two posts in one day!

well, it's only fair that i do an interview with danielle. i can take advantage of her patience for only so long :)

i believe it is a job of a parent to be a student of their children. parents should study their children and be very knowledgeable about that "subject". we must know what makes our kids tick, what excites them, what upsets them. for instance, danielle is a peacemaker; she is sensitive to the feelings of others and tries to make people happy. she is great company- she easily transitions between her sisters. nonetheless, danielle will not be pushed around. she's not the oldest, but she still works hard to get her way. somehow she's a peacemaker and a fighter at the same time. she is great to have on your side- if you're the underdog, she'll have your back. but if you're "not in her club" life's can be rough. (julia is ever trying to do the right stuff to be in danielle's club). anna has even commented "why is it that sometimes we're best friends and other times we fight?

she's always runnin' around and flipping upside down. we, as her parents, are constantly on her to turn right-side-up. it is fun to have a kid like danielle. i don't know if i could handle more than one of her, though. my girls are all so different. anna is very careful about whatever she does and is quite creative and scholarly; danielle is compassionate and a people pleaser; julia is a talker (grandma rebecca tells her she has the 'gift of communication') and is always ready for a party; rachel is determined to get what she wants and she has ways to get others to help her- with babbling, gestures, pinching, etc. sarah and naomi are still too young to label their personalities :)

anyways, its fun to watch them all grow up together and interact with each other.

i'm lovin' facebook

so, the other day, i got a friend request for facebook. well, i had no idea i even had a facebook account. i guess abe thought i should have one and he had created one for me. i already had accumulated a few friends- unbeknownst to me. so when i confirmed this friend, i discovered we had a few friends in common... and i had friends in common with their friends... etc, etc, etc. i began hunting for long lost friends: friends from school, past churches, the teen mania internship, christian house, cousins. i just kept finding people that i never thought i'd hear from again- and now i could see pictures of them and their families. it is great to strengthen connections again. i even located a friend from youth group when i was in middle school. she was able to come visit me at my home- it was so great to be able to touch base again. another thought i had was that, as a stay at home mom, i don't get to experience friendship with many people outside of my small circle. but, with facebook, relationships that i cultivated years before are bearing fruit and i feel the love without ever leaving my house :)

interview with another princess

so we interviewed anna yesterday to learn more about her. and then i had to interview my other girls. you know how some kids are more, well, patient. and others tend to have a "my turn, now!" attitude. well, let's just say danielle graciously let julia be interviewed first. nonetheless, we had a few distractions during this interview. rachel wanted to be on the screen; danielle, who was sitting beside us, picked a scab off her leg and was insisting we look at her blood; anna kept whistling from the sidelines because it made the audio level thingy go up.

AND NOW.... HERE'S JULIA!

interview with a princess

recently i went to a bridal shower. one of the games was a questionnaire about the bride- to see how well we all really knew her. clearly i did not know that much about her likes and dislikes. it was amusing to see that the bride's mother did not know everything about her daughter either. but then the ladies at our table were trying to answer the questions about our own daughters. i soon realized that there was a lot about my girls that i didn't know. so i decided to interview my daughters to find out more about them.

And now, HERE'S ANNA!