Fife have just moved to Cleveland. They are living about 20 minutes from us and we have gotten together countless times already. Marcus accepted a worship ministry at a christian church in the area, and steve is sure that his evil plan is starting to come together. they were up until midnight last night playing xbox, just like old times.
well, i have to go mail off invitations to the twins' 1st birthday party. wow, a year old already. this is crazy.
miss you all!
-fulty
we are enjoying a little bit of johnson reunion time, as Marcus and Amanda Fife have just moved to Cleveland. They are living about 20 minutes from us and we have gotten together countless times already. Marcus accepted a worship ministry at a christian church in the area, and steve is sure that his evil plan is starting to come together. they were up until midnight last night playing xbox, just like old times.
well, i have to go mail off invitations to the twins' 1st birthday party. wow, a year old already. this is crazy.
miss you all!
-fulty
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
A story for Momma-Cats and China-Cats alike
Hello Dear Feline Friends~
I have a two part story for y'all. The first part of the story is for all you Momma-Tats (as Kenna would say). I decided to take the kids to the YMCA tonight after dinner to go swimming. I also decided to take our bath stuff and the kids' pajamas along so that they could get all ready for bed. Well, a great plan in theory but rather comical when experienced first hand. Just imagine my naked self in a shower stall with two small naked children. Of course the shower curtain was too small and didn't cover the whole opening of the shower. On top of that I had to put Duncan on the floor of the stall because there was no where else to put his wiggly self. On top of all that I had to wash the three of us, shave my legs and armpits and keep Duncan from crawling under the wall into the adjoining stall. At one point I looked down to find Duncan lying prostrate on the shower floor! The whole time I kept having these uncontrollable laughs to myself as we teetered on the edge of disaster--I kept picturing myself having to scurry soapy and naked to the next stall to retrieve my soapy and naked son. Once showered I then had to try to get a towel around myself while holding Duncan so that I could get to the locker room changing area without all creation seeing my pink-puppies.
As if that weren't enough....(this is for my China-Cats)...I make it to the changing area, sit the kids down, and reflect about how quick I'm going to have to act in order to get us all dressed before someone comes through to see the spectacle. Before I get the chance to start, a Chinese woman and her young son come into a completely empty locker room and proceed to dress themselves to swim RIGHT next to us. So I'm dripping wet, Kenna's standing on the bench buck naked, Duncan's likewise naked on his back on the bench squakin' like a fool, the China child is staring at my puppies as they peak out and the China woman is giving me the biggest most friendliest smile as though no personal boundaries have been breeched in the least. My old feelings of irritation arose (as I'm sure you all can relate to when hearkening back to your China adventures) but then I decided to put all hostile feelings aside and engage her about the Olympics and let her know that I had spent some time in the land of China! She was warm and friendly as all Chinese are and I was able to be a good example to my children. Not only that but I also saw something that I had forgotten completely about--the blue spot that young Chinese children have just above their rear-cracks...still a mystery to me!?!?
Anyway--I hope I can bring a laugh to you all in some form or fashion. Eli read the blog and asked what I was thinking to dare such an undertaking. My only conclusion...I wasn't!
Au Revoir Pee Wee
Lizzy
I have a two part story for y'all. The first part of the story is for all you Momma-Tats (as Kenna would say). I decided to take the kids to the YMCA tonight after dinner to go swimming. I also decided to take our bath stuff and the kids' pajamas along so that they could get all ready for bed. Well, a great plan in theory but rather comical when experienced first hand. Just imagine my naked self in a shower stall with two small naked children. Of course the shower curtain was too small and didn't cover the whole opening of the shower. On top of that I had to put Duncan on the floor of the stall because there was no where else to put his wiggly self. On top of all that I had to wash the three of us, shave my legs and armpits and keep Duncan from crawling under the wall into the adjoining stall. At one point I looked down to find Duncan lying prostrate on the shower floor! The whole time I kept having these uncontrollable laughs to myself as we teetered on the edge of disaster--I kept picturing myself having to scurry soapy and naked to the next stall to retrieve my soapy and naked son. Once showered I then had to try to get a towel around myself while holding Duncan so that I could get to the locker room changing area without all creation seeing my pink-puppies.
As if that weren't enough....(this is for my China-Cats)...I make it to the changing area, sit the kids down, and reflect about how quick I'm going to have to act in order to get us all dressed before someone comes through to see the spectacle. Before I get the chance to start, a Chinese woman and her young son come into a completely empty locker room and proceed to dress themselves to swim RIGHT next to us. So I'm dripping wet, Kenna's standing on the bench buck naked, Duncan's likewise naked on his back on the bench squakin' like a fool, the China child is staring at my puppies as they peak out and the China woman is giving me the biggest most friendliest smile as though no personal boundaries have been breeched in the least. My old feelings of irritation arose (as I'm sure you all can relate to when hearkening back to your China adventures) but then I decided to put all hostile feelings aside and engage her about the Olympics and let her know that I had spent some time in the land of China! She was warm and friendly as all Chinese are and I was able to be a good example to my children. Not only that but I also saw something that I had forgotten completely about--the blue spot that young Chinese children have just above their rear-cracks...still a mystery to me!?!?
Anyway--I hope I can bring a laugh to you all in some form or fashion. Eli read the blog and asked what I was thinking to dare such an undertaking. My only conclusion...I wasn't!
Au Revoir Pee Wee
Lizzy
Hi, Cats!
Sorry I've been a stranger...school's been back in session for about two weeks and we had a week of inservice prior to it. I'm really enjoying these kids that I have this year (so far). In fact, today one of our students brought a bird (yes a real one) into school in her purse because she heard one of us say how much we liked animals. so she thought she'd bring us one...alive and in person. she said, "Mrs. Duncan, look what I brought Ms. Ellis!" she proceeds to unzip her purse and out flies a bird...it flies all over the room, the kids are screaming and running around, we're all laughing, and our science teacher threw a lab coat over it to catch it. We put it in the hamster cage for a while and then freed it 6th period. :)
Also, there are trails of ants every morning going into various lockers where they find little pieces of food or sugar. And yesterday, a kid blurted out very loudly (who i've been over and over with about why we don't do that) and I said, "Excuse me, did you just blurt out?" you know, one of those rhetorical questions we ask. And he said very seriously, "No, ma'am, I didn't." I laughed and said, "Really?! You didn't?!" and he said again very seriously, "No, ma'am." And for some reason I thought that was so funny (it was 8th period) that I laughed until I had tears coming down my face and the kid said, "That's the second teacher I've made cry."
Eric starts back at school today - only a year of classes left and one semester of student teaching!!!!! He is very excited. We are still living in married housing which has it's HUGE disadvantages...mainly the riff raff of neighbors we have. You would not even believe some of the stuff that we've had to get involved in around here...polar opposite of JBC. But it's cheap, so as much as I want out and I want a cat, this is our home for now and it's saving us tons of money and I'm trying to think long-term in terms of debt. We'll get there. :)
Miss you cats and I"m so glad we have this blog...I love it, I love feeling connected still even though we are all getting farther and farther away from each other geographically. Bets and Fulty, I"m praying for your little ones. :) Byrd, hang in there...I know how much I want to go nuts with 23 twelve year olds in the room but I can't imagine what it must be like with two tiny ones. V-cat, glad you feel at peace where you are - and you're a celebrity! Lizzie, the pic of you and Kenna is priceless.
meow! -klep
Sorry I've been a stranger...school's been back in session for about two weeks and we had a week of inservice prior to it. I'm really enjoying these kids that I have this year (so far). In fact, today one of our students brought a bird (yes a real one) into school in her purse because she heard one of us say how much we liked animals. so she thought she'd bring us one...alive and in person. she said, "Mrs. Duncan, look what I brought Ms. Ellis!" she proceeds to unzip her purse and out flies a bird...it flies all over the room, the kids are screaming and running around, we're all laughing, and our science teacher threw a lab coat over it to catch it. We put it in the hamster cage for a while and then freed it 6th period. :)
Also, there are trails of ants every morning going into various lockers where they find little pieces of food or sugar. And yesterday, a kid blurted out very loudly (who i've been over and over with about why we don't do that) and I said, "Excuse me, did you just blurt out?" you know, one of those rhetorical questions we ask. And he said very seriously, "No, ma'am, I didn't." I laughed and said, "Really?! You didn't?!" and he said again very seriously, "No, ma'am." And for some reason I thought that was so funny (it was 8th period) that I laughed until I had tears coming down my face and the kid said, "That's the second teacher I've made cry."
Eric starts back at school today - only a year of classes left and one semester of student teaching!!!!! He is very excited. We are still living in married housing which has it's HUGE disadvantages...mainly the riff raff of neighbors we have. You would not even believe some of the stuff that we've had to get involved in around here...polar opposite of JBC. But it's cheap, so as much as I want out and I want a cat, this is our home for now and it's saving us tons of money and I'm trying to think long-term in terms of debt. We'll get there. :)
Miss you cats and I"m so glad we have this blog...I love it, I love feeling connected still even though we are all getting farther and farther away from each other geographically. Bets and Fulty, I"m praying for your little ones. :) Byrd, hang in there...I know how much I want to go nuts with 23 twelve year olds in the room but I can't imagine what it must be like with two tiny ones. V-cat, glad you feel at peace where you are - and you're a celebrity! Lizzie, the pic of you and Kenna is priceless.
meow! -klep
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