Open house flop!

Posted on by Mary

If you remember I posted for My tackle it Tuesday post that i was focusing on getting our house ready for our Open house on Saturday eveing.  Well that all came to a screetching halt Saturday Morning.  yep All that prep..All that work  All for a very quiet evening at home…What happened you might ask?  Well that is why I am ariting this  post it’s called:

HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE

Are you unfamiliar with the aore mentioned disease?

Well Click here  to learn more about this little gem of a common childhood illness!!

now that you have been familiarized with said gem…Let’s take a look at my Saturday morning. 
I lay awake in my bed just thinking of my tasks ahead of me in preparation of our Church open house that evening..WELL Lady bug comes MOANING into our room.  She has a Terrible habit of whining  as it is But you could tell something was wrong.  After asking her a few times to repeat herself since she was in no way understandable i finally got the picture her finger hurt…Big deal I thought I have bigger fish to fry was my initial thought BUT I humored her and looked at her hand and finger..Much to my surprise her hands we covered with Tiny red dots EVERYWHERE!

Not just on her  hands but on her feet forearms knees elbows shoulders, and the back of her neck and some on her chest and belly I let out a yell for Hubby!

He sounded annoyed at first BUT soon we were talking about what this could possibly be..My ultimate fear CHICKEN POX
the bliisters were there BUT they were small.  I called my mom..BUT she was not home from work yet  So i talked with my dad..

he overall thought was chicken Pox HOWEVER…she had been vaccinated!  .We couldn’t get her in to the doctor until; 10 30..PRAISE THE LORD for a doctor’s office that has Saturday hours!  So we waited checking about every half an hours to see what kind of disaster this woould turn into…more blisters appeared FInally it was time for hubby to take her…now the waiting was on…Nothing an hour and a half passed and still nothing.  I was working trying very hard  to keep my mind off of the out come Would we have to cancel…Finally I heard the front door open and Linus began to bark.  THEY”RE HOME!! I dashed to the door to see my little girl with a STICKER..her day was made!! Mine however was turned up side down…The verdict was in Hand foot and mouth disease is HIGHLY contagious!  I had to call EVERYONE in the church directory and tell them we ad to cancel.

The kids were all crushed and so was I since I LOVE doing this every year But we picked a new date and now we are working towards that goal and we are praying no one else gets it.  We have discovered I have had it as a child SOO I am immune however HUBBY HAS NOT!

No church toda!  No school til at least Tuesday…Unleass someone else gets it and we are praying hard that is NOT the case!!!

Tacklel It Tuesday-Prep for Open House!

Posted on by Mary

Hi all, well I’m back into the swing of this blogging thing again and well I am doing my FIRST Tackle it Tuesday in what feels like a millennium!

As a pastor’s family we host an open house each fall. And that just popped out of no where.  It has been in my calendar since…FEBRUARY!!!

Well I have lots to do on my house to get it ready so this weeks tackle is basically a To Do List and hopefully if there is time I will post pictures..

  • Clean walls (NOTE TO SELF: next time you think you want to paint walls white..SLAP YOURSELF!)
  • our bedroom needs organized
  • craft room needs reworked and CLEANED!
  • Clean laundry pile in hubby’s offices folded and put away
  • Paint wall in downstairs bathroom (NOTE TO SELF : never EVER let a can of paint in house..even if you think the door is locked….The kids WILL find and WILL use it to finger paint on the walls!)
  • Clean out fridge
  • Finish sorting James Clothes and out tub/ bags away
  • straighten whole house…
  • clean under beds
  • Prepare food

Some of that stuff is just NORMAL but others well…I think the list says it all
Happy Tackling

Yesterday’s events!

Posted on by Mary

YIKES. i am tired….the biggest benefit for me today is two fold. a) the kids and I slept in until 8 am…I am usually up between 5 and 6 30! and B) I have absolutely NO WHERE TO DO TODAY!!! YAHOO.

Yesterday was an absolutely full day…it started at about 6…I had to get Tornado and Lady Bug out the door by 8 15 for school when daddy came home to pick them up….

The kids were not cooperative AT ALL it took the the better part of an hour to eat their bowls of cereal…My kids are usually great eaters BUT they were all over the place that morning…So I was feeding Little bean his bottle…Got the two oldest off to school then began the cooking.  I had to make Baked beans AND chili for a funeral dinner at church…Not to mention clean up the whole house in order for the baby sitter to come at1 30 so Hubby and I could go to the funeral

Since hubby did the funeral we had to be there early…So I did all the stuff necessary for the two dishes in the correct crockpots and called the lady who was going to pick them up….

Now to check on weasel!  He was being good watching Veggie tales in the basement and I would see him every 20 to 30 minutes asking for food.  11 30 Little Bean has been screaming ALL morning which is totally unlike his jovial little self SOOOO I had to vacuum holding him…dust holding him….then I fed him at 11 40…Hubby and the two older kids rolled in around  12 05 then I made lunch, rest of dishes….Got dressed for funeral did hair all that jazz…then the babysitter came…grief instructions…Found out later i forgot to tell her where the diapers were! 

Then off to funeral at 1 40
Funeral at 2
Went back to church to help with meal.  
LOTS of bustling around
330 people started arriving from the graveside service
Meal provided  items checked  So on…
440 food grabbed to eat
5 took gentleman home
5 10 went home made dinner for babysitter and her daughter and husband …we all had to be at AWANA back at church in an hour
6 00 pm…next baby sitter arrives to watch little bea we need to find shoes coats and cubbies vests and bags for AWANA
6 20 out the door for AWANA
625 at the church  for AWANA…Did I mention I was teaching Cubbies for the first time at our church and I had only had the material since the previous day
630 AWNA opening
815 AWNA OVER  (there was a lot of stuff in between But I am not sure I can remember it all)
845 HOME
talked with Baby sitter for about an hour…my brain officially shut down!
10 00 crashed on couch with Weasel insisting on playing with cars…I was too tired to care LOL
1100 BED
$ 30 AM Little Bean INSISTED  on being fed REALLY?? You have been done with night feeding for over 3 months now? Oh well Slept til 8 NO complaints..
THAT WAS MY DAY IN A NUTSHELL  AND VERY GLAD I DON NOT HAVE TO REPEAT IT AGAIN TODAY!

A great big THANK YOU for all of those who made yesterday go off without a hitch
And an even bigger thank you to the good LORD above who helped me keep my mind in tact!

Monday and it has been a long week already!

Posted on by Mary

The rest of the week promises to be just as exciting as today was.It’s funny we have friends who can tell you pretty much what each day holds. Minus emergencies of family proportions BUT as a pastor’s family you have to be ready for everyone ele’s family emergencies too.  I’m okay with this.  I always have been.  Matter of fact I like being helpful and I love being able to show GOD’S love through my service.

It is hard to watch people hurting so much BUT the joys outweigh the bad by a long shot.  Seeing people come to a saving knowledge of Christ…seeing believer’s reconnect with their redeemer and both children and adults alike discover something new about their Savior.

We have now watched two of our children come to a saving knowledge of Christ and what a blessing that has been!! Tornado and Lady Bug both witinh two or three weeks of turning 4 chose to follow Cheist,   Now we have the daunting task of discipling them….

It seems as though everytime you have the slightest doubt in whay you taught or said God answers it with a big “Idon’t think so”

It’s wonderful that it is Him who opens hearts and minds and not just the words hubby or I say…because then NO ONE would ever understand!….

LORD you are truely amazing and tahnk you so much for using hubby and I .  We want to serve you All the days of our lives!!! Please help us to keep that focus! AMEN!

Happy Homemaker Monday

Posted on by Mary

The weather in my neck of the woods:

in one word wacky….Hot Col Hot Cold COLDER HOT you get the picture!!!

Things that make me happy:
Deacon’s Meetings, Awana, and PRE-K
I love my kids but those are some much needed quiet times

Book I’m reading:
Screwtape Letter By C.S. Lewis

What I’m enjoying on TV:
 No VCR/DVD player..+ no signal=quiet..in other words not a thing!

 On the menu for dinner:
Barbecued burgers
Ranch pasta salad
chips

On my To Do List:
Organize clothes in Our bedroom
Clean clothes folded in hubby’s office
CRAFT ROOM!
Funeral prep
find babysitter
Pack for trip

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:
Amish church cookies and barbecued burgers

In the craft basket:
Thank you cards

Looking forward to this week:
going to celebrat e with a church we used to attend…they are celebrating their 200th anniversary!

Tips and Tricks:
Another word for bribery is “positive reinforcement”

My favorite blog post this week:
This post by my friend Michelle at Just give Me a minute….

Blog Hopping (a new discovered blog you would like to share with the readers):
it’s  all i can do to keep up with the ones on my sidebar…maybe as i settle into the new school routine!

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

house sale pictures 011.JPG
This is our whole family minus Linus at our old house the day before closing….Congrats to the new owners…Hubby is very talented….and you got a very nice house! (more pics to come!)

Lesson learned the past few days:
 Sudafed does an amazing job at helping me feel better so i can get work done!
God gives me the wisdom to know when to stop and take a nap & i should really listen to that little voice telling me to do so!!

On my mind:
a lady in our church who lost her husband this week

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:
Psalm 104:18-35
Davis is taling about how God takes care of everything and provides for everything..He provides for every living thing on the earth so why are we so shocked when God provides for us in such amazing ways!