AFC sings Hayden's Creation

What an amazing opportunity to sing with the American Festival Chorus directed by Dr. Craig Jessop. We sang Hayden's Creation on Saturday night and I was overwhelmed by the thought that this music was created by one man. He was certainly inspired, as am I each time I sing with this group.

If you give a house a leak in the bathroom...

If you're familiar Laura Numeroff's book, "IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE,"

you'll appreciate this post even more. :)

If you give a house a leak in the bathroom, the wife is going to ask for it to be fixed.

If your wife asks the leak to be fixed, what she really means is to fix the leak AND the cupboard that was ruined, replace the bathroom tile and wood laminate in the hall, repair sheet rock, retexture the walls, paint the wall, as well as caulk and paint the floor moldings.

When you find out the wood laminate in the hallway is not longer available, then she'll want to put new wood in the rest of the house so it all matches.

When you rip out the existing floor in the kitchen area, you'll pull out the stove, fridge and cover of the dishwasher and of course, finding a secure location for all of the screws (which happened to be on top of the washer in the laundry room).

When you go to find the cup of screws on washer, you realize that doing wash over the weekend rattled the cup off the washer and now all the parts are underneath.

When you pull the washer and dryer out to find the missing screws, you realize you haven't cleaned under there for quite some time, so now the simple task of fixing a leak has resulted in a clean floor under the washer, dryer, new floor in the kitchen, hall, and bathroom and the paint guys are coming tomorrow to paint the walls as well as a "few" touch-ups around the house.

Did I mention that we had a leak in the roof in the garage ten days after the bathroom incident? Wonder what upgrades I can swing out of that home repair. :)

Rather than posting photos of the home repair, I invite everyone to come see my new, beautiful kitchen floor in person.

Happy Birthday MeiMei

MeiMei turned one - and boy did she have fun with her cake.

What a Sunday morning!

This morning started out as a typical Sunday morning – cuddle time with mom in bed. Jericho plays adorably with Cocoa almost all of the time. This morning he was pretending to fall off the bed and Cocoa was using all of his strength to pull him up on the bed. Cocoa suddenly changed tactics and PUSHED Jericho off the bed. I thought he was going to wake up the neighbors with his screaming. Well, seven stitches later and Jericho is as good as new – and still loves his little brother. ☺

Want a ride?

Would you rather have a ride in a laundry basket...

or on my shoulders?

Cocoa is learning Love and Logic at an early age. You know the routine, give them two choices, either of which is okay with the parent.

Throw in a little Brian Regan and we might hear MeiMei say, "They're both... favorites, so either one is good, but if they have both, I'll get grape, because grape is a little more favorite. But if they don't have grape it's like alright its fine, cause cherry's favorite anyway. It's like another favorite, but not as much. Not as much favorite. But they're both good. They're both good."

And for those of you that aren't BR fans, you should be. :)

Sleeping Princess

Coping mechanism

What do you do when your toddler is making a HUGE mess and his siblings are egging him on? Take a picture because at some point, you'll laugh about it.