Rozey Thorn Trees

Over the past 8 years, I guesstimate that we have lost 20% of our milk from almost daily accidental spills, including my own...I'm scared to calculate that cost in dollars...sigh.

I load my girls into the car, pack in my purchases, then get into the driver's seat: 3yr: Daddy, are you ready to rumble? Me: Uh, rumble? Yeah. Where did you hear that? (I'm thinking from little boys at daycare or from her male cousins) 7yr: Mommy says it. Me: Mommy says it? 3yr/7yr: Are you ready to rumble!... I asked Laura about it.  It's what she says when she gets in the car to drive them to school, haha! Me: WWF? Laura: It's a part of the cultural vernacular!... 😅

A student made me laugh today.  He told me that he once wrote he wanted to be an executioner.  He meant to spell excavator.  Yep. Spelling counts, haha...

Student: Would you like these cookies? Me: Sure!... Hey, uh, these cookies are stale! Student: I know. Me: 😮 Note to self: Don't accept cookies from boys wearing impish grins.

3yr: Daddy, I'm scared! Me: Why are you scared? 3yr: I'm scared of Freya! Me: Why? She's sleeping in her crib. She can't get you. Go back to bed! 3yr: But I'm scared! Me: Why are you scared? 3yr: Umm....uhh, air, I'm scared of the air!... (Child, there are many things in this world that you and I should be terrified of, truly, indisputably, utterly scared to death of. Please hear me when I say that a sleeping baby sister and the fresh air you breathe are not one of those scary things!...) Me: It's okay, honey. Turn on the closet light, so it's not so scary. Go back to bed. 3yr: Okay. (Parenting at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning is scary hard, so-so-scary hard to do without losing one's cool.)

A truck and trailer pulled into my lane on an icy road. I braked hard and lost control. I thought for sure I'd ram into him but my car veered into the oncoming traffic lane instead. I'm thankful that traffic was clear in that moment, and I could stop just short of a snowbank in a residential street, catch my breath, then drive home safely to give all my girls extra hugs and kisses.  Let's live another day!  Spring is coming!

3yr: We need a baby that doesn't cry! Laura: We need a toddler that doesn't whine. 3yr: Hahaha...

"Your organization is perfectly designed for producing the results you're experiencing right now." (qtd in Francis Chan's Letters to the Church ) Ouch.

Me: I love talking about logical fallacies and learning how to catch flaws in people's arguments. It's so interesting. Student: I love hamburgers.