Mother’s or Mothers Day?

Which is correct, grammatically speaking? Either way it was a great day. I got served breakfast in bed with a bunch of fresh cut lilacs from our bush that grew back this year. Two years ago it was attacked by an ant hill and didn’t bloom that year. Last year was so-so and this year it’s gorgeous! Smells beautiful. My wonderful hubby and boys had flowers, roses, and chocolates delivered on Thursday for me. They are beautiful as well. And I got a Ped Egg for my feet. My dd is giving me the gift of a professional pedicure and I will get it done with her before I leave for my vacation in June. I want pink or red toenails for vacation.  Speaking of which, we finally chose a resort and made our reservations today. All that is needed is my passport and spending money. And some new clothes. I have a bunch of stuff that will work even though it’s old but I will trade new clothes for spending money and to save on what I really need to buy.

I spent the day relaxing after we made the reservations. My honey has been chasing me all day for some fun! lol….he is a keeper, that’s for sure! And then Caleb wanted to play his Transformers Risk game for the last week so I agreed to play it tonight. Mostly because Jake was giving him such a rough time this morning about nothing and I felt as if I had to make it up to Caleb. Jake, without meds, is not easy to live with.  He annoys, invades personal space, is bossy, etc…ADHD is no fun!  Anyway, can I say here that I hate Risk, in any form? As a teen, my boyfriend, and first husband, now ex-husband, used to think a good time was me watching him and his 6 buddies play Risk for hours on end. It only got exciting if one of the buddies brought a girlfriend with him. Or if we had beer! Ah, the days before Jesus and growing up….

So I played and had fun. We got through one round! It’s set up on our table so I guess we eat dinner in the living room or kitchen or stand! lol….we will probably get through another round tomorrow night but then we are busy the next two nights. I bet that game stays till next weekend! Ah, the things we do for our kids.

Ok, I better end here, my honey is sending me suggestive IM’s from the living room! I hope all you moms get to end your Mother’s (Mothers) Day the same way I will end mine!

Did you miss me?

I hope so. I  know I have a few faithful readers. I am so behind in blogging. I am too tired to think, on most days, about what to blog about. I still like my job. Phil is going to hear some big news about his job today or tomorrow so I will blog again when we know something. In any case, it means big changes for us. The boys are doing great. Lauren feels good and the baby is moving around, almost to where we can feel him move from the outside. Jake loves to feel her belly. I know that I still think adoption would be best but I am certain she is going to keep her boy and raise him. It will be hard and I am not sure of how my support will look like in the future but for now, I am here for her. Life has been easier since she moved out. We get along better because both of us don’t expect much from the other any longer.

I am going against etiquitte and planning, with help, her baby shower. The first plans for one fell apart due to the dysfunction of the girl who was planning it. I knew from the beginning that it was a mistake for S to plan a shower. Her whole family is a bunch of drunks and they are violent at times. It’s not the place for a baby shower. So it’s being planned for sometime in June and I will just do it. Who cares about manners at a time like this?

I had a great visit with my mother in law and dh’s grandma, who is 88 BTW. It was a fun trip out to see Brit and family. The babies are so adorable. Elizabeth just loved on me and she always remembers me when we visit. Asher was a pip! He was a crabby butt so we didn’t do too much loving on each other.  Brit and Jonathan gave me my mother’s day gift early. It’s a webcam! Now I can talk and see them and they can talk back to me and see us and all that fun. Today we hope to hook up and talk. Caleb really misses them and wants to be able to see them and chat. See, Brit just logged in! lol…

Ok, I better go. I have some grass to rake. Our riding mower is getting repaired and Phil push mowed the back 40 and the cut grass is everywhere. I need to help him out a bit and rake. Yuck!

If anyone knows how to post pictures on here, leave a comment. I don’t like the new changes in WordPress when it comes to uploading images!

Look who’s coming to visit me!

This is Asher. He is my 7 week old grandson. And he is bringing his older sister and parents. I can’t wait.

Proud momma moment…

Last night my son Caleb earned his Arrow of Light award, the highest award in Cub Scouts. He then crossed over into Boy Scouts, joining his brother, Jake, in the local troop. He is so proud and so am I and his father. That boy worked hard! He earned it in about 5 months instead of about 2 years. He was in Webelos I in September but because of issues involving the den leaders and others, he was ready to quit. We got permission for him to join the Webelos II den and move up, since he is 11. It was in that den that he worked like crazy to complete all the requirements to get his AoL award. I will post a picture or two later. I am waiting on some through email from other parents who had cameras. We have yet buy a new one! That is coming soon.

I am loving my new job even though I am still in training. So far it’s easy but lots of headwork. I have to use my brain a lot to work this job. I am still asking myself the questions out loud while I go through a store and all it’s different displays that I have to scan. I think once I get my rhthym down, it will be easier and I won’t be asking all the questions out loud. They will just come natural.

Tomorrow is spring break for the boys. Yippee! No more getting up super early for me! I am not working again till next Thursday. Phil and I are getting away for a few days next week. The boys are visiting Brit and going to help her with the babies for a few days. I know they will love it. Maybe I will post a Thursday Thirteen later. Right now I have to make a snack for Caleb’s class since it’s my turn this month. Green rice krispy treats!

My apologies…

I have to extend my apologies to the couple sitting in the booth behind us at dinner. My son did not mean to talk all night long. He did not wish to interupt your meal with his outrageous stories of a single player scoring 100 points in a basketball game, or that a boy cracked his bus window, or that his dreams are so real that he wakes up expecting them to be happening. I also hope you don’t think he is really going to kill anyone after his lunchtime discussion with Zach about how someone can kill another person with a rubberband and a paperclip. I hope you aren’t wishing you didn’t pay school taxes!

I am sorry he was loud but he had our attention and that was important to him tonight. I am hoping that he amused you and you think we handled him correctly. Even if you didn’t, that’s ok too because chances are we will never see you again, at least not at Applebee’s.

I hope the waitress didn’t mind our “custom” orders or having to bring the “to-go” box to the talker who managed to only eat half of his burger. We tried to be neat and clean, if nothing else. We tipped you nicely and didn’t demand much, even when I asked for more salad dressing. It was a nice dinner out and no tears from anyone, especially me.

See some families can go out and have a nice time, talking and eating and being “normal”, what ever that might be these days.

Simply Elizabeth…

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Here she is at 14 months.

What a day!

It’s been busy and hectic. First we started our morning off with an ice/rain/freezing rain mix that caused 1/4 inch of ice on everything, including my van. Then I had to go to my first in-store training session in that weather. I had to scrape off ice from the windows so I could see. Then I took my life in my hands and drove the 30 min. to the store to meet Mary.

We spent 2 hours and 10 min. just going through 2 stores and talking about the job. It was tough on my back, that is going to be an issue for the first few weeks or so. I will have to get used to all that walking and stopping. Mary says it’s gets easier once you have a pattern in each store, so that’s good to know.

Then after I came home, Jake came home from school so defeated. He had 2 assignments due tomorrow and was in no shape, brainwise, to complete them. So off I sent an email to the teachers asking for the first extension I have asked for in months for him. I am sure they will give it to him. He was student of the month for January!

Seeing as how the weather was not letting up, we decided to stay home. Good thing because we discovered our roof was leaking. Water was coming down onto my bedroom carpet from the ceiling by way of the ceiling fan. Phil checked in the attic and found 5 leaks. He put buckets and a pot under them. Hopefully we can get it all worked out soon and not cost a lot of money.

Weather worked weird on our behalf today. We stayed home from the choir concert and scouts and my class was cancelled because of weather. But the same weather caused our roof problems. We did gather as a family and pray for the house and invited “heaven to invade earth” like Bill Johnson says in his book. We took possession of our house for the Lord. I pray this rain/sleet/ice mix lets up and we can sleep peacefully.

How I met my husband…

Carrie, over at The Gremlin Wrangler, asked this question today. Funny thing is, the guy whom I met my husband, Phil, through is celebrating a birthday today. He is probably about 48 or so! lol….

Here goes….First time I “met” Phil was at church after a Wednesday evening service. It was in September.He was there with Rick and a bunch of us were chatting about who knows what? Next time I met him was on the occasion to go and hear Rick play drums with his band along with a bunch of friends of mine. I was thinking that Rick was kind of cute, and hoped to get to know him. Well when you go to hear a guy in a band, he is pretty busy all night. And when that drummer brings along his roommate, Phil, who knows no one, he finds himself talking to the girl who wants an “in” with the drummer. Well Phil was really easy to talk to. We talked all night long. After the band played, a few of us went out for coffee. There was one other guy along and he was obnoxious. There was no getting to know Rick.

A few weeks later Rick and I went out for a date. We dated a few times over the next month, into January. In the meantime, Phil would sit with me and my girls at the Sunday night church services. After all, Rick was playing drums for the worship team and I was the only other person Phil really knew, if you count that night we met at the coffeehouse. Things didn’t work out with Rick, which is a good thing, in hindsight.

After that Phil and I continued the sitting together thing at church and I eventually asked him out for dinner, not a date, just friends. He accepted and we went and hung out. At the time, my girls were having weekly visits with their bio-dad so I had a lot of free Friday nights. I took Phil to Denny’s on his birthday, in March, for the free birthday meals they used to do. I think he was impressed. Rick was not happy about our friendship. He accused us of horrible things that weren’t true. Both Phil and I were hurt. I was worried because Phil lived with him. He was going to school at the time and working 3 jobs to make ends meet. He could not afford to live alone. I invited him over to my dad’s, where I lived, for many dinners. Eventually Phil gave up caring about what Rick thought about us and we got a bit more serious. By June, we took a trip to Creation 1993 to meet his dad along with his home church’s youth group. We spent a great day attending the concerts and stuff. One time, when climbing a huge hill, Phil grabbed my hand to help me up and never let go. Later that night we discussed that we were taking the next step and calling our relationship a serious one, past dating and not quite engagement.

About a week later we kissed for the first time, skyrockets indeed! We were engaged by August. He didn’t really mean to propose that night, it just happened as we were discussing his future after graduating school. He was training to be an aircraft mechanic. So we decided we were getting married because he didn’t want me out of his future, but in it. The next morning he went home to Ohio to visit his parents and tell them. I didn’t hear from him till Sunday night. I almost died that weekend thinking he forgot all about me! It was rough. I cried on the phone to my best friend. She got me through it. Then Sunday night when he came home, he asked my dad and my girls for permission to marry me. They all said yes. We were married in January 1994. We just celebrated 14 years and now have 2 boys together.

The end.

My grandbabies…

They are just beautiful and I am so blessed with them. Here they are. Elizabeth is 13 months and Asher is 1 week old.

As always, click on the photo for a bigger view. This is a drawback to WordPress. I can’t get big pictures on here without distorting the page!

Random thoughts and happenings…

Sometimes it’s my kids and their antics that keep me going in one direction or the other. Take Jake, for instance. At church, his former counselor jokingly walked by and flicked him on the head. He laughed it off. After service, he told her she injured his sensitive skull! lol..so she and the couple she was chatting with said let’s pray for you. So they did. We came along just after that and got to talking with them. They said that Jake has an annointing on him. They sensed it the minute they began praying. This one woman is a reknown intercessor for our denomination. She travels the world for prayer meetings and I know she hears from the Lord, so I trust what she said. It was something we needed to hear as that boy can exhaust us. She said he “wrestles with God but doesn’t need to ’steal’ his annointing”. Jacob, in the bible did steal the annointing from his brother. At one point, Rosemary called my Jake, Israel! He took it all in stride.

Then after church, at home, I was talking with Lauren about this baby and her plans. I asked if she is still considering placing the baby for adoption. She said yes. We talked about how that might look for her and the couple she has in mind. I know she needs to gain some inner strength if she is to do that. What she doesn’t know is how God is moving in the lives of the couple she is considering. There were some words given to them about a “surprise” from the Lord to them and I can’t help but think Lauren’s baby could be the surprise they are waiting for. They have long been trying to have their own children and nothing. They offered to adopt Lauren’s baby when she told them she is pregnant and not sure of what she is going to do. We are all for it. I think it could be the best answer to a hard situation.

Jake asked Lauren what happened to “CJ” since she got pregnant. Jake figured out that ”CJ” didn’t he want a serious relationship with her after he “transferred his stuff to her  and made a baby”?!! We both had to turn away so we would not laugh at his choice of words! It was rather funny but serious. Jake had it right on. He knows what he is talking about for one so young. I guess that means all those talks about saving yourself for marriage has not been falling on deaf ears.

Caleb, well he is just a pistol! He says some incredible things as well. When he got his last report card, he said he made all A’s again, but that his grades went down! lol…his A+’s went to A’s or A-’s. He is a perfectionist in some ways. He is now in the gifted program at school. He also is completing all the Arrow of Light requirements in 6 months instead of 2 years. He is doing really well in Scouts. I hope he enjoys being a Boy Scout as well.

Then we have Brittany and Jonathan. They have given us two beautiful grandbabies. They are doing well for such a quick courtship and marriage. I mean it was not much more than 7 months from meeting to wedding. Then two babies in two years! But they are the sane ones in the group. They are the ones living life like you expect when you kids grow up and move on into adulthood. I am praying for the same for my other children and for my grandchildren.

One more note. Our counselor and life-mentor has written a book. I bought the last copy at the church bookstore today. It’s called The Fox in the Chicken Coop by Ric, our counselor, (if you want the last name, send me an email or leave comment). It’s all about high-stakes relationships and how they mold us and affect us. He self-published the book but it’s so good, and I have only read the introduction, that I know it would sell many copies. He has wisdom beyond words and I know that the Lord has truly gifted this man. I will miss him when he finally relocates to another part of the state.

Ok, enough Sunday thoughts and musings and rambling on. Have a great day!