Thankful Weekend – Nov 7 & 8

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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!!!

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

Thankful Monday Nov 2

What am I thankful for today. SUNSHINE

On a cold day I love to find a window where the sun is streaming in, curl up like a cat and take a nap. We have had such a gray, cloudy October and looks like November is going to be pretty gray and wet too!

The last two days have been full of sunshine, which has improved everyone’s moods. I think SAD syndrome is going to be bad this year for a lot of people. I wish the days could all be this beautiful but I guess that makes the sun even more spectacular when it does make an appearance.

Fall Sunshine

Menu Plan Monday

Monday – spaghetti with home made sauce
Tuesday – Queisdillas
Wednesday – Mini Meatball Soup http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/mini-meatball-soup-recipe/index.html
Thursday – (Swimming Lessons) On the run food – Lunchables for the kiddos
Friday – Homemade Pizza
Saturday – Devilish Chili Cheese Dogs
Sunday – Kona Chicken

For other menu ideas visit Laura over at I’m an Organizing Junkie.

Have a great week!

A month of Thanksgiving…

A couple of years ago when Little Man was 3 and the princess not yet with us, we made a thankfullness tree and attempted to have little man add something everyday for which he was thankfull, in the month of November. He still remembers doing that as we were talking about it today…

This year I will be doing the same thing only using this blog as a diary to track the things for which I am thankful for. Some will be serious, some silly, some just everyday things. And by no means by the end of the month will I capture everything I am thankful for, but hopefully this will live as a reminder for those little things which sometimes are taken for granted.

So to kick the month off for November 1st I will actually mention what we did on Saturday night.

I am thankful for cuddling on the couch with my two kiddos.

My favorite two cuddle bugs

Princess did not get to go trick or treating due to a high fever she had since Friday afternoon, but I did take little man out. Believe me, it was COLD. When we came back home, after only an 75 minutes little man was content to pass out treats to any remaining kiddos who came along. I fixed a quick dinner and barely could keep my eyes open while we ate. (Rachel Rays devilish chili dogs,, yummy) I settled in on the sofa to watch ??, can’t remember… Very soon princess with her hot, feverish body came over and laid down on me and little man curled up around me too! Soon all of us were fast asleep curled up like little kittens trying to keep each other warm while they sleep. It was so nice to wake up every once in a while and be snuggling with my kiddos. I am thankful for these sweet moments in the evening, as someone who works nights I do not get too many opportunities for total relaxed cuddling on the sofa time.

The pic above was taken a few years ago,,, best one I could find of us getting ready for a cuddle session.