Making Valentines & More Quote Wall

Well well, hello. I'm behind on life. For example, I just finished blogging November last week and yesterday I finally posted Mel’s birthday. There's still more of December and January to do. Yes, I'm behind. But pat me on the back, I provided for my children to give valentine's treats to their classmates.
I barely bought the bare minimum needed for the 4 kids to have enough for all of their friends, so I had to watch the kids carefully to make sure that they weren't helping themselves, cause we didn't have extra to spare.

Valentine boxes and treats - it's a tradition, albeit a tradition that has lost most of it's purpose and that I kinda despise. Here are Daniel's valentines that he made yesterday. 

These are prob the saddest little valentines we’ve ever done but I also think it’s cute. They look like they are from a kindergartner, and they are. Daniel's fine with it, and so am I. This is a good time for me to share some updates to the quote wall (because these first few are a nice transition, as they are about chocolate...) Joseph captured these:

Can I have some Nutella? - Abi

I don’t believe in Nutella - Mom

It doesn’t matter. Nutella believes in you - Joseph 

Your Father has the code. He buys that garbage so you can ask him - Mom

Yeah but he said Mom has stuffing - Abi (I made stuffing for dinner)

Haha he’s such a good husband - Mom

BeReal of Sunday dinner - 

Here are some more quotes that Mel shared on Sunday - 

Dad to Sophie: “Do you know how to conjugate a verb?”

Abi: “I don’t even know what a verb is.”

Natalie: “A vurp is a mix of a vomit and a burp. I learned that from reck-it-Ralph.”

“I don’t think I’m lactose intolerant, but if I ate enough…” - FHE bro

Natalie holding Katharine tells Daniel “Let’s go play family!” Daniel irritated “Awww, I don’t wanna play family! I wanna play orphans!”

Mom: “Tell me about the game orphans.”

Natalie: “Orphans is about orphans running away from an ophanage keeper and then they figure out a place to live, then they learn their parents aren’t dead, you know, the usual.”

Lily: “If I could speak any language, I would speak English.”

Dad: “I’ve got good news for ya Lil”

Peter “Mom, down to the basement is really freaky and really scary…”

Wes singing Sharks

Peter - “Stop singing that song! You can sing it in your head like this!” Then he stares him down with a glare and furrowed brows

Playing Snaps 

Sophie “I don’t even know what’s true anymore”

Abi helping make dinner for a family of 11... 

Mom: “You only cooked 2 cups of rice??”

Abi: “You said to cook 2c of water to 1c of rice.”

Mom: Well I meant that was the ratio to use... 

Don’t mess with my hair, it’s how I get all the girls.. Except for my sisters. - Wes

“I don’t want you to feel like I’m giving Katharine special treatment; I would be happy to chew food for any of you.” - Dad 

Talking about Jesus fasting for 40 days: 

Kid: “There are these people that don’t eat or drink, they just live in caves and breathe, it’s baffled scientists for years.”

Dad: “I’ll have to look into that. But my wife had better not find out about this.”

Mel - stretching on the floor.

Natalie passing by, pointing: “that’s not hard.”

Mel: “Good morning to you too.”

I just hope I can get married while I’m in college so I don’t have to get a job! - Abi

Abi: I have a plan.

Dad: …and it involves a man

Abi: “We should get some food while we’re out because it’s free”

Dad: “Turns out it’s not actually free”

Abi: “It’s free for me though!”

Temple worker: “If any of you are waiting for a spouse or another member of your party, please remain seated.”

Ethan: “I might be here a while..”

“Mel, you should kiss a dude. It’s magical.” - Ethan 

“When I grow up, I want to be 26” - Owen 

“The only thing using teeth whitener has done for me is it’s made me see how yellow other peoples teeth are.” - Ethan

Along that same line of funny sarcasm, here are a few memes I saw recently that really hit the spot!!

"Why is being alive so expensive? I'm not even having a good time" lol! (I'm going to type them out, so that I'll be able to find them if I need to search the blog for them via a few key words like "alive" and "expensive") 

"If you work hard enough, you can replace depression with exhaustion"

"I wish it was socially acceptable to say 'I don't care' and walk away from the conversation"

haha! I like trying to take care of my health, so I'm glad I still remember that. I went on a walk this morning. I also like crunching the ice bubbles. We watched Episode 2 of Limitless on Disney+ yesterday, good stuff. I've been taking a cold shower everyday since Wes first mentioned it to me. When I was at violin today, Joseph called to let me know he was up in Millcreek, so right after violin, we dropped SNPK off at Corey's parents and I went and climbed with Joseph and Rhyan. AND I did the Hot Pink V2 that I wasn't able to do on Saturday, AND I also did another V3! A hanging purple one in the OG sector, and I was able to do it twice, yay!!! I'm so proud of myself.