Does she look like her father?

Some of you may remember when Luci was newly home: the story of the woman at Walmart who kept asking about Luci. She could not understand, or perhaps could not hear, that Luci was adopted. The woman kept asking, "Does she look like her father?"

Finally I said, "Yes!" and she was satisfied.

Now, fast forward to yesterday. Luci and I were in Dollar Tree, and were being entertained by a very energetic four year old. The grandmother and I were talking and I said, "This is my baby--so calm--after two rowdy boys."

The woman wanted to know if I did fostering, implying that Luci was not my child. I can see how she'd think that. But my response was, "She's mine. She looks like her father!"

Luci and I held it together until we got outside and had a good giggle.

Luci and Bryan on a field trip Thursday

Low Carb for Me!

I'm back on the low-carb wagon after three weeks off, and feeling so much better. (Joint pain is almost gone! Gluten is my joint-pain culprit.)

Made this "break your fast" chocolate pudding last night. It needs to sit overnight in the fridge. I thought, "No way is this five servings, because, really, who eats just 1/2 cup of pudding and is satisfied?" Let me tell you that I am having trouble finishing my four ounces.

It has the craziest ingredients (hard boiled eggs!) and tastes wonderful. I used my Vitamix blender to make it. From the cookbook shown in the picture.

Maria Emmerich is the author. She is a whiz at recipes, and her cookbooks are GORGEOUS. She's an adoptive mama, too, another reason to love her. She and her husband run several Facebook groups that are helpful, and welcoming, if you are interested in support there.

Controlling Anxiety

Luci decided to listen to her music while getting a filling. Smart of her to figure this out on her own!

This is eating away at me...

Today Luci was reading this book

 and came across this fact

which led to this comment from her:

If you could eat yourself, would you get bigger, or just disappear entirely?

Mother's Day

Maybe All Mom Wants is...

Today (a day early) I am getting my Mother's Day Present (which really was a new stove a week ago because the old one gave out, but there is something more!). John took the kids to see the new Pikachu movie.

They left two hours before it started! From our house, you'd need to leave thirty minutes ahead of time to be "on time."

They'd been gone about five minutes when I get a call from Bryan.

"What size t-shirt do you wear? I'm just wondering as we sit here in these fabulous seats we got for getting to the show early."

hmm.

We have a GPS tracker on Luci's phone and John's phone. They went to Hobby Lobby first, and then Walmart, and then on to the movie.

😇😊😂

picture comes from this FaceBook group

Heard in 2011

On this date in 2011, Luci was heard to say:

 How old were you, Mommy, when you were a little girl? 

What month was that? 

What time of day?

Our Own Private Park

John has worked so hard on our hill. This area used to be impassible,  and impossible to see through.

Stove!

Happy Mother's Day to me!

Out with the old...

Found a lot of dog food, a piece of popcorn, and a frisbee under the stove. Other than that, it looked pretty good. 😊

The guys lucked out and got here inbetween rain storms.

And, the new stove! Thank you, Honey!💖

Math

dys·cal·cu·li·a

/ˌdiskalˈkyo͞olēə/

noun

PSYCHIATRY

1. severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations, as a result of brain disorder.

Do you have a child who has severe difficulty with math concepts? This includes time, money, and all things you normally think of as "mathematics."

We have one. But I have hope!

She's 14 now, and this year we are going to tackle the Alpha set of Math-U-See. Yes, fourteen. Up until now nothing has stuck in that pretty head. But, as I said before, I have hope!

Math-U-See utilizes this set of blocks, along with some other manipulatives that were very helpful to my redhead (Bryan didn't need them).

I am hopeful that we will get to move into Beta before the summer's over, which deals with addition and subtraction of multiple digit numerals.

Hooray!

I can actually blog from my phone. Wow. Technology is really something!

Bryan helped Luci choose which dress to wear to The Big Wedding.

We spent over two hours at Kohl's getting an complete outfit for both kids. I am pretty sure that Bryan tried on more things than Luci did!

Dryers and Stoves

This has been a cranky day for some. Well, a cranky day for *one.*  😀

The dryer vent got cleaned out for the first time since we moved in. That's twelve years of dryer lint! I feel like we are lucky/blessed/fortunate to not have had a lint fire. The cranky one didn't want to help with this. I sent Luci down to watch and take photos (mama break!).

As the boys were cleaning out the vent, I tried to cook. The oven went out! John said, "Now I know what to get you for Mother's Day!"  It's given us some trouble, so he decided to get a new one for me. Happy! It comes tomorrow.

Apparently, I post too much on Facebook. I have fun reposting funny or interesting items or Bible verses and encouragement, and also telling about what goes on here at our house. I have decided to get back on the blog and try to keep a record of our days here.