***WARNING***

This post is boring and mundane. There is nothing new in my life that I can post about right now. So, I am going to print out pictures of my kids and grand daughter for my picture frame that I got for Christmas. Have a happy new year if I don't blog before then!

Almost the End of the Year

It feels like it was just 2000! Now it is going to be 2007....will this be the year that Christ returns? How exciting to think it could be!

Kyrie is on her way to the One Thing conference in KC.
Michael, Jamie and Ashlyn should be traveling home from Tucson today
Steven is frustrated with his truck and his life I think...that is a good thing...means God is pushing his buttons!
Cricket....well, hopefully will be able share more on her later
Ashley got engaged on Christmas Eve!!!!
Chesiney is loving the fact that she turns 16 in about a week!
Tim is working hard
I am wrapping up my last couple weeks at Hill-Rom to start at the Post Office
Ashlyn will be staying with us soon!!

Wow, it's been that long since I last posted??

Not that anyone ever reads this thing....except my daughter Chesiney...thanks honey!

Well, alot has happened since August. Much more than I want to get detailed about so I will give you the short version.

Started working at Hill-Rom
Girls went back to school
Kyrie turned 18
Michael turned 22
Steven went AWOL
Steven went missing for 34 days
Steven moved home
Got surprise phone call from my ex
Got to keep Ashlyn for a week
Got news Michael and Jamie were going to Germany
Got hired by the post office
Michael thought of me and bought me an old beater car for subbing on mail routes
Chesiney is playing club volleyball :0)
Kyrie has been accepted to two universities so far...still waiting on ISU
Almost done with Christmas shopping
get to keep Ashlyn again for a week in January
Got hired by my local battered women's shelter as an advocate...that is a totallly God's doing
I love my job and the people I work with at Hill-Rom, will miss them when I go

So that is the last 4 months in short order. Any questions.....leave a comment and $25 question fee and I will get back to you!

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..... 

Happy Birthday Kathy Jo!

Today is my sister's birthday. Today I salute her. She was there for me when I needed her. When I was growing up she was there to keep my brother from tormenting me too much. I love her dearly, I wish we were closer in distance, I miss having her close. But I love her deeply!

Happy Birthday Kathy!

objects in mirror seem closer than they appear

Well, in the last thirty days I have quit two jobs. No I am not proud of that fact, it is just that FACT. I left Legacy to go to the new Inn that was starting here. I went, then left. Not a place I wanted to work with that type of leadership or direction. So I am now looking for work. Have a few choices, but they don't seem interested in me just yet. Pray something comes soon, Tim is getting abit antsy.

Cricket has moved back in. Not really fond of that, but it is what it is. I sincerely want my attitude to change. Pray that God does something in my heart toward her. Her moving back has made our friend who is living with us very jittery. She wants to move out. I don't want her to. She thinks it will be too crowded and she is in Cricket's old room, so therefore she should move out. I say no, she says yes. Don't get me wrong, I love Cricket just as much as Tim, but she is 20 years old and needs to be on her own. She tried to live with her mom, she tried to live with Tim's sister, I know she would rather be anywhere else than at our house. Her work ethic leaves lots to be desired. She has made some not so good choices that have landed her here with no car, no money and no job. I resent having to support her at 20 years old. Is this wrong????? Am I the evil step mom for feeling this way????? Probably, but I can't change the resentment, I am waiting for God to do it in me. Meanwhile, I am keeping my mouth shut so as not to tick off my husband. I don't bite my tongue well enough. Lord help me. I mean that literally, as my prayer for this night.

Michael comes home in a couple of weeks. Hwo happy that I am he will be out of the middle east.

Well, I am going to go to bed I think. I think I am tired, or maybe it is just a little depression. I will post pictures soon of our new dog, her name is Lilly. I am frustrated with her right now too. She is having a hard time adjusting to our home I guess, we KEEP having potty issues EVERY SINGLE DAY! I am tired of cleaning up after her. Oh how I hate puppies! Although she is nto a puppy, she is 10 months old.

Anywhoooo....later taters!

The End

Today is my last day here at Legacy. My office is cleaned out, my desk is empty and my computer scrubbed clean of my personal files. It is good. Don't get me wrong, I loved working here, loved the people that have come and gone, done a lot of growing personally, spiritually and professionally. I wouldn't trade the time I have had here for anything.

Now I am on to something new, something that excites me! It is good to feel excitement about the work that you do.

Later

Grandma, I can't find the bowl you wanted! 

Ashlyn and me

She is so much fun! 

that's not surprising!

You Are 50% Normal

While some of your behavior is quite normal...Other things you do are downright strangeYou've got a little of your freak going onBut you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

test

don't know if I pasted that quiz in right or not so I am just testing it!

OOOOOOOOOklahoma where the wind comes whippin down the plains!

Here we are at Steven's graduation















Steven and Sarah

















First ever seen (at least by me!) prairie dog. They were all around our hotel! 

St Louis

This is Kryie, Chess and I up in the St Louis Arch. The look on Kyrie's face doesn't reveal just how scared and nervous she was. 

Reminder to the church

"I think we do not attach enough importance to the restoration of the Jews. But certainly, if there is anything promised in the Bible it is this. The day shall yet come when the Jews, who were the first apostles to the Gentiles, the first missionaries to us who were afar off, shall be gathered in again. Until that shall be, the fullness of the church's glory can never come. Matchless benefits to the world are bound up with the restoration of Israel, their gathering shall be as life from the dead."

That is a quote by Charles Spurgeon. Right on Chuck!