Thank You Lord!

As I sit here and type my four year old jumps on the bed and my three month old sleeps three feet away. I am so blessed to have a good sleeper and I don't have to worry about running the sweeper or if the phone rings!

As I sit her and reflect on the past few days that my kids and I spent together running from house to house sharing Thanksgiving joy with family.

My poor husband had to stay home because he got a case of food poison and he was um.....hehe not able to travel.

I am so thankful for great in-laws. On my drive down to KY my father in law called every thirty minutes. It was so cute because he would say "What mile marker are you at" I would tell him and he would tell me how much further till my next turn. Even though I had a GPS he still wanted to make sure I got there safe!

I missed my husband but I am thankful for a great family to make sure that I am safe when my husband can't be there.

I think my favorite part of the trip was the last five minutes on the way home, and the big smile on my little girls face when she saw her daddy come out the front door!

I am so thankful for my amazing family!

My Two beautiful children!

I thank God for giving them to me and keeping them healthy.

There is nothing like looking into the eyes of a child and seeing love. I love it when I go to get Michael out of the swing and he gives me the biggest smile, or when Kaite baits me and ask me "Did I do a good job on my lunch?" and when I say Yes she excitedly ask "So can I have a piece of candy?" and the look on her face when I say yes again. Children get excited and happy over the smallest things like spending time with their parents.

Go hug your kids and thank God for them because before you know it they are all grown up!

Sunday morning conversation on our way to church!

Kaite: I have some money mom.
Me: Oh, where did you get that?
Kaite: I got it out of your apron from when you made me lots of money.

I serve on Saturday nights at Cracker Barrel and when I leave Kaite would cry so I started to tell her that I had to go to work so I could make her lots of money. I always give her my change to put into her piggy bank and for her offering.

Me: so what are you going to do with that money Kaite?
Kaite: I am going to buy something.
Me: your not going to put it in the offering and give it to God?
Kaite: No, allot of people already gave Him money.
Me: but you have to give God some of your money, why don't you just give him like two of your pennies (she had 4 and usually she gets all the quarters out and puts the pennies and dimes in her bank, she knows the value of quarters)and then you can keep the rest.
Kaite: I don't want to. He has allot of money he don't need any more.
Me: Kaite what would God tell you to do with your money?
Kaite: Give it all??
I just asked her if she kept it or gave it all, with that look of do I tell her I gave it or not she told me that she kept it. But she was going to give it all on Wednesday night. I guess I will have to hold her to it! hehe

It does amaze me though how a 4 year old knows that God would say to give him all your money but us adults have a hard time letting go of 10% If only we could learn from the children!

Only in America!

Only in America ......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America .....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in America .....do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
Only in America .....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America .........do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America .....do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER ...
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?


Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?


Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?


You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!


Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?


Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?


I like this one!!!
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?


If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Freedom of Speech!

This is an e-mail that I got the other day, I liked it so much I thought I would post it.




As of yet, we still somewhat have "freedom of speech" and for those who thought G.W. Bush was so bad........... well, read on.................

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVD's, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May(Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?


If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

Just be who God wants you to be!

When I was a kid I use to look up to my sisters allot. I always wanted to be like them. I still look up to my sisters but in a different way. I look up to them for their different personality's, their accomplishments and their wisdom, and other things. You say wisdom? Well I say that any one who has traveled longer on a road than you has some wisdom for you, and you can ALWAYS learn something new from just about anyone!

I guess there comes a time in your life when you have to grow up and move on from those things you did as a kid. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Cor 13:11 (KJV)

I was known as the sarcastic, heartless, mean, little brat who was just not allot of fun to be around. I pray that I have moved on from that and have become and independent, stable, young woman who tries to just focus on making my family and God happy. Before I use to find happiness in being mean to people and trying to out wit them. Now when I see other people doing what I use to do and I cringe.

I work with allot of different age groups and so I see allot of different personality's. Some times I see kids talking down to older people just because they know how to do something and the other one does not. It makes me want to smack them to tell you the truth.

Our kids today are raised with NO and I mean NO respect for adults. I use to be one of those kids!

It takes allot of admittance to come to face the fact that life has to go on and you have to grow up sooner or later. I pray that I have grown up. Some times I feel that OLD MAN trying to creep its way back up in my life and the only thing I can do is pray that God smacks him down again.

The one thing that I can say is I was raised right! My parents taught me all the things I needed to know to face life. I may not have known it at the time but now that I look back on things I see.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it"

Prov 22:6 (KJV)

My parents did that for me and my other siblings and I pray that I can use what they taught me to teach my children.

Yes every one goes threw their little stages of life but we all have to come to face the fact that one day you have to get to doing what we were sent here to do. You can't go threw your life trying to think of something clever to say to some one if they tick you off, or lay awake at night thinking about how some one hurt you or your family.

God tells us to put the past in the past and even yesterday is the past!

There are things I still struggle with and I am trying to overcome and I pray that God will give me the grace to do so!

The thing is to recognize the problem and let God fix it! Because even if we don't admit it openly we know what our little problems are!

Hehe my family is probably saying, "She finally sees what we do" and they are right!