Oh brother, what have I gotten myself into? I just got off of the phone with the K-12 virtual academy and I just can't believe that after my kids finished their online assesments they want to put my 2nd grade daughter and my first grade son both into the Kindergarten phonics program. I already knew that my son was "behind" because of developemental problems and auditory processing problems. But, to put my daughter on that same level is absolutely ridiculus! She's reading at her "grade level" and she's reading at least as good, if not better than the public-schooled kids her age in AWANA. She's spelling/reading 5 and 6 letter words, whereas my son is still learning his letters/sounds. I am just so upset right now that I just don't know what to do. I thought that I was doing the "right" thing for my kids by recognizing that I am not fully capable of schooling my kids this year myself. Then letting the school take over for me, but obviously they can't do the job adequately either! I just called my husband and see said it is totally ridiculus as well, and we're supposed to discuss this later tonight and make a decision as to what to do.

Will update you when we make a decision. This is so ridiculus! Oh, and the lady just called me back and said that since the kids weren't in public school last year that we were on a waiting list and to make sure and have "alternate school plans". (eyes rolling here....)

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Our oldest two went to stay with my grandparents for a couple of weeks in Tx. So, on Saturday we met them halfway. On the way back Hubby, Me, and my two youngest (and Penny too!) stopped at Tombstone. We only had about 1 1/2 hours to look around, and we missed the daily gunfight show, but we still had a good time and decided that we'll make the trip back someday soon. Probably on a 3-day weekend or something. There are 2 caves nearby which we would also like to see as well. These are some pictures from that trip....

This was a huge fake dinosaur outside of the McDonald's in Benson, Az.

3/4 of my "men" on the steps of the old courthouse in Tombstone.

The large staircase inside of the courthouse. Tough to navigate iffin' you got short legs.

The courtroom where they tried people.

Part of one of the jail cells. There used to be 16 in that room but they downsized when they turned it into a "museum".

An old fire "engine". I didn't get to read much about it as I was trying to keep my boys from actually climbing up onto it.

Some info. about Wyatt Earp. That was his actual gun I believe. Again, I was not reading what was written there I was keepin' my boys outta' stuff. I'm dying to go to the library and see what else I can read on him and the whole "Tombstone/O.K. Corral" thing. I'm such a history nerd!

The newpaper articles and the obituaries of the deceased "Rebel Cowboys" that were killed by Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Wyatt's 2 brothers at the O.K. Corral. Those rebel cowboys were equivalent to the gangs now a days. They wore red handkerchiefs to indentify themselves.

The Sherriff's office in the courthouse building. The bulletin board had real "Wanted" posters from long ago up.

Downtown Tombstone. Only a portion of course, it was probably about 4 blocks long or so. They've seemed to really commercialize Tombstone but my hubby says that the buildings are original, just restored. The road was quite wide and it shows that it's that way in the movie so I'm guessing that he's probably right. Wish I could've actually gone into one of the buildings, I was walking Penny so I couldn't.

My men at the Boothill Cemetery where they buried people who had been "hanged", "lynched", or "shot" in the "Wild West" days. There was also a man who had small pox and was dragged behind a horse to his grave because they didn't want to carry him and get sick from him. Sortof rough dealin' heh?

All in all, it was a fun trip. Really though, it is sad to think of all the ungodliness that went on during that time. Not that there isn't the same amount of ungodliness today, but there ARE laws and police officers/judges that help to protect people and "corral" man's actions somewhat. The people in this town really had no law or authorities and there was as incredible amount of immorality.

It's sad to think that our laws are getting weaker so as to allow men their "rights/freedoms/liberties" when in reality it will end up making them slaves to their sinful hearts and desires. Christ came to set us free from that bondage of sin, read about it in Romans chapter 8...

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

This is one of those pics that is just too funny NOT to share with anyone. Matt was walking around trying to hit a ball with a bat. Hubby turns to me and says, "Do you realize what your son is doing AND what he is wearing while he's doing it?". Took me a second, but then I started giggling and grabbed my camera.....

Meet, "Bat" boy....evil villains beware!

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Things with Penny are going pretty good. Puppies are soooo exhausting though! Can't wait till this stage is over. I've finally decided on a good "registering name" for her....Jen's Lucky Penny. She's ended up quite "attached" to me partly because she's leashed to me a good part of the day but we've bonded quite well. Whenever she needs something she comes to see "Mom". She's also been very good at her training. She can already "Sit", "Laydown", and "Play dead". Now I've just gotta' work on her manners....can anyone say "NO BITES!"

Today I took her to a "potty training" class at Petsmart. We've been doing good so far, and I almost didn't go. But, then I thought I might glean some kind of information from the class or at the very least get her some socialization. I did learn how to teach her to "tell" us when she needs to go. That's the only thing we were lacking so I'm very glad that I went. Now onto the "Puppy Class" starting in August...gotta nip that "biting" habit asap. It's only playful, not mean in any way, but it's still completely unacceptable with small kids around.

We took her to Tombstone with us yesterday (that post will be next) and she did great. We walked downtown Tombstone which is basically like the old western town and she did very well with all of the strange people around. We're finding that we get stopped quite often by people so that they can pet her and remark about her long ears. Slows us up a bit but she enjoys the attention....

Here are our newest pics of her...

She looks kindof sad but she's really a happy girl!

My two "babies" trying to take a nap....

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Oh goodness, I have lots of news to report so will break this up into different posts so as not to get toooo long.

First of all, with all of this crazy stuff happening in our lives right now I've decided to have the 2 older kids in an at-home charter school this year that does the K12 curriculum. I've been getting all of the paperwork together this week and they've gotten their placement tests done. I just don't have it in me right now to try and organize their school and keep them on track right now. I figure I'll let the school "hand" me the work and I just have to be here to help them with it. We'll see how it works out this year. I'm still planning on doing some things on our own but at least I can make sure all the "basic" stuff gets done and I don't really have to think about it.

Jen

208/186/162/130

"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

I'm going to attempt to start my diet plan again today. I really need the schedule and self-discipline of it. Besides I'm just feeling very "fat" right now and that's making me uncomfortable. I've also got my spiritual life back under control and again this whole diet thing ties into that so much...

Funny how you can work so hard for so long and things can unravel so quickly. I just need to keep my eyes on the Lord and keep running this race, even when I stumble or I'm almost too tired to go on.

So that's my plan for now. Keep my eyes on the Lord and off my problems, failures, etc.

My weigh-in yesterday was 162. Haven't gotten back to the gym yet but plan to soon with hubby. Gotta' get my man in shape!

Jen

208/186/162/130

"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Well some of you know that we lost my doggie this week on Tuesday. It was sudden and unexepected and horrible to say the least. We were going to get a new dog on Tuesday when it happened and we were given some advice by my hubby's administrative assitant to wait awhile. She said that by getting another dog right away that it would devalue the life of the one we just lost, kindof like animals are expendable and you just get a new one. We agreed and decided that we should probably wait awhile. Well, all I could think about was that image of my poor dead doggie on Tuesday so I made the decision to go ahead and get a new one. As horrible as it sounds I need something new to take my mind off of my poor little Oscar.

So as of tonight we are the proud new family to this little cutie...

We named her "Penny" since she is mostly copper-colored. She is only the size of my husband's size 14 shoes right now and is absolutely adorable.

So, if you asked me a week ago what I'd be doing right now this would have never in a million years crossed my mind. I was expecting to be potty-training a 2 1/2 year-old when we got back from Washington, not a puppy!

I still miss my little Oscar and it makes me sad that he died the way he did because he was really such a good dog, he really didn't deserve it. We owned him about 2 1/2  years and there was not even one day that he was in a bad mood, he was just the sweetest little happy-go-lucky thing. I wish I had a picture to upload of him but I don't. I got to thinking about why I don't have a picture of my "Osky" and finally came up with an answer. He was always running around at top speed so he could see and do everything all at once. That boy never slowed down,so I guess I was just never able to get a picture of him with the new digital. His main job is life was to do "bird patrol" around our yard. He took his job very seriously. He would dart out the door every morning and run around the brick border of our yard scaring the birds away. He enjoyed being outside mostly but always wanted in on the fun if there was something going on in the house. Makes me sad as I wish I had a good picture of him to remember him by. Oh well. By the way, Oscar Meyer was a miniature weiner dog. Little body with a big heart and big spirit. Good bye sweet "Osky", I hope to see you again someday!

Jen

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I promised you all pics of our trip to Washington once I found the upload cord for my camera and here they are...

The Space Needle of course. Can't go to Washington without getting a pic of the Space Needle...

This is Matty with Grandpa's helmet on getting ready to ride the "quads".

This is Jake on Grandpa's quad. (It was turned off, he was not driving it!)

This is me and Matt on the quad.

This is my hubby and Jake on the quad

These are our sweet neighbors that we had in Washington. They are a homeschool family that have 4 children around the same ages as ours. We sure miss them alot!!! I was so sad to move from there, it was a beautiful neighborhood with great friends...

This is a waterfall that we saw while going through Idaho. It was so beautiful. They call it the "Niagra of the West".

Me, Mom, Jake, and Matt on the landing that overlooks the waterfall.

Michael, Mom, Jake, and Matt on the landing.

Jen

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I know I keep saying that I'm starting my diet and I really have good intentions but for now I just have to lay this by the wayside. I'm having a very horrible week so far, well month actually and this is just so low on my list right now that I just can't handle this diet thing right now. If you could please pray for me I'd so greatly appreciate it. I'm just a mess right now.

 I hope to get back in the diet-saddle soon but there are other priorities right now I hope you understand.

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Ok,

Here I go again! I'm ready to do this diet thing again. Tomorrow is also weigh-in day and I'm not looking forward that but I need to start somewhere and better now than later!

Becky are you in again? Like we were in December???

Jen

Well, or course I didn't make it very far on Wednesday. I did good all day until dinner. We went out to a buffet which I was thinking was good for me as I could pick things that I could eat on program. I think I was just too tired or something because I just couldn't resist the carbs. It's sooo hard to get back on program unless you are 100% because carb withdrawels are hard to fight. After a few days on program you are feeling pretty good and have more energy and that makes it easier to stick with it. I'm also one that needs some sortof routine or schedule and things have been so crazy for the last 3 weeks! I'm going to make my "official" restart date for Monday and am going to stick to this no matter what. Are you wondering why I chose Monday? Well tonight me and hubby are going on a date and I figure it will be harder to start the program going to the new restaurant that we are trying. Then on Saturday I know it's going to be chaotic as we are going to be running around doing various errands. And Sunday might be a good possibility as a  start day but then I'm thinking why don't I just start on Monday since that is my weigh-in day anyways? So I ended up with Monday. Hubby wants to start going to the gym again so we're going to start going on Monday after he gets off of work. I think we'll make it a family affair to go again in the evenings. That way I can make sure hubby gets his workout in and I can go without feeling guilty for not being home in the evenings with hubby and the kids can get their daily playtime in. Makes for a hectic evening but works good all around. Ok, better go. I've got alot to do today!

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Today was a good day. We took things pretty easy today since we were all "whooped" from yesterday. This afternoon I went to Michael's craft store to pick up some supplies for VBS then we headed over to the house of a family from our church. We had a fun evening of fellowship with everyone and watched a looonnngg fireworks show given by a large church near their house. It was 45 mins long and everyone was getting antsy at around 25 mins. Sign of the times too, all the car alarms kept going off in the parking lot which got quite annoying!

Me and Becky are back on program tomorrow! I didn't go full grocery shopping but got at least enough to keep me on program for a couple of days. We have all kinds of food in the house right now, just not any I can eat! Ok, I better go to bed. Hope you all had a good 4th of July!

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Just thought I'd throw a quick update out there. I'm still really busy helping Mom with her move and I am in charge of "crafts" for VBS next week so I have to finish planning those projects and get some samples made up. So, I might not post everyday but I'll sure try.

We made it home late Saturday night. It only took us 3 days of driving to make it home and we went a different than usual route. We came down through Idaho and Nevada instead of Oregon and California. The trip was pretty uneventful. We did almost give mom's dogs heatstroke in Las Vegas though! They are fine now and adjusting to Arizona quite nicely. We got Mom moved into her apartment yesterday. It's a really nice apartment thought quite expensive. It's literally 2 mins from our house which I think will be good. Now on to finding her a job asap.....

As for my diet, I failed horribly on the trip! I've gained about 10 lbs. Part of it was that we ate out so much and you can really only have so many fastfood salads you know? The other part of it was from stress which I'm not so happy with myself about. It was a tough situation in itself, but my attitude was horrible as well and made things worse I think. Anyways, my weigh-in yesterday was 162. I'm going to try and start back on plan today but tomorrow looks more realistic as I need to go shopping. Becky wanna join me??? Please!

Someone posted a couple of days ago asking if I was on a certain plan. I am sortof. I'm about halfway between Atkins Low-Carb and South Beach. I say halfway because I eat more things than are allowed on Atkins but I don't eat ALL that's allowed on South Beach. I also drink at least 60 oz. of water a day and try to do 5 days of cardio with 3 of them being weight training days and the other 2 longer cardio days. Clear as muddy water, I know. The trick is to find what works for YOU and then stick with it no matter what! I have friends that are doing different diets and different excercise plans and it really is about finding what works for you and then sticking with it. One thing though, you have to let God change your way of thinking about food and make it a lifestyle rather than a temporary "diet". That is where I went wrong on this trip. Totally relied on myself instead of God and then threw myself a  pity party/tantrum because I was mad at the situation. I WAS good when Becky and her husband took us out to dinner though! Didn't start my tantrum till after that....

I've got some great pictures of our 2 week adventure and will post them when I find my camera....

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

This will be my last blog post for a couple of weeks or so. Went off program tonight as we celebrated my oldest son's birthday. He wanted to go to Coldstone instead of have a cake so we ended up there. He just couldn't wait to spend his Toys'R'Us giftcard that we got him so we spent the last 10 mins before they closed spending his birthday money. He pretty much knew what he wanted as he's been pondering it for at least 2-3 weeks now. He ended up with 3 packages of Hot Wheels and a plastic case to store them in. We'll probably still do a special lunch on Sunday as well since we'll be killing some time between church and picking my grandmother up at the airport. She's coming to stay with our two oldest while we're in Washington.

Breakfast: nothing

Lunch: steak and greenbeans

Dinner: nachos

Dessert: ice cream

H2O: 3 bottles, 1 diet soda

Excercise: none

I am planning on hitting the gym tomorrow and Saturday pretty hard and will probably skip Sunday. Will try my hardest to stay on track on my trip, we'll see though! I will be back after the 4th of July! Have a good one and be safe!

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Last night I realized that I needed to make a followup appointment for Matthew. They never told me at the hospital just gave me papers to take home. Anyways, he needed to get another tetanus shot today because he was due for one and that's what they want to make sure you're up to date on with a scorpion sting.

Picked up hubby tonight. It was SUCH a waste of time for him to have stayed another day! The VP met with him for 30 mins this morning and he just hung around that office the rest of the day. He was able to catch a flight 1 hour earlier home though but such a waste! They could've had that meeting yesterday and he could've been home last night. Oh well!

I got a good portion of my cleaning done today. Just have Mt. Laundry to fold tomorrow and sweep and mop the floors and clean all the bathrooms and the house is ready for me to leave on Monday. We're in the process of trying to get airline tickets for hubby and Matt to go to. There's so much work to do up there and I just don't think that me and my mom can do it all ourselves. I mean we're talking a 1700 sf house with a 2 car garage absolutely stuffed full of stuff. We've gotta' try and condense that into a 16' Penske truck and get rid of the rest. I'm tired just thinking about it right now....

In case you're wondering why I'm bringing Matt (he's 2 1/2), he's had such a rough week this week and he doesn't know my grandparents well enough for me to leave him with them for 2 weeks. I feel bad for the guy! At least this way he can see me and hubby everyday and it won't be too traumatic for him. We'll be traveling "heavier" with 2 of the kids but maybe they'll help keep things light as this is such a stressful situation for all those involved. Hey, I can dream can't I?

Well, better go. Got a long day of cleaning tomorrow and TONS to do to get ready for this trip!

Breakfast: LC yogurt

Lunch: salad and chicken

Dinner: salad and chicken

H2O: 4 bottles, 2 diet sodas

Excercise: none

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Nothing very exciting to report today. Well, hubby wasn't able to come home today as planned. He's meeting with his VP tomorrow to talk things over about the office down here. Nothing bad I hope, just trying to rework things a little. I AM little bummed though because I've been so stressed the last couple of days and was wanting him home tonight. Sometimes you just NEED a hug ya' know?

Breakfast: LC yogurt w/almonds

Lunch: taco salad minus the taco

Dinner: steak and greenbeans

H2O: 4 bottles

Excercise: 2 miles on the mill and weights

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Thanks for your prayers! I was able to get quite a bit accomplished today, not everything, but quite a bit. I was also able to sneak a 2 hour nap in when everyone else was sleeping. Will get the rest done tomorrow and hopefully get and exterminator out here by the end of the week. My boy is doing just fine. Back to his happy-go-lucky self. My husband feels so bad that he's gone on training. This stuff always happens when he's out of town. I told him that it's not HIS fault, that this could have happened last week when he was here...Maybe the Lord is trying to teach me to rely more on Him and less on my husband??

Breakfast: Atkins bar

Lunch: Atkins bar

Dinner: part of a salad, cheesestick, LC yogurt with almonds (all eaten seperately)

H2O: 3 bottles so far, almost done with another

Excercise: not even going there!

My diet was so horrible today. I just didn't have the energy to make something "real" and the salad was upsetting my stomach. Good thing my hubby left the box of Atkins bars here, they were supposed to be his breakfasts for the week.

Jen

208/186/152/130

"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Well first thing's first. I weighed in at 152. That's good news but I'm too tired to be excited about it right now.

Here's why:

This nasty little thing decided it was going to sting my sweet baby boy last night as he was sleeping. That resulted in a trip to the ER at 4:30 this morning. He came and woke me up screaming at about 3:45. I just thought that he got woken up, so tried to get him in bed with me. He then proceeded to vomit and scream for the next 45 mins with nothing calming him down so I dragged everyone out of bed in their pj's and raced to the ER. I've never gotten such fast service in an ER before! They first thougth that maybe he had gotten into some medicine or the illegal drugs that may be hanging around my home (sarcasm here!). They ruled that out quickly though because of his symptoms and blood test results. I am so thankful to the Lord that I was able to go to THIS hospital. They are in the process of doing a study on an anti-venom for these type of scorpions. The anti-venom has been used for over 10 years in Mexico but is not yet approved in the US, hence the study. Anyways, I agreed because there was not another alternative and the poor guy was having horrible muscle cramps and very restless and uncomfortable and not to mention STILL screaming. He had 3 doses of the anti-venom and is almost brand new again. He's so very tired right now though, and will probably sleep most of the day. He'll also be sore for the next few days because of the muscle cramping and IV site and so forth. If you could take a moment can you please say a prayer for my little guy....breaks my heart when something's wrong with my babies! I also learned that I'm not quite as calm as I thought I could be when something is seriously wrong with them. Before, I've been able to stay calm and then break down afterwards, but I saw the panic on the nurses faces and started crying which got the other kids upset. It's just so scary to see your baby so sick and not have any idea what is wrong!

This is him right now sleeping with what's left of his breakfast (a banana) in his hand.

Could you also pray for me too if you're so inclined. I only got about 2 hours of sleep and have to totally clean my house top to bottom today so we can have an exterminator come. I found out that all those pesky crickets that have been hanging around our place are their food source. Scorpions are also hard to get rid of because there's no "chemicals" that they can spray down to kill them like other insects. You basically have to cut off their food and wait. They come into the house via electrical outlets so I'm also going to be taping over every single one that's not being used. This one got into their room because Matt had broken the corner of the electical outlet cover off and we hadn't yet replaced it. Will now though! He's also sleeping with me till we can find a suitable toddler bed with the right kindof legs on it. You can keep them out of cribs, beds, etc by placing the feet of your bed in glass jars. They aren't able to climb up the glass because it's too slippery. Gotta' find a toddler bed that's not flimsy but has skinny legs.

Anyways, I'm rambling now because I'm tired. Actually I'm just taking myself through all that I need to do and think about....

Hope you're having a better day than me!

Jen

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"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

Thanks Becky and De'Etta for your comments. Still pondering the ones about my "goal" weight. Right now I think I need a "target" to aim for I think. Will probably up my goal to 135 and be happy with that. That's what I was as a teenager and will probably suit my frame pretty well. I've also been thinking about whether or not I've been obsessing about this diet thing. I don't think I am since my goal has turned from the dieting/weightloss in itself to a "heart diet" so-to-speak. God has used this dieting thing to grow me spiritually in so many areas. The reason I was questioning my goal weight is that I don't WANT the scale's reading to be important anymore. In the beginning it was, but now I'm just wanting to be healthy so am reevaluating things a little. I mean I'm really quite happy with the way I am right now but according to all of the Dr's charts I'm still considered overweight. Even the 135 lb. is the high-end of my chart for my height that's why I'm so confused right now about the whole thing!

Anyways, on to other things! We took my husband to the airport this morning. He has some training on Monday and Tuesday up there (Seattle). He went up there early to visit his brother, he hasn't seen his brother since March of  '05 when he left for Iraq. He made is back safe and Michael is excited to see him! They are also expecting their second baby! We're really, really excited for them but they are in shock a little as they weren't expecting to have another child.

Ok, time to wrap things up. Gotta' tuck the kids in bed tonight as daddy is gone.

Breakfast: LC yogurt w/almonds

Lunch: LC cheeseburger

Dinner: salad

H2O: 2 bottles so far, need 2 more before bed

Excercise: 2 miles on the mill and weights

Jen

208/186/156/130

"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12

I'm going to forego my other blog for the time being. I post here daily and will just start adding in family and homeschool stuff here as well. I'm getting fairly close to goal and will probably resume the other one but that's up in the air. I'm a little sick of the whole quilting thing and most days I feel like "I'm losing it!" (I don't only by the grace of God) so might make this my permanant home. Anyways, on to the real reason for this post! This is what my little boy does in his "spare" time....

This is my "inventor", Jacob AKA SuperJake! He spends most of his days building various gadgets and sometimes even takes things apart! This is his "parachute". He's really interested in Rescue Heroes right now and wants to be one when he grows up. He likes to use rubberbands to tie his toys together so they can be used in rescue operations as needed. He is going to be my flying/travel buddy in a couple of weeks and is sometimes my nap buddy. This year we're doing Sonlight Pre-K and pattern blocks as well as working on obedience and attitudes in general for Bible study (g).

Jen

208/186/156/130

"WE can do all things through Christ who gives us strength." Philippians 4:13

"This I say then,walk in the Spirit,and WE shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Gal.5:16

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
Romans 12:12