Fishing "Lure"

While cleaning Sweet Pea's room, we called her in to her room to try on a couple of articles of clothing. Her comment: "Why are you always trying to lure me away from my game?" (referring to Webkinz). She is such a ham.

True Story

My best friend's daughter just turned 14! She is a very sweet, beautiful, and sometimes intelligent young lady. I say sometimes because she often has those moments that leave you thinking, "what?!" She had one such moment several days ago. Bean went to get her belly button pierced for her birthday. When the piercer person (don't know correct term) asked if she was there to get her navel pierced, Bean responded with, "No, I'm getting my belly button pierced." What's even sadder than that...I started to ask her what she thought a navel was and then thought better of it because I did not want to hear her response.

Happy New Year

The house is clean (and I do mean clean), with the exception of the play room! We have spent the past couple of days cleaning and organizing every inch of the house-shampooing carpet, scrubbing floors, cleaning baseboards, etc...just because I have this weird belief that I need to start the new year off fresh, with the house clean and organized.
I hope that each of you have a wonderful and blessed new year. I do plan on creating some new year's resolutions but I want to put some thought into it first. I would like to see what everyone else is planning on accomplishing this year!

I'm addicted

Saturday afternoon, it started! My Wii addiction is now full blown. I have never been a big video game person anyway. We played about seven hours of video games with the kids. Normally, I would not have allowed this because I think they need other interactions. However, I made excuses for this system--the kids are getting activity, we are spending family time, blah, blah, blah. I guess it is the holidays and it is all right to be flexible right now. I will overcome my addiction when I have to start back to work, maybe!

Sweet Pea and Sugar Cookies

Christmas was very pleasant this year! We opened gifts with the kids on Christmas Eve (as we do each year). The girls loved their presents, of course. Christmas day, we spent the afternoon with my grandparents, mom, brother, aunt, and cousins. That evening, we visited with my mom.

We spent last weekend with my husband's side of the family. His mom stayed all night Friday. We traveled to visit all of his mom's family on Saturday. His aunt, uncle, and cousin came over on Tuesday for dinner. The girls have been blessed with so much family that loves and spoils them.

To the sugar cookie story...Sweet Pea asked my mom to get her sugar cookies for Christmas. My mom purchased and wrapped the cookies and then told Sweet Pea that she could only afford one present for her this year. Sweet Pea opened the sugar cookies and graciously said, "thank you" and "it's all right that you could only afford to get me cookies for Christmas this year. I still love you." Pumpkin Pie, on the other hand (thinking that was the only present), states, "what, I don't even get a present?" It amazes me that they are so different but I was very touched by Sweet Pea's ability to be thankful for the cookies, thinking that was all that she was getting. I would have been more like Pumpkin Pie! The children were excited that they received many other presents.

Tonight, we visited with some very close friends to just hang out and play Wii. The girls love spending time with close friends. We have many other things planned for this week- Dollywood, ice skating, playing with the new items, and just enjoying some family time. I need much more family time than I get and I think the kids are looking forward to the extra attention as well. I am also hoping to get together with a few other friends that we so greatly miss, so be expecting a phone call from me to make some plans.

I hope that everyone's Christmas was as wonderful as mine! I am so thankful for the family and friends that God has placed in my life.

The Mouse part 2

So my mom caught the mouse. It was tiny but a messy little thing. She will (or may have already by this time) shampoo the carpet in her vehicle to get the mouse droppings and germs out of the vehicle. But I promised at least one funny story...
My mom keeps hard candy in her vehicle (the little bags of loose cinnamon candy). A day or two after discovering that she had a mouse in her vehicle, because it was not evident right away, she got a piece of candy out of her bag and placed in it in her mouth. After doing so, she realized that the rather new bag of candy didn't quite feel as heavy as it should. Looking down to see if the bag had a hole in it, she caught the view of mouse droppings inside her hard candy bag. But what was she to do at that point, the candy was already in her mouth (she threw the candy away). I know, it is gross!

What if an angel visits you?

As I listened in church recently, I thought about the common place of angels coming to visit people on Earth. How many people in the Bible were visited by angels?! Would we recognize an angel if they came to visit us? What does an angel look like? Is it the depiction that we often see of the white robed, halo above their head, and lights surrounding them? Or is it something more commonplace? Do we pass angels on the street everyday?
I would like to think that I come across an angel everyday. I think about each child that I work with and how I can learn something from them. I think about how I can help them and be their angel in return. I think about the messages that the angels in the Bible brought and how we don't hear those same kind of messages anymore. Maybe it is because we doubt. Maybe it is because if someone were to say that they were visited by an angel, we would call them crazy. Maybe it is because we don't deserve the privilege of being graced with the presence of an angel.
What would you do if an angel visited you?