2 Products....

..... that You Need!!

(or at least I need them and so I thought I would share it with you!)

#1
The Chop Wizard
It really works and it saves me lots of time. The only thing about it that is different from TV is that if you want to chop in the smallest size blocks it is not quite as easy to do as the commercial. However, it is SO worth the little extra push and the pop sound it makes to get everything chopped up. I have chopped onions, tomatoes, celery, and other things and it has done wonderful!!

#2
The AquaDoodle
My Aunt and Uncle got Hannah one for Christmas (or birthday?) last year and she loves it. We have the travel one and we can use it in the car, during worship, or at a restaurant. It is great and you don't have to worry about a mess.

If you don't have these products I highly recommend you get them!!

(( BY THE WAY, this is the last day to vote!! If you haven't voted yet telling me if you think I am going to have a boy or girl, you only have a few hours left!!! ))

Our Sunday Pictures

This was the dress that Chris and I originally got for Easter before I found the one she wore at the consignment sale. I think it is really pretty. The first picture is of Hannah helping Daddy get ready. She was helping by tying his shoe. She is so cute!

Happy Mother's Day to all my favorite mothers.

Especially to Grandmom, Nannah, and Maw Maw!
I got a wonderful surprise this morning. I now have a new spoon holder and salt and pepper shakers painted by the one and only Hannah Bear!! I just love them!! Aren't they cute? I do need some help on them though. Is the one with the most holes in it always salt??

This was my wonderful surprise on Friday. This is my Mother's Day gift that Hannah made for me at school. I just can't get over the wonderful gifts I received this year!!

The Bookshelf

I have been looking on line for some pictures of some bookshelves. Here are a couple that I found.

This one is pretty cool. I got this when I googled vertical and horizontal books on bookshelf. I would love to have a wall like this one day but I am definitely looking for something that won't cut into our pockets too awfully much.

I really liked this one. Great suggestion, Wendy!! I think it looks pretty. (Kelli, you could even do it the color of the rainbow like your closet!!)

I found one that showed someone who put wallpaper on each shelf and then had some hanging down a little and cut scallops on the ends. It was neat but for some reason I could not get the picture on here. (I probably did something wrong.)

I am doing pretty good working on mine but all the pictures are the problem. What pictures have you all saved? Are their pictures that you have gotten rid of since you have had kids? Some pictures from middle school or high school that I have seem so .... so.... not needed. What do you think?

New Book

I have finished Love's Healing Touch. As promised by Love Inspired books they are great, feel-good, light books. I enjoyed this one. It even had a small "twist" near the end that made me take it with me on the way to work and read it in the car to finish it because I really wanted to see how it ended.

We have joined a new local County Rec Center. I have gone a couple of times and walked on the tread mill. The first time I did it, I looked at my time and I thought I was going to have to stop after 10 minutes. I made it to the 30 minute mark which was my goal but it seemed like forever. Well, Thursday night when I went I decided that I would take a book that would make the time go by faster. (I didn't even look at my time until I had walked for 23 minutes - much better!) I had to pick a book that, at the beginning, would hold open semi well. This is how I picked the next book I was going to read. What would stay open the best on it's own at the beginning of the book. What a way to decide - huh?

SO, here we go with another Fern Michaels book. I am now going to read Late Bloomer. Let me tell you, in the preface I almost quit reading it. It was a little dramatic for my taste. A little "scary," for lack of a better word. However, it stopped with the details at just the right time and I am now moving on and enjoying it a lot so far.

As always, I will let you know.

My Life Change

So here it is. I told you a few days ago I needed to make some changes and they needed to be priority and so I think I have started to set some goals and some time frames.

You all are going to get to go thru this with me. No matter how embarrassing!!

The BIG MAIN goal is that I want to go thru this house and simplify and organize. I am not going to keep anything out just because I don't want to make someone else feel bad. I am going to completely simplify and organize. Every Room!!

The first goal to get here is that I want to hire someone to deep clean my home. SO, I need to make my home able to be cleaned by strangers. Right now, it is NOT that way. At all. Also I would like for this to happen before the baby is born.

SO my first goal is to find a spot to store all yard sale/ebay/donation stuff as I am cleaning.

My second goal is to organize the book shelves that people see when they first come into my home. Here is the picture of what it looks like now. Any suggestions on how to make book shelves with books in them pretty? Do they need anything in front of them or do you think the books are fine by themselves? In my defense I did not make the mess, however, I have been too lazy for too long to clean it up and get it organized!!

I will keep you updated on my life change and hopefully get some advice from you on it too.

Thank you for letting me vent and share with you my changes. It may take me a while but it will happen!! It will!!

Sowing Seeds of Kindness.

Galatians 6:9-10 (New American Standard)
And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Ephesians 4:32 (New American Standard)
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

We had such a fun Ladies Retreat last weekend. We talked about Kindness. We had lots of activities to put into practice the act of kindness. We had 2 wonderful speakers. We had great fellowship and, of course, really good snacks!!

Thank you to everyone who helped put it together and make it so special for us.

A Hannah Funny

This morning before I went in to get Hannah, I heard her talking (almost mumbling).

When I finished dressing and I went into her room she was lying down but her eyes were open.

She pointed to me, and looked up at the ceiling and said "Look, Look, Fan, Look!! It's Mommy!"

I suppose she was having a great conversation with her ceiling fan this morning. I am so glad she can entertain herself.

God Must Be Busy

This song has brought tears to my eyes more than once.
I think it is suppose to be a kind of love song but that is really not what I hear - I think you will understand.

Let me preface the lyrics by saying 2 things:
#1 I believe God looks out for ALL of his children!
#2 I believe God can answers prayers by saying "yes" or "no" to your request.

God Must Be Busy
Brooks and Dunn

That anchor man
says the fight began
somewhere in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace.
There's a single mom
just got laid off when she lost a job
to some foreign hands
in some faraway land.
Last night in Oklahoma
some twister took thirteen
and they're praying that they find
the missing three.
God must be busy.

That highway sign
went from slow ahead
to traffic's dead.
Thought it couldn't get worse
than that Amber Alert.
They say she's 4,
Colorado plates, headed out-of-state
in a Chevy van.
It's hard to understand.
You can see it in the faces
of all those highway strangers,
they're praying that God
keeps that girl from danger.
God must be busy.

And I know in the big picture
I'm just a speck of sand
and God's got better things to do
than look out for one man.
I know he's heard my prayers
cause he hears everything,
he just ain't answered back
or he'd bring you back to me.
God must be busy.

That evening news,
Ain't much changed
pretty much the same
since I left home.
Yeah that war's still on.
They found that little girl.
She was soaking wet,
half scared to death
on the side of some road.
Them prayers work, you know.
And the Bloods and Cripps are at it,
and theres a killer drought down south,
and old folks can't afford the drugs
they can't live with out.
God must be busy.

And I know in the big picture
I'm just a speck of sand
and God's got better things to do
than look out for one man.
I know he's heard my prayers
cause he hears everything,
he just ain't answered back
or he'd bring you back to me.
God must be busy.

That anchorman,
says the fightings worse,
cities burn in the Middle East.
[The] world prays for peace

Our Sunday Pictures

Another Consignment sale buy!!
Yipppeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Where Have I Been??

I have been going thru withdrawal. It has been a crazy week. I am sure none of you understand this phenomenon of random crazy weeks. We had something every night (I think this was the second week in a row!)

Monday - I had a girl's night
Tuesday - Chris umpired
Wednesday - Worship
Thursday - Chris had softball games
Friday - I went out of town

And work was crazy!! Whew!!

The additional thing that happened to us this week is that we had to take Hannah to the doctor. A little boy in her class was running with a toy phone and the phone ran right into Hannah's eye. I have some pictures here to try to show you what it looked like but I feel like they don't really show it.

The bad thing is that the next day she was complaining about it so we went to the doctor just to be certain she was OK, and sure enough... It had scratched her retina. (I think retina is the right word - definitely NOT cornea!!) The doctor said it would heal quickly but it was painful so she numbed her eye up and told us to put drops in it for 5 days.

Hannah is much much better now but it was kind of a weird thing. If you have never seen how they look to find a scratch on someone's eye before - - - it is an experience, especially with a hysterical child!!

(These pictures are from the day it happened!)
(I don't know why her teeth look funny in the last picture?!)




(PS - Elizabeth, Hannah is wearing the pants that were Chloe's that you could not find anything to go with and they still had the tags on them. I have this ONE shirt that works pretty well and we love the pants - - Thank You Thank You!! Sorry I didn't get a better picture of the outfit to show you. I thought of it too late! Have I ever mentioned that I love hand-me-downs?)