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Do they look like Reindeer?

My poor neglected blog… so much for blogging about Thankfulness during the month of November, however I am VERY thankful for the vacation we had to our friends cabin, more on that in another post.

So anyway, snack day is Thursday for my kindergartner and Friday for my second grader. Thanks to this blog Homemaking Fun I had a great idea to follow for this months snack idea. Hers is a bit prettier than mine but I think the kiddos will still enjoy them. What do you think, do they look like reindeer?

Reindeer Cupcakes

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This is my assistant chef…

Thankful Wednesday – 11/11

I am thankful for all the men and women who volunteer to serve this country in the armed services. Without them we would not enjoy the freedoms we enjoy now. They truly make sacrifices that the rest of society never has to worry about.

Two of my favorite vets are my dad and oldest brother, who both proudly served in the Navy for over 20 years each.

Happy Veteran’s Day.

Thankful Weekend – Nov 7 & 8

y Princess

I am so grateful and thankful that God brought you to us. When Josh was a singleton I remember looking at him playing one evening and thinking if he is such a beautiful boy, then I could only imagine how beautiful a little girl would be. Both your daddy and I wanted a little girl so badly and we were so happy to hear when the doctor told us you would be a little girl.

I am so thankful for the fun we have together, this past weekend was no exception. It started off with a girl scout excursion to the overture center for a magic show. Check out the site for free saturday morning fun in downtown Madison. Kids in the Rotunda.

After the show princess and I walked over to the last outdoor Farmers Market of the season.. we only bought a couple of cookies and a couple of bread, pumpkin and spicy cheese bread – yummy!!

We finished the day up playing at the park, while the boys played basketball me and princess had great fun playing hide and go seek.

Other fun activities we fit in this weekend, playing barbies (esspecially after I painted the new barbie bookcase doll house), baking brownies and you being my spray paint helper! And to end our weekend a mommy and daughter manicure.

I love you baby girl … thank you for being wonderful you!!!

The Daily Drop Cap – by typographer / illustrator Jessica Hische

s this not a beautiful “I”?

I was surfing this morning and happened across this blog: Daily Drop Cap. The blog description is:

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the usage limitations.

She does have some beautiful letters. To prettify up your blog head on over and check her letters out.

Thankful Friday – Nov 6

I am so Thankful it is the end of the week…two days to spend with my kiddos with no work. Hopefully, I will find time to work on some projects, like the doll house bookcase. Will post pictures once I get started on it.

Have a great weekend!

Thankful – Thursday 11/5

This little guy was sick last week…

Here are a couple of cute videos of the sick child… you need to understand that normally our son has a normal voice you can hear a mile a way so when he lost his voice he was quite shocked and concerned. You can also tell he is more interested in his tv show than being filmed that day.

Josh sick part 1

Josh sick part

Now about this time you might be asking yourself why am I thankful for having a sick child? I’m not, but what I am thankful for is that now days he can get sick with a normal bug and we don’t have to fear him ending up with pneumonia.

You see this little buddy ended up being born about 4 weeks early and he be definition met all the criteria for being a preemie. The most significant issue being that his lungs were not developed. He ended up staying in NICU for 3.5 weeke and some of that time was on a ventilator. Very scary days which helped me know the fragility of life and how precious it is.

Due to his lung issues when he was younger and caught a cold it would most certainly develop into pneumonia. Of course, those days were full of going from one specialist to another… our medical travels took us to the Indianapolis Children’s Hospital where lucky for us one of the top pediatric pulmonologist practices. After doing some test he declared little man’s lungs healthy just on the fast side of normal. (At that time his normal respiration were about 70 breaths per minute…normal for that age group if I remember right was down between 35 – 40).

So after about a year on using pulmicort in a nebulizer twice a day for a year, when he was about 4.5 we weaned him off of that, his respirations slowed down normally and he is now hardly ever sick.

So, I am constantly thankful to have little man healthy and for all of the medical advancements which helped him become the healthy boy he is today. But most of all for God’s blessings in helping little man get and stay healthy.

Wordless Wednesday

Thankful Wednesday – Nov 4

Today I am thankful for two kiddos with very strong teeth! 6 month check up for them and no cavities… they got their strong teeth from their daddy (Mr. I got my first cavity when I was 42). Me on the other hand, already had a mouthful of cavities by the time I was my kids ages.

Hopefully the dynamic duo superhero’s are as strong as their teeth!

Thankful Tuesday Nov 3

Today I will write of my thankfulness for my small group. For those of you who do not know small group is a term for a bible study group, basically. Our group is newly formed and only have met a couple of times so far, none of us knew each other prior to forming this group.

Our first study is on a book called Life Rules, by Andy Stanley. It is a video based study and is designed to help a new group get to know each other.

Well, this weeks lesson was on forgiveness. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter, “It’s hard to treat people with love and respect on a regular basis. Especially when they don’t deserve it. When we’ve been mistreated, it may feel more appropriate to punish, ignore,or just avoid the other person.”

From the video we watched of Andy Stanley we learn
1. Forgiveness is a decision that we make.
2. Forgiveness is making the decision that someone doesn’t owe you anymore.
3. Forgiveness doesn’t make any sense unless you are a forgiven person.

In order to forgive we must do three things:
1. Identify who you are angry with.
2. Determine what they owe you.
3. Decide to cancel the debt.

I have been following these guidelines this week in relationship to situations I find myself in.. I have chosen certain people this week that I have found myself to be angry with and worked through the steps… you kow what I feel much better, I am treating those individuals better (basically what I feel they owe me but not giving to me I am making sure I give to them; for instance, respect) and I beleive it is making my relationship with these individuals much better and more honest (than harboring ill feelings and thinking I am hiding those feelings)

So do you have anyone or any situation you need to forgive? Are you forgiven? If so, follow the three steps to help you work out any anger you are harboring… life will be better