Person Place or Thing

This is Tate's favorite game to play with me lately. Sometimes I make him stick to a subject (Old Testament, Persian period, things found in Florida, etc..) but usually he just randomnly thinks of something and I have to guess what it is in 20 questions with yes/no answers. Last night I could NOT get the person he was thinking of. He was a famous American, involved in music, but not rock-n-roll. He might have been on TV, well, maybe not. He was not in the Civil War or Revolutionary War. It wasn't Elvis, any jazz musician, or Steven Curtis Chapman (my favorite). He wasn't alive right now, well, maybe he is still alive.... Hmmmmmmm.....

After I got extra guesses and even some hints (you love him, Tate says). I had to give up. Which I hate.

"Oh! You are going to kick yourself! It's......(snicker and smile).... Handel!"

......... "Who?"

"...... Mom, are you kidding? You know Handel, right? You know, from The Messiah?"

....... "Yes, yes, I know Handel,.....but......"

"How come you didn't even guess Handel? You listen to him all the time and you didn't even think of him!" Then Tate rolled his eyes, snorted and walked off.

me: ......."but......"

(For those of you who might not know who Handel is, he wrote The Messiah, but he wrote it from HIS HOME IN LONDON in 1741!) Details details

My Mom Got Married!

We are so exhausted after the eventful week, I'll have to post pictures later after I have time to look at all 5 million of them. But Mom did get married in a fabulous (and short!) ceremony! We had a great party afterwards. Here is one quick picture from the rehersal dinner of Sam (3) and his cousin (Becky's 5 year old), Mike. (I know, I am such a mom posting pictures of my kid even though it was someone else's wedding) Some people like to label Sam's signature ears "Elf Ears," but as long as you know they are from CHRIS' side of the family!! The kids had such a great time celebrating!