English Emma Blooms

 watching Joel and his friend Josh run through the sprinklers in our back yard and hearing Joel say "This is the best day of my life"   Coloring the picture Joel drew for me so that we could give it to "Daddy".   admiritng Joel's art!  I might like to make stuff but I can't draw and he really can!   He copied a picture from the book that Ceecee , Sophie and Michel gave him for Christmas last year.    Saxon conqueror? Getting back in the K of C pool Memorial Day weekend!    seeing the happy smile on Joel's face as he was surrounded by friends on his school's field trip to the zoo.  He really loves to travel in a pack!   Two of the uncles coming to visit Joel for his birthday Grandma visiting!  Cheering on Joel at his soccer games... and seeing him really improve toward the end of the season.   Practicing with Joel getting Toby ready for the dog Olympics and then watching him ...

We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.  They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida.  Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wreck center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now, they do exercises there, but they  don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with hats on. At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out, and go cruising in their golf carts. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out.  And, they eat the same thing every night --- early birds.  Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house.  The ones who do get out, bring food back t...

I hope you had a great mother’s day. I am certainly enjoying mine.   Joel, Aaron and I went to early church and then to Taste for Lunch where I got my favorite Quiche!  I have just come in from planting a new flower garden in the front and am soon going to start playing the stickers and  copper wire they got me!  Of course, I have already eaten all the chocolate – Joel helped me.  Off to Joel’s Soccer game this afternoon! Love, Emma