Tall Tales

Our conversation on the way home from school yesterday sounded like this:

Madelyn: "My eye hurts...because one time a bird bit me... in the eye...with it's beak...when I was sitting in the mud...wearing my sparkley silver shoes...eating vanilla wafers...when I was a little baby."

Me: "What?" (that is only thing I could think of to say)


And our bedtime conversation from yesterday sounded like this:

Madelyn: "Can you tell me a story?"

Me: "Which one?"

Madelyn: "The one about Courtney and the dog"
(I've been telling bedtime stories about some of our childhood memories and I use my sister Courtney and myself in all the stories, her favorite involves Aunt Courtney and getting her dog Jasper for Christmas.)

Me: "Once upon a time..."

Madelyn: "Mommy, remember when Courtney was tiny...like as tiny as my pinky...after she was an alligator?"

Me: "No, I don't recall that one!"

My Favorite Things

In no particular order:

1. Holding hands with my hubby

2. Waking up early with everyone else still asleep to sip my coffee, read a book, and mentally prepare for the day

3. A really, really good book. (Recently read: The 19th Wife and The Glass Castle both are great reads

4. Late Harvest Vignoles from Holyfield Winery

5. Singing Jingle Bells and Oh Christmas Tree every night with Madelyn (yes, even in May)

6. Time for scrapbooking

7. Our Jack LaLanne Juicer

8. The way I feel after the treadmill and stepper

9. My Mom's coconut cream pie

10. Lilacs

Chocolate Milk Madness

She can definately fend for herself around our house!

The chocolate is the best part anyway!