Animals and Nature, Family, Shetland, Travel

Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk

Posted on by Jean

Some of you may read tea leaves or tarot cards but in our house we read milk spills.  Okay… that’d be ridiculous but….  one morning a few months ago I poured the boys’ cereal.  When I was putting the milk back in the fridge Joseph got all excited saying we had our own lamb.  ????  I turned around and saw what he was talking about.  Turns out that I spill milk in shapes.  You be the judge:

In keeping with the theme here are some of the gazillion many sheep pics I took in in Shetland:

This shot was taken on Fair Isle.  That’s one of the two little churches.  They are really close to each other and apparently the islanders use both.

I watched a dog for some friends at church this past weekend.  Her name is Charley, she’s old, very sweet but she does not like Aggie very much.  Charley doesn’t get that the young whipper snapper just wants to play… really bad.  And Aggie doesn’t get why the old woman snaps at her whenever she tries to get to know her better.  I think they finally came to an agreement though because I found them somewhat close together for the first time in three days:

Aggie has that innocent “What?” look on her face and Charley just wishes she’d go away.

The Tooth Fairy visited our house Sunday night.  We took this picture for Dan because the tooth was quite the topic most of the time he was home for R&R. 

At bedtime it went something like this:

Joe:  Mom… do you put the money under my pillow?

Me:  WHAT?! Who told you *that*?  I wouldn’t say that too loud, you’ll offend the Tooth Fairy.

Joe:  Okay.  I was just asking.

Santa, Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny all exist in our house until the day I’m pushin’ up daisies.  If you don’t believe, you don’t receive.  Daniel’s known for quite a while but he won’t admit it.  Not to me anyway.  I think he thinks I actually believe or he’s just smart enough to not want to ruin my fun.  I’m pretty sure he’s had a talk with Joe, “Mom still believes in them so don’t tell her”.

So the Tooth Fairy must have heard Joe because she left him a note telling him how great the tooth looked and how if he brushed really well, he’d get more money because the better the teeth look, the more she pays.  Yeesh.   She never left me a note.  Joe is one lucky kid.  He’s also easily bought off so I’m hoping the promise of extra cash will get him to brush better.

Jean

10 thoughts on “Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk”

  1. Barb says:

    The tooth fairy in your area is pretty cool. My kids tooth fairy was somewhat demented and often did not come for days!

  4. yvette says:

    I love all your photos of Scotland, it looks like you had an amazing holiday. Your tooth fairy is better than ours, she quite often forgets to come for a few days, or the money is found down the back of the bed and she’s forgotten to take the tooth! Hope the boys enjoy being back to school, mine are back on Monday, can’t wait….

  6. Paula Johnson says:

    What beautiful pictures!!! Love the milk spill, too! Way to go making it to the half way mark! Mine is about to leave for another 6 mos. cruise..seems like yesterday they came home. So glad to see you posting..I love all the things you share!

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