Too Fricken Cute :)

The Mr: Lukas how did you get so adorable?

Lukas (after pausing to think for a minute): Well, first I was weally cute, and then I just gotted so adordabable.

This kid is going to cause us some serious trrouble in about 10-12 years.

Tonight's Quoteable Quotes

Lukas: "Dad were you still in the army before me, an Mikah, an mom, an Alek were even alive?"

Mikah: "I have super vision you know. That means my eyes are blue, but when I want to see through something like hills they turn green. Sometimes they are black. Remember, super vision."

Lukas (while MC Hammer's Can't Touch This was playing): " I'm not dancing; I'm just wiping my bum on your leg." 

Attack of the Concertina

You never know when safety might be an issue.

Vintage Score

Check out the sweet score that I scooped up today (for free).

A vintage rug in perfect condition! I'm hoping to bind it and use it for an area rug in the living room. The man I got it from said that it came from his parents house and he played on it as a boy. He was just hoping for someone to come along and appreciate it as much as he does; and boy do I! I can't wait to try it out tomorrow.

This Mammma Sure is Blessed

So, tonight while we are driving to the store for pizza, which the boys wanted and I decided to grant them, Mikah was talking about the truck that he is planning on buying when he grows up. Alek asked him why he wants a truck and Mikah said that he wants to have one just like his dad bought 60 years ago. Alek laughed, and said... "DAD isn't 60! He's way younger than 60. Mom might be 60 though."

Awesome. Thanks son #1 for bringing joy and sweet, sweet feelings to your mom's heart.

While they are enjoying their pizza, I may-or-may-not be hiding in the laundry room having a medicinal drink.

Andy Brown

I was lucky enough to happen across this amazing musician playing a set in the lounge of the hotel that I was staying at in Charlottetown PEI this last weekend. His voice was Amazing and his music drew a lot of us in immediately. Check him out and buy his CD (or his songs on iTunes), help support fantastic homegrown Canadian artists like Andy Brown.

The Santa Situation

I've been dreading the "conversation" for a couple of years now. Luckily my boys are still young enough that I'm not talking about the s.e.x. convo, but the s.a.n.t.a. one.

Last year we managed to hold Alek off with the brilliant comeback of, "Santa only brings gifts to those who believe. So we'll leave that decision up to you."

I've felt bad about that flippant response ever since. Why can't we be the types of parents that have their act together and have rehearsed these types of question and answer sessions well ahead of time? And why haven't I been able to come up with a better answer for my maturing boy in the last year???

Today I found out the reason why. I think that I had been waiting for this woman to figure it out for me. Hey, I'm not too proud to appreciate (and borrow) someone else's brilliance and eloquence. You have to check out the beautiful letter that she wrote to her daughter about the existence of Santa.

Yep. I cried. I don't even want to deny it because the letter is that good.

Go to Cozi and read Martha Brockenbrough's letter, The Truth About Santa.