Welcome home son!

Michael arrived safely...we were all glad to see him home. They are such a cute fam! 

 

Another day, another step closer

so along time ago i talked about having a house that was like a commune, not the wierd Charles Manson type, but the "living life together" kind of home. well, now we have one more body in our home. Cricket came home a couple weeks ago, and then today Daniel moved into our basement. He is affraid of spiders, so the basement might be a challenge for him, but it is the only space we have left.

Jesus..

So this morning REALLY sucked. Long story short...Tim is angry at me. See, we got up relatively early to register Chess at school and take Cricket to work. We had to drive seperately b/c he had an appointment at 9. He thought Cricket was riding with him, she came with me b/c I was out the door first. He called me and was a little miffed that Cricket went with me, he said "I thought I was taking her?" Hummm....funny, we didn't have a conversation about that before we left the house. So we go through the registration process and when we get home he asks me if I am agrivated with him, I said no. I don't know what he went off to do, but I came down to get on the computer b/c I wanted to get some things done before I had to take Katie to work. I am sitting here changing my desktop picture back to one of Ashlyn b/c Chesiney had changed it to a picture of Jeremy Camp. Tim comes up behind me and says "Wanna see something funny? Go to my email." So I obediently got o his hotmail account and he proceeds to get a chair to sit next to me. So we are in his mailbox and he says "I guess he didn't send it to me. Nevermind." The mouse goes over an email from Ruthie that I had already read cause she sent it to me too and he asks me to click on it, so I do. I sit there for a moment and then get up and say "I will let you read your mail, let me know when you are done." I am about half way up the stairs and he totally goes balistic. He yells " I am gonna through this computer out the window!!!" Storms past me up the stairs and I yells "I'm going to work!" and I say "Aren't you kind of blowing this out fo porportion?" He storms out of the house, slamming the door and peeling out in the driveway.

We have had this conversation before about the fact that I don't enjoy reading his email with him. Why does he continue to think I wanna sit there and read them with him? I was frustrated, yes. But I didn't say anything in a sarcastic way. I don't understand what I did.

Grandma's baby girl

I have mixed feeling today. Jamie called yesterday to tell us that Mike got orders for Germany. Yes, he is coming home still this month from Iraq, but in February they have to be in Germany. That is so far away. It is a great opportunity, but oh so far a way! I guess we will have to save for a trip over there. I guess it is time to start looking into getting our passports! 

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.....

Man this week went by so fast. As I sit and watch the lightning out my window I realize that this week went lightning fast. Did I do all that I was supposed to do this week? (NO) Was I lazy for most of the week? (YES)Did I do all that I could to find employment? (PROBABLY NOT) Did I spend time with the Lord since I am not working? (NO) Did I commit to going to the Y now that I don't have the excuse of having to work? (NO) Oh how much time I waste! As much as I crabbed about not having enought ime to do anything while I was working, you would think I would have been commited to using my time more wisely since I have been unemployed.

I am finding myself frustrated with the new dog, Lily. They said she was house trained and she is not. She has discoverd chewing on anything and everything. Chesiney seems to not be able to handle the responsibility of taking care of her. Why do I feel like it is my responsibility? B/C I am the only one who thinks about it!!!!! I swear the rest of the family thinks she can take care of herself, like let herself outside when she has to go, pour her own dog food, fill her water bowl, clean up after herself when she decides to chew one of my shoes. Maybe we should have gotten an older dog. She is almost a year old, that is still pretty young. I don't know, I am jsut venting.

I am feeling a bit discouraged right now. Every single one of the places I have submitted my resume to has shot me down. One place hasn't given me an answer yet, shoudl know something next week. Yeah, not feeling good enough for anything right now. Probably due to the fact that I haven't been spending enough time with God and in His Word.

Well, I am going to go work on somethings.

Ashlyn birthday pictures

Look everyone, I'm walking!










I think I like this cupcake.....