The Christmas wish list part II

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Momzoo

After posting Punk #1’s hilarious and strange Christmas wish list I thought I should do some explaining. My little daughter is a Geologist, or at least a Geologist in training (good guess Mr. Jeanette). After school she loves to go up in the hill behind our house and collect rocks. Then she brings them to the back step and does this:

For hours and hours she sits there and breaks apart those rocks with a hammer. She knows which rock have little crystals in them and which rocks break apart easily along lines.

She is our little Geologist.

Last Saturday Dadzoo took her to Home Depo, he needed some paint for a project. She came home with these:

Her very own hammer and protective eye gear. She is so excited, Dadzoo will no longer worry about her losing his hammer and Momzoo won’t worry about flying rocks hitting her eyes.

It was a win-win purchase.

So when she gave me her rather unusual Christmas list I wasn’t very surprised (this coming from a girl who wanted to be a Pickle for Halloween when she was three) and she gave me detailed reasons behind every item.

In case you all were wondering here is her list and reasoning:

A bottle of vinegar: to test rocks, you can tell different types of rock by how they react with certain chemicals, and since she is 9 she is limited to vinegar. She once used a whole gallon on a Saturday afternoon.
Tweezers: So she can easily pick up small sparkly rocks.
A box of baggies: To keep her collections of favorite rocks, since she had been baned from using mine. You have no idea how fast she can go through a box of 500 baggies.
A box of garbage sacks: So she can break-up her rocks on top of this, for easy clean up.
Work gloves: To protect her hands of coarse.

Some small jars: For her very favorite and smallest specimens.

A tool belt: To hold the hammer, eye glasses and other various tools, especially beneficial when working in the field.
Rock tumbler & Rock polishing kit: A necessary tool in any aspiring Geologist collection.

That’s my girl!

Christmas wish list

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Momzoo

This is my oldest child’s Christmas wish list

A bottle of vinegar
Tweezers
A box of baggies
A box of garbage sacks
Work gloves
Some small jars
A tool belt

Rock tumbler

Rock polishing kit

“oh and maybe” she says:

some Legos

huh????

My Punk Baby Brother

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Momzoo

Last Wednesday my family got wonderful news.

My littlest brother was called on a Mission for our Church

The post office called him early Wednesday morning (about 6:45) to let him know there was a letter from church headquarters for him. The post office in the little city he lives in does this, so the new missionary can come and pick the letter up, and doesn’t have to wait for the mail to be delivered.

My little brother was kind enough to wait until later that night when the whole family could gather for the opening of the letter. We were so excited!

He is going to the Lansing Michigan Mission

(basically all of Michigan except the Detroit area)

YAY!!!!!

I am so proud of my brother, he has grown into such a wonderful man.

He leaves February 18th

(or is it the 19th…gasp, how embarrassing!)

only a few days after his 19th birthday.

Good luck Chaddy

we love you!

The only down side…

I am going to miss him!

(p.s. if any of you live in Michigan and you see some punk Mormon missionary, that could be my brother! honk and wave!)

My Quiet Afternoon

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Momzoo

Thanksgiving weekend was wonderful! We spend a lot of time with my family and I enjoyed every minute of it. My parents and sibling live about an hour away, so we don’t get to spend as much time with them as I would like, but this weekend we indulged in some family time.

Today when I woke up the house was a mess, fortunately I had nothing that really had to be done, so I dug in and by the afternoon the house was in order, I had several loads of laundry on the line and I could indulge in the beauty and calm of the afternoon.