Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

The end of my daughter date. Library, toys r us, dollar tree and wendys.

Came home and opened our strawberry shortcake dolls, ate our nuggets n frosty, watching ginormica aka monsters vs aliens and eating a marshmallow cupcake shaped lollipop!

Quite a day.

Well it’s time to get back on the horse called blogging. The beginning of the new year brings resolutions and goals, but not for me, not this year. This year I’m going to refocus and get back to the things I love: God, family, and community. To some this may sound like a resolution, but to me it sounds like simplicity. So, as I clean out my drawers I’m hoping to be a little less structured and a little more in love with life.

It’s amazing the things in life we take for granted or get to easily to easily excited over. Yesterday Alora came frantically running into the office to ask where her My Little Pony book was. She needed it urgently, she told me. I pointed to the corner of the office where all the new Christmas books are stacked awaiting a home. She scrambled over to the pile and dug out the thick pink book and started wildly flipping pages. She kept muttering to herself “Where is that page, I know it’s in here!” Finally, she proudly waltzes up to me with her Melissa and Doug wooden ice cream cone set in one hand and holds up the My Little Pony book in the other, to what seems to me a random page and says “Look mom! I’m holding the same ice cream cone Minty is sharing with Rainbow Dash.” Low and behold in this story the ponies were sharing a double scoop vanilla and chocolate ice cream cone and Alora proudly produced her cone in her hand and they were identical. She then asked if i would like to share a “lick” with her.

In anyone else’s life this would seem trivial, but in my life I see this as a small beaming moment when she has memory recognition, math patterns and a sharing heart. I’m glad a took a few moments away from my “computer time” to share it with her.

Well Christmas and all it’s glory is uploaded in pictures in the gallery, head on over and check ’em out!

Well after much slacking on the website now begins the new year with new resolutions. One of this year’s resolutions is to keep up on Fish and Chips and update all the wonderful things our family is doing and learning. This year Jason and I are working together to look at everything through “Christ-colored” glasses. In our family that means dedicating more time to reading the Bible, Praying the Word of God and spending our time as a family, truly as a family.

29 all over again, You are finally younger than ME!!!

Love Jason and the Girls

Well it’s Officially August! Which means we are a week into our year round homeschooling with Alora and Zoë is trucking right along in life. We just got over a large scare, Zo had hand, foot and mouth disease. (Sounds gross doesn’t it? Well it is.) For about 5 days she had 103 plus temperature, followed by a full body rash and large sores in her throat and mouth. This would be painful in anyone, but put it in a 15 month old body it’s horrible. Now it could have been much worse 1) she could have had massive fluid filled sores on her feet and hands too, but she didn’t 2) she could have been absolutely unbearable with all the pain and misery, but she wasn’t. Truthfully, Jason and I let the fever go for 2 1/2 days thinking it would go down, because she was acting like nothing was wrong. When I took her into the dr.’s off the physician’s assistant said she just had a fever, lungs ears and heart checked out fine. It wasn’t until the dr. came in and looked at her throat and noticed just the beginnings of a miniscule rash on her arm that he knew it was hand foot and mouth disease. He said “Most kids who have this are so miserable they do nothing but scream for 10 days!” Because folks here’s the kicker, it’s a virus! That means nothing that medicine has created can stop this from taking it’s course. The prescription: ibuprofen for pain, fluids and sleep. That’s it so 5 days with 103 plus temp (that’s after the ibuprofen), throat sores for 7 days and 10 days later a little rash left, but no longer contagious. Zoë is a trooper! She was just a little cuddly and wanted to sleep, no screaming fussing or mussing.

So that is how we spent the last half of July homeschooling and with hand foot and mouth disease. As for the rest of the month we celebrated the fourth of July with a family reunion and some backyard fireworks and kept our cool on the hot days of the month by playing in the sprinklers.

check out our pics in the gallery to see all the excitement.

So you know the summer is flying by when someone asks how old Zoë is and you say a year.  They say 12 months and you say no, but i’m not sure how many months. That is the tragedy of a second child. When the other person looks at you and says, April 29th right? I say yes and they say she turned 15 months yesterday. OOPS! Time is flying by and moments are becoming a blur.

This summer has been jam packed with trips to the zoo, cosi, trips to both nana and pap’s houses, library time and play dates. Zoë has lots of vocabulary words (daddy, hi, bye, sissy, momma, baby,,, etc), she refuses to be fed (she must only feed herself, unless it’s something really yummy like ice cream to which she will submit to eating off of a spoon that someone feeds her), walks everywhere, climbs every step and has no fear of anything around her. But she truly loves her sissy, I think she wants to be just like her when she grows up. As Pap Fisher says ” I’ve never seen two kids more alike, that are cut out of the same stone.”