It's hard to come up with just one thing for some of the items, so some of them have a couple of things :)
PUSHHHHH
How I found him one night. HAD to take a picture :)
Helping mommy shop the dollar store hehe
Just "hanging" around
Helping daddy fix the toilet.
What happens when the kids get ahold of the camera and you don't know it :)
We had a fish fry for Thanksgiving. We had fish (bunch of different kind), french fries, hushpuppies, onions rings, and cookies. Although it was different, we had a blessed day.
This CHRISTmas is so much different for me. Last year, I just COULD NOT get into the joyous CHRISTmas spirit. I don't know why or anything. This year is a totally different story. I can't wait til I get my CHRISTmas tree up, put up a Nativity (hopefully~ I don't have one, so I gotta go get one) and put on the smells of CHRISTmas. My parents are coming up from Ga to celebrate with us this year.
Ross had to go to the hospital on Mon. He had to put on a blue gown and it swallowed him whole. I took pictures to make him feel better and he loved the "blue blob" (as I called him) pictures. I'll put them up when I can. He's so proud of them.
Mark is REALLY testing my patience. I'm at my wits end with him. I'm still hoping it's just a very long phase he's going thru.
Not much school left. I have one test left in Criminal Justice (by the way~ I made a 96 on my last test; out of a possible 99. SOOO happy!!) and 3 classes and one test left of Forensic Psychology. I enjoy Psychology. I'm thinking of taking World Religions and Astronomy next semester. I still haven't decided yet (need to get on the ball tho :))
This year, as you are out and about, if anyone says Happy Holidays to you, make a point of saying Merry CHRISTmas. He really is the Reason for the Season. We put too much commercialism and materialism to this time of year and we need to remember what this time is all out.
I challenge everyone that reads this to do ONE thing for someone this CHRISTmas season, not for the reason of getting something out of it, but to show love. It could be just helping someone put a grocery bag in their car. It could be just going to see someone in a nursing home, that doesn't have family around. It could be just showing a BIG smile and saying "God loves you" to someone looking down in the dumps. It may be the ONLY/FIRST time that person has felt love. Let God's love show this year.
Write ya later.
November 21, 2006
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To help me hang some things on my wall. (Did I get you with my title? hehe) I have tried and tried to get L to hang 2 things for me. Well, he hasn't. So I thought I'd do it today. Didn't work so well for me hehe. Neither thing wanted to sit right on the wall. So now I have no choice, but wait til L helps me. I'm so frustrated cuz I wanted to be able to do it and have a few things off the floor, but I can't figure out how to do them. They are too top heavy so they keep trying to fall off the walls.
Mark wanted his daddy tonite. I felt bad for him, but L will be home late tomorrow nite. Can't wait.
Anyone watch Dirty Jobs? I just started watching it and it's hilarious. I laugh the whole time.
Reflections of Grace are performing tomorrow. I can't wait. It's the first time Ashley is performing with us and I'm excited.
Hope all is well with everyone
Write ya later.
Cleaning done!!! L left for the coast last night :( He'll be gone til late Sun. night. The good thing that happens when he goes fishing is that I get a lot of cleaning done hehe. I'm half-way happy with what I've gotten done. :)
Our power went out again yesterday. It was off for 6 hours. That's really not a lot, but when you have kids, it seems longer hehe. I was happy when it came back on before church, so that I knew I wouldn't come home to a cold house.
The weather is soooo crazy. Tues. I coulda wore shorts. Wed. cold. Today VERY windy. I wish it would figure out what it wants to be!
My bestest friend is off to Mexico this weekend, for a week. I soo wish I could go. Oh well. One day.
It's going to be an interesting night tomorrow night. I get to go bowling without L, but with Mark. I hope he behaves! He can drive me nutz.
Oh...PRAISE THE LORD~ about forgot to tell ya. We got our check from our insurance company from our house getting broke into. I was so happy. Now almost all our Christmas gifts are bought. I'm doing the thing Staci had told everyone about. They are getting 3 gifts. I love that idea. I'd never heard of it, but after I read about it from Staci, I read it in a magazine.
One gift I am giving to my parents is a gift of sending bibles to countries where our persecuted brothers and sisters need bibles to witness to the unsaved. They send the bibles to you, you can pray over them or whatever, package them up, and they mail them out to the country you signed up with. It's not too expensive and it's a great gift to give, I think.
Hope this finds everyone well.
Write ya later.
It's been a while. Sorry. I keep meaning to update this thing, but I get caught up in checking everyone else's. hehe
Not much really going on here.
L~ has been working a lot. I couldn't get him to go to church Sun., but I guess that's another place of prayer I need. He's been in a lot better mood lately tho. He hasn't lost his temper since last week. That's a BIG improvement.
~Next Wed. he's going on a fishing trip with a friend and will be gone for 5 days. It's been 2 years since he's been able to go, so it's going to be hard on Mark for him to be gone that long. It'll be interesting here, that's for sure.
Me~ trying to have patience. Mark has been on my last nerve everyday, but I'm trying to deal. Tough, when I'm also having to deal with Ross' huge mood swings lately.
~STILL working on getting the house looking better.
~School has been good. We went to the prison here for a tour on Mon. It was interesting. We also sat down with 4 guys and talked with them for a while. Just finished my Criminal Justice test a little bit ago. Hope I did better on it than my last 2!! Don't know what I'm going to do about next semester. I wish I could have a babysitter for Mark, so I could take some day classes. They're not offering much of what I need at night next semester. I've thought about taking some classes from one of those online colleges.
Ross~ major mood swings as I have mentioned. We need to get his medicine adjusted.
~He did do good on his report card tho. I was very proud of him. ~Plus, the other night, he read a book to ME before he went to bed. Such a proud moment!
Mark~ being wild and I don't know what to do with him. I've tried so many things that I've almost ran out of ideas.
This year has gone by soooo fast. Can't believe it's almost Christmas. My parents are coming up for it. I can't wait. Then the beginning of the year starts the real busy time for our family.
OOO we think we might know who broke into our house. Another county arrested a guy for breaking and entering and larceny (plus a couple of other charges). Welll, he lives a few houses down. His house is in a great spot to get to the field behind our house. I called our detective and let him know about his arrest (my FIL saw it in the police blotter) and he was going to check into it.
Hope everyone is well.
Write ya later.
