I am extremely excited today because it is two days until girls weekend. Woo Hoo! My girlfriends and I are going to Oregon for about four days of absolute peace and silence and absentminded giggling. It will be a refreshing change from the last two weeks of my family's hacking and high fevers. I am traveling with my sister, three childhood friends and one of my friends mom. Girl Power!
My sister and I are talking back and forth between each other talking about how much fun we are going to have and what we are going to pack. Now I am in favor of being a light packer, my sister on the other hand is ridiculous when it comes to packing clothes. She wants to bring eight outfits, twelve pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks (apparently these are uneccessary) and her entire bathroom and dvd collection (actually that was my request).
I told her that we are only going to be gone for four days which includes a six hour drive there and a six hour drive home. It's a girls weekend no boys, so who needs to dress up right? Ok, now we are down to six outfits, ten pairs of underwear, two socks and her entire bathroom, and I settled on half the dvd collection.
Packing Underwear
I only have school learnin'
Yesterday, on the way home from church, my kids were in the backseat arguing and yelling at each other. If your a mom, or dad, you know that it is inevitable for siblings sitting next to each other to start in on each other over something. I yelled back at them, as any good mom would do, and told them to stop it and that there would be no talking the rest of the way home.
My oldest daughter, Naomi, who is 6, yelled back, "Kiah, (short for Hezekiah) said that you know everything and I told him that he is wrong."
When I heard this, I thought two things; one, I love my son for thinking I know everything and for defending me, two, what did I do to my daughter that she is declaring my ignorance in the back seat?
I gladly told Naomi that as a mom I DO know everything, all moms know everything. (This is something I often tell my children so that they will hopefully believe that they can never one-up me.)
Naomi gladly responded, "No mom you only know what you learned in school, only Jesus knows everything."
I thought to myself, how do you argue with that?
