Need a Logo

During the whole buying-of-the-new-house process, we thought when Dallas and Rebecca went to the title company and signed all the many papers, they would then be the rightful owners of the home.

Unfortunately, nothing in the process of buying this particular short sale home has been easy. They were notified the next day they had to sign yet another paper before the home became officially theirs. Since it was a work day and the paper needed to be turned in to the right people before closing time, Rebecca had to go get Dallas's signature at work.

Brooke and Caroline were so excited to be going to see their dad at work and we were hoping Glen wasn't too busy during the time they were there so they could see him as well.

But, first things first! Brooke has noticed Dallas has a GK logo on all the shirts he wears to work and so she insisted Caroline get ready to go to their dad's work by getting her decked out in the GK logo as well. She grabbed the GK truck-shaped sticky note pad and got busy cutting out some logos.

She attached them with packing tape to Caroline's clothes--the ones she was wearing that day and even the ones she would be wearing another day.

Doesn't our little GK logoed girl look so adorable? Off the girls went after lunch with Rebecca to get the signature.

Both girls fell asleep on the drive to G&K. They stayed asleep when Dallas went out to the van to sign the paper and they stayed asleep the whole way home. Once back here, Rebecca woke them up so they could come in the house and the girls were rebelling.

They didn't want to get out of the car until they went to their dad's work. Rebecca had promised they could go and they were staying put until their mom did what she said.

Let's just say they were two very unhappy girls when they learned they really had been to G&K that day--they had just slept through it all.

Talonless Toe

Rebecca has inherited the Thomas terrible toenail problem. The toenail on her second toe has been having issues for quite some time.

When a child stepped on it at church, she was in so much pain she decided the nail had to come off. She came home from the doctor the next day proudly holding the talon that had once adorned the top of her toe.

I asked if she could at least put the disgusting thing somewhere other than on the counter top where we fix food.

She kept getting the thing out to show anyone who was willing to take a peek at it. Later, I was so disgusted when I saw it lying there--minus the bloody gauze--right where she'd just prepared food for her children.

It totally grossed me out until I looked closer and realized it was just a piece of the dark edge she had cut off the Black Forest ham she had fed the kids for lunch.

Rebecca was hoping the bright red bandage would warn people she had an injured toe and they would be careful around her. Spencer noticed it and kept following her around to try and grab the red thing.

After all the hassle and grief Rebecca gave her father over his thick, discolored, disfigured big toenails, she is now living out the same story.

Unlike her father, she did not want anything put on the toe to kill the nailbed. She is hopeful if she spends enough money having the doctor coddle the toe back into healthiness, she can again sport a regular toenail on that toe.

As for now, fare thee well to the disgusting toe talon!

Quotes of the Week

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
-- Charles Kettering

"There are no easy answers but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
-- Ronald Reagan

 "Focus on the present, and enhance your time and life now rather than always working toward tomorrow."
-- Dr. Laura Berman

A Total Eclipse and a Birthday Boy

Sunday was a special day--it was the day we experienced a solar eclipse and it occurred right during Mom's monthly family dinner party.  The family went outside to try out the special lenses Mike had brought to view the phenomenon.

Dallas figured out how to take a picture of the eclipse through the lenses. Sarah didn't appear to be appreciating the spectacle as much as the rest of the group who were enjoying their turn viewing the moon passing in front of the sun.

Back inside it was time to celebrate birthdays. Glen was the only May birthday person at the party. The little kids all got in on the candle-blowing-out action.

Later in the week the birthday boy ate Frito Bandito for his birthday dinner followed by Oreo cream pie for his birthday dessert.

You've had a birthday, shout hooray!! One year older and wiser, too. Happy birthday, to you!!!!