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My little Emma (& I) love One Direction! The song "Rock Me" was playing and Em said, "I love this song. This is my most favorite One Direction song!" I say, "Em loves One Direction!" Then Jeremiah chimes in, "Who doesn't?"

I guess Jay loves 1D too! Haha

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Random question from Jeremiah on the way home from school..

Jay: mommy, does heaven look like this...with houses and stuff?
Me: good question, Jay! I'm not sure, but when I dreamt about my grandma everyone was at a park.
Jay: hm. was it a message from an angel?
Me: ya, probably from my grandma.
Jay: so an angel put a message in your dream box?
Me: hmm, I guess so :)

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We're at a stop light and Jeremiah sees a man on the center island holding a sign..
J: WHAT?! that doesn't even make sense!..'Need a job. Gobbles.'
Me: LOL! Jay, it says, 'Need a job. GOD BLESS'
The cardboard it was written on was too small and there wasn't space between the two words.
Aye!

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After picking up Em from school today, she proclaims, " It's time. I think I'm not gonna suck my thumb from now on."
Me: really?
Em: aren't you gonna say 'good job!'?
Me: oh ya, good job babe! I'm proud of you!

A couple of hours later at home...
Em: nevermind, I'm still gonna suck my thumb.

Smh. So close! LOL.

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Earlier tonight Jeremiah had a Advent candle lighting service for school in the church.  It was really nice.  Each grade sang a song.  It was heartwarming to see these kids from preschool to eighth grade sharing what they learned about the Advent season and what it means.  I'm really proud of Jeremiah.  Sometimes he'll come home and tell me facts about saints that I didn't even know existed!  I'm so happy he's learning so much about the Catholic faith and I'm sad he & his sister will have to change schools next year.  Hopefully when I finally have a job, I will be able to send them back.  They actually expect that they will come back in the future.

Anyway, we were on our way to church during rush hour and there was some traffic at a stop light.  We were kind of in a rush because his class had to meet up before heading into church and it was only 15 minutes till the service started.  anyway, we were about 10 or so cars from the red stop light and Jeremiah let out a disappointing "oh!"-like we were gonna be late.  Then, the light changed to green and we didn't move, so then he says in an annoyed tone JUST like I would have, "why aren't the cars moving!"  I literally LOL'd!  Maybe I need to keep my mouth shut when I'm driving them around. hahaha

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Em: mommy you have to take me to (special friend #2's) house today.
Me: what? Why?
Em: because he asked me to go to his house & I said yes.
Me: realllllly. He asked you?
Em: ya, he said, 'can you come to my house?' And I told him yes.
Me: hmm. Next time you have to ask me first, ok babe?

Em's field trip to the pumpkin patch & Convo's in the Van 2..

Emma was so excited to go to the Pumpkin Patch with her classmates today!  Good thing it stopped raining today otherwise it would've gotten cancelled.  When I picked her up (30 mins late btw! mommy fail right there.) she said, "It was sooooooo fun! and it was fun to go on the hay ride!"  She toured the patch with her bff, his dad and another little boy from the morning class.  Each student got to pick their own pumpkins and Emma named her pumpkin, Cutie!  She plans to decorate it when daddy is home from work tomorrow.  She said, "I love to surprise daddy!"

After I picked up Jeremiah from school, we stopped at Toys R Us to look for a costume for the school's Saints Parade on Friday.  He keeps changing his mind on what he wants to be.  First he said a cook, then it was St. Michael, then a scientist, now he wants to be a fisherman.  I forget which saint that is, but luckily, both grandpa's like to fish so maybe he can just borrow a fishing pole. lol.  Thank God we don't need to spend any money on his costume! We didn't leave empty handed though.  We picked up a couple Angry Bird erasers for Jeremiah and Emma in the gumball machine for 50 cents each :)  Jeremiah opened his on the way home and asked me, "Why is a lot of things in America made in China?" He caught me off guard and I didn't really have the energy to answer after almost 2 hours in the toy store, so I just told him that was a good question! I'll save that question for daddy to answer :)

convo's in the van are the best

convo on our way home from school today...

Em: mommy, ms bertha has a new book called 'Jonah & The Big Fish'

me: oh really? what is it about?

Em: Jonah gets eaten by a whale

me: what?! is he ok?

Em: ya, he got out because he prayed to God.

J: oh I remember that story Em.  mommy! today is the feast of St. Jude & someone else, but I forgot who.

me: oh! i didn't know that.  What did St. Jude do?

J: he had a FEAST!