FOOTBALL PRACTICE!!

Here are some pictures of kaleb at football practice!!

THIS IS SO TRUE

I got this reading below from Amy, a friend of mine. I can't believe how true it is!! The world today and the way we are told we have to raise our kids is so ridiculous! And I can't believe some of the parents I've encountered! I mean so many of Kaleb friends HIS AGE are allowed to play M games on the X-box's and PlayStation's and are allowed to watch rated R movies!! I mean WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO??!! I have rules for my child and it's a sad day when none of his friends will come to over to play because they are only allowed to watch G, PG and maybe A PG13 movie and are only allowed E, E10 and MAYBE a T game. (E=everyone, E10=everyone 10 and older and T=teen (I have to approve these because some are OK and others are not!) M=mature which is NOT allowed in our house. They don't want to stay the night because they have to be in bed sleeping by 10:30-11:00pm the latest (which I concider to be generous!!) ugh!! HELLO PARENTS You are allowed to discipline and set rules!!! I know it's hard to raise children today because so many of the disciplinary tactics are not allowed in today's society but you can still do other things to protect your child from things they should NOT be seeing or playing at the age of 9 or 10!! AND bedtimes are allowed to!!! grrrrrr!!! NO WONDER OUR KIDS ARE THEY WAY THEY ARE!! Kaleb gets mad at me because MOST of his friends (pretty much all of them) are allowed to do these things and he can't. What's a parent to do......well BE MEAN...I guess.....just like the reading below! enjoy all you "MEAN" parents out there (like me)

Mean Moms

Someday when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you enough . . . to ask where you were going, with whom, and what time you would be home.

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.

I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must learn that their parents aren't perfect.

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.

But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say NO when I knew you would hate me for it.

Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm glad I won them, because in the end you won, too. And someday when your children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them.

Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast.
When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches.
And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too.

Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them. She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.

We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.

She always insisted on us telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was really tough!

Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she could meet them.. While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.

Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.

Now that we have left home, we are all educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was.

I think that is what's wrong with the world today. It just doesn't have enough mean moms!

Basketball anyone??

Here we all are with our neighbor's one Sunday evening (since it IS Rob's ONLY day off)

We got playing HORSE and PIG. Kaleb wooped me! LOL!!

Brand news from Ava

Well this year Ava was finally allowed to attend vacation bible school, after watching Kaleb go for the last four years!!
She's all dolled up in the red dress that Aunt Tammy found and has her hair done up by Mema!! She's so cute!
She loves to drive around in her jeep.
I threw in two pictures of abby sleeping. I love it when there arms are up like that!!

Brand news from Kaleb

GUESS WHAT ALL!! KALEB IS PLAYING FOOTBALL!! YES FOOTBALL!! He may be small but he darn fast!!! he had his first practice last night and absolutely LOVED it!! GO KALEB!!! Here he is in his gear, he hasn't gotten his uniform yet. He plays for the "Cowboys" go figure!! It's perfect! He was even trying to teach Ava, so cute! She didn't have a football helmet so we compromised with her bicycle helmet!! heehee!!

Brand news from Abby!!

Here are a few new things from Abigail! She loves to draw and holds her pen so well!!!
She also loves to get into toby's kennel!! She even closes the door on herself!!
And finally she is slowly learning how to climb over the gate!! yicks!!! She get's about 1/2 way then looks at us like, "HELP ME!!" LOL!! Silly girl!!

neat picture

I took this picture at our neighbors house the night ava and Bob made muffins. It's abby's little hand reaching into their dogs food!! Just wanted to share it with you all!

My little Baker!

So Ava has turned into a little baker. My neighbor is a chef and an AWESOME one at that and Ava just loves to cook with him. they made us blueberry muffins and manicotti (both from scratch)on Monday and then Tuesday night we went back over and they made these coffee cake muffins!! check them out!! They were all soooooo yummy!!! Thanks Ava and Bob.

Busy Busy!!