This weekend our family tackled the leaves in our yard. And really when I say our family, I mean, my husband. The rest of us came out to hold rakes, snap pictures, and jump in huge piles. Daddy was the one still raking in the cold all by himself when everyone else when inside to warm up and take naps. Yea, I know my husband rocks. Here’s a picture of what it looked like before he got to work.

I came into the kitchen the other day to find my son lining up cups of water. I asked what he was doing and he informed me he was setting up a “Water Stand” in our house. I asked how much he was charging for a cup of luke warm tap water. $14.00, he replied. Any takers?

My son was playing in the backyard swinging his stick like an ax into the mound of dirt when he announced in an overly dramatic voice, “I am working like a slave!” I am sure it’s not hard for you to guess what we’ve been studying this year in Bible Study Fellowship. That’s right…the life of Moses. I was recently reading in Exodus 16 about the Israelites wandering in the desert.

My daughter loves to play school. She asks me to play All.The.Time. But, my daughter has never been to school. And everything she knows about school, she learned from watching her big brother. So when we “play school” it goes something like this… My daughter takes her booster seat down from the table and sets it up in the hall to be her “car seat”. She then has me strap her in and drive her to school.

The kids and I took a nature walk last week. As we walked along the path, I realized we had necessary elements for some great pictures. 1. Happy Kids 2. Setting sun 3. Fall leaves However, we forgot the photographer. After frolicking along the path gathering leaves and sticks, I noticed that the suns rays were really quite beautiful. I remembered Scott saying that one of the best times of days to get pictures is before sunset.

I have to tell myself this quite often at the circus. “It’s just milk, no use crying over it or making anyone else cry over it.” This time, the spill was my fault as I dropped the full gallon of milk over myself and my floor… No use crying over it, so I snapped a picture. Check out 5 Minutes for Mom for more Wordess Wednesdays!

Crafty, I am not. But, I was an elementary education major, so I do know how to use scissors and glue. And, I have found that I really enjoy doing simple arts and crafts projects with my children. But, the circus life can get rather busy. And as with most things, if I am not intentional, the opportunities and the moments pass me by. So, this year I have designated Tuesday as “Crafty Tuesday.

Sunday my husband and I had plans during the Steelers games. Thankfully we have a DVR, so we just recorded the game to watch when we got home. This has happened before, and we have devised a sort of routine for situations like this, because it would be AWFUL to accidentally find out the results of the game before we watched it. So, we typically race into the house (because what if we see a neighbor and they casually mention the game) we then unplug the phone (because what if a friend or family member calls to talk about it) and we don’t turn on the computer (because what if someone e-mailed about it or we saw something on our “igoogle headline” (since we have Steelers websites in our favorites on our home page.

Last week the kids were having a jam session in the living room with their play guitar and drums. As we looked at my son’s pose, with his tongue out, and his fingers holding the “chords” on the guitar, I couldn’t help but think he had a startling resemblance to KISS (minus the face paint)!

The Safeway near us closed down for the past year so they could tear it down and build a bigger, more modern grocery store. I must say I am pretty excited about this because now I don’t have to drive as far to get my groceries. Perhaps, I got a little too excited. When I got the flier in the mail about their “grand opening preview party” on Thursday night, I started making plans.