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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.