Brotherly love...

If you ask Abbey what's it like to be the only girl, you would get an earful about how 'awful' her brothers are; how they 'torture' her and tease her everyday, all the time, a never ending misery. And, she's partially right. Her brothers DO tease her. A lot. And I do feel bad for her and try (unsuccessfully) to get them to stop. After Halloween last year, on clearance, I picked up a couple of shirts for the boys which say: Who needs Halloween? My sister is scary enough! I pulled them out this year, with the Halloween stuff for the boys to wear. I showed them to the boys thinking they would appreciate the joke. Cael (one of the biggest culprits of all) looked at the shirt, then looked at me and very sincerely said, "But that's not true" and refused to wear the shirt. I was touched by the genuine and sweet way he said it that despite all the teasing, he really does love his sister; despite his 'tormenting', he cares about her. I guess that's how families go. We tease or treat each other with less than our best selves, but deep down there is a bond of love more powerful than all of that. I hope Abbey realizes this. I also hope, for her sake, that the teasing stops or at least diminishes enough that she can survive being the only girl. But I hope she knows despite the nonstop teasing and 'torturing' (as she says) that her brothers really do love her and care for her and that for now, she's at least not scarier that Halloween :)

Here's a smile for today

I thought you might find this amusing. Anita Renfore is pretty hilarious and has done parodies on quite a few songs that I really like. Anyways, thought it might give you a laugh anyways :)

My little Cookies....

Because I have twins, I get a lot of comments from people about them. My twins are technically identical, yet they look different enough you can tell them apart. Our doctor has told us even with identical twins, you can get a lot of variance for a lot of different reasons. Lately I've heard a lot of, "Are you sure their identical? I thought identical twins were supposed to look exactly alike?" Well, as I've thought of this, for some reason my mind turned to chocolate chip cookies. In a batch of cookies, even though they all have the EXACT same ingredients, they still all turn out slightly different when they come out of the oven. I guess identical twins are like that in a way too. So then I got to thinking about how all my kids are sweet and delicious as well, and what type of cookies they are:

Daniel - SNICKERDOODLE mostly just for the name. It reminds me of his funny and quirky personality.

Abbey - PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE CHIP warm and comforting sweetness, with a little spice :)

Joshua- HOMEMADE OREO - pure, sweet goodness.
Zach and Gabe - CHOCOLATE CHIP since that's what I first pictured them as.

Cael and Nathan - PEANUT BUTTER but because they're not twins, different recipes of the same. They have so many of the same personality traits, Nathan is often dubbed Cael Jr.

Then I thought of Nic and wondered about his cookie status. Immediately I thought of PEANUT BUTTER again, because it's his favorite kind. Ironically though Cael and Nathan are both so much like their Dad, it's fitting they are all slightly different variations of the same yummy goodness.

Me? Hmmm...well I guess I'll go with CHOCOLATE WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND A FEW NUTS. I have a deep love of chocolate and as this post clearly indicates, am slightly nutty as well. Well, here is to my wonderful family, full of sweet homemade goodness that I find irrestible and wonderful! I'm grateful for the joy they have all brought to me:)