Showing posts with label Stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stories. Show all posts

Saturday, August 24, 2013

A Fishy Story



Awww... He has my heart.


And she doesn't even work out!


Okay, so I promised you a silly story. Are you sure you can handle it? ;0)


Despite these pictures of smiling faces holding a fish, my children did not catch it. 


Nope, it was given to them.


And not by a fisherman. You see, there were these snorkelers, with real snorkels and not dollar store ones. They even had the flippers. Apparently it's really fun to swim at the surface and look at things under the water. I really don't like my face in the water much, so I wouldn't know. But my kiddos, they would ask them questions and such as they passed us by. And they passed us by at least three times. 


On one such pass by, they found this lovely dead fish and tossed it on shore for my children to look at. I'm sure they had no clue that they just gave my kiddos a wonderful new toy. 


Especially Bethany. That kid cracks me up.


I'm not kidding when I say she played with it for at least an hour. Maybe longer.


Doesn't it look like so much fun? Don't you wish your kids had a dead fish to play with too?


Then on a whim she threw it at her brother, who had been her audience for quite a bit while she entertained us with her fish antics. It stuck on his shorts when he stood up. See it there? Which brought about many giggles from all of us. Hmmm... giggles maybe be an understatement. Bethany was in hysterics!



I don't remember what she was doing in these photos but her facial expressions just crack me up!


Yes, now she's actually poking at its eyes. She wanted to poke them out but decided she liked him to still be able to "see".


I hope they remember this day and fun they had and the silly ways they played.


Ni Hao Yall

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Traveling West ~ By Bethany

One of my favorite things is my kids' creative writing. This little story my daughter wrote in some school papers she brought home recently made me smile, so I decided to post it here so I can look back on it again.


Traveling West

by Bethany


In the morning I would eat breakfast. Then I would pack my things. My mom would too. Then I would get the horses and we would put our things in the wagon. I would sit in the back and Mom would drive the wagon. We would eat deer for lunch. We would eat pig for dinner. We had a safe trip. The indians didn't attack us.


Whew! so glad the indians didn't attack us and that we had a safe trip. But I wonder, did we lose Daddy and Elisha somewhere, or did they decide they were better off in the east? And who hunted the deer and pig we ate?