The day

Today 

*Had coffee with my buddies

*I finished  making my second baby hat

*Cut my thumb with scissors

*learned about coniferous forests (again.)

*learned that I detest dealing with home insurance representatives and their silliness....I'm so sure you're gonna try and tell me you mailed us the check two weeks ago and act like it's normal that we haven't received it yet.  whatevs.

*started another argument with my husband over one thing simply because I'm irritated by something else, only to realize what an idiot I am and have to call and apologize for what seems like the 730th time in these last almost couple years of marriage

lost

*lost my other half on facebook....but only on facebook...she's still alive and well and that's what matters

*realized that it's okay not to try and fix things...sometimes I just have to understand there are instances in my life where it IS completely up to God...my only job is to be faithful and prayerful.......

*In that same moment I realized how often I fail at consistent prayer...or remembering to pray for certain things at all.....

*found out I didn't need a tapestry needle to sew a pom pom onto a baby hat but also learned that Gayle was right to my own humble discovery...the pattern for my pom pom baby hat is NOT the right one and indeed too square.......stupid 

*Decided that Amber better start having lots of kids so I can start getting rid of the baby hats I'm making for no good reason

*Forgot to call Brenda (crap...sunday is fast approaching)

*Forgot we're approaching Alex's birthday for probably the 20th time this week...hopefully tomorrow I remember...when it matters.

*Realized that my whole evening is thrown off simply because Alex didn't come home to say hi real quick before he went to the auction but at least he did go to the post office......but was it worth the sacrifice?  No.  Next time I won't make such a big deal about something getting mailed that very second.

*Understood that no matter what I have GOT to learn that I should be pleasing God not man....or woman...or child for that matter....and that when I try to be pleasing to God just deal with the fact that at times it's not pleasing to man...woman.....or child.....

*Kept the banister ledges cleared ...SWEET

*And had grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner and that was pleasing to child, woman, baby, and surely God because we made good on the food He's provided for us. (I left out pleasing to man..because man is at auction where he gets a free meal and it's probably ten times better than what I just made....oh well. to each his own.)

Expertise

and let me just say I have no idea how people are setting up these fancy pages...I was just scrolling through blogs  most of which held no interest for me pretty much like mine holds pretty much no interest for most people...anyway....I don't get it...I've gone to ever tab and can't figure out they're setting all this up....I mean it pretty much took a lifetime for me to just get this far.  

This site is not very user friendly at all. That's a complaint.

Fool me once

I just need to take a moment to recognize Nick Jr.  They did such a wonderful job of entertaining my 11 month old son by talking about deciduous and coniferous forests this morning while I was trying to work with the other two on coincidentally the same exact thing only probably a few levels more in depth......I thought wow what a boring thing to be talking about to pre schoolers but apparently it has my almost one year old intrigued...I haven't heard a peep out of him since I turned it on....

well then I heard some clattering about down the hall and realized that he was so bored out of his mind he had decided to go make a mess of my daughters room instead. I don't blame you kid....that is way more exciting than talking about forests...I know this first hand because I've had to talk about them since pretty much the day we started school.  I mean how much more can be said about maple and pine trees and opossums and caribou...and shrubs and canopies....however of course I act like it's very exciting when I teach it....which doesn't seem to really fool the kids any...they're too old I guess to fall for that now anyway....which brings me to something else...

I stopped taking my kids to this pediatric dentist that I did love and am now bringing them to a regular dentist mainly because the regular dentist doesn't charge as much.  I guess you're at liberty to pretty much rob your patients' mothers when you're trained to tell lies to your patients in order to convince them to sit still and quiet in order to get a cavity filled.  It was when Finnegan finally said to me  "I know she's not painting a car on my tooth. I know she's filling a cavity."  is when I realized...oh ...yes...I guess they're older now.  Not to mention I DON'T tell them that crap.  I say something to the effect of  "hey listen here, remember how I told you your teeth will rot if you don't brush them better like I taught you to?  Well they are...and now you have a cavity.  It won't hurt much and as soon as you get it taken care of we can go back to eating ice cream until our next visit."    Maybe that isn't word for word but it's pretty darn close.  Either way they're off to the dentist next week. Hope all checks out well....if not....well....I tried very hard to get the point across about proper dental hygiene.  Kids are still able to make their own choices.

Lists

Kids dental appointments scheduled (six months goes by WAY too fast)-CHECK

Kids eye appointments scheduled -CHECK

My dentist appointment scheduled (still trying to find ways to avoid it)-CHECK

My eye appointment scheduled (eventual blindess is not serving me well.)-CHECK

Returned books to library-CHECK

Went to bank-CHECK

Cleaned my house....doubt it.

I like to brag about my  progress .....

The TRUTH

Be bold in sharing it....and I know now that I must definitely share it since the grace has been given me to possess it.  I'm no more deserving than the next person and it is not His wish that any should perish... so my wishes should be aligned with His.  How much more difficult that is to accomplish when love for His children...the lost and the found...is absent.  So first, I must ask daily for His perfect love to be evident through me....because I cannot achieve that on my own.  I'm not perfect....as evidenced by each day that I spend simply alive...I do not love as I should because I don't choose to....so.....I will probably be asking him for His help a lot more frequently than that.

1 Tim. 1:15-16

2 Pet. 3:9

Psalm 37:4

2 Cor. 12:9

 

my mama didn't raise no sissies

today I nearly sliced the tip of my finger completely off....I made it half way through the nail.  thanks to alex's cooperation we bandaged it well enough so it should grow back together.  my nail is another story.  Maybe I'll hide it under my pillow...

slicing apples is a dangerous occupation.