How to Win a Woman’s Heart
Joseph: “Sarah, you are pretty.”
Author: Sarah
From Alexander
Straight from his six year old heart!
(Explaination: the figure on the right is me, and the one on the left is himself, and the hearts above his head is his love for me. How sweet!)
A Little Known Fact About Large Families
The green patrol should give us a conservations award for record low water use per child on bath day!
Rub-a-dub-dub, four men in a tub, and who do you think they be?
Mom’s Birthday
Sunday was both the end of daylight savings time and Mom’s birthday. We went out to Johnny Carinos, my favorite restaurant, where Mom got free tiramisu. The next day she opened a present that Landon, Maria, had I ordered her a birthday present and came a day late.
We’ve been eying this statue of Our Lady for a long time, plotting to get it for her sometime. Once Mom was paging through the Leaflet Missal Catholic catalog, and she remarked that she had always liked that statue. Landon and Maria were with me, and they both winked and nudged me with their elbows at the same time. Thankfully, Mom didn’t see it.
Requiem Mass in the Octave of the All Souls
Last night I sang at a requiem mass for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The Priest was dressed in black to symbolize our mourning for the dead, and the music was solemn and beautiful. Landon and John were both serving, and Landon was M.C., a part he had waited to be for a long time and only recently learned how to do.
The procession into church.
Genuflecting before the tabernacle.
Incensing the altar.
“It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.” (2 Maccabees 12:46)
All Saint’s Eve 2010
It’s been two years since we’ve had a homeschool All Saints Eve party, but this year it was announced on Oct 20 that we were starting up the tradition again. I spent Friday and Saturday sewing costumes, which turned out pretty well. Maria was St. Bernadette, Johnathan was St. Anthony, Alexander was St. Michael, and Joseph was St. Juan Diego. Maria and John slipped out the door before I could get a picture of them, but here are the little boys:
Daniel thought Joseph’s makeup was really interesting. (“What is it with you people in the last week? First Sarah makes her eyes really strange and now you have black on your face!”)
I made my first pleat on Alex’s bottoms, and it turned out pretty well.
Daniel was a lion from Noah’s Ark. This costume I didn’t make.
He found the mane a little annoying.
But that’s OK, because he has a mane of his own!
When we got home, everybody dived into their candy. Maria didn’t like caramel apples, so she gave hers to me.
Chewy pieces of candy are a good way to lose teeth.
Ballroom Dancing Halloween Party
For the last couple of months, my friend Jennifer M. and I have been going ballroom dancing on Friday nights when they have teenagers only. It’s pretty casual, and since there’s a shortage of boys, most of the time girls are dancing with girls. It’s a ton of fun, and Jennifer is really good at it and she teaches me more moves each time we go. Sadly, the ballroom is closing down in December, but we’re enjoying the time we have left. Last Friday there was a costume halloween party, and as Jennifer couldn’t make it I took Landon. He dressed up as Frodo from the Lord of the Rings, and I went as Cleopatra.
The one on the left is the real Frodo.
This neat costume was on sale a few days before Halloween. Mom also found this perfect wig for me.
It's hard to see in the picture, but I'm wearing this ring I found on clearance that went with my outfit perfectly.
Here's a close-up on my Egyptian styled make-up.
Quiz Bowl Season Starts Again
My team took home fourth place at the first quiz bowl of the year.
Daniel and the Playstation Remote
"Underneath this adorable face I'm plotting to steal my brother's favorite toy: the video game remote!" (Evil laugh)
"And I'm off to put my plan into action!"
"My scheme has been victorious! Now, how does this thing work? I know that they love to hold this thing all day long. "
"I really don't know what they see in it."
Dark
Mom: Joseph, you haven’t been outside all day today. Why don’t you go play?
Joseph (Gloomily): Because of the sun. I hate the sun.
Daniel’s New Hobby
Daniel has just figured out how to click duplos together, and now he will sit for an hour straight all by himself, taking these blocks apart and putting them back together. I”m sure he feels really special and grown-up, as the older boys love to play with them and guard their creations from Daniel, who would love to take them apart. I snapped these pictures when the baby was intent on his work of art.
Northern Flicker
This interesting and unique bird visited our backyard a few weeks ago, and he’s been showing up around our yard off and on ever since. I thought at first it might be a migrant since I had never seen it before, but then I found out it was called a Northern Flicker, and lives here all year round. It’s a member of the woodpecker family, but our trees are safe because it is the only woodpecker that uses its long beak to get insects out of the ground, which is what it is doing in these pictures.
I love the triangle on its chest.
From Alexander
As Alexander was eating a hard boiled egg a few days ago, he decided that his egg looked a little bit like Baby Jesus. He really wanted me to put it on my blog, so here you go:
