Month: May 2008

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Daughters

Pictures from the Graduation

They had a nice ceremony at the Presbyterian church. The children all did great. They sang their songs (“the ants go marching, hurrah, hurrah…) and there were no major interruptions from any of the four-year-olds, even when the ceremony started to feel like it had been going on for a long while.

Graduation Line-Up

Each child was given a diploma and a children’s NIV Bible. I think MD was quite pleased with hers.

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She has a Diploma!

She also got flowers from her cousin and some plants from her grandparents. We’ll be giving her another present today, a board game and some coloring stuff.

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Daughters

Graduating from Preschool

Tonight MD celebrates finishing two years of preschool at the Presbyterian Church school. Her class has fifteen students graduating and they’ve been practicing songs for the past month to sing at tonight’s ceremony. We’ve invited family to attend and I expect we’ll be well represented.

MD was a little worried last night that I might not make it to the ceremony. She asked me a number of times if I was going to be there, and then came back out after being put to be to ask me if I knew where to go tomorrow. I told her that even if I didn’t, her Mama would get me to the right place at the right time.

CDF made cards for the teachers and put together a goodies basket with home-made cookies and home-made strawberry jam made from berries we picked this past weekend.

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Daughters Wife

Coloring the Walls

The other day CDF sent this email about the girls:

I was in my room for a bit too long this afternoon apparently. My youngest child had decided to color on the living room wall in a corner she likes to hide in. I have very pale green walls & she her color of choice was purple. It was my fault for letting her have a crayon in the first place & not seeing the future that she will one day do this. So, I couldn’t get that upset, though I did pop her hand & tell her that what she has done is not good.

I then grabbed a magic eraser & sat down to do the cleaning. My oldest stood over me & asked if that had baking soda in it. I said no. “Well, you need baking soda, Momma. Baking soda works. You should use baking soda. Do we having baking soda?” I got a little irritated at my 4 1/2 year old domestic goddess telling me what I needed to use when what I had was doing just fine! The crayon came off the wall without taking my paint too!

As I was telling my husband about what happened, he made the remark, “She remembers. That’s good.” I had no clue what he was talking about…who remembered what?! Apparently, my quiet, nothing bothers him husband had found my now domestic goddess coloring on her walls during nap time one day. And he dampened a washcloth & sprinkled baking soda over it & made her clean the walls.

I have laughed so hard over the fact that he thought to do this & never told me about it!! He dealt with it & it was over. But that my oldest remembers how to clean crayon off the wall is wonderful. Now, I don’t mind her standing over my shoulder telling me what to use. She may know something I don’t!!! Laughing

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Friends

A Friend’s Wedding

Tassy and Harry were married May 3rd. We went to their wedding, held at Covenant Presbyterian in Jacksonville, and sat closer to the front than we intended. It worked out though, we had a good view of the ceremony and the girls didn’t act up too much.

Afterwards we went to dinner with CDF’s family and then went to the reception the base. We got there just as everyone had gotten a plate to eat so we didn’t miss anything (we were a little worried that we were going to be late).

One of the things the girls were looking forward to was the dancing. One of the dances was for fathers and daughters only, so I got out on the dance floor with MD and CE and had fun.

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Dancing at the Wedding

CDF and I didn’t get a chance to dance, but we did get talk to a lot old friends.