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Maren:  "Could I work at Daddy's work when I have to choose a job?"

Mom:  "Of course.  I'm sure they could find a job for you to do. (pause) Why do you want to work there?"

Maren:  "Because that's where Daddy is."

 

love at home

The four youngest kids and I were all cuddled on the couch this evening watching last Sunday's recorded Extreme Home Makeover.  Towards the end of the episode there was some talk using the words "house" and "home".  Maren said to me, "What is house to a home?"  I said, "A house is just the shell, the walls and roof. A home is where there is love.  Love makes a house a home."  Maren leaned over to me and whispered in my ear, "We have a home."  

My heart is overflowing with love for that girl.

 

I AM !

Why is it that when Craig goes out of town, I stay up into the wee hours of the night?!  The kids were all down just after 9, I came downstairs to straighten up the kitchen, then plopped myself down on the couch with my frozen yogurt I picked up at Swirlz earlier this evening and saved in the freezer for just this moment while I watched American Idol (thoroughly unimpressed with the contestants this season).  Then I thought, "I will just go check my emails before I head off to bed".  That was an hour and a half ago. Checked emails.  Blog surfed.  Have successful resisted the temptation to go grab a handful of chocolate chips out of the freezer.  Will post this with a cute quote from Maren and then off to bed for me!

Craig took the 4 younger kids to see our friends, the Clarks, in a dance performance last Saturday night while Emily and I were at the Young Women's Broadcast.  The whole Clark family dances, all six kids and the dad.  Maren apparently loved it and was dancing on her seat. 

 Craig said to her, "Maren, are you going to be dancer someday?" 

 To which Maren replied, "Dad, I already AM a dancer!"  

 Duh, Dad!  

 

 

 

 

Can't wait for her ballet and tap recital in June!
 
 
 
 

Maren-ism

There was a bee on my windshield as I started driving home from church this afternoon.  I mused aloud, "I wonder how long he will stay on there?"  Maren piped up, "Just whack it off...with your rain whacker-offers!"

I love that girl!  She makes me laugh!

Conversations with Maren

Maren and I were driving home from running errands yesterday afternoon and had the following conversation:

 

Maren:  Mom, did you know the whole earth is our family? 

(must have talked about earth day at preschool this week)

 

Mom:  You’re right, Maren, that’s why we have to take good care of the earth.

 

Maren:  I wish Jesus was on earth again.

 

Mom:  Me too.  Someday He will be here again with us.

 

Maren:  Maybe in fifty hundred days.

 

Mom:  Maybe!

 

Maren:  When the people come again they will have fresh skin, fresh breath, fresh. …(long pause)…fresh food in their hands.

 

BIG smile on my face!

 

Another part of our conversation:

 

Maren:  We better take our clothes with us when we die.

 

Mom:  I don’t think we’ll need clothes in Heaven.  (then thinking that perhaps it might be disturbing to Maren to think that we are all running around naked in Heaven I said)  I think we will all be wearing robes in Heaven.

 

Maren:  Like the kind when you get out of the bath?

 

Mom:  No, maybe like pretty princess robes. 

 

Maren:  Yeah, like pretty princess robes.

Oh, if she could only stay (almost) 4 forever!

Funny Quote

Maren just brought me a book and said "Read this one!"

I read the title to her,  "Diary of a Worm".

Maren said, "Like going to the bathroom - diarrhea?"

I had to laugh.  "No, like a journal.  A diary is a book you write in".

Learning something new every day!