The Three Stooges

These days my little Aubri has gotten a little shy...intermittently. She always has love for Mommy though (and I am eating that up!)...

"don't wanna smile"...we almost caught her smiling here at Grandaddy-O's birthday dinner...

Not gonna do it...she was forced to "smile" here...

The other night when we talked about renting The Three Stooges and picnicking in the living room, Aubri said "Yeah, the Three Students!" That's my girl!

So tonight we actually did watch the remake of The Three Stooges and it was really good...had us all laughing in between bites of leftover casserole.

And the kids learned a few new moves which they practiced on themselves...

I am so proud of all three of my stooges!

Mulligan

Last night started off so promising. I was beat from 4 very busy days at work and all I wanted to do was get to bed. I made dinner for the family and after we got the kids to bed, I took a nice, long, relaxing bath and then I read a couple of chapters of Hunger Games. (Emi and I are both reading the book but she's about 40 pages ahead of me.) Emi had a friend sleeping over so Scott and I decided to watch an episode of Mad Men in the bedroom (we're on season 3). I could barely keep my eyes open for the whole episode so I didn't even try to....

After I dropped off that first time, I was awakened around 1am. Emi and her friend were still awake making noise in the living room, so I got up and told them it was time to go to sleep...then I went back to sleep for another hour...

At 2:20am there was a little hand knocking on our door. It was David and when Daddy got up to see what the problem was, I could hear David stage whispering that he'd had an accident.  [Note: He didn't wet the bed but we'd had a reminder talk earlier in the evening about telling us when he has waited too long to get to the toilet instead of letting us find out on our own or lying about it, so he was really emphatic about letting us know so he wouldn't be in trouble...at 2:20am!]

So we got back to bed and I managed to get back to sleep for an hour and a half! This time it's Aubri beside my bed telling me she's had a bad dream. She's grabbing my hand and when I asked her why her hands were wet, she said it was because she just washed them after she went to the bathroom. At that point I knew that she really hadn't had a bad dream, she was just trying to scam her way into our bed. I walked her to our door and she stood on the left side grabbing at the door. When I asked her what she was doing, she said "Trying to open the door" (while pulling Daddy's robe and towel off the door).  The handle's on the right side of the door...right where it's always been. Did I ever mention that sometimes Aubri reminds me of a little drunkard?

When we got to her room, she said she couldn't get her covers back on her bed. I asked her what they were doing on the floor and she said she fell down.... okee... After I got her tucked back into bed I had about 45 minutes of glorious undisturbed sleep...

Ahhh... TGIF!

Full Circle (sotto voce*)

I don't normally participate in Wordless Wednesday but I thought I would lower my voice just a bit when telling you that we had a wonderful meal tonight at a good old standby, T.E.A. Cafe, where we've been going since they first opened up... mmm mmmm

* Am I the only one who thought of Funny About Love when reading "sotto voce"?

Released

This weekend was packed with lots of family and friends. I'm so glad that's a recurring theme in our life.

Friday morning we were teased with the possibility of rain...it clouded up and cooled off and I could hear the thunder in the distance but...



it didn't quite happen for us....at least it was cool enough to rake up those Magnolia leaves and water plants and swing for a bit before tidying up the back yard.



We had a funeral to attend on Saturday (Scott's Mema) and it wasn't really a sad occasion. She'd been suffering recently and her husband (Papa) had died suddenly way back in 1993 ... she was ready to go. She was a strong woman of faith and it showed in the stories shared about her at her funeral. I've known her since 1995 but I really enjoyed hearing about her life before I came to know her. Wow...what an inspirational woman!



Scott's cousin had a really neat idea for the grandkids and great grandkids to write down memories and kind thoughts on tags and tie them to balloons to be released after the funeral.



Scott's balloon got caught up in the utility line pictured in the background there....wonder what Mema would think about that (or if the caught balloons were freed yet)....

Speaking of inspirational women, today we celebrated the birthday of another inspirational woman. The Little Ones' birth mom visited and we celebrated with her favorite salad and cake (I tried to replicate each as best as I could).

Cobb Salad

Yellow Cake with Butter Cream Frosting...the gummy bears were Aubri's idea...

The weekend was full and seemed to zip by but I am so glad that we got to spend time with family and loved ones if only for a few moments...

FaceBook keeps us in touch but we can't hug online, can we?

Full

Emi's sisters have been over visiting for a couple of days and it makes my heart full to see them hanging out together being sisters. They've shared some great time together.



Tonight they accompanied me to the store in search of dinner and anything else they could try to sneak into the cart.  Emi wanted Egg Drop Soup so we got that (not a fan) and some ingredients to make our own version of the Banh Mi.



I thought it turned out really yummy although I think I need to stock up on stuff from the Asian market for next time...like pork loaf.  My inspiration was that yummy sandwich I had at Lee's a couple of weeks ago and another recipe for Vietnamese Fried Egg Banh Mi I have wanted to try for the longest time. Whoa!

I used French Bread,  Braunschweiger (yum!), Smoked Turkey (not pictured in this second helping) vice pork loaf, Miso Mayo, shredded carrots, cilantro and a bit of Roasted Asian Sesame dressing. I did not fry any eggs this time even though I could have easily done so out on flagstone patio yesterday. I thought the banh mis were fantabulous and I'm guessing my husband and Emi did too as they got seconds as well.  Even the Little Ones liked the "brown stuff" (Braunschweiger).

My belly and heart were full tonight... I hope yours were too!