Mama On The Move

Emily got her wisdom teeth out on Monday. I was hoping to get a hilarious video of her on anesthesia that would go viral and make us all rich, but no such luck.  Apparently they just knock them out with something that doesn't make them all goofy nowadays. Boo. The doctor warned us repeatedly that she wouldn't hurt much until DAY THREE.  Day three is the bad day.  He warned us to make sure we had her prescription for painkiller filled before day three hit.  That's apparently when all the steroids and pain meds they gave her while she was unconscious would fully wear off. As the doctor was telling us this - I repeat AS THE DOCTOR WAS  TELLING US THIS - Emily said, "I'm already hurting a lot now .  I need something now ."   I had intended to take her home and let her sleep while I went to get her prescription filled.  But she started crying on the way home and wanted to go get medicine immediately. We stopped by Walmart fir...

For years now, Katie has wanted to play the harp.  She's had a harp in her Amazon wish list for the last two Christmases.  I told her that I am really sorry but we can't spend a lot of money on a harp when she has no idea how to play it. Imagine my surprise then, on the last day of our homeschool co-op when two of the students rolled harps into the building in order to play them for us!  I ran to grab Katie, drug her to the lobby, and  said, "You're not going to believe this!" We were enthralled listening to the students play.  One of them was younger than Katie!   After they were finished we talked to the girls and their mother.  We got the information about lessons and we signed Katie up! Last night was her first lesson.  Fortunately all her years of piano helped her out a good bit.  She was able to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as soon as they showed her the basics of the harp!

The girls and I came home today to a package sitting on the front porch. Katie picked it up and shrieked, "Mama! WHY are you getting a package from some place called "Lady Fantasy?!?!"  I was baffled.  I told them, "I certainly haven't placed an order with any place called Lady Fantasy! Maybe Kerry ordered a valentine gift for me....?"  The girls completely freaked out, "MOM!! We do NOT need to know this kind of thing! Gross!!!"  They shrieked and squealed until I got hold of the package. It was from Lady FANatics - it's a football jersey....

Katie was learning about Winston Churchill in history yesterday. The history book described him as "pugnacious". She didn't know what that meant, so I had her look it up and read synonyms to me. She read, "Combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose, warlike, quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious, hostile, threatening, truculent."  Then she looked at me and said, "So.....like Trump?"