As most of you know I have been taking a Spanish class, I love it! Anyways the last 3 weeks Alexa has wanted to come along, she just sits quietly and colors, I think probably she wants to come because it gives her some quiet time away from Brooklynn to do something she loves.
Anyways, last week our teacher could not find the markers she needed to write on the easel to teach us, they looked everywhere and came up empty. Alexa then volunteered her markers for the class, everyone was so grateful cause the class would have been ruined otherwise. Well just about all of her markers got used up, they all went dry and the teacher had to keep switching them out for a new color and Alexa was more than willing to donate them. After the class was over I took her to London Drugs and let her pick out a new set to replace the other ones and she was so excited about that.
Well yesterday we had class again and she wanted to come, we get there and as we are getting settled in the classroom one of the other guys in the class (he is taking it with his wife) goes up to Alexa with a big set of new markers! She was quite excited, I said "See look what happened? You lent your markers to the class and now you've been blessed and got 2 brand new sets!" I LOVE it when the Lord shows himself in even the small things like that, that he would show a 7 year old little girl that he even knows the desires of her heart and that yes HE cares even about markers! I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it, what a special moment for her! Thank-you Lord!!!
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Monday, November 23, 2009
My readers
I can tell sometimes on my blog where people are from that are reading, and I don't know who you are, I just wanted to say hello to you! I have seen that there is one from Auckland, New Zealand, I have no idea who you are but I wanted to say "Hello!" and thank-you for reading, you are my furthest away reader! :o) Another one that I've seen that I don't think I know is from Woodstock, New Brunswick, Hello to you too! I know that there are others and thank-you for taking the time to come by and read my blog! And hey, feel free to join my group of "followers" all that means is that you read my blog regularly, you just click on follow, you can still remain anonymous or pick a name for yourself, one person that's following me I have absolutely no idea who it is: TJ, if you want to TJ, let me know who you are. (that the really curious side of me coming out there! lol)
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
My Story #3
Well it's been a few weeks since I wrote part 1 and 2 so here goes part 3......
The last one I wrote was about my best friend "Jake" one thing that I forgot to put in there about that situation with him when I got married was that he did show up for our wedding, I had asked him to be an usher as well as I had asked his brother. His brother did an awesome job, he showed up in a nice suit and the whole thing and "Jake" showed up in jeans and an un-ironed striped shirt, just his normal clothes that he would wear every day, I was not impressed, "you mean you could not have made the effort to at the very least get a little dressed up?" I thought. I saw him as I was walking down the aisle and he didn't look too happy, he was sitting on the end of the pew about 4 or 5 rows from the front, he left in the middle of the service and I never saw him at the reception. I was quite disappointed.
Dale and I started dating on November 18th, that was when he asked me to "be my baby tonight and maybe for a long time" lol up to that point he had not kissed me yet so I thought now that we were "going steady" that it would happen, nope, it didn't. It didn't happen that night or the next or the next, finally he told me that he was not going to kiss me until I told him that I was ready. Here is me: "what the heck? how embarrassing! how can I say I'm ready for you to kiss me? that takes all the romance out of it!" lol So I finally got up the nerve to tell him I was ready, it was so dumb, lol, he kissed me, it was alright but I was so nervous that I couldn't think about the actual kiss. They did get better after that, so that was good. heehee
Dale and I quickly found ourselves talking about getting married, on New Years that year we said that we hoped to get married the next year. We started praying about it fairly soon after. Dale had been engaged before and he had prayed very specifically about whether or not to marry that girl. He prayed that the Lord would bless him financially, he prayed that the Lord would bless him with a certain amount of money, within a week or two he was nearly broke, that was a very clear answer. He decided that he wanted to pray along the same lines when we were talking about getting married, it freaked me out because I knew what had happened before but I decided to trust him and to trust the Lord that He knew best. Dale prayed for a specific amount of money, our answer came and it was not only met but exceeded, it was also a very clear answer to our prayer. When I found out I cried, I rarely had had an answer to prayer that was so abundantly clear.
We got engaged soon after, it was not at all romantic :o( lol. We were going to go out for dinner and Dale was getting ready, I was sitting on his bed reading a magazine while he got ready. He just turned around with the ring and said "Will you marry me?" I, of course, said yes. He did it that way because he thought I could see what he was doing and couldn't figure out a way to get the ring in his pocket without me seeing, I wasn't even paying attention to what he was doing. He said that he didn't even have a plan on how to ask me anyhow.
All of the wedding plans came together nicely, there were no problems or anything, I loved planning it and I loved our wedding, I would do it again in a heartbeat but Dale thinks it's dumb to renew your wedding vows :o(
The last one I wrote was about my best friend "Jake" one thing that I forgot to put in there about that situation with him when I got married was that he did show up for our wedding, I had asked him to be an usher as well as I had asked his brother. His brother did an awesome job, he showed up in a nice suit and the whole thing and "Jake" showed up in jeans and an un-ironed striped shirt, just his normal clothes that he would wear every day, I was not impressed, "you mean you could not have made the effort to at the very least get a little dressed up?" I thought. I saw him as I was walking down the aisle and he didn't look too happy, he was sitting on the end of the pew about 4 or 5 rows from the front, he left in the middle of the service and I never saw him at the reception. I was quite disappointed.
Dale and I started dating on November 18th, that was when he asked me to "be my baby tonight and maybe for a long time" lol up to that point he had not kissed me yet so I thought now that we were "going steady" that it would happen, nope, it didn't. It didn't happen that night or the next or the next, finally he told me that he was not going to kiss me until I told him that I was ready. Here is me: "what the heck? how embarrassing! how can I say I'm ready for you to kiss me? that takes all the romance out of it!" lol So I finally got up the nerve to tell him I was ready, it was so dumb, lol, he kissed me, it was alright but I was so nervous that I couldn't think about the actual kiss. They did get better after that, so that was good. heehee
Dale and I quickly found ourselves talking about getting married, on New Years that year we said that we hoped to get married the next year. We started praying about it fairly soon after. Dale had been engaged before and he had prayed very specifically about whether or not to marry that girl. He prayed that the Lord would bless him financially, he prayed that the Lord would bless him with a certain amount of money, within a week or two he was nearly broke, that was a very clear answer. He decided that he wanted to pray along the same lines when we were talking about getting married, it freaked me out because I knew what had happened before but I decided to trust him and to trust the Lord that He knew best. Dale prayed for a specific amount of money, our answer came and it was not only met but exceeded, it was also a very clear answer to our prayer. When I found out I cried, I rarely had had an answer to prayer that was so abundantly clear.
We got engaged soon after, it was not at all romantic :o( lol. We were going to go out for dinner and Dale was getting ready, I was sitting on his bed reading a magazine while he got ready. He just turned around with the ring and said "Will you marry me?" I, of course, said yes. He did it that way because he thought I could see what he was doing and couldn't figure out a way to get the ring in his pocket without me seeing, I wasn't even paying attention to what he was doing. He said that he didn't even have a plan on how to ask me anyhow.
All of the wedding plans came together nicely, there were no problems or anything, I loved planning it and I loved our wedding, I would do it again in a heartbeat but Dale thinks it's dumb to renew your wedding vows :o(
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Organization
I have been very busy the last few days with getting my house organized, it's still a work in progress but I at least feel pretty good about the living room, dining room, and kitchen. Now on to the other rooms.....It's something I have had to do for a long time but the task was so big that I thought I just can't do this it's too much! My in-laws were going to come and visit in the next couple weeks and I thought well this HAS to be done by the time they come so I guess I'd better get started. It was a lot of work and today I'm tired so it was nice to have a day off, I stayed in my jammies and got to sleep in and then the girls and I had a nap in the clean living room in the afternoon, so nice!
I was on facebook this afternoon and realized that my cousin had de-friended me, not that we are real close or anything but, it kind of bothered me. I use facebook as a way of connecting with people and getting to know them better etc. Would that bother you? I guess I think its strange because I have friends in Europe and Australia that keep in touch better than some family, anyways I think that family is very important, you may not always have friends but you will always have family because they are your blood, although I have many friends that I feel closer to than I do to family.......
I was on facebook this afternoon and realized that my cousin had de-friended me, not that we are real close or anything but, it kind of bothered me. I use facebook as a way of connecting with people and getting to know them better etc. Would that bother you? I guess I think its strange because I have friends in Europe and Australia that keep in touch better than some family, anyways I think that family is very important, you may not always have friends but you will always have family because they are your blood, although I have many friends that I feel closer to than I do to family.......
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Trusting the Lord
Many of you know that things have been rough for us lately, money is very tight and it is really stressing both of us out incredibly. We pay pretty much all of our bills late, not by choice but because we just can't do it any other way, I get phone calls nearly every week from people wondering when to expect money, at which I respond "I am doing the best I can" and I tell them what is going on with Dale's work.
Since Monday I've had 2 recorded calls from one place saying that "they see that the lines of communication need to be opened" lol They called last week too and I told them what was happening and now they called again on Wednesday morning and it was an actual person and he asked me if things had improved, I'm like seriously? you think in one week it would have gotten that much better? lol I didn't actually say this to him but I kind of laughed and told him that they still owe us from August through til now. I was able to send them a payment on Monday and so he was happy about that. :o)
It's just been one of those weeks, on Monday night my glasses literally fell apart in my hands, I fought off tears all night because of it, they broke where it was not fixable, Dale glued them but they only held together for a day and then broke again. My mom had some old glasses that were almost exactly the same shape and so I took those to the glasses place and my lenses fit perfectly in, so that was great!!! I really need to go see the optometrist but that costs money too. Then on Tuesday morning I go to do some laundry and my washer is broken! Ah! What else?! My dad came and looked at it and he was able to fix it, we were so happy that it was something that could be fixed for free! Thanks Mom and Dad!
We are sure that the Lord is working in our lives and we are trusting Him to pull us through, we just need to remind ourselves of this daily and not let the enemy pull us down.
Since Monday I've had 2 recorded calls from one place saying that "they see that the lines of communication need to be opened" lol They called last week too and I told them what was happening and now they called again on Wednesday morning and it was an actual person and he asked me if things had improved, I'm like seriously? you think in one week it would have gotten that much better? lol I didn't actually say this to him but I kind of laughed and told him that they still owe us from August through til now. I was able to send them a payment on Monday and so he was happy about that. :o)
It's just been one of those weeks, on Monday night my glasses literally fell apart in my hands, I fought off tears all night because of it, they broke where it was not fixable, Dale glued them but they only held together for a day and then broke again. My mom had some old glasses that were almost exactly the same shape and so I took those to the glasses place and my lenses fit perfectly in, so that was great!!! I really need to go see the optometrist but that costs money too. Then on Tuesday morning I go to do some laundry and my washer is broken! Ah! What else?! My dad came and looked at it and he was able to fix it, we were so happy that it was something that could be fixed for free! Thanks Mom and Dad!
We are sure that the Lord is working in our lives and we are trusting Him to pull us through, we just need to remind ourselves of this daily and not let the enemy pull us down.
Fall #2
Ok so I know I said I love fall, I still do, but all of these wind/rain storms are getting a little old. Last night we had a reprieve which was nice but had one each of the two nights before, and now they are calling for another one tonight, really?! Come on! I enjoy the storms but not so much at night when I am home alone and the power goes out and the girls freak out, thankfully that has not happened that many times this year but I still get ready with all the candles going just in case.
Last spring I made up an emergency kit, I put in boxes of cereal, pasta and canned sauce, jarred vegetables, powdered milk etc as well as batteries, battery operated lanterns, and a flash light that does not require batteries (what an awesome invention!). I am so thankful that I have those lanterns now, I have no idea why it never occurred to me before to have these before, now if the power goes out I can just put one in the each of the girls rooms and not worry about leaving it on, that only took 13 years to figure out! lol
Tonight I am off to Spanish class again, only 2 more left, I'll be sad when it's over I am really enjoying it. This morning I talked to my father-in-law, they just got back from several months in Sweden, when he answered the phone he said something in Swedish to me and the response that formed in my mind was Spanish! haha I did take a Swedish course once too so I know a little bit, the basic greetings etc but I had to laugh at my own reaction, that I was getting the languages mixed up.
Last spring I made up an emergency kit, I put in boxes of cereal, pasta and canned sauce, jarred vegetables, powdered milk etc as well as batteries, battery operated lanterns, and a flash light that does not require batteries (what an awesome invention!). I am so thankful that I have those lanterns now, I have no idea why it never occurred to me before to have these before, now if the power goes out I can just put one in the each of the girls rooms and not worry about leaving it on, that only took 13 years to figure out! lol
Tonight I am off to Spanish class again, only 2 more left, I'll be sad when it's over I am really enjoying it. This morning I talked to my father-in-law, they just got back from several months in Sweden, when he answered the phone he said something in Swedish to me and the response that formed in my mind was Spanish! haha I did take a Swedish course once too so I know a little bit, the basic greetings etc but I had to laugh at my own reaction, that I was getting the languages mixed up.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday
Hi everyone! Sorry I've been out of the blog universe for a few days, I couldn't think of anything to post. lol Not that I have anything real exciting now though...........
Last night we had one heck of a storm, both Dale and I were awake quite a bit of the night because of the wind, Brooklynn woke up crying because she was scared, poor girl, Alexa slept right through so that's good. We did wake up to no power but thankfully it came back on in time to get Alexa ready for school.
For quite a while now I've been working with Brooklynn to get her potty trained, she turned 3 in October but she just couldn't seem to get the fact that she needed to do her business on there all the time not only some of the time. Well she's been dry for several days now, hallelujah!!!!! She seems to have a stronger bladder than Alexa, lol. I'm finally seeing the end of diapers!!!!
On Friday I went with my sister to some craft fairs, that was fun, I always enjoy going to those things. It definitely put me in the Christmas mood, I wasn't feeling it quite yet before that but now I'm slowly pulling some decorations out and thinking about holiday baking. As for the plan for today, the exciting task of paying bills or at the very least paying some of them....until I run out of money. :o( No fun to say the least.
Last night we had one heck of a storm, both Dale and I were awake quite a bit of the night because of the wind, Brooklynn woke up crying because she was scared, poor girl, Alexa slept right through so that's good. We did wake up to no power but thankfully it came back on in time to get Alexa ready for school.
For quite a while now I've been working with Brooklynn to get her potty trained, she turned 3 in October but she just couldn't seem to get the fact that she needed to do her business on there all the time not only some of the time. Well she's been dry for several days now, hallelujah!!!!! She seems to have a stronger bladder than Alexa, lol. I'm finally seeing the end of diapers!!!!
On Friday I went with my sister to some craft fairs, that was fun, I always enjoy going to those things. It definitely put me in the Christmas mood, I wasn't feeling it quite yet before that but now I'm slowly pulling some decorations out and thinking about holiday baking. As for the plan for today, the exciting task of paying bills or at the very least paying some of them....until I run out of money. :o( No fun to say the least.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
I Need a Hug
Do you ever have those days that seem like nothing goes right or rather that maybe they go ok but for whatever reason in your mind nothing is going right? Today was one of those days for me.
All afternoon I felt like bursting into tears, I wanted to thinking that maybe I would feel better but I couldn't cry. Before you start asking if it's just PMS, I will say that no it's not, maybe post PMS, is there even such a thing? lol
The day started out not that great, I have not been sleeping that well for a few nights now and last night was no different. Yesterday I shaved my legs but before I did that I tried this new thing that I got sucked into buying at one of those trade shows called "Smoooth Legs" the idea is to buff off the hair on your legs and eventually having it be gone altogether forever, kind of like a guys legs that wears cowboy boots all the time and he's got not much hair where the boots touch his calves. Anyways, what it really is like is a round disk with sand paper on it and you don't buff, you sand it off therefore causing extreme pain after the fact and shaving after it because it didn't really work that well only causes more pain. All this to say that I go to bed, my one leg is killing me so I get up go and rub an antibiotic ointment all over it and then loosely wrap a tensor around so the ointment doesn't come off on my sheets, I then spend the entire night tossing and turning because either my leg is hurting or I'm trying to keep the bandage from coming off.
Dale gets up early to go to the dentist, he had to get a crown put on, when he gets home he's grumpy cause his mouth hurts and because he just had to put out $1000 on his teeth, which for some reason almost seems like he thinks is my fault. (Note: this is probably me misinterpreting things but in my current state of mind..... lol) After a little lunch he then leaves to go and work on some hay stuff, great! SO not great, he's always gone. Can you hear me whining right now? lol
Then I end up having a huge argument with my sister, not the preggo one. Fantastic, she asked me what was wrong between the 2 of us, I answered, nuff said. Blah! Then Dale came home, I had made chili in the afternoon for dinner thinking maybe that would cheer him up that I would have something ready for him to eat when he got home and before he left on his trip again. He ate a little and said it was good but didn't feel like eating much cause of his mouth being sore, ok, I get that.
He leaves and I get Alexa to taste the chili cause she's hungry and I wanted to make sure it wasn't too spicy for her, that was a no go, much to spicy for her! Awesome! (I hope you sense the sarcasm here lol) So I pull out a box of whole wheat mac and cheese and that is what the girls are eating now. I had put one chipotle pepper chopped up really fine in the pot, it gave the chili a nice smokey flavour but I thought after the fact that maybe I should have gone with a less is more mentality with the pepper, I could have always added more later.
I also helped Alexa get caught up with homework which is always a challenge hence the reason she is back in school and why I'm not homeschooling anymore. She has so much because she was off school for several days, she's had a really bad cold with a fever and with all the H1N1 craziness I didn't want to take any chances.
So here I sit, the girls are eating mac and cheese in the living room watching Barbie and the Three Musketeers and I'm thinking when is it bed time? and I can't wait until Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice comes on! How was your day?
All afternoon I felt like bursting into tears, I wanted to thinking that maybe I would feel better but I couldn't cry. Before you start asking if it's just PMS, I will say that no it's not, maybe post PMS, is there even such a thing? lol
The day started out not that great, I have not been sleeping that well for a few nights now and last night was no different. Yesterday I shaved my legs but before I did that I tried this new thing that I got sucked into buying at one of those trade shows called "Smoooth Legs" the idea is to buff off the hair on your legs and eventually having it be gone altogether forever, kind of like a guys legs that wears cowboy boots all the time and he's got not much hair where the boots touch his calves. Anyways, what it really is like is a round disk with sand paper on it and you don't buff, you sand it off therefore causing extreme pain after the fact and shaving after it because it didn't really work that well only causes more pain. All this to say that I go to bed, my one leg is killing me so I get up go and rub an antibiotic ointment all over it and then loosely wrap a tensor around so the ointment doesn't come off on my sheets, I then spend the entire night tossing and turning because either my leg is hurting or I'm trying to keep the bandage from coming off.
Dale gets up early to go to the dentist, he had to get a crown put on, when he gets home he's grumpy cause his mouth hurts and because he just had to put out $1000 on his teeth, which for some reason almost seems like he thinks is my fault. (Note: this is probably me misinterpreting things but in my current state of mind..... lol) After a little lunch he then leaves to go and work on some hay stuff, great! SO not great, he's always gone. Can you hear me whining right now? lol
Then I end up having a huge argument with my sister, not the preggo one. Fantastic, she asked me what was wrong between the 2 of us, I answered, nuff said. Blah! Then Dale came home, I had made chili in the afternoon for dinner thinking maybe that would cheer him up that I would have something ready for him to eat when he got home and before he left on his trip again. He ate a little and said it was good but didn't feel like eating much cause of his mouth being sore, ok, I get that.
He leaves and I get Alexa to taste the chili cause she's hungry and I wanted to make sure it wasn't too spicy for her, that was a no go, much to spicy for her! Awesome! (I hope you sense the sarcasm here lol) So I pull out a box of whole wheat mac and cheese and that is what the girls are eating now. I had put one chipotle pepper chopped up really fine in the pot, it gave the chili a nice smokey flavour but I thought after the fact that maybe I should have gone with a less is more mentality with the pepper, I could have always added more later.
I also helped Alexa get caught up with homework which is always a challenge hence the reason she is back in school and why I'm not homeschooling anymore. She has so much because she was off school for several days, she's had a really bad cold with a fever and with all the H1N1 craziness I didn't want to take any chances.
So here I sit, the girls are eating mac and cheese in the living room watching Barbie and the Three Musketeers and I'm thinking when is it bed time? and I can't wait until Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice comes on! How was your day?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Loved ones #2
As a follow up to my last post about how quickly things can change I thought I would let you know how that has been proven again in our lives just today.
Last week one of Dale's 2nd cousins passed away, I'm not sure exactly how old she was but she was somewhere in her 50's or early 60's, she didn't have cancer or any other sort of disease, it sounds like it was a rather quick thing, she had some sort of lung issue that had come up. Now just tonight we find out that her sister has cancer, she is only in her early 40's! She's got 4 children 2 of which are young, under 6 I think, she's going through chemo and radiation and the doctors are doing all that they can but the cancer is in a few different places. She does not know the Lord, which is very sad, we are praying for her healing and for her salvation as well as for the entire family, believe with us and pray!
We also have a very close friend who was just re-diagnosed with cancer on the exact same day as last year, October 14th 2008 she was diagnosed with cancer when she had gone to have something else looked at and on October 14th 2009 exactly the same thing happened, absolutely amazing! We are also praying for her and for her family for healing and salvation.
These are the sorts of things that I am talking about, how quickly life can change, one day you are trucking along (no pun intended) and BAM there is a road block or detour.
Last week one of Dale's 2nd cousins passed away, I'm not sure exactly how old she was but she was somewhere in her 50's or early 60's, she didn't have cancer or any other sort of disease, it sounds like it was a rather quick thing, she had some sort of lung issue that had come up. Now just tonight we find out that her sister has cancer, she is only in her early 40's! She's got 4 children 2 of which are young, under 6 I think, she's going through chemo and radiation and the doctors are doing all that they can but the cancer is in a few different places. She does not know the Lord, which is very sad, we are praying for her healing and for her salvation as well as for the entire family, believe with us and pray!
We also have a very close friend who was just re-diagnosed with cancer on the exact same day as last year, October 14th 2008 she was diagnosed with cancer when she had gone to have something else looked at and on October 14th 2009 exactly the same thing happened, absolutely amazing! We are also praying for her and for her family for healing and salvation.
These are the sorts of things that I am talking about, how quickly life can change, one day you are trucking along (no pun intended) and BAM there is a road block or detour.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Loved Ones
Last week my Mom had a car accident, I don't think it was her fault but according to ICBC it is, even though the guy that hit her admitted fault. Anyways, I'm not writing this to debate who's at fault I'm writing this for another reason.
My Mom is ok, if you want to call it that, she's got an extremely sore shoulder and emotionally she's bothered by it of course. I took her to the doctor the other day and at just about every light that turned yellow she flinched, I felt so bad for her.
This whole thing got me to thinking about the fragility of life, how quickly things can happen. I have thought about this a fair bit before because of the line of work Dale is in, especially in the winter being on the road all the time with the ice and snow and other drivers who may not be so good at driving, things can change in an instant. I have often thought about it when we've been having a disagreement and he's left on a trip and I think, I need to make this right before he goes but am too stubborn to say anything. How would I feel if something happened to him and our last words to one another were that of argument not I love you's. I know someone who lost someone very close to them very quickly, one moment the person was at her house and with in hours so were the police informing her of the devastating news.
I want to tell you please please please as best you can always make right the wrongs, always leave your loved ones with everything good between you, always tell them that you love them, hug them and love on them!
My Mom is ok, if you want to call it that, she's got an extremely sore shoulder and emotionally she's bothered by it of course. I took her to the doctor the other day and at just about every light that turned yellow she flinched, I felt so bad for her.
This whole thing got me to thinking about the fragility of life, how quickly things can happen. I have thought about this a fair bit before because of the line of work Dale is in, especially in the winter being on the road all the time with the ice and snow and other drivers who may not be so good at driving, things can change in an instant. I have often thought about it when we've been having a disagreement and he's left on a trip and I think, I need to make this right before he goes but am too stubborn to say anything. How would I feel if something happened to him and our last words to one another were that of argument not I love you's. I know someone who lost someone very close to them very quickly, one moment the person was at her house and with in hours so were the police informing her of the devastating news.
I want to tell you please please please as best you can always make right the wrongs, always leave your loved ones with everything good between you, always tell them that you love them, hug them and love on them!
Adventures of Brooklynn
I have been making a huge effort to get Brooklynn potty trained, she's doing pretty good but for whatever reason wants to still wear a diaper, she will still go potty but she wants the diaper, strange. The other day I was working at the computer and Brooklynn comes in and with just a shirt on says very matter of factly "So Mommy I went potty and I cut my hair" WHAT???!!! This is the second time Brooklynn's hair has been cut by a child, the first time Alexa did it and that was only a couple months ago, she was still growing her hair out to fix that. I have no idea how I'm going to have her Christmas pictures taken now with hair like this! AHH! Here is a before and after:
Yummy Recipes
I am so sorry I have not posted in a few days, I've been pretty busy, but now I'm back and have a couple of great recipes for you!
I got these from my friend Carole, I'm pretty sure she would be ok with my mentioning her name on here since she comments with her name and not with anonymous. lol
Carole said to me: "You HAVE to try these, sooo good!" And I wholeheartedly agree.
Aunt Betty's Pork Chops:
Along with the meat I made corn fritters, these are so yummy! You HAVE to try this!
Corn Fritters
I definitely recommend trying these they were both very tasty and easy, right up my alley! Let me know what you think of them when you try them.
I got these from my friend Carole, I'm pretty sure she would be ok with my mentioning her name on here since she comments with her name and not with anonymous. lol
Carole said to me: "You HAVE to try these, sooo good!" And I wholeheartedly agree.
Aunt Betty's Pork Chops:
- Brown pork chops, pork steaks or pork ribs
- sauce:
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1 tsp of dry mustard
- Place in baking dish
- Bake at 350F for 45 minutes
- variation: add 1/2 tsp of chili powder
Along with the meat I made corn fritters, these are so yummy! You HAVE to try this!
Corn Fritters
- 1 can of cream corn
- add 2 beaten eggs
- 6 tbsp of flour
- 1/2 tsp of baking powder
- dash of nutmeg
- prepare like pancakes in a frying pan
I definitely recommend trying these they were both very tasty and easy, right up my alley! Let me know what you think of them when you try them.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
My Story part 2
How did you like my story so far? I got a couple of comments, that's fun for me, I think I've told you that before though. lol Man is it ever a windy stormy night! I hope the power doesn't go out, I have a whole bunch of pretty smelling partylite candles going just in case, I hate it when the power goes out at night and you are not prepared.
So I left off yesterday with me and "Jake" and that ending when I started dating Dale. I told you that we hung out all the time, we would sit on the couch and hold hands even sometimes, crazy that we never got together but I guess since he was not all that sure, indicated by the fact that he didn't want other girls seeing us together it's no wonder lol. I suppose that was the sign that "He's just not that into you" One time in the summer before I started dating Dale, me and "Jake" were at Mount Baker, just hanging out and looking around and we came upon some rapids, it was beautiful; I thought to myself: "lets do a test here" and I said "I bet if I fell in there and died you wouldn't be upset, you wouldn't even cry at my funeral" What a dumb thing to say! lol he was standing behind me and put his arms around me and put his head on my shoulder and said "Yes I would, I would be very upset" I was quite thrilled with this, the fact that he was holding me and all, I had that giddy feeling in my stomach. Here is my internal dialog: "OH MY GOODNESS! HE'S HOLDING ME! THIS IS WHAT BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS DO!!! AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lol Yea, I know what you are thinking, crazy right? My friends that we were there with were even saying to me quietly that they thought he liked me and we were all giggling about it lol. Do you remember that "M & B"? Nothing happened from that event, things went on like normal, we kept doing stuff together and I was rather disappointed. Then came September when we went to young adults and I met Dale and we started dating.
After Dale and I got engaged "Jake" came over to my house and was in our back porch and he was bawling his eyes out to my parents cause he was so upset that I was engaged, I didn't understand, "I thought we were just friends?" "I thought you wanted nothing to do with me that way?" "I liked you and you didn't respond?" I will never forget his face that day, I felt so bad for him but also was quite confused about it. "Why?" I still don't understand why, do you? After a while I asked him to be an usher at our wedding, I would have asked him to be my "man of honor" but thought that people would think that was strange.
About 4 weeks before our wedding he calls me and asks me to meet him for coffee, I was excited, I thought maybe he's come to terms with it and wants to be friends again. I don't know why but I took Dale with me and then he waited for me in the car while I went in to have coffee. Here is the conversation: he says after the hey how are ya's and all that "I want you to marry me, you can keep your dress and everything and use it at our wedding but marry me" I was shocked, how is this happening to me???!!!! I didn't know what to say, I was so thrown for a loop. After I went out to the car to Dale and he asked me "What did he want?" "Uhhhh...........hhmmmmm........yea.......well........he asked me to marry him" Dale flipped, he was so mad that "Jake" was trying to steal me out from under him so to speak.
I didn't know what to think, I was so torn because on one hand I had my best friend whom I had liked on and off for years and on the other I had Dale, I loved him, he loved me, we had answers to prayer that helped us to decide to get married, we've only been together for 9 months, "Jake" and I had been friends for several years. What a problem this had created for me, I thought I was sure about Dale, this had me wondering if I missed something in God's plan for me, was "Jake" the one and I missed it somehow?
The next day I went to work, I worked at Wendy's at the time, my mind still swirling, I hadn't given him an answer and I didn't know what to say yet. Meanwhile back at home a guy comes to the house with a big bouquet of beautiful roses for me, my mom, thinking they were from Dale sent the guy to my work. He comes in the middle of the lunch rush and gives me the flowers and I thought they were from Dale too, until I opened the card, they were from "Jake" OH MY GOODNESS!!!! All the girls at work were all giggly and thrilled for me that Dale had sent me flowers to my work, "How romantic!" Oh man, I could hardly keep myself together, I didn't say anything to the girls, I just took the flowers to the back and gathered myself together and went back to work.
This decision plagued me until my wedding day, as my Dad is driving me to the church he's giving me the "Are you sure you are doing the right thing and marriage is forever talk" I was so torn up, I didn't know what to do, on the way to the church!!! Can you believe that?! On the way there I decided two things: (1) Dale and I had prayed very specifically about whether or not we should get married and had very specific answers to those prayers (this I will tell you more about another time) and (2) I can't cancel or postpone the wedding now because all of our family and friends are there and I can't disappoint them, and it would be so embarrassing. #2 is the most crazy reason to get married, but for me that is a huge thing, what people think of me, I didn't want people to be mad at me.
My decision to marry Dale was the best one I could have ever made, there have been times in our marriage that have caused me to doubt it but the answers to prayer that we got were amazing and that has always brought me back to trusting my decision. I am so thankful that the Lord gave us these answers because without them I can see now that I might not have been able to stick out the hard times.
So I left off yesterday with me and "Jake" and that ending when I started dating Dale. I told you that we hung out all the time, we would sit on the couch and hold hands even sometimes, crazy that we never got together but I guess since he was not all that sure, indicated by the fact that he didn't want other girls seeing us together it's no wonder lol. I suppose that was the sign that "He's just not that into you" One time in the summer before I started dating Dale, me and "Jake" were at Mount Baker, just hanging out and looking around and we came upon some rapids, it was beautiful; I thought to myself: "lets do a test here" and I said "I bet if I fell in there and died you wouldn't be upset, you wouldn't even cry at my funeral" What a dumb thing to say! lol he was standing behind me and put his arms around me and put his head on my shoulder and said "Yes I would, I would be very upset" I was quite thrilled with this, the fact that he was holding me and all, I had that giddy feeling in my stomach. Here is my internal dialog: "OH MY GOODNESS! HE'S HOLDING ME! THIS IS WHAT BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS DO!!! AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lol Yea, I know what you are thinking, crazy right? My friends that we were there with were even saying to me quietly that they thought he liked me and we were all giggling about it lol. Do you remember that "M & B"? Nothing happened from that event, things went on like normal, we kept doing stuff together and I was rather disappointed. Then came September when we went to young adults and I met Dale and we started dating.
After Dale and I got engaged "Jake" came over to my house and was in our back porch and he was bawling his eyes out to my parents cause he was so upset that I was engaged, I didn't understand, "I thought we were just friends?" "I thought you wanted nothing to do with me that way?" "I liked you and you didn't respond?" I will never forget his face that day, I felt so bad for him but also was quite confused about it. "Why?" I still don't understand why, do you? After a while I asked him to be an usher at our wedding, I would have asked him to be my "man of honor" but thought that people would think that was strange.
About 4 weeks before our wedding he calls me and asks me to meet him for coffee, I was excited, I thought maybe he's come to terms with it and wants to be friends again. I don't know why but I took Dale with me and then he waited for me in the car while I went in to have coffee. Here is the conversation: he says after the hey how are ya's and all that "I want you to marry me, you can keep your dress and everything and use it at our wedding but marry me" I was shocked, how is this happening to me???!!!! I didn't know what to say, I was so thrown for a loop. After I went out to the car to Dale and he asked me "What did he want?" "Uhhhh...........hhmmmmm........yea.......well........he asked me to marry him" Dale flipped, he was so mad that "Jake" was trying to steal me out from under him so to speak.
I didn't know what to think, I was so torn because on one hand I had my best friend whom I had liked on and off for years and on the other I had Dale, I loved him, he loved me, we had answers to prayer that helped us to decide to get married, we've only been together for 9 months, "Jake" and I had been friends for several years. What a problem this had created for me, I thought I was sure about Dale, this had me wondering if I missed something in God's plan for me, was "Jake" the one and I missed it somehow?
The next day I went to work, I worked at Wendy's at the time, my mind still swirling, I hadn't given him an answer and I didn't know what to say yet. Meanwhile back at home a guy comes to the house with a big bouquet of beautiful roses for me, my mom, thinking they were from Dale sent the guy to my work. He comes in the middle of the lunch rush and gives me the flowers and I thought they were from Dale too, until I opened the card, they were from "Jake" OH MY GOODNESS!!!! All the girls at work were all giggly and thrilled for me that Dale had sent me flowers to my work, "How romantic!" Oh man, I could hardly keep myself together, I didn't say anything to the girls, I just took the flowers to the back and gathered myself together and went back to work.
This decision plagued me until my wedding day, as my Dad is driving me to the church he's giving me the "Are you sure you are doing the right thing and marriage is forever talk" I was so torn up, I didn't know what to do, on the way to the church!!! Can you believe that?! On the way there I decided two things: (1) Dale and I had prayed very specifically about whether or not we should get married and had very specific answers to those prayers (this I will tell you more about another time) and (2) I can't cancel or postpone the wedding now because all of our family and friends are there and I can't disappoint them, and it would be so embarrassing. #2 is the most crazy reason to get married, but for me that is a huge thing, what people think of me, I didn't want people to be mad at me.
My decision to marry Dale was the best one I could have ever made, there have been times in our marriage that have caused me to doubt it but the answers to prayer that we got were amazing and that has always brought me back to trusting my decision. I am so thankful that the Lord gave us these answers because without them I can see now that I might not have been able to stick out the hard times.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
My Story part 1
So I ended up keeping myself awake for a long time last night writing a blog post in my mind lol. Oh man, that's not good, here I was thinking of funny things that have happened to me and little inside thoughts that I now look back on and cringe...I think I will share these with you, it may get a bit long but that's ok, I hope you enjoy! :o)
My earliest memory is one that I'm not entirely sure is a memory or if it's just a dream that I had once, I know silly eh? I have a terrible memory, I do not remember much from my childhood and this really bothers me. Anyways, so my earliest memory is of when I was 2 or 3, I'm not quite sure, but I was at my Oma and Opa's house in Ontario and it was Christmas time, I remember walking around their dinning room table and there were some stairs that went up sort of in behind the table. I suppose when my Mom reads this she will correct me if this is wrong, like I said I don't know if it's actually a memory. Isn't it funny how we sometimes are just not too sure about some things that happen in our lives? Maybe that's just me! haha!
I have 2 sisters and 1 brother, I don't remember my sisters being born but I remember my brother, I was 10 and my Dad came to school and I was in class, he pulled me out into the hallway and he kneeled in front of me and with a red face and tears in his eyes he said "You have a baby brother!" I cried, man that is such a clear memory for me, I will cherish it forever, I don't think that my brother knows how special he is to all of us, he was a surprise and most certainly a blessing. The poor guy though with 3 older sisters! lol We dressed him up as a girl once and put make-up on him and he was pleased as punch, hahaha, I remember it like it was yesterday!
Oh! That reminds me of another time my one sister, "C" and I were playing and the other sister "J" wanted to play with us soooo badly, we said ok, reluctantly, we didn't really like to play with her because she always told on us and sometimes it wasn't even the truth but mom always believed her. So we go to play and say to her: "Hey how about we tie you to this tree, won't that be fun?" she says: "Yea!!!" So with a huge goofy smile on her face she lines up to the tree and we tie her up, lol, oh we were so mean!!! Then we ran off to play on our own, victory!!! She won't bug us now!!! lol After a while my Mom comes outside to see what we are doing and sees "J" tied to the tree with a huge smile plastered on her face. Mom: "What are you doing tied to that tree???!!!" J: "Angela and C are playing with me!!!" Oh man, now we are in trouble! haha Wow that was mean but it still makes me laugh.
Then there was the time that Mom told us not to touch the pet birds we had, she went out to see my Dad in his shop and we decided to pet the birds then we couldn't catch them to get them back in the cage, by the time Mom got back in the birds had no tail feathers left, we were in real trouble, spanks from both mom and dad that time. One time we came into the living room and could hear this squeak on and off it would go "squeak" "squeak" "squeak" Mom finds "C" behind the couch with her hands around our kitten and she's squeezing it and making it squeak, and she thinks this is hilarious. lol Needless to say she got in big trouble for that one, poor little tortured kitty! So for the rest of our growing up years we were always threatened with and it was talked about getting spankings like the "birdies and the kitties" haha
When I was a teenager about 13 or 14 I got my first boyfriend, he was my first kiss and I was rather thrilled when that happened. lol I think he was cheating on me at his school though. lol When I was 16 I was asked out by another guy, he was a couple years older than me but he had a cool car, I didn't really like him that way but I went out with him anyways mostly cause I felt sorry for him and didn't want to hurt his feelings, poor guy. He was my first "french kiss" and oh man was it ever disgusting! lol I sure hope he's learned to kiss better than that now. lol
Then there was the guy who had a major crush on me and I wanted nothing to do with him, he wore sweat pants all the time and when he would come over he would lay on the floor and we would talk, one time I noticed he was pitching a tent, I'm like OH GROSS!!!! If I didn't like him that way before I DEFINITELY don't now!
When I graduated at the commencement the teachers paired us all up to walk up the aisle when we were done with the program, I was thrilled, lol, here I was paired with a not too bad looking guy who was semi popular and I had to hold his arm! WHOOO HOOO! My parents have a picture with me walking with him and I have a huge smile on my face, I was not just smiling because I was graduated but also cause I got to walk with this guy holding his arm, so dumb, I know but it's funny now.
I had a best friend (a guy) all through high school and before I started dating Dale, we did everything together, over the years I had crushes on him but he would get a girlfriend and I would give up, we were great friends and had fun doing stuff together. When I was 19 I liked him that way again, I had started a college course and met a girl there who invited me to her church to attend the young adults group there, so I went, it was the same young adults group that my friend (lets just call him jake) also went to and my friend from school knew him. The next time I was going to go I talked to jake and said lets go together, his response was one like this: "well ok, but I don't want to go in together because I don't want the other girls thinking that we are dating" Well that wasn't a blow to my ego at all! I said "Ok", how stupid! Anyways we continued to hang out and be friends until I started dating Dale. I will tell you more about this in a later post.
I knew Dale from growing up and seeing him and his family at churches and church events. He was also going to this young adults group and so I saw him there and had a thought: "Hmm I wonder?" Then I saw him at my friends house, the one that had invited me to young adults, she also hosted a weekly bible study and who do you think attended that? Well Dale and his sister of course! lol One week I decided to ask everyone if they wanted to go to hear a radio preacher speak in Delta, I was hoping Dale would say he wanted to come, no one said anything, awe, shot down, oh well. After the meeting I was talking to Dale outside and he said he would love to go with me, BAM first date!!! I was thrilled, I was secretly hoping that he would be the only one to agree to go. lol A week or so later we went, it was boring and we left early and went to Ricky's to have coffee, now I hate coffee for the most part, I will drink it but it's not my first choice, I ordered coffee cause that's what he ordered and I didn't want to seem uncool. We had a nice talk and got to know each other better. After that one date Dale called me to ask if I wanted to come and ride along in the truck with him, he was driving dump truck then and moved around heavy equipment in the evenings, I had a really bad ear infection to the point I was a bit dizzy, but I didn't want to say no because I didn't want him to think I wasn't interested so I agreed and I pumped myself full of tylenol and off we went and had a great time.
The night he asked me to "go steady" is a funny story, we were going to a house party from someone from young adults, he had a pick-up truck and we had to go and pick up a friend of his to give him a ride. On the way to get his friend this is what Dale says to me "I was wondering if you would like to be my baby tonight and maybe for a long time?" Here is me inside: "WHAT THE HECK IS HE TALKING ABOUT????" "TO SAY BE MY BABY TONIGHT MEANS SEX I THOUGHT HE WASN'T LIKE THAT, I WANT TO WAIT UNTIL I'M MARRIED, WAIT A SECOND, THAT CAN'T BE WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, HE'S A GOOD BOY, FROM A GOOD FAMILY.....OOOOHHHHHH I get it, he's asking me to be his girlfriend! Gotcha!" I said yes of course but my internal dialog was absolutely hilarious. I was beaming.
Well we saw each other every day after that until way past getting married. We started dating on November 18th and got engaged at the beginning of May and got married in August, 9 months.
I think I will stop there for today and I will pick up tomorrow where I left off, I hope you are enjoying my story! :o)
My earliest memory is one that I'm not entirely sure is a memory or if it's just a dream that I had once, I know silly eh? I have a terrible memory, I do not remember much from my childhood and this really bothers me. Anyways, so my earliest memory is of when I was 2 or 3, I'm not quite sure, but I was at my Oma and Opa's house in Ontario and it was Christmas time, I remember walking around their dinning room table and there were some stairs that went up sort of in behind the table. I suppose when my Mom reads this she will correct me if this is wrong, like I said I don't know if it's actually a memory. Isn't it funny how we sometimes are just not too sure about some things that happen in our lives? Maybe that's just me! haha!
I have 2 sisters and 1 brother, I don't remember my sisters being born but I remember my brother, I was 10 and my Dad came to school and I was in class, he pulled me out into the hallway and he kneeled in front of me and with a red face and tears in his eyes he said "You have a baby brother!" I cried, man that is such a clear memory for me, I will cherish it forever, I don't think that my brother knows how special he is to all of us, he was a surprise and most certainly a blessing. The poor guy though with 3 older sisters! lol We dressed him up as a girl once and put make-up on him and he was pleased as punch, hahaha, I remember it like it was yesterday!
Oh! That reminds me of another time my one sister, "C" and I were playing and the other sister "J" wanted to play with us soooo badly, we said ok, reluctantly, we didn't really like to play with her because she always told on us and sometimes it wasn't even the truth but mom always believed her. So we go to play and say to her: "Hey how about we tie you to this tree, won't that be fun?" she says: "Yea!!!" So with a huge goofy smile on her face she lines up to the tree and we tie her up, lol, oh we were so mean!!! Then we ran off to play on our own, victory!!! She won't bug us now!!! lol After a while my Mom comes outside to see what we are doing and sees "J" tied to the tree with a huge smile plastered on her face. Mom: "What are you doing tied to that tree???!!!" J: "Angela and C are playing with me!!!" Oh man, now we are in trouble! haha Wow that was mean but it still makes me laugh.
Then there was the time that Mom told us not to touch the pet birds we had, she went out to see my Dad in his shop and we decided to pet the birds then we couldn't catch them to get them back in the cage, by the time Mom got back in the birds had no tail feathers left, we were in real trouble, spanks from both mom and dad that time. One time we came into the living room and could hear this squeak on and off it would go "squeak" "squeak" "squeak" Mom finds "C" behind the couch with her hands around our kitten and she's squeezing it and making it squeak, and she thinks this is hilarious. lol Needless to say she got in big trouble for that one, poor little tortured kitty! So for the rest of our growing up years we were always threatened with and it was talked about getting spankings like the "birdies and the kitties" haha
When I was a teenager about 13 or 14 I got my first boyfriend, he was my first kiss and I was rather thrilled when that happened. lol I think he was cheating on me at his school though. lol When I was 16 I was asked out by another guy, he was a couple years older than me but he had a cool car, I didn't really like him that way but I went out with him anyways mostly cause I felt sorry for him and didn't want to hurt his feelings, poor guy. He was my first "french kiss" and oh man was it ever disgusting! lol I sure hope he's learned to kiss better than that now. lol
Then there was the guy who had a major crush on me and I wanted nothing to do with him, he wore sweat pants all the time and when he would come over he would lay on the floor and we would talk, one time I noticed he was pitching a tent, I'm like OH GROSS!!!! If I didn't like him that way before I DEFINITELY don't now!
When I graduated at the commencement the teachers paired us all up to walk up the aisle when we were done with the program, I was thrilled, lol, here I was paired with a not too bad looking guy who was semi popular and I had to hold his arm! WHOOO HOOO! My parents have a picture with me walking with him and I have a huge smile on my face, I was not just smiling because I was graduated but also cause I got to walk with this guy holding his arm, so dumb, I know but it's funny now.
I had a best friend (a guy) all through high school and before I started dating Dale, we did everything together, over the years I had crushes on him but he would get a girlfriend and I would give up, we were great friends and had fun doing stuff together. When I was 19 I liked him that way again, I had started a college course and met a girl there who invited me to her church to attend the young adults group there, so I went, it was the same young adults group that my friend (lets just call him jake) also went to and my friend from school knew him. The next time I was going to go I talked to jake and said lets go together, his response was one like this: "well ok, but I don't want to go in together because I don't want the other girls thinking that we are dating" Well that wasn't a blow to my ego at all! I said "Ok", how stupid! Anyways we continued to hang out and be friends until I started dating Dale. I will tell you more about this in a later post.
I knew Dale from growing up and seeing him and his family at churches and church events. He was also going to this young adults group and so I saw him there and had a thought: "Hmm I wonder?" Then I saw him at my friends house, the one that had invited me to young adults, she also hosted a weekly bible study and who do you think attended that? Well Dale and his sister of course! lol One week I decided to ask everyone if they wanted to go to hear a radio preacher speak in Delta, I was hoping Dale would say he wanted to come, no one said anything, awe, shot down, oh well. After the meeting I was talking to Dale outside and he said he would love to go with me, BAM first date!!! I was thrilled, I was secretly hoping that he would be the only one to agree to go. lol A week or so later we went, it was boring and we left early and went to Ricky's to have coffee, now I hate coffee for the most part, I will drink it but it's not my first choice, I ordered coffee cause that's what he ordered and I didn't want to seem uncool. We had a nice talk and got to know each other better. After that one date Dale called me to ask if I wanted to come and ride along in the truck with him, he was driving dump truck then and moved around heavy equipment in the evenings, I had a really bad ear infection to the point I was a bit dizzy, but I didn't want to say no because I didn't want him to think I wasn't interested so I agreed and I pumped myself full of tylenol and off we went and had a great time.
The night he asked me to "go steady" is a funny story, we were going to a house party from someone from young adults, he had a pick-up truck and we had to go and pick up a friend of his to give him a ride. On the way to get his friend this is what Dale says to me "I was wondering if you would like to be my baby tonight and maybe for a long time?" Here is me inside: "WHAT THE HECK IS HE TALKING ABOUT????" "TO SAY BE MY BABY TONIGHT MEANS SEX I THOUGHT HE WASN'T LIKE THAT, I WANT TO WAIT UNTIL I'M MARRIED, WAIT A SECOND, THAT CAN'T BE WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, HE'S A GOOD BOY, FROM A GOOD FAMILY.....OOOOHHHHHH I get it, he's asking me to be his girlfriend! Gotcha!" I said yes of course but my internal dialog was absolutely hilarious. I was beaming.
Well we saw each other every day after that until way past getting married. We started dating on November 18th and got engaged at the beginning of May and got married in August, 9 months.
I think I will stop there for today and I will pick up tomorrow where I left off, I hope you are enjoying my story! :o)
Monday, November 2, 2009
Bills
Man do I find the beginning of the month stressful, not just November I'm talking about any month. I have a stack of bills and I have to decide which ones get paid on time and which ones are going to be late, AGAIN! I hate that! We were supposed to get paid today and now that's been put off until tomorrow and so now I'm watching the bank account to see what's going to bounce, and Dale wonders why I have been getting so many tension headaches lately? lol Not only that we have one person that does not cash his checks that I send him in a timely manner, which I hate, the check is dated October 9th and it's still not been cashed! AHH! Hopefully he doesn't decide to put it through before we get paid. All this is why I've been making more of an effort with my Avon and Partylite businesses, anything helps and I make good money on the partylite shows whether they are parties or just book parties, the last one I did was a book party and I made $81 bucks! I'm good with that! Every little bit helps!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Halloween
So I know that at the beginning I had a lot of comments on one of my posts but now it seems that hardly anyone is commenting, is anyone reading this? lol Please feel free to comment, I love them it encourages me to continue, and not to worry I was not dissolved in tears from that earlier post I was fine, so please comment!
Last night was Halloween, I took the girls to the party at the school, it was fun but there weren't as many people there as other years, probably a combo of it being on a Saturday night and maybe peoples fears over H1N1. We had fun, it was too bad that Dale was away though...oh well, we are getting used to it now, or rather I am I should say, lol, the girls maybe not so much.
As I'm laying in bed last night I was thinking about a friends status comment, she said:
Last night was Halloween, I took the girls to the party at the school, it was fun but there weren't as many people there as other years, probably a combo of it being on a Saturday night and maybe peoples fears over H1N1. We had fun, it was too bad that Dale was away though...oh well, we are getting used to it now, or rather I am I should say, lol, the girls maybe not so much.
As I'm laying in bed last night I was thinking about a friends status comment, she said:
"...IS BEWILDERED AT FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST CELEBRATING HALLOWEEN! WHAT DOES LIGHT HAVE TO DO WITH DARKNESS! ARE THEY JUST BLISSFULLY UNAWARE?"
(she always writes in all caps) Anyways, this had me thinking, I have taken the kids to the party at the school and then a few houses afterwards for several years now and never have we focused on the evil parts of halloween, I don't want my kids to feel as though they are missing out on anything but I don't want to cater to the devil either. I know the roots of halloween and I know that it is not what it is based on for many people now a days, now it's just all fun and candy and parties and unless you are a which or something that's all that it is, so what is the right thing to do? I'm not sure, still thinking on that one. What are your thoughts? What would be the right thing to do?
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