The innermost thoughts of a very private person...

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Yummy

I made these chocolate chip pumpkin muffins the other day. While they were cooling on the counter, I was upstairs on the phone, and Sam was upstairs crying to me about something. Meanwhile, Isaiah supposedly yelled upstairs to me, asking if he could have a muffin. He thought he heard me say yes. So Dan came home a few minutes later, right before dinner, to find my three-year-old niece and Isaiah sitting at the counter stuffing their faces with muffins. He asked them if they had permission to eat them, considering we would be eating dinner soon. They assured him they did. He came upstairs and double checked with me, who knew nothing of it! Oh well. They enjoyed them and didn't eat much dinner. =)

Sunday, October 24, 2010

I just love happy endings...

Saturday afternoon, Dan and I had a few hours away from ALL the kids. After choosing new paint colors for the kitchen/dining room, a visit to Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol museum (with free admission for RADical days), and dinner at Olive Garden, we were driving home when we noticed a wallet in the middle of the road. We turned around and picked it up and looked for a phone number. We didn't find one, so we plugged the address on the driver's license into our GPS. The residence was right around the corner from the place we found it, so we drove over to the house. We assumed someone had placed the wallet on top of their car by mistake, drove out of their plan, then hit the gas on the main road, which made the wallet fly off the roof of the car. No one was home, so we left the wallet inside the front storm door. We assumed by the design of the house that they rarely used their front door and usually went into the garage. We were leery of leaving a note in a visible place, so we looked up the phone number when we got home. The owner of the wallet had an unlisted number, so after repeatedly using reverse address lookups, etc. I decided to try Facebook. Found the owner, and sent him a message. I could tell from his lack of a profile picture etc, that he rarely uses Facebook. I was a little worried that he wouldn't get the message. But I decided that I did all I could, and gave it to God, trusting that He would do the rest.

Just tonight, I got a Facebook message back from the owner, saying how grateful he was that we returned his wallet! I was happy and relieved that the wallet was returned to its rightful owner. He asked for our address so he could send a token of thanks. I thought about this for a few minutes. We certainly didn't return the wallet in order to get any reward. But he should have an opportunity to show his gratitude if he wants to. So I told him he could make a donation to the Lighthouse. Don't you just love happy endings where everyone wins?

And if you'd like to make a donation to the Lighthouse, you can do just that, here. =)

Friday, October 22, 2010

Four kids

Things I want to remember about this week:

Abbie and Isaiah (aka Cinderella and Roethlisberger) dancing around in the kitchen. Sam and Karis joining in, of course.
Isaiah sitting on the big toy dump truck and Karis pushing him around the house, both of them laughing their heads off.
Karis wrestling right along with the boys.
Isaiah going upstairs with me and saying, "Phew! I needed some time away from that S-A-M. He was going to get me like a chicken pot pie!"
Playing tag then hide and seek at the North Park playground until it got too dark to see each other. Dan wiping out twice when we were chasing him. The one time, he crashed right in front of Isaiah, but instead of tagging him, Isaiah just watched in amazement at Dan's wild antics, rolling on the ground and crawling. We got some good, fun exercise anyway.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Just for the fun of it

If you've ever watched the Duggar's show on TLC, you might know that they make their own liquid laundry detergent. We used their recipe, and had a lot of fun making it. I figured if I can make 10 gallons of laundry detergent for $2, why not? Here are the boys helping to mix. I haven't used it yet, because I'm still finishing my regular laundry detergent. I'll let you know how it works when I do.