Praying till we forget...

A few weeks ago, I went hiking with the kids, and when we were done, we were walking back to the car and Odin says to me, Aunt Mary, I was praying sooooooo hard at church on Sunday. I was just crying and speaking in tongues, he's like, did you see me Aunt Mary!?!?!?!? I was like, I DID see you, and you were praying very good!!!. 

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He's like, yeah I was...then he kinda like GASPS and he says, I was praying soooooooo hard, I FORGOT to even ask God for a pet bird and a Tesla!!! 

It was  SOOOOOOOOO FUNNY annnnnd CUUUUUTE!!!! 

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Buuuuuuuuuuut it got me to thinking, no my nephew is not some kind of super spiritual kid, buuuuuuuuuut still, I can't help but think that is the very essence of what prayer is supposed to be...

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To pray till our own desires are forgotten, 

because our own spirit is lost

 in God's desires!!!

" And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God." (Romans 8:27)

♥Mary Frances :)

YOU SMELL LIIIIIIIIIKE...

Soooooooooo this past Sunday, I was hanging out with my family, and while we were there, I was making ALL MY BOY nephews come and give Aunt Mary Hugs!!! Annnnnnd they were PRETENDING that this was such a travesty when in ACTUALITY they loooooooove my Mar-Bear Hugs!!! I mean lets be honest, THE SNUGGLE IS REAL!!!! 

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Weeeeeeeeellll while I had snatched up Tony in a hug as he was running by, Jeremiah yells out, I'LL GIVE YOU A HUG!!! So I'm like get over here then!!! So I'm giving him a tight-squeezy hug and says, YOU SMELL LIKE JESUS!!!

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I was like awwwwwwwwwww!!!! 

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Buuuuuuuuut then I was like, WAIT, Jesus is a MAN...and men have a tendency to SMELL MORE THAN WOMAN!!! I'm NOT being sexist, it is a biological fact, men SMELL MORE THAN WOMAN...this is well known!!! 

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And i'm not being disrespectful, I'm just saying, Jesus is A MAN...annnnnnnnnnd HISTORICALLY speaking, they did NOT have as good of hygiene in the Bible days...this is TRUTH, plus aside from not bathing everyday, they did NOT have deodorant...if I had lived in the Bible days, that ALONE is the reason WHY I would still be single-because of NO DEODORANT...I don't have clue what they reason is now...buuuuuuuut in the Bible days, that would have been the reason...have I told you guys I have a very sensitive nose?? ;) 

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Looooooooooooong story short, I want to BE LIKE JESUS in every way characteristically, buuuuuuuut IF he smelled like a MAN, I do NOT want to SMELL LIKE A MAN!!!

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Sooooooooo after my initial awwwwwwwwwww, I said, WAIT, 

WHAT DOES JESUS SMELL LIKE???

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Without hesitating he says, 

LIKE AN ANGEL!!!

I was liiiiiiiike, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! THANK YOU JER-BEAR!!!! That is liiiiiiiiiiiiike THE SWEETEST COMPLIMENT EVERRRRRR!!!!! Isn't that just THE SWEEEEEEETEST EVERRRRR?!?!?!?!? You guys, I smell like an ANGEL!!!👼 ♥♥♥ My heart just got all warm and fuzzy!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

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♥Mary Frances :)

When you’re kid reads the Bible…

Sooooooo Odin has this THING with figuring out how old YOU'LL be when HE IS a certain age...it's VERY ANNOYING to have to try and do the math and when he asks at 6 am my response is usually FIRST OF ALL, why are you thinking about this first thing  waking up annnnnnnd I don't know and YOUR THE ONLY ONE that cares about this!!! LOL

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Buuuuuuuuuut if i've had my caffeine and feeling a little more awake...I'll actually TRY to figure it out with him!!! I'm 28 years older than him...right? 38-10=28 Sooooooo he'll say when I'm 16 you'll be??? 44 Odin! Ok so when I'm 30 you'll be? I'm like 58 Odin! So then he's like...

 WHEN i'm 99, how old will you be Aunt Mary???

I'm like, DEAD ODIN...I'll BE DEAD BY THEN!!!!

He looks at me shocked, Aunt Mary, why do you think that??? I'm liiiiike cuz that's really old soooooo i'm sure i'll be gone by then!!! Without missing a beat he says...

You never know Aunt Mary, 

you might live to be...

969!!!

969 here i come!!!

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I started laughing soooooo hard!!! I'm liiiiiike first of all, at least we know you've been reading your Bible and second of all, YOUR RIGHT, I just might life to be 969...I doubt it, buuuuuuuut YOU NEVER KNOW!!!! He's liiiiike Aunt Mary, GOD CAN DO IT!!! I'm liiiiiike your right O, God CAN DO ANYTHING!!! 

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Sooooooo if your kids read their Bible, they just might have faith to believe your NOT EVEN OLD!!! MAAAAAAAAAAAYBE!!! ;)

SANTA!!!

Sooooooo it was literally THE CUTEST thing everrrr...

A few years ago...I just gotta remember it all over again!!! We went to a little kids Christmas play and as we were walking in, there was a group of people there for another show and OF COURSE little O just has to talk to everyone on our way into the theatre! Hi! I'm Odin, what's your name?

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 So he sees this husky, older gentleman, wearing khaki slacks and a plaid shirt and who just happened to have a white beard and he greets him as usual, "Hi, I'm Odin!" and the man says back to him, I'm Santa Clause!

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Odin just stops dead in his tracks, mouth agape, his WHOLE FACE JUST LIGHTS UP in sheer shock and joy! Then, without saying anything, he just walks over to the man and throws his arms around him in a HUGE ODIN HUG!!! 

The look on his face was liiiiiiiike NO WAY, I'M ACTUALLY MEETING SANTA!!! Everyone was laughing soooooooo hard and it completely made the man's night!!! It was literally THE CUUUUUTEST, FUNNIEST THING EVERRRRRR!!! Gotta love this kid, there's just no one quite like him!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Odin's 4th of July Greeting!!!

Soooooooooo we had a quarantined 4th of July celebration this year(Insert eye roll) buuuuuut we met at my brother's house for fireworks in the street, which everyone, including a lot of neighbors on the street, and as the fireworks went off, this was O's greeting to EVERYONE...

It was quite HILARIOUS!!! Uh, wrong Holiday O!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Prayer Alarm!!!

Have you all ever set your alarm early just so you can get up and pray? I'm kind of a morning person, early to bed and early to rise...sooooo by 7 am I've all ready been up for a few hours!!! bUUUUUUT back in the day, before I was an early riser, I would have to set an alarm to get up early for prayer!!!

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Weeeeeeeeelllllll...I would like you all to meet my little prayer alarm!!! 

YES, a little human prayer alarm!!!

One day when he was over I was in the other room doing something and he was playing, when he comes to me, PRAY Mary??? Now, I had already prayed that day so I was thinking I was good for the moment, so I was like, Oh sure Ray, if you wanna pray, go pray! He looks at me, eyebrows raised and the most serious look on his face and says, "MARY PRAY, NOW!!!" I was like, YES SIR!!!! AHAHAHAAHAHAAAA!!! And we went had us a prayer meeting!!! Because, HEY, you can never pray TOO MUCH and WHEN is ever requested on the job to pray??? I mean, seriously, how cool is that???

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Buuuuuut it never fails when he comes over, he ALWAYS gets in a prayer session.  There have been days where I really did FORGET to pray that day, but because of my little prayer alarm, WE GOT IN OUR PRAYER time!!! It's like there's just a little ticker in him that goes off and lets him know, IT'S TIME!!! If we could all strive and pray for God to put that same ticker in us, that a spiritual alarm goes off inside of us everyday, reminding us to pray!!! It's something I ask God to put inside of me!!!

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Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...in case your spiritual ticker inside doesn't go off...annnnnnnd you don't have a human prayer alarm...go ahead and set that PHYSICAL ONE...IT'S TIME TO PRAY!!! 

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

♥Mary Frances :)

Purple eyes!!!

So little O is realizing lately that certain things are for girls and certain things are for boys. Which, in this day in age is a GOOD thing to be realizing!!! Well first on for most on his list is PINK is for girls. Second, GLITTER is for girls! Any stuff animal that had glitter on its collar or any where else was given to SISTER!!! Well if pink is for girls, so is purple! AND blue, green, red, orange and brown are FOR BOYS!!! Weeeeeeeelllll I personally think that's being a little stingy with the color schemes since I happen to LOOOOOOOOVE COLORS!!!!

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So I was like, well O girls can wear blue too!!! He was like, NOOOOO it's boys!!! So I was like, well if blue is for boys, then WHY are my eyes blue??? He looks at me with a glare and says, YOUR EYES ARE NOT BLUE AUNT MARY!!!! I'm like, LOOK AT THEM, they're blue!!!!! He's like, they are NOT!!! So i'm like, okaaaaaaaay fine, if they're NOT blue, what color are they then???? So he looks at my eyes, and he's looking and looking and looking and just staring at them, I thought he would back down and finally say, OH they are blue! Buuuuuuuut NO the kid just keeps staring and concentrating, then FINALLY with a look of triumph he says, PURPLE!!!

YOUR EYES ARE PURPLE!!!!

I mean, I gotta give the kid credit for coming up with that! Especially since when I was a kid, purple eyes would have made me VERY HAPPY!!! Blue eyes were pretty much my childhood-trial-of-the-faith!!! People would oooooh and ahhhhh over my eyes, buuuuuuuut all it meant to me was that people always gave me blue things!!! When my mom bought me and my sister clothes, she would almost always get us the same, but my sisters would be the beloved PINK and mine would be BLUE!!! I would wine, WHY can't I have pink???? Blue is boys!!! And my mom would say, because, you have blue eyes!!! and me, BUUUUUUUT blue is for BOYS and Theresa doesn't have PINK EYES, it's NOT fair!!! 

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Ironically, as and adult, my two favorite colors are PINK annnnnnnnd BLUE!!! Pink because, well, it's PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK!!! 😍 And blue because I finally realized WHY my mom kept putting me in it, I LOOOOOOK GOOD IN IT!!! Gotta love a color for doing that for one right?!?! LOL 

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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT I like PURPLE too! Because, purple was my mom's favorite color and because it's for girls annnnnnnd BECAUSE I LOOK GOOD IN IT TOO!!!! AHAHAHAHAAAA!!! So if the kid says I have purple eyes, theeeeeeeeeeeeeennnn…

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PURPLE EYES I HAVE!!!

ANNNNNNNNNND...

Because BLUE IS FOR BOYS!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

What are you making Aunt Mary???

Sooooooooooo this past Saturday eve I was making pumpkin-chocolate-chip cookies for our church's Thanksgiving feast the next day. (Finally got my hands on Sister Kathy Karlson's famous cookie recipe..waiting my WHOLE LIFE FOR IT!!! Hee, hee!!!) So i'm just working away when my nephew Odin walks up!!!

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He says, "What are you making Aunt Mary?!" 

I'm about to respond back to him that I was making cookies, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUT... before I could actually even respond back to him, he interrupts me and says,

 WHAT ARE YOU MAKING AUNT MARY???

 A MESS??? 

Are you making

 a mess Aunt Mary???

I just busted up laughing, IF YOU KNOW ME IN THE KITCHEN...then YOU KNOW...it's getting crazy!!! There's two three things about me you should know: 1. I don't work quickly 2. I don't work neatly 

3. I DO WORK 

DELICIOUSLEY THO!!!

Why YES, little O, that's EXATLEY WHAT I'M making 

I'm making a DELICOUS MESS!!

Kinda liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike ME!!! 

HEEEEEEEEEYYY!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

I want CORN!!!

Sooooooooo the other morning Little O was begging me for corn for breakfast! Corn Aunt Mary, I want to eat CORN!!! I was like, REALLY? You want corn?! WOW!!! I mean the kid NEVERRRR begs for his veggies!!! Actually, I think THE ONLY veggie the kid eats is FRIES annnnnnnd sometimes you can sneak some stuff onto his pizza, soooooooooo really CORN???

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I was excited that my nephew was asking for CORN!!! I mean, it may NOT be the healthiest veggie around, buuuuuuuuuuut still, it was a VEGETABLE!!! (WOOOHOOO) Soooooooooooo I search the pantry but to my dismay, there is NO corn! I'm like, SORRY O, buuuuuut we don't have any corn!!!!

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll that just freaked him out when I said NO CORN!!! He was like YES AUNT MARY!!! CORN! CORN! CORN!!! I'm like, Odin, I just looked, we do NOT have any corn!!! CORN! AUNT MARY, PLEASE! CORN! I'm like, Ok Odin, GET ME THE CORN AND I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU!!! 

See, CORN AUNT MARY, CORN!!! 

It was the INDUSTRIAL size thing of uniCORN pop tarts my sister had bought for the Sunday School Kids!!!

Yes, REALLY MY FRIENDS,

 this is O's version of CORN!!! 

(Aren't they so cuuuuuute?!)

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd 
so the kid had HIS CORN!!! 

Btw: DID YOU KNOW THAT ONE POP TART IS 200 calories??? A serving is ONE, buuuuuut you all know you gonna eat 2, cuz that's what comes in the package...which is just wrong that they put 2 in a package buuuuuut a serving is ONE...liiiiiiiiike seriously??? Anywho, one package of pop tarts is 400 calories!!! SOOOOOO RIDICULOUS!!! Buuuuuuuuut maaaaaaaan I want a pop tart right now!!!( thankfully, we don't got any!!!!)

♥Mary Frances :)

Just call me Aunt_____!!!

So one morning recently, we were out doing our early morning hike and for whatever reason, Odie was being rude to me...can't quite remember WHY at the moment, most likely because I was telling him to do something he didn't want to do...LOL!!! So I'm like, Say sorry for being rude! He says, NO! I'm like, You say sorry to me! Once again, NO! I'm like, NO! SAY IT! Weeeeeeellll we're go back and forth, both being equally stubborn. So when he isn't in school, I take him swimming in the afternoons, I'm like, YOU SAY SORRY  for being rude AUNT MARY, or else we're NOT going swimming later! 

So he looks at me with a HUGE GRIN and says,

 SORRY AUNT RUDE!!!

Sooooooo there you have it my friends, JUST CALL ME, 

AUNT RUDE!!!

AHAHAHAAAAAA!!! Such a little stinker!!! Just kinda, IMPROVISED what I told hem to say!!! LOL Annnnnnnnnnd YES, he did win the battle, I was laughing too hard to continue it!!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! Oh man, I sooooo love this high maintenance little blessing!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Don't be ________AND LAZY!!!

Sooooooooo a lot of the kids I pick up have gotten really lazy about coming on Sunday mornings because it means, WAKING UP EARLY, where as coming on Wednesday nights, they're already up. Soooooooooooo a few weeks ago, when I was dropping them off, I asked one of the girls, Lola, are you going to come on Sunday morning???

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Soooooooooooo she's like, IDK...I'll probably be sleeping!!! Soooooooooo I'm like, GIRRRRRRL, don't be LAZY!!! Sooooooooo she just kinda smiles and I'm like, YOU KNOW what MY MOM (Who was her Bible class teacher when she was a baby) would say to me growing up when I didn't want to do something? She's like, WHAT? I'm like, she'd say,

DON'T BE FAT AND LAZY!!! 

I'm like, WEEEEEEEELLLL...

She just looks at me all confused, because she's like REALLY, REALLY SKINNY!!! Like literally this long, straight stick!!! LOL I'm like, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll...

In YOUR CASE...

DON'T BE SKINNY AND LAZY!!! 

AHAHAHAAAA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)
Mom's advice here

More blessed to give!!!

So this past Wednesday night I decided to do Christmas gifts with my class at church due to the fact that we have stuff going on til Christmas and may not get to it again until AFTER Christmas which ended up being the case last year!!! 

Sooooooooo before they opened their presents, I did a little lesson about it being, MORE BLESSED to give that to receive! First I had all the kids say ONE THING that they REALLY wanted for Christmas! Of course this was REALLy easy for them to come up with, then I had them all try to think of ONE REALLY NICE THING that they wanted to give to someone that year, and LO AND BEHOLD this was A LOT harder for them to come up with!!! LOL

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Weeeeeeelllll anyway, you NEVER know what all the kids take from your lessons right??? So this past Sunday, I was talking to Sam and Janelle, my friends and parent's to one of my students, MaKensie, and we got on the subject of Christmas presents and they were like, OH we have to tell you this story about Kensie, what she got from your lesson on Wenedsday night.

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Bro. Sam said that she has REALLY been wanting to get a puppy, REALLY BAD and that's ALL she has been asking for, for Christmas. He said after thinking about it they were like, ok they already have one dog, Bronco, its just not going to work out this year. So they had told her you know Kensie it's just not going work out this year, etc...

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Come later that week, after Wednesday night, Sam said that Kensie came to him and was like, You know dad, let me tell you something about what we learned in class Wednesday night! We learned that it is MORE BLESSED to GIVE than to receive. I was like, AWWWWWWWWW!!! She got it!!! She got my lesson...I'm having a TOTAL PROUD TEACHER MOMENT!!! Sam just laughs...

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Then he continues the story, He says that Kensie says, So I was thinking about OLD BRONCO out there in the back yard, ALL BY HIMSELF, and I was thinking, WE SHOULD GIVE HIM A PUPPY FOR CHRISTMAS so he has someone to play with!!!! 

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I was like, WOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!! They said they were laughing so hard about it!!! I was laughing when they told me!!! I have to say, that was SOME PRETTY SMART THINKING KENSIE!!! Actually, come to think about it, I do remember her saying after class that she thought she REALLY wanted to get something for her dog this year, cuz she NEVER had before!!! BAHAHAAAAA!!!

STILL A PRETTY PROUD TEACH MOMENT FOR ME!!!! 

#Ilovemykiddos

♥Mary Frances :)

Which Princess???

Sooooooo a few weeks ago, at my niece Bethany's birthday party, she had a bounce house with all the Disney princesses on it. (In between jumping with the kids and getting bit by a giant ant in which got the kids hysterically laughing, Aunt Mary has an ant in her pants ANNNNND my aunt got bit by an ANT!!!)I Randomly, I turned to my nephew Joseph and said,

IF you could marry ANY of these princesses, which one would you pick????

He thought about it for a moment, then without hesitating, he turned to me and said, 

I WOULD PICK YOU!!!! 

I was like, AWWWW!!! Isn't that the sweetest thing everrrr???

#whenaguyfinallysaystherightthing

#buthe'sonly9ANNNNDrelatedtoyou

♥Mary Frances :)
P.S. Which Princess would YOU pick??? ;)))  Hee, hee!!!

Kids say THE FUNNIEST things!!!

So last week I'm teaching my Bible class about when Peter denied Jesus!!! The kids in class are younger, 5-7 year olds, so they're having a little difficulty understanding the significance of how horrible this event was!!! This one girl is like, WEEEEELLLL Jesus told him that he was GOING TO DO IT, sooooooooo Peter was JUST OBEYING Jesus when he did it!!! LOL

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Sooooo i'm like, NOoooooo Jesus didn't TELL PETER TO DO THIS TO HIM, he said that Peter WOULD DO IT because he wasn't truly strong enough to stand up for him! But Peter told Jesus that he NEVER would deny him, buuuuut only a few hours later HE DID!!!

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Then to really help explain it to them, I'm like, Imagine YOUR VERY BEST FRIEND, and someone asks YOUR BEST FRIEND IF THEY KNOW YOU and YOU are embarrassed of your very best friend and YOU SAY, I don't KNOW HER!!! Wouldn't that make you feel sad??? The kids ALL nod their head very seriously, annnnnd this other girl gasps...her mouth is hanging open...Her eyes narrow...I can see that the light bulb has FINALLY GONE OFF IN HER HEAD and she says...

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MY SISTER DENIES ME ALL THE TIME!!!

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Can't say I've never been denied by the sibs either!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Please!!!!

Soooooooooo my lil nephew Odin, that came to live with us last January, when he came to my sister he hardly said any words at all, due to the horrible environment he spent the first years of his life in, he was hardly exposed to anything and combined with the fact that he is special needs and diagnosed with autism!!! but in this past year his vocabulary has increased sooooo much he now says so many words, he is very much a VERY LOUD little chatterbox, but I think our favorite was when he finally decided to start calling my sister MOM!!!

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Weeeeeeeellll anyway, we were trying to get him say Stultz for when he'd see Jonathon annnnnd he FINALLY did it the other day! And its sooooo cute the way he says it, like, STOOOOOOTZ!!! LOL  So now when he sees him its like, Stoootz! Stoootz! Stoootz!!!

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So last night we were all driving around looking at Christmas lights, well Odin has this game  he likes to play where he says your name and calls for you until you say, WHAT?! As soon as you say, WHAT?! He goes right to the next person and starts saying their name! So last night he's doing it and then he decides to start saying, Bye Stoootz! Bye Stootz!!!

So Jonathon is like, BYE??? I'm not leaving!!! And Odin is just like, Bye Stootz!!! So Jonathon's like, You want me to leave?! And without missing a beat and with the sweetest tone Odin says,

"PLEASE!"

We were sooooo NOT expecting him to say that!!! We seriously, DIED laughing, it was, THE FUNNIEST thing everrrrrrrr!!! I don't know that I've ever even heard him say please before that and it was in the RIGHT context too!!! ANd WHO says it while asking someone to LEAVE?!?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! He's such a little crack up!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

WHAT TO SAY...

WHEN SOMEONE THINKS

THEY ARE COOLER THAN YOU!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Aunt Mary IS...

This blog post is by special request of my nephew Joseph!!! I was laughing so hard after this incident happened he said, your going to post about this on your blog, AREN'T YOU AUNT MARY??? I was like, do you want me too???? He said YES!!! Pretty, pretty please Aunt Mary, WITH A CHERRY ON TOP!!! Who can resist a plea like that??? I'm telling you all, THE CHERRY gets me EVERY TIME!!! AHAHAHA!!! This is how the story goes...

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So the other day, Saturday, when I was treating the kids to free samples at Costco, Mary Jo had said she would get the younger kids buckled in while I was getting my purse from my room. So a few minutes later, when I walked out to the car, the kids were all buckled in and waiting for me. While they were waiting, my nephew Joseph was singing a little song he had written about his Aunt Mary while he was waiting for her to come out to the car. It went like this...

♫♪Aunt Mary is the most beautiful-ist.... (Awwww) ...

BUUUUUUT...It had a second part...

♪♪Aunt Mary is the most beautiful-ist, BUUUUUUT her car is the most disgusting-ist...

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT????

AHAHAHAHA!!! Okaaaaaaaay before anyone wants to start judging and reprimanding me for my car being a mess, I want to say TWO THINGS!!!

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#1. Everything in the back of my car are from CHILDREN THAT ARE NOT MY OWN!!! Nieces, Nephews, Children I babysit, Sunday School kids, etc, etc...Sooooooooo obviously, their parents haven't been teaching them to pick up after themselves... (jk! Jk parents! ;)

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#2. It was part of my New Years Resolution this year to get my car cleaned and organized AND to keep it that way...I would like to emphasize on the that says, BY THE END OF THE YEAR...I still have two whole months after this month to accomplish this goal...AND I WILL DO IT!!! I have completed just about ALL of my other New Years Resolutions!!!

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 SOOOOOO...by the end of the year my nephew will be singing, ♪Aunt Mary is the beautiful-ist AND her car is NOT the most disgusting-ist, its NOT the handsome-ist buuuuuut it IS the awesome-ist...

JUST LIKE AUNT MARY IS!!!

 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)
P.S. You guys, he said I'm BEAUTIFUL!!! Awwww my lil gwappo!!! I love him!!! Purrrrrr Joseph, PURRRRRRR!!!!

Another cRaZy Wednesday...

So I always like to have a treat to give the kids when they get off the van and go home at the end of the night, its kinda a threat to them to behave on the way home buuuuut I mean, lets be honest, in the ALMOST NINE YEARS I've been doing this, I think I ONLY have actually NOT given them treats like twice...and more than likely it was cuz I was in a bad mood that I ACTUALLY didn't give it to them!

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 Weeeeeeelllll the kids LOOOOOVE Mexican candy, they've requested it many times, therefore, the last several weeks I've been buying the big O bulk bags from Food City and they've been VERY pleased with this!!! Last night in the van on the way to church they were asking me what the treat was this week and I said, CANDY!!! They were like, Mexican candy??? I'm like, YUP!!! They're like, AGAIN??? Its ALWAYS Mexican candy don't you have anything else? I'm like, Nooooo...they're like griping about it...Soooooooo I'm like, OMW, you guys, I just remembered, I DID BRING ANOTHER KIND OF CANDY!!!! They're like, YOU DID??? I'm like, YES!!! I don't IF you guys have ever heard of it before buuuuuuuuut its called...

NO CANDY!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Proud Auntie Moment!!!

Sooooooooooo I had the proudest Auntie moment the other day with MJ!!! I'm dropping her off at school, Glendale Christian Academy, and as she is getting out of the car she sees one of the boys she likes walking in too! She says, to me, Oooooh he's looking GOOD today! (Mind you he's wearing the school uniform  just like EVERY OTHER BOY at the school!!! LOL) The she says, OH and he's carrying his Bible with him TOO...

That's the kind

of boy I LIKE!!!

(Awwwwwww)

Ahahahahahahaha!!! Isn't that like the cutest thing everrrrr?!?!? I'm like, me too MJ, ME TOO!!! Like  you know what, if your going to like one of the Ginty girls, you better be BUSTIN out THE WORD!!! AHAHAHA!!! Fo realz tho!!! :)))  I'm like, yeah!!! That's MY NIECEY RIGHT THERE!!! Making me proud!!! MAKING ME SOOOO PROUD!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Mary's House!!!

So there are some younger kids in my group that we pick up on Wednesdays that are FINALLY potty trained and old enough to come for Wednesday night Bible School now, So they've been coming for the last several weeks.

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Weeeeeeeellll tonight, when we got to church, the little ones were all like, YAAAAAY! We're here, we're at...

 MARY'S HOUSE!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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The older kids were all like, this is NOT Mary's house!!! The little ones were like, YES IT IS!!! I was like, UH WAIT A SECOND, You guys think this is MY HOUSE??? They were all like, YES!!! I'm like, THIS IS NOT MY HOUSE...but I wouldn't mind it being my house...WELLLL on second thought it would be A LOT to clean!!!!

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They were like,  BUUUUUT it's Mary's church....cuz that's what kids always say, I'm going to Mary's church are you going to Mary's church??? So i'm like, its MY CHURCH in the sense that this is the church I GO TOO... buuuuut its NOT MY CHURCH... I am NOT the Pastor!!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

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A few weeks ago they thought the church van was MY VAN!!! They were asking WHY I never drive my van??? I was like, I don't have one!!!! They were like, isn't this a van we're riding in??? I was like, well YEAH, buuuuut it is most DEFINATLEY NOT MINE!!! Annnnnnd the reason WHY i'm not driving it is because for SOME ODD REASON...

I'M NOT ALLOWED TO!!! AHAHAAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)