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annie!!

Last night was pretty quiet around the gage household! Joshua went to practice, alex played in the neighborhood and madyson played her friend down the street. madyson and i started watching the movie 'annie'. i had told her i loved the movie when i was little. she was so funny about every 15 minutes she would ask me a question: why is there all girls at that house? what is wrong with that lady? is she drunk? why is she drink the water out of the flower vase? mom, what really happen to her parents? are her parents going to come and get her? why would someone leave there kids in a place like that? how do you know all these songs? but i think the best was the comment - 'mom they sure had some pretty houses back then, but the clothes are not so cute! oh my goodness - it was so funny! so i started dinner and the movie was still on~~~ all the boys came home and were totally irritated that they had to watch the rest of the movie and could not put on the football game!! daniell even looked at me and motioned that he was going to slit his wrists!! i assured them the torture would not last much longer! all was well they caught the last half of the game!!

one more thing to the schedule

schools is back in full swing. madyson is back to the library every week. joshua started back with baseball, practice on tuesday, thursday and sometimes friday. alex starts back with baseball on sunday, his practices will be wednesday and sunday, and batting trainer on thursdays. and alex comes home from school yesterday and says 'hey mom guess who made student council?' YEP it is him! so one more thing to the schedule... i am excited for him. he was chosen by the 5th grade teachers and then voted by his peers. i don't know what i would do without a full calendar...probably be REAL bored---or have a clean house! :)

long weekend!

we had a great long weekend!! helped kris paint and decorate hunters room! it is so awesome! and we went to six flags... yes on labor day...we went to six flags..kind of crazy, but lots of fun.... 2 adults 6 kiddos! daniell came back in town on sunday! happy to have him home for a while!!!

i have to share the sweetest thing that happened! let me preface this with, my son alex, who is 10, is a raging ball of hormones! (even growing hair under his arms YIKES) - so he is being a great big jerk, especially to his brother and sister! okay.... kim and i are in the garage, stripping madysons dresser. madyson comes outside and is mad because alex is being mean and says 'he has to act sooo cool around his friends'!!! i tell her that i know and i am real sorry to just ignore him for now! so about 10 minutes later she comes back outside, eyes full of tears, but not crying! i ask her what was wrong... she, not crying yet, asks me if it was wrong to THINK bad things about someone? i said "what?" now the tears flow and she says (in the middle of crying) "i said two curse words about alex in my head and now i feel really, really bad!" thank goodness kim was there, because i really was not sure what to say to her. kim was great, she told her about how wonderful it was that we have Jesus in our hearts, all we have to do is ask Him for forgiveness and it is done! what a sweet heart she has! (also thank goodness, a conscience too :) )