twinge

A couple months ago, I accidentally coined a new word - twinge. I meant tinge, but I wrote down twinge. Cody is the only person who has known about this snafu until now :) He lets me hear about it pretty often too!

Along those lines, I have been feeling little twinges (haha) of homesickness today. They have just been coming out of nowhere. It's very frustrating :)

The funniest thing is, I have twinges of homesickness for Iowa when I am in Idaho! Emotions are strange things . . .

I have learned in my 8 years of living away from home that I get homesick when I have to do things that are MILES outside of my comfort zone. I am kind of wimpy, so most slightly uncomfortable situations fall into this category. This week I just want to curl up on my mom's couch while eating one of my dad's ultimate salads.

But, that isn't going to happen - and I am okay with that! I am just so grateful that I grew up in a home that I want to go back to - full of the love, comfort & peace that I crave so often. Thanks, Mom & Dad, for loving your babies enough to provide that for us. You are wonderful :) And, I will be counting on laying on the couch & eating a salad when I come visit in 27 days (but who's counting?).

crazy

Sometimes Cody & I have contests to see whose hair is craziest in the mornings. Today I won.

we are alive

Just in case the blogging world noticed our month-long hiatus, I am sending this message to the world : we are still alive!

And, as evidenced by the scenic picture above, we survived our first Iowan winter. It was stinky, frigid, and seemingly eternal. I am not looking forward to next year.

In other news, a killer flu/sinus infection sidelined me for a couple of weeks. It was bad enough that some of my kindergarteners asked me if I was dying.

Speaking of funny student stories, I see a couple of fourth grade girls together. They started talking about their weddings (hello! you are 9 years old!) and their future children. Anyway, one girl said she wanted to name her first boy Goku. She was serious. Yikes!

Cody just informed me that he actually knows the cartoon that Goku is a character in . . . I can't believe I just admitted that on the Internet :) Now, he is claiming that his brothers are responsible for his nerd knowledge - pretty convincingly, I might add.