Poor Elly. I found out that her brother, Logan, the kid who is ALWAYS looking to make a buck, swindled Elly out of $2 this weekend. Apparently he charged her for using his television… a television that belongs to me which I let Logan use FOR FREE! The stinker needed to be taught a lesson....
Category Archives: Elly
I’ll have the yellow kind, please.
Elly came home from school with this bottle of water. She explained that she had to create a personal label for her water bottle. She chose “Yellow Springs” as her label. Mmmm, yellow water.
Because it makes the book more exciting!
Wish I could say I was surprised by this scene. Elly reads in the most unusual places, in the most unusual ways. She reads in trees, at exciting wrestling meets, in the car, on the bus, in the grocery store and even during meals. She’s the poster girl for Bookworms every where.
She’s a thinker
When Elly got home from school today I asked her to put her homework down for a few minutes to rub a painful muscle in my back. She’s pretty strong for an eleven year old and so I complimented her strength. “Mom, if you want a really good back rub, you should get me a...
Happy Birthday, Girl Girl
Stay Beautiful
Isn’t she lovely?
She’s our sixth child, second daughter. She has five brothers. The girl deserves some kind of trophy. Or Taylor Swift concert tickets.
Should have grabbed the video camera instead
After several days of practicing with help, Elly realized her summer goal of riding the lawn mower all by herself. Well, as “by herself” as we’ll allow, meaning an older brother has to walk along side her as she drives. I knew I needed to capture this special moment to share in a slideshow at...
She shutters too
Elly LOVES to use my old Nikon D70s to take photos. In fact, after I bought my D300, I considered giving her the D70s in support of her new found love. But that would be like handing over the keys for a race car to a brand new driver. I mean, I had to wait...
Pants on fire
For two kiddos who swear they can’t stand each other, they sure do play together alot.
Princess hair
This only took about 45 minutes to do. I’m guessing it takes one bus ride to undo but there’s something wonderful about seeing Elly’s eyes get huge with hair happiness.
Pirates- the musical
Isaiah, Elly and Nathanael performed “Pirates, the musical” tonight with their elementary school classmates. Putting a microphone in front of Elly’s face is like giving Robert Downey Jr. a ticket to the All-you-can-eat crack cocaine buffet.
She's hired
Elly baked a batch of sugar cookies from scratch without any assistance whatsoever. They tasted like heaven.
Almost nothing but net
She’s always waiting in the wings, warming bleachers all over the state as we travel from one wrestling meet to the next. But this time Elly was in the spotlight during halftime at the varsity girls basketball game. And don’t think for a moment that she didn’t savor the moment the way I would if...
His version of a heating pad
Before you get the wrong impression, Mr. Bingley is not a cuddler. He just has zero body fat and requires a human furnace to maintain his core temperature.
She doesn't hear the ocean
She hears Paula Abdul’s voice saying “You’re going to Hollywood!!!”
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
We attended a wrestling meet last night and to relieve herself of the boredom, Elly brought the camera she received as a Christmas gift. She took photos of everyone who would stop long enough for her to press the shutter release on her “entry level” digital camera, including coaches and sweaty, spent wrestlers. In this...
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
I have sat down several times to write about the different things happening in my life right now and each time I end up hitting “delete”. After my mother wrote a guest blog about how kind and loving I am, everything I want to write about seems vile in comparison to her beautiful tribute to...
So I give you the gift of a seizure
I’m just wrapping up a big project for work which means that I’ll soon have time to eat bonbons and return to blogging about my expialidocious life. In the meantime, Miss Elly, of Ask Miss Elly, has decided to take a new approach to blogging and needs YOUR help. Oh. But I must warn you.....
The color of persuasion
Miss Elly turned 10 years old yesterday which is a relief to me. We have been listening to her countdown to the special day for the last 364 days. If you thought the political commercials were bad, try hearing a “It’s my birthday in only ___ days”, along with a list of her most coveted...
It's just a little BB*
*No children were harmed in the making of this video. And now we all understand Elly’s frustration with having five brothers. On the other hand, it does afford her the opportunity to audition for an orange juice commercial on youtube.
Seven perfect words
My 20 year old daughter, Kait, was describing a nightmare she recently had about the world coming to an end. In her dream animals were attacking humans, giant comets were falling from the sky and chaos spread over the planet. She went on and on with the horror of it all. Kait was visibly upset...
I feel your pain, Mrs. Tramm
Elly came home from school today with a story her teacher told the class. “My teacher was making her bed and her little boy came into the bedroom with brown stuff on his hands. The brown stuff, upon closer inspection, was smelly! She called her husband to help and they discovered that the little boy...