the last one...really

between 5:00 and 6:00....

I know everyone has to know.....Ray ate the soup...not only did he eat it, he ate two bowls of it.

But he also told a series of jokes in which he used the word ladle...

see ya ladle

talk to ya ladle...

you get the point!

I also had a argument with Lizzie about the soup...

She put her bowl in sink and as I was washing it out she came back in and asked for more, so I turned around and was getting ready to put more soup in her bowl when all of a sudden she started to throw a fit....

she didn't want soup in that bowl because I had just rinsed it out and it was wet...hmmm

I tried to explain to her that soup was wet so wet bowl from water wasn't a big deal...she wouldn't believe me, a few minutes later she is still arguing with me...sorry Lizzie, no soup for you!

Who would have thought that soup could take up so much of my blog time? Until next time...see ya ladle!

ughhhh.....

Okay between 4:00 and 5:00....

one of my children who shall remain nameless went #2 in the upstairs bathroom only to find out after the fact that that toilet is not working...

the toilet tank will not fill up with water unless I turn the sink on, but it has to be hot water because for some reason the cold water will not turn on....

remember the backpack from the last post...well Benjamin has been pulling it around everywhere. What makes this funny is that it is a pink princess backpack with rollers and he is putting everything in it.

For some reason my contacts are super blurry and I am having trouble writing this blog. It may be because I am wearing Rays contacts, but I have been for several weeks and today is the first day they have given me any trouble....hmmm!

Th soup I made for dinner is ready, Ray has not had any...

I am pretty sure I am ready for bed...

an hour in the life of....

Here's the thing, I think my family is funny, mostly my kids. Not funny like good sense of humor, but funny in the sense that I like to laugh at them when they are not trying to be funny. I guess you could say at their expense, but they don't know that and there is no reason to explain that to them. So I am going to recap the things that have happened in the last hour....

Lizzie tripped over a large rolling backpack as she walked out of the kitchen that she knew was on the floor because she had stepped over it while walking into the kitchen...

Parker then stepped in a plate of 7 layer dip that was in the floor because Benjamin likes to eat on the kitchen floor. The thing about this is that after Parker stepped on the dip, Benjamin continued to eat it after Parker removed his foot from his plate!

The kids then thought it would be fun to push each other down the stairs in a laundry basket, I mean while pretended not to hear them. Because if I had heard then then I obviously should tell them to stop because it is not a good idea...

I didn't tell them to stop because I needed to start the soup I am making for dinner because it takes awhile to cook, as I started to cook it Ray yells at me from the bedroom because he is concerned something is on fire....no soup for you Ray.

He has since asked me several times what is in the soup, because it doesn't smell so good. I am now wondering what Ray is going to eat for dinner.

On a side note I have spelled because wrong every time I wrote it in this blog and I had to go back and respell it....including this sentence!

I will be blogging again in an hour to recap what happens between 4:00-5:00....here's a preview, the backpack from the first part of this blog may show up again...

Life in these United States...

we have been home now for about 2 and half weeks, yet something the passport control people said to us as we were entering back into the Untied States stills rings in my ears....Were do you live?

I think that is a really good question, were do we live? We live in Yukon today and for the last few weeks, before that we thought we lived in Romania and and next month we will live somewhere else! That is a lot of places and a lot of change.

I thought coming home would be just like it sounds....coming home! And in some ways it is the same. There are days that it is like we never left in the first place and then there are days it seems like we were gone for so long. It is strange to realize life goes on with out you, here and there.

I miss my friends we made in Romania, but I am so happy to be here with my friends and family. This journey has been filled with so many mixed emotions, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. My life is different, I am different. And that is a blessing.

I think it took moving across the globe and back again to see really what is important, and what is not. So we don't have a home or very many things that belong to us, but....as cheesy as it sounds we have each other. My kids have learned that home is where we all are, not the building in which we live, and I have learned I can do so much more then I ever thought I could.

I am glad to be back in these United States, and I am super glad for Walmart, and refried beans...