Sweetness

Posted: December 21, 2009 by Cop's Wife in bubba/boo, holidays & celebrations
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This was 2006. Bubba was still a little small for actual trick or treating so he stayed home with me to hand out candy. He LOVED it. And the candy itself. Here he is with a box of Nerds in his mouth. He wasn’t able to open it so he just stuck the whole thing in there.

Every time someone rang the doorbell, he’d yell, “Bob? Bob!?” (that is what he called Peanut for the first few years of his life.) He just could not wait for his big sister to come home.

She stayed out later than his bedtime. After I put him to bed, he still kept yelling for Bob whenever he heard a noise.

Pics I love - Me and Peanut

Posted: December 20, 2009 by Cop's Wife in cop's wife, peanut, pics i love
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We make a pretty good team.

Jealous much?

Posted: December 19, 2009 by Cop's Wife in bubba/boo, family, shorties, slim/squirt
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Hey, wait. Look over there. What’s Bubba doing?

 

Who me? Nothin. Just sitting on the most awesome bouncy thingy ever.

 

I WANT IT!

 

Humbled

Posted: December 18, 2009 by Cop's Wife in deep thoughts, holidays & celebrations
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Christmas time is really one of my favorites. I love the smells, the food, the trees, the lights, the stories, the movies, the music, the gifts. I love giving gifts. I love watching my kids get excited about snuggling up to watch a Christmas movie. Love it.

And I tend to go over the top. I spend too much, I buy too much, I bake too much. And I’m sure it has to do with not having all that much as a kid. Who knows. But I still go over the top.

I also get involved with some charitable things as well. My Scout troop has held a coat drive the last two years. I am happy to say we collected 242 coats this year. The men’s coats go to Uplift, the women’s go to Hope House, and the children’s go to Midwest Foster Care and Adopotion. All outstanding organizations that help people right here where I live. Though it is quite a bit of work as far as requesting, collecting, washing, sorting, and so on, it is really amazing to see what a few little girls can do. And how appreciative the organizations are. There is just so much need out there.

Also, my MOPS group has adopted a family for the school year. It is a grandmother, grandfather, their adult daughter, her 5 kids, and 4 of their other grandkids. That’s 12 people in a 2 bedroom duplex. And they have very little. No extras at all, no kitchen table, no anything. Most of the children only have two outfits. 2. They don’t have enough clothes to get through a week of school. That breaks my heart. But the amazing women in our group really went above and beyond. At our meeting on Monday, it was like Santa’s workshop. There were stockings with the names of each of the family members. They were stuffed to the brim Everyone is getting a new outfit, socks, and underwear. Each child had two toys to open Christmas morning. One of the women bought 2 sets of bunk beds. Another bought mattresses. Several of us brought in sheets and comforters.They brought in all kinds of food and toiletries. It was overwhelming. It was heartwarming. And our group is not large. Maybe 20 women.

The women that dropped it all off said that the grandfather became really emotional. I’m glad I wasn’t there. Grown men crying makes me sob. Apparently no one had ever really done anything for him before. Much less for his entire family.

For January we are collecting gently used clothes for our family.If you happen to have girl clothes from 9 months up to size 7, boys sizes 5 and 8, or adult women sizes 7 and 14, women’s tops size Med or Large, and men’s size 32/33 pants and large shirts, let me know. I’d be more than happy to send them over to our family. I’d love for everyone to have a week’s worth of clothes.

And if you have coats to get rid of, let me know. My Scouts would be happy to take them.

Merry Christmas!

What I’m reading - December 17, 2009

Posted: December 17, 2009 by Cop's Wife in books
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To continue on with my reading challenge from Booking Mama, I knocked out two more young adult books recently. 3 down, 3 more to go. Or possibly more. I’m on a bit of a kick. And it helps that the books are so short.

I know that I read Blubber as a girl. Probably around 4th or 5th grade. I remember being shocked by some of the behavior of the kids. Fortunately, I wasn’t picked on all that much as a kid. Though I did move a lot so I was often the “new kid.” I thought it was a little simple. And maybe not as overt in its message as it should have been. But that was also a bright spot. It didn’t smack you in the face with the moral, nor did it have a big climactic ending.
For those that don’t know, the story revolves around a girl named Jill. She is neither the bully or the one being picked on, which surprised me on this reread. I could have sworn she played a different role, but this way you get the perspective that most people in real life would see. Most of us are not the victim or the aggressor but are forced to navigate the gray area and decide to participate, ignore, or try to do something about it.

This book is about 2 different couples in high school. The two girls are friends and very different. One is popular, one is more a homebody. The boys are also friends and different, one the bad boy, one the boy next door.
I’d never read this book. It was originally published in 1969. And it could stand some updating. For example, two of the characters talk about moving to LA and renting an apartment for $75/month. Also, the word “Oriental” is used several times and my understanding is that word is not acceptable to use when describing people.
Anyway, it has lots of very mature subjects like sex, smoking, abortion, suicide. I think this would be for a slightly older kid, maybe late middle school/early high school. Though it is a much shorter book than I think I was reading at that age. And it was pretty simple, but maybe the young kids need things to be spelled out. It was much clearer in its overall moral.

Both of these were finished in just a couple of days. Mostly read while I was sick which was perfect as I couldn’t have handled anything too deep.

And a new little bit of info I am going to add to my Thursday reading posts is a list of books I have checked out from the library. I’ll probably leave off all the picture books that Bubba and Slim have and the chapter books that Peanut chooses. But if I intend to read it, I’ll put it on this list. And hopefully it will encourage me to read and return a little more frequently so I don’t have to post the same list over and over.

Blubber
My Darling, My Hamburger
Shelf discovery : teen classics we never stopped reading
The cat ate my gymsuit
The girl who owned a city
The grounding of Group 6
No plot? No problem! : a low-stress, high-velocity guide to writing a novel in 30 days
Footsteps on the stairs : a novel
Summer of my German soldier
Harriet, the spy
The secret garden
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
The mother-daughter book club : how ten busy mothers and daughters came together to talk, laugh, and learn through their love of reading
Janet Evanovich’s how I write : secrets of a bestselling author
Holidays on ice

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