Hurst Family News

DISCLAIMER: these are in no particular order. Links are for more info though I'm confident in your searching skills, I thought I'd make it easier. You're welcome.  Reading:  In physical book form: Sarah Wilson's First, We Make the Beast Beautiful  Ann Dee Ellis's You May Already Be A Winner America Ferrera's collection of essays in American Like Me: Reflections on life between cultures   On my Kindle: Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian In audiobook form:  Michelle Obama's Becoming Listening to: Podcasts: The Hilarious World of Depression Radio West Next Door Strangers Sacred & Profane Recently finished/caught up:  StandOff The Dream Slow Burn Watching: Cloud Atlas   CW: racism, violence, suicide, sex This movie deserves it's own post and I'm curious about the book .  Craving:  Chocolate Frosting...a weakness but oh so good....

Me: I love you Boychild: I love you more. Me: No, I love YOU more. Boychild: No. I love *YOU* more. Me: Dangit. You win. Boychild: smiles and lays his head back down on the pillow. "Goodnight, sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite.  If they do take your shoe and beat them till they're orange and pink." "No, Mom! It's Black and BLUE! " "Oh sorry. Black and Blue." Snug as a bug in a rug. Snug as a train in his shed. Snug as a boy in his bed. Grandpa: See ya later Alligator. Ian: How soon Baboon? Grandpa: After while crocodile. "Mom, if the Polar Express comes tonight I'll wake Landon up so he can come too." "That's so nice of you to make sure he doesn't get left out." Charlie now signs Please, More, Sorry (though that's only in context because he's actually signing Please again) and Finished/All gone.  Landon can count to 36.  At least he shocked Ms. Melissa when he randomly co...

Seeing as my last post was so cheery and I loved seeing it every time I open my blog (to see if anyone ELSE updated) I thought I'd save you guys the pain and write a new one.  But first an update: Things are still pretty much the same as before.  Busy with no nap in sight. Sean didn't go to the play meeting- and then had to turn down the director when he came over and practically begged.  Grateful for that.  I bet he is too actually because then he got sick.  Don't know what's wrong except that it's not appendicitis like the doctors thought it might be.  Good news for Sean's appendix.  We're hoping to have more answers next week after some tests.  Until then Sean is working from home.  Grateful he can.  His coworkers are getting a bit of a crash course on how the system works but things seem to be going ok so far.  There ARE silver linings.  Just hard to see them sometimes.   In other news: I made 1/2 of a d...