Thursday, October 23, 2008

So, this is a first. I've never blogged at the library before!! LOL

I'm here, waiting on my daughter while she's in Leapfrogs, a free story/craft time here at the library. We came last week & she LOVED it, so here we are, back for more. I think this is a great thing to incorporate into our weekly schedule.

ANYWAYS, not much really going on here... HAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, right :)

Steve's still recuperating from his carpal tunnel surgery, and gets very frustrated since he can't really lift baby boy (I have to place him in his left arm if he needs/wants to hold him), and he definately can't clean out the garage right now. Which is a bummer because I just realized that I have a couple of tubs out there with my warm/winter clothes in them... **sigh**

Abbey's taking dance classes & is loving that, too. She's such a sneak, though. I've caught her in her room this week with a MARKER writing on her walls, her Princess table & her little princess vanity table, AND, she smuggled in some of my acrylic paint (BROWN) & was doing heaven knows what with it... She got into some major trouble this week...

ANYWAYS, she has been funny, too. Here's part of the conversation we had after that awful day...there were other issues this day, too, if memory serves...

Mommy: "Abbey, you are 4 years old, and you are more than able to put your own clothes away in your drawers after Mommy folds them."
Abbey: "You mean, like Cinderella?"

Part of me wanted to laugh out loud & part of me wanted to wring her little neck!! LOL (Just a figure of speech for the casual passer-by). So, Steve & I went on to tell her the difference between how Cinderella was treated & how SHE was acting...She didn't like being referred to as an ugly step-sister.

Eli's been doing great!! He's in that stage where he doesn't really know what to do with himself, yet. We REALLY need an exersaucer. We lent/gave ours to Matt & Chelle & they had a flood this past spring, & that was in the basement, so it was lost. It was a freebie to us, anyway. I think we'll look at Once Upon a Child for one. I think that will help him occupy himself & see what's going on & satisfy that wanting to see Mama thing :)

I'm going to the EWomen's conference this weekend with some ladies from my church. We're doing that instead of a traditional fall retreat (traditional for us, anyway). I'm really looking forward to the speakers!! Lisa Whelchel will be there, Chonda Pierce, Thelma Wells, Mark Shultz, and a few others...I'm SO looking forward to it!! :) We're staying in a hotel & eating out...Just like a girl's night!! :)

Okay, I'd better go... I don't want to spend all this free time online :)

Love ya!! :)

Saturday, October 11, 2008



Happy Saturday!! :)

I thought this was cute :)

Not much going on...my husband, who just had hand surgery this past Wednesday, went on a men's campout retreat yesterday...

MEN!!

I think it's silly, but whatever :) I know he'll have a good time (if he doesn't hurt his arm/wrist/hand) being with the fellas, but seriously...

Anyways, I'll talk to ya'll later!! :)

Thursday, October 09, 2008

LOVE this new website...

If you're reading my blog, then you see what a neat-o look I've got going on!! I can't take credit for designing it, but you can follow the link & get your own!! I had to fiddle with the template some to get the background colors off & stuff, but it wasn't too hard...

Anyways!! LOL I'm such a techno geek!!

I don't think I shared with you all, Abbey started taking dance classes!! This past Monday was her 3rd class, and she loves it...Unfortunately, though, we might have to start using that as "currency" because new sibling rivalry has started in, we think...It's been a rough couple of weeks...

In other news, Night in Bethlehem is off...again... After reading all the materials & getting the message "this is a great way to show new people how much you have going in your children's ministry" it just didn't settle right with me. I don't get into it too much here, but our church is in trouble...financial, low attendance, big mortgage, you name it, we're going through it!! We've had a need for Sunday School teachers ever since we started going there, and there still hasn't been anyone to step up to take over my old class & I've been gone since Easter... So, after praying about it (A LOT) & going to my 2 sisters who are also Elders, we made the very hard decision to cancel/post-pone this until further notice. I didn't want to have a Children's Ministry Wonderland set up only for people to find out that it's not... It's pretty depressing, actually...

I have decided, on the other hand, to start bi-monthly "Family Day" programs. These will, hopefully, give us a starting point to get everyone excited about welcoming families & children into our church, and DO something!! :) Not very expensive to put together (Always a plus), Not too involved teaching-wise, but still informative & encourages family togetherness. Now, don't misunderstand me, I love VBS!! I really do!! And, Awana is pretty awesome, too!! But there isn't a whole lot out there for whole families to come together & do things together as a family. This would discourage "drop 'em off, pick 'em up" & hopefully not be a turn-off because of that...Again, not that there's anything wrong with that, I've just felt that, my church in particular, has a bad habit of departmentalizing families instead of bringing them all together every once in a while...

Am I being boring so far? LOL

Steve had carpal tunnel surgery on his right hand yesterday. He's doing very well with his vicadin!! LOL He took off today, gets a new bandage put on it tomorrow, but he's been doing very well. Soon, he'll probably have to schedule to have the other one done, but since it's not as bad as his right one, they'll wait a while for it...

I'd better go. I need to get to bed at a decent hour tonight. Steve has it in his head that he's going on the Men's Camping Retreat this weekend, not having the use of his right hand, and I think he's crazy...but we'll see...The dr. or whoever that sees him tomorrow will be able to tell him yay or nay...

Love you all & prayers for Missy & Jodi's family...