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Plans Sometimes Have to Change!

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This weekend started off great! Hubby did a wedding in our church that was amazing! It was the first wedding we attended as a whole family. The kids did great! But when we got home something bad happened. Little bean broke out into blisters…on his hands…on his feet…and most likely in his mouth since we could find any, yet he didn’t want to eat! HAND FOOT AND MOUTH! Not to be confused with hoof and mouth which only livestock gets. It is a virus that normally only small children get. You only become contagious when the blisters pop up. It kinda looks like chicken pox but they don’t scab over and they are not as big….oh and NO ONE acts as though they are sick or getting sick….it’s just ” i have a boo boo ” …”OH NOOOO”. *insert mommy groaning*

Yeah that was my weekend….I usually roll with the punches pretty well but……
Then Lady bug got blisters late Saturday night, and then weasel got them late Sunday night…ok so he has 2 blisters. Tornado is still “clean”! So he got to go to school this morning! Well at least for an hour anyway. I told the bus driver it was likely that ladybug would be out for the whole week. She asked what it was i explained it. When she got to the kids school she claimed tornado didn’t look so good. She also said something to the other kids that got them worried. So in order to keep peace which I totally understand Tornado will also be home for the whole week!

So now God has revealed his plan for my week! Is it what I had planned…not a chance! Was I happy about it…not really! What can i do about it? Nothing really but glorify God in everything I say and do! What i am going to do is this…..have some FUN!

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A Challenge

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Sometimes after a major life event I take step back and see i have lost touch with some major area of my life. And sadly I am not super mom in any sense of the term!

Well about 6 months ago we moved into our new home. We love it. It is our home. But as school has started i have realized that i have let a few areas slip. The biggest ones I think are my four kids. I love them i take care of them. I provide them with what they need but my kids change often. I need to be a student of my children. What makes them tick?

So here is my challenge for myself……i am going to write bios for each one of my kids right here! I want to spend concentrated time with each one each day. Sometimes in the busyness of life and ministry get in the way of simple pleasures. So i will see you back here in the next week or two to share with you my joyful discoveries!

(PS don’t think i won’t be writing here between now and then 🙂 )

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True Confessions of a Stay at Home Mom

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Howdy. I am going to list 10 things most people don’t know about me! Now here’s the thing….you have to decide…are they all true, or if one, some or all are false. Leave a comment with what you think and tomorrow nite i will lat you all know!

1. I am a country girl through and through. I own a beautiful pink and white cowboy hat and brown cowboy boots with a lavender stripe.

2. I am absolutely petrified of thunderstorms. I have even been known to hide during them. I will not stand near windows to watch and i will not use water!

3. I have only ever been on one roller coaster in my entire life and that was when i was in China.

4. I plan on writing a book.

5. I have eaten some pretty nasty things….pigs ear, jellyfish, and silk worm.

6. I visited Ground Zero at the World Trade Center 7 months after 9/11, during a school missions trip to NYC.

7. Our family are huge history lovers. Hubby and i visited numerous battlefields, President’s homes, Williamsburg, Washington D.C. All on our honeymoon!

8. I have climbed the Great Wall of China AND seen the Copper mine in Utah. The only two man made objects (at the time) that you could see from outer space.

9. I hate heights. And am completely comfortable with that! I still fly!

10. I have held a Madagascaran Hissing Cockroach and LOVED every minute of it. It is my favorite bug.

Ok so there ya go. Have blast with this!, i will be back tomorrow nite with answers/ explanations! Have a great nite!

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Thankful Thursday- Blessing

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All over the state of New York yesterday thousands of kids started school. Two of our children were no different! It is exciting for me as a mom to see my children start school each year and love it. But this year was a little different. Not because of school but because of what came before school…..a bus ride.

I used to ride a bus. It was really no big deal, but i rode with my age group, and when i switched to the local Christian school my senior year we had our own mini bus that the public school provided for the Christian school and the Catholic school to share. But since we have moved. We now live within the 15 miles required by a school district to receive bussing for our kids , which would be great…….BUT our kindergartner and first grader would have to ride with high schoolers from the public school district we live in. That concerned me…A LOT!

So i prayed…A LOT! Well it all came down to yesterday. We had talked about riding the bus and do’s and don’ts. One problem though….we hand’t heard from the school district about when the bus would arrive. So we got up early and waited and waited and waited some more….from 6 am to 7:10 am when hubby called the bus garage to see if he could figure something out.

What we found out brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart! The school district had enough students to our local Christian school to warrant their own vehicle with no extra transfer point at the high school. All along i was praying for God to protect the hearts and minds of my children. I never asked Him once for their own vehicle. God did just that he protected their hearts and minds the best way possible, which was totally outside my line of sight. I serve a big God in whom I love!


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Making Progress!

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So yesterday something REALLY amazing happened! Let me show you.

I went from this


To this


And what is so special about that you are wondering? Well those boxes were the last ones downstairs that were my responsibility to unpack. I am giddy to say the least! I have one room left upstairs (my craft room) and hopefully that will be done in the next day or so!

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