Month: November 2009

Besides no one sleeping very great, our ladies night sleep over was a lot of fun.  Just not enough time to talk.

We started by meeting at the house, then going to a local Mexican restaurant that didn’t have our call-ahead written down.  13 of us were there, 2 were on the way….we ended up leaving and going to another restaurant down the road.  We laughed and ate and had fun there.  We came back to my house, changed into pajamas and played “Would You Rather…?”  It was hilarious!  Here are some pictures from the night.  I will do my best to explain them.

This is Rebekah during one of the “challenge” rounds.  She had to choose between six or seven really weird things to do.  She chose this one.  She had to sit there for quite a while with a spoon in her mouth.  She tried to talk at different times, but we couldn’t understand her.

Melissa and Christine were on the same team.  One time Christine had to be quiet for several rounds, which was difficult for her, but she did it.

Angelique had to put into a pose and stay that way for two player rounds… she completed her challenge.

Mandy and Laynie performed a rap, after we begged them.

Melissa didn’t care for her challenge options, one of which was to “get on all fours with your behind to the group and bounce and wiggle to the beat of a song for 60 seconds.”  I offered to play “Walk the Dinosaur” for her, but she just wouldn’t do it.  She rapped a NKOTB song for us.  Pure talent.

And though there were no behinds bouncing to the beat, she did provide a few moves to keep us entertained.

A shot of this side of the room

These are all the girls who were here.  Julie and Coleen slept in the girls beds and were comfortable.  Cindy was on the floor in that room on an air mattress and said she was comfortable, too.  Rebekah, Angelique, Melissa M. and Laynie all slept on air mattresses and said that they were freezing all night long, but didn’t want to wake anyone up to try and turn heat up.  I have since learned that air mattresses can make you feel cold because the air in them is cold.  I didn’t know that.  I felt horrible.  Next time I have 10 ladies spend the night, I will make them bring their mattresses a couple of days earlier, blow them up and let the air get the same temp as the room.  Christine and her sister, Genavive, stayed in the guest room downstairs. Melissa and I shared the master.  She thought she was keeping me up if she moved, but she wasn’t!  I just couldn’t sleep very good.  We were both up bright and early.  I don’t know if it was because we were ready to start the day or just ready for the night to be over! ha!  We all needed more time to let our Mexican food settle so that we could stay up longer, eat more dessert, talk more, sleep later, etc, etc.  BUT we did have a fun time, the short time we were here.

I was SERIOUSLY about to upload the last picture and tell you that it wouldn’t be fair not to post a picture of me doing something goofy during the game…..but I PROMISE I tried and I have used all my upload space!!!!  Now I have to start paying or create a new blog.  🙂  I am not kidding either.  I promise I will post it on the next entry I make after I buy some more space.

The Ladies Conference was good.  I loved hearing from Angie Williams in regard to God’s Grace.  If I had the time, I could probably write a short story on how amazing God was to me over the past few weeks.  They have been rough, and I just about had a breakdown when the “break” I was soooo looking forward to fell through last weekend, but from my perspective now I can see how the Lord was working all of those things out to bring me to the utter end of my self.  I will just say for now that I am thankful for God’s faithfulness in my life, and I am looking forward to seeing how He works through me in the days ahead.  What I have been doing isn’t working, but I am sure His ways will work very well.

Ruby’s Kindergarten class went to Cagle’s Dairy for a field trip on Thursday.  It was a lot of fun.  Mack enjoyed feeding the goats the most.  Molly enjoyed hanging out with Mrs. Walley’s older daughters the most.  Ruby liked running everywhere she went the most.

I like to get shots of Mrs. Honaker in action.  She is so sweet.  I know we couldn’t have hand picked a kinder, sweeter, more loving, compassionate Kindergarten teacher for Ruby.  I could learn a few million things from her!!!!  And for the record, Mack calls her “Mrs. Hon-ker.”

These girls were so sweet to Molly.  You’ll see later that Molly ends up wearing one of their coats!

Sweet Kindergarten friends…and some siblings

These cows were eating hay out of our wagon ride!  They got super-close.

All the kids and adults got chocolate milk at the end of our tour.  YUM.

Got Milk?

Not sure why Molly was looking so sad….

Overall, a fabulous field trip.  Kindergarten is fun!

No pictures this post, but I had to write a bit about our quick trip to the horses.  We made this quick trip because we couldn’t make a longer trip to Kirklands.  I wanted to go and meet Josh there, but as I continued to repeat myself and ask the kids to do the same things over and over, I decided I was finished.  Finished taking them places until they start obeying.  Until they stop huffing and puffing at me.  Until they stop rolling their eyes.  And I told them that I could hear their apologies, but I really didn’t much care for them (the apologies) at the moment.  Once actions matched their apologies, we could move on….until then, I will try to stay out of public with these three.  We’ll settle for hanging out with “wild” animals as long as that is what they act like.

SO, our horse trip.  The kids rode in the very back of the Volvo station wagon.  They got out and watched the horses.  Ruby was feeding them some grass, very carefully!  They were amazed at the amount of poop that was lying all around.  I got sidetracked just looking at how beautiful everything was out there—the trees, the horses, the landscape, the barns, just everything is gorgeous!  Anyway, when I snapped back to it I saw that Molly was staring almost nose to nose with one of the huge horses.  I watched for a minute, then I got scared.  I asked her what she was doing.  She said, “I just want to watch the horse,”  without even once blinking.  The horse twitched and stomped.  I demanded that Molly stop staring down the horse unless she’d like to get trampled by it.  She moved on and said, “There is some pink on her nose.”  Ok.

Mack, in the mean time, found a plastic stick-thing and was pointing it at the horses and saying in a growly voice, “You better get back to ‘dat barn, horsey.  Get back to ‘dat barn.”  Easy to act big and bad safely on the other side of the fence.  He is so funny.

And before you knew it, we were back in the wagon headed for home.

And that was our fun today.  Stay tuned—you never know how much fun we might have here at the Dorminy house.

I don’t think I will ever refer to myself as “normal” now that I have three kids and am home schooling.  Not that I was really “normal” before, but these couple of things just plunge you right into crazy-world.  So, now that the kids are no longer infected with strep, we are sort of back to a routine.  Sort of.

Routine.  That’s another word that I am slowly learning to take with a grain of salt.  Nothing really goes the same twice here…I mean, I can always expect poopy diapers, expect hungry children at least three hundred times a day, expect a headache, but they all come at their own time and in their own rhythm.  I am in control of nothing.  nada.  zilch.  goose egg.

I am also NOT in control of little Mackie-boy’s chattering.  Goodness gracious!!!  From the time he woke up this morning he has NOT stopped talking.  He talked the whole way to Ruby’s school.  He talked the whole way to Molly’s Art and Music classes.  He talked the whole way to Hobby Lobby, the whole time in Hobby Lobby and began more talking once he got in his carseat to head back and get Molly.  I asked him if he would just be quiet for a little while.  “No.  I ount like bein’ cowet.”  (I don’t like being quiet.)  I told him that Mommy does like quiet sometimes, so maybe he could give it a try.  He waited at least three seconds before whispering, “Mama.  Whaccha’ doin.?”  Have mercy!

He then told me he was calling me on his fake phone and told me to pick up my phone.  “Wing,wing.”  “Hello?,” I answer, holding my phone up to my ear.  His reply?  “Me.”  I said, “Hey, Mack!  What are you doing?”  He says, as if I should know!!!!, “Me in the car, driving…..Hang up.”  I put my phone down only to go through this several more times.

If he wasn’t so cute, who knows what would happen to him!