• How much I loved every single child in my class
  • That God provides miraculously in every single circumstance
      • Always providing parking
      • Keeping us safe in the break in
      • Getting our purses returned
      • Sending me baby ducks during my quiet time
  • Tommaso telling me thank you for comforting him when he got hurt
  • Singing in the car with Chelsea
      • Mean, Taylor Swift
      • Forget You, some guy (help me out, Tara)
      • Pocohantus soundtrack
      • Bad Romance, Lady Gaga
      • Alejehandro, Lady Gaga
      • Splash Kingdom
  • Seamus's confused face
  • Seamus's smile
  • Quin repeating everything I say
  • Andrew asking for me, begging me to sit with him, and letting me hug him
  • Safe touching
  • Finishing a 750 piece puzzle in 8 hours
  • Getting a concussion from Jackson accidentally hitting me in the head with a basketball
  • Tommaso suggesting that God sent me new sunglasses on purpose the day I got a concussion
  • Team thong shopping
  • Quin's elfish grin
  • Jackson explaining the entire plot of Green Hornet to me
  • The day Bria wore a skirt and I actually got through to her
  • Peter, Tommaso, and Noah trying to get the toothpaste back into the tube and getting it everywhere
  • Walking to Open Pantry with Chelsea and discussing that we hate healthy food
  • Singamajigs
  • Asking kids if they'll get eaten by lions
  • Chelsea trying to kill bugs in the apartment
  • Having a catchphrase: "Are you going to die?"
  • Getting happy meals at McDonalds
      • Bob toy
      • Pokemons
      • Worthless tiger toy
  • Dancing to the Pokemon theme song (and falling on the couch)
  • My dance moves
      • Penguin
      • Giraffe
      • Fairy
      • Meercat
      • CPR
      • Fizzy lifting drinks
  • Renting thousands of movies
  • Me, Megan, and Chelsea's awkward love triangle
  • Quotes
      • Your life is sad
      • Look at your life, look at your choices
      • You'll be fine, princess
      • I'm wearing pants
      • Whoa bro
      • Cool story, bro
      • That guy is totally a braper
      • There are mens outside just looking for pretty girls to rape!
      • What's a guillotine?
      • There's nothing left to imagine
      • Oh bother
  • Splash park
  • The time that I told Chelsea that we didn't go to the pool and I told her Tommaso didn't drown
  • The time that I ate Twizzlers like an otter
  • Charlie bringing me a list of single-cell organisms for science club
  • Modest is hottest... That's how you get all the real mens
  • Thong shopping
  • Calling Megan inbred
  • That awesome store on State Street
  • CPR training
      • Chelsea failing
      • Alejandro & Roger & Pierre
      • "The scene is secure!"
      • Making Hayley cry
      • Being raped by Chelsea (and Megan almost having to rape Bob)
  • The slug
  • Pretending to be Spock against the windows
  • Admitting my love of Digimon and explaining the plot to Chelsea
  • Snack-time talks with the girls
  • Our fight with Bob after the break in
  • Grocery shopping with Chelsea
  • Jesus talks with Megan
  • Barnes & Noble
      • Reading "The Bear in his Underwear"
      • Chelsea reading to us like we were two
  • Everyone being able to hear me and Chelsea from anywhere
  • Parking ticket
  • Horrid Fridays
      • The break in and fight
      • Getting sick
      • Getting concussed
  • Our sleepover when I was concussed
      • The three-way safe touch
      • My otter saying goodnight to Megan's toucan
  • Looking at cards at Walmart
  • My rage about cookies
  • The nachos in my front seat
  • Going to the mall Taco Bell when we went grocery shopping
  • Me and Chelsea's late night Walmart runs
  • Learning the VBS dances
  • Megan almost killing us at the intersection of Midvale and Odana
  • That biker almost killing my kids on the way to the tennis court
  • Quin dragging me to meet his dad and his dad telling me that he missed me over the weekend
  • Tommaso working on his Bible verse
  • My kids adoring Edmund the Singamajig
  • Tommaso finding me and hugging me before he left today
  • Megan, Katie, and Chelsea coming downstairs, making me go upstairs, and reading me the concussion symptom list
  • Quin offering me Twizzlers
  • Bria telling me that the movie and ice cream was the best field trip ever
  • Saying bye to Tommaso; his hug
  • Quin's face when he saw me at College for Kids
  • Meredith and Quin making us a huge meal so that we could eat something other than frozen pizza
  • The other summer missionaries watching and enjoying Digimon with me
  • Megan helping me out financially
  • Sending paper airplanes with notes up and down the stairs
  • Naming Megan's car Biyomon
  • Noah learning to safe touch
  • Kevin's giant smile when he saw me on his first day back after College For Kids
  • Road trip to Indiana
      • Chels looking like a baby otter
      • Staying up until 3 talking to Meggers
      • Katie and Chels's 1st Steak N Shake experience
      • Pow wowing in the basement
  • Meggers and Chels coming and checking on me in the basement
  • Spiritual warfare
      • The dream/waking thing with the demons
      • Chad smell
  • Frank helping me learn Chinese
  • Frank being overly concerned that I knew David's name
  • Surprise road trip!
      • Going and picking up Chelsea, against her will
      • Getting lost in Waukesha and almost driving off a bridge
      • Getting stuck in a sand pit
            • Cop lady making fun of us
            • Getting hit on by the tow truck driver
            • Trying to push/dig the car out
            • Megan suggesting someone push on the back of the car while we backed up
      • Parking at the elementary school
            • Cool giant moths
            • The cops finding us. Again.
                • "Were you with my partner earlier?" "Probably."
                • "We just wanna go hooooooome."
  • Lunch with crazy Bernice
      • Pretending to be fancy
      • Her being like that lady on Harry Potter with the snake inside her
      • Allergic reaction
      • Food poinsoning
  • Megan's last week
      • Writing her a ridiculous note
      • Eating cake
      • Me and Chels giving her her touching book
      • All of my kids getting exciting about giving her cards (especially Quin, who didn't want to let her see it while he was around)
      • Late night Taco Bell, complete with hand-holding and singing
  • Reading The Chronicles of Narnia and watching it with my kids
      • Seamus being confused by Lucy being older
      • Quin yelling for the bad guys to kill Miraz
      • Quin staring at me intensely while I read
      • Tomasso's crossword puzzles
      • Bria loving the movies
  • My prop crew
      • Brady taking his job very, very seriously
      • Kevin and Chance working really hard on set
      • My boys being all commando about getting props out and picking them up
      • My entire crew missing a cue because they were trying to catch the ghost
  • Singing "Long Live" with Chels in the car and crying about it
  • The pool
      • Quin and Mere hanging out with me and Chels
      • Quin, Noah, and Mere attacking us
      • Being... erm... violated
  • Buying friendship bracelets
  • Late night Taco Bell my last night
  • Hugging each of my kids goodbye
      • Quin crying
      • Brady crying
      • Jackson refusing a hug
      • Noah crying
      • Me telling Trenton I loved him and him saying "Right back at you!"
  • My kids calling me while I was driving home
  • Thong shopping with Meg and Chels
  • The zoo with Meg and Chels
      • Prairie dogs
jul 4 2011 ∞
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