Totally Tatum – Page 64 – Hay Happens and Hay's Happen

October 30, 2022October 31, 2022

Piano: Two Girls; Four Hands

We are living the 6-G life and part of that is being glad, grateful and God-filled. When you are these G’s, you can’t help but belt out a tune!
And so the Two Girls did.

The tune? Cuckoo in the Key of C. Yes, very advanced. (?!)

But we did it!

TADA!

I love you, Tot!

October 30, 2022October 31, 2022

Singing at SBC Grace Chapel

Our church, Scottsdale Bible, has a service for the older generation in the Grace Chapel. Doug and I got married in this beautiful venue.

This morning, the Children’s Choir sang a few songs with Matt leading. I love his deep voice!!

This was the last time she was in here!

We got there an hour early for them to practice. with Sandra.

The beauty of these songs was how classic and hymnal they were.

All ready!

I love that they are teaching the young these classic hymns like How Great Thou Art!
Tot, you sounded wonderful along with the choir. XXOO

October 29, 2022

Tatum is writing a book and it’s ……did you hear the mic drop?

So well written. It’s very rough still, but any free minute she gets, she is working on it.

I let her bring it in the car so she could read it to me. She is constantly checking in with me and reading what she wrote.

Her Title: It wasn’t very particular

Table of Contents

“It was a clear summer day.” 1

“Boring and gross 🤢 “2

“History blistory “ 👩🏼‍🏫 3

“Hospitals and babies 👶 “ 4

“Babies and love ❤️ “5

“Family 👨‍👩‍👦 and movies 🍿🎥”6

“Late…⏰” 7

“ home 🏠 and work “8

“Flash back “9

“ world 🌎 of misery”10

“ shine ✨ “ 11

“ broken 😞 “ 12

“ Children at a hospital 🏩 and how they got there” 13

“ chocolate 🍫 “ 14

“ ping pong 🏓 “ 15

And so….here are some excerpts.

This is from CHOCOLATE. Now mind you…this is stream of consciousness writing. A dump. No attention to grammar or spelling.

The sentence fluency and word choice is that of a writer.

More?

Ping Pong:

SHe continues ….we will put this together shortly. She is still working on the cohesiveness. As an English teacher, I can see her immense creativity and talent.

Tot, you rock my world!

CUTIE PIE! Will you become an author someday?

October 29, 2022

Sandrine and Tatum

We have been corresponding with Sandrine (from Food For the Hungry) in Rwanda for 2 years now! She just wrote us.

Tatum wrote back!

Maybe we’ll get to meet her someday.

October 29, 2022October 31, 2022

Austin visits with the Kitties and Coopy wonders what happened

When I went out to visit too, Coopy supposedly followed me.
Upon coming inside with the Tot, we wondered what happened to Coopy. Where are you, Coopy?
Oh my….

Mommy? Taties? Someone?

He would be pure bait out in the world; absolutely has no clue what to do. Oh, Coopy.

October 23, 2022October 31, 2022

Hay’s Mission Review and Turkey Butts

“Circle any words we do really well.” This was the directive for our Hay Happens Meeting this week. Tatum has a Turkey paper she has to complete with the family involved. So…..this was a good brainstorming activity.

Daddy and Tot were pretty generous in their word counts.

This was my paper:

We all agreed that we are definitely a grateful family, we honor God and each other, and we are filled with kindness and grace. We also work hard and try to laugh along the way. Hopefully we are others-centered as well.

Then, we looked at the 6-G and I filled in my turkey with that. I surrounded it with all the things we say in the house. heehee.

We ground all we do in this verse too: the BUTT! Yes, but, God!

And here is the final product!

October 22, 2022October 26, 2022

Our 2nd Annual Grate”fall” party!

Last year, we launched a new tradition. We would celebrate being grateful with some of her friends, and we would model how to be grateful with some rocks! Let’s do it again this year.

Daddy worked extra hard in getting the back and front ready. Just look at our cute entry way! Thanks to a HUUUUUUGE pumpkin from Costco. The seeds from that guy….endless I’m sure.