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Monday, November 09, 2009

Keeping Up

I have a hard time getting on here... I used to post the silly stuff the kids say. Most of it these days just ends up going on my Facebook statuses.  I still have a few lists here or there.  Maybe one day I'll get them all together.

Going through photos on the computer and saw there were several I'd forgotten about...

Stephen's 7th Birthday

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A Trip to a Local Farm

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Grace was thrilled to find Snow White... Stephen's just crazy. 

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Trying to be one of the seven dwarfs

Annual Leaf Pile

You can see Faith was not thrilled with her first leaf pile experience. 

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Bengals Game
Months ago Andrew saw a little form to fill out for a drawing of 4 free Bengal's tickets at Wendy's.  He wanted to fill it out and immediately was planning who would go. We informed him that the chances of him winning were so small that it would never happen.  Nevertheless, being the good parents that we are :) we filled out the form and paid the exorbitant amount that is required to mail an envelope these days.

A few weeks later we get a phone call informing us that he'd won.  We were totally shocked! He just had this wide "told you God would work it out" grin.  :) 

The tickets were in the 20th row... Stephen decided at the last minute that he would be bored.  :)  So Andrew took two Uncles along with Dad.  Of course, it was extra neat that the Bengals had a great game and that it was so unseasonably warm.  (considering it's November)  Here's a few photos of his big day.

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Finally, a few of the Sunday morning photos of our little character.  :)

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Fall

...is rapidly going by!  We had a fun outing today to John Bryant State Park.  Hooray for Dads who work at home and are willing to work late instead... and piano students who can come another day... and for home school which will still be waiting for us tomorrow.  :(  :)

Life has been so full of football practices, games, cold weather, housework, school, etc. that it was nice to enjoy one of the last warm days.

Unfortunately we failed to bring a map... ended up way off track... and poor Brian had to trek back well over a mile to find our van for us...  but good times!  :)

Here's a few photos...


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Brian beginning his long walk back to the van.


Monday, September 21, 2009

Back to School

Many things have kept me from this...  I probably shouldn't be doing it now either, but it lays upon my conscience... blogging guilt... it's a sad, nagging burden we inflict upon ourselves, isn't it?

Seems like we rushed through summer, barely had time to catch our breath and here we are into the school year already. 

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Here's some pictures of the kids on their first day of school... starting out with their devotions and too excited to bother to get dressed first. I will say that sadly that the same spark of energy has slightly died over time... but we still manage to have some fun times amidst the utterly miserable teeth pulling sessions.  :) 

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It's been a bit overwhelming... we have yet to complete all the things on our school list in one day... maybe someday soon. The coveted nap/"my" time has been sucked into school time as well.  Perhaps we need to start a bit earlier... or maybe once I can stop spending so much time in milk production for Faith things should SURELY improve.  I could surely use that 90 min.  :)

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She's now rolling everywhere...

Finally put off the inevitable and started food with her this week. Plain rice cereal is rather bland, I guess.

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Enjoyed an overnight Ladies Retreat with an old friend Kristine Banker Lancette speaking to us from her life message.  How fun to catch up again with someone you haven't seen in over 12 years and still find them the same faithful friend, following the Lord!
 
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Favorite quotes from the weekend...
Lord, make me willing to be willing...
Every morning I go out to my driveway and stoop down and enter my "Jet Plane of Grace." 
God wants to live life with me, thru me and FOR me.
God needs us in His reality... not Him in our reality.
Don't try so hard... just cooperate!
Through our regrets we know our Redeemer.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and all is well.  - Corrie Ten Boom

The boys started Upwards Flag Football this past Saturday.  VERY, VERY exciting for them!  They both scored touchdowns and are just thrilled with their coaches and the opportunity to play again.  The excitement is rather contagious.

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Here's Faith with her pink cheeks from cheerleading all day on the sidelines... playing in her "ADD" walker.  I'm sure it must cause it... look at all the entertainment... How can a school teacher POSSIBLY keep up?

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Priorities
It’s the time of year to regroup… reorganize everything and prepare for the new school year.  It’s been quite the job and I’m only officially schooling 2 kids right now… how mothers do it with more… well, I guess I’ll find out one day soon… ☺

I walked in my pantry the other day and looked around… I saw untouched science books I was hoping to read the kids over the summer, a Names of God study we didn't finish, a juicer we’ve never used, a bread machine covered in dust, a huge bag of wheat we’ve never opened, baby food I was supposed to start with Faith this week and haven’t.

I walk out and hear my kids trying to pick things out on the piano when I quit giving them lesson a year ago when Faith came along, blank walls where I’ve never hung anything since we repainted, my garage is FULL of boxes of things where we cleared the back room for Brian’s office and I can’t figure out how to bring them all back in.    And the list could go on and on…

But while I wander about trying to figure out where to begin, the “next thing” calls me away and I get to none of it…  and once the “next thing” is done, what do I do?  Well, I figure the day is a wash anyways, so I sit down at the computer and browse Facebook for 20 minutes.

How do you get it all done?  I am not Supermom and know that’s not possible.  However, I have to wonder, if I took everything out of my life that shouldn’t be there… could I get it all done? or at least a lot more of it?  Am I just "settling?"

I don’t want my kids to be lacking in their education because I stayed on Facebook too long each day… or to never know about the scorners in Proverbs because I get up too late in the day and we skip Bible time, or never got to our study project?  Or we have health problems in years to come because I didn't take the time to fix enough wholesome food... :)

There is a place in life for time for “me” but I think it can get out of balance.  So… I don’t know that I have any answers… just praying that the Lord would help me sort through what is His best for me and what are time wasters…  Meanwhile school starts on Monday… and the to-do list isn’t going to allow for much else, I’m thinking… we shall see.

Vacation

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We had the opportunity to go on vacation with my family this past week to Topsail Island, NC.  Thankfully we avoided a hurricane this year and the weather was mostly cooperative.  Here's a few photos, though most of you may have already seen them on Facebook.

 
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How many hours did you say this trip was?

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Our house for the week

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Stephen being his typical self 

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Night time swim in our pool

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Got chins?

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Does anyone notice that the tide is coming in?


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Relaxing...

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Cousins, Jamie & Kenny
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Faith greeting me in her "closet bed" where she was kind enough to stay awake most days and keep her Mommy from getting too much sun.  It helped to discover a new tooth was the cause of the problem.

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Going out to hunt for shark teeth with Grandpa
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Coping with internet withdrawal by searching for neighboring wi-fi signals

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All the Uncles

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And our first family picture of 6


Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Updates

Answers to Prayer
... Whooping cough seems to be contained to just Stephen. 

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...We only had a few "scary" days with him. Thankfully it's settled down to the occasional coughing fits, which though they're sometimes rough for him, and require a run to the sink or restroom at times, they're much better than they were! God had mercy on us.

...VBS seemed to go really smoothly this year and everything came together really well.   Thankful for all the help and prayers.  Aside from having to video conference in Stephen, which was sad, it was a good week... full of fun learning & good memories.

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Andrew, the happy winner of the "hermit crab" drawing which were our object lesson mascots for this year.  (He was so thrilled, how could we say no?)  :(  :)

In other news... Grace turned 4 last week.

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Grace & cousin, Jamie

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Special Princess Party with Zylka Friends & Emma

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Faith getting in on the fun

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Cake with Nana & Poppa

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And finally, Faith in her little Bumbo seat.



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