Salt in His Shoes

The kids have been doing some funny things that I wanted to write down. Owen has had a crush on a girl at church, who is now 22. He used to sit with her at church and get excited to see her. He says they are just buddies, but she recently got married and he had some interesting things to say about that. She moved to Arkansas, which is where her husband is from. When I told Owen that she was moving, he rolled his eyes and said, "Just as I knew it! They have to move to where HE is from." I had their wedding announcement on the fridge and when I took it down, he said, "Good, you took it down. Now I don't have to look at his face." What a punk! He said he was just kidding. Yeah, right!

Noah just told me that he had a tear in his eye when he finished his math test today because he was so happy that he finally passed the subtraction set he had been working on. Noah is my sensitive one. We were talking to him about how when he gets older he won't like stuffed animals anymore. That made him cry. He said he didn't want to to think about a time when he wouldn't like his stuffed toys because he just loves them so much.

Emmy has been barking. Yep, she stands at the door and barks because she wants to go outside to see the neighbor's dogs. She barks at dogs on TV, in photos and barks at her stuffed dog. We showed the kids pictures from our Barbados trip and there were tortoises in one photo. Heidi and Owen, separately, asked if we rode them. Goofs! Owen put salt in his tennis shoes this morning because his friend told him that he read in a book that Micheal Jordan could dunk because he put salt in his. Owen tested it and he came in excited, and said that he was really close to dunking, but not quite there. Heidi doesn't really too much silly stuff, she is a smart aleck, though. She makes some good jokes. She does get emotional when tired and usually laughs at herself the next day for being so ridiculous. Things have been busy, but getting better. I worked part time for 2 months at the Brownstone in South Whitley, but am done with that, and I'm now focusing on Rolling Pin Bakehouse. The kids are doing swim lessons, but no other sports this summer. I think it will be pretty enjoyable to have more free time. Things are coming together for my bakery. I have a hearing with the zoning board next week. Hopefully, I get approved and get some more customers in the future.

Lots Goin' On

Emmy is cracking me up right now- she has a kleenex and keeps blowing her nose. So cute! She's doing better than her older brothers who use their sleeves! Owen lost his first tooth this morning at 6. Pretty exciting! So, our dryer has been on the fritz for about a week. We wanted to get it fixed before Chad and I leave on vacation, so Chad worked from home today and the repairman came. $88 and 15 min to find an old gift card, from some boy's pocket, stuck in the blower. I've got a guess as to which little boy forgot to empty his "credit card" from his pocket. Chad says we need to cut all of the pockets out of his jeans. Is there anything these kids won't break/ruin?! Heidi's school got to talk to the commander of the international space station. He got to choose one school out of the entire country! We just watched a video from the space station about a month ago and watched the space station zoom across the sky, before we knew that her school was going to talk to him. So, the boys were excited for her, but a bit jealous too. The commander is a Hoosier- gotta represent!! We've been busy trying to get things going with our businesses and get vacation stuff squared away and work. I'm ready to relax on the beaches of Barbados!!

Kickstarter and Rolling Pin Bakehouse

It was recently brought to my attention that I need to file an appeal to the zoning board in order to continue operating Rolling Pin Bakehouse. You can read more about it through the link below and find out how you can help! THANK YOU!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rollingpinbakehouse/rolling-pin-bakehouse

Rolling Pin Bakehouse

 Rolling Pin Bakehouse is a new home based bakery I've started at my home near Roanoke, Indiana.  As a home based bakery, l offer homemade deliciousness that customers can order by email or phone and then pick up by appointment at my roadside stand, located at 14401 Winters Rd- Roanoke.  Pick-up is available Monday-Saturday, by appointment.
Our web address is  www.rollingpinbakehouse.com    and we can be found on Facebook and Google + 
Our phone number is 260-918-3376

There was a short write up about the bakery in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette earlier this week. (Scroll down to NEW RESTAURANTS)  http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130116/FEAT/301169994/1011/FEAT

Hopefully, I am getting my name out there.  I've had a couple of orders, but no booming business yet.  We just got the website completed about 2 weeks ago.  Chad did an EXCELLENT job with that!  We'll see how things go!!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

December has been a busy one.  We start off with Chad's birthday, then there is all of the busyness that comes with Christmas time.  I had a couple of baking orders.  I actually made 21 dozen Raspberry Half Moons in one week.  Yeah, I'm trying to start a home based bakery.  We'll see if Rolling Pin Bakehouse takes off.

So, here are a few cute/funny things my stinkers have done lately.   Heidi was trying to cut a tag off of a new shirt.  She was wearing the shirt and the tag was hanging from the underarm.  I look over to see her holding a large chef's knife, going toward her underarm.  I don't know what goes through her head sometimes!  That girl is book smart, but still needs to work on common sense stuff!!!  The boys both wore their suits to school last Friday because they wanted to look nice for their school Christmas parties.  Too cute!  Christmas night Owen was having trouble going to bed.  Hoping to calm him down, I told him he could pick a new toy to sleep with.  Instead of choosing a toy, he asked if I would sleep with him.  He's so sweet!  I laid in bed with him and Noah for a little while, and he was pretty sad when I got out.

The kids did an awesome job today of helping get the house back in order.  We are having a Surprise birthday party for Noah tomorrow, so I needed to do some major after-Christmas clean up.  I can't wait to see his face.  He's going to love it!!!!  Little Emmy is still not walking.  We got her a walker toy that will hopefully help her out.  She has got the cutest toothy smile!  She is such a joy!  Heidi received about 20 books for Christmas.  She is a happy girl!  When we saw Santa, she asked for books, Owen asked for 100 bucks and Noah asked for, what else, Legos.  Sadly, Owen did not get his Christmas wish!  We gave Heidi a corner reading chair that I bought at a garage sale back in the summer.  I think we'll get our money's worth on it!  Chad got me a garbage disposal- I'm super duper excited to get it installed.  My grandma gave us all family heirlooms.  It was pretty awesome!  All of the women got antique dishes that are really gorgeous.  My dad got some tool used with flax that has been in our family since 1790!! Chad's grandma also gave us family heirloom items that are pretty cool.  It was a great Christmas!  Now we get to look forward to the annual New Year's Eve party with Knecht's!

Little Owey

Owen can be such a sweetheart.  He is sometimes very helpful and skips around asking what he can help with next.  He will say I love you out of the blue.  He loves to snuggle.  He is often frustrating to me also.  I commonly hear "I don't have to if I don't want to.  No, I'm not going to...."




 He started Kindergarten this year and I figured he would do fine because he has been going to church his whole life and is always good for teachers there.  Kindergarten has been the same.  His teacher says he's a joy.  He follows all of the rules, works hard...  He's just so up and down at home.  I know that he understands our rules and why we have them.  He just has a hard time controlling his emotions and making good choices at home.   He sometimes shocks me!  Yesterday he was asking everyone what their biggest dream is.  Heidi said she wants to go to every amusement park in the world.  Noah said he wants to be Anakin Skywalker.   Owen said, " My biggest dream is to be with my whole family and Heavenly Father and Jesus."  What a sweet, sweet boy I have.  I need to remember this next time I want to ring his little neck because he's refusing to put clothes on for school.

Revelations

So, I've grown up hearing stories from my grandma, aunt and uncles about the mean things my dad did as a kid .  I've known him for 30 years and I know that he is a little mean spirited at times.  We all laugh when someone trips or falls, but with my dad it's a little more sinister when he's laughing at others misfortunes.  Like the time he laughed hysterically after nailing me in the jaw with a softball when I was 10.  The stories I've heard are usually about normal mean brother things, like putting a spinning propeller in his little sister's hair.  BUT today there were new revelations into the mind of Ross.  My dad, his brother and their friends were hanging out  in a friend's barn -and as any good barn has, there was a rope hanging  down.  Well, my dad decided to tie a noose.  I'd like to know how and why my dad knew how to tie a noose!  He then convinced his OLDER brother to step up on the crate and put the noose around his neck.  All of the boys were just laughing and laughing as my uncle's face turned red.  Thankfully, the one boy's father came out and rescued him.  After hearing this, all I could say was,Wow!