Mass

The children have begun celebrating mass in the living room. It is a very ecumenical affair, as all the jungle animals agreed to invite the horses, sheep and cows, as well as the cars including the tractors and dump trucks.

I believe the day pictured, a monkey celebrated mass.

Mass usually begins with the Angelus, at least the first two lines. The celebration then continues with the blessing before meals, followed by an extremely hasty distribution of communion, which is necessary because big brother has been still for his 10 minute limit and is aching to bring about a devastating natural disaster.

Tornadoes seems to be as fascinating as pump jacks.

Mommy is gone....what now?

So for the first time since we have had Daniel (16 months), Jenny Lynn decided to leave me with the 3 kids all by myself for 3 nights. So what did I do, I packed up the kids and headed out west to my parents in Colorado City. I don't have to worry about cooking, cleaning, or changing all of the diapers, and the kids are having a blast.

Good thing we left Dallas too, because it looked like on the Weather Channel that we got over 3 inches of rain, and our backyard has a tendency to flood when it rains that heavy. Other than a rainy Tuesday, the weather has been beautiful and the kids have spent nearly all day outside playing. Peter, Isabelle, and Daniel have been a joy to watch as they all run around and play together.

Peter decided to pull Daniel and Isabelle all around the go-kart track in the wagon. I was glad he did.I had been pulling the three of them for almost 10 minutes, and my legs were getting tired!

Here is a great picture of Peter sitting in Ganpa's recliner and reading a magazine.

Did you notice the magazine he was reading?? "Well Servicing"

He spent a good 10 minutes slowly going over every page! Maybe a future oilman in our family. He can take over Ellis Production someday!

Hobbies

hobby n. An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation, primarily for pleasure.



I realized the other day (attempting to fill out a profile on here) that I no longer have any hobbies that are outside my regular occupation. How could this be! My days are full from waking to night and yet none of that constitutes a hobby, an interest, a pursuit! What has become of ME! Who am I outside the dishes, laundry and chores!


But perhaps what makes a hobby is not primarily the activity, but rather, it's being primarily for pleasure.


My hobbies are: Cloth Diapering, Homeschooling, Making Montessori Works, Cooking from Scratch, Calculating Every Penny (literally!), Reading five Books a day (short ones, mostly about talking animals and fairy tales) and now, Blogging!

Fun with Ducks

Last week Jenny Lynn and I took the kids to the park near our house with some left over hot dog buns from one of St. Rita's Life Nights.

The kids had a blast, but some of the ducks were a little anxious to get to the food!

Prayers

One can learn a lot praying with children...

After blessing our lunch, Isabelle and I begin an intense three year old discussion.


Izzie: "Jesus died on da cross?"

Mommy: "Yes, for all of us."

Izzie: "And den he say, 'It's Time!' (for us to die) And so we go get our shoes on and we go die..." (sigh)... "but it okay, He has toys is heaven" (big smile).

1. Shoes are extremely important


2. Even death is made better by toys

Two years ago, while thanking Jesus for various things during our bed time prayers, Peter thanked Him for our new baby. A little over a week later, we learned our family had in fact grown by one, our little Daniel.


Yesterday he thank our Lord for our two houses, we will let you know in a little over a week what happens.

He also thanked our Lord for our two cats, and although very large, I think Joe only counts as one cat.

Perhaps the cat needs to precede the house?

Dinner Time

I have always loved the idea of having so many little people in the house that there is no end to the activity, but how exactly that would affect the details of our life, like dinner time...

Well, Daniel is making that a little more clear.

Painting

Recently we decided we needed to do something productive...

Painting a bedroom blue (red, green, another green, yellow and white) with the help of a one year old, three year old and four year old, while using child size paintbrushes seemed productive enough for our lifestyle.

Three weeks later we are finished, or... satisfied.

An Introduction to Blogging!

After reading everyones blogs, I have decided this is the best way to chat with the world (one spare moment at a time) and partially satisfy the unending need for nephew/niece interaction that is causing my youngest sister constant torment, and an extreme amount of phone use as well. Plus, the more pictures of my children available to her (and the rest of the world), the better.

Enjoy Aunt Mer mer!