Within 36 Hours…

It all happened within 36 hours…

I got (remember my composition score) received my pampered chef starting set in the mail today… I’m in and I’m ready to roll.

I registered for my first college course 10 years post high school graduation.

And They Call Me Crazy…

All I have to say is this… summer + two kids (well, three but I’m speaking about two right now) + time + something/probably sin = FIGHTING KIDS! 

Yesterday, they picked to bad back and forth… and part of me thinks it’s like the episode on Andy Griffith where the husband and wife are fighting and Andy makes them stop and then they end up being ugly to the world instead of each other, and he figures out fighting is their love language… yeah, part of me thinks that…  but anways, they picked so bad that while we were running errands they had to give each other five compliments…  I don’t know what, or if it did anything, but at least it was quiet while they were thinking…

This morning Madeline had a friend come over for the day and to spend the night and Charlie started off foul because it’s uneven in his mind, even though we’re heading to the pool where two of his friends will be…  oh, the joys of parenting.  It’ll all be good, it just makes me tired.

Anyways, aside from refereeing I’ve been keeping busy.  I signed up to sell Pampered Chef and have my first three shows booked for the next month.  I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my kit.   

On Tuesday, I had a big day…  Wendy and went down to the local piano dealer and pounded it out for a couple hours… on the keys and with the salesman.  We’re looking at a baby grand for the church and have narrowed it down… it’s so pretty and it sounds really nice.  Then I headed to Sinclair to retake all of my placement test that I had stopped at Alegbra a couple weeks ago.  The problem was my knee… I was supposed to head back within 10 days to finish the last section so I didn’t have to retake the thing but because of three doctor’s appointments and a bum knee I never made it back… so I had to head down and retake the whole stinkin’ thing.  The good news is that I passed the thing.  I’m not sure to what level… my reading score was at college level.  My composition skills… eh, not so much.  (Have you noticed the lack of correct punctuation on here…I tend to just type/write how I speak, which is not correct… but it conveys a message… anyways) and then I qualified to take ‘Elementary Algebra’ which means I scored high enough to not take rudimentary math, or even basic math but I still could construct a pretty good argument against the fact that ‘Elementary Algebra’ is certainly NOT taught in elementary and therefore does not need to be called elementary… that’s my soap box for the day.  But all in all, it went well…

Then before we picked the kids back up Stephen and I got to have dinner at ‘Spaghetti Warehouse’.  It was the scene of our first date a little over 13 years ago…  man, that is a long time.  Anyways, Tuesday was a pretty good day.  Yesterday was a home day… I have less than a load of clothes in my dirty clothes basket and about seven on my dining room table…  

Anyways, I need to go.  I need to pay a couple bills, jump in the shower and then get the kids ready for the pool.  It will probably be a kids in teh water only day… it’s only supposed to get near mid-80’s this afternoon and the pool is spring-fed… that amounts to a little bit of chill…

I Got A Picture…

Hey Rebecca… I was flipping through my mom and dad’s pictures from the conference and I had forgotten they had taken pictures at the same time so… drumroll please… (If you can’t copy it off here I can email it to you…)

Rebecca & I at the SBC Convention

The Run Down…

I know I have failed at blogging this week… I’m not sure why but I have. My knee kinda threw me into a funk because it was work to do anything around the house… but a couple thoughts quickly…

1. I love my new polish color for my toes… really love it!
2. I knee is improving greatly… it’s slightly lavendar now…
3. I will be a Pampered Chef Consultant within 48 hours… a new adventure that I will be praying through each step…
4. I want to do something fun and cheap tonight with my family…
5. I’m in the mood to shop… but am resisting! (Kinda, we do need (relative word I know) to look for a dress for Madeline, I told her we’d try to find something patriotic for Sunday…)
6. Oh, I don’t know…

Saturday Nights…

What’s your Saturday night look like?!? I generally hear someone preaching in the background… tonight?!?

Tonight was a great night… we had a cookout with our Starting Point small group. We’ve finished up the Starting Point material and it’s been an awesome 11 weeks. Anyways, we had a cook out, the guys played some corn hole, we roasted marshmallows for smores and enjoyed the sun going down…

Now we’re home, the kids are in bed, I’m laying in bed… I just finished up typing Stephen’s sermon notes (the visuals…) and now I’m sitting here talking to myself… watching P.S…I Love You and listening to a sermon in the background… (The office is hot so Stephen has the door open, I try not to listen to the preview… it ruins the real thing… anyways…)

So, that’s what my Saturday night looks like. Oh, it also involves laying out three tiny outfits, my clothes, and sometimes ironing… I’m not tonight, it shouldn’t be bad tomorrow… I lay out my music, the diaper bag and anything else that has to go with me. The least amount of stuff that has to get done in the morning is better…

Well… good night. Worship tomorrow… enjoy your family…

I’ve got many thoughts a brewing for this coming week and I’m looking forward to a Pampered Chef show given by my good friend from South/North Carolina… I can never remember… sorry Pam. If you’re close come on by on Thursday. Email me and let me know you’re coming, we’re just gonna have fun!

Doctor, Doctor…

tell me the news… I need a new change of attitude… (or however that went…)

Doctor’s orders…
1. Stay off as much as possible (three kids, vbs, sure…)
2. Motrin/Advil… check!
3. Ice
4. Elevate
5. Brace (uncomfortable as the dickens)
6. E-rays (check…painless)
7. Come back on Tuesday…

From Seventh Heaven to…

Okay, I know what I was going to say next, sorry. In fact this song may be more appropriate… “And the walls come tumblin’ down…)  I made a post yesterday regarding our WONDERFUL afternoon… and it really was. Seconds after I posted my phone started to ring and the handheld was the bedroom. The layout in our house is you can walk through the kitchen(where I was) through the bathroom into our bedroom… so I started… quickly… I hit the bathroom floor and slipped and landed so hard…

I can honestly say I have NEVER felt pain like I did in that moment. I thought my leg was broken. I looked down and it looked totally disfigured then, as I was screaming like a banchee… I realized it was my kneecap instead of my leg out of place.

Whatever possessed me, I do not know… but i was able to pop my knee back together… gross I know. I almost threw up, I was seriously nauseous…

I’m sure, had there not been major pain involved my actions were probably quite comical… I scooted on my booty and back into our bedroom, my previous destination of desire… and called Stephen… he came home right away and was able to help me… actually, the kids were awesome too. Charlie mopped up the water, Madeline got me ice as I was screaming rolling around on the floor… they were pros!

We still ended going to Lousiville… we got to see some precious people from my past (how’s that for illiteration…) we also got to spend a couple hours with mammaw and Stephen’s aunt and uncle and cousins (Terry, Ann, Joel, John). We hadn’t seen them a little bit and it was wonderful getting that time with them. I know Stephen enjoyed talking ‘church’ with Terry. (Funny side note… Joel was working at the Lifeway bookstore at the convention and got seriously yelled at yesterday by a lady and her pastor husband… not funny really… but kinda funny… his bagger helper girl/lady almost cried… Joel was NOT amused… still kinda comical… not the attitude… more on picturing someone screaming at Joel…)

Anyways, we made it back in time for rehearsal tonight and it was a great 24 hours away… aside from the throbbing knee that looks like my great-gramma’s.. seriously, it’s gross. (The bruising is coming to the surface… gross.)

To Quote…

“This is the life… VBS in the morning, heaven in the afternoon.”

A friend invited us over today to swim after VBS and I couldn’t echo her sentiments more loudly… except we only enjoyed it for an hour and a half or so becuase we heading out of dodge. In less than one hour I have to finish packing, just for one night–no big, distribute children, print maps, and head out the door for the SBC convention.

We’re heading there for the general session tomorrow to hear a former pastor give the Annual message… Bro. John Marshall of Second Baptist Springfield, MO.

So, until later… happy vbs-ing to those that are doing that this week… (We’re only skipping out on one day… I’ll be back for practice tomorrow night…) and enjoy a piece of heaven…

‘Tis the Season…

Two wedding in two weeks… tis the season to be jolly… This will be Stephen’s wedding debut… not that it’s about him… but, it’s still his first. He looks dapper right now. He had to leave about a minute ago because he has to go to a funeral first… how’s that for a line up?!?

Anyways, I don’t have more than a minute but I just needed to say that I love a good wedding!

Do You Ignore?

Does your blood pressure start to raise when your child is yelling for/at you from the opposite end of the house?

Do you ignore them?

I must admit, most of the time… I do.