TGIF
Ok...so really it's Wednesday but for me it's Friday...yay...Donald has two days off. Woooot
Can I even tell you how much I like Sing a Song by 3rd Day???? I could listen to that song again and again and again and again. :)
Did you know that some scientist believe in the Big Bomb theory??? Did ya? Well as we were looking at one of Nathan's 859,512,100 dinosaur books Nathan told me that today. :) There was a discription block talking about the dinos, how big they were, how much they weighed, and how long ago they lived etc. One we were reading said it lived 150 million years ago to which Nathan (5) responded ''that is nonsense, but some scientist do believe in that big bomb theory'' ROTFLOL
Finally please keep my friend Terry in your thoughts and prayers. Her daddy had open heart surgery on Friday was recovering wonderfully and as they were getting ready to move him out of ICU into a regular room he had a massive stroke that effected his brain stem. He was basically non responsive with a temp of 105 and no brain activity. They were going to pull the plug today, but mercifully the Lord took his this morning around 5:30. Its of course very very sad for my friend Terry, but she is so relieved not to have had to go through taking him off life support.
We're off to get some groceries and maybe pick up a few movies. Hope yall have a good evening.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Monday, March 29, 2004
It was a dark and stormy afternoon
Ok, so we had a HUGE thunderstorm this afternoon. I'd just gotten Nathan and Daniel settled in their rooms with Mr. Henry going and had taken Elijah to my room to get him down. I was watching cspan (or the like) with some dated (as in early-mid 80's) coverage about illegal aliens and all of a sudden there was a HUGE pop and the tv and cable box go off and then of course thunder follows and Nathan and Daniel commence to screaming. I got everyone into my room and it poured for a solid hour. Nathan doesn't take naps but he usually just kinda chills out for an hour at least....Daniel` and Elijah both still nap....however today they haven't and RIGHT THIS MINUTE I'm about >< that close to selling them at the Mexican market. LOL They are all three absolutely WILD. Hopping, jumping, yelping, up and down the stairs, up and down the stairs...aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thankfully Donald will be home within an hour. I'll be taking a trip to Target I believe...momma needs a mental health trip. LOL
:::back to what you were doing:::
Oh yeah, I'm fairly certian the lightening hit the tv/cable box in our bedroom...which means we'll be getting a new tv I suppose...or maybe not?
Ok, so we had a HUGE thunderstorm this afternoon. I'd just gotten Nathan and Daniel settled in their rooms with Mr. Henry going and had taken Elijah to my room to get him down. I was watching cspan (or the like) with some dated (as in early-mid 80's) coverage about illegal aliens and all of a sudden there was a HUGE pop and the tv and cable box go off and then of course thunder follows and Nathan and Daniel commence to screaming. I got everyone into my room and it poured for a solid hour. Nathan doesn't take naps but he usually just kinda chills out for an hour at least....Daniel` and Elijah both still nap....however today they haven't and RIGHT THIS MINUTE I'm about >< that close to selling them at the Mexican market. LOL They are all three absolutely WILD. Hopping, jumping, yelping, up and down the stairs, up and down the stairs...aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thankfully Donald will be home within an hour. I'll be taking a trip to Target I believe...momma needs a mental health trip. LOL
:::back to what you were doing:::
Oh yeah, I'm fairly certian the lightening hit the tv/cable box in our bedroom...which means we'll be getting a new tv I suppose...or maybe not?
Do I Remember
1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (Nov. 22, 1963)
****no, I was just about 9 years and 7 months away from being born.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (May 18, 1980)
****I was 6, so in the first grade...I want to say I remember television coverage...but then again that could just be I've seen coverage since then and catagorize it as remembering it...KWIM?
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (January 28, 1986)
****Yes, 7th grade was home from school for some reason...maybe sick? There was a funeral at the church (my dad is a pastor, we lived next door to the church) I had walked to the fellowship all for some reason and when I cam back to the house I walked in, in time to see it happen. :(
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (July 10, 1989)
****Yes, I'm pretty sure we were watching the San Fransico Giants play a baseball game when it happened.
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (July 11, 1989)
****I *should* remember this, really I should. I do know it happened...I know that my cousins has a part of it (his dad order it...who knows if its real?) but I don't have a working knowledge of any of the news or such surrounding it happening.
6. When the Gulf War began (January 16, 1991)
****YES, driving down I20 headed to church Wednesday evening when the first planes started I remember listening to it on the radio as I was driving. I was a senior in high school.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (June 17, 1994)
****LOL yep I was at our singles bible study and we all collectively watched it and had various conversations surrounding it. LOL
8. When the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed (April 19, 1995)
****Yes. It was the day Donald and I got engaged also.
9. When Princess Di was killed (August 31, 1997)
****Yes, I had just finished watching a movie (michelle phiffer and Robert Redford(?) journalist, it's a love story-ish type movie...anyway, it ended on a sad note (can't say that I remember now what happened) but I remember she or he was covering news in Panama (Donald had just returned from Panama in Sept '96 and was currently in Bosnia) so I was all weepy and crying...I turned off the tv to see that is had just happend...I ended up watching CNN forever and crying still. LOL I taped the funeral (in case Donald wanted to watch it when he got him...lol, he did not) I also either had just bought or later went out and bought some new plants and ended up naming my ivy, Diana (yeah, yeah, I name EVERYTHING, what of it....)
10. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their classmates at Columbine High School (April 20, 1999)
****I do remember this, and I remember crying more so because I was holding my 7 month old first born, thinking ''what is going on in this world....what have we brought you into''
11. When Bush was first announced President (November 7, 2000)
****LOL Which time. ...I pretty much watched FOX News all during the whole election and so heard him announced, Gore announced, both retracted and then watched the whole chads dealio too. :)
12. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (February 28, 2001)
****Absolutely no recollection of this
13. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (September 11, 2001)
****Of course. It was Nathan's 3rd birthday. Donald was working 3rd shift so when he got home from work that a.m. he brought Nathan a moon pie (Nathan called them mooncakes and loved them at that time) upstairs with three candles and sang happy birthday. We came down and naturally turned on Fox news and saw the second plane hit. I cried and cried that day and for several days after that...and am crying now thinking of it. That was such a dark dark sad day. After the inital showing we of course ushered the boys to the playroom and didn't allow them to watch it. I remember Nathan asking what happened and I told him ''some people were very angry and didn't use their words...and they hurt a lot of people and lots of people were sad'' He asked if he could say a prayer and said "dear Lord, please help those people who hurt their heads, amen'' I can only assume when the saw the second tower fall he thought of the people inside getting hit.
1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (Nov. 22, 1963)
****no, I was just about 9 years and 7 months away from being born.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (May 18, 1980)
****I was 6, so in the first grade...I want to say I remember television coverage...but then again that could just be I've seen coverage since then and catagorize it as remembering it...KWIM?
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (January 28, 1986)
****Yes, 7th grade was home from school for some reason...maybe sick? There was a funeral at the church (my dad is a pastor, we lived next door to the church) I had walked to the fellowship all for some reason and when I cam back to the house I walked in, in time to see it happen. :(
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (July 10, 1989)
****Yes, I'm pretty sure we were watching the San Fransico Giants play a baseball game when it happened.
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (July 11, 1989)
****I *should* remember this, really I should. I do know it happened...I know that my cousins has a part of it (his dad order it...who knows if its real?) but I don't have a working knowledge of any of the news or such surrounding it happening.
6. When the Gulf War began (January 16, 1991)
****YES, driving down I20 headed to church Wednesday evening when the first planes started I remember listening to it on the radio as I was driving. I was a senior in high school.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (June 17, 1994)
****LOL yep I was at our singles bible study and we all collectively watched it and had various conversations surrounding it. LOL
8. When the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed (April 19, 1995)
****Yes. It was the day Donald and I got engaged also.
9. When Princess Di was killed (August 31, 1997)
****Yes, I had just finished watching a movie (michelle phiffer and Robert Redford(?) journalist, it's a love story-ish type movie...anyway, it ended on a sad note (can't say that I remember now what happened) but I remember she or he was covering news in Panama (Donald had just returned from Panama in Sept '96 and was currently in Bosnia) so I was all weepy and crying...I turned off the tv to see that is had just happend...I ended up watching CNN forever and crying still. LOL I taped the funeral (in case Donald wanted to watch it when he got him...lol, he did not) I also either had just bought or later went out and bought some new plants and ended up naming my ivy, Diana (yeah, yeah, I name EVERYTHING, what of it....)
10. When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their classmates at Columbine High School (April 20, 1999)
****I do remember this, and I remember crying more so because I was holding my 7 month old first born, thinking ''what is going on in this world....what have we brought you into''
11. When Bush was first announced President (November 7, 2000)
****LOL Which time. ...I pretty much watched FOX News all during the whole election and so heard him announced, Gore announced, both retracted and then watched the whole chads dealio too. :)
12. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (February 28, 2001)
****Absolutely no recollection of this
13. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (September 11, 2001)
****Of course. It was Nathan's 3rd birthday. Donald was working 3rd shift so when he got home from work that a.m. he brought Nathan a moon pie (Nathan called them mooncakes and loved them at that time) upstairs with three candles and sang happy birthday. We came down and naturally turned on Fox news and saw the second plane hit. I cried and cried that day and for several days after that...and am crying now thinking of it. That was such a dark dark sad day. After the inital showing we of course ushered the boys to the playroom and didn't allow them to watch it. I remember Nathan asking what happened and I told him ''some people were very angry and didn't use their words...and they hurt a lot of people and lots of people were sad'' He asked if he could say a prayer and said "dear Lord, please help those people who hurt their heads, amen'' I can only assume when the saw the second tower fall he thought of the people inside getting hit.
Weekend Recap
Donald worked. :)
That was easy, huh? See when you have one vehicle and your hubby's schedule has his ''weekends'' fall during the week, you really don't do much on the 'actual' weekend. :)
Oh Dana found out she's having a girlie girl at her ultrasound last week...congrats to yall...and have *fun* buying all that pink stuff. I'm telling you should we have another child and should it be a girl...whoa be unto the girls department I will buy SO MUCH GIRL'S stuff it will make heads spin and cash registers explode from all the purchases. LOL
I'm doing a really good bible study, I just started it a couple of weeks ago. It's Living Beyond Yourself by Beth Moore, it's a study on the Fruit of the Spirit and I'm also starting another online bible study soon called ''Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit'' I know God has much in store for me in that one, since I'm neither meek nor quiet ;)
Oh I got my hair chopped off Thursday. Got about 12 inches cut off....wooooooo hoooooooo, I'm lovin it as the ol' McDonalds commericals say. :)
AND speaking of McDonalds (I mean I just did...so that was as good a segue as any, right???) why oh why do people sue the likes of McDonalds because they are fat and have heart disese/high blood pressure/diabetes etc. I mean REALLY, REALLY are you going to try and tell me that when you were taking a big ol' bit of that quarter pounder and the grease was puddling up on the paper below (or on your pants leg, if you were driving down the road after hitting the drive thru...lol) you somehow thought that wasn't going to lead to clogged arteries down the line??? REALLY??? And the whole phasing out of the super size meal things (just read about this in US News last week) WHAT, now people don't have to be responsible for how much they eat, so we are going to play guide and just not offer them any other choice in a hope that they won't order TWO??? See, folks I'm not a skinny girl...and I dont' blame my weight on anyone other than myself. Sure maybe genetics play into it, to some degree. Maybe having 3 babies in 4 years does too. BUT I and I alone make the food choices I make. I go to McDonalds I look at the menu and I have a choice I can chose an grilled chicken salad (with lite dressing) or sandwich (w/no mayo) and both are decent meal choices...or *I* can choose a big ol' quarter pounder with fries and a big ol' super sized drink. I MAKE THOSE CHOICES...not McDonalds...geeze folks. Lets take responsiblity for how we live and quit making other people responsible. Its not like mean ol' Ronald McDonald stands there chanting ''you will get the double cheeseburger..super sized please, you will get the double cheese burger super sized please'' And personally this WHOLE rant (other than the fact I really think it's quite ludicrous that people want to blame others/resturants/fast food chains for their bad choices) is that I REALLY like getting a super sized drink. I can nurse that baby for a good two hours. But go ahead, take that big ol' size away, otherwise I might be tempted to sue McDonalds too....but WAIT, shouldn't drinking THAT much coke, make one have to make many many trips to the restroom, thus encouraging activity, thus boosting your metabolism, thus burning calories, thus losing weight...
ok ok, I'll stop...but really,,,,
Oh found out today my friend M will be moving to Alaska by November. Her hubby is Air Force (think I mentioned them in a previous post) and he will be stationed there. They are very excited since that is the duty station they wanted...and hubby is excited because he wants to go salmon fishing...so hopefully we'll go up to visit in a couple of years or so.
Hubby won me a CD over the weekend. :) He was listening to some christian talk radio show and they were interviewing Dennis Jernigin. Donald called in, talked to him a bit and got his new CD to boot. YAY, new praise and worship. :)
I've been thinking about the boys Easter baskets for the last few days. We do the Easter basket and color eggs on Saturday. We do the resurrection eggs and also resurrection rolls on Sunday...just trying to keep things in perspective, KWIM? Anyway...I think I'm getting them ball caps and then will fill them up with stuff. For Nathan I'm thinking a watch (simple, digital, walmart $6.96 special...lol) the boy LOVES reading the clock and knowing what time it is. :), a new Mr. Henry CD, the Steven Curtis Chapman CD with "King of the Jungle'' on it, some bubbles, a new toothbrush and a nestle wonderball (Nathan is just not a candy kind of kid...I promise he'd pick fruit anyday over candy :) Daniel will be the Veggie Tales Easter DVD, a couple of new Hot Wheels and a book and then bubbles and candy (he is a HUGE candy boy :) Granted, they will share the dvd, the cds. :) Elijah is getting a hat too, but not to sure what I'm going to fill in his with. He lacks for very little, since he is the third boy...we have most everything out there...but I'll find something.
Whew...well that should catch you up reasonalbly on the going ons around here.
Hope everyone has a GREAT week.
Donald worked. :)
That was easy, huh? See when you have one vehicle and your hubby's schedule has his ''weekends'' fall during the week, you really don't do much on the 'actual' weekend. :)
Oh Dana found out she's having a girlie girl at her ultrasound last week...congrats to yall...and have *fun* buying all that pink stuff. I'm telling you should we have another child and should it be a girl...whoa be unto the girls department I will buy SO MUCH GIRL'S stuff it will make heads spin and cash registers explode from all the purchases. LOL
I'm doing a really good bible study, I just started it a couple of weeks ago. It's Living Beyond Yourself by Beth Moore, it's a study on the Fruit of the Spirit and I'm also starting another online bible study soon called ''Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit'' I know God has much in store for me in that one, since I'm neither meek nor quiet ;)
Oh I got my hair chopped off Thursday. Got about 12 inches cut off....wooooooo hoooooooo, I'm lovin it as the ol' McDonalds commericals say. :)
AND speaking of McDonalds (I mean I just did...so that was as good a segue as any, right???) why oh why do people sue the likes of McDonalds because they are fat and have heart disese/high blood pressure/diabetes etc. I mean REALLY, REALLY are you going to try and tell me that when you were taking a big ol' bit of that quarter pounder and the grease was puddling up on the paper below (or on your pants leg, if you were driving down the road after hitting the drive thru...lol) you somehow thought that wasn't going to lead to clogged arteries down the line??? REALLY??? And the whole phasing out of the super size meal things (just read about this in US News last week) WHAT, now people don't have to be responsible for how much they eat, so we are going to play guide and just not offer them any other choice in a hope that they won't order TWO??? See, folks I'm not a skinny girl...and I dont' blame my weight on anyone other than myself. Sure maybe genetics play into it, to some degree. Maybe having 3 babies in 4 years does too. BUT I and I alone make the food choices I make. I go to McDonalds I look at the menu and I have a choice I can chose an grilled chicken salad (with lite dressing) or sandwich (w/no mayo) and both are decent meal choices...or *I* can choose a big ol' quarter pounder with fries and a big ol' super sized drink. I MAKE THOSE CHOICES...not McDonalds...geeze folks. Lets take responsiblity for how we live and quit making other people responsible. Its not like mean ol' Ronald McDonald stands there chanting ''you will get the double cheeseburger..super sized please, you will get the double cheese burger super sized please'' And personally this WHOLE rant (other than the fact I really think it's quite ludicrous that people want to blame others/resturants/fast food chains for their bad choices) is that I REALLY like getting a super sized drink. I can nurse that baby for a good two hours. But go ahead, take that big ol' size away, otherwise I might be tempted to sue McDonalds too....but WAIT, shouldn't drinking THAT much coke, make one have to make many many trips to the restroom, thus encouraging activity, thus boosting your metabolism, thus burning calories, thus losing weight...
ok ok, I'll stop...but really,,,,
Oh found out today my friend M will be moving to Alaska by November. Her hubby is Air Force (think I mentioned them in a previous post) and he will be stationed there. They are very excited since that is the duty station they wanted...and hubby is excited because he wants to go salmon fishing...so hopefully we'll go up to visit in a couple of years or so.
Hubby won me a CD over the weekend. :) He was listening to some christian talk radio show and they were interviewing Dennis Jernigin. Donald called in, talked to him a bit and got his new CD to boot. YAY, new praise and worship. :)
I've been thinking about the boys Easter baskets for the last few days. We do the Easter basket and color eggs on Saturday. We do the resurrection eggs and also resurrection rolls on Sunday...just trying to keep things in perspective, KWIM? Anyway...I think I'm getting them ball caps and then will fill them up with stuff. For Nathan I'm thinking a watch (simple, digital, walmart $6.96 special...lol) the boy LOVES reading the clock and knowing what time it is. :), a new Mr. Henry CD, the Steven Curtis Chapman CD with "King of the Jungle'' on it, some bubbles, a new toothbrush and a nestle wonderball (Nathan is just not a candy kind of kid...I promise he'd pick fruit anyday over candy :) Daniel will be the Veggie Tales Easter DVD, a couple of new Hot Wheels and a book and then bubbles and candy (he is a HUGE candy boy :) Granted, they will share the dvd, the cds. :) Elijah is getting a hat too, but not to sure what I'm going to fill in his with. He lacks for very little, since he is the third boy...we have most everything out there...but I'll find something.
Whew...well that should catch you up reasonalbly on the going ons around here.
Hope everyone has a GREAT week.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Homework
What time of day do you do most of your housework? Is that by choice or by necessity?
I get up and make the bed and do a general tidy of the upstairs before coming downstairs fixing the boys breakfast and unloading the dishwasher while they eat. I generally start a load of laundry during that time too. We do a pick up before lunch and I tend to mop/deep clean while the boys have quiet time and then another pick up before we go to the park in the afternoons. In the evenings I clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher and tidy up the living room before going to bed. :)
What time of day do you do most of your housework? Is that by choice or by necessity?
I get up and make the bed and do a general tidy of the upstairs before coming downstairs fixing the boys breakfast and unloading the dishwasher while they eat. I generally start a load of laundry during that time too. We do a pick up before lunch and I tend to mop/deep clean while the boys have quiet time and then another pick up before we go to the park in the afternoons. In the evenings I clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher and tidy up the living room before going to bed. :)
Back
Ok, I'm back. I'm updating. :) I'm trying to decided if I should go back and fill it or just start from today. Me thinks since it's 1 a.m. I'll just do one of those ''what I did today'' entries and call myself caught up. :)
Donald was off today so we headed down to Brownsville where we are members of the zoo and had a great time. I really like our zoo. A LOT and I can't really tell you what is so great about it...but I love it. :) It rained off and on but we ended up walking around it in some and it was fine. We finished up there and headed to the mall to walk around some ended up grabbing supper at the food court. We came home watched a bit of animal planet and then it was showers and devotions for the boys. I picked up two new devotional books a few weeks back at Sam's and Nathan loves them. He is also really really into the Mr. Henry CD's right now and I have to say I am incredibly impressed with the content and presentation myself. Nathan is absorbing that stuff like a sponge.
Oh we did get a new van while I was gone. Well it's a 2002 but since we don't buy *new* cars that is new to us. :) Love it love it love it. :)
Ok...more soon. Gotta go to bed for now.
I'll also be adding more links of my reads soon...I've found a few new ones that I"m really enjoying.
Ok, I'm back. I'm updating. :) I'm trying to decided if I should go back and fill it or just start from today. Me thinks since it's 1 a.m. I'll just do one of those ''what I did today'' entries and call myself caught up. :)
Donald was off today so we headed down to Brownsville where we are members of the zoo and had a great time. I really like our zoo. A LOT and I can't really tell you what is so great about it...but I love it. :) It rained off and on but we ended up walking around it in some and it was fine. We finished up there and headed to the mall to walk around some ended up grabbing supper at the food court. We came home watched a bit of animal planet and then it was showers and devotions for the boys. I picked up two new devotional books a few weeks back at Sam's and Nathan loves them. He is also really really into the Mr. Henry CD's right now and I have to say I am incredibly impressed with the content and presentation myself. Nathan is absorbing that stuff like a sponge.
Oh we did get a new van while I was gone. Well it's a 2002 but since we don't buy *new* cars that is new to us. :) Love it love it love it. :)
Ok...more soon. Gotta go to bed for now.
I'll also be adding more links of my reads soon...I've found a few new ones that I"m really enjoying.
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