Now for the boys

Thought I'd ask my boys some questions to put them on the spot. . .
C is 12 and J is 7
1) Who is your favorite Bible character and why?

C-that is so tough, I want to say Jesus. .is it Ok if it's Jesus? I can think of allot of other people, but Jesus is the only one who was perfect and died for our sins.

J-Jesus, because He is a person in the Bible who gave us everything

2) What do you like to do with Mom?

C-Travel and read

J-play the Wii, my favorite game to play with mom is Super Mario Brothers

3) What's your favorite thing about school?

C- I have allot of good friends
J-Math

4) What's your least favorite thing?
C-guess? Homework!
J-spelling tests

5) What's Mom's favorite color?
C-umm, Pink
J-Pink

6) What's Mom's favorite snack?
C-Popcorn
J-Diet food

7) What's your favorite thing Mom makes for dinner?
C-pasta, by far!
J-Everything

8) If Mom was a cartoon, who would she be?
C-that's hard. . .a Smurf?

J-Yoshi

9)Where is Mom's favorite place to go?
C-I don't know
J-Camping at Branson and Silver Dollar City

10) Who is Mom's best friend?
C-Allayne and Aunt Wendy
J-Allayne totally Allayne and Aunt Wendy

11) What's Mom's job?
C-taking care of us and babysitting
J-take care of the kids and babysitting Ella

12)What's Mom's favorite sport?
C-Football
J-Basketball

13) How do you know Mom loves you?
C-well, you say it and you take good care of us.
J-cuz, I'm her favorite person


If you have more than one child you know that they are all different and my boys are NO exception! Night and Day, Hot and Cold, Slow and Fast that is who they are and I love them both to the moon and back!

Interviewing the 4 year old

First I am totally stealing this idea.

I interviewed my boys a couple of years ago, but the Princess was too little so I thought I'd give her the spotlight today..


1) What is one thing Mommy always says to you?
Come over here

2. What makes Mommy happy?
When I be nice

3. What makes Mommy sad?
When I be naughty

4. How does Mommy make you laugh?
When you be funny (says while making a funny face)

5. What was Mommy like as a child?
ummm,you look liked a kid??

6. How old is Mommy?
oh, just

a little bit old

7. How tall is Mommy?
big-like this big, says while stretching her arms open wide

8. What is Mommy's favorite thing to do?
Work, and do computer, play with me and go swimming

9. What does Mommy do when you're not around?
work

10. If Mommy becomes famous, what will it be for?
uuhh, a because people like to see you

11. What is Mommy really good at?
walking and exercising (mom tries not to chuckle)

12. What is Mommy not very good at?
Lifting things up that are heavy

13. What does Mommy do for her job?
make dinner and lunch and snacks

14. What is Mommy's favorite food?
Chicken

15. What makes you proud of Mommy?
When you hug me so much and tuck me in when it's goodnight time

16. If Mommy were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Cat in the Hat

17. What do you and Mommy do together?
clean up, play and shop

18. How are you and Mommy the same?
We both have the same nose, mouth and eyes and hair

19. How are you and Mommy different?
I don't have glasses on

20. How do you know Mommy loves you?
Because you love me and give me lots of kisses

21. Where is Mommy's favorite place to go?
To the store and Matt Ross Community Center and to meetings

Love Like This - Ayiesha Woods

I've been loving this song all weekend!
Enjoy!

Oh the Things You Can Think. . .

Kids are home today due to a snow day.
Lot's of inches with more coming down.

With a house full of excited kiddos and even extra excited beagle there isn't much thinking or deep writing going on here.

So, here are some things I can't stop thinking about from the weekend.

Hanging with The Hubs and friends listening to some friends play jazz. It was great!

Christmas is over, how did that happen? And while putting up the trees is a wonderful thing putting them away NOT. SO. MUCH.

Going to the grocery store when the city is under a major snow advisory, not so fun.

Listening to my little girl sing, makes me Oh so happy.

The shooting in AZ, oh I can't some of those images out of my mind. I really should be banned from watching the news sometimes.

My dear friends are missionaries in Ghana Africa and her sister and mom are there now visiting. . .oh I wish I could repost some of her emails. You feel like you are right there in the midst of it all. If could urge you to do one thing today, it would be to take the time and pray for your missionaries today. The work they do is priceless and oh so exhausting.

Our ladies Bible study begins this Thursday-WOO HOO! We are doing Beth Moore's study A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place. I've been wanting to do this study for YEARS and now the time has come. I cannot dig into God's Word with some amazing ladies.

My boys had their basketball games on Sat. Can I just tell you that as a mom it's as intense as any College or NBA game you could watch!

My beloved Chiefs got their tales kicked yesterday. Oh the agony.

So that was my weekend in a nutshell.
What about you? What consumed your weekend?

A New Song

I read these verses this morning out of Psalms 96
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing to the LORD, praise his name;
proclaim his salvation day after day.
3 Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Which made my spaghetti brain ( do you know what that is? If you do, know that mine often works over time! And if you don't you're probably a man and you don't have one so yeah, for you)go into over drive and I began looking up many of the passages in the Bible that talk about a new song. (Which then got me to thinking about that Christian group called New Song that sings that uber depressing Christmas Shoes song. It's hard to be me sometimes!)

Anyway, there are many verses that talk about the great things the Lord has done so the writer was going to sing a new song.
As I pondered that for awhile, that got me thinking about my song.
Is it new? Or is it the same song, second (or 1,000) verse?
You know the one, I'm so busy, overworked, tired that's why I do (or don't do) X,Y,Z. . .
I'm sick of singing that song. And I know surely those around me are tired of hearing it.

So, I'm singing a new song. My hope is in you, my glory is in you, my passion is for you, Lord! Then I am praying and putting into action those words becoming a reality.

What about you, what's your new song?

Hauling Trash

I don't know about you, but after Christmas we had ALLOT of trash.
Bags and bags filled to the brim.
We celebrated at my folks were they are only allowed to put two bags out by their curb at a time.
So, The Hubs hauled the overstuffed trash bags to our house.
You couldn't see it from the outside, but the back on his van was filled with about 10 bags. We couldn't even load the new gifts because the trash took up to much space.

That got me thinking about all the junk I am hauling around everyday. No one may be able to see it, but boy are the bags there!
Filled to the brim with all sorts of garbage-some that I've been carrying around since well, what seems like forever.

Why haven't I unloaded them by now?
Why does it seem like sometimes I'd rather hold on to the garbage bags than lay them down for a treasure?
Like the treasure of freedom-hauling all those bags can be a heavy job?

There is only One who is strong enough to bear the burden of all those bags and yet that is rarely the person who I dump them on.
I dump them on The Hubs, the kids, a friend, the clerk in the store, the person driving to slow in front of me. The list goes on and on.
And, yet not one of those people can do a thing about taking those bags from me.
Oh, they can sympathize about the bags and maybe even hold them for awhile, but not one of them can take them away.

So, beings the process of dumping all these bags I've been hauling around, one by one at the feet of Jesus.
I'm so tired of hauling them around-that takes allot out of a girl!

Do you ever feel that way? That you are hauling your garbage around? Some of it you pick up along the way and you don't even know where it came from?

Well, I invite you to take yours, along with me to the Holy Dump. Let's throw it all out-and LEAVE it there!

My prayer is that when I fall back into old patterns and begin to pick up those bags again that I would be made aware of the supernatural stink of them and drop them just as quickly as I picked them up.



Claim this verse along with me
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

The Way It Is, Not the way I wanted. . .

We started off our new year like many of you.
Friends, family and food.

Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming in the new.
A fresh start, a new beginning.

Then the kids got sick.

Then our car broke down.
Clear across town.

This is not how I pictured my new year starting. In my mind the house was clean, the Christmas boxes neatly packed and put away. And we were spending the last days of the kids break relaxing and enjoying each others company.

So, when everything in my little plan began to unravel yesterday I was-
Not amused.
At.All.
Annoyed really.

Then they called and told us how much it was going to cost to fix it-and I was really annoyed.
And questioning. The big one being, Where the heck are we coming up with that??

But, then I am reminded once again, that God is in control. He is never surprised. And He is always looking out for our best.
My best and God's often look different. My best would be a life of comfort, health and always full bank account.
But, God wants what is best for my heart, and faith rarely grows from a place of comfort.
So, I've got a choice, be annoyed and frustrated and scurry around trying to come up with a solution.
OR, believe that God is in control and ground my feelings on that fact.

Not exactly how I'd planned on beginning the new year.
But, what better way than knowing God is good, and in control?!