Conversations
Amanda: Hey Mama!
Beth: Good morning, sweet darlin'! How are you and my boy this morning?
Amanda: We're good. I know I'm calling you really early, but I had to tell you that Jackson woke up crying for you.
Beth: He did?
Amanda: Yes! He was in his bed wailing, "Bibby! Bibby! Bibby!" It was so sad. I think he had a dream about you.
Beth: Awww, was he missing his Bibby?
Amanda: Yes. Isn't that sweet? I'm putting you on speaker phone so you can talk to him.
Beth: Hi Jackson! It's Bibby! How are you this morning? Are you watching Sesame Street?
Jackson:----------
Beth: Jackson, are you gonna come to Bibby's house soon and play with Beansie?
Jackson:----------
Amanda: He doesn't seem to want to talk today. Maybe he dreamed you were giving him a spanking.
Beth: (Audible gasp) I know who needs a spanking! Mommy does!
posted by Amanda @ 10:35 AM
129 Comments
129 Comments:
Hilarious!
Thank you for that comic relief after my morning of loving chastisement from our sweet Jesus! :) Simply hillarious!
I'm glad someone else calls their mommy in the morning. :)
Praying for safe travel and a powerful time at the conf. this weekend!!!
Blessings
steph.
That's so funny! Ahhh... life with kids... :D Aren't they great?!
This is hysterical. Sounds like me and my momma!! I am 29 years old and she would spank me in a second if she thought I really deserved it!! :) Love you guys so much!
That is hilarious!
:)
Too Cute!
Kids never want to "perform" when we want them to.
Have a great day..
Blessings~Alyce
Awwwwww - Amanda girl, you better run when you see your momma - I see a peach limb in/on your backside future!
Poor Jackson ----- maybe he will talk with Bibby later today . . .
Prayerfully first grand (boy) on Monday if there is a bed available at Women's . . . pray for my girl - she is in major pain in her hips. These Texas grandboys are BIG!
Blessed weekend Siestas . . .
absolutely HILARIOUS!!! lol.
Only from the lips and heart of a Grandma!
A gentle laugh escaped my lips as I'm a grandma too, and oh how they tug on your heart.
ROFL!!!
Thank you so much for the laugh this morning :D
The Journey Continues ~
I agree with you Beth!
Amanda, you are a very naughty girl to do that to Bibby! :)
Have a blessed day!
With "Heaven Bound" blessings,
Kim Safina
That darling Jackson.....I bet Bibby didn't mind one bit that he didn't talk to her....just knowing he woke up saying her name was enough!! :)
Have a wonderful weekend girls....Praying for the conference!
Love you all~
Fran
I just love y'all!!!
I have been having one of those totally emotional mornings.Thank y'all for making me smile.
cute! Sounds like me and my mama!!
Praying Jackson is feeling better!!
:}
Kids are precious...even the adult ones! It's wonderful to see the loving relationship you have with yours!
How funny.... Amanda needs to come and see Jackson's Bibby so that she can love on him and kiss away all the bad dreams....
I laughed and laughed
hugs...
Lichelle
You guys are hilarious. Thanks for sharing your precious lives with us.
Siesta in Fl.
Sounds like my son!
Boy: This is SO awesome!!! I love this gift from Nana!!! This is my favorite toy ever!!! This is the best day of my life!!!
Mom: Let's call Nana and tell her thank you.
Boy: OK!!!
Nana: Hi, grandson!
Boy: Hi.
Nana: Do you like your gift?
Boy: Yeah.
Don't you just wanna scream?
that is priceless!!!!!!
Too Funny!
LOL! That's hilarious!
Hilarious...
Sometimes you have got to give the grandparents a hard time...they aleady rule the roost in the kids eyes...and you have to keep them in line somehow.
Have a great one!!!
April
Lauderdale MS
CUTE!
What's the saying? "Many a child has been spoiled, cause you can't spank Grandma!" Love it ( :
That is just Hilarious. Thanks for sharing. That is just like the way kids are. My sister's in-laws came over last weekend to set with Brayden (2) my nephew while we were all at the hospital with my dad and he told his grandmother that she just needed to go home. He is two. doesn't see this set of grandparents very often. That is totaly a story for another time. The point is you just never know what kids will say and do now a days. Have a great weekend we will be praying for you and the team at this first conference.
Becky
Attalla, AL
Amanda, See how Strong and Courageous you are.....bringing some salt to everyone here at the lpm blog!!
Now that's funny! Thanks for sharing a good laugh with us!
Praying that you mama has a good conference in Vancouver. We had thought to go since we're in Seattle but never had the peace to get the tickets. Praise God I listened cause my middle one is recovering from encephalitus and we would not have been able to go and even more disappointed after anticipating it!
you all are a hoot!
The VERY IDEA!!! I'm still looking for that wooden spoon I used to threaten Amanda with on necessary occasion. And I won't be using it on Jackson either!
That reminds me of Psalm 128 from the Ascent study I'm in now. How do you find any place to sit down and eat with all those olive shoots around your table?
Precious lil thing! After I read that I just looked at my daughter (5yrs) and said..
Me: When you get big and are married and have kids will you still call me everyday and live close to me?
Her: Ummm, yea. I'm just gonna live on the other side of the trees. (note: we have a creek & trees across the street from us)
Me: (smiling) Oh, thank you. I love you so much. Can I have a kiss?
Her: Mom. Not now.
Lil booger!
Happy Friday!
That is so funny!!!
I am praying for the conference this weekend! I am expecting God to do mighty things this weekend for everyone there!!!
Have a great weekend Siestas!!!
Wooden spoons indeed!!!
Your comment was even funnier than the original post.
I can hear my Mom, even 2500 miles away, saying the exact same thing.
Oh, how I love my Mom, and being a Mom too!!!
Blessings
April
Amanda,
Subject 1:
Did your mommy ever make you pick your own switch or "hickry" (my grandmother's pronunciation)? Mine would, and then she would always add as I approached the door with head hanging down to my feet - "And if it's not big enough I'll 'wear-it-out' on you & get another one!" I ALWAYS broke the largest I could find & Mother would ALWAYS cool down before I got back. Whew....
Subject 2:
I have a grandson who is also a "BREATHER"! It's so funny; you know they're listening because you can hear them, but they just won't speak. And all a "Bibby" or a "G" wants is to hear the sweetest of all sounds - a word from them.
"G" from Birmingham
You are so funny! He wouldn't dream about you spanking him, he would dream his Bibby wasn't there to save him from one! After you said what you did to Amanda, she should have said, "I feel better!"
Love you friend and praying for you this weekend!
Lisa in Kirkland
I soooo needed a laugh today! Sick & grumpy babies - and mommy too, financial worries, house looking like someone turned it upside down and shook it, no shower this morning - again, snowing - again, man working late - again, man working Saturday - again ... it is just all too much today. I called my own mommy this morning (cause it is the ONLY time to get a hold of her) and got her message!
All of this whining to say that I needed a laugh today and a smile... and as always, got just what I needed here!
Love you all!
Becky Jo
That is a very cute story! My children were not big fans of the phone. Still aren't and they're 12 and 10.
My children have always yearned for their grandparents. It is so sweet :-)
hahahahaha mama beth the kids i kept last week had a "mr. nono" spoon
amanda, i believe them when they say you are the funy one..
That is great!
My two year old little girl will beg me to call my mom and when I finally do she says, "Hello? Hey."
And that is IT!!!!! She won't answer questions, she won't tell her anything..."Hello? Hey." is all she offers up! :)
Now, Beth--put the wooden spoon up...we moms have to say stuff like that so our kids remember to love us like they love their grandparents!!
Many blessings for this weekend!
LOL! Too cute! Sounds similar to a conversation I had the other day with my mom. Hm, I need to make sure I hide the wooden spoon next time she comes to visit my daughter! (Let's be honest, once grandbabies are in the picture, we know they don't visit US anymore! =P )
Had to post again - Beth, we know all about the wooden spoons around here! Had one in the car, in the purse, in the house (in at last two places of course.) Really laughing!!!!! Wonder if I could get away with that now since they are 27 and 29???? I can guarantee that my momma would whip me, even at the ripe old age of 50, if I needed it . . . You go Beth - we are always parents are we not - gotta keep these youngin's of ours in line! Even if they have their own youngin's!
Oh! That's funny!!!
This is why we don't live next door to our mothers once we are grown. We must stay out of striking range.
Thanks so much for that...what a hoot!
Too FUNNY!!!
we should have a kids' say the darndest things post one of these days... talk about comic relief! Most times the things they say are even funnier than the things they WON"T say! However I could have done without my 11 year old informing her grandma she didn't even remember what grandma gave her for her birthday as she 'just isn't that into clothes...' Made this mama turn red!
O! I love it! Im laughing so stkin hard right now! Have a blast this weekend and im praying for the conf! Love you ALL!!
That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh :)
That's just too hilarious! So true, too! I have a 2 yr old grandson in TX that I don't get to see very often. My daughter and I get on the web cam so that I can talk to him and he can see his Nana. She says he's always saying, "Talk Nana, talk Nana" and when we get on he just sits there and smiles then turns and watches TV!
I can't wait to see him in May!
Btw, I still threaten my daughter with a spanking every now and then and she's 29! :)
Donna in IN
Don't you just love it when its your kids that get you into trouble? I hope that spoon doesn't get you AJ! Blessings on your weekend. Julie
Oh, how cute!
LOL Kids are great. My kid would sort of do the same thing when they were small to my mom. Beth, maybe he will get in a chatty mood later today and chat your ear off.
Have great fun this weekend. I love fresh starts. There is something just so fun about them. Praying for you. Kim B. in AZ
Poor Bibby! I bet Mommy thought it was too funny though....kids...(and I don't mean Jackson!!!) :-)
That is Hilarious. Beth's comment priceless!! Amanda I hope she does not find that wooden spoon, she may just pay you a visit. I am praying for the Conference this weekend...
Love
Cindy
Oh sure. The grandparents always take the side of the person who's not even 3 feet tall.
Amanda,
LOL! Boy, I needed that today.
May I ask for prayers…
Tonight, the women’s ministry at our church is hosting a large-scale outreach event called Chick Night. It’s an high-energy, free event for women college age and up that we host twice a year. I oversee these events and for the first time tonight I am delivering a short gospel presentation in front of an audience. (I’m shaking already and the event is not for another five hours.)
Would you please pray…
1. Pray for Future Christians to attend (all obstacles, seen and unseen, would be removed).
2. Pray for all the logistics to come together and the weather would be good.
3. Pray that God shows up in a Mighty Way and uses the worship/speakers to open the hearts of the chicks.
4. Pray for the invitation that the Holy Spirit draw Future Christians to invite Christ to be their Lord and Savior.
And....B E L I E V E! Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
Join me in prayer that this Leap Day will be a LEAP-OF-JOY DAY we'll not soon forget in Jacksonville and with Beth, LPM and Travis in Vancouver!
Thank you very much.
Until All Have Heard,
Susan
P.S. You are in my poor prayers for Vancouver AND (yeah!! grin) upcoming Jacksonville LP event.
That is tooo funny and cute!!!
That's funny! Sometimes Ryan will want to talk to his Jojo and by the time I get her on the phone he clams up and will not talk. Make me looks like a liar. Then there are the sweet conversations between the two ... so sweet.
Bibby and spanking doesn't seem to fit in the same sentence ;) That Jackson is just too cute. Thanks for sharing!
Love it. Love even more that Beth commented also.
I cannot wait for this experience! So special! God bless!
ha ha ha ha ha
I can't imagine that sweet child doing anything that would require Bibby to give him a spanking!!!
I love when they get on the phone and there's just total silence!!
This is for sure a ROFLLLLLLLL :)!
So cute! : ) Typical huh! : )
God Bless! Emmy : )
Bibby Bethie - I like the sound of it!
Smilin' up here,
Warm in Alaska.
So. Stinkin. Cute!
That is so funny!
Poor Bibby was all excited to talk to Jackson and he left her hangin!
Kim
Cutest story ever told!
i cannot wait til I have an adorable little grand-baby .
I want to dress them and raspberry all over that cute little tummy babies have.
oyeshhh.... All those cute words babies use~precious!
Bibby~cutest grand-mommy name
Love this litte conversation.
My just-turned-four grandson calls me "Gra" and I love it when he talks to me on the phone. Never for very long though because he is extremely busy! I just read an article in a magazine that reminded me of you Beth. It says:
"Before Starbucks, coffee was mostly tepid swill sipped solo at 7 a.m. by bleary-eyed customers clutching Styrofoam cups. But now, coffee has become a social custom that demands an unspoken compliance. We dress for Coffee. We meet people, groomed and enthusiastic, in coffee shops. Now, getting a cup of coffee is an event we anticipate and savor." Sounds just right, doesn't it! Thank you for all you do.
We all love you dearly!!
My first little granddaughter is still much too small to be in need of a spanking, but I can't even wrap my mind around having to be the one to do it.
Too Cute! Your conversations sound like the ones between my daughter & I! Those long silences from the grandgirls and g-boys will soon grow into LONG conversations. Our grandgirls are now 14 and 9 and I love hearing about their days! Ups AND downs!
I know Beth would never use her wooden spoon even if she found it!! ;-) And I do remember having to go get my own switch, and I walked ever so slow back to the house! I don't think my Mama ever really used one, but I knew she meant business and I didn't want to push her!
Thanks for sharing and travel safe!
Blessings from Mukilteo, WA!
Amanda, I have a daughter who's 4 and sometimes I think she would rather be with her "goggie" than me! I never had a grandma who made such a fuss over me so I LOVE that they are two peas in a pod when they are together. My mom (who lives 22 hours away) will be here a week and I won't get a hug or kiss or nothing from my baby girl unless I seek it out! Somehow I'm swept out of sight for a while, which allows me to sit back and watch my moma love on my baby girl the way she used to love on me! I am so thankful for that!
Bibby would never!!!
I can't imagine Amanda ever getting a spanking when she was growing up. She seems like she was an angel.
How funny and typical that Jackson wouldn't talk to Bibby when given the chance.
I'm in prayer this weekend while you're at your conference.
Love ya,
Valerie
that was so funny! Amanda, you are so bad! :)
Thank you for sharing! Reminds me of my young man, almost 12!, when he was a little guy. Beth, rest assured, he still loves his Grandma very much. Now, he calls some days when he gets off the bus. They have a very special relationship (1st grandchild too). I pray Jackson and Beth have the same kind of relationship. It is a blessing from God to have such a great relationship with a grandparent.
Namaste,
Your MN siesta,
Mary Ann
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I just read Beth's comment. Amanda, you better wear lots of padding in your jeans! :) How funny!
my child does this all of the time with her mimi and then we get on the phone and she goes blank. Good laugh!
I MISS MY GRANDBABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is so cute and so real.
love ya'll
Okay, why do our children always "perform" such adorable acts.... until we try and share them with others???? Thanks for sharing and bringing a smile to our faces!
Have a great weekend!
Kim
CUTE! My almost 3 year old daughter is the same way. She'll talk very excitedly ABOUT Mimi, but won't talk TO HER over the phone!
Too cute! Thanks for sharing a sweet story after a long day!
Jackson is SO cute. I'll bet his cuteness will aide him in charming his way out of future spankings perhaps? I tried that as a cute young child. I ran away from from my dad who had let me know I needed a spanking. Had him chasing me around the backyard in circles laughing and having a great time. Wouldn't you know it...I still got the spanking after he caught me!
You Siestas have an awesome blessed weekend!
Laughter!
You guys crack me up. I bet he was smiling at the phone though.
How fun! I don't think I've ever noticed a comment from Beth before. Is that a first? I think that means you are in big trouble, Amanda!
I didn't realize there was a LPL conference this weekend! I'm glad to know now so I can be a part of it by praying.
ha ha! Too cute.
I call my mom every morning too! I'm almost 36 and she is almost 65!!!
Beth, I left a late reply to you naming me "cusomer of the week" on your "Glad I'm a Woman" post. I didn't want you to miss it b/c I thought it would make you laugh... or at least chuckle.
That is hilarious!
Don't you love how they get silent the minute you put them on the phone, or on the spot! :) Priceless.
I am glad to hear that "sweet, sensitive" Amanda can have a sneaky little humorous side. I have to admit...this sounds like Melissa more than Amanda!
Thanks for sharing!
too funny! Praying for your mama this weekend!
You just make me smile! I can even hear your sweet little twang in my mind! Isn't it crazy? You and your precious family have blessed mine in so many ways. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Dear Beth.
That is too cute! My 2 little girls "talk" to Nana and Papa on the phone too. Which usually amounts to the grandparent asking all sorts of inane questions and the little ones either nodding at the phone or trying to push the buttons or just staring at it like it's some sort of foreign object. Soon enough I won't be able to get them to quit talking on the phone! Thanks for sharing!
Christine
TOO Funny! Ya'll are just crazy precious! I can literally see her face.
Blessings,
MB
You all are so funny! Thanks for the laugh.
I've had a stomach bug all week and needed a pick-me-up. :o)
Amanda,
Thanks for the throw back to when my kiddos were small and would just breath heavy and listen when they were supposed to "talk" on the phone. I can just see Jackson's eyes looking around as he listened to Bibby talk.
Cracks me up.
Anna
Only your mom could be that cool right before she steps in front of thousands of women.
I'm sure it's much the same in your family, but I'm convinced my mil gives my kids "nanny crack" to make them want her... my 2 y/o comes home and cries the entire evening, "Nanny, come back!!!" I can't wait to be a grand-ma (nana is what they'll call me... I'm sure of it)!
Isn't that the way i always goes?!?!? Sweet. I think.
Have a blessed weekend!
In His Graces~Pamela
You Guys crack me up!
Looking forward to the report of LPL!
Have a great weekend!
Amanda in SC
Lol! Are you sure this wasn't my own mother and I?
My Dad looks each of my children in the eyes when we leave their house and solemnly says, "I am sorry we must send you home with the Warden. I promise to make it up it you." My kids roll on the grass and giggle with delight every single time and now they sing nobody knows the trouble I've seen..... It is quite the routine! My eldest daughter calls him The Blessing! It cracks me up!
Ok, you girls crack me up!
Sooo cute, tender and funny all at the same time! Y'all are awesome!
Love,
Kristen
Too funny! I hope to one day experience the joy of being a grandmother so that I can just love on those little ones. From what i hear, there is nothing like it!
How Sweet!! I have had the same reaction when my daughters have called me to talk to my smaller grandchildren over the phone....complete silence but according to the mommies, big smiles!! It's always "heart-warming".
Oh, that's too cute. And so typical of a little one!
And I bet not long after you hung up he was talking non-stop about her, right?!
Hey Amanda, I knew I needed to check the blog first thing this morning. It was precious. As I woke up, Beth was on my mind in a huge way so I started praying for her and lifting her up to our Savior! I know that God will provide her with what she needs!
Beth, you are being cradled in the arms of our Savior -- He will provide for you!!!!!! -JH
This happened to me so many times especially when my teen boys were little, made the call and no talking! Makes us mommies look bad! Gotta love those babies!
Loved reading this "conversation"... And Beth's comments about wooden spoons brought back many memories from my childhood:) Mom always seemed to have those spoons wherever she needed them: in the car, in the diaper bag, or in the house. But let me tell you, the loving discipline worked:)
But now that my mom is a Grandma, I think she would agree with Beth: Those wooden spoons were made for our hynies, not the little cheeks of the grandkids! It's our job now to discipline, and theirs to spoil:)
Much love to your sweet family!
Love,
Tara
HOW PRECIOUS! Love it. Thanks for sharing! Congratulations on 10 years of LPL, also! :)
Precious!
The Man's momma had "the board of education"...there was much threatening and waving it about...not much contact with a sweet little rear, however.
My mom had "the fastest slipper in the east". She would whip that house slipper off so fast it would be holstered back on her foot and our bottom would be stinging before we even knew what, literally, hit us!
I broke many a wooden spoon...couldn't bear to pop their bottoms with it very often...I broke them all slammin' them down on the counter when I couldn't bring myself to swat their cutie patooties with it.
How cute! Wouldn't it be interesting to know what Jackson was really dreaming?! How I miss that fun age...it goes too fast!
I feel like I can actually hear that last comment in Bethie's own voice. :)
Amanda one time I was trying unsuccessfully to get my son to eat his PBJ. I finally noticed that he had orange dust on his fingers that strongly resembled Cheetos residue, but I knew I had not given him any Cheetos. Heavens sake I was trying to get him to eat a PBJ. I looked at my mother, the very same woman who had made me sit at a table for 4 yes FOUR hours one night over A, 1, singular green bean to see the most guilty face I had ever seen. Her reply was that he didn't want a sandwhich, he wanted a cheeto. She had been sneaking him chips behind my back and even making up excuses to get me to leave the table. But, my children ADORE her.
The silent stage won't last long. Before long he'll be talkin' your ear off (just ask my kid's grandparents)
W A A A Y T O O F U N N Y !!!
Too funny! I can sure picture Jackson and Bibby praise dancing but not spanking! My daughter, now 27, tried to hide the wooden spanking spoon at age 2. When I found it in a cabinet stuck behind a bag of old craft supplies, I did have to laugh!
too funny!! You two could be a comedy-duo!
Whenever I call someone because of my 21 mos old daughter ("she's asking for you, Daddy!" "She said 'gam' and I knew that meant you, Grandma!") and I put my daughter on the phone, there is nothing but crickets chirping in the background. Silence. Except, of course, for my mommmy voice saying, "Say Hi to Daddy, baby. Can you say Hi Daddy?" So embarassing, and hard on poor Daddy who's at the office, talking up a storm in his best baby-talk voice. :-)
that is cute. My son calls my mom BB. They never seem to talk on the phone when you want them to.
I talk to my mom every morning too.
That's too funny. My kids love to call their grandma on the phone too...grandma's are never too busy to talk to their little ones.
WHat about a wooden PAINT Stir? That works wonders around here. All we have to do it tap it on the corner of something and all activity ceases. Plus the threat of a "RED HAND-PRINT" also works wonders.
I know all about the Hickry too. If I got one too little my Momma went and got a limb. Ouch!!!
My brother is in Iraq, and my 3 year old is constantly asking if she can write an email to Uncle Matt. She does the typing herself, an sometimes she lets me "translate". But I know when we see him again this summer (PTL) she will clam up and cling to my leg! Kids.
Oh Amanda: I am going to be a grandmother in August and I can't wait. I know Bibbi would not spank Jackson - but I do believe she will make him behave!
I love it.
Thank you sweet girl.
Georgia Jan
LOL
Y'all are a lot of fun!
Girls, I am preparing for my group to come over tomorrow where the Lord teaches me and then I teach them. I am answering their questions on various things and I am teaching them how to find the answers in the word as well. I am dealing with the issue of losing salvation and eternal guarantee...I know tough questions, I am thrilled they are asking and we are diving into the deep waters of Gods Word together...As I am in the process of this I am referencing some of the material i have studied with Beth. I thought it would be fun on an occassion to take each of the studies on different occasions and let us go through our old books that have been worn and underlined as we have experienced the Lord through His Word. i.e. I am looking in LBY and getting tickled over the lessons I have learned there, I would love to share and hear how "siestaville" was moved through some of these lessons. Ok I know this post was out of the context of the original content, but I was preparing and had that thought. I love you! I rejoice with you. Blessings. Tiffany
From the mouths of babes. Too funny! :0)
I love that, I live away from my 3 oldest children and my 3 grandkids, and I love to talk to them on the phone, but you are right there are times that they won't talk and there are times I feel that there mommy my oldest daughter needs a spanken...
Thank you for giving me a reason to laugh today...
My mom was babysitting her grandchildren one morning and they were extremely rambuncious. And after several requests to settle down with no results she reached into her utensil drawer and pulled out a wooden spoon and said "OK thats it, I have had enough", to which my little neice announced to her other little cousins "come quick, Nannys making cookies". They knew she wouldn't dream of using the wooden spoon on them, but they had seen it used many a time to make them their favorite cookies. That was over 10 years ago and my Mom still chuckles everytime she pulls out a wooden spoon to make her babies their cookies.
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