More Smiles...

Tert to his daddy, "Mom's losing her mind, but I can get it back easily."

"Chin up, Mommy! I love you."

"I just want two minutes of peace!"

Tert was a little traumatized to find me napping on a lazy Sunday afternoon. He said, "I HATE it when you nap, Mommy! I want a mom who will stay up forever!"

I asked Tert if the big kids' movie was a little scary for him. He answered, "No, Mom, it's not scary. It's just INAPPROPRIATE."

On my birthday, Tert said, "Mom, you're as beautiful as your birthday cake." Then he whispered to Grandma, "Yeah, I just said that to impress her."

"Frosty the Snowman is a happy, JELLY soul, with his smokin' thing and his button nose and two eyes made out of cold..."

"Mom, can I have muffins with no cash (meant quiche) this morning?"

We overheard Tert asking Rus what the three brothers had decided to become when they grew up. Rus answered, "Oh, we're going to be paleontologists!"

"Dad! You're going to pop my stitches. Can you wrestle me on this side because that doesn't have any eyeball (he was referring to the cotton ball that covered his hernia incision)."

"Am I going to the same hospital as Curious George?"

"Mom, can I have a pastronomy (meant pastrami) sandwich?"

"Mom, we go to church because we HAVE to and to worship Pastor Wilson."

Rus was lost during our Thanksgiving break. It warmed my heart when he whined, "Mooom, it's BORING without school!"

Tert knows how to push his sensitive brother, Rus', buttons. This morning, Rus came to me in desperation because, he said, Tert was playing catechism and posing sacrilegious questions about God's parents. "And then he told me that I have a SINFUL HEART!"

I apologized for stumbling over Rus' reading lesson. His sympathetic response was, "Yes, I know that you can mess up when you are weary."

We have been looking for creative ways to stretch our grocery budget to save money for a roof. I think that I implemented too many frugal changes at once because the boys started drooling over the thought of their favorite treats. Rus said, "Tert, are you going to use that wishbone to wish for some SAUSAGE after we get the other expenses paid for?"