Giving Some Praise for a Young Friend

I have this young friend whom I love dearly. She is a life long homeschooler who is very quiet unless she has something to say. But when she has something to say she really has something to say. I always look forward to her ideas and thoughts. She has this sweet way of talking. I just adore her. When she comes to my house or I to hers she always has me a little gift waiting. I keep everything she makes me.


My son elijah informed me that she spends a good bit of time looking up crafts and artsy things to make on the computer. I can believe it!


Anyway, I treasure this young lady. And now that you know I am bonkers about her I would like to share her latest accomplishment. Are you ready? Be ready...your not going to believe what she did for her very first painting.


My young friend's painting


Enjoy and leave her some love, please! I think she will be giving lessons before she has them!

A VERY Remy Funny

Today we were driving and Elijah was complaining how he was just tired of the cold and he needed warm weather to stay. I told him, "Oh, you have spring fever." He says, "NO, I could just skip the spring and go straight to summer!" I said, "NOOOO, then I will have to be big and fat pregnant in the summer for longer!" He giggled and said, "Yea..."


I then say, "You know I am hot when it is cold."


Remy pipes in with, "...and cold when it is HOT."


We all laugh and I said that yes, that was true, that the baby just couldn't make up its mind.


Silence and then.......


Remy says, "Soooo, Mommy, your baby is contrary?"


I am trying to not wreck the car with my priceless sweeties in the car while trying not to giggle at him because he is so cute. He hates that by the way. He is a man and we shouldn't laugh cause he is cute. *snicker*


I ask him WHERE he heard that word or even knew what it meant. He says, with that you can be so ignorant mommy rolly eye look, "Uh, Word Girl!"

I am again shown...that PBS is my child's best teacher! I am so putting them in my speech for Remy's homeschool graduation. Thanks, PBS, for educating my children while I am not. :) Your priceless.

An Elijah Moment...

One night Elijah stayed up really late. Not to play. Not to read.

He stayed up in order to watch this show on PBS about what happened around the time of the dinosaurs. It was very technical and he loved it.

The only problem is he fell asleep. When his daddy carried him off to bed he cried. Now Elijah doesn't pitch fits or cry or anything like that. He is very even tempered like his father. But this night he was so upset with himself...for falling asleep.

"But I want to watch it soooo bad and they never put anything good on during the day!"

Which is true! Poor Eli. :)

Sweet Dreams, mad scientist! (His co-op science class called him this)