So I was unsure what to write about this week, but finally decided (while writing this sentence) that I would talk about rooms. Hopefully this blog will not be as boring as it sounded right there. Here goes...
My parents were blessed with 10 beautiful children (the 6th being especially wonderful) and they made sure they brought up correctly. We lived in a large enough house by the seventh child but it wasn't permanent we were just living there temporarily till our pastor and his wife had a five year vacation in Texas. I don't remember really anything about this place when I lived there, but since that our pastor still lives there we get to visit often. A year after my sister was born we got news our pastor was coming home, so we found a house in the country and that is where we have lived for the past 13 years. So we move into this 3 bedroom house with 2 boys and 5 girls. The girls got the master bedroom with two bunk beds. Which left me and my little sister to share a bed. Almost every night we would have a kicking war. Two years later my little brother was born, he stays in my parents room and everything's pretty good. Then my dad has this wonderful idea of building a cottage for my sister, and I was not being sarcastic on the 'wonderful' part either. So they get this new fancy cottage and I have my own bed. This gives us an extra bed available, by this time I have a second little brother who is old enough to be out of my parents room and into the play pen in the boys room, this kicks are other brother into the girls room (poor guy). And of course the inly memory I have of his living in that room is when he was sick with the flu and I slept under him... Luckily I only worried about the smell. We have another two bunk beds put into the boys room so my oldest little brother is out of the girls room and into the boys. Then it gets even better. My mother has her 10th baby, fifth boy, and in honor of him she wants to move into the master bedroom, so we switch. We get a friend of ours old bunk bed with three beds instead of one, he smallest baby with my parents and the four boys together.
So far I have given you a hopefully not to difficult puzzle. My dad gets this camper for a friend of ours, but by the time we get it she doesn't need it so that became one of my sisters room, we took the third bed in the middle out witch made it a normal (except for height) bunk bed. So once we had two girls in there my dad made another cottage for my oldest brother, he lived in it for a summer than went to college so my second to the oldest moved into there. Then my oldest sister moved into a house in town with some girls from our church. My second to the oldest sister stayed in that room by herself for awhile. My two older little brothers were to young to take care of the youngest boy so he went into our room. He was probably 4 and he had a very annoying habit of waking you up at 4:30 in the morning crying because his blankets came off.... Luckily we got rid if him quick to the other boys. My younger sister moved into the cottage with my second to the oldest sister and they had a very cute clean room. That left me alone to pretty much make a mess of everything.
Then my two older sisters move out into my parents rental house so were left with 2 girls and 4 boys, that's how it is today, but not without more switching up, you see my brother goes to college 4 hours away so it was always confusing finding a place for him in the summer. This last summer I was living in the second cottage, the two older boys who were home lived in one room in the house the younger next door and my parents across the house. Then we got wood flooring my mom wanted a new office room so she sent one boy into the tin can (also known as the camper), one boy into my cottage I moved in with my sister in the older cottage, which left an empty room for my mom, which turned into my school room. And now we are up to day in the whole rooms thing. I quit on the girls after they moved out, two if them are now married, so I didn't see the point, this was long enough.
This may be a whole lot of nothing to you, and I would probably understand that. But for me right now, it's a load of memories, some good some not so good. And I enjoyed writing it out. Okay, I will now proceed to give you our names in age order to help with your puzzle: Jessica, James, Kirsten, Rachel, Ben, Me, Susanna, Joshua, Matthew, and Brian.
A.M.D
Monday, February 25, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Random Pics
I'm no sure how this is going to work. So I'm using some pictures and telling little stories about them, but I'm on my iPod so I don't understand how I'm going to move the pictures. Whatever...
The cow picture I took during a hike with some friends. Wed gone around fifty miles that day (that might be an exaggeration) and we pass by some cows. This one cow is staring at us, all I wanted was to get on it and ride into the sunset, sadly we passed him by... *sigh*
The second picture is of a kid in our church. He just came over from Ethiopia last year, so he still thinks I'm crazy. But were still becoming friends. He is actually wearing the heart of camp hat I won when I was at camp this last new years.
This is Mads, she has that big smile because she just him me in our semi-friendly game of slug bug. The ice cream was of my doing. Strangely enough I was able to persuade my mother that we worked hard enough at our math class to get ice cream. It was fun.
So this is in Monterey, we were sitting eating are smashed PB and J, and looking at this view. We were also scaring as many evil little pigeons we could, we'd let them get I. Real close then almost kick them. Hehe... *nervous laughter*
This last picture is of horses, but not just any horses, they are excuse horses. I had been taking my morning jog and they were pretty much my excuse to take a break and take a picture.
Thats all, I'm gonna go to bed now.
A.M.D
The cow picture I took during a hike with some friends. Wed gone around fifty miles that day (that might be an exaggeration) and we pass by some cows. This one cow is staring at us, all I wanted was to get on it and ride into the sunset, sadly we passed him by... *sigh*
The second picture is of a kid in our church. He just came over from Ethiopia last year, so he still thinks I'm crazy. But were still becoming friends. He is actually wearing the heart of camp hat I won when I was at camp this last new years.
This is Mads, she has that big smile because she just him me in our semi-friendly game of slug bug. The ice cream was of my doing. Strangely enough I was able to persuade my mother that we worked hard enough at our math class to get ice cream. It was fun.
So this is in Monterey, we were sitting eating are smashed PB and J, and looking at this view. We were also scaring as many evil little pigeons we could, we'd let them get I. Real close then almost kick them. Hehe... *nervous laughter*
This last picture is of horses, but not just any horses, they are excuse horses. I had been taking my morning jog and they were pretty much my excuse to take a break and take a picture.
Thats all, I'm gonna go to bed now.
A.M.D
More pets.
So I'm not going to just talk about dogs this week, we are now going to talk about other animals. We've had a lot of cats over the years, sadly all the cool ones would get into cars and run away at the next stop, or be given away. So the first to cats were given to me. I called one Sara , she was nice, and one Elizabeth, she was evil, Sara ran away. Some other cats met Elizabeth and in a few years we had almost 20 cats, now we have one cat. He's okay.
We've also had many goldfish, one lasted around 5 years. We also had a couple of those other fish with the flowy ( I have no idea how to write that) fins... and... stuff. We used to have rabbits, but our neighbors dogs got to those. We have chickens and ducks. Plus two goats and a sheep.
So my dad has always wanted to be a cowboy so at one point we had 2 horses. It was pretty awesome, sadly they died too. One was Cherokee the other Bill... yeah, they were cool. Well I think that's all for pets. Aren't you glad that wasn't as long as the whole dogs thing, yeah, I don't think I rabbit trailed so much on this one.
A.M.D
We've also had many goldfish, one lasted around 5 years. We also had a couple of those other fish with the flowy ( I have no idea how to write that) fins... and... stuff. We used to have rabbits, but our neighbors dogs got to those. We have chickens and ducks. Plus two goats and a sheep.
So my dad has always wanted to be a cowboy so at one point we had 2 horses. It was pretty awesome, sadly they died too. One was Cherokee the other Bill... yeah, they were cool. Well I think that's all for pets. Aren't you glad that wasn't as long as the whole dogs thing, yeah, I don't think I rabbit trailed so much on this one.
A.M.D
Monday, February 11, 2013
PETS!
We have had many pets in our family over the years. For about 12 years we have been living on a 25 acre property, perfect for dogs and cats. Seeing as how I have been talking all about myself in most of these blog posts I have decided to make it easier and keep on doing the same thing. (Apologies to any misspellings I'm writing this from my iPod.)
I'm now going to talk about the dogs of our family. The first dog I remember us having was a shaggy big black dog. His name was Charlie and he was amazing. He was a bit racist I will admit, he only allowed black dogs willingly onto our property. But he was great. He was really nice to us kids (I guess after ten kids he got used to us) and he always scared away the big mean doggies. Charlie also didn't mind our cats which was great ( we had about 15 at the time, they lived in the barn). Sadly Charlie died at 13 on thanksgiving day... depressing right...
A year or two before Charlie died we got two little puppies, girls the brown one we called Princess, the black Buttercup, we liked the Princess Bride. They were great, Princess died at a fairly young age, but Buttercup died (my siblings will probably correct me if I'm wrong) a year ago. She could still hop the fence, but you can't live forever. This dog timeline is getting a little crazy.
About 6 or 7 years ago we got a beautiful but crazy dog from a friend of ours named... Uh oh, I'm pretty sure her name was Mandy, this is bad. I guess I didn't care for my dogs enough to remember their names... depressing yet again. She died 3 to 4 years ago.
Then we got this dog from a friend of ours, we named her Daisy. Now, this us also around the time that Rocky showed up. He decided he liked Daisy, the food we gave him, but he didn't like collars, my Dad knows that for a fact... We soon had puppies, my mom is not much of a dog liver so we got rid of all of them except one. Today the puppy, Buddy by name, lives in our backyard, after his mother killed our goat we thought it was time... dramatic pause... Rocky is still here too, apparently after 3 or so years of a dog living at your house it is legally yours.
That was way longer than I thought it would be and I didn't go over everything. I pretty much just told you the acquiring of the dogs and the death of the dogs... whatevs. There are only two more dogs to talk about, one is my second to the youngest brother who for a while, maybe till he was 5, pretended to be a dog. And now my youngest brother does the same thing. He's 7 and sometimes he'll snuggle up to you and whine like a dog (yes, he is the baby of the family). So that is all I have to say about dogs for now.
A.M.D
I'm now going to talk about the dogs of our family. The first dog I remember us having was a shaggy big black dog. His name was Charlie and he was amazing. He was a bit racist I will admit, he only allowed black dogs willingly onto our property. But he was great. He was really nice to us kids (I guess after ten kids he got used to us) and he always scared away the big mean doggies. Charlie also didn't mind our cats which was great ( we had about 15 at the time, they lived in the barn). Sadly Charlie died at 13 on thanksgiving day... depressing right...
A year or two before Charlie died we got two little puppies, girls the brown one we called Princess, the black Buttercup, we liked the Princess Bride. They were great, Princess died at a fairly young age, but Buttercup died (my siblings will probably correct me if I'm wrong) a year ago. She could still hop the fence, but you can't live forever. This dog timeline is getting a little crazy.
About 6 or 7 years ago we got a beautiful but crazy dog from a friend of ours named... Uh oh, I'm pretty sure her name was Mandy, this is bad. I guess I didn't care for my dogs enough to remember their names... depressing yet again. She died 3 to 4 years ago.
Then we got this dog from a friend of ours, we named her Daisy. Now, this us also around the time that Rocky showed up. He decided he liked Daisy, the food we gave him, but he didn't like collars, my Dad knows that for a fact... We soon had puppies, my mom is not much of a dog liver so we got rid of all of them except one. Today the puppy, Buddy by name, lives in our backyard, after his mother killed our goat we thought it was time... dramatic pause... Rocky is still here too, apparently after 3 or so years of a dog living at your house it is legally yours.
That was way longer than I thought it would be and I didn't go over everything. I pretty much just told you the acquiring of the dogs and the death of the dogs... whatevs. There are only two more dogs to talk about, one is my second to the youngest brother who for a while, maybe till he was 5, pretended to be a dog. And now my youngest brother does the same thing. He's 7 and sometimes he'll snuggle up to you and whine like a dog (yes, he is the baby of the family). So that is all I have to say about dogs for now.
A.M.D
Monday, February 4, 2013
My Talents
I feel slightly guilty doing this. What "this" is is stealing, yes I am a thief. I have stolen one of my friends ideas for a post. But since I'm now the voice of the Salamandar Utopia Navy, and Mercurians, I am immune from all punishments. (Is that the correct spelling of immune?) So I shall now be making a list of my 10 mostly bad and some good talents.
2. I'm a Pro Procrastinator
3. Drawing ugly cartoons (may be useful for annoying siblings)
4. Highly imaginative (helps with procrastinating)
5. Very good movie watcher, can usually watch a movie silently
6. I play the Piano, violin, and sing
7. I cry without fail when a movie is even the slightest bit sad (I cry every time during The Lion King)
8. I can pinch with my toes
9. I can easily lose myself in a book
10. If you try to have any kind of conversation with me don't expect much, I'm not to good at those.
Now you know even more about me, maybe more than you wanted but "it's better this way", (a quote from many things but I cannot think of a single one). Usually it's not better that way though, goodness. So, if you need me for any one of these talents, forget it I have my hands full with aliens and such stuff.
A.M.D
2. I'm a Pro Procrastinator
3. Drawing ugly cartoons (may be useful for annoying siblings)
4. Highly imaginative (helps with procrastinating)
5. Very good movie watcher, can usually watch a movie silently
6. I play the Piano, violin, and sing
7. I cry without fail when a movie is even the slightest bit sad (I cry every time during The Lion King)
8. I can pinch with my toes
9. I can easily lose myself in a book
10. If you try to have any kind of conversation with me don't expect much, I'm not to good at those.
Now you know even more about me, maybe more than you wanted but "it's better this way", (a quote from many things but I cannot think of a single one). Usually it's not better that way though, goodness. So, if you need me for any one of these talents, forget it I have my hands full with aliens and such stuff.
A.M.D
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