loud, ornery, crazy, so on and so on....

After having had (adopted, I mean) two girls, boys seem to be

a bit of a shock to me.
Crazy, I know.
Being that...I already have two boys.
But one little fella in particular can make me nutty (nuttier).




He is:
Loud
Crazy
Boggery
Farty
Ornery
Silly
Crazy
Loud
Adventury
Loud
silly



Then God reminds me,
Hello, he's a little boy.

He's a perfectly normal, regular little boy.

And I wouldn't have him any other way.

Isaiah Jack-Jack...
you are a boggery, loud, ornery, crazy treasure to me.




Oh and I forgot to mention...the child is perfectly
content to only have on one sock.
All day long.

Such a boy.

my favorite smells

Go anywhere on the world wide web and I'll bet
there isn't one single person who is
blogging about what I am bringing to you today.

The facts are:

1. I'm tired.

2. I'm not in a blogging mood.

3. And well, my mind works in weird and mysterious ways.



So here's my subject of the day:

My Favorite Smells
By Lori

*Not in any particular order

1. New tires.
Actually, tire stores.
I like to be submerged in the smell of black rubber.
And other car accessories.


2. Lumber
I absolutely love to go to Home Depot and stand
amidst the 2x4's.
I'm not even kidding.
It smells delicious and wonderful.
Please inform me if you ever find a lumber-girl perfume.

3. Mimeograph Papers
You know, like in second grade when your teacher had
to run down to the office to "run off" some worksheets...
then came back and passed them out,
and they were still wet...and smelled divine?
Yeah, I loved that.
But it's forever gone, this side of heaven.




Ok,
that's the end of my smells post.
I have others, but I'll save those for another day.

I sure hope your Monday is turning out wonderfully...
and that it's filled with your favorite aromas.

lolly's advice...continues

Lolly here!

Listen, girls.
Polly needs my help.

You MUST go see the video she just posted
on
The Lolly and Polly Show.

You will laugh, trust me.

look what God did!

Oh my gracious.


God did a really cool thing for us!

Last summer I was thinking how nice it would be to have a stove in the garage
to cook with when it's blistering hot out, so not to heat up the house.
Well, we decided to keep our eye
out for a good used one,
but didn't give it much more thought.
Nor did we ever make an effort to look for one.

Well, as I've started baking a ton of bread,
I've revisited the hope of getting another stove.
I prayed about it.
But again,
it was one of those things that I didn't put much thought into.


BUT GOD!

So K-man has been working on a big kitchen remodel job
(he's an electrical contractor)
and told me nonchalantly that the people were
getting rid of their old stove and
asked me if I wanted him to offer to buy it.
I said sure, if we could get it for about $50-100.
So then I started praying that the people would want to sell it to us.
And the more I prayed,
the more the Lord led me to pray to get it for FREE.
FREE?
Ok, God....please provide it to us for FREE.
A few days went by.


Guess what husband came last night?

An almost-new stove, that has hardly been used.
Nary a scratch or speck of dirt.

For FREE.

Yep, that's what my God did for me.

How cool is that?

Way cool.
And SO God.

Oh how He loves you and me.

shenanigans

Dearest Husband,

When one splits out his pants at work,
one should just throw them away,
not put them in the laundry basket,
as if wifey can somehow mysteriously fix them during
the laundering process.

Love,
Wifey

And what was even funnier
was Lucy's reaction when I told her to take my picture...

"Mom, what are you doing now?? Mom, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!
(Hands thrown in the air)
Mom, this is crazy!"


She'll eventually get used to my shenanigans.
They all do.