Breaking a board!!

It was a very exciting night for Brigg at Tae Kwon Do.  He broke his very first board!!  He was so very proud!  You need to remember that he had never seen anyone break a board before and we had not either.  He was the first one to try tonight and so we were all MORE than shocked when he really did it (Brigg was as shocked as anyone!!)  So in the video you will hear us all (Paul, myself, mom and Tricia) scream and you will see Brigg’s eyes about pop out of his head.  It was too funny!  Click on the following link to view video…

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Friday

Well, the week is over.  Usually Fridays are pretty lazy for us.  No preschool on Friday and I can usually get by without even leaving the house.  Which today is all I feel like doing…being lazy.  I have this constant undertone of feeling on the verge of puking and I’m tired and a bit crabby.  I’m hoping its got a little something to do with the weather.  But Brigg is so excited because tonight at TKD he will be learning how to break a board!  So it looks like I will have to actually get out of the house today!   Which is good.  I need to be forced!  I’ve got a pork roast in the crock pot, laundry going, kids in pj pants painting in the dining room, and the dog laying around napping (which is all i feel like doing myself!).  So I keep plugging along, praying that I will return to my energetic self SOON.  The new me is NO FUN AT ALL!  So I am hoping it’s just the temporarily insane me that has taken over my body and I will be returning to myself soon.

Is it possible

Do you think it’s possible in this family to have a baby with dark eyes, dark hair and a dark complexion?

If not, oh well.  These 2 are pretty cute!

Baby induced psychosis

That’s what I’m calling it.  I’m insane…seriously a crazy woman.  Apparently being pregnant after 2 other chidren causes this.  I am completely out of control of my emotions for 20 out of the 24 hours a day.  Paul pleaded with me tonight, “Pleeeaaase!  I don’t WANT you to be crazy!”  I can’t help it.  Really, I got something today that says this child is the size of a raspberry.  How can something that tiny cause me to feel so insane?!?!  I did not feel this way with the other 2.  I barely felt pregnant until 5 or 6 MONTHS.  Here I am at 7 weeks feeling sick and like I might just be better off in an institution until I get my emotions under control.  I’ve tried smiling, laughing, cooking, baking, being lazy, going on walks, talking on the phone, playing with my children, reading and laundry.  Nothing takes it away.  How long will this last?!?  Lie to me….PLEASE!

Spring has arrived!!!

The kids thoroughly enjoyed the weekend!  Now if the warm weather would just stay!

Sibling Rivalry?

Just wait until there is one more in on the war…

Holiness

“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things.  It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us.  It consists in accepting and following the will of God.” (Mother Teresa)

My budget went up in smoke!

Jesus said, “The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what God wants.  Then all these other things you need will be given to you.  So don’t worry about tomorrow.” (Matthew 6:33-34 NCV)

I’m pregnant.  I’ve been holding out on posting it because it’s so very early and I have needed some time to adjust to this new information myself!  It does not fit into my “5 year plan” and definitely not into my newly designed and constructed “Financial Peace University 100 page Budget”!  But it is slowly sinking in and I am slowly letting go of my control issues and feeling excited about what’s to come!  I have my first doctor appointment April 9th.  I am thinking I’m about 7 weeks along right now.  Already I have been feeling pretty crappy and hope this is not an indicator of what’s to come!  So there you have it!  The word is out!  Today I am thankful…and I will not worry about tomorrow.

Just one thing missing…

Today was almost perfect.  The weather could not have been nicer.  The kids played and played.  We worked out in the yard all day long.  All our plants are popping up.  But it just wasn’t the same without Lyn.  This is her favorite time of year.  She LOVES her tulips and they are coming up all along the side of her house.  She would have been so happy today.  Virtually every Sunday the produced this kind of weather was spent outside with Lyn and Greg.  We’d work in the yard a while and then come together for a break.  We’d drink some tea and tell a story…Lyn’s laugh was contagious.  We’d share plants and gardening tips.  Greg or Paul would take turns loading up their trucks and taking a load of yard waste to the recycling center/composte.  I just kept looking over at her house wishing she would walk out the back door.  At one point Brigg even said, “Remember Lyn used to lay out right there in her yard?”  She was so much a part of our lives and we all miss her…especially on days like today.  I’m sure that spring will never be the same.

FOUND

As soon as I published my post on the missing remote, Paul started taunting me again.  He kept trying to tell me that the fact that the remote seemed to be gone forever was MY fault.  He said, “It’s probably in your purse–that would take me a whole day to sort through–or in your car–which would take me a WEEK to sort through!”  I said, “It’s probably buried in the chair that you plop your butt down in every night!”  So to prove me wrong he flipped the chair over one last time to look INSIDE of it.  This is what he found…

(Sorry Daren, still no purple flashlight!)