A Beaming Mother

How can you not beam when your child's teacher says, "He is a wonderful boy, he is a model student."
GASP!!! Of course I well up with pride, saying to myself "huh, would you expect anything less."
But the truth of the matter is he looks good on the outside but let's examine his heart!
I love my little Elijah and I am very proud of him that he doesn't struggle to sit still or be diligent in class that he tries his hardest and is a really good student. But God has given him those strengths, not me. But God has also chosen to give him great weakness' too. He needs to have a heart transplant. My prayer for him is that he will choose to LOVE above all else. It is very hard to love your annoying sister, your too rough big brother and your very loud and disruptive destructive little brother, your Mom who has to ask you to repeat yourself because she has some hearing loss from that 2 year old and your Dad who tells you "no" or catches you asking your Mom for something you were already told no for and getting into trouble. Yeah he's a "model student" but his heart is what God sees and we must train him up to fear God and not man, to care only about what God cares about and not what man cares about.
I love you endlessly Elijah and I am very proud of you!

Ruby is a Jewel

I Love my dog!

Abercrombie & Fitch

Okay so these photo's might not make their catalog, nor would I like to see my child in their catalogs, but these are stinkin' adorable! So lets say, Abercrombie & Fitch for Kids.

All by myself

Well, not really but I was at lunch time once last week and this is what I ate.

It is my FAVORITE lunch ever and if you want to know the way to my heart, this is it!

Menu:

Sandwich-

Miltons Bread with Best Foods Mayo on both slices (please don't skimp, but don't slather)

Tillamook Medium Cheddar Cheese (not too thick of slice, but not too thin either)

Trader Joes Sprouts

Trader Joes Reduced Fat Cheese Puffs

Country Time Lemonade

Reading Material:

God's Word

Morning and Evening with Spurgeon

I'm lovin' that the kids are back at school and Mommy gets some time to herself.

First Day of School

Yes, off they went!

Not a wince of sadness!

These are HAPPY days!

Hannah in 5th grade

Elijah in 1st grade and

Scott in 8th grade.

They had a terrific day!

P.S. Nobody is missing homeschooling.

Dragging me down

Have you ever felt that something was dragging you down?

Well I got rid of mine!

Eventhough my hair was dragging me down, I am blessed to know that it will bless someone else,

I will donate my hair to "Locks of Love".

Gold, Silver or Bronze

Okay so who hasn't been watching the Olympics??
Well for us who have not had any kind of television for 4 whole years not even broadcast,
We HAVE! So we were at Lowes one night and I grabbed an antenea so that we could watch the Olympics and the Debates with election coverage. So far it has been a blessing and a curse.
Curse - because 2 of my kids have never had televison ever in their lives and cannot pull themselves away from it. They are only allowed to watch PBS
Blessing - because we have soooooo enjoyed watching the Olympics (not the commercials).
They have been so fun and exciting to watch. Yup, I am still as competitive as always! But hey it only comes around every 4 years so that's good.

Also Elijah runs around asking me to watch him and score him. He has yet to get the gold although, I'm not sure what would be gold medal worthy. What's really funny is that he was doing it at church and I am sure people heard us talking about what he got. It's funny to watch him yell at the t.v. with who is ahead and behind and then get totally bummed out when USA doesn't make gold. You should hear him talk trash about China. "Man China doesn't even care about their baby girls but they sure care about those gold medals!" "I can't believe China doesn't even believe in God or allow children to read bibles." He learned all about China at the VBS that he attended this summer. It had an Olympic theme and they collected $ for China so that they could hand out bibles. He's a little sponge with a heart of GOLD!!