This Is Kristin

Today my husband and my son, played a game of basketball against me and our 8 year old neighbor girl. My husband and son beat us. (barely)

My husband has not stopped trash talking me, about that game, since. It’s like, “Brody, can you hand me a spoon,” and he says, “yeah only because I dominated you in basketball…”

Then I started making brownies, and decided to put marshmallow cream in it. My husband started to bring out a pot to melt the marshmallow cream in, and I was skeptical that it would burn. When I said, “oh wow, that actually worked good…” he says, “yeah, I dominate marshmallow cream.”

As we were waiting for the brownies to bake, we started working on a Hulk puzzle, and every single piece that he fit, he’d say, “yeah, I dominated that piece…”

So, I tried to trash talk back, and it comes out, “yeah, well, I was doing good too… and you’re tall… or something…. man, I suck at trash talking..”

Which he of course has to say, “yeah, I dominate you in trash talking….”

And,

The Black Apple has some cute valentines…..

~I used to like to buy the Krispy Kreme heart shaped doughnuts for my boys on v- day, but since that doughnut shop is 20 min. away, and I think out of business this year, I have started making “monkey bread,” which is becoming a new family favorite treat!

~I have also always bought the boys a new book on valentines day. I just love all the valentines books…

*Do you have any special valentines traditions?

I found a mitten pattern, for crocheting, and it is a quick one. One half hour show= one mitten. (*note: the thickness of your yarn will determine size of mitten)

With the snow that “may” come today, they “may” get some use.

*The other day Blue brought home a paper inviting the dads to a party at his school, and he says, “did you know some Dads are 55?”

*We’ve watched “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” a couple of times now, and there is a part in the movie where Alvin says “chika wah wah,” and since then, that sound/ phrase has been reapeated over and over in my house by all 3 boys. So, the other day we were eating breakfast and a squirrel was out running along the fence and through the trees. When the squirrel dissapeared, Cooper stood up and put his hands in the air saying, “chika wah wah- gone?”

My husband said, “If he got any cuter he’d turn into a puppy,” and Aiden replied, “yeah or a snowman.”

*Tiny Talk Tuesday

• A little bird is always sitting at the very tip top of our tree.  
• I’ve been busy working on some “toasts”.  No more cold knuckles.
• I had 5 little boys in my house yesterday, and only 1 scratch- and nothing broken.
• Loved the new LOST show.  
• Our boy’s basketball team still hasn’t won a game, but it is still my favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning.  
• Going to be doing guest posts on This Ordinary Day soon.
• Love this blog.   
• Wondering if time speeds up the older I get.  The last 10 years has gone by fast to me… 
• S.S.S. 

~What’s your weekend look like?

~ I just started taking a class teaching how to save money on groceries. The woman leading the class has cut her monthly grocery budget over half, and many I know who’ve taken her class have done the same. I haven’t learned the “how” yet, as this class has just started, but I am very interested in this, because my monthly bill seems to be growing more and more.

*My question to you is, how do you save money on your groceries?

I was reading a Christian fiction book the other night and was really having a hard time wanting to continue reading it.  

The book was fairly uneventful, and every situation was carefully laid out for everyone to have the perfect reaction, and perfect situations- not real life.   I finally put it down for good when I read about how the man wasn’t sure if he wanted to ask out the woman because she’d slept in one Sunday and missed their Sunday school class, and then wore pants the next Sunday. (seriously????)   

Part of me wanted to keep reading to see what would happen… but then I realized that I didn’t think I could endure much more of it. 

That being said… Brenton Brown just wrote a list of some Christian fiction authors to check out, and as always “My friend Amy,”  has great suggestions.  

*Sound off- what Christian fiction books do you like?

“The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother- and a million ways to be a good one.”

— Jill Churchill

…. but it made for a beautiful sunset this evening! 

Back to the cold…. this is by far the coldest winter we’ve had here yet.  Our skin is cracked and dry, and this morning it literally looked like we were in a snow globe with glitter flying around.  It wasn’t snow, and it wasn’t hail, it was like ice air.  Very cool- (both meanings of the word)

*What’s the weather like where you are?