Home Alone

It's been great having both girls home for Thanksgiving, but apparently I still can't leave them home alone! Somewhere along the lines I completely failed as a mother!

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Posted by Anna Goebel on Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Soccer Mom 101

Anna sent me this today. Ok Anna...point made, but there is no possible way this scenarios could ever happen, because I would never be in the kitchen cooking. LOL!

What Is It?

All this time I thought I was doing a pretty good job of parenting. Then...Anna sent me the picture of the "ice scraper" (see previous post). I finally had to admit to myself that I'm iffy at best! I decided to run a test of sorts and see what other things the girls might have missed out on because of my extremely poor parenting. I sent the girls the following pictures asking them to identify each and just as I suspected, they didn't have a clue. I'm sorry girls! I failed you.

1. That's honeysuckle and when the summer time comes and the air is thick with humidity you can smell it a mile away. We used to climb over the neighbors fence to get at this huge honeysuckle bush. Then we'd pull off the biggest flower we could find and pinch off the bottom so we could suck the tiniest bit of sweet nectar that came out!

2. Lightning bugs (Fireflys) possibly one of the best things about summer. We'd chase them around the yard and then catch them in a jar where we'd watch them light up before we'd let them go again.

3. That's a rake! There was nothing like raking leaves into a big pile and then jumping right into the middle of them.

4. Panty Hose- Those are evil...Trust me I did you a favor by not making you wear those!

5. Living in the desert you never got the thrill of waking up in the morning to hear the tv reporter say that your district was closed for a snow day! On the other hand you didn't have to deal with below freezing temps, putting on 7 layers of clothes just to go outside, shoveling the driveway so you could get the car out or having to scrape the ice off your car window.

Dance Off with Swoop

I'm really glad that when Kayla went to college she stayed true to who she is....weird and awkward! The other night was the EWU Eagle Madness basketball kickoff and Kayla was in the dance off. She killed it! Watch out Swoop! You have some serious competition with that one! On a side note....it really is a small world because Swoop, the mascot, is our pastor's cousin! How crazy is that?!

The Sky is Falling

Chicken little called me the other day to tell me the sky was falling. Really it was just acorns falling off the trees. Poor kid has never experienced fall before or acorns falling out of trees or jumping in a big pile of leaves. Apparently it's effected her more than I thought and she found a very creative way to let me know how she feels.

Snow-NO

The first snowstorm of the season hit Flagstaff yesterday. It's also the first time that Anna has ever driven in snow and ice. I told her that she needed to stop by the store and get an ice scraper. An hour later I get this picture. Hey mom is this what I need? Ok...I get that the child grew up in the desert, but seriously I couldn't stop laughing!