Author: kdorminy

This morning we were sitting at the table eating breakfast, and I asked the kids if they had cleaned the upstairs like I had asked them.  Molly shook her head yes while looking at the other two.  I looked at Mack because, let’s just be honest, the boy does NOT clean up.  He loses the ability to stand up when it’s time to clean OR he reverts back to being “just the baby.”  So when I gave him the look in regards to whether the upstairs was indeed clean, he said…..

“More or less.”

What is that supposed to mean? If I had to guess, I’d say it leans more to the less part of his response than the more part.  I am about to go upstairs to see if I am right.

 

Ok, I have to start somewhere with our South GA visit….there were a ton of pictures on my camera.  I liked a lot of them, so I will try to post a few each day and keep this blog going.

First let me say that MOMS never get to be in any of the pictures…they just take the pictures and document the events of life.  As I was looking through the pictures I saw that Josh had taken a couple of me.  #1-me from the rear (and all I could see was my REAR) and #2- me on a self-created float made of water noodles.

Seriously???

Any-hoo,  moving on.  These are my favorite close ups of the munchkins:

It looks like I won’t have as much time as I thought, but I must post this important news before I get going….

Jason asked Merrilee to marry him on Saturday, July 2nd!  And she said YES.

It is a very pretty ring.  The kids thought it was so fun to listen to Jason play his guitar and sing to Merrilee.  Her parents were there and didn’t know it was coming, so they loved it!

We are so happy for them!  These are exciting times for all of us.

Congratulations, Jason and Merrilee!

Ok, it is time to get up to date on this here blog.  Since today has been the most laid-back day of our entire Summer, well, I guess I should take advantage of the time I have.

First I will post about our special visit with The Koester Family, minus John.  Mary, Ben and Katherine came down to visit from TN.  It was so nice to have them here.  We just talked and talked and talked while the kids played and played and played.  I love Mary…she has been such a great friend to me over these past four or so years.  I am so thankful that the Lord allowed our paths to cross and let us get so close before HE moved her away!

She is great with Molly and came ready with a special dessert for her to make in the kitchen.  Molly loves kitchen work!

 

She was so proud of herself.  We were proud of her because THESE THINGS WERE GOOOOOD.

Katherine had already been through VBS and brought her CD to teach the motions to the girls.  They loved that!!

Forgive the cords in the background.  We’re having some technical difficulties.  These girls were really in to the dancing!

We are so thankful for the Koesters making that long trip to see us.  We miss them so much.  It was a great, relaxing time and a highlight of our Summer break, for sure!

That Molly girl is so sweet.  It’s funny to think about how when she was little she knew exactly how to suck the life out of me by following me around step by step all day long.  She would say, no less than 500 times a day with her hand held up and a sweet, solemn look on her face, “Hold me.  Hold me.  Hold me.  Will you hold me?”

She has grown in to a 5 year old, confident and crazy little girl.  She really goes out of her way to listen to Ruby and play with her.  And she almost always plays with Mack in the sweetest of ways.  I just love seeing her as she works out her own little life from being stuck right in the middle.  She got invited to a slumber party last Friday, and she was thrilled.  The party was at her Sunday School teacher’s house for her friend, Anna.  Ruby was M-A-D that she was not included in this party; Molly was very proud that she was the one invited.  I was actually very happy, too.  Molly doesn’t usually get to do things…don’t know what it is about the first born, but they seem to get the first chances at everything.  I know it is just the nature of the beast, but it can wear a second born out.  (I just picture my sister, Marcy, rolling her eyes about now, so let me quickly interject that I AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THE FIRST BORN.  Too much pressure!)  Ok, so let me finish this story about Molly.

After packing her own bag (Ruby wouldn’t have known where to start), she showed me that she also packed her Devotion Book.  “Well, Molly, isn’t that just so sweet.  I am so proud of you for packing that!”  And off she went to play and paint fingernails and stay up late and eat cake and ice cream with her friends.  She knew two of the girls and didn’t know the other two.  Ends up, her teacher and my friend emailed me and said that Molly took her devo book out and read about Noah to the girls.  One little girl hadn’t heard about the story, and I am just so happy that Molly had the book with her to share.  I just love that she was able to do be a part of that!  I hope she introduces the Bible to more girls in her life than I have ever even met in all of my life.  That’d be something.

Does it get any cuter than this?

It’s been a couple of weeks since I was there, but here are some pictures.

My dad is somewhere back there behind these kiddos….

It was fun to hang out with the family, go to Old MacDonalds Fish Camp, visit MeMe, go see Grandaddy, and celebrate Kaybeth’s 4th birthday.  We stayed busy the whole time.  The kids always like going to see Sweetie and Paw!

It’s hard to keep up with the ol’ blog this Summer.  We are having a ton of fun and enjoying being home with nothing that has to be done.  We’ve had some time with friends this past week, we’ve been to Augusta for a visit and will leave soon for a trip to South GA.  Every Tuesday night is a Ladies Bible Study.  We’ve had three so far…four more to go.  It’s a great time.

Molly had a slumber party last night, which was so fun for her.  Ruby was mad about it for a while, but she got over it…and she got to watch Anne of Green Gables until nearly 11:00pm.  Today has been a good SAturday or a little cleaning, a little relaxing, a little movie watching, a little bill paying….and maybe a trip to Rita’s in our near future.

I hope to have some pictures and maybe get a little more creative with the blog.  Not sure why I am having a hard time with it–except that it is summer, and we are part brain-dead.  🙂

We have spent a ton of time at the pool.  Ruby had her second swim lesson and is doing the basic front stroke very well!  I paid for three sessions, so Molly is going to use the third one since Ruby seems to be very comfortable in the pool.  We’ll see how Molly handles it….

Here are just a couple of shots from today.  They all loved going down the slide over and over and over again.  I had to stay in there to make sure Mack made it out alive.  He is hilarious.  The second his head pops up from under water he says, “One more time???!!!????”

When I let him jump in without swimmies, he comes up with his hands over his head saying, “Woo-wooo, oh yeah, oh yeah!”  Crazy kid, I tell you.

Sweet Ruby is such a first-born child.  She mothers the other two and always made sure I knew when Mack was coming down the slide.  Look at her with her hand on Molly’s shoulder.

Mack and the girls went through a new box of Vanilla Wafers in about four minutes this afternoon.  They eat a ton out there.