Hoarding Food...
or another way to find your place in a family of seven!

Well, you just never know what might be found in my daughter's room when you open a bedroom door. I gave up on "clean" a long time ago. I just close the door. Besides, Susie reassures me she knows where everything is and to not mess with anything on that floor.
I have to go with her on this one.

Finally feeling a little better today. I have not really done a full inspection of the the home until today, and upon opening Susie's door, I notice that hiding right behind the tall floor mirror, is a box of Annie's Macaroni and Cheese. Upon further questioning, Susie informs me in a very sneak, almost challenging tone, that "yes, I'm hiding it... I don't want anyone else to eat it."

Is this what we have reduced our children to...when we go and have five kids? [insert well placed, but phony look of empathy] We inadvertently force them to hoard food? [another forced look of empathy]

Susie with Karson ~
Taken before braces came off.

Susie actually informed me that... "I'm not hoarding food, I am waiting until Karson comes over to eat it with her." Ah, I get it Susie, both you and Karson are little food hoarders. Or, as Sherra wrote about in her blog.... a bunch of little Freegans.

Trust me, Susie has never, and I mean never lacked for a spot in our family. Of all my children, Susie has always made her presence well known.... sometimes softly, but usually very, very loudly. And that, my friends, is exactly why we love her so! Food hoarding and all.

Did I Hear What I Thought I Heard?

Karson, Susie and Colleen Karson and Annelise

A little disclaimer here.... All mentioned in this following
post are enrolled in High Honors, AP, and excel in the upper top
of their various class grades. They really are incredibly
intelligent young women.

The other day the girls were teasing each other in fun over all the many times one or the other have said something that was way off. Way, waaaaaaaay off, by the way.

I overheard heard Annelise giving Susie a rough time over Susie saying... "I can't wait for 'Senior-itis' " . Annelise was laughing so hard.... poor Susie was incredulous. Then, we had to explain to Susie that "Senior-itis" is a term for Seniors in school who are completely burned out and ready to graduate....not, as Susie thought, a term for "I just can't wait to be a Senior"!

However, turn about is fair play and Susie reminded Annelise about the time Annelise was helping our friend Camy's son, Spencer, learn how to count syllables in a word... Annelise, sits in front of Spencer and claps.... three times.... gah-roo-pay. Both Camy and I looked at each other and explained to Spencerand Annelise that group is not a three syllable word!!!

Of which Annelise comes right back with "yeah, Susie, remember when you had to ask mom... what 'shah-roo-kee' meant? Well at least when I see the 'shah-roo-kee' tag on the inside of my shirt...I know what 'shah-roo-kee' means". Of course you do Annelise... and so does Susie now.... Cherokee! Thank you very much!

I think one of my all time favorites goes to our friend Karson P. In a moment of hilarity, that will forever haunt her, Karson exclaims with great attitude, while watching the all time classic movie Grease.... "man people were soooooo weird in the 80's"!

Must have been all those poodle skirts that confused her!

(Sigh) ... to be young again!