New Addiction

After many years of riding horses in high school, then college, then Hubby, then kids, then nursing school, still kids, still Hubby, add church, add a job, add two dogs, add........ Anyway, my point is that other than the horses I cannot recall a time that I have had a real hobby. I mean something that is just for me and only me. This is a chance to get away a weekend here and there, and be someone I've always wanted to be: a creative little lady. Well, this past weekend I had my chance and I LOVED it!!! I went to a scrapbooking retreat. I am proud to say that I made 12 pages and they are sooooo cute!! I just keep taking them out and staring at them. I am so impressed with myself right now! Of course I'm no expert, or even all that imaginative, but I like them and of course the gorgeous faces of my family gracing the pages doesn't hurt a bit!!
I'll be sure to post pics soon (I need to figure out where the disc is to load my camera on this computer),but I highly recommend this hobby to anyone who likes looking at their family! I mean who doesn't like that???????

Amy

Baby Stellan

Just a quick update to ask you to pray for Baby Stellan. Click on the button here or on my side bar to read up!



Amy

Mother of the Year

Yep, that's me! I should definitely win the mother of the year award!! Wanna know why? Well, let me just tell you!!

I did it. I sent my daughter to school VERY sick. See, both BB and DQ have been complaining of sore throats. Actually, we all have sore throats right now. However, if you could see the ginormous Bradford pear trees in our front yard (which you can't cause I don't have my camera installed on my new computer yet), you would understand why we all are feeling a little rough. I digress. Earlier this week I kept BB home from school because he had a slight temp and just really looked rough. He is fine now. So last night when DQ started up with the sore throat stuff I figured it was more of the same, so I gave her a cough drop and put her to bed. This morning she called me at work and said she didn't feel good. The sitter said her temp was normal, so I sent her to school. She got off the bus with 102 temp today, and she actually got in the bed and went to sleep! Now she is sitting next to me with her little flaming hot cheeks, kleenex, and achey little body. Poor baby!

So when's the party? I mean I did just win an award and all.......

Amy

Motivation and Discipline

So as I'm sure most of you have noticed I have been feeling very sorry for myself for a very long time now. I have been pouting, and whining, and just over all had a terrible attitude. I have been convicted.

Over the last several weeks I have decided that I do not like working nights and I have decided to let it get the best of me. I am having a terrible time sleeping days and then living life when I get up. I'm fine when I first wake up, and I'm fine once I've been at work for an hour or so, but the time in between has been HORRIBLE. I have not been cooking supper, doing "chores", spending time with my family, helping with homework, etc. I have been feeding my family fast food and hitting the couch and sleeping till it's time to head to work. I get up long enough to kiss the kids goodnight and then off I go. I have been living for my days off, and then not understanding why nobody wants to do anything fun. Hmmmm, could it be that they have been awake all week living while I've been sleeping it away?

My first clue to this miserable existence is when I went to look at my clock by my bed and I couldn't see it because of the cups, water bottles, advil bottle, and other various items camped out on my nightstand. I've been living in my bed! My next clue was the bigger than usual laundry pile. I actually caught DQ getting a pair of pj pants out of the laundry pile the other day because she doesn't have any clean one's to wear. Finally, tonight at supper BB mentioned it out right to me. Mom, you cooked tonight and that's awesome, but are you gonna go back to bed aftr dinner? I don't feel well and I'd like to snuggle. OUCH!!!


I'm not completely blind, I know I've been awful to live with. I know I have not been the mommy and wife my family is used to. I know that I've been wallowing in my circumstances instead of rising to meet the challenge. I know I'm stronger than this. I know I should just be grateful I have a job. I know just need to suck it up and get on with my life. I know that God has bigger plans than this for me.

So now I seek your prayers. I seek your wisdom. I seek your encouragement. I need motivation, and discipline.

Amy

Too Funny

So as most of you know my daughter has a flair for the dramatic. She also has a new obsession with monkeys. She has always been the animal lover. She sleeps with about 6 million different little stuffed animals nightly, taking great care to switch them out from time to time to be sure they all get some "mommy" time.
For Christmas Santa brought her a make your own monkey bobble head kit. She made them all within 10 minutes and named them all different variations of Bobo. What a sweetie she is. Well, Bear the puppy was on a mission and found Fofo. Needless to say poor little Fofo didn't fair too well. DQ went ballistic. I had to snuggle with her while she cried herself to sleep. Also, she was promised a new monkey bobble head kit so that she could make a Fofo junior. We also had to create a memory box for poor little Fofo's remains. Oh the things we mommies do to mend broken hearts!! So anyway, the next day me, grandmommy, and DQ piled into the car to venture out to Snellville to get the monkey kit. DQ was in the back seat chattering away when this came out:
"Mommy, Fofo isn't dead, she's just having a bad day with her head chewed off and all!"
Oh the things that come's out of that child's mouth!!!!

Amy