Find Joy, where you can...

My Joy today is~
the beautiful colors outside, because of the rain
~(not to mention the smell of the rain! yumm! )
keeping the puke in the bucket!
My prayer is that only one of us has to use the bucket!

--- Shane didn't seem to feel very well this morning,
and so we are staying home and trying to fight off the sickies!

• I had such plans today:
• going to church
• dropping off the heat able socks for my mother-in-law --
• visit the library (again)
• wash the car...
• wash more dishes
• wash more laundry
• plan clothes for kids -- school tomorrow

Ah, well... we have soup in the cupboard and
...I get to catch up on the dishes and laundry! yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipppeeeeeeeeee
I wish there was an icon, or something to show , sarcasm-- but then I imagine that most of you understand my~ random sarcastic thoughts?
Jessica tried a grapefruit this morning, and she seemed to like it---she did however have some (Splenda) aka : fake sugar to sprinkle on top.{most of the time Jessica is not interested in eating much of anything, so when she did say Yes ! to eating the grapefruit, I was willing to let her have it anyway she wanted!}

The kids are watching one of the videos from the library this one is all about YOGA--- it seems to be calming--
should I be nervous that the YOGA will create more puking?--
Stay Tuned for more non-essential information -- including TMI...(too much information)
LOL!
I am currently reading Saving Graces, by Elizabeth Edwards
~ I am only to chapter 5 but this seems to be a good read.
Mrs. Edwards,is an every mom--she just keeps moving along and making the best of everything.

Other people I know...(http://inlifeofachild.blogspot.com/ ) have blogs that seem to be more organized and each post seems to really have a message !
Since this is a NEW blog, -- don't expect much!
LOL and then when I do get better at creating the posts,
I'll accept praise then! LOL!

With our Daddy being gone, the kids and I decided that we needed a little outside time !
We found a great little park, that was just perfect for our needs ! Not to big, not to small and the other kids at the park were "nice kids"

After the park the kids enjoyed a snack of pears,string cheese and juice.On the way home we stopped by the library and re-stocked on videos and dvd's-- We are all still dealing with colds in our noses!--

Gosh, as a I read this it seems rather boring... AGH! That wasn't my intention~~

I was hoping that something profound would come to me
while I was typing and everyone would be bowled
over by my impressive thought processes!
-- Ah, well I guess I'll stick to being a ...mere mortal!
But this does however, bring to mind a verse that I love,
Hebrews 11~Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

So, anyway-- !
I hope your day was great and full !

Hunting pic's

Woe, is me... ?

It's that time again, my dear husband has gone off into the "great wilderness"--

For what you ask?...

ummmm... I think it's a deer this time ?
Although, I am not that "into" the hunting thing...
{My sister-in-law goes hunting with the guys and she enjoys it, ~ I -- don't!!!}
I am happy to have the freezer full of meat, but past that --
Let's just say that I have other things I spend my time on!

Even when I was a child, hunting time always meant
an extra time to spring clean again, or remove things
that don't fit and pass them along ~
I remember more than once my Mom,
getting my Dad off to go hunting and
then taking everything out of the kitchen
and painting it, or even moving all the furniture and shampooing the rugs.

I can't say that I have ever...."enjoyed" housework,
but those times when my Dad was gone hunting for the ever elusive deer,elk,bear etc...
Seemed to be great fun for me, we got to eat fast-food, we got to sleep on the floor,or once or twice we got to sleep with Mom !

For my mom and I it wasn't a good hunting trip if Dad brought home an "animal",
but it was good for us...if we got things packed up and given away !

I look back now ~ it was our way of giving back,
I guess you could call it the Ying and Yang of the redneck family! ...LOL!

Things I have created/sewn

I just wanted to share a picture or two of things I have sewn...!

I goofed, and I don't want to figure out how to fix it...so --Here's my apolgy...I didn't make the dress Jessica is in~ but I did make the other things pictured.

Anyone want to clean out my files and files of pictures?

Pictures of Shane

I was doing some deleting of old posts,
Look what I found!

super cute pictures from the past!

Information that might help you, or someone else!

Buy lots of ear plugs!!!!!

{sorry ... both of my kids are a little cranky,
they have the head cold that I got last Sunday
and they are being grumpy and hard to be around!}
Maybe later... when they are sleeping
I will sneak into their rooms and take their pictures,
so that I know they are still sweet kids?!

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Shane's 5th ~ and other's

Shane recently turned 5--!!!!

Here is his new bicycle, complete with heavy duty training wheels!

We also went home with a new harmonica and a drum, a dress-up firemen's hat & a dress-up construction/builder hat.

Not only did we celebrate Shane's birthday,

and Jerry's birthday, but we Surprised Uncle Rick

and celebrated his early Happy 40th birthday!

We ate pizza and chocolate cake...

I don't know if Jessica

was sharing the cake,

or trying to steal a bite!?

Although it was tough keeping the secret from

our Uncle Rick it turned out well...

I am just happy to not be in the middle of any more secrets!

My very first POST !

This is a rather recent picture of me, and the kids, enjoying a homemade blackberry smoothie !
Our neighbor Erikka, took the kids blackberry picking in our neighborhood, and then we created the smoothie all ~ together!