Heaven

After we dropped Kaitlyn off at school this morning...my conversation went like this with Ryan:

Ryan: Mommy, I can't wait to be a Grandpa. I will be a Dad, then I am excited b/c I will be a Grandpa.

Me: Ryan, I am so excited too!

Ryan: Mommy, you will be dead then.

Me: (Gulp) Yes, you are right.

Ryan: But, mommy, do not worry...NO matter HOW old I am... I will ALWAYS be your baby...even after you die.

Me: Ryan, you are right. You will ALWAYS be my baby, and I will be an angel watching over you forever!

TEN MINUTES DOWN THE ROAD:

Ryan: Mommy, WHAT DOES HEAVEN LOOK LIKE?

Me: (Gulp again!) Ryan, no one is sure....it is whatever is in your mind and heart. I picture it as a beautiful and peaceful place with a lot of flowers.

Ryan: Me too, I think there are a lot of gardens there.

Me: I agree little buddy.

Ryan: I even think they have SNAKES there Mommy. They have angel snakes in the garden.

Me: (smiling and driving)...I bet you are right little buddy, bet you are right!

WOW!! What a conversation to have with your 4 year old at 8 AM!!

Happy weekend!

Bird

Last Thursday, while our cleaning lady was here....I left one of the french doors open for Anderson to play outside...I was straightening the house, Anderson was going in and out of the french doors, playing in the backyard (yes, it is fully fenced in...in case you were wondering!)

All of the sudden...Ryan says..."Mom, there is a bird in the house." (in Ryan's...matter of the fact voice).

I am thinking, yeah, right..."Ryan, where is the bird?"

Ryan: "Right there Mom".

Me: (in my mind)....HOLY #$Y%^^!!!! Then calmly said, "You are right Ryan".

The bird flies into the living...all over the place, as it is a 2 story living room with about 6 windows in it. The bird perched itself in our fake tree in the living....hopped around my "CLEAN" clothes that I had been folding in the living. After 10 minutes, I call Charlie and ask what in the h$$#%! was I suppose to do. He thought it was hilarious. It was freaking me out a bit....

After 20 minutes, it found the french doors and flew out.

Always exciting around here!


PS - This is our messy dining room table...still sorting thru all of Anna's birth gifts and TRYING to write thank you cards :) Excuse the mess in the video :)

Sleeping with....

my eyes open.

While we were in Cincinnati....Ryan was up VERY early one morning. I was just checking in on him, and he was lying in bed with his eyes open. I said, "Hey buddy, I thought you were sleeping".

He said, "I was....sometimes I like to sleep with my eyes open so I don't miss anything!"

Princess

I am SUPER sad to report that PRINCESS has passed on. For those of you who do not know....Princess was our cat. I got her the year I graduated from college.....12 years ago......

Charlie and I had been dating for 6 months, we went to the pound together and I picked her out. Charlie still reminds me to this day it was "not the cat he would have picked". Princess was a persian/tabby mix. She was so pretty and TINY TINY!! She weighed all of 2 lbs. NO KIDDING!! She got sick 1 week after I got her. I took her to the vet. I had to feed her RX food that cost more than what it was costing me to feed myself! ($3/can.....2 a day!) HA!

Sadly, Thursday night Princess went missing. She NEVER leaves the front porch. AND....she was not there.....

We are assuming a coyote.

Needless to say, I was HEARTBROKEN over it. SICK to my stomach....I cried for 3 days....then, imagine having to tell the kids....especially our sensitive, big heart Kaitlyn!

We told the kids yesterday. Kaitlyn cried for over 1 hour. She was crushed. She asked Charlie to go buy her a new cat TODAY, NOW! Charlie politely said NO (he really has no intentions of replacing the cat....but, Kaitlyn and I will have to "work" on him! HA!).....Kaitlyn could not understand. We told her Princess was not coming home...she wondered WHY WOULD PRINCESS NOT COME HOME? I said, well...she is in a "happy" place. Kaitlyn said...WHY WOULD SHE BE HAPPY AT SOMEONE ELSE'S HOME? Sweet Kaitlyn.....I explained to her that Princess was old and sometimes kitty cats will know they are sick and crawl into the bushes and close their eyes to go to sleep. Kaitlyn could not understand what would have happened to her.....WE ARE NOT going to tell her about the coyote theory....we will wait until she is 18 to tell her! :)

God Bless Princess. She was such a sweet sweet kitty. She will be missed!