Sunday's Stupendous Six

September has slipped by and October is on its way out... so I thought I would pick up a new habit of blogging Six Stupendous things on Sunday before too much more time goes by and I just quit blogging altogether.

1. My sister's birthday! Today, it is my sister, Melanie's birthday. I won't mention her age, for that may give mine away. Love my sister. Miss my sister. We were supposed to be getting together in St. George next week but life gets in the way and nobody could make it. So bummed this isn't happening. I might need to plan myself a little road trip for my birthday or something. Love you Mel!

2. Blustery Days. Today was an exceptionally blustery day. We spent the day (after church) inside in cozy clothes, watching movies and reading books. Sometimes a blustery day is a good thing.

3. Soup! For our blustery day we had Minestrone. Yum. If I am feeling ambitious I might post my recipe. If.

4. My chickens. That's right. I have eleven and I love them all. They aren't laying yet, but we are all very excited. Hennie, Barb, Hero, Goldie and Blanche (can't tell these two apart), Roadie, Fez, Star, Lil' Red, Buffy, and Snowflake... here's to you.

5. Conversations with my kids. So entertaining. Last night Noah and I had a conversation that went a lil' something like this:

Noah: "Mom! That was a Christmas Tree at the big store." referring to the too-early trees at Wal-Mart a.k.a. The Big Store.

Me: "Yes it was. Christmas is almost here. Do you know why we celebrate Christmas?"

Noah: Puzzled look

Me: Proceed to tell a brief Christmas story ending with, "and we celebrate the birth of Jesus because he helped us and saved us so we can all live with him and Heavenly Father again."

Noah: "What about Spiderman? He helps people too!"

6. Halloween. Emma's birthday and Halloween. For which, Emma will be a Pirate (if you ask her, she says she will be Emma) and Noah will be Spiderman, or Piderman as he prounounces it. Hopefully we will be on the downslide of this Spiderman infatuation as Christmas nears or Noah will be expecting him to be a member of the manger scene or slide down our chimney. That is, if we had one.