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oween the moon is full and bright and we shall see what can t be seen on any other night skeletons and ghosts and ghouls grinning goblins fighting duels werewolves rising from their tombs witches on their magic brooms in masks and gowns we haunt the street and knock on doors for trick or treat tonight we are the king and queen for oh tonight it s halloween i m posting all our photos from all our halloween fun in one post we went trick or treating with our small group and to the fall festival at our church that s just about enough halloween for me a year posted by jordan at sunday november 03 2013 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday november 01 2013 happy halloween you ll just have to pretend that this was posted on thursday our internet has been wonky all week and i m just now finding a few minutes of uninterrupted wi fi first world problems i know but ya ll look how cute they are in case you aren t married to a die hard phillies fan or don t actually care at all about philadelphia baseball eli went as chase utley and somehow convinced phoebe to go as the phillie phanatic guess what kind of costume they don t sell on amazon i m pretty sure this costume will go down in mccall family lore and sit in the attic forever because that s just the way these kinds of things go and i think there will be green fuzz all over my carpet just as long posted by jordan at friday november 01 2013 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 28 2013 you don t choose your family they are god s gift to you as you are to them archbishop desmond tutu posted by jordan at monday october 28 2013 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 24 2013 am i the only mom am i the only mom who mentally has to put on her big girl panties and remind herself that you get what you get and you don t throw a fit when it comes to her children am i the only mom who tells her children that she s done with them in the morning that they know when their ride leaves and she hopes they re on it with all their stuff finished because she was tired of pushing and pulling and nagging the entire morning am i the only mom who struggles to find the best things about her child am i the only mom who feels that each child has unique abilities and talents and shines in their own way just might be a load of crap am i the only mom who prays to see her child as god sees them because she knows that he didn t make a mistake but some most days it seems like it am i the only mom who makes nachos for dinner and sits her kids down in the living room to watch the voice because she s just too darn tired to engage am i the only mom who wonders what it would feel like to be completely and overwhelmingly proud of their child for something anything because mostly they just aren t am i the only mom who has now cried in the principal s office and at a parent teacher conference am i the only mom whose prayers for her children come from a place so deep she didn t even know it existed only to feel as if they ve fallen on deaf ears again am i the only mom who wonders if it wouldn t be better for the unthinkable to happen to her so that her children could put this stubborn perseverance they ve been gifted with to good use am i the only mom who feels like she doesn t have whatever it is that makes other moms so drunk with love for being a mom that she wonders if there is something secretly wrong with her because it certainly feels like i m the only one posted by jordan at thursday october 24 2013 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 22 2013 show and tell a collection of quilts i haven t had the time lately to do a lot of sewing but i did manage to get a few quilts made last spring and summer with eli having 2 teachers combined with phoebe s kindergarten teacher i whipped up three quilts last spring before school ended and by whipped up i mean i started in march and finished them by the last day of school this pink and black chevron quilt was for phoebe s kinder teacher mrs boaz who only has boys i was happy to make her a girly girl quilt mrs reed eli s science math teacher received this red and turquoise quilt mrs gjerde his homeroom language arts teacher was gifted this happy quilt and it couldn t have suited her personality better i m not a huge fan of quilt labels because i think they take away from the look of the quilt however i do have the kids write a sweet note to each teacher and use those as labels they were super sweet this year call me crazy but if i can make someone cry with my gift then i have succeeded not because i m cruel but that s how i know i ve done it right why do i sew quilts for my children s teachers isn t that just a little too much i don t think so and it isn t because i m trying to show up the other moms in the classroom cause you know i m screwing up in lots of other areas so that s not it i m a gift giver it s my love language i wish i spoke a more noble love language like quality time or words of affirmation but gift giving is my thing and i m really good at it these teachers work really hard all year long in so many ways they are parenting my children right along with me for nine months they worry and work and love on my children even if we ve had our differences or we wouldn t necessarily be friends outside of school they are doing their absolute best to make sure my children succeed this last year we loved our teachers professionally and personally these quilts are a sad small token of our gratitude they helped write a beautiful chapter in my children s lives and i hope these quilts remind them of that every time they see them this summer i made a little baby quilt for my friend stephanie she has an amazing story that s too long to tell here and it was a pleasure to make a baby quilt for her new baby son levi it even made it to her before she delivered barely posted by jordan at tuesday october 22 2013 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 15 2013 phoebe at play so i haven t come back with a bang as i meant to but i think one of the reasons i don t have as much posting material is because my children are past the cute stage they aren t the cute cuddly babies they once were who were merely photo worthy because they existed and they aren t silly sweet toddlers either they seem to be big kids now eli even swears he s a tween god help us their days consist of school and practice and homework and dinner and that s about it but every once in awhile they do something precious like when phoebe set up her own hair salon after i bribed her with the salon chair from target if she d eat all the healthy food in her lunch for 20 school days she finally managed it a couple weeks ago and then couldn t wait to play with it phoebe is still pretty sure she wants to be a hair stylist or hair lady as she calls it and this was good practice her client was willing to have the whole package done that day just like any hair stylist they talked about how great the client s hair looks how long the appointment is taking and the words phoebe has learned in spanish like mitzy means hello she s very multicultural that one kit couldn t leave without having her eyebrows done she just wouldn t look right it s a good thing for kit i had left my laundry baskets out she might have left the salon unplucked it makes my heart happy to see my children play it is a happy talent to know how to play ralph waldo emerson posted by jordan at tuesday october 15 2013 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 30 2013 friday night lights or sunday afternoon lights as the case may be so i took a little trip to new orleans with brad he had a conference and it was super fun but i didn t take a single photo not even one brad took one with his phone but it was horrible so i probably won t be posting it it took a few days to get back in the swing of things then i got a tummy bug it was awesome i m just now posting about the mccall s new adventure football eli has never played football so we jumped in feet first playing tackle football i still have absolutely no idea what it going on out there in the field none don t get me wrong i love to watch eli playing whatever he s playing because he puts it all out there and plays hard it s just with football i don t know what s happening but i do love to watch the boys warming up mainly because brad helps and he and eli seem to find a little time to horse around even i can t tell the boys apart when they are in full football gear except by their socks and shoes eli s shoes have one red lace and one pink lace he s also 80 i bet this is just what the end of the dallas cowboys practices look like right posted by jordan at monday september 30 2013 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 17 2013 unwind a book review since i didn t blog this summer i had a lot of time to read and i read a bunch there s something to be said for having children who are old enough to entertain themselves and get themselves to the bathroom alone when the need arises i won t give you a review of all the books but there was one in particular that made me think because the concept was so novel get it novel it made me think of a quote i saw on pinterest awhile back brad a non reader might argue that i couldn t possibly relate to emotions or situations i find in my science fiction fantasy dystopian novels i read but i would disagree especially in the case of unwind by neal shusterman from wikipedia because i can t be bothered to write all of this unwind is a 2007 science fiction novel by young adult literature author neal shusterman it takes place in the united states somewhere in the near future after a civil war known as the second civil war or the heartland war is fought over abortion a compromise was reached allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 years old to be unwound taken to harvest camps and having their body parts harvested for later use the reasoning was that since 100 actually 99 44 taking into account the appendix and useless organs was required to be used unwinds did not technically die because their individual body parts lived on in addition to unwinding parents who are unable to raise their children to age thirteen for retroactive abortion have the option to stork their child by leaving it on another family s porch if they don t get caught the storked baby then becomes the other family s responsibility it was a fascinating read not so much because it was brilliantly well written although it was pretty good but because there were so many facets to think about storking and unwinding and the tithes that were only born to be unwound and the fact that teenagers were targeted because of the failure of the public education system one of the protagonists is a 16 year old boy whose parents have decided he needs to unwound he seems to be a typical troubled teen who battles rage and making wise choices and his parents are at their wit s end basically he s eli in six years not that i can predict the future but that boy has never taken the easy path compliant patient calm wise those are not words used to describe eli there are days i find myself praying to just like him again i dread his teenage years for so long i ve waited for everything to just click with him and it just never does i ve come to realize it s probably going to happen after he leaves my house and goes out into the world bummer and i think his teenage years are going to be super hard i found myself wondering if i lived in this book would i unwind eli i d like to think that i wouldn t that our family is better than that but it still makes me wonder it doesn t really have anything to do with not loving him enough i love him fiercely and i hope no one reading this post thinks otherwise but what if love wasn t enough what if i lived within the parameters of the book and the media and my church and society kept telling me that he would be better off unwound because that s what happened in the book the world needed those teenagers parts for other people to make them whole what if i didn t have any support what if good moms unwound their children because to have a different child was so vile so unthinkable that this is what parents did daily what if this was the norm what would i do i never did come up with an answer to satisfy myself mostly because i don t really have to make that choice but i did enjoy reading the book and it s sequel unwholly what i did not enjoy was realizing at the end of the second book that the third wasn t in publication yet agghhh i have done that enough times that you d think i d learn my lesson apparently not go read unwind and unwholly that way you don t have to take my word for it and i won t sound near as crazy and gold stars to anyone who can tell me where that line is from without googling it posted by jordan at tuesday september 17 2013 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday september 14 2013 a fresh start so i decided i wasn t ready to let this little blog die just yet but it needed something new a new look a fresh start i had also decided it should coincide with the beginning of school you know the real new year but i wasn t really ready for that either so i m a few weeks behind we re up and running now though maybe i ll find my writing stride again maybe i ll even post some photos i took over the summer maybe here s a photo of my kiddos all ready for the first day of school it s eli s last year in elementary sniff sniff and phoebe feels like one of the big kids in first grade the only thing i made in the above photo was phoebe s pants they were a p a i n since i don t have a serger and i was kind of surprised they didn t rip that same day i haven t sewn much lately either but i m hoping to rectify that as well two final photos with dad before the big day started both were a little nervous since neither had any of their bestest friends in class with them telling them they d make friends was small comfort that morning but i think they ve managed it was a good start maybe this ll be another good start for the ole blog brad just walked by and was surprised i was blogging then he told me i probably didn t have any readers left anyway he s an encourager like that posted by jordan at saturday september 14 2013 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 16 2013 ten on ten may 2013 as life whirls by faster and faster it s nice to take a day and find the beauty in the everyday things around us that s what i think ten on ten is all about may is no different although the time seems to speed up 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