A small request... please

I have a small request and it won't take up much of your time.

Now that Emmah's spirit has left her physical body behind and has completed it's journey "home" I would very much like if you could all take a moment and reflect on Emmah... whether you knew her personally or not. Let us know how she touched/affected or made a difference in your life.

I especially would like to hear from those of you who know/knew her, what your fondest memory or memories of her are. Funny stories and what you remember her likes and dislikes to be (no matter what they are) and what word/words you would use to describe her.

In order to keep all of those thoughts in one place, please, please use this link only for this purpose only.

Thank-you

KEIYH

25 November, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

So here it is, a mere two days away... Thanksgiving.  Among other things, it means that Christmas is a month away (less than that come Thursday) and right behind that is New Years.  

Yikes!  

Today was the last day of school (before the break) for the kids and with that came the "feast" at school.  They used to have a feast for the K-2 kids, but sometime after the new principal took over it was stopped.  After an inquisition (and some fighting to get it reinstated) this was the first year it was back.  So we spent the afternoon at the school watching the Thanksgiving performance which was followed by the feast... it appeared to me that all the kids were enjoying it.  

Then again it could be that lunch was almost two hours later than normal.

One funny line that came out of the day came when we were taking everyone home and Julie was sitting in the back with Rachael and Lyndsey. First off, I'd like to preface this by saying that Julie has a penchant for mixing up her sayings and the transposing of words, this also translates to (at times) everyday conversation.  

So as not to appear that I'm picking on Julie here, I have a penchant to misspell words... I am a poor speller... you have no idea.  Without spellcheck (and dictionary.com) you'd see just how woeful it is.  I also take liberties with grammar and punctuation in general, but that's my (for as much as I have one) style.  

Anyhow, we're driving home and I overhear the conversation coming from the back and it's Julie talking (asking) Rachael a question.  Every so often, our kids go through a phase where they lick their lips and consequently end up chapping them.  This might be one of those things that you just had to be there for, but just for the sake of wrapping this up... Julie's question to Rachael was this;  "Rachael... have you been lipping your licks again?"

Say what?

Gobble Gobble

  

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