I just dont get it....

You work and work, and scrape and scrape and where does it get you? I'm so down lately, and I look at my blessings and wonder how i can be down...but i can't seem to shake it. So many others have it so much worse, but here i sit wallowing in it.

I cant make the car payment, which is really bad...I'm already behind, what happens if they want it back?

I have no relationship with my mom, which is killing me...

I try to have a party (jewelry) and have had only 2 people respond...and it's tonight.

My kids keep wanting and needing new things for school and i cant provide them.

I hurt all the time, and the dr's cant seem to find out whats wrong...

I keep praying and praying...but i wonder if God hears me.....

I dont know what to do....

coffee time....

I was blessed to have coffee with a good friend yesterday. It was so nice to sit and chat...we were coming up with ideas for a float for our local parade this coming weekend.

I was blessed further, when stopping by to get a few things for our float, to see another friend...

God is good!!!!!

A wonderful day!

suprise, suprise!

Saturday night, we threw a surprise 40th birthday party for a dear friend....we really got her! The guests said all they could hear was...."Oh, NO YOU DIDNT" as my husband and hers had to push her in the door. It was a great night (until the owner got very upset with us....nothing bad, but what a jerk!)

It was a wonderful evening for a wonderful person!

now, i'm planning for a jewelry party, that i am so scared no one will show up for.....have had bad turnouts in the past!! But i'll keep hoping...

Church was wonderful yesterday, the entire family went and our friends all asked to sit with us at the hog roast after church....what a change....what a blessing!!!

Kids just left for school and i need to get ready for coffee time with a friend!

5 days till HOG DAZE 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Back to School

Back to school.....

such a bittersweet time for a mom...It's been a crazy summer...but a good one. Lot of fun times...

I hate to admit it, i'm enjoying the silence (for at least a little while) but, i miss having them here...makes no sense i know...but that's how it is....

I remember this poem, or letter, that explained exactly how i felt when my kids started school.

After some searching i found it...

Dear World,

My young son starts to school today...

It's going to be sort of strange and new to him for awhile, and I wish you would sort of treat him gently.

You see, up to now he's been king of the roost...

He's been boss of the backyard...

His mother has always been near to soothe his wounds and repair his feelings.

But now things are going to be different.

This morning he's going to walk down the front steps, wave his hand, and start out on the great adventure...

It is and adventure that might take him across continents, across oceans...

It's an adventure that will probably include wars and tragedy and sorrow...

To live his life in the world he will have to live in, will require faith and love and courage.

So, World, I wish you would sort of look after him...

Take him by the hand and teach him things he will have to know.

But do it gently, if you can.

He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, that all men are not true.

But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero...

that for every crooked politician there is a great and dedicated leader...

Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend.

Steer him away from envy, if you can...and teach him the secret of quiet laughter.

In school, World, teach him it is far more honorable to fail that to cheat...

Teach him to have faith in his own idea, even if everyone says they are wrong...

Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with tough people.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the bandwagon...

Teach him to listen to all men - but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth and

take just the good that siphons through.

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he's sad...

Teach him there is no shame in tears...

Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success.

Treat him gently, World, if you can, but don't coddle him...

Because only the test of fire makes fine steel...

Let him have the courage to be impatient...

Let him have the patience to be brave.

Let him be no other man's man...

Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself.

Because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind.

This is quite and order, World, but see what you can do...

He's such a nice little fellow, my son!

Author: Dan Valentine

Family 2008

funny....

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just click on the word above to see what i'm talking about


the other night, we were watching tv (go figure...) and the above commercial came on...

out of the mouth of our Scootie...after it was over, and we ALL sang along.....

"You know, that just never get's old".....

oh the wisdom of an 8 yr old.....

Long time.....sorry

It's been a CRAZY SUMMER! I cant believe it is coming to an end. :( I have a lot to blog about, but so little time...I'll start with June...work, cookout, work, sleepover, sleepover, cookout...baseball, baseball, baseball!!! That about covers it! (i'll add pics later!)

However, Baseball went so much better this year! T-man had a wonderful coach!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One that believed that kids only get better with practice! Go figure! He had so much fun even though we only won one game....oh well.....it is only farm league...right?

July was a whole other story...we were getting prepped for the craft fair that a friend and I were participating in. The 4th of July...nice day, but low sales for me...she did wonderful, but i just didn't have the $$$ to invest, so i only made a little. I'm happy for her and her girls who did so well!!! I'm working on speciality pieces, and leaving it at that...if only to find an investor :) dreams!!!! :(

I must add though, that on the 4th we went to a nearby town with all our friends, and my mom came which was wonderful, she is such a wonderful Nana, but the big shocker was that my DAD came too!!! There's a whole other story, but it was so nice to have him there too!!! My cup was overflowing that day for sure!!!






We also took a trip to some caves nearby (OK almost 2 hrs away) but it was great...until i decided to take scoot to swim under the waterfall...I've always wanted to do that, and my wish was about to come true....it was spectacular!!!! Until the trek back to shore...i slipped on the underwater rocks and felt myself go...i knew it was scoot or me, and i lifted her up with all my mom strength and took the brunt of the jagged rocks on my 40 yr old knees.....i looked like i had been in a fight...but luckily, we had a buddy that is a nurse and he taped me all up and after a couple weeks of healing, I'm good as new. At least i can say my dream came true.

So, it's been a great summer.....time to get back in the swing of things.....ready for school, practicing for mud volleyball, and preparing for the big Labor Day celebrations.....in the midst of planning a party for a dear friend(shhhh, it's a surprise) and getting ready for my first photography gig...life is good!!!!!