My Archives: May 2003
Friday, May 16, 2003
I am sitting here eating a pina colada shaved ice (no alcohol of course!). We have one of those ice machines and I just made the girls one too. They are so nummy. B & dh are at his end of Scout Year swim party. I decided not to let the girls go...too many rambunctious boys for two wee ones to attend. They'll have fun though, and I am fixing to pull out the paints for the chickies. We stayed up late last night watching the lunar eclipse. Did anyone else watch? It was totally awesome! Of course it was a learning opportunity so now we all know what the umbra and penumbra are...do you? hehe if not I suggest you find out before the next lunar eclipse which is November 8-9...and then brace yourself for the only total solar eclipse in the same month on the 23rd. This is by fare the best website you could read on the subject:
Eclipses by Fred Espenak
In other news, I have a new client who runs a heating and air conditioning company which I am working on right now. I have a few other leads which look promising so I am very prayerful that this will all work out as we are really working hard to get our finances in order so we can save some money...gee, I know isn't EVERYONE? Yeah yeah...well, we really have been trying but things never seem to go as we plan, and as always, more things come up than we could predict every time. I know we are not the only family who struggles with money from time to time, but wow...we have a really bad average here lol At any rate, we have invested a lot of money into this business and it will be nice to pay back some of the money to ourselves finally. At least that is my prayer. I am excited to be working at a fairly steady pace right now though. I am still having fun with it which is the real success story I think.
What else? Well, we made animal masks today and C went around the house roaring like a lion lol We also made mini-books...and dh brought home some peanut butter cookies from work that he made which were positively YUMMY. I love peanut butter cookies, especially when I don't have to bake them lol hehe
Well, I am off to clean off my desk, and let the girlies paint some pictures...maybe I'll scan some and let ya'll see how totally creative they are!
I hope you are all very blessed!
~A
Posted by Angelbaby @ 07:40 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Coming over to my desk and seeing a little flower laying there...where one of my children have been outside playing and they saw this flower and thought of me, and they stopped playing and brought the flower and laid it down there for me to find...and they go back to playing know that the little secret hug called a "flower" will be mine. I just found one in case you were wondering =o)
Posted by Angelbaby @ 10:45 PM CST [Link]
Guess what my girls are upstairs doing right now? They are playing with my Barbie townhouse from when I was a little girl!! It is the sweetest thing and they are SO excited over it! I had brought it home from my Mom's house a while ago and I had put it up for a little bit...was waiting for a good time to bring it out and today was "the" day. B had gymnastics and then he and dh were going to a baseball game at the stadium. It rained today so going to the park was out...so I figured while Daddy and B were having a good time so would me and the girls. We pulled it out, cleaned it up and voila! It's beautiful. Yah, so the colors are neon green and orange...lol but my girls are totally enchanted with it! I even had several peices of furniture (they had some already too) and some other goodies that went with it. The only thing missing was the string that you used to pull the elevator up and down. My guess is dh can rig something to work that! =o)
SO...me and the girls will have a movie night tonight. I also got a contact on my business website contact form! My sil reccomended me to a company and they contacted me to do their site!!! I'm so excited! I'll keep you all updated on that. And then today we mailed off a huge package to my Mamaw with all of the pages from this thing so far printed off for her. She'll enjoy reading them--I promised her I would do that when I talked to her this week.
Well, I am off to go vaccuum the floors while everyone is otherwise gone or occupied!
Be blessed!
~A
Posted by Angelbaby @ 07:54 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Today has been wonderful! I woke up this morning to breakfast in bed...my little sweeties and the biggest sweetie of all--dh--had made me breakfast and served me in bed! They made banana nut french toast (YUM!!) and my favorite flaky biscuits with honey...=o) They brought me a basket FULL of goodies! Bubble bath, bath pearls, bath fizzies, my long longed for bath pillow (a really fancy one too!), a new loofa (in the words of my daughter, you can never have too many loofas!), and a box of coconut chocolates (which we opened and ate one right away before our breakfast lol). It was so sweet but those gifts were NOTHING compared to the cards my children had made me!!! Oh they are simply PRECIOUS!!! They colored them and wrote in them and everything...and then they made me these poems that have their handprints on them...the poem is:
"Sometimes I might upset you
because I am so small
and always leave my fingerprints
on furniture and walls.
But every day I grow a bit
and soon I'll be so tall
that all those little fingerprints
will be so hard to recall.
So here's a special handpring
just so you can say
this is how my fingers looked
when I placed them here today."
I know toooooo sweet!! Of course I reminded them of how I hadn't ever cleaned off the hand prints from the first week we moved here...little C was climbing up the steps to go upstairs and had dirty hands...so all the way up the wall up the steps there are little handprints, very dark at first and fading as they go up the steps where she could not reach the rail. I haven't ever cleaned them off and suspect I won't clean them off until we are moving...and then I suppose I will be somewhat sad about having to do so. I go up and down those steps a hundred times a day and INVARIABLY the Lord makes my eyes catch those tiny handprints--which today are three times smaller than C's hand now--and I slow down...I remember and it causes me to smile. Children are such precious gifts. The first thing I said to my children today was that I thanked God he gave the three of them to me so that I might be able to celebrate Mother's Day AS a mother. I thanked DH for the gift of our children. I have praised God over and over today for these gifts in my life =o)
After breakfast we talked, played some games and then had a visit from the cook under my dh at work. It was SO sweet--he brought me a bouquet of daisies with a card that said "to the best mom I know besides my own" =o) It was one of the most genuinely precious things I think I have ever had someone outside of my family do for me. I was really touched that he thought of me. He said we were like his own family and that he always appreciated us "taking care of him" while his family is so far away (they live in California). It was really sweet. We all visited for a while and then we had lunch...I did clean the bottom of the fridge which got me chastised by dh lol Ahhh well, you know, I was putting in sodas and juices for the kids and I noticed there was a sticky spot...cleaning one sticky spot ran into more sticky spots (the result of three children no doubt) which led me to cleaning the whole bottom lol but hey I was GLAD it got done =o) (and it made me happy so there dh!)
I talked to my parents who are in Colorado for a long deserved vacation! Just the two of them...no work, nothing but them and the beautiful mountains! They have earned this vacation a million times over and I am so happy and excited for them!!! They are staying in the nicest place apparently and they are thrilled to be there...the Lord was good to them and gave them a great flight out there and my Mom even SLEPT on the plane for a while which is a REAL miracle for her!! They were settling in and gearing up for a big day tomorrow. They have reservations for the train ride to the top of the mountain on Wednesday which will no doubt be a experience of a lifetime! I got the chance to tell my Mom how much I love her and adore her. She's a wonderful woman...blesses everyone she meets, and most certainly I would not be who I am today without her support, love, knowledge, and definately without her instilling of values and honesty in me that she did. I remember coming home from school and her being there with cookies...or muffins...and I remember no matter if I had a great day or a bad day she wanted to hear about it. If it was a good day she'd laugh and enjoy my stories, and if it were a bad day she'd often cry with me, hug me and talk me through it. Truth be told she still does that today! She can tell right away how my day is, and has NEVER let me down. She is the most wonderful woman in the world and if I had one prayer it would be that all children in this universe would have been blessed with a woman like her as a Mom. Our world would be so different if it were so. I love you MOM!
I also called my Mamaw P. I guess we must have talked for two hours, but it felt like moments. She and I are like spiritual twins. I don't know anyone else in the world who sees things the exact same way I do. She tells me stories about when she was younger and I *SO* love hearing them. I want to log them away for a lifetime so my children can hear them and know them. I'm going to send her a recorder so maybe she can tape some of the stories for my kids to listen to. She is just the neatest person, I admire her more than I could ever express here--she is the most amazing and unique woman--and I am so tremendously blessed to have her as my Mamaw. I told her she had to keep those stories for me because her generation is the last to have stories of no electricity or running water and whatnot. My kids will never have known anyone else who lived through those times, and THEIR children will not know a single person who did. I told her she needed to write a book! She is very artistic and has been taking a pottery class for years....she made me several peices one which is my favorite is one of Jesus with two children...another is a tea set that I will one day pass on to one of my girls. She loves country music and still goes to concerts lol We have been so blessed that my children have gotten to spend alot of time with her and so they know her. She spoils them rotten when we are visiting her! They love her tremedously. So do I!
After I get done with this I will call my other Mamaw...she was in the hospital this weekend and was supposed to get to go home today. I want to make sure she got home safely. She is so precious...you know I think anyone who meets her must think that she is the sweetest and most soft-spoken woman. She is amazing. She still gardens and grows all of these veggies and fruits every single year. My youngest LOVES her "salt pickles" and has ate two huge jars of them in two months LOL She has been begging for more...of course when I talked to Mamaw she said she'd bring us some more to Mom and Dad's house. She also sews and is so gifted, she still makes these doll clothes for dolls. She goes and buys these old dolls from yard sales and then she cleans them up...washes their hair and whatnot and then she makes them pretty dresses and such. She will make bows or bonnets for their hair and they will be so pretty. She has this room in her house where she has all of the dolls and animals and when we go there she lets the children pick out one of them. She has always brought them one when she visits too, and they are among my children's favorites!
The truth is, the women in my life that I admire, my Mom, both my Mamaw's...my aunts...my Mom by Marriage (known as a MIL by most people...but she's been a part of my life for so long, heck, she's my Mom too!) Wow...what can I say except how truly blessed I have been. It might sound crazy that I have all of these astounding women in my life but it's true. All of them are so truly amazing. Godly, strong in spirit, mind, body, soul...oh my...just incredible women who I *know* today played a role in shaping me and who I am today...each one of them! The really amazing part? I am part of this legacy. I am part of this foundation set forth, and one day my girls will be a part of it. I hope to impart the feelings of that to my girls. They will know that they come from a long line of amazing women. Strong, courageous, loving, gentle, beautiful, spirited...astounding women...I have big shoes to fill I know...but I will strive for it always. I long to be the women they are, the ones they have always been. The Lord will see it done, in me, in my girls and Lord willing in my girl's girls one day. I am BLESSED with the line I come from. I'll never take it for granted!
I pray you are all blessed too! Dh has the children at the pool this evening and I am looking forward to a long hot bubble bath before bed tonight. I know that dh will make me one using all of the sweet gifts they bought me and he will light candles and put the radio in there so I won't hear any noises...and I know my kids will stay downstairs while I am bathing so that I won't be disturbed because they are THAT sweet. I wonder sometimes if the way I portray my family here seems unreal or impossible. That I paint a different picture than reality...but I can say with a clear heart that I do not. We do have moments of tension, anger, bickering and the all too common "she did this, he did that, MOOOMMMMMMM!!" hehe But the truth is they are minimal...my kids get along REALLY well, and when they don't my remedy is to tell them they can't play together or talk to each other....at ALL. After an hour of that they are usually begging to be "allowed the priveledge" of interacting with one another lol Plus, I just so totally enjoy my kids and I am beyond blessed with a dh that does too!! He is just like me, and we'd rather be with our children than without any day. B has been spending alot of time with his friend lately and I have actually had to adjust a little bit to it. I know it's only the beginning of independence on his part, and the truth is I am so proud of him and how he is growing...he has made a GOOD choice in his best friend right now, and I am proud of who he is becoming. God is making him into this amazing young man and it's such a joy to be a part of it.
At any rate, they'll be back from the pool soon and I want to call my Mamaw before they get back so I can actually hear LOL (life is never quiet at our home!)
Be blessed dear ones!
~A
Posted by Angelbaby @ 09:33 PM CST [Link]
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