Mom's Progress
Katie's Progress
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sweet Baby Grace
I recently found this little verse I wrote for Katie's shower when she was about to have little Gracie. I had given her an array of cute little baby clothes for all occasions and wanted to present them with a memorable little ditty...(I have an addiction to pink baby clothes!)
Your sweet baby Grace will soon make you smile,
A wardrobe she'll need, she must be in style!
So behold this fun bundle of chic new apparel--
Grace can eat, sleep and poop in...These looks she will wear well.
From AM to PM, from waking to sleeping,
When laughing or crying and rolling or creeping.
Whether sunning or splashing, then playing or eating,
Even crawling or walking and to every church meeting.
A cute fashionista, with pizazz and such flair-
A baby so darling, so fancy, so fair.
Dress up your dolly, but alas, this won't last,
One day she's thirteen--they grow up too fast!!!
And now she's already 9 months old!
Post those pictures quick before she goes to kindergarten!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
"Bouquets of Freshly Sharpened Pencils"
With the start of the new school year and as a former teacher myself, I love to see fun ideas for teacher gifts although I really do not have anyone to give them to. In any case, I sent this cute idea to Sarah since Max just started Kindergarten this week ( and his comment was "It was much better than I thought it would be. Best day ever!) and then thought others might be able to use it for something. ( I know not many really look at this --Evan doesn't even read this unless I make him!)
It's a pencil vase for the teacher! Courtesy of Imparting Grace.
http://www.impartinggrace.com/2010/08/easy-gift-for-teacher.htmlSo cute and easy!
It reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies. The character is speaking of his love for the season of fall and he says something like "I'd send you a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils." Do you remember the movie?
Give up?
It's from "You've Got Mail"......I could watch that movie over and over again!
So to any who read this, celebrate the fall with a beautiful bouquet in a pencil vase!
By the way, the count of our days with temps 100 degrees or over is 67!
Can you believe it?
Fall seems very far away at this point, even though we do have falling leaves and dying trees from the drought!
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Friday, August 5, 2011
We're Having a Heat Wave!
We have now had our 41st day of temperatures over 100 degrees! It's definitely a record-breaking heat wave. We haven't seen anything like this since temperatures even started being recorded in the late 1800's. Wednesday temps got up to 111 degrees here in Tyler! Can you believe it? It's like we're living in Arizona with the added humidity!
Our grass, flowers and shrubs are all burning up... We're just all thankful for air conditioners and pools and icemakers and our trees shading our back yard. Whew! It's hot, hot, hot!
Luckily, we'll have some reprieve as we leave for San Diego shortly. We've been missing those cool mountain temps we felt up in Brighton last month at the family reunion, so maybe we'll get to experience a little cooler sea breezes in sunny California....
Monday, May 9, 2011
The Civil Wars
I saw this duo on Jay Leno and loved this song. "Poison and Wine." It's so full of beautiful harmony and angst... Have you heard of this pair? Their song"Barton and Hollow" is also a great one but a little different flavor. Listen to it..
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Lessons from Mom
As Mother's Day approaches, we are reminded of the many lessons taught to us by our good mothers. Mom has been gone now just over a year, but I wanted to record just some of the many tidbits of wisdom that Roma Kuhre graced us with over the years.
1. Always be polite. Say please and thank you and excuse yourself from the table when you are finished eating.
2. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall keep you from attending church. (But possibly a cold or a nasty bout of mumps, measles, or chicken pox could do it.)
3. Practice!!!
4. You will regret not practicing someday. (Very true, don't you agree?)
5. Keep your feet dry on rainy days with red rubber boots (I hated those things, but now they're back in style!)
6. Wear clean underwear. ('nuff said!)
7. Tell the truth always. (This was one of Dad's lessons too. Kathy tells the story that Mom told her to brush her teeth and she went and stood by the bathroom and then returned as if she had brushed and Mom (who knew all things) asked "Did you really brush your teeth?" and Dad said, "Roma, if Kathy said she brushed her teeth then she brushed her teeth....Kathy would never lie." Needless to say, Kathy immediately went to brush her teeth!)
8. Not graduating from college is not an option.
9. Say your prayers every night and....
10. Always carry a prayer in your heart!
11. When singing for others, sing out, look at the audience and smile!
12. When you go to the dentist, don't wear your best clothes or he'll most likely charge you more!
13. Brush your teeth after every meal. (This was mostly Dad's campaign with his famous RTBN battlecry--Rush to Brush Now!)
14. Be on time.
15. Always wear earrings (that is if you are female!) to look stylish and "finished."
16. Don't mix your food. (I totally disregarded this one since I loved mixing Franco American Spaghetti, cottage cheese, and a lettuce and mayo mixture---kind of like lasagna and salad...go figure!) (We had a missionary who mixes his whole plate of food up-- he even mixes chocolate cake and ice cream into an obliterated mess--so weird and impolite!)
17. A place for everything and everything in its place. A picked up home is a happy home. (But dusting is not essential....)
18. New shoes should be celebrated! (Remember? "Katie has new shoes, pretty new red shoes. Katie has new shoes on today. See them walk. Hear them talk. Katie run along and play!")
19. Visiting teaching is a noble endeavor and banana bread can cure all ills!
20. Vapo rub on your chest can help you breathe when you are sick (but it smells awful!)
21. Words are fun! (Mom was a master at Boggle and crossword puzzles.)
22. Keep your shirt down in back. (Mom never failed to make sure that my shirt was pulled down in back even until the end!)
23. Memorizing a talk is the only proper way to deliver an address when you're under 12.
24. We should be Good Samaritans as Jesus preached. (I loved her flannel board figures of this parable and I still have them.)
25. Gardens and flowers bring joy to your life. Pansies (her favorite flower in Tyler) should be fertilized and protected from nasty snails with Buggeta pellets. Tuberous begonias must have fish emulsion (something else that smelled bad!)
26. Music can bring joy to the soul. Mom was an expert pianist and could play Kamenoi Ostrow by Anton Rubinstein perfectly.
27. The Basic Stance! You know what I'm talking about!
28. When you spot a white horse, lick your forefinger, hit the center of your palm with that finger, and then slap your fist on that spot and you'll have good luck!
29. Be your best at home, at school, at play, at church in everything you do!
30. Life is not usually fair. Sometimes your brother will get a bigger serving than you will....but that's partly why I was chubby as a child since I was always trying to keep up with my brothers!
31. Be nice to others.
What did Mom and Dad teach you? Add on to this list or add other tidbits that your parents taught you. (It's nice to know that we have taught our children something worthwhile!)
And I reserve the right to add to this list when I remember more tidbits of wisdom.
This is one of the few snapshots with Dad also in it. This shows 4 generations with William Dobbie Kuhre (back, left) also in the picture.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Spring really is here!
Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead."
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead."
- A.A. Milne
This appeared on the Bloom blog recently. Our daffodils are nearly gone (we had two rounds of them as we now have two different varieties), but we loved them so....So happy and chipper as they turn their heads to the sun.....and I love Wordsworth's poem too...we even have a "daffodil reserve" with thousands of flowers here in Tyler which I've never seen, but for now, just imagine such a glorious abundance of daffodils using Wordsworth's imagery.....
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
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