Saturday, February 13, 2010

Gold Medal Moments...

I LOVE the Olympics!  For real...in the realm of sports I don't know if there is anything that I love more, except my man ;) maybe...  I don't know if it's the patriotism, the athleticism, the amazing stories of so many of the athletes, the fact that my uncle Gene was an Olympic Biathlon coach for years...who knows...but I am an Olympics JUNKIE...it will be on 24/7 (or at least as much as possible) for the next 2 weeks.  My students will be learning from Olympics lesson plans...well, you get the picture.  But seriously, I'm not sure what I am so excited about...that it is 'Olympics time' or that my kids are SO excited too!  Seriously...we were watching the qualifying heats for the short track earlier...and there is Justice, in the middle of the living room pretending to skate :)  Then he sits down and joins the conversations that Jay and I are having about Curling...and that we can't wait to watch that!!  How does my 7 year old know what Curling is??!?!?  Cuz I asked...and he set me straight! LOL  I am loving sharing this joy with them...

Savy and I had the funniest 'Who's on First?' conversation the other day.  Well...it was hilarious to me...but I think that it was making her ANGRY! LOL  First you need to know a little background info...She goes to a FAB home daycare, and they have a 7 passenger SUV.  They often go out and about...OH and Savy is like the Freakin TOWN CRIER! LOL  Fo Sho!!  So she gets home one day and says "Mr Jude buckled me into the back on accident, but that's where Ezra sits" "oh" I say "do you usually sit in the middle?"  "NO!" demands Savy "Elize sits in the middle, I sit on the side, next to her"  Hmmm, trying to figure this out..."ok, but you sit in the middle seat?"  "NO MAMA! I told you, Elize sits in the middle, I sit on the side & Jax sits on the other side! and Ezra sits in the back, with Gabriella."  LOL I am laughing SO hard by now because she is getting so mad...she is NOT appreciating this.  "ok let me try to explain what I am thinking Sav..before you get MAD!  Miss Amanda is up front right?" "yes" "and Ezra is in the back row?" "yes" giggle..here it comes.."so that means you are in the MIDDLE row..." "YEAH mama, that's what I told you...DUH!"  of course...I'm so slow...lol

Justice is hilarious.  He brought home his schoolwork on Friday and in it was a cute little book they had made "Awesome Inventions by Black Americans."  There was a page about Garrett Morgan and his invention - the automatic traffic signal.  They had to write a story about driving a car before this had been invented...check out his story...

Drivin down the road... la la la la Boom Pow! Huh a car crash.  Oh I know why no traffic lights!!  Well off to get my rental car.  Readin the newspaper new invention!  The new traffic light!

First of all...freaking hilarious..LOL second...a little too close to our reality HUH??  Poor thing.


By the way, for those of you who know us REALLY well, or stalk us on FB ;)  you know that we lost our Precious boy (dog lol) Cheyenne last week during the snow (sorta).  He broke his collar, well it broke - it WAS a year old...and he has a tendency to BOLT as Huskies do...unfortunately without his tags and OUR #...this was not good!  Usually when this happens (him running) someone is calling within an hour or so...but not this time.  We searched the shelters, placed ads, searched ads etc...NO LUCK! :(  FINALLY Friday someone called - she had Cheyenne...so we picked him up today :)  Reunited...and it feels SO GOOD!!  Little blessings everyday...but today, BIG blessings :)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Gimmee an "S", Gimmee an "A", Gimmee a "V"...

Oh where oh where is my blog transcription-ist?? LOL  I have so much 'blog-fodder' I can't even remember it all.  And I'm STILL no better and writing anything down...really I stink :(

Savy has the BEST manners in our house.  For real, she does.  I'm not sure where she got them ;) but she sure is...  We were joking around this weekend about them, and OF COURSE she was being SO polite, AS USUAL.  It's always 'please' and 'thank you' and almost always throws in the 'yes ma'am' or 'yes sir' as well.  It's just plain craziness. LOL  So Jay says to her "I LOVE your manners, you must get those from your Daddy!" and I add " YES, I LOVE your manners too Savy!"  Well she turns right to her daddy and says "thank you, but no I don't...I get them from...my TEACHERS!"  Well..now we know!

SOMEBODY needs to do something about the language our children use...To say that Savy is OBSESSED with the letter 'S' is the understatement of the year!  She's always pointing them out, finding them everywhere, telling me to push the 'S' on the keyboard..lol  Well they were getting out of the bath the other night...Savy got out first and I hear her..."I see an 'S', I see an 'S', see the 'S'? I see the 'S'!"  Then I hear Justice...my precious boy..."I see an A$$, I see an A$$..."  FOR REAL...where does he get this crap??!?! lol

The Dolly Mom-mom got home on Sunday :) so of course we went to go see her! YEAH  We tried to get Savy to take a rest, and mom-mom was taking her nap too, so all three of us girls were laying down together in the big bed.  More talking was taking place, than napping at first...and like always Savy had us in stitches!  She asked us why Memere (Mame - MY grandma was in heaven) "Did she just get old and die and go to heaven?"  "Well, yeah pretty much Sav" I answered.  "Is that gonna happen to EVERYONE?" she wanted to know..."If they're lucky" I responded.  "So mom-mom will get old and die, and go to heaven?" yes "Pop-pop will get old and die, and go to heaven?" yes, "You and daddy will get old and die, and go to heaven?" yup, us too... "and Justice will get old, and die and go to heaven" yes Sav even Justice ;) "and someday ME will get old, and die and go to heaven??" yes! "Well, I REALLY don't like THAT!"  lol poor thing...just not ready for her OWN mortality...can't say I blame her...

We definitely need to re-think our 'snow day' attitude...The weatherman was pretty off-base on Tuesday...and while WE were all expecting a delay or SOMETHING we got NOTHING.  Well Savy was Pretty grumpy in the morning...in her words it was "boo-crap that we don't have a 2 hr delay" YUP I'm thinking we have a language issue at the Norton house.  but ya know what??  I thought it was boo-crap too!

I LOVE my little Blessing every day - I really needed to be reminded today - it was a rough one for me, hard day at work...sure do LOVE these babies!!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Gold, Frankincense & Milk??

So remember that new Wii game?  Cabella's Big Game Hunter...it's FUN! ;)  I finally got to play it a little bit, but there's a little problem.  I'm pretty good.  I started out just doing the 'Shooting gallery', I was duck hunting and I think I did A LOT better than Justice ever has...THAT'S the problem.  Well, that...and apparently, somehow we have raised a rather sexist child...  "WOW, Mama you did GREAT... for a girl!"  Than...HOLD ON A SECOND!! I almost lost my mind....I played it AGAIN, to make sure it wasn't a fluke...and SHOW HIM, 'girls' CAN shoot ;)  I did even better.  'HOLY CRAP!  how can you do so good? You're a GIRL???'  OK at this point I just tell him to STOP TALKING.  I now go ahead and start a mission, which he feels the need to tell me EVERY little thing that I need to do.  SERIOUSLY?!? I'm a GIRL?!?! plus I'm kickin your BUTT, LOL  He is now sitting at the table about to eat as I take one last...AMAZING (if I do say so myself :) shot.  'REALLY? How can a GIRL do that?!'  I'VE HAD IT!!  He ate dinner in his room tonight :(  There were NO girls around.


My mom gave us the sweetest set of ornaments this year.  They had been in our family, are ceramic and are the pieces of a cute nativity set.  Savy ADORES them...so much so that they were rarely on the tree.  When I packed up the tree just a few short weeks ago, only a couple of them were on there...I keep finding the rest of them all around the house :)  This one is my favorite, and this story is why.

Savy was playing with it one day, telling us 'the story...'  She said do you see this? and pointed to the yellow 'gift'.  We said, yes...that's one of the gifts, he is a Wise Man, is it gold?  'Yes, she says he is a Wise Man'  But that's not gold'....and this is the BEST part!!  'It's a Sippy cup' (NOW LOOK AT IT!) LOL   'Mama' she says...'of course it's a Sippy Cup, they were going to see BABY Jesus!!'  ahhhh my sweet girl, a child Shall lead us....

Not just so smart, she's witty too...we all know the 'Pants on the Ground' song...Savy LOVES to sing it...well she sings it A LOT...Just a little background here...and this may be TMI for some of you - I'll just apologize ahead of time **SORRY**  I am VERY hot-natured, our whole family is...so very often clothes are an option in our house.  Well, in the mornings I remain in undergarments as long as possible...until JUST before I go out the door usually.  So the other day we are almost ready to go and I am giving them a hard time about getting dressed...and I say something like...I'm waiting for you to....'get your Pants off the ground and get dressed'  Now at this point I have my pants on, with just a bra...Savy responds with 'YEAH - well you must have your shirt on the ground haha!'  HOW can she be THAT quick?!?!  We are in trouble :)

By the way, I LOVE SNOW...just thought I'd say it AGAIN...here.  Really I do.  I grew up (as a child) with MAJOR snow in CT, then at age 8 moved to south FL. So.. the land of beaches...no snow, air conditioning 10 months out of the year UGH.  So now that I FINALLY have seasons again - I LOVE IT - sorry, but I do.  And it doesn't bother me a bit to teach over Spring Break, or on a Saturday, or until June 15th...just sayin.  Little Blessings every day...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Who??

Seriously - I need to start writing stuff down!  Anyways here are some of the funny tidbits as of late...

We were eating dinner one night last week and Savy starts to tell us a story from school.  She said it was a Bible story and asked...'Do you know about Job (as in..I have a job) the Baptist?' I say..'do you mean John?' 'NO mama, Job the Baptist! he was in the BIBLE! and there was a grasshopper and he looked liked this...' Cue the SAD face :(  'Because Job, Job the Baptist...ATE him! He ATE that little grasshopper!'  I felt SOO educated ;)

Justice and Jay got a new Wii game this weekend.  We HAD to get out of the house by Sunday...hello cabin fever!! LOL So we headed up to Target to see if they had gotten in any Cabella's Big Game Hunter games.  They did YEAH and we couldn't get home soon enough!  It's actually a pretty neat hunting game and it comes with a big gun...so it is pretty neat.  Well we get home and Justice DISAPPEARS....only to reappear a few minutes later from his room...in complete camo gear.  FREAKIN HILARIOUS!  The fact that he has to totally play the part just cracks me UP!!

Savy started a new daycare this week.  She is now going to a friend's home daycare and we are VERY excited.  For those of you that know us pretty well, she is at Amanda and Jude's YEAH!!  Well, to say she is happy is an understatement...when I went to pick her up on Monday she got SOO mad.  I am pretty sure the kids aren't supposed to get MAD when the parents come to get them...but that girl did NOT want to leave Miss Amanda's house.  I finally got her convinced that I would bring her back the next day...but she was not happy with me.  Then last night she comes in our bed around 1 or 2 in the a.m. (pretty normal for her to crawl in at some point in the night)  BUT last night she comes in..and wants to know that after she does this little sleep, when she gets up "I get to go back to Miss Amanda's, RIGHT???"  So..I'm thinking it was a smart move...

Little blessings every day...