books and beds ..

this is ellie's bed .. 

it ALWAYS has books stacked up on it .. usually on both ends .. 

she is reading all of these at the moment .. 

this is cash's bed .. 

usually he has hot wheels and whatever little treasures

 he has picked up from the last parking lot that we were in ..

but not anymore ..

he has BOOKS !!!

and he reads them .. every night .. under his little hanging camping light ..

and no i do not tell him to turn off his camping light and go to sleep .. 

i tell him to read as long as his little eyes will stay open .. 

he tells me in the morning .. oh mom you won't believe what fly guy did last night ..

between bites of cookie crisp i hear all about it ..

i am thrilled that my day starts this way !!!

thunder up !

after the boat show we took our little basketball team to watch the thunder play ..

we had to stop at the waffle house for breakfast first .. 

we played car bingo on the way there .. kinzee and ellie "cheated"

 gracie made a free throw so we got free parking .. 

we made signs .. had our faces painted and played a speed round of basketball ..

all before the game even started .. 

thank you jeff for a great afternoon !!!

marty stewart ..

cash has wanted to get the kitchen out of the barn for the last several weeks ..

what do you want to do with the kitchen i kept asking ..

cook .. he kept saying ..

so today he and granny dug it out of the barn and put it up in his room ..

they also sewed hot pads ..

organized the pots and pans .. 

and mixer ..

and the coasters and drink serving tray .. 

he has been playing in there for the last 2 hours .. nonstop ..

you can hear the pots and pans just banging away .. 

i should probably go ask him whats on the menu ?

around the house .. post boat show

cashs new favorite cereal ..

granny bought it for him .. 

he missed his trucks ..

alot .. 

so he got them ALL out 

this little pointer stick works magic on homework ..

need to work on sight words ..

no problem .. line those turkeys up on the counter .. hand the pointer to cash 

and away he goes .. those sight words pop out of his mouth with ease ..

he says that when touches the pointer to the word .. the word pops into his brain and out his mouth 

there is no crying .. no frustration .. no getting upset .. no bad attitude .. no sulking ..

nothing but beautiful words ..

Mrs. Pool has let us "borrow" this little pointer .. but i may not give it back ..

i wonder if it does math ..

birthday flowers ..

boat show dry cleaning ..

left over christmas card making mixed in with need to be working on valentine card supplies ..

ski stuff that still needs to be cleaned and put away ..

tv boxes with no tv's 

my ocd is in overdrive .. 

i try to just focus straight ahead and not look at the HUGE mess that is all around ..

it isn't working very well ..