The Darndest Things

With their wild imaginations, brutal honesty, and ever-expanding (though sometimes inaccurate) vocabularies, kids are the best, and I love the things they say.

Mary’s Petition

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

“Bless that no serious incidents will occur in the middle of the night. No fires, tornadoes, or earthquakes, or even… well… I guess I am okay with having to get up to go to the bathroom.”

Of such is the kingdom of Heaven. :-)

Found…

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
A note from Aren to Mary - Mary, U have a great house and family and UR weird, and awesome, and chatty.  Below that he drew a girl with a text bubble that says Blah Blah Blah Blah and a guy with a bubble that says *Sigh*

a note from my nephew to Mary

.. And that is all I have to say.

Wisdom of the Ages 7 and 8

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

More random stuff my kids have said lately… (more…)

Scents and Sensibilitiy

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

They say of all our senses, scent has the strongest memory. Add that to a girl who’s got already got a knack of remembering the most random details and expressing them in the oddest ways, and strange comments are bound to ensure ensue. (d’oh! That typo could have landed me on one of my brother’s blog posts about botched phrases!) (more…)

Chatting with the kids

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Oh, the conversations I have with my kids. Tonight we happened to be talking about talking.
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