Lover of Sweets: Patch Allreds

Yeah remember that stale little movie with Robin Williams where he was a doctor or wanted to be and he went around with a big red clown nose cheering up all the little kids in the hospital..."Patch Adams"? Well, this patch is kind of like that...I hope it will serve to cheer anyone up who needs cheering.

So, we are celebrating our first ever Allred family reunion with all 1,547 of my Sweets' siblings. It's going to be sooooooooo fun! Mother Allred asked if all of the families could give her a little patch to represent our families to put on the sweet family flag she is making...don't "sweets" represent us well? I don't know why, but I am darn proud of this little patch and while making it I wondered "why oh why don't I make stuff with felt all the livelong day?" I had a lot of fun ignoring my kids and cutting out little felt shapes and gluing stuff together.

Cool Things My Kids Say

Gordy: "let's hug everychother"...said when Sweets gets home from work and I'm kissing him hello. Little dude will usually run over to us and want to be picked up and hugged by both of us at the same time. So cute.
Gordy: "What heck!?" Said when Maddie was throwing a huge fit at some hotel we were staying at some hotel.
Gordy: "I'm outta heo (here)!", said when he was fed up with his sisters.
Gordy: "I'm so sick of it"
The other night at the dinner table I told the little guy that he needed to tidy up his room after dinner. He leaned back in his chair, put his hand behind his head and sighed "Aw Mom! I'd love to do that, but I'm too tired!"
A sweet conversation while my girls were bathing (I was in the next room): Charley: "Mom? Do women HAVE to get naked when they have babies?" Maddie chimes in before I have the chance to answer "NO, only SOME women, like Catholics".
Today from the backseat, Gordy said to me "Mom, I don't dream about noodles." This statement was of course in reference to the movie, Kung Fu panda. So then I asked him what he DOES dream about. Well, he proceeded to tell me what kind of trucks and superheroes he dreams about for the next five minutes straight. THAT is a long time for such a little person!
I had to put Treatums in time-out in his room today for yelling at me. I told him that he could come out when he was ready to speak nicely. A few minutes later he came out into the kitchen and very calmly announced "MOm, I'm gonna talk to the police if you don't stop it". So back to his room he went.
Last night while I was at work little dude was in bed watching TV with Sweets when all of a sudden he looked over and asked his dad "are you a woman?". Sweets, taken aback said "No, I'm a man." Then little dude: "Oh, you're a man?"
Chookie yelling "Neva!"; which is to say "Never!"...when badly offended. Later it was "Never never again! HMM!" and then a good slamming of the door. I remember loving to offend her just to see all the tiny drama.
NoniGirl went to a baptism with Sweets, during the hymn NoniGirl turned to her dad and asked "Do you even hear yourself singing, your voice is all low and like blah blah blah".
Chookie telling Nonigirl "Weo, you stink" when Nonigirl announced that something at the dinner table was stinky , informing us that she "has good smells" (meaning her nose is sensitive to smells).
Today I overheard Gordy playing with a little race car made of Legos that Nik had made a long time ago. He was yelling "Steve come back!" I asked Charley who this Steve was and she told me that Gordy named his car Steve. What? I keep wondering where he has even heard that name!
When Charley was 2 she would always tell me she loved me. One day I gave her some chocolate milk in her sippy cup. She looked at me and then down at ther milk and said "I yuh you chochet miwt". Which is to say: I love you chocolate milk.

Inspirational Quotes That Ring True For Me

A rose can say I love you, and orchid can enthrall,But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist is the very best gift of all.
Brick walls are there for a reason, they are there to show us how much you want something.
I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -Mencius
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. -LP Hartley
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.-Author Unknown

Lover of Sweets

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Patch Allreds

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