We all make mistakes. I think it’s good to learn from them. This impromptu shot was not one of them.
Here’s what I learned last week:
- (Truth #1) When you’re in a hurry and you pull out the big roaster pan to slow bake a giant pork butt, potatoes and carrots, you should check the pan to make sure it’s clean before throwing the full pan in the oven (see Truth #5).
- When you move into a house with a septic system, you should schedule an orientation right away (Truth #2). Because if you do all your laundry in one day for a family of five, you’ll overload the system which proves to be stinky (Truth #3). Oh and make sure your kids don’t play in the sprinklers! The water is um, recycled (Truth #4). Welcome to the country.
- Remember that roaster pan? (Truth #1) Everyone piled around the table for dinner and our Advent devotional and we ate delicious pot roast and start talking highs and lows of the day. About that time, we discovered a very large, slow-baked cricket that ended up on my husband’s plate, under a yam. He got an extra serving of protein and a new low for the day. (Truth #5) Dinner was over VERY quickly and nobody wanted to save leftovers.
- When you drop your kids off for midweek youth group after a dinner nightmare and sneak off to Starbucks for a quick date with your hubby, the church will call 15 minutes later to say your son is being seen by a medic for a head injury. (Truth #6)
- And with a staple to his head gash, you learn that’s why it’s never funny for kids to pull someone’s chair out from underneath them. (Truth #7)
- We should have made more of these people. (Truth #8)
2012 Christmas card photo:
photos by my friend, Suzanne Box Photography
Love the family photo! I did our family photos myself this year and it was soooo stressful. Portrait photography is not my thing.
Yay for getting the family photo done BEFORE the head gash!!
Well, it sounds like you had an interesting few days. I love this year’s Christmas photo!
LOVE the photos! I also love the truths! You seriously have a very real and very funny life – you just can’t make this stuff up. If you handle it with half the humor with which you share it here, my hat is off to you, Mom!
I’ve gotten a phone call like that. It wasn’t a head injury, though. My son had cut his finger (with scissors??!?!) during his scout meeting. I ran back over and took him to the Dr. to get stitches. Fun Times!!
Love the pictures!
Oh I so love your real life posts!!! Hope that head heals really quickly…
Oh, what a week! Beautiful family pictures.
Oh this is hilarious! Thanks for sharing! Sounds like those life moments when you have the choice to either laugh or cry and you choose to laugh. A lot.
Am I reading that right? Is that your Christmas card picture for NEXT year?? And i don’t even have THIS year’s done yet??? I need to get on the ball.
ha. yep, I’ve really got it together.
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This is why I love your blog. The situations are totally different (mine involved burned smoking “all natural” poptarts, a giant goose egg, and the principal’s office) but I love reading about stuff like this. It helps me know I’m not alone and take some laughter and wisdom along the way.
According to a friend who knows these things, the sprinklers are actually ok. There is (should be) a filter in the septic system that cleans the water before it is sent through the sprinkler. I still think it’s gross, but that’s what he told me last year when I started yelling at my daughter to get away from the sprinklers in my grandfather’s yard.
I LOVE the cricket story! That is awesome!
Beautiful card! Beautiful family!
I vote for the first picture as your Christmas card…not that I get a vote…but it’s sooooo cute!
Beautiful family!!!
Ha! Love it!! And what great pictures of your family.
Love the candid updates…and your pictures are awesome! XO, Aimee