Wednesday, December 17, 2008

So I am going to play catch up.

Since we have moved first of all there is no DSL capability at our new location. So, I have been without blogging. Secondly, this full time job thing is seriously cutting into my social time, sorry Jenny and girls. My first story is about my trip to Birmingham because as I predicted it was good. I arrived uneventful except the maniac on the road who followed me and tried to run me off the road. He was outran by a girl in a minivan and I am sure that is not a story he will ever share with any of his buddies. Secondly I got to shop all evening at the Galleria which was great! However, people thought I was crazy because I shopped with my cellphone ringing the whole time. These are my thoughts about my shopping trip:
Do the people in Hollister really have a hearing problem or am I old enough that that store makes me think I am deaf?
People at the customer service desk can not help me.
No of course they don't have that size.
There is always another store that could have it but they are closed.
Do you want a gift receipt? Sorry, we ran out of paper and I can't reprint them.
Do you want this game for a PS2 or a Wii? I said PS2 whatever that is.
No I do not want to save 20$ by spending 100$.
I do not want to open a store credit card! I have already canceled that one
Do you want to add your email address to our mailings? NO, I need no more junk email.
Do you want us to send you coupons through the mail? I have children, I need every coupon you have and from your sister stores too, please.
My all time favorite:
The little people who chase you around the mall asking you to try their product. I told one that someone else had already asked and he followed me for nearly five minutes and 2 stores to find out the other persons name. That my friends is dedication to the job!
Merry Christmas not happy holiday!!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

This should be good!

This is a quick post so here goes. I am leaving in the morning around 5 am for a trip to Birmingham to stay until Thursday night for work. I am leaving my husband and children here and going by my lonesome to somewhere that is not familiar to me, and trying to get some Christmas shopping done while I am there. Some good stories should come from this, I wish I could take some of you with me (Jenny I am sorry) but alas I must go without children to a nice hotel and spend two day there. I hate people like me sometimes! haha

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving is offical banned at my house!

For the last three years I have been the one in the emergency room on some portion of Thanksgiving. And the two years before that I had been so sick that I could barely raise my head. So, from now on I feel sure that if I boycott the official celebration of Thanksgiving that the emergency room can do without me.
Wednesday night my in-laws took my children to eat at their oldest sons house so that I could work on cleaning the floors in our house. About two hours later they show up with a screaming toddler that has fallen. Yes, Jasmine fell out of a rolling desk chair and apparently hit the arched leg with her right side. She screamed for two hours and could not walk. She would shake with apparent pain and could not speak. I paniced and take her to the emergency room and sat for five hours to find out that nothing is broken and her blood work is fine. This is my daredevil child that has taken many falls from the dining room table, down five steps, out of the van, etc and cry for five minutes and be fine. This appeared to be a serious injury and turned out to be nothing, thank GOD! So we can now add that our youngest child is our first to visit the ER. So, Thanksgiving was a blurr since Jasmine and I got home around 2:30. Her little ribs were so bruised that she could not sleep for a while and then it was fitful.
I am truly thankful for so much, today for emergency rooms that do not make fun of panicked mothers. I am thankful for a husband that allowed me to sleep for a few hours and stepped up to care for the little injured one. Most of all I am thankful for salvation and having a savior that surrounds and protects my children from themselves.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! Maybe by next year I will forget about all of this and make a full spread for the crew to devour.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

We did it!!!

Ok so at 9 am this morning we signed the papers on our house and now it belongs to us!!!!! I was given the day off by my new boss. so I am trying to hurry and get over to the house so that I can have the floors cleaned before Chad gets home from work. Hopefully we can get the floors finished tomorrow and then start moving in this weekend. Look for pics later this week, I just put new batteries in the camera and am taking it with me.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Pray Hard Friends!!!

We received the call yesterday that we may be able to close in our house Wednesday the 26th. Aaahhhh! (me screaming) This is complicated because Monday I start my new job and am going to have to ask for Wednesday morning off to go sign my life away. Chad is working on getting off Wednesday morning which is harder for him because he will essentially be taking off the whole day since he works in Chattanooga. We are anxiously awaiting the news that the walk through inspection is completed so that the paperwork will be done and ready for Wednesday. Please help us pray, we could be in our house just shortly after Thanksgiving!!!!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Five years ago this month my world changed.

Five years ago I gave birth to our oldest child Kirstin. She is so excited to be five and Daddy and I are trying not to cry where she can see us. I know this happens to every child, but hey this is my child. I took her today for her five year checkup and she is now ready for school. Except for the tears that will fall and the irrational parent (her father) to be dragged off by the rational parent. I expect that there will be a seen that even the most veteran kindergarten teacher will not expect come the first day of school at Ider next August. I guess this is just some of her first that we will cry over, they're just coming to soon for my liking.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

It has a key to it.

Today I received a gift that made my cool and collected husband even jump up and down. A KEY!!! Not just any key but the key to our house. The builder gave it to us today so we could come over anytime we wanted and get things ready. This is great!!! I took Lisa over to the house to see it tonight and other than being lost in the dark it felt great to think of this house as ours and realizing that we are just days away from closing. I have to go and rescue the children that are playing with daddy and are being held in kissy prison and are begging for rescue.

Friday, November 14, 2008

When you leave behind all you know...

So I feel old when I can say that for nearly a decade I have been a nurse in an intensive care unit somewhere in Chattanooga. I can safely say that I have witnessed things I wish I could forget, and have been witness to miraculous things I can never utter to others. I have seen life and death come at once and leave behind a wake so wide that families crumble. However, I am sad to see this time in my life end and to begin a different journey. Sounds weird even when I am writing, just like it did in my head. I know that GOD has prepared me for this new job and it is a blessing that I will be able to spend more time with my family, but part of me wonders if I will miss the place that I have come from. My job was my life until I had children and now they are my focus. I know now that my focus has shifted to GOD and my family and this job will allow me to have more time with both. No more weekends, holiday shifts, nights, and odd hours that I must work just the normal five day work week. Am I ready to be normal? I pray that I am because I am giving all I can come November 24th. It kind of reminds me of the stories in the Bible when GOD called everyday people like the Abraham, Paul and others to leave what they knew to follow him. Ready of not here I go...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Vacation blues...

Ok I love to vacation and most of you know that Chad and I love to take trips but the is the first that I wish that I had stayed at home. Well, that is a lie. Over five years ago Chad and I took a trip to the Smokies (same place we are now) and I spent the most miserable seven days of my life. I puked in every bathroom in Gatlinburg, lay in bed and could not eat. Soon afterwards we found out I was expecting Kirstin. This trip is bittersweet, we are celebrating Kirstin's 5th birthday and Chad's birthday and sitting around wondering about the progress on our house. Ok, we are really spending time in the waterpark, shopping, and eating a lot. Thursday we are coming home to work hard on our house because they are nearly DONE!!!! Ok, I have to go finish supper and feed my monkeys (all three are watching Shrek IIor III I forget which one) and sort through Christmas presents and get ready for more fun with the crew.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

So I cried again....

I cried again tonight after I walked into what will soon be my new home and found that I had doors and yes of all things cabinets. They are beautiful!!! I know that my husband is excited but at the time he was on his knees laying tile in our utility room, so he did not share in my emotion, but was encouraging it all the same. I have to say one thing, I love that I have been married for a while and that I have a man that will allow me some time to stand and cry and know to leave me be. He knew quickly that they were tears of joy and not of pain. I posted earlier about GOD is good, but this just is a little reminder of how good he really is. He has brought from a place of uncertainty to a place of certain future.

Pics because I am a bad mother...

First day of pre-k




Doesn't she just look sweet!!

I may be crazy but...




We have a bought a house in the craziness of the financial market and are trying to get it finished to move in hopefully by the first of December. I hope these pics cross over of our unfinished house. God is so good, we have come so far from despair to excitement. For those who don't know I took a job with Alacare home health and hospice and turned in my notice last Friday. It is bittersweet because I really love what I do but I love my kids more and value them over any job. Kirstin is so excited that I will be able to get her up every morning and take her to school. So next year when she goes to kindergarten I will so much prayer and lots of Kleenex's because it will be bad around here. on a side note if any one's children comes home with the news that we are expecting don't believe them. My well meaning Kirstin is back on the idea that we are buying this house so she can get a baby brother. I have gained some weight but an not pregnant. She is still praying so we could be pleasantly surprise if her prayers are answered.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

It only gets better...

I guess that I have had one of the best weeks that I can remember in the last several months. After a few very emotional weeks things are looking up. Alacare called today with salary quotes and to set my first day of work. First it is more than I thought I could negotiate and I was anxious about what they would offer. So, get ready girls I will be able to be at most of our Angels functions and at church every Sunday. If you get sick of me I am sorry but I am here to stay. When I called my father-in-law to let them know(because they are in Florida and I would fit in the suitcase) he reminded me that there was a plan even if I did not know it at the time. Oh, gotta go got one in the tub that has become itchy and is not starting to develop spots on her face with little white bumps(vesicles) in the spots. It may be chicken pocks, we'll see. Gotta go look up the rash in my books. The life of a mommy nurse!!!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I have to say that crying is not an option..maybe

I have been at wits end the last few weeks trying to figure out what to do about work and everything else we have going on. I finally just quit worrying over it all and decided that GOD would take care of it and I would just have to wait( definitely not my strong suit). Well, Monday while I am eating lunch at nearly 3pm I get a phone call from Alacare Home Health and Hospice in Scottsboro wanting to know if I am still interested in a job! Well, very calmly I say "yes" and so I am currently waiting to hear from Human Resources to know about pay and my start date. I came home Monday with a total sense of peace about whatever GOD has in store our life. I have called so many people to let them know what is going on. I would like to say thanks you to all of you that have been praying for us and those of who have been a blessing to me.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Do I look old?

OK I have to say that I feel old today. In January I will be a great Aunt (by Chad's middle nephew Sammy) so I am a tab stressed about being a great Aunt when I feel that I am not finished having my own children. Just a side note, because I am beginning to think that I am aging quicker than I realized. Oh, well just what happens to us all.

well I could shout but....

I guess for the first time in 15 years my husband has really thought I have lost my mind. We were over at our new house and I saw the SOLD sign that had been placed in the front yard and I began to jump up in down in the driveway. I was doing my version of a victory dance my husband walks out of the house and thinks I have lost my mind. He finally figures it out and begins to join in and then the kids think this is great. Later on that night we come back and have our first meal in the house sitting on the floor eating Capt'n D's and I start crying because we are getting closer to having our first NEW house and I won't have to remold anymore. I guess this all the culmination of everything that I have heard this week. I think that WMBW has been ministering to me because every show has been about faith that GOD will bring us thorough the fire and he will bless us for the journey. I know that things are coming together I don't know how or what happens next but we are waiting and learning to let go and let GOD take care of everything.
I hope to have some pics of the house to post and take my FRIEND (my one and only) to see it this week. Well, I will cut this short because there is a cake to ice and ham to finish and three children (borrowed Laney tonight) to get bathed, hair done, and the promised nails painted.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Spelling problems...

Well since I started this blog my friends have reminded me that there is spell check available for my posts. That is great, I have 5 years of college and can't find spell check without help. All that money could have been saved. haha. I am still figuring it out and hope to get better and even remember my password and username everytime I log in. I know that this is from sleep deprivation but at this point and I can't remember how to sleep more. I gotta go stop the fight in the tub that is getting louder and more toys are being launched against the wall. Thanks for keeping up with us.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The world didn't end, but close...

Well, This has been a very confusing last couple of weeks and I had to creat somewhere to vent all of this out to. I have been job hunting as most of you know and now we are on a very urgent house hunt. Our current living situation has changed and what was to good to be true has turned out to be a living nightmare, but all is in GOD's hands. I have been do depressed and unable to even share with my closest friends what we have been through because I could not do so with out crying. I now open up because most everyone that is close to me thinks that I am having martial difficulties. I will lay those thoughts to rest by saying that things could not be better between Chad and I. Through all of our difficulties it has caused our marriage to strengthen and brought to our kness each night together desperate for GOD's plan for our life. Our kids are Ok and have no idea why we are looking at houses but are excited about having their own rooms again. For those of you who find my blog please pray for us. For the first time in our married lives we are stepping out on total faith and praying for that GOD will take care of us in this crazy time and bring about peace in our family.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

First day!!!

This my first blog and I am not sure why I waited so long!! Oh, I remember it is that toddler in the tub throwing toys against the wall or the one that is sitting beside me trying to read to me from the all inmportant Dish Network guide.