Friday Funny (Overheard)

We order from Chewy.  With a dog, a cat, and nine chickens (and free shipping over a certain dollar value), we make large orders.  This week I ordered chicken feed—2 fifty pound bags, oyster shells, grit, and meal worms; our typical restock for the chickens, which lasts us 6-8 weeks or so (more on the grit, shells, and worms).  We also needed cat litter.  This led to Katie overhearing the poor FedEx delivery guy exclaiming, “How many pets do these people have?”

19 1/2

 

1. What is your favorite color? Yellow

2. What is your favorite toy? Camera

3. What is your favorite fruit? Lemons 

4. What is your favorite tv show? Brooklyn 99

5. What is your favorite movie? It: Chapter I

6. What is your favorite thing to wear? Green flowing pants

7. What is your favorite animal? Chaoyangsaurus

8. What is your favorite song? “Cat People” -Bowie

9. What is your favorite book? The Hunger Games

10. Who is your best friend? Gretchen

11. What is your favorite snack? Mott’s fruit snacks

12. What is your favorite drink? Diet Coke

13. What is your favorite breakfast? Mocha banana smoothie

14. What is your favorite lunch? Chicken Alfredo 

15. What is your favorite dinner? Hot wings

16. What is your favorite game? Bowling

17. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Swim

18. What is your favorite holiday? Halloween 

19. What do you sleep with at night? Heated blanket

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Esthetician

11 1/2

 

1. What is your favorite color? Blue

2. What is your favorite toy? Swing 

3. What is your favorite fruit? Mango

4. What is your favorite tv show? Psych

5. What is your favorite movie? Jurassic Park

6. What is your favorite thing to wear? Black dress

7. What is your favorite animal? Panda

8. What is your favorite song? "Psych Theme”

9. What is your favorite book? Stepsister 

10. Who is your best friend? Chloe

11. What is your favorite snack? Raspberries

12. What is your favorite drink? Dr. Pepper 

13. What is your favorite breakfast? Pancakes and bacon

14. What is your favorite lunch? Wrap sandwiches with Cool Ranch Doritos

15. What is your favorite dinner? Spaghetti

16. What is your favorite game? Exploding Kittens

17. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Swing

18. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas—it lasts 12 days

19. What do you sleep with at night? Piglet

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A gymnastics coach

Friday Funny

 

Nate telling about a dance he attended:

“Well, I was throwing grapes at {the sister of a Trail Life buddy}, but she kept missing.  I picked up the grapes off the floor, but then I couldn’t find a trash can.  So, I stuck the grapes in my pocket.  Thankfully, later I did find the trash.”

😶

Friday Funny

Proof of homeschoolers who sleep in, as we were hiking before daybreak:

It’s the opposite of dusk. -Nate

*Dawn.  It was dawn.*

Our Very Busy Week (and a Half)

December is one of those months, you know?  Our homeschool co-op was taking the month off, but life is still quite full!

We kicked off our very busy schedule with ‘school picture day.’  For many, many years I took the kids to a studio about half an hour from our old home.  There was a great photographer there named Sarah.  The kids liked her, she got them to smile, and took really good photos.  I started calling ahead to put us on the schedule when she would be there.  I’d always ask after her son (conveniently also named Nathaniel).  Time marches on and we moved.  Starting kast year we headed to the portrait studio closer to the new house (now it’s closer to an hour drive).  As I was making the appointment, Gabby mentioned we weren’t like to hear, “Stinky feet!” this year (one of the ways Sarah would get my littles to smile, when they were still little).  But when we walked in last week, who did we find, but Sarah!  It was lovely to catch up on this, Gabby’s last school picture day.

Nate saw the empty parking lot at the mall and asked for a chance to practice.  His sisters and I acquiesced.  He did quite well.  I will say, if you told me this mall, that I visited on Black Friday 30-ish years ago would be this deserted at Christmas time, I wouldn’t have believed you, but here we were!

Justin and Nate spent the next day hiking.  They opted for a spot that took a drive, but were our old stomping grounds, to get his 14-miler in.

Katie managed to have TWO flat tires in the course of an hour—we got the spare on, then en route to the tire shop, the spare popped.  Thankfully we never finished changing a tire ourselves. The first time a guy running a grating project on our road came by.  Then a fellow who was painting a mural at the local hardware store helped with the second.  The tire shop had to order for her, but they gave her a loaner to get her through!

They barely made it home in time for Nate to grab a shower and for me to whisk him off to practice for his upcoming music Christmas program.

Then, of all things, he spent the night in a shelter he made, as he’s trying to finish a badge.  Thank goodness for good gear and Hot Hands!  I woke him up at 6:15, so he must have slept okay—his water bottle froze though.  It got down to 22°!

The next day the fellows went hunting, but the deer won hide and seek.

On Sunday, our Gabby flew away to see her fellow.

We had a day of music at church—(not pictured, the children sang in the morning), then we had an evening of readings and carols in the evening.

Monday was concert day, in Virginia

And Tennessee.

Ellie had Christmas performance practice.

The youth had a Christmas Party.

We helped set up for some displaced Helene families for a Christmas visit.

They guys went paint-balling.

Then Ellie fell ill and missed the Christmas Parade and performance, but we got our gal back from Virginia.

Friday Funny

 I like to chew on my nails after I take a bath because they are soft and chewy. -Ellie

😳