Melissa | March 31, 2010
My kids have been quite the pranksters lately. Their favorite trick is switching the remote controls for the lights in the bedrooms. Their bedroom and our bedroom have identical controls. When they switch them the victim goes to turn the light on in a room and the lights in the room around the corner start to [...]
Melissa | March 30, 2010
For the past two years, the student ministries at our church has sponsored a traditional Passover Seder.
If you and your family ever have a chance to experience this traditional Jewish feast, you should.
Really, there’s no reason why the Chrisitian Church shouldn’t ALL be celebrating Passover every year with a Seder.
Besides being Biblical, it’s been a [...]
Melissa | March 29, 2010
Not-Me-Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama. Hop over to her blog to see what others have NOT done this week.
I did NOT think it was a grand idea to take 3 kids under 7 kite flying after school on Wednesday.
I was NOT overwhelmed by referreeing the two older kids plus all the [...]
Melissa | March 28, 2010
So my husband has officially hopped on the blogging train. He won’t be contributing here any longer as he has been contributing to his own personal blog almost daily for about a week. I’ve added a convenient link in our navigation bar or you can just go to www.patrickcorkum.com.
Leave him a little love as he [...]
Melissa | March 27, 2010
3 weeks after planting
Generally everything is doing well (everything that’s come up, that is). We’re still waiting on rosemary, chives, and a couple peppers. It also turns out that the lettuce and broccoli seedlings doesn’t do well in all day sun. I think they’re a little too fragile.
How’s does your garden grow?
Melissa | March 26, 2010
The sun didn’t really let them show it for the camera, but we were all super-excited to welcome Spring 2010 with complimentary italian ice from Rita’s. We were able to sneak some in before family arrived to celebrate my grandfather’s 84th birthday.
This is the cake that the kids helped me make for it. We always [...]
Melissa | March 25, 2010
I also like to think of this dish as the American version of fried rice.
It’s 100% kid-tested kid-invented and mother family-approved I can take absolutely no credit for this recipe.
One night back in October while I was away, Patrick gave PJ the option of ordering pizza for dinner or going grocery shopping and creating his own. PJ [...]
Melissa | March 24, 2010
At prayer time tonight…
Ty: Jesus, dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom?
Me: What is what called again?
Ty: Pich
Me: Pitch?
Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together)
Me: Pinch?
Ty: No. Missue.
Me: Miss Sue?
Ty: Yah. Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today.
Me: Ooooooh. Speech. Is that what you were saying?
Ty: Yah. Dank you I had pee-sch today.
Less than a [...]
Melissa | March 24, 2010
I apologize in advance if you’re not as excited about alliteration as I am.
1. Touch tactics. Instead of yelling from across the room, get your child’s attention by making physical contact. Then, with him looking you in the eye, make your request (i.e., brush your teeth, clean up your toys, etc.). While this won’t guarantee [...]
Melissa | March 22, 2010
I’m thrilled to report that I’ve had so many answered prayers that I wasn’t sure which one to post. So I think I’m just going to go with recent. Ever since Patrick decided to step out in faith to start Insquare, LLC., we’ve been doing a lot of praying (more than normal). I’ll admit a [...]
