He's Making a List

We have a large picture in our living room with Jesus Christ in the center holding a copy of the constitution in front of him and many of the United States founders and heroes and modern people around him.  Karina stopped in front of it this morning and looked and looked at it and then came and told me that Jesus is on the picture.  I asked her what he was doing in the picture (I am always curious to see how her brain thinks) and she answered "He's making a list, checking it twice.  Gonna find out who's naughty and nice." (I have to admit that the constitution does look like a long list.)
By the way, I (Linda) grew that dahlia.

The Church Purse

Karina has a purse that she always takes to church and we call it the "church purse".  It is quite big and can hold a whole lot of stuff.  Since she is kind of a hoarder you never know for sure what is in that purse and I don't like to look in it too often.  Her scriptures are always in there (they are the large ones) old copies of the Friend, coloring books (most of them have been totally colored in but she will not take them out), crayons, markers, construction paper, etc. etc.  The church purse has become quite heavy and I don't know how she carries it around on Sundays without wearing her arms out.  Several weeks ago we were sitting in church and I kept smelling something.  A sickly sweet, rotten smell.  There wasn't anyone sitting very close to us so I knew the smell had to be coming from us.  I kept sniffing around trying to figure where the smell was coming from and it finally hit me that it was coming from the church purse. With great trepidation I opened the purse and got an overwhelming whiff.  I had to dig around a little but I found the culprits.  5 apples that had been in there for weeks.  It looks like I have a new Sunday duty - check the church purse before we go.

Sspeaking of purses and hoarding:
We have had a real problem around our house with pens disappearing.  We have always had a pen holder in the kitchen and one by the computer and you could always count on finding a pen when you needed one.  Dan and I love the nice Pilot pens and buy them in bulk at
Costco. They started disappearing and soon there was never a pen when we neded one.  We would buy more pens (they are not cheap) and they would disappear quicker and quicker.  One day I was looking in one of her purses to see if she had some lip gloss (she carries 2 purses when she goes places.  One has her money in it and the other she puts odds and ends in).  I was shocked when I saw lots of Pilot pens in her purse.  I took them out and counted 37.  Needless to say, Dan and I now hide pens.  I have even become a hoarder of pens in my purse.

Antique Store

On Friday, Karina and I went to Pine for a little outing and found a a great antique store.  As we went in I told her that we aren't supposed to touch anything in the store.  She proceeded to tell several people that had picked up items and were looking at them that they were not supposed to touch anything.  Later, I found something interesting and picked it up to take a closer look and Karina came up close to me and whispered in my ear "you're not supposed to touch anything".

Wednesday night Karina said the Family Prayer and after blessing all of her make believe friends and none of her own family she ended the prayer by saying, "See you later".

Tuesday afternoon we decided to go to the Flake ranch and pick some produce from our garden.  Karina had decided to take a nap before we left so we had to wake her up and she was not happy.  She had put some pajamas on (3 pairs of pants over each other which made her bum look even bigger than it is) to take her nap and was being very obstinate  about  having to change her clothes so we could go.  I decided that this was one of those pick your battles moments.  Since we were just going to the ranch no one would see her and I would not be embarassed I told her she could wear them.  We stayed longer than planned  and needed something to eat so we stopped at the Subway in Heber.  The plan was that I would go in and order and we would eat on the way home.  She jumped out of the truck before we could stop her and she went in.  It was than that I realized that her outer pj pants had hearts all over them and a big hershey kiss that said "Kiss Me".  The only problem was that she had her pants on backwards and the Kiss me was right on her bum.

I love my BLING!!!!