Midlife Army Wife

For the longest time, Lovebug didn’t understand humor.  She is *extremely* literal.  She didn’t understand figures of speech like “I’m going to get on the computer" – she’d say, “Why are you going to get ON the computer, it could break”.  She didn’t think jokes were funny because she’d spend so much time trying to figure . . . → Read More: My daughter is a comedian!

Tonight, I was playing with Lovebug and tickling her. 

Lovebug said, “Hey!”

Me: “Hay is for horses!”

Lovebug: “I didn’t mean H-A-Y hay!  I meant H-E-Y, like Hey! to get someone’s attention”

Smart girl, how’d she . . . → Read More: Hey! Is that for horses?

This morning we were rushing out the door to the grocery store because I overestimated how much toilet paper we had left when I went to the store a couple days ago (to avoid the crowds).  

I told Lovebug to grab a friend (one of her many stuffed animals) to bring with her, and she came . . . → Read More: Lovebug-ism of the Day!

I was going through an old notebook of mine that I had used for all sorts of random notes from grocery lists to quotes from Lovebug.  There is some good stuff in there!

Last March she said,

“Speaking of Easter…Can I have some water?  I said speaking of Easter because blue is an Easter color and . . . → Read More: Out of the mouth of babes

Lovebug: “Mommy, do you know why I chose the glow-in-the-dark Silly Putty to play with this morning?

Me: “No, why did you choose that one?”

Lovebug: “Just in case all the lights in our house go out.  That’s just how I am, I like to be “just in case”.

AND…

Lovebug: “I wish there was a store . . . → Read More: How my daughter thinks…