Morton Madness

When we moved in this house a little over three years ago the very top window in the living room had a broken seal.  The window was foggy in some spots and we knew we would have to get it fixed.  Over the last three years the next three windows got foggy and then one of the bottom row.  It got to the point where we did not even open the blinds.  We finally bit the bullet and called someone out.  Of course the top window is custom size so it was special order.   The windows came in on two different occasions broken and had to get remade.  This process seemed to take FOREVER!  At least the install only took about 6 hours.  I could not believe that only two guys were doing the install.  When the guy came out he had NO idea how he was going to get the top window out.  He had to go and buy a devise for this job.   I watched the guys and all I could think of was that a window would fall out and cut one of the guys in half. I...

Last week the boys were SOOOOOOOOOOO bored!  There was NOTHING to do.  Justin told the boys to go and round up some neighbors to play kickball.  They looked at him with blank stares and dropped jaws, you could all but see the speech bubbles above their heads with the words, "huh, that's dumb, what's kickball, whaaaaaaa". So, the kids are now gathered and the bases are set up.  Justin is out there showing them how to play.  The game starts and what do we see???  Is that smiles and laughter coming from all the kids who were soooooooo bored?  So now, the kids are obsessed with playing.  Every night since then, they ask to go play.   This afternoon Barrett came over to hang out and spend the night with Luke.  They were glued to the XBox until 7:30, and then wanted to play outside with only an hour left of daylight!  So of course another game of kickball got started and they played hard for an hour until we told them to come in ...

Sophia started drawing a lot lately.  The only thing she draws is this.  I will find pieces of paper all over the house with these drawings.  Jonah and Luke tell her that it is creepy and she gets so upset.  

For all who are wondering if Minecraft is still talked about for hours a day in The Morton house... This should answer your question.

It's that time of year for Flat Stanley to come home. Luke decided to send his to San Antonio with Hunter. I can remember doing this for Hunter years ago! Have fun in San Antonio Flat Stanley.

So nice to see The Henleys! They boys always have so much fun playing. Cracks me up that they always put bike helmets on when they play football.

pay·back    /ˈpāˌbak/ Noun Financial return or reward, esp. profit equal to the initial outlay of an investment. An act of revenge or retaliation. I have told the boys many of times that what goes around comes around!  I also tell them that I hope that their kids will be JUST like them only at least TWICE as bad!  :)  I CANNOT WAIT.  So, this is why I am blogging about this, as I have done in the past.  This is just a reminder that is STILL happens daily and this momma is BEAT DOWN!   The "H" word, the horrible, dreaded "H" word.  H O M E W O R K I am not sure who does not like it more, the boys or momma!  Homework is a lot different these days from when I was in school.  We had homework due daily.  These days you get the entire weeks worth of assignments and it is all due on Friday.  Here is a break down of what the week looks like. Luke: Monday:  Read for 20 minutes and guided read...

It was such a beautiful day so I told the boys that they had to play outside.  If my memory serves me right, it was about 85 and breezy.   Here are a few of the comments from them. "W H A T  are we supposed to do" "It's SOOOOOOOO hot out here!"  "When can we go in" "There is N O T H I N G to do out here" "This is SOOOOOO boring" Nothing to do?  Bored?   I will show you "nothing to do".  So that is when I went into my song and dance about what YO MOMMA used to do when she was your age (insert eye rolls and whatevers here)!  Momma didn't have chalk because we could not afford it!  I am sure momma and your uncle Nic had to share a bike.  (ha ha ha) we did not have the option of 15 different ride ons, it was one or nothing.   I told them they could ride their bike, scooter, play basketball, football, draw with chalk or just sit.  Jonah opted to ride his scooter and Luke and Sophia did some sidewalk art...

This came home in Luke's backpack the other day and I just had to post.  Look closely at Tylers shirt.  I am so glad that he remembers Tyler has a peanut allergy!  LOL

Sophia graduated to a booster seat!  I am not sure who is more excited, mom and dad or Sophia!  First trip in her new big girl seat was with daddy to drop Jonah and Luke off at school.