Blessings
• Mar. 14, 2006 - Definitely a Full Moon sort of Day
| I've never given a great deal of credibility to the whole "full moon" syndrome but oh are my thoughts ever changed after today. It all started this morning as my husband and I completed the argument that was begun last night. I then took the girls to play rehearsal. I stuck around there for a while but then ran out to the bank. Now, their play rehearsals just moved to an area of town I'm not real familiar yet so I didn't really know where a bank was. However, just down the street I saw a sign for 5/3 bank at the Kroger. I was so excited having found the exact bank I needed so quickly and without any problem. So I walked in and looked everywhere for the bank. I saw the "Jeanie" Machine but no actual bank. I walked to the back the front and both sides. I then went to customer service and began arguing with them about why they have a sign on the building and yet don't have a bank inside... she assured me that the sign outside only advertised the Jeanie machine. I argued a little more (not typical for me...just typical for my day so far) only to walk out and see that she was completely correct. I then saw an actual 5/3 bank at the front of the parking lot (seems I drove right past it... ooops) and took care of things. So I picked up the kids and headed back for home. After a few hours of school work and lunch we headed to the Paul's Fruit Market... a pretty substantial sized market that I often use for my weekly shopping. We spent about an hour or so there and as we were getting ready to check out I looked down and noticed that I had on my slippers (ach!!!!) Here I was in a nice pair of pants and a sweater walking around with black fuzzy slippers on.... at least they weren't pink piggies or something like that. We then headed home.. surely things have to improve, right? Well then I start emptying the groceries and the girls go out to sell pizza kits and cookie dough for their American Heritage Girls Troop. Now let me explain this first a bit. Most items cost between $15 and $20 per item. Now it seems like a lot for a fund raiser however, each kit makes between 3 and 9 pizzas (depending on the size). Anyway, the troop gets $5 for each item they sell no matter what the dollar amount is. Therefore last night at the meeting when they were handing out all the materials they emphasized many times that people could donate $5 and it would count as 1 unit sold. Now each girl is responsible for selling 10 items or they can just give $50 in donations. You probably already know where I am going with this. The girls come home about 45 minutes later all excited because so many people were buying things and commenting on what a great deal it was. I then looked at their sheet and immediately realized why !!!! They had gone and told everyone that each item was $5!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! After tears and explanations they had to go back out and apologize to everyone on the street and make the corrections. At this point everyone commented on how expensive everything was and just let the girls keep the $5 donation. Now don't think this is the end... oh no! My husband and I own our own printing company and many times the turn around times and demands require a great deal of after hours work from the two of us (to avoid paying a bunch of over time to employees). Well dh has already worked close to 24 hours in the last 2 days. So I called to see when he might be home and he informed me of this job of 1300 booklets that have to be completed and delivered by tomorrow at noon. It will take the job about 9 hours to complete and it didn't get started (lack of approval by the customer) until about 8:00 tonight. I had him come home to eat dinner and tuck the girls in and get a good night sleep and now I'm sitting here at work waiting on the job to finish running. I figure if I stay here until 2:00 a.m then I'll get close to half of them completed. Then he'll come back in about 6:00 a.m to complete the job in the morning. **pout** And here we were suppose to "make up" tonight.
Oh well, the full moon is only effective on one night, right??
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• Mar. 12, 2006 - Eph. 4:29 - 32
| That is the scripture that our sermon was on this morning and what an incredible message it was. "May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to you, oh God"... that is my motto for life now. Probably 20 times today just since church I have prayed that prayer in my heart and in my mind. So many times during our day we feel the need to comment... on the driver in front of us, on the guy down the street who won't fix the gutter falling off his house, to our kids who are acting like a tornado going through the house, and to our husbands who sometimes can't seem to do anything right anymore. We need to switch our speech from words that bring people down to those that build people up. I'm really going to try more and more to implement this in my life. |
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• Mar. 3, 2006 - Roller Coaster
| Yesterday was such a roller coaster of a day for me. It started off at first very well I thought then went downhill very quickly however, still had moments of wonder. I had gotten up and made breakfast for everyone and then immediately got started on a batch of custard (yum). However, in the process I said some things to my daughter that I now know I shouldn't have said and I hurt her feelings pretty badly. Then, as I was putting the custard in the oven I severely burnt my hand. It stung so badly I could have screamed. My precious baby girl totally took on the motherly role, hugging me, getting me an ice pack, along with her "binky" (blanket) to wrap it all up in. She was so sweet it truly made me feel much better. Do you ever have those moments when you know God has smacked you around a bit? I know that He was knocking some sense into me regarding my earlier conversation with Lou. So, anyway we got through the morning but by this time I could feel a migrane starting to come on. I took some Excedrine and hoped for the best. I ended up going out to a place here called the Kurriculum Korner which is a consignment curriculum store. I spent well over an hour there and learned so much talking to the women out there. They eased my mind about so many things. I kept referring to being behind this year and they kept asking over and over again "behind who?" They encouraged me in that we are exactly where God wants us to be. And perhaps this first year at home was simply to help mend relationships and create the "family" we'd been damaging through the last 3 or 4 years while I was working full time and the kids were going to school and daycare and riding the bus (just so I could work an hour longer). They encouraged me to believe that if God really wanted more of the academics learned this year then he would have permitted that to happen. There is so much guilt and second guessing in this journey called homeschool but I just have to trust in the Lord and know that he will provide and watch over all our efforts. The girls will in the end learn and be exactly what they are suppose to 8^)
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• Feb. 28, 2006 - National Pancake Day!!!
| Who can't smile at that? Yes it's officially so... National Pancake Day. You see, it's Fat Tuesday and years and years ago, people didn't have chocolate readily available to give up for lent, nor were they able to swear off of Starbucks for 40 days so instead they gave up fat and eggs. And what a better use of fat and eggs on Fat Tuesday but PANCAKES!! Tonight we are celebrating pancake day and eating flap jacks for dinner. We have food coloring to make them everyone's favorite colors. We are going to fill up the turkey baster with the batter and use them to make letters and shapes out of the pancakes and then we have your choice of toppings: blueberries, strawberries, maple syrup or cinnamon apples. Followed by a quick read of "If you give a pig a pancake" and our evening will be complete! Surely that counts for school today, right? |
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• Feb. 26, 2006 - Sewing
| Okay, so my daughter is in an upcoming play as Alice in Wonderland. Brilliant as I am I agreed to make her costume. This wouldn't be a big deal other then the fact that I've only sewn one thing in my whole entire life...and that was with a great deal of help from my mother in law. So I have the pattern and the material and I even have the pattern cut out and pinned to the material. But at this point I'm really wondering why I didn't just buy a costume off line. ugh! |
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• Feb. 25, 2006 - purple thumbs
| Okay, I'm trying... once again I'm going to try to have a nicely landscaped front yard this year. I've just spent the last 3 hours pulling weeds, cutting down dead remnants from last year, trimming bushes and raking leaves. My hands and arms are so tired it's hurting to type. However I don't know what happened to my inherited giftedness with gardening...let me rephrase that...I don't know why I never got the gift of gardening from my mom's family. My grandmother has had her yard pictured in the paper before because of all the flowers. At close to 80 (she'd kill me if she knew I just referred to her that way) she still gets out and rakes her leaves, mows the yard and gardens all year long. The first leaf to fall in her yard barely makes it to the ground before she has it up. And everything is green all the time. I on the other hand have come to appreciate the color brown.... I'm doing my part to conserve water :)
Oh well, today is the first day of my new flower garden... I'll keep you posted. |
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• Feb. 25, 2006 - Lou
| My darling daughter (we call her Lou around here) continues to show me up. LOL. I guess that doesn't sound very good does it? And I don't mean it in a derogatory way. Actually she makes me very proud. I am such an unmotivated and undisciplined person and she is both. She's the one who will set her alarm, wake up, get dressed and then come and wake me up and say "mom, aren't we going to do our devotion together this morning?" Or other mornings when I wake up she is already downstairs doing her work... often times just going ahead with the next section in her book even though I haven't officially given her an assignment yet. She amazes me. How do I end up with a daughter like this? She even occassionally goes and puts in an excercise video and tries to get me to do a work out with her. I swear some times I think if it wasn't for her I wouldn't get anything done around here. I'm so proud of her! |
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• Feb. 24, 2006 - Questions...
| Do you ever have one of those days? A day where you just feel like crying? A day when you feel alone and broken? Today's one of those days. Today I'm sad. I don't necessarily know why I just am. Dh is fishing for the weekend, once again. And here it is 9:00 and he still hasn't called tonight to check in. The girls are spending the night at my sil. And so here I am at home alone.... well with Newman (the cat). I always think back when I feel this way to the book "I feel..." by Jamie Lee Curtis. I don't really think that's the name of it but it goes through all these emotions that we sometimes experience and it pretty much says that it's okay. So I guess it's okay for me too. I did go to Kroger tonight and treated myself to a little sushi for dinner...YUM-O! (As Rachel Ray would say). Speaking of which, if you have not seen her magazine yet you have got to try it out! Very very cool! Well, I guess that's it. I'm going to go and try hubby's cell AGAIN. |
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