This is my life

Here is a little background you need to know to fully appreciate this story.  We live at point A.  Point C is down the road about 45 minutes and that is where the grocery store and the dentist are.  Point B is a town on the way to Point C about 15 minutes from home (so it is about 30 minutes from Point C).  Does that make sense?  Good.

On Monday, SweetHeart decided to make a dentist appointment for SweetBoy at the same time as his next appointment.  Great!  Well, that didn't work, so they set it for the end of the month.  That wasn't good for me.  When he called back to change it, they asked, "What about tomorrow at 4?"  No problem.  New plan for Tuesday...since we would be in town where the grocery store is and I haven't been in like a month, I got my grocery list ready to do that while we were there. 

So Tuesday I pick up SweetBoy a little early from school and we are off.  We were talking about how long it would take us and when we would get home.  I was estimating a little before bed time--no reason to rush.  Then he says, "Oh, Mom, I have a basketball game tonight."

"Tonight?  Like in a few hours?" 

"Yes, I got a note today about it."

You have got to be kidding me!  So our nice little trip to Point C just turned into a race!  Thankfully the game was at Point B, and thankfully the game was later than it usually is!  We arrived a little early, so we stopped to get gas.  Then on to the dentist where we left right when we needed to so we could head to the store.  (And by the way, no cavities! Praise the Lord!)  We set a land speed record in Wal-Mart, and got everything on the list, I might add!  (Except cleets for baseball that SweetBoy is hounding me about, but they didn't have them!)  Then we hit Sonic and left with plenty of time to not have to speed to Point B to get changed and play basketball.  (Dad and the other kids met us there with his jersey.)  Whew!  Are you tired too?

Thank goodness it is not like this all the time!  But with two about to be playing baseball/softball, our schedule is going to kick up a notch.  (Hopefully we will have a little more notice about games and practice.)  That would be helpful!  ;) 

Well, that is what is happening here.  How about you?  Any tips about balancing schedules and getting it all done?

Spring Break 2010

What a week!  We spent last weekend with Granny and Papa, and we all met the rest of Granny's family half-way to celebrate Papaw's 82nd birthday!  It was a short trip, but good to visit with that side of the family.

After lunch we went to see Jenni and her family while we were in town.  She had just hosted a slumber party for her girls and then we came!  Thanks, Jen, for your hospitality!  It was great to see them!

Then it was home for school on Monday.  Yes, the decision-makers last year planned a snow-make up day for the Monday of Spring Break.  Evidently they had not used one in a decade and never intended on needing it.  Well, this year we did!  Hopefully that won't happen next year!  ;)  Then it was off to see Meme and Granddad and the rest of SweetHeart's family.  We had a great time, and totally enjoyed the warm sunshine.  I had not really had spring fever until now, but I'm ready for it!  The trees were budding and flowers blooming...and my alergies kicked up! (Not ready for that part of spring!)  Anyway, here are some of the highlights.  Two afternoons we went to have coffee with Mamaw.  It was good to see her.  We met the brothers and their families at the pizza shop for supper.  We had cousin fruit basket turn over.  My kids went to stay the night with them.  One cousin stayed with us.  They had a blast!  SweetBoy enjoyed going to work with Granddad and helped fix a computer or two.

We went fishing with Uncle K and some cousins.  It started out chilly, but warmed up when the sun came out.

SweetDoll caught a fish!

So did SweetBoy!

The next day one of Aunt M's friends was hosting an Easter party and they let us tag along.  The kids had so much fun!  They had a jump house, crafts (including dying Easter eggs--Wow! they were brave!), egg hunt, food, and just plain playing around. 

Then there is our big news of the week...the kids have been wanting a new dog.  OK, I have been too.  I'm ready for all the good, fun parts of having a dog, but not the not-so-fun parts.  Anyway, we had put them off to wait until it was warm outside.  We were looking for a Rat terrier just because that is what we have had before and we like their temperament.  They are not super popular and you don't find them in the paper that often, so we had been keeping an eye out for one because, you know, it is getting warmer now.  While we were visiting hometown, SweetHeart dropped by the vet just to see if maybe there were some posted.  There was one female rat terrier for FREE!  Right dog, right price--yea!  So we called about her and picked her up on our way home!  Let me introduce you to Lucy, our new puppy!

The kids are loving her!  They overwhelm her sometimes!

She will be 8 weeks old next Tuesday.

I'm so glad we waited until it was warm outside!  This is what we came home to...

Thankfully, the kids are still enamored enough to go out with her.  And by Monday, when they are back in school, it will be warm again!  At least until it snows again on Wednesday!  Ugh, hurry up spring!

Scripture Memory 2010 #6

Are you looking forward to spring break?  We are!  I don't have a lot of time this morning because I have a thousand things to do, but before I forgot I wanted to jump on here and do a Memory Verse.  I have been reading Beth Moore's new book So Long Insecurity and doing the discussion with the siestas.  If you have known me long, I know you are saying, "Thank You, Jesus!  It is about time!"  Yea, me too!  That, along with our ladies' Bible study, God is working.  This is one of the verses that came up, and I want it in my arsonal.

Isaiah 43:18-19
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."  (NIV)

The New Living Translation says that last part like this:  "I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home.  I will create rivers for them in the desert!"  I am in uncharted territory, so I am very grateful that God is making a pathway through my wilder-ness and providing refreshment along the way home where I can be the woman He created me to be.  I am looking forward to this new thing!  Do it, Lord!

Hope you have a great week!

I really am blond!

I may heart blogging, but I can be really dingy! I have it set that when there is a comment, blogger sends me an email.  All this time, I have responded to your comments by replying to those emails thinking they went to your inbox.  Today Mom left a comment and later when we were on the phone she asked me if I saw it.  Yes, and I had sent a reply, but she couldn't find it.  When I investigated further, I discovered that it goes no where!  So all this time you have been so kind to read this and comment, and thought I dropped the conversation ball.  I am so sorry!  I really have responded!  So now that I know, I will do better.  I promise!

On another hair note...I was filling out some paper work online and one of the questions asked hair color.  (By the way I put down brown--that is just wierd to me.)  Anyway, they had the usual options, but the one that struck me funny was unknown!  I have never been brave enough to color my hair, but I may need to!

I heart blogging

I have enjoyed blogging for a while now, but have gained a new appreciation for it recently.  I have been working on our family picture album from 2008.  Yes, I realize it is 2010 and that is a difference of two years!  It is odd I don't have many pictures (relatively speaking), and I'm not sure why.  For example, I only have 5 pictures of SweetBoy's baseball season that year.  Five.  That is so not like me!  Maybe I was too busy chasing a 2 year old.  That must have been it...oh, and we were potty training!  No wonder!  I really didn't see much of the games!  Anyway, I am amazed at how little I remember to journal with these few pictures.  Many times I have gone to the blog to see if I wrote anything noteworthy here.  Thankfully, it has filled in many blanks!  I like my digital scrapbook here in the now, so I can refer back to it later when my brain fails me!

Speaking of baseball...yesterday we signed up for baseball and softball!  Yea!  I am spoiled to have everything within walking distance, so practices and games 15 minutes away are going to cramp my style! :) 

Question...(you are up for a random post, right?  Good.)  We are almost at a point of reaching some pretty mountainous goals, and I feel the need to celebrate, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that.  I am curious, how do you and your spouse or family celebrate milestones of accomplishment (beyond birthdays and anniversaries)?

Thanks for stopping by today, Blog Buddy!  You are another reason I heart blogging!

Scripture Memory Team #5

I am realizing over and over again how much I need God's Word to work in my life.  It is so powerful to change the way I think and react.  It gives me so much hope that struggles I have right now will not be for long if I let Him chip away at it.  And it gives me the strength to know it will be there in the future when I need to stand on that promise again.  This is just huge to me!

Here is my verse this time around.  (Remember you can choose your own, you don't have to pick this one.)

1 Peter 2:9  (NIV)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into His wonderful light.

Our pastor has been teaching in 1 Peter for several weeks and this caught my attention.  Then it came up again, so I'm guessing it is a truth that I need to take to heart!  To be chosen and belong to God is so precious!  And to know that He will never reject me or turn me away.  He always has time for me, and when I seek Him, I will always find Him.  His wonderful light is SO much better than the darkness!  No one else can fit this description!  I love being His!