A Day In The Life Of Mishelle - Homeschool Blogger

Rough Week

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:29:00 -0600

Wow, it's only hump day and I am just exhausted. We have had a pretty rough week already. On Sat. we had our church fall festival. It was so much fun. Mile's had a blast!! We did some shopping and did not get home until 9:30 and we were beat! On Sun. we had Womens Sunday and had a guest speaker. She was awesome! I started to get sick on Sat. and by Sun. night was running a fever. I woke up Mon. and was running a 102 temp. I still had to go to work though because there was one to cover my shift so early. I got ready and got in my car when I noticed there was a draft, I figured that my husband may have left one of the windows open and looked and realized that my back passenger side window had been shattered. I then realized that I also no longer had a CD player in my car. What a way to start a morning. I freaked out and got my husband and he freaked out too but I still had to leave to go to work. I went to work and worked for about 5 hrs. My boss let me leave early because I was a wreck. I have never had anything stolen from me and I was really upset. I guess I just dont understand how someone can not have respect for other peoples property. Even now when I think about it I cant believe it happened. We called someone to come and fix the window that same day. It cost 150 dollars though and that REALLY sucked! I just pray for the person who did it. But now I am just parinoid about someone breaking in our apartment. We do not live in the best of neighborhoods and just a couple of weeks ago my husband and I heard someone out on our porch and then he tried to break into the apartment across from us and then the cops showed up and arrested him. My husband works Mon.-Weds. night so Miles and I are here by ourself. I have been jumping at every sound I hear. I know that God will take care of me, I just wish my nerves understood that. We did not do anything on Halloween since I was still running a 102, we just stayed home and watched both Scary Godmother's on Cartoon Network. He does not need all that candy anyway. Today I woke up to no more fever, YEAH!! I fell alot better but and still running slow. My mom comes in town tomorrow but I dont get to spend alot of time with her because we are going up to camp in Dallas Fri. night for conclave on Sat. A whole day of tests and interviews. We took our Bible and Doctrine tests and boy were they not fun. It's been alot of paper work lately. I just hope we get accepted and are able to go to SFOT in Aug. Well, that's all for now, I am watching LOST and want to be able to pay attention. Hope you are all doing great. Take Care and God Bless.

VENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:50:00 -0500

VENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, I consider myself to be a pretty nice person. I am easy to get along with and bearly ever get angry. Even when someone does something to upset me I am able to get over and beyond it very quickly. I dont really hold grudges and am very forgiving to a fault. And this is not just me saying this, I have been told this by many people. But every once and a while I get upset and need to vent. This is one of those times. I had a very good weekend except for one, very short incident. The reason this incident made me so angry is because it was about my son. A person who I will not name decided to give me their opinion of my son. I know that my son can be a handful but what this person said was in my opinion VERY RUDE!!! This person said that I should let them have two days with my son and they would straighten him out. That he did not play well with other children, and that I needed to get on top of teaching him how to act. This person told me that they did not know "how I do it" referring to how I can deal with him. I know Miles can drive a person crazy sometimes, but cant all children at times. Trying to be nice I was telling this person how Zach and I had been discussing having another child. We have been told by many people that having another child would possibly mellow him out, he would learn how to share and not being an only child would be good for him. Well, then this person said to me " But what if your next one turns out the same as Miles?" WHAT NERVE!!!!!! How could you say that to someone? I would of course not care if I had five more like Miles, he is my son. I love him, his personality, his humor. He may be a handful, but he is my handful and I would not change a thing about him!!!! I realize that this person was stressed at the time they said this but that is NO EXCUSE!!!! I am trying to get over this and put it behind me but this person said all of this while Miles was standing right there listening. Children understand much more than we think they do and I do not want my son being labled and a troublemaker or " Bad Boy". I have prayed about this situation and am going to have to find a way to get over this but I am just soooo angry! I also have to see this person often and do not know what I am going to do the next time I see them. I would love to go and tell this person that what they said hurt me , but that is just not me. I do not like confrentations. What do I do? Miles cant stand up for himself and it is my job as his mother to stand up for him. On top of that I was talking to Miles' teacher today, asking how he was doing in class and she said that she does not think he is on level for his age and is constantly disrupting class and hitting other children. She said that she thinks he has ADHD and that when he turns 3 I should have him tested and put on medication. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you think a 2 yr. old is ADHD? Most 2 yr old boys are hyper. She said that he has problems sitting still for centers and story and circle time. She wants them to sit for 15-20 min quietly while working. A childs attention span is said to be about 1 min per year. That means Miles' attention span right now is only about 2-5 min. Not 15-20. I am starting to consider pulling him out of school and letting him stay home. I feel that people single him out because he looks older. People expect him to act 4 because that is how old he looks. Anyway, I talked to my boss and let her know how I feel, she said that I should not pull Miles out but that I sould start something called "play therapy" Basically it's teaching Miles how to play and get along with other children. I guess we will give it a try. I am just so upset about all of this. To me my son is just your typical toddler boy. Am I wrong. I have been crying about this since last night. I do not know what to do.Well, I am going to go love on and play with my son. Keep me in your prayers. Bye.

My smart little man.

Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:56:00 -0500

In my last post I said i would put up some pics of my smart little guy. Enjoy. He amazes me more and more every day. I am truly blessed!!

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Eye Opener

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:39:00 -0500

Ok, I am back again after being gone for awhile. These last couple of weeks have been eye openers for me. Things have been kind of rough but I know through all of this stuff I am learning valuable lessons. I have been feeling kind of down lately. It just seems that everything I have been trying to accomplish has to go wrong in one way or another. I have been told that the closer you try to get to God the more the Devil trys to steal your joy and boy is that true! But I have to remind myself that I have the option to let him steal it or not. I have to admit I have been letting him win. I let myself get so worked up over little stupid things and from there it just seems to snowball. Anyone out there know how I feel? I sure hope I am not the only one.

Anyway, we are finally all getting better. We have been sick off and on for about three weeks and now it finally seems to be going away. Work is going very well and I am very happy there. I was able to go back to church this past Thursday but I guess since I have been gone for about two weeks I just feel lost there. I dont know if lost is the word I want to use but I cant think of a better one. I love my church and would never dream of leaving but I just felt like I was not a part of it on Thurs. I know I am a part of it and I am involved in lots there but oh well. That all could be another way that Satan is trying to get at me. So, my friend gave a devotional that night and it really hit home with me. It was about being still. You know, " Be Still and Know that I am God". It sounds like such an easy thing to do but it's not. I am always running around doing something, cleaning something, etc... I try to do my devotionaly daily but it just does not happen. I bearly have time to have a moment to myself, another thing that is SOOOOO important. I had to stop and think, when is the last time I was just quiet and still to open myself to God. It's been a long time. Too Long. So, as I was driving home kind of in a bad mood because I just was, I turned on the radio and was listening to KSBJ as I always do. I started to sing along, I forget what song was on and then I just stopped singing. This was weird for me because I am always singing. I find it hard to not sing. But I just drove and listened. I suddenly found myself crying. I was not really sad but I just felt this overwhelming peace and it blew me away. I took a moment to be still and God spoke to my heart. We are so blessed to have a God who remembers us even when we forget him. Now I would like to say everything was perfect after that but we all know that would be a lie. I still keep putting off my devotionals but God keeps reminding me that I need to spend time with him. I am just in amazed at his patience with me. I pray for that kind of patience.

Miles is doing GREAT. I have the most AWESOME child!! No, he is not perfect. He has a hitting problem and he talks back alot but I still adore him. I bought him some toys from a teachers store and he just amazes Zach and I with how smart he is. He has these sorting bears that are in all different colors and there are different color cups to go with them. He sorts them all into the right color cups easily. Not only does he sort them correctly but he picks them up with these little tongs I got him. He has great fine motor skills. I also got him these dinosaur links, they are like that barrel of monkeys toy. He loves them. I love to watch him learn. We also have a game where we ask him to find different shapes around the house. I will say " Find a rectangle" and he will point out the drawer, or a book, or the window sill. He loves to learn. He is also learning some sign language. This week at daycare his class was learning about feelings so when he gets upset he will tell me " Mommy, I'm angry" etc. He has been teaching me some stuff too. I have been so absorbed with my problems lately and I had noticed he was really acting out. So last night instead of coming home and cleaning etc.. I spent the whole evening playing with him, and I can really tell that is what he needed. Today he has been such a pleasure. No temper tantrums, he is doing better on talking back and he has not hit today. It's wonders what a little Mommy and Me time will do. He did not even fight me on nap today. I just got him this cool Marble Works toy and I told him that if he took a good nap then when he woke up we would play and he said " Ok" and went to sleep. Also he loves to help me clean house, especially vaccum. I takes a long time cause he has to help me push it but I let him help me today, I took about 10 min longer but it was worth it to see the smile on his face.

Well, I have probably wrote too much and if you finish reading this you deserve a medal so I am going to go. I will try to put some pics of Miles doing his "work" later. Take Care and God Bless.

Too Fast

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:42:00 -0500

So, I came across this pic and it made me sad. My little baby is growing into a little boy and too soon he will be a little man. In this pic he was only 8 or 9 months. Now he is a very tall two and a half yr. old. Time goes by too fast. I want to rewind. I find myself really wanting another one but I dont know I really want another one or if I just want to relive his babyhood. Anyways, Zach and I have come to the decision that we are not going to try to have another one until we get out of traning, which if we go in next Aug. it will be 2 years of school. So I guess I will be about 29 by the time we start trying again. We have prayed long and hard about this and feel it is the best. Going to school full time and raising Miles will be hard enough without adding in an infant. It is not what I had pictured for our life. I figured we would have another one around the time Miles turned 3 but God's plan for my life is much better than anything I could do on my own. I keep reminding myself, "Mishelle, it is not all about you." Aside from that, I have been having some stuff going on at work. Part of the problem is that I was passed over for a position I was next in line for. But even though I really want to quit, I feel God wants me to stay for some unknown reason. Quitting would be much easier than continuing to work somewhere I am unhappy but God's way is not always the easy way. I keep telling myself that this is not the job I will have for the rest of my life, it is not my calling. A verse has continued to pop into my head for the last month. I am taking it from The Message. I love the way it is worded, I find it easier to relate to.

I know what I am doing. I have planned it all out- plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

Jeramiah 29:11

I know God has given Zach and I an awesome calling and he has a reason he wants me to stay where I am right now. I dont know why but he does and that is all that matters. He has awesome plans for everyone, they just have to make the decision to follow him and his plan for their life. Well, I am going to go hang out with my husband. I could be cleaning my house which is a wreck,( all you parents of toddlers know what that is like. I can spend hours cleaning and he can wreck it all in 20 min.) but I can do that tomrrow. I want to be lazy. Every woman should take some lazy time. I hope you all sleep well, Take care and God Bless.

P.S. I found my new fav. singer. Her name is Corinne Bailey Rae. Check her out, especially " Like a Star".

DISNEY SLIDESHOW

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:30:00 -0500

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Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:06:00 -0500

Hi all. I know some of you are wondering if I am still alive. I have been way too busy lately and this is my first chance to update. We came back from disneyworld on Tues. night. I did not want to come home. I love Fl. I felt at home and was very sad to come back to TX. But here I am. I will hopefully only be here for a year and then we will be moving on to Atlanta, GA. Miles had loads of fun on our vacation. We stayed at the Nickeloden hotel, in a Rugrats room. They had an awesome pool with cool waterslides. Even a toddler size waterslide. I am going to make a new slideshow so you can see everything. He is offically afraid of monsters now. We took him on the Great Movie ride at MGM and one of the movie sets you go through is Alien. The alien comes out at you in a cloud of smoke and he absolutely freaked out. For the rest of the day every time he saw a cloud of smoke on a ride or in a show he screamed " The monster is coming". My poor baby. He loved riding on It's a small world and he rode his first rollercoaster, Mickeys Barnstormer. I think he was probably the youngest kid to ever go on it because it goes by height and he is the size of a 4 yr. old. We took him on Pirates and he loved it. For those of you who have not been on Pirates lately they added some cool stuff from the movie including the goregous Jack Sparrow. Beautiful!!!!! As you can see we had a blast. But now we are home and my mom and sister are in their new home, Atlanta. I really miss them and have been really bummed all week. I am very used to seeing them anytime I want, over the past year my mom, sister and I have grown very close, closer than we have ever been. Now I wont be able to go seem my mom until next month. Zach and I are going to a weekend for the prospective cadets. Well, tonight I have to go over to my moms house and get it show ready. I hate having to go over there. I cry everytime. I know, I am a big baby. Oh Well. I have lots of house cleaning to do. Keep me in your prayers and know that you are in mine. Love ya. Take Care and God Bless

Pray for me, I'm a mom of a two year old. Boo Hoo

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:19:00 -0500

Hi all. I know I have been absent for a bit. I have been really busy lately. I need a break. It has been a rough couple of days for me. I am emotionally, physically and mentally exhausted. Miles has been something else the last two weeks. I mean, he is a very active and strong willed little boy who has just figured out how to drive mommy crazy and he loves it. I on the other hand do not always love it. He is so set on doing things his way and in his time and our schedule and busy life do not always allow for that. In the morning when I am trying to get out the door to go to work, he wants to stay at home and play so we have lots of fun arguements. Keep me in your prayers please. Pray for my sanity which is slowly slipping away.I am trying so hard to be a good mom but I find myself loosing my temper with him very often and I just feel like I need to go away for awhile, but that is not an option. How do you guys do it. Please tell me, I really need some encouragement. Or at least to hear that I am not the only one going through this. This morning I called my mom crying because he kept throwing tantrums and crying and screaming.She came over and helped me with him. How come he will listen and behave for everyone else but me. I know that I had no patience with him because I have been running on only about 4 hrs of sleep a night. He has started waking up at night again and he thinks we should be up with him. I find myself counting down the min. until he goes to bed. Am I terrible or what. But I know that Miles is not the real problem. I have been super stressed this week because in one week my mom and sister will be moving away to Atlanta to go to SFOT. I am really happy for them but also sad because I am going to miss them. They are my support and they are leaving. I am going to try not to dwell on that though. On Sat we are leaving to go to FL and Disney World. One last vacation with them for awhile. I know we are going to have a blast! I am psyched about Miles seeing everything and meeting Mickey Mouse. He loves that guy! I will be sure to post pics when we get back. Hmmm, what else is going on. We are still hoping to hear if and where we will assist. I hate waiting. I am not a patient person but I just have to remember that everything will happen in God's perfect timing, not mine. We are getting psyched about training. I know it is still a year away, but I also know that time flies by way too fast. We are going to be doing our psychological evaluation packet soon so they will see that Zach and I are both nuts. Do they let nuts into SFOT? If they accepted my mom I guess they do. Well, I have to go to bed now. I am not tired but I have to get up early and run some errands before church so night, night. Take Care and God Bless.

Is it Friday yet?

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:30:00 -0500

Hi all. I am not feeling very well this week. Whatever Miles had last week he decided to share with mommy. Not fair, why not daddy? So since I took off two days last week to stay home with him while he was sick I now have to work while I am sick. Once again, NOT FAIR! Today even though I was taking Aleve all day I still constantly ran a 100 temp. Not fun when you work in a daycare taking care of 2 yr olds all day. But even though I am having a not so good week God is still blessing me. Blessing me in ways that I recognize right away and in ways that take a while for me to notice. Thank you Lord.

Well, my boss really upset me today. My hours at work are from 8-5 which works out perfectly because I take Zach to work at 6:30 and can pick him up when I get off of work Well, she has been letting people that are supposed to be there until 6 go home and then expects me to stay there until six to cover their shifts. So, yesterday Zach stayed home with Miles so I did not have to pick him up. She asked me if I could stay until 6 and I told her that I could if I had to, but I would perfer not to. I ended up getting out at five. So today I am leaving at 5 and one of the teachers was 1 child over for her ratio. So my boss tells me that I either have to start staying until 6 or leave around 2 or 3 because we have been overstaffed. Is that not a bunch of bull. I either have to make my husband wait another hour to pick him up or loose anywhere from 10 to 15 hours a week. I know that God will handle this situation and I am praying that we get to go assist somewhere and soon. There are alot of things going on at my work that I do not agree with and I just want out. It sucks to need money. Why cant I just get by on my good looks?

Ok, enough ranting and raving. Please keep me in your prayers and know that you are in mine. Take Care and God Bless

Hello All

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:46:00 -0500

Hello all. I know, I really suck at this blogging thing. I just forget to update. Sorry. We have been GREAT here. Hoping to find out where we will get to assist soon. I am really excited about that. Also we are getting ready to say goodbye to my mom and sister. That sucks. I am really going to miss them. But hopefully next year we will be joining them. We are going to leave I think on the 5th of Aug. and go to Fl. for a few days. I am excited about taking Miles to Disney. He loves Mickey Mouse! Tomorrow we will be traveling up to camp for the farewell but i dont know if my husband and Miles will be able to go. Miles has been running a fever since Thurs. I pray he gets better soon. He comes to me and says "Mommy, my head hurts". It breaks my heart. Well, I am exhausted. I drove with my mom up to Beaumont today and we left at 12 and just got home about an hour ago. Hope you enjoy the slideshows. Take care and God Bless.