eerie!

I was walking through Wal-mart the other day and there were 2 teens staring at me and I thought it was because they had never seen anyone so gorgeous..OUCH! I hit my head ROFL! Anyway, they ducked in to an aisle and I went on by and when passed acouple of aisles there they were staring again and ducked in behind me and I thought nothing of it. Then all of a sudden I had the strangest feeling in my gut and my hair stood up on the back of my neck. When I turned around they were standing each one by my elbows and I just looked them in the eye with my don't you dare look and pulled my purse upon my shoulder (it had been on the crook of my elbow) and turned around. Now, I know some of you will think I am overreacting and others think I never overreact but that feeling was VERY real!

HELLO!

I am finally back. We were in Revival last week and that along with finishing up our 1st quarter made for some busy days! I am so thankful for the Lord's help in both of these areas. I personally needed a revival!

Praying for David

Saturday night I could not sleep....for some reason my brother was very heavy on my heart. I was laying there and I had said my little, "God bless David wherever he is." I felt like that was so inadequate and I was lamenting to the father that I could not even speak to my brother and as clear as can be God said to me that he could. He just let me know that all I had to do was talk to him about David and he would do the talking to David. The tears started in earnest and I prayed for real that time. Many years ago there was a song out and it went something like this, "someday when you're far away and the miles keep us apart I will say I love my brother and pray you'll hear it in your heart." Did you hear me dear brother of mine? I do love you and my prayer for you is that somehow you will allow the God that loves you more than anything to heal the heartaches and all the other pain in your life and make you exactly what he wants you to be. Noone will ever love you more than he does. So wherever you are and whatever you are doing I am praying for you and I do love you!

EEEWWW!!!! BUGZ!

Well, we have had the round with bugs here but so far Abigail and I have escaped! We have been digging through each others head like paranoid primates though! Seth told me that he was getting tired of seeing us do that and I let him know in no uncertain terms that he would think he was tired of it if we got them. He came up with a song...".she's checkin' your head, she's checkin' it twice, gonna find out if you've got lice!" I got the things once when I was a kid, my cousin and I had gone with mom to Mich. for a VBS. When we got home we made the discovery and our moms went to the drugstore and the cashier was treating them like they had them (they didn't) so my mom with her mischievous streak started telling my aunt how awful they were (lice) and how they could JUMP! The cashier was as far away as she could get ringing it up and my mom was having a blast! My friend told me last time they went around that she would shave her head and kill herself and I was not so nice because I think that is not a good reason to kill yourself. I told her not to shave her head if she was gonna kill herself anyway then she would not look like a freak in the casket. Sort of lightened her up a bit!

I am angry.....

I am not usually one to get really angry about much of anything but today there were several things in the paper that got me that way today! First off.....locally a lady had a baby a few months back and said it was a miscarriage and she had put it out in the trash and it ended up in the landfull. Well, come to find out it was a living baby girl when she put it in the garbage bag! Then a guy was accused of shaken baby syndrome in another case but when the autopsy report came back it was blunt force trauma~~~that baby was 3 months old. In Alabama a guy threw 4 of his kids off of a bridge (according to our paper) What in the world are people thinking? I was so shook up when I found out that we were going to have a 4th child but I NEVER would of harmed my baby! I can't even believe that some people think the death penalty is unmerciful!

cheeseburger soup update!

That stuff was not all that good! It was ok but my family thought it tasted like hamburger helper. Personally, I kind of like helpers but they are all spoiled ( I do not know who did that) but they blame me! Anyway, I did fix helper a few months back and Daniel asked me if he had not given me enough for food since we were eating slop and I said of course but I fixed it because I like it----he stared at me for that! I am going to make pizza casserole tonight and breadsticks; yes, I do make them often now. Also, a 3 layer mocha cake and slaw! Yummers! Oh, don't forget the iced tea. It is back in the 70's!

My dumbest New Years resolution!

14 years ago I had a wonderful idea!!! I decided to let my mom in on this idea and she thought it was crazy..............this is what it was: Since I had just had my 3rd baby in Nov. I was still quite chunky in January so I told her I was going to get Daniel to help me lose weight. Sound good so far? This is how it was going to work! he was supposed to let me know just how unattractive I was and how just looking at me was repulsive and I disgusted him. You get the general idea. She told me that no way would my sweet, caring husband go for it. Of course, I knew him better than she did and I knew he would help since he loved me so much and she told me that since he did love me it would never happen and that I would end up hating him if he did it. She told me to let her know what he said and I told her I sure would because I knew she was wrong! Well, he got home and I asked him if he would help me in my endeavor to lose weight and of course he said yes. YEAH! 1 point for me! I told him what it was and he just stared at me (like I was stupid) and basically told me the same thing my mom did! 10 points for mom! GRRR...I told him that my mom knew he would say that...he asked if I had really told my mom this hairbrained idea and I said yes and he said he was glad that someone would give him credit for having a brain! So here we are 14 years later.........madly in love and chubby!

lizard update....

The lizard that was in my room a few weeks back was still there as of last week. Daniel found that out when he opened the closet door and something with legs slid down his forehead. It was so not funny....................to him! HEE!HEE! Seth found a coral snake in our yard (it was dead) they are very poisonous but since they chew into your skin you have a better chance at getting away! FREAKY! If a snake got on me I would not stop running for a long time. Well, until I ran out of breath. OK! OK! I would at least run 3 feet!

Out with the old and in with the new!

I am so glad to leave 2007 behind! I think I shed more tears last year than I ever have in any other year! First, I turned 40 and I am not sure why that was so bad then I shed lots of them when my dad passed away. There were also several friends that passed away too. I am looking forward to this new year. There will be several milestones: Abigail will turn 13 on April 20th. Jacob will be 16 on April 28th. Jonathon will finish High School in May then turn 18 in June. Seth will finish his first year of high school. There is to be a wedding in May (no it is not my mom) so we might plan our trip then and also have Jonathon's party then. By the way, I know I will not get any sympathy but it is cold here! In the 40's so I am gonna go home and make cheeseburger soup and homemade bread!