Friday, January 28, 2011

jobs...

I am finally earning a little respect for the 3 day weekend, again. I am usually home every day so it used to just mean that the boys had an extra day home with me. Now it means I have an extra day at home. To do nothing, or to do everything. Either one. I can choose. Which is way better than getting up and going to work that I am not so sure about.

I am expected to follow along the same lines as everyone around the school. This I get. What I don't get is HOW?!? At one point I have 130+ kids in the cafeteria. They are loud. They can be disrespectful and they can try my patience.

This is not what I want to be when I grow up.

I am trying out different solutions. But the solutions all have to fit within the confines of the structure that the staff has set up. Get that! Just don't get HOW!

So.........I am appreciating my 3 day weekend. I am appreciating my 3 boys. I am appreciating the fact that I do not have to constantly remind them to use their manners, not to smear ketchup across the table, to pick up what they have dropped, and not to use their friends as punching bags (physically and emotionally).

Monday, January 17, 2011




We have know these two girls since before Sarah (the youngest) was born. Haley & Keegan were just 2 years old, and now they are 13.


We love just hanging out. They are the kids that you can be totally goofy with and it's not embarrassing. They are just as goofy, if not maybe more.


Haley wanted to get the camera out and recreate a picture we have of her and Keegan from when they were about 6 or 7. I wish i could load that picture, but I don't even think it was digital at the time!
Well, we are off to shop...Konley needs clothes for his concert this week!
Chell

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

New Year....new ???

I am not one for New Year's resolutions. Unfortunately, I am one of those people that as soon as i think I can't have something I want it even more. So, I am going the other way. Not necessarily things that I can't have, but maybe things that I would like to be better at.

Exercise:
Yep, can't even touch this one. After being on crutches for over 7 weeks I am still the household "hop-a-long" and I just can't even begin to think of running around. I am just ecstatic at the thought of being able to walk up the stairs!

Blog:
Boy, have I been terrible. Sometimes I feel like there is something that I want to say, but not really sure how it would go over, so I don't say anything. Maybe I should also start a computer diary that is password protected so I can't still get it out. Hmmmm. But, I would like to try harder at adding to this blog.

Listening:
I am trying to figure out at what point in my life I went from being the one that listened to the one that won't stop talking. I hate this about myself. I can even hear myself inside my head yelling at my mouth to stop. I have even had a lady at work tell me that I talk too much! Gonna really try and work on this one, so if I have talked your ear off....give me the look, I will get it.

My boys:
Our boys have gotten to the age where they are so very independent. But I have been internally arguing with myself about that. Not about letting them be independent, but about remembering that as they get older they still need time with me/us. That just because they CAN be independent doesn't mean that they SHOULD be.

Myself:
I will remember that God made me first. He didn't make me a wife, mother, friend, or para first. He made me. So I have to remember that I need to take time for me. I downloaded a Bible app to my IPod & I am going to try to read the daily verse. Really? How hard is that? How hard is praying for friends and family? Not just when they need it, but when they think that they don't. I will take time out. To read, to pray, to be me, to be a friend, to be a girl (in a world of boys), to just be.

May all of your new year's ideas take flight,
Chell