Sweet Things

I should be sleeping but I was cooking for the Valentine's party at church tommorrow. I thought I would pin a post before bed with a few things that I thought were note worthy.
If I could be a kid again I would want the same parents.
If I could go back and change somethings I wouldn't because I would not be here.
If I had to decide who I loved the most the list would be too long.
If I have to cry I can do it on the shoulder of my honey or my friends.
If I ever need a friend to listen I have several to call.
If I should lose my mind I would find I never had one to start with.
and
If I should never have another Valentine's day this one was one that will last me forever. Happy Valentine's Day to one and all.

It is busy but we are working...

I have been so busy that I have not posted anything because short of trying to potty train a non potty training child or working there is nothing to tell. Oh, there is another thing to tell, I am now a great aunt and she is beautiful, maybe I am biased but not likely. Chad's nephew Sammy and his wife Kasey welcomed Devin last Tuesday and we could not be happier. I guess that is all I have to share.
I will now ask that all the women that read this blog please help me in praying for our men that leave for the men's conference just a few days from now. I know that every time that I go to a conference that I learn something that really changes things for me and pray that happens for them. I am also praying for our ladies retreat because I really need it and can't wait to get away with my sisters to get some time with Bible study and really dig into the word with Lisa. Please pray for her as she prepares for our study, that she has the things that we need to hear and that someone hears GOD speak more clearly than ever before.

Gotta start somewhere

Sunday has turned into being such a great day today. Church was wonderful and moving, but the getting ready with two children part was even good today. Something has changed in my husband and it is making for such a wonderful Sunday that it is scary. He no longer lays in the bed and waits for me to run around and get the kids ready, cook breakfast, and pack the diaper bag while he manages to get himself ready and be mad because we are running late. He gets up and helps me get everybody ready and then herds the kids around while I finish getting ready (without me putting my makeup on in the van). Tonight he was hiding in the living room reading by lamp light and I sat down with him, he quickly put the book away. I kept pressing him so he gave in and showed me his prize : The Love Dare. I was so overcome but with 2 strange emotions. First I was so taken that he loved me that much to try and change somethings and second was I so difficult that he felt he needed to do this to help? So after my paranoia was gone he explained that he felt it would be a surprise to show me how much he loved me and how dedicated he still is after 10 years to our relationship. So after I had to share this with my friends, I have to say that I am very blessed to have a wonderful husband how values me and is praying for me daily. I can't wait to enjoy the next 37 days of this book and ladies I highly recommend this, it is great! I am so glad that a friend invited us to go see Fireproof with her and her husband. I for see us owning it when it comes out on dvd.

Happy New Year!!!

So this morning is the start of the next year and so full of promises. I did not see the new year come in or the old year go out, I decided to sleep through it and hope it all went as planned. Maybe, one year I will have some of you over to celebrate the new year, but since my honey had to work today we made a short night of it and put our children to bed and got some much needed sleep. I wish you all a very happy new year and for many more happy ones with the ones you love. I pray that you make and keep those new years resolutions (I haven't made any yet, just woke up. That's way too deep for me when I am sleepy) you so deeply desire to do. I guess I have a couple but they aren't really new years resolutions they are just what I try to do everyday.
1. I will be better at doing my daily bible readings.
2. I will have my house in order and my garage cleaned out to serve the purpose of parking our vehicles, as garages are designed to do.
3. I will not be caught off guard with my house work and freak out when company comes.
4. I will spend more time just being silly with my girls.
5. I will spend more time with my husband without it involving laundry, dishes, or cooking!
6. I will make Dave Ramsey jealous of my strong will, and he will ask me to take over the empire! (ha ha, not after my walmart trip yesterday)

Have a great day and spend it with those you love thanking GOD for this new year and for the old one we just rang out, or somebody that was awake rang out!!

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!!

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

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.