I was doing some reading tonight and I came across this great article on whether or not God is an all knowing God. I had commented on this subject a while back in my blog, because of a church service I had attended.This Article touches on the “open future” theology. My thoughts about it are really simple. He does indeed know everything, why do I know that because God said it, I believe and basically that settles it.
Jeremiah 1:5 : “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you……”
I had a wonderful heartfelt conversation with my sister today and I feel so much better. I sincerly hope she does as well. We were completely and utterly honest with each other. We both were hurt by things we said about each other, and for that we both deeply appologized. There is so much hurt and hurtful words flying around these days and it is senseless.
I found this little poem and I thought it fitting for us. So this is for you Sis, thanks for yesterday!
Some days seem so filled and so busy
We seem to need more hours in the day
To get it all done
People who mean the most to us
Don’t get a phone call, a card or a visit
That would mean so very much
They aren’t told how very precious they are to us
And they aren’t aware
Of just how often they are in our daily thoughts & prayers
Lets not let another day to pass
Without telling one another how very much I appreciate you
And all that you do
And that I admire and respect you in so many ways.
I never want you to think that I take you for granted.
I love you each day,
Even when I don’t take the time to tell you.
“I thought about the whole notion of “reproduction,” and what it really means to replicate yourself. Is it merely about the passing on of eyes and chins and hair color? Or is it, rather, the replication of the heart? Do we leave a bigger mark by passing on our genes, or our thoughts?”
~ Shannon Woodward, author of
Inconceivable: Finding Peace
in the Midst of Infertility ~
Wow what a powerful statement! The two questions at the end are so thought provoking.
When I though about having children I always thought what a contribution I would be making to this world. To instill some of my own beliefs and morals in this little person, someone I could shape and mold. But now that I have gotten older I am so glad that it didnt happen that way.
I think that I a lucky to have children with their own personalities. They have huge hearts and their own thoughts. So I think in responce to this quote although a very good one, I know that to me, I am glad that I only passed my eyes, chins, hair color, and genes. Because to make a person unigue they have to be their own person.
God made us perfect in the way he saw it, he also made us different from each other, but in his own image.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Everyday Mommy has a new topic up for Front Porch Days this morning. The question this Morning is about a favorite childhood memory.
I have so many favorite childhood memories, but the one that stands out above all the rest is; eating cabbage. I am sure I can see the look on people’s faces when I say that. My grandmother could make the best cabbage on the planet! I can smell it now. Peppery and sweet. When I was younger I spent a lot of time with her and my cousin Donna. My grandparents were raising her because of a horrible accident that took 5 of our family members that year within a week.
She was 2 years older than I was, but we always had a great time together. After church we would be playing outside and Mom-Mom would be cooking up cabbage. My grandmother was thrifty, not because she had to be, but because she always saw uses for things. Like she would save the McDonalds sundae cups and give us fruit or something in them. She would wash plastic ware too.
When the cabbage was done, she would put it in Styrofoam cups with loads of butter. Donna and I would sit on the tailgate of Pop-Pops truck swinging our feet, eating our cabbage (with plastic forks) and talking up a storm.
When I got older Mom-Mom and I would always reminise about those days. She was a woman of many talents, her best was loving her grandchildren & family.
Maybe I will have cabbage this week…mmmmmm!
You see that header up there? I did that!!!!! WOOT WOOT! Oh yeah I did it *dancing, some terrible mom dance*
I have been putting it off and putting it off, this whole digiscrapping thing. My friends Melissa and Erin are great at it. I was thinking oh I will wait until we move and do regular scrap-booking, because I love working with paper and glue =) Plus I love going to scrap night at Erin’s and hanging out with the girls.
I have all the programs to do the digital with, because of my wonderful IT/Systems Admin, geeky, computer fiance’. I downloaded a lot of kits and was so intimidated by it. I talked with Erin earlier in the week about it and she gave me some really helpful tips. I was going about it the hard way, I mean the hardest way possible. Now I got it, I made a banner for our moms group and was tickled.
I had asked Chelle to make a header for my blog, because she is talented. Last night I got to thinking, why cant I do it. So I worked on it all last night and this morning. I love it. I think it is great for a 2nd attempt.
I think with the guidance from Melissa and Erin, I will be as talented as they are in no time!
I am tired, more so today than the day before. I have not been babysitting since last Thursday, my niece and nephew were with their father (my brother). It wasn’t a nice visit for them and I am so glad they are back here. I also had Chad today as well, his mom has been on vacation so lets see that was 6 kids today…..all day & I am tired.
School starts on Tuesday for Susan and Noah. School starts the day after labor day for my niece & nephew. I am happy but I am also so sad as well. Elias will be here with just me and Adam. He has formed such a close friendship with Jaden (my nephew) these past 2 years of babysitting, he is going to be so lonely.
I choose not to put Elias in Pre-K because we may be moving in the next couple of months. I didnt want to have to pull him out and start him over. Missing Pre-K wont hurt him any, I am going to work with him throughout the year so he will be ok in K. He is going to miss him so much!
Oh who am I kidding! I am going to miss them so much. I am tearing up thinking about it. When you have 8 kids running around most of the summer, your not bored! I am afraid I will be bored and more important boring to Elias. I am not sure if I can play trains, cars or jedimen as well as Jaden. I have so many thoughts running through my head.
The 2 of them are best buds and it will be a huge adjustment for all of them.
Jaden, Elias & Maia arent they just the cutest! Mommy & Aunt Trish loves you all so much!
| You Are a Peacemaker Soul |
 You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can. War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace.
You are a good mediator and a true negotiator. Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy. While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental. You lose respect for people who don’t like to both give and take. On the flip side, you’ve got a graet sense of humor and wit. You’re always dimplomatic and able to give good advice. Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul |
Everyday Mommy has started a great new Meme called Front Porch days. This is how she describes it.
“Come on, sit yourself on down. Coffee’s brewing and the tea is ready. How about we chat a little? Look at the kids, they’re getting along just fine, playing in the yard, swinging on that old tire swing.”
She will ask a question each Monday and we will share our answers with our blogging friends. Her question this morning is:
“If money and time were no object, what would your ultimate dream vacation be?”
This is easy, because I have always wanted to take a trip to Walt Disney, with my whole family-the 6 of us. Staying in a great hotel and not worrying about fitting in all the attractions in a week. We would stay as long it takes to see everything! Then maybe walk through one more time just to make sure we didn’t miss anything. The joy that it would bring to the kids and I would be unmeasurable. Their little faces all lite up with excitement everyday. Dale and I could go out at night and experience the adult Disney sites. What a wonderful family trip that would be.
Saturday would have been my Mom-Moms 73rd birthday. Today I think I will go out and visit the cemetery, I didn’t want to go yesterday because I thought my grandfather may be there and I wanted him to have his time. I miss her everyday and wish I could hug her tight. It will be a year soon that she has passed and that day will be hard for all of us.
What gets me through each day is I know she is more happier now than she ever was. She is home with our father having the best birthday that anyone could ever have. Can you imagine the celebration that happened in Heaven yesterday!
Happy Birthday Mom-Mom, I love you!
I really didn’t have to much to blog about this morning, until I did my morning Mommy Blog read. I was over at A Mommy Story and read a great post about cell phones. She puts this all into perspective. Go over, read it and see if you are a typical cell phone user. Take her challenge if you are.
I on the other hand am not a stereotypical cell phone user. I have a minute phone. I choose to have one like that because I don’t use it hardly at all. Just for quick call to Dale or a friend. Dale has one for work as well as a pager. A lot of my friends and family have even given up their home phones and just have their cell phones for the same purpose. I just don’t understand this purpose. Isn’t that what an answering machine is for? What is so important that it cant wait. Most say it is cheaper, but I am not so sure. Don’t even get me started on people who drive and talk!!! *GRRRR*
I am also not a “cool” mom, because my daughter (who is 15) doesn’t carry a cell phone either. Oh but does she want one. For what purpose? I see no purpose for her to carry a cell phone to school or a friends house. I can see where it would be useful in and emergency, but that is not what it would become. The thing is, like Christina wrote about, I know where my daughter is at all times and I can get a hold of her at a moments notice without a cell phone. This isn’t saying that she wont have one when she can pay for it, but for now I see no sense in it.
I know that I may be the minority in this cell phone craze, but I am happy to stay this way! Just know when your having a conversation with me, 9 times out of 10 you wont be interrupted by my cell phone ringing.
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Chelle made a post the other day with a picture of her and her father. She wanted to see everyone elses that was on her blogroll. I think that this is a great meme. Just to see “How cute were we”!
This picture was taken of me and my Dad when I was about 9 months old. My Dad was a handsome 20.
I also wanted to extend some prayers of quick recovery and fast healing to my friend who is having some surgery this morning. All of us from Just Moms love you and we can’t wait to see you. HUGS!
My sister was rushed to the ER last night with bleeding and cramping. After many hours of trying to figure out where the baby might be, because they could not see it on the sonogram; they finally decided it was more than likely in her tube.
Oh she was so upset. I never really knew exactly how much she wanted a baby; this baby, until then. She has been trying for 4 years to get pregnant and this was just so devastating.
They were going to do exploratory surgery and try to save what they could, but they weren’t sure whether the baby had attached itself to the outside of her uterus. I left the hospital and I prayed all the way home. Please God save her tube and let her be ok.
I got a call at 5:15 this morning and the baby was in her right tube, but they were able to save it, so she can try again when she is ready. Thank God! She was so afraid she was going to wake up to a hysterectomy.
They did have to do a c-section type incision to fix it, so she will be in the hospital for a few days.
I did have an argument with her husband while she was in the ER. He was telling me that they were done trying and “He” wasn’t going through this again. I lost it and yelled at him. I said you dont tell a woman that is lying in a hopsital bed miscarrying a baby that she cant have more children if she wants to. This isnt about you, it is about her. Oh I was so hot! He stormed out. I appologized to my sister and said that you dont need that you need support! She agreed with me though and told him they would talk about it later. I seriously hope he doesnt talk her into not trying again. She has 2 step sons (that call her mom) and Kimberley that she gave birth to. I think she deserves more chances to have another.
I talked to her this morning and she is fairing well. I am going to see her tonight and bring her some food. Poor thing is starving, she has not had anything to eat since yesterday at lunch.
Please say a prayer for her, she needs strength and courage to make it through this.
What a wonderful day my moms group and I had at the waterpark today! The weather wasnt all that great and we got spinkled on a couple of times, but hey we were already wet so it didnt matter. The whole day my older kids were on the slides and I hardly ever saw them unless they ran by me or get something to snack on. It was great! We are already planning another trip back in 2 weeks.
I had my friend Erin bring her camera this time, because my camera needs a new battery. Please go and read her post, it brought me to tears! So I say this to her: I heart you to my “real time” friend! Some people just dont know what they are missing.
She was able to get some great shots of the group, I will share the pictures she took of my family.
This is what is in the middle of the pool.
Me, Elias & Adam
Elias
Adam
I remember when I was a kid and someone said 35 I was like ewwwwwwww your old. It was a horrible thing to be so old. That was so not cool.
Now that I am 35, I dont feel as old as I thought I would. I never thought I would be this age. It feels like I just graduated High School, but I am really this old. *Giggle* I think I am a spunky 35. You have to be with 4 children. Although my 15yr old tells me not to dance. I have the white girl dance down pat =) she hates it.
My favorite part of my 35 years has to be the 80’s. The 80’s rocked. I love the clothes! I so rocked the tapered pants that you rolled up real tight and lets not forget the 2 pairs of scrunchies socks that coordinated with your outfit.
I was in love with WHAM. George Michael was not gay then (or at least not to me). Boy George was cool! I was 12 when Thriller was released, I remember watching the music awards and getting all excited because Michael Jackson was going to perform.
When the Cabbage Patch came out in 83 I remember my mom going and standing in line at the store to get me one and then going back dressed in a clown outfit and getting another for my sister. Cosby show and Saturday morning cartoons were my favorite. Those are just some of things I loved about it. I could go on forever.
Then while I was still loving all that stuff and still a baby myself, I became a Mom at 19. Oh my whole world changed and I loved her so much! When Susan was born I new that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted the whole cliche about the little white house, picket fence, swing in the yard and kids; lots of kids. It has taken me a long time to get to that fantasy, but it is becoming a reality!
I was born in 1971 when Richard Nixon was president. I was named after his daughter Patricia. So in 1971:
Cost of a new home: $28,300.00
Median Household Income: $9,028.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.18
Wouldn’t it be nice to have those prices in 2006?
I am excited about this part of my life. There is so much that is out there for me to experience and I can do it with Dale and the kids. I have an awesome support system, even if some of the people that I thought I could count on aren’t there anymore. My life is great and I am surrounded by great people! I am blessed I am truly blessed!
Ahhhhhh I actually enjoyed being outside today. THe humidity was gone and it was a breezy 87 today. I cleaned for my grandfather today and it was a nice visit. He is such a wonderful Pop-Pop. I looked out the back window and he was giving Elias a tractor ride and the memories of me on the tractor with him when I was younger. I watched in awe as my little boy was just soaking up every word he said. He was so small sitting on his lap, he was letting him stear the tractor. I dont believe he ran over anything, but he was really trying hard. Elias loves tractors and the fact that my grandfather has 2, a boat and my uncle who lives next door has a 18 wheel tractor trailer, he loves when I say we are going to clean. I wish I had a camera, because it was a priceless picture. My grandmother was looking down and so happy.
Yesterday was my sisters 31st birthday. Happy Birthday, love ya sis!
Last week after reading my new Parents magazine, I let Adam play with and he brought me a page her tore out. It was one of the back pages, so I looked at it and saw an interesting add for personalized pacifiers. I knew they would not have the ones I liked, but I looked anyway. I loved it & they carried the type of paci Adam uses. I thought the price was a little high, but they came real fast and did I say I love them 
Adam loves them too.
I would love it to be Friday already, that way I can put this week behind me and it is only Tuesday. I started last week doing CWO “In Other Words”, but today I dont have the energy. I am tired. I will pick it back up next week.
Dale is having some health problems and he has been referred to a heart doctor. This scares the devil out of me. I know it is stress related. He does so much for us. Working M-F and every weekend working on our house in this sweltering heat. I know the Dr is going to change our diet, which will be great for all of us. We all eat to much, drink to much caffiene & dont take care of ourselves like we should. This may be our wake up call.
Elias was ill last night, fever 104 most of the night. I thought he was fighting an ear infection but I dont think so now. I just think it was a 24hr bug, because he seems fine this morning.
This morning I am sipping my coffee reflecting on last nights events and just wonder what is the plan for us. Will things continue to go downhill or will I see the horizon soon. I pray on it every night and I know things will get better.
I think I will go visit a friend today, she can always make me smile!
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