Happy Birthday to my Dad!

I would like to say Happy Birthday to my dad. I hope that he has a great day. I would like to thank him for everything that he has done for me. I was talking to my grandma the other day about how he taught us how to drive. He would take us out to the feild across the freeway to feed the sheep (and later cows), and horses and he would put us in the truck on our knees and unroll the window for us and we would steer the truck while he would throw the hay out. Then he would yell out from the back of the truck "go to the left" and we would crank the wheel as far as it would go and next thing that we knew he was screaming "NO! The other LEFT, The Other LEFT!" and so we'd crank the wheel all the way the other way. I love how he calls me his "little Sara," and I love the way he plays with my kids. They beg me to go for a walk up to his house everyday, and I think that it is so he can chase them around the pantry in the kitchen.

Every Summer when school let out I would go and get a new summer job, and every year when I'd get the call saying that I had a new job, my dad would come home with a pocket full of bills and change and he would make up story problems for me. I bought $13.87 worth of bagels. I paid with a $20.00 bill. Now count back my change to me. (When the computers went down at the bank one day, believe it or not, but I was the only one who could count back people's change.) So there's just a few memories that I have about my dad. I love you.

Tyler has to do a report about buffalo for his kindergarten class on Monday. So yesterday we went to the Library to get some resources. Next to the animal encyclopedias that we were looking at was the seasonal children's books and I picked up (for Brooklyn) "A Pussycat's Christmas" by Margaret Wise Brown. My kids love "Goodnight Moon," and cats and so I figured that they would love this book. I read it to Brook around 2:00 this morning while we were up and IT WAS EXCELLENT. It is so well written about everything that the cat is experiencing at Christmas. The pictures are excellent, it is very descriptive. Brooklyn was totally in to it. I was not expecting so much from this book. I looked it up on Amazon and it is only 6.99. I'm totally recommending this to all of my cat loving readers.

P.S. Pretend that there is a picture of the book right here. Stupid blogger.