December 15, 2009 - A rambling of mine.
I'm tired, so very tired. I was reading my friends blog when I realized why I was so tired lately, I've been wanting to have the 'perfect' holiday, and I'm pushing myself too hard to trying to make it happen. I have all my shopping done, gifts wrapped and under the tree, some baking done, and 2 more parties and Christmas Eve with friends to get through. But here's the thing, I might be ahead of the game, I might look like I have it all done, but I've exhausted myself in the process. 
I'm tired, I keep feeling like I'm getting a cold, all weekend, but haven't been able to rest because of our schedule. Today was cleaning day, did I put it off, actually skip it for a week to rest? 
Heavens no, not me, not Miss scheduled perfectionist. Nope I pushed my way through it, then when I was sitting letting Paulie read to me, I almost feel asleep while he was reading. I had to stop him 5 minutes early, so I could lay down and nap. I only got a 30 minute nap in, then Sarah came home from her bible study and the dryer went off. So I had to get up and take care of laundry and now I'm awake, but still tired. Just got off the phone with hubby, he even said it sounded like something was wrong with me. He called to make sure I was ok. Yep, the tiredness is showing through. So I might have started out pushing myself to have the 'perfect' Christmas. To make sure I had the best gifts and snacks for parties, to make sure all my shopping was done early, and everything looks great. But I think it's taken it's toll, and now all I'm praying for is that I stay healthy until after Christmas. Today is a bit busy, our homeschool party. But then I have nothing until Friday. Paul said I need to unplug, do nothing all week, just relax. I think I'll take his advice. I'm thankful the kids do most of their schooling by themselves, and they'll be finished by Wednesday or Thursday anyway. But I'm bummed that I've pushed myself so hard for others, that I have no energy or desire to bake cookies for my own family this week. Thankfully we do have cookies from a cookie exchange I went to on Saturday, but I want to bake for them myself. But I can't stress about it, I need to let it go. Hubby is fine if I don't bake any, but I'm going to try with all my might to rest as much as I can this week so that next week, when we have no school, I can relax, have fun with the kids and bake for my family. Why I stressed myself out so much and pushed myself so hard on everything else, I'll never know. Well I do know, because it's how I feel 'loved'. It's how I feel others accept me, if I'm involved, and doing, doing, doing. I need to stop thinking that, and realize others love me without me 'doing' all the time. I need to realize a messy, not perfect life is just fine.
Anyway, thanks for reading my rambling. Just needed to get it out. I will try next time to have a more happy and joyful entry. 
December 12, 2009 - It's a busy time
Do you have a crazy Christmas schedule this year? I usually don't, and I try very hard to make sure I don't. But some how this year I feel very rushed. I think it's now having a teenager that has more parties to go to than I do. 
But Paul also has a work party this year, and I'm going to my first ever Christmas cookie exchange. Yes, it's true, I've never been to a cookie exchange before. And I'm bummed, because I over cooked some of my cookies. Which are the ones I will leave home with the family, but I'm bummed I have to leave the 'bad' ones. But the craziest thing I noticed was this. We have school through the 17th, we took next Friday off (it's one of our busiest days). So we've had parties, cookie exchanges to go to, besides normal get togethers and such to go to. After the 19th, when we are on vacation, and I could do lots of things, I have absolutely nothing scheduled. 
All the parties will be done, no friends to visit, no cookie exchanges to go to, nothing. I simply can't believe everything got crammed into the first two weeks of December, and nothing after that. But I guess that means I can relax, bake some more for my family without feeling rushed and burning cookies, and work on some fun crafts. 
We have been pretty cold out lately, waking up to negative temperatures. What's really weird is that I've been out in it for a couple of nights this week, and it wasn't horrible. Actually, it didn't feel that cold, maybe I'm just too numb from the cold to feel it. 
We did have some snow too, but not too much. But I guess our temperatures are suppose to heat up (into the 30's) but then the snow comes. If it's sunny and clear, like its been, there are no clouds to keep the heat in, and it's beautiful out, but cold. But if the clouds comes in, it warms up, but snows. But at least it's warmer, and we can play in the snow. Here are the kids shoveling, and proof of our cold temps.
Well I should get going. Tonight is one of Sarah's Christmas parties we have to get her too. Plus, I really want to just relax and spend time with hubby while she is gone and Paulie is playing. Plus tomorrow we have a prayer meeting and a cookie exchange, besides church. Then baking two apple crisps Sunday for a party Sunday night and a different party Monday night.
Yep, even though it's a lot to do, I do like a good party.
December 6, 2009 - Our Church's Woman's Christmas Concert
What a blessed time I had last night. It was our church's Woman's Christmas concert, and it was so nice. I was a greeter, which to me is always fun. I like saying hi to everyone, and help out those who are 'lost'. The concert itself was beautiful. A friend of mine wrote and directed a short play for it, and it was done soooo well. I just get shocked how much talent she has. Then we had a guest singer/speaker, and she was real good. We had over 950 ladies there. At the beginning of it was an hour of fellowship with the men from our church being our waiters serving us juice, water and snacks. Hubby couldn't help this year, but it's always a lot of fun. It's nice to be 'pampered' a bit like that.
After the concert a group of us ladies went to a local diner and had a blast. Goodness we got silly, I sometimes wonder if they will let us in again. But it was nice to just fellowship, hang with some friends and just enjoy each others company after the concert.
I am so blessed that the Lord has brought us to this church. For those of you who don't know, we kept saying no to the Lord about going to this church. We just didn't want to go to a 'bigger' church and kept driving past it every Sunday for a couple of months after we moved here. Finally, the gas prices jumped so high we 'had' to start going here, but we always knew the Lord was showing us we were to check it out. We just didn't want to listen, but I'm so glad we are here now. We've made such great friends here and we so enjoy helping and Paul enjoys working there. Isn't it great that the Lord knows so much better than we do?
Today has been a nice lazy day. I can't believe it's 4:45pm already. I feel like I just woke up. We are watching college football, I've been working on some crafts and then we have church in a little over an hour. I got my grocery shopping list done today, so tomorrow after lunch we can run to the store real quick. Being it's the holiday's, our food money is pretty low. Thankfully we still have some things from my last shopping, plus it will be a quick and easy shop since it's a lot less than we usually get. 
But this way we can get some gifts for the kids, and like I said, we have what we need, so we are good.
Guess I should get off the computer and work some more on my crafts before we have to leave tonight. It's pretty chilly out, about 19 degrees out right now and we are to drop pretty low tonight. Lot's of extra blankets tonight.
December 3, 2009 - I was playing today, can you tell? :)
Today is my lazy day before a busy couple of days coming up. I am involved in our churches woman's Christmas program, and because of that I have about 4 real busy days coming. So today was my day to play, and I have finally stopped worrying about my website, and got back to the simplicity of changing around my blog. I wanted a nice winter theme, and I think I like this one. The only reason I say "think" is I just can't decide about the dark background. But since it's not on the area we read, I think it will be fine. We don't have any snow on the ground yet, but we are cold today. Woke up to zero degrees outside. But we are in the 20's now. Just another normal weather day in Idaho. I am a little bummed. I put plastic on our windows yesterday, to keep the cold out. We do this every year, and it usually works just fine. I usually use the product from 3M, but the Ducky product was on sale in the fall, so I bought that instead. I think that was a mistake. After using the hair dryer on the 3M stuff, it was always so clear looking, you could barely tell that any plastic was on the windows at all. With this other stuff, you can tell, and it almost looks a little blurry. Not sure if I'm just not feeling good today (because I am real tired) or if it's the plastic, but I feel like every time I look out our bedroom window my eyes start to hurt. And I hate the fact of having to spend more money getting the new stuff. Putting it up isn't that big of deal, we do it every year. And thankfully it's only on 3 windows, we only put them on the bedroom windows. But still it's a pain to have to re-do it all. But oh well, at least it's keeping the cold out right now.
Today has been interesting too because I am finally embracing the fact that I'm not perfect, I do and will make mistakes, and that's ok, because the Lord still loves me. 
Most of you probably don't know this, but I am a controlling, perfectionist. I just have to make sure everything is perfect, and that I do everything perfect. I can't make mistakes, because I should know better not too (something I always heard growing up "You should know better".) Anyway, lately the Lord has been showing me I need to be ok with not controlling everything, and everything not being perfect. Believe me, it's been a hard road for me, still is many times. Then this mornings devotional was talking about who we are is more authentic than what we do. Wow, that means I have to be who I am on the inside, and not worrying about just trying to show it on the outside like the religious leaders in the bible. So slowly, but surely, after making some mistakes instead of completely freaking out about it, I've accepted it. I've told myself it's ok, don't freak out, that the Lord still loves me and is pleased with me. Not always easy, but it's been going well. Today though, it was a very good day to practice running the Lord, knowing not everything has to be perfect.
I am tired and a bit emotional today. I feel like I want to laugh and cry at the very same time. I was trying to play on the computer, started fretting about my website again, and again had to give myself permission to leave it alone. Then I had reading time with Paulie. Seeing and hearing his learning disability started a mental downward spiral. I started thinking about how bad a homeschool mother I was. Then about how I don't really like to cook a lot anymore, and how bad a wife & mother that made me. Fighting with Paulie about his work, then having other stupid thoughts, you know how it goes, right? (Please tell me I'm not alone in this). Anyway, after almost having a panic attack about how not perfect I am (hmmmm, did I really have myself believing that strongly that I was perfect? Sad.) I just gave it too the Lord and quoted Psalm 23 (what I could remember of it). I felt better, and started folding some clothes. As I'm folding clothes the phone rings and it's my local state aid agent. We have the kids on state health insurance, and of course it needs to be renewed every year. I was so proud of myself, because I had gotten the paper work done, went down to the government building to show them the kids birth certificates, and finished it all last month. Yes, very proud of all that. Until the phone call today that said I forgot to send copies of my husbands paycheck stubs with my information and if she couldn't confirm his pay she would have to deny me and I would have to re-apply next month! Yep, I'm perfect, aren't I (sarcastic of course)? But she said if it was ok, she could just call my husbands work (our church) and have them confirm his pay. I said yes (what else was I going to say) and then tried to call Paul real quick so he could get in the office and help take care of it. Nope, he was busy, couldn't call me back for about an hour after she called. When I explained the situation he said, "No problem, I'll go make sure the office got the call." He called back, everything was fine and taken care of. The accountant/manager at the church took the call, gave the info. and all is fine. Except in the back of my mind I'm thinking now everyone in our church knows I dropped the ball and that our kids are on state health insurance. But this time, though it bothered me a little, I just let it go. I said, "Oh well, you forgot something, it's taken care of , no big deal." Huge words for me, and yet, so true. I'm still a little tweaked by it, but really I'm taking better than I would have before. Maybe I should make some more big mistakes, just to not let it bother me? lol
Ok, well, I really didn't mean to ramble like this, but I guess I needed to get it out. Let me know what you think of the new look. Hope you are all having a blessed week.
November 30, 2009 - What I worked on today...
First, it's been such a blessing of a weekend. Our Thanksgiving was such a great time. We decorated on Friday, while watching It's A Wonderful Life and drinking eggnog. We've spent lots of family time together, going for walks, playing games and just enjoying each other. There are two slide shows at the end of this entry showing our cookie baking, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decorating. We had to practice making egg substitute cookies with Sarah who has an allergy to raw eggs. We made snickerdoodles, peanut butter blossoms and sugar cookies. Sarah had such a blast being able to work with dough this time. And they turned out soooo yummy.
Then last night I realized, the blue coasters I crocheted a few months ago just didn't look right with the Christmas decorations out. We needed something red. So today I crocheted 4 coasters in a variegated red & white cotton yarn. They turned out so nice. Enjoy the pictures, it's time for me to head out to a fellowship tonight.
November 22, 2009 - It's Thanksgiving Week....
I can't believe it's Thanksgiving week. We bought a 25lb bird this year, so I had to put it in our fridge Saturday , which is way early for me. But it just made me realize how close Thanksgiving really is. I'm going to make a list today of all the things I want to get done this week. I usually bake my pies on Wednesday, still have to practice cookies with Sarah, that will probably be Tuesday. It's things like that I need to make a list for, otherwise I'll forget the things I need to get done, and only do the things I want to do.
I will be finishing up our Christmas cards today. Well, the cards are done, pictures developed and yearly letter printed out. I just need to sign the letter, put the kids ages on the back of the pictures, then put it all in the envelopes. Maybe I'm a little optimistic on getting that all done today, but it's my goal. We also have a bible study tonight, so we'll see how much I get done. I just made a mental list of all the things I need to bake this week, I'm tired all ready.
We finished school already. We have this whole week off, makes things easier for me. But the kids doubled up on their school work on Thursday, and had Friday off too. Which was nice. I helped out decorating our church last Thursday, it was lots of fun. The kids were so good, and finished all their school work while I was gone. (Proud mama here).
Friday was a great day. I went to a new woman's bible study I'm going to on Friday mornings, and it was such a blessing. Then in the evening the kids both had homeschool outings to go to, so Paul and I had a date night. We went to the Olive Garden, and had such a nice time. We haven't had a date in a couple of weeks, it was very nice.
Saturday we decided to brave the stores and do our grocery shopping on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It was a bit of a mad house, but it was fun. The hardest part was the cold, blowing wind. We all just wanted to get home. I thought I had gotten everything I needed and wouldn't have to go back out to the store before Thanksgiving, I was wrong. I forgot to get a big thing of cool whip for a fruit salad I'm making. Can't make it without it, so I guess I'll be running back to the store real quick on Monday. Then I won't enter a store again until after the weekend sometime. I stay clear of them all during this time of the year. We don't do the black Friday shopping, and I just read today how they limit those 'specials' anyway. Like those tvs or something big on sale. Only 4 can be sold from the whole store! Only four people will get that big deal. Ugh, so not worth it to me.
What we do the day after Thanksgiving is put up all our Christmas decorations. As most of my regular readers know, we put up our decorations the day after Thanksgiving, and take them down the day after Christmas. But we really enjoy setting them up. We eat Thanksgiving leftovers, drink eggnog, and watch It's A Wonderful Life. My kids really enjoy that movie. And it really is a fun, relaxing day. We are pretty mellow with our decorations, so it only takes a few hours. Hanging the Christmas lights in the kids bedroom takes the longest, but it's what they love the most. Falling to sleep with their Christmas lights on.
Well I should get going and work on the Christmas cards. It's snowing pretty heavy out right now. We need to go out tonight, I hope it lets up soon. But it is so pretty.
November 15, 2009 - Happenings in my life.
OK Jeannie here is my entry. I have been meaning to put an entry out here, but I am doing a complete overhaul on my website, Watered Garden Web Creations (no changes are out there yet ), and it's been taking a lot of my time. I have prayed, talked with my husband, and prayed some more about what direction to go with my website. I just haven't felt the desire to make it a 'business' anymore. I really enjoy web site design, I truly do. But I don't like having to put together the templates, colors, layout etc... I guess I'll always be a computer tech at heart. That's what I did when I worked outside the home, and I like the technical aspect of putting websites together, just not the artistic. So with that, and much prayer, I have decided to turn my website more into a hobby website than a business website. One of my issues is that I'm always looking for ways to bring money in the home, but that's not what the Lord wants or my husband. My husband constantly tells me, even if I get any money it won't go toward the bills or anything like that, it would be mine. The Lord provides through his job, and that's the way Paul wants it. I submit to that, and I truly am ok with it, but there is always a part of of me that thinks that I should help bring in more finances. But see, that's all selfish on my part. Because all our needs are met, when I want more money, it's because I just want more things. So the Lord and my husband are totally right, I'm completely wrong. Anyway, sorry, I digress.
Paul really encouraged me in my discouragement, and so now my site is going to be a big blog type site, similar to this site. I'll have a craft page, homeschool page, photography page and some other pages. I've been working on it, but my biggest stumbling point is I just can't find a template I like. I'll work on it more today, and hopefully I'll be announcing it soon. But don't worry, even when I do have my website set up, I'll still be blogging here. This is my first blog home, and you are my dear friends. My website will be things I'm working on, crafts I'm doing, and normal life things. This blog will continue to be my more intimate thoughts. This is where I open up more than anywhere else. So don't worry, I won't be leaving.
I've also been very busy making our Christmas cards. I'm just about done with them. Actually after I post this entry, I'll finish them up. I'm still working on our yearly family letter, and our pictures won't be developed until Tuesday, so they won't be ready to mail until Thanksgiving week. But printing and stamping the cards has taken the most about of time, and I'm glad I got them finished this weekend.
I've been kind of putting off finishing our yearly letter because I'm praying that I can add an update there soon. My twitter friends know, but I'll put it here too for all my other friends, my hubby is looking for a new job. We always knew working at our church was not going to be a permanant thing. Long story, so I won't go into it all, but during the summer we started praying about things. See Paul's employment background is mainly in production/manufacturing. In Illinois, that is huge, out here, not at all. So we had to come to some decisions. Do we move back to Illinois, do we move to another part of Idaho, does Paul go back to school, or does he change his area of employment? After much prayer, we knew we wanted to stay here, and truly, though he's been in production for years, his strong point is customer service. He is such a people person, and he loves helping others. Any job he had that was customer service oriented, he has just loved. So he is going to change his area of employment and go for a more customer service oriented job, trying to find work at Wal-mart type stores, or the big grocery stores out here. There is one he really wants to work at, and it's a great company to work for. The general manager of the store goes to our church, and though we never knew him, his wife is a teacher at our churches school, where Paul works. Yep, the Lord works everything together. So Paul has talked with him, filled out the application, took an on the phone interview type thing. He'll be going in Monday or Tuesday and see what next step he needs to take. We are still not sure if he will get hired or not, and if he does what position he'll get, but we leaving it all in the Lord's hands. If it's not this store, then another store. But I do ask for your prayers that if this is the place for him, he'll get hired, and soon. I also pray, more of a selfish prayer, that he will not get the night shift. The store is open 24 hours, and I know we homeschool, and can change around our schedule if he works different days. But I am truly praying that he doesn't get a night shift. This post is already long enough, so I won't go into all the details why I don't want a night shift, but I really don't. So prayer he doesn't get a night shift, and if he does, if that's the Lord's will, then the strength to deal with it.
Ok, well now that I have written a book, I really need to finish our Christmas cards. Hope you all have a blessed day.
November 5, 2009 - I had a whole other entry written
but then as I finished typing it, I realized I didn't really want to publish it. Typing it out helped me think through some things, and I guess that's all I needed to do it for. But not for sharing with you all, sorry.
There is a lot going on right now with us, and me in particular. I would ask for your prayers on guidance, direction and compassion for others. Besides some personal things I need to work through, there is some discord among a group of my friends. Never good or fun, and yes, I am in the middle. I can't explain any of it, but do ask for your prayers.
We have been busy, but it's a good busy. Lessons have been going well this week. Some attitudes, but mainly it's smooth sailing. In three weeks we have our first school break. We are taking a week off for Thanksgiving, I seriously can't wait. We've been schooling for three months straight, except for maybe one day off, and maybe one half day. I just want some days I don't have to wake up and think lessons, grading, schooling. It all gets a bit much sometimes. And I think this year, since I'm starting to keep track of Sarah's grades for her highschool transcripts, it's more time consuming. I'm in a bit of a flow with it all, but still, I'm looking forward to the break. So are the kids. Truly they are doing great, and attitudes are doing well. But I know they could use a break too.
We got to go outside for one more park day with our homeschool group. This week we are in the 50's and today we hit 60! That is almost unheard of around here this time of year. It's been so nice though. I've sat outside a couple of times today, just to enjoy the weather. It will only last a couple of more days, and once the sun goes down, the temps drop pretty fast. But I will take all I can get.
I'm almost done with the Christmas gifts I'm making. I can't actually believe I'll be done this early. I should finish the last of it tonight while watching the World Series with hubby. Then I can start working on our yearly letter, family pictures (already taken) and Christmas cards. Goodness, it's shocking for me even to write how much I have done. I'm really hoping to just enjoy this holiday. Bake cookies and snacks for the kids and for Paul to take to work, play with the kids outside in the snow, and just relax. Not run around trying to finish everything up at the last minute. I'm not done with it all yet, so we'll see how it goes and if I can really accomplish it or not.
Well, I guess that is enough of an update for now. Sarah is at the mall with her friend, and I have to go pick them up soon (ahhh the teenage years ), plus hubby will be home soon and of course the World Series tonight. Really hoping the Philies will beat the Yankees tonight and continue the series. As the little kid in the movie Angels in the Outfield use to always say, "It could happen."
October 30, 2009 - Such a great day yesterday.
Yesterday was such a great day for all of us. The kids had half a day of school, then we went to the local theater and saw a play of The Jungle Boy. It was so cute and very well done. Coming from Chicago, where there is lots of culture, to an area where there isn't, was a concern of ours. But it seems like our area has smaller versions of all of Chicago culture (except for the food ). We have museum's, art gallery, zoo, theater, and symphony. Not the big ones like Chicago, but at least enough that the kids will know what a little culture is. We are going to see the Nutcracker again this year, but this time it will be with a symphony. First time for the kids, we can't wait.
So after the play, we went to the thrift store and found some shirts for Sarah and me. Can you believe it, one of the shirts, even after I washed it, I could still smell perfume or something on it. I'm washing it again today, hopefully that will take the smell out. Then we went to the library, at completely the wrong time, it was pre-school story telling time. Little kids everywhere. We got what we wanted and got out of there.
We came home and relaxed for a bit, then after dinner all four of us, hubby, me, Sarah & Paulie, went winter clothes shopping. Of course both of the kids just had to grow out of snow pants, jackets, boots and such at the same time. I won't tell you the price tag , but thankfully we didn't focus on that. What we did focus on was having a great time. We laughed, we joked with each other, we made a ruckus in multiple stores and truthfully if they didn't let us in the mall again, it wouldn't surprise me. But you know what, we all let our hair down and had fun with each other. And the whole time, we were all so aware of the memories we were making. We might not always remember what we bought, but we will always remember the time we spent shopping together. I still get a smile on my face when I think about it.
And through all of that, we didn't get everything we needed. Totally forgot some more shirts for Sarah & me, and a lighter jacket for Sarah. We are thinking of going shopping today, just can't decide. It's overcast and cloudy, but we already have plans tomorrow and Sunday, so today might just be the only time. Maybe I should see if Paul wants to go again, and go tonight. We'll see what other trouble we can get into as a family.
Tomorrow is our big day we are looking forward too. We don't do halloween or harvest festivals on the 31st. No I'm not going to get into why we don't do either, and no I don't want to hear your opinions on whether you think we should or shouldn't do them. Just trust that Paul and I have prayed thoroughly on this issue, and we know where we stand on it. So because we choose not to celebrate them, and it's always a bit difficult to stay away from all the kids, we started a tradition of going out to dinner on that night. But this year we are doing dinner and a movie. That's our plan anyway, hopefully we can find something good at the movies. If not, maybe dinner and then rent something special, something like that. We just enjoy being together as a family, doing something fun and trying to stay away from the crowds. So we'll see how it goes tomorrow, if we can find a movie or not, and what restaurant to pick. But we'll probably stay away from the shopping. Three days in a row, the way we get when we shop together, and we'll definitely get kicked out of stores. lol
And I'm going to leave you with a picture of Sarah's new hat. We think she looks just great in it.
October 25, 2009 - My Saturday
It's Saturday night and usually we are at church (we like to go to our church's Saturday night services). But only Paul went to help with the ushing, then he'll come home. We are all a bit under the weather. Sarah is dealing with a cold, Paulie pulled a muscle in his neck, and Paul and I are just tired and blah. I sometimes feel like a cold is coming on, then it goes away, hope it keeps going away. We were really looking forward to the baseball game tonight, but that was canceled. Yes, we're having a bit of a bummer of a night.
I'm also getting frustrated with my website. I want to update it. I want to change the look and feel of it, but I just can't figure out how I want it to look. I really like the technical aspect of putting together a website, but I'm just not artistic enough for the graphical part of it. And truly at this point, I wonder if that means I shouldn't be trying to develop websites. Because if I can't figure out what looks good together, how can I design websites? Obviously something I need to take to the Lord in prayer and see what He wants me to do.
Still having a hard time watching my daughter go through some girlfriend issues. I find I'm getting more upset than she does sometimes. I can understand that friendships change, but when the friends (and their moms) say that the friendships are the same (when plainly they are not), it irritates me so bad. If the girls don't want to be friends with my daughter anymore, fine. But don't say you do, then never invite her anywhere and flaunt the new friendships (which my daughter is excluded from) in her face. Sarah is dealing with it better than I do sometimes. And I'm sure the Lord will use this in her life. But I hate having to watch it. And I want to just pull her from everything, and give the moms a piece of my mind.
But I keep giving it to the Lord and talking with my husband about it. Obviously I'm trying very hard not to react on my emtions, but to act on the Word of God. But it's not always easy. Mama bear wants to come out and pounce.
Hmm, i just re-read this entry and so far it is a bit of a downer, sorry. It's hard to type happy, fun blogs when you are not feeling the best, but lets see if I can lighten things up a bit.
Paul's back is healed, I'm so blessed by that. It's not easy watching your husband hurting so much. And of course husbands don't like to not be able to work. But it was great that he had two days of doing school with the kids. They are doing well, and it was such an encouragement for the kids and for Paul to be working together. And it was so sweet to see. Here's a picture of their time working together.
Well, we decided to watch National Treasure, so I should probably get off the computer. I also want to work on my Christmas gifts. I'm almost done with them.
So since tonight (or today) hasn't gone like we thought it would, it would be a nice way to end the day. Watching a movie with the family and working on crafts. Always fun.
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