He Said/She Said

August 6, 2013

Christina — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 22:56:17 +0000

I was solving a word from Mike on Hanging With Friends, which was "nadir." Eliana asked me what the word was and I told her, pronouncing it "nay-der." She said,"What's that?" I told her I didn't know, and then she said,"Oh! I know...like in Phineas and Ferb. A 'nator'." As in -inator, the suffix that Dr. Doofenshmirtz adds to everything. I laughed at that one.

April 9, 2013

Christina — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:54:49 +0000

Tonight Michaela and I were talking about marriage, and I can't quite remember how it came up (maybe a commercial that used some hyperbole about a 24-hour marriage), but I said,"I mean, who can take the sanctity of marriage seriously when people get married and then divorced 72 hours later [I referenced a certain celebrity "marriage" at that point]. 'Till death do us part...or until Wednesday.'" Michaela burst out laughing at that. I like it that she still laughs at my jokes.

(Please note that I do not, in fact, think that the sanctity of marriage is a joke, and I am very sad that the state of marriage as it is in our country is what it is.)

April 8, 2013

Christina — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:32:34 +0000

As we were driving home from the church, Christian asked me about something. We were about a 1/4 mile away from our house, and I said,"Remind me to look that up when we get there. I'll forget." He said,"Seriously?" I said,"Yes!" He said,"Seriously?" I said,"Yes!" He said,"What are we talking about again?" I said,"I don't remember." We both started laughing hysterically. He's a funny kid.

March 28, 2013

Christina — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:38:05 +0000

"Then all the disciples deserted him and fled."

March 15, 2013

Christina — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:12:45 +0000

Eliana just asked me,"Is it still, what's that thing?" as she looked outside. I said,"Daylight Savings? Yes." She groaned and said,"How long?" I told her all the way until October. She asked how long that was, so I listed the months from now until then. I asked her why she didn't like it. She said, as she held her head in her hands,"It makes my head feel all messed up. It makes dinner feel like lunch."

Exactly. She's my kid.

(From My Reading) March 14, 2013

Christina — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:46:12 +0000

"Where a people prays, there is the church, and where the church is, there is never loneliness."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

February 13, 2013

Christina — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:36:31 +0000

Michaela looked up rhyming words for napkin and came across a lot of approximate rhymes. She read quite a few of them and I told her they didn't exactly rhyme but they were close, and that many words are like that. After she read a list of words that almost rhyme with napkin, Christian said,"What about quadricep?" Michaela and I looked at each other like,"Well, that's not even approximate!"

He meant what about rhyming words with that word though...funny moment.

January 8, 2013

Christina — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 02:14:09 +0000

I started Christian's shower tonight and then he got in. He almost immediately yelled out (practically screamed) and I was afraid the water was too hot. I said,"What?!" He started laughing and said,"I still have my socks on! C'mon!"

December 17, 2012

Christina — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:14:52 +0000

I read Christian a short story tonight from a book of devotional stories. It was about a man who did not hear a Bible read until he was about 70 years old, but when he did hear it, he took it in as fast as he could, and it changed his life for the four years that he lived after that.

When I finished the story, I said,"He had the greatest joy even though it was just those few years."

Christian replied,"The Bible can change you so much in a short time."

Amen, and if only we let it...

December 9, 2012

Christina — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:02:57 +0000

Eliana was trying to sing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" but she said the word "hoke". I told her it was "Hark the herald angels sing," and then sang some of the song for her. She listened and then said,"So when does it say "hoke"?"