Mr and Mrs Awesome

Jonny to Kahlan- "Do you wanna have cat for Thanksgiving?!" Kahlan- "WHAT THE?!" Seeing your kids develop their personalities is so awesome! Gratton tonight wanted to help me clean and brine the Turkey. He said it was gross though, and he WAS NOT eating it tomorrow! Last night, Gratton spent the night at his Uncle Bill and Aunt Kirstie's house. He stayed all day long today, and played with his cousins. It is crazy to me that he is old enough to spend the night away from home, and not be scared. When he came home, he gave me the biggest hug and said, "Did you miss me so so much?!" I assured him that I did, and he grinned so big. Gratton and I spent about an hour before he went to bed, reading lots of books. He loves to read. Tonight, we started a book that is too long to finish in one night. He was very concerned about what we would do because it was too long to finish. I then taught him about bookmarks, and he was excited. It's c...

So last night, Kahlan sat on the top of the couch behind me, brushing my hair. While she was doing it, she kept saying things like, "Sorry it hurts, you have sticky food in your hair." She was saying everything I say while doing her hair. It was so funny. She loves being just like me. She helps me with the dishes, and follows me with the dry microfiber mop, while I mop. The mopping actually helps, because she dries it as I go! A few minutes later, David and I were cuddling while watching TV with the kids. Kahlan said, "Mom! Let go of my Dad! Don't hurt my Dad!" Then  she came and moved me away from her Daddy. She's a protective little thing, and loves her daddy! Today, Jonny pointed out an area on the ceiling that we needed to paint. Kahlan said it was disgusting, and Gratton said, "No, its a masterpiece! It looks like a cow that got pooped on, and is missing it's right leg." It was a very gross, and yet specific description." Out of the...

Hypothesis for why God would make me sick. Sometimes I've gotten frustrated, because I've tried to follow the commandments and the golden rule my entire life, and then I have this horrible disease appear, which has no cure. Not only is it incurable, but so unknown that it's not like where if you tell someone you have cancer, they understand the severity of it and they're jumping out of their seats to help you. The people who do know lupus, they usually have a sister or friend who was diagnosed, but it only affected their skin, and they were able to live a normal life. There are several types of lupus. The skin type is caked called discoid lupus. I have the rarest, and most serious kind, with the highest mortality rate. Furthermore, within that rare subset of the disease, I have one of the most serious secondary diseases systemic lupus can cause. It's a blood disease called Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), and is also very rare. Patients who have APS ha...

Kahlan and Gratton, David, Jonny and I have been watching the old Star Wars movies, to get ready for Episode 7. Also, it has just been a long time since we've watched them.  I've been super surprised that the kids like the movies so much. As a kid, I didn't like them very much. Kahlan is funny. She said Jaba is a "dirty dragon ". She keeps saying she can't go get stuff from upstairs because her legs are broken. She was watching the movie, sitting on David's shoulder, then saying "I watching from up top." She's hilarious.