and so it goes....

ok, so i've been pretty negative lately, and that's not like me, really...

so, enough is enough...time to put on the happy face and hope it will stick.

Blessings thus far:

The Lord

Heathy Family

Wonderful Kids (most of the time)

Roof over our heads...

food in our fridge (and freezer Yeah!)

So MANY WONDERFUL friends

two jobs...when some dont even have one...

so many activities we actually have to choose what to go to...

and i could go on...

I guess i needed an attitude adjustment...thank you Lord for loving me all the while...in the peaks and valleys...and always picking me up!

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....

commercial
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.....