A chance to dress up! Nice :)

2007 Albemarle County Police Banquet

Conspiracy #1: Boneless chicken is a ploy of vegetarians . . . .

So, this week I cooked a whole chicken. As I took it out of the oven all perfectly golden brown both of my kids noses turned up and they said "Is that a - a -a chicken?" "Is that what we are eating?" Ignoring the wrinkled faces I said cheerfully "Yeah! isn't it great!". Well, Heather was especially grossed out - to put it mildly. I then found out that I have been cooking boneless chicken or chicken pieces for too long. Which led to my conviction that those cutlets are a conspiracy . . of vegetarians. And they won the day! She seriously tried to tell me she didn't think she could eat any more chicken . . we are working on that . . . *sigh*

So that Will has his moment. Here is a bit of what his "teacher" at homeschool co-op preschool had to say yesterday. "Will just didn't seem happy this morning, he just sat in his chair and moped and didn't want to play with the kids. So, I sat with him and said 'Will honey, what is the matter today?' To which he said very quietly ' I hate my shirt' " . . . . . .

On other notes we have been sick . . yup pretty boring so I decided to cross-stitch instead of blogging the numbers of cough drops and boxes of tissues.

The kiddos and such

What can I say? They were running out of places to hide so Daddy came up with this one.

On a similar tone of my other posts here are a few comments from Heather and Will today:

Heather today while doing school (this is specifically for Uncle George) -

"How do you spell "win"?

I said like "win a race?"

"no"

"ohh like wind on a windy day?"

"no"

"then what are you talking about?"

"win do we git there?"

That's my southern girl for you :)

Will (this is for Uncle Chris) -

As I am on my way out the door today Will calls to me from across the yard "Mommy can you get Daddy?" I said "He is busy, what do you need?" "I neeeed goss tees - I need to pwactice my goss". When I got the ones I knew how to find he said "yesterday they were bwack but these be ok"

Other than kid stuff we have been working, warming up after a very cold spell, and cleaning up truck loads of branches that fell down in a recent ice storm. We have recently been enjoying the various historical "house" series put together by PBS - yippee library. So far we have seen Manor House and Pioneer House. They are quite educational and nice for me since they inspire Heather to dress up and be a "maid". Will seems to have the skill of making a toy gun out of any other toys - legos, tinkertoys, duplos or k'nex are popular choices right now. We have (sort of) nurtured the intrepid Amish Cinnamon Bread mix on the counter and baked two loaves today.

I guess I better go see why I heard a crash and my oldest came to me saying "Where is the super glue :/ . . . . "