last night. A couple shots of my basketball player in action! Getting the rebound, and playing mid-court D! Go 44!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Since I missed the games
last night. A couple shots of my basketball player in action! Getting the rebound, and playing mid-court D! Go 44!
Coming Back to Life
It is always amazing to me how I have been so blessed with good health. I have struggled in earlier years with allergies and asthma, ear infections and the cursed Plantar Fasciatis (the WORST pain I ever hope to experience, lasting about 2 years!), but for the most part, I have a very strong and healthy constitution. I just need to get enough rest and NOT get overly tired. Yeah, right!
I should know by now that when I get tired, and am finishing an important project, I will probably get sick. It's just the way I am wired. Well, after having worked 7 days a week, 3:00-6:30am since the end of June, with two mornings off -one in July after my van was rear-ended, and Christmas morning, I had started feeling a bit run down the last couple weeks. We wrapped up Spring 2007 Electives Co-op registration on Friday, signing 42 families with a total of 109 kids up for 6 weeks of classes in March and April. The application and registration piece is my baby - all of it! I was relieved to be done Friday and exhausted! SO much so, that instead of watching Thomas play ball Friday night, my mom ran me to her house for a nap while they went to the game! I worked both jobs Saturday and Sunday, though I was feeling a cold coming on Sunday morning. Well, it hit yesterday like a tons of bricks! I was DONE! I got home from my route at 6:45 am, showered and collapsed on the couch, where I spent the day and evening. Thank goodness Norman was here, and Thomas could help with the littles while Norman did laundry, cause I was OUT! I ate a bit of soup, drank OJ, and slept! My mom came and got Thomas and Benjamin at 3:30,and Norman took Max to Thomas' games at 7 and 8 and I missed it all! It has been a long time since I have felt that bad, and hope it doesn't return ANYTIME soon!
The good news is, I am better! 24 hours down time does wonders! I was up at 3:00am, did my route and got home at 6:30am. I have a busy day ahead, with Max's 18month checkup just one of our places to go today, but I feel refreshed and ready for it all! I have a few Electives loose ends to wrap up, laundry to put away, dishes to do (the payment for having Norman taking care of the kids all day!), and schoolwork with Thomas to go over and discuss. I'm glad things are back to normal, or what passes for normal in our world, anyway!
I did get to go to church Sunday, and actually made it into the service, instead of Mommy Ministry in the Nursery. We had an AMAZING guest speaker, Brian Heasley, who is part of 24-7 Prayer, an inspiring ministry of prayer. He and his wife and their 2 boys live in Ibiza and do street ministry to the drunk and drugged tourists there on vacation. His stories are truly inspiring, and his message is so true - we are called to be light in darkness, NOT light in light. He spoke of it being so easy to get wrapped up in all things Christian - friends, books, music, conversations and ideas - that we forget that the world needs the Light and Love of Jesus, and that it is each of ours job, as Christians, to be OUT THERE spreading light, not in here, sharing it amongst those who already know. He had a powerful message and I am interested in learning more about his organization. You might want to check it out!
http://brianheasley.blogspot.com/index.html
http://www.24-7prayer.com/
Well, babies are awake, and the day is full! I must be off and about my tasks!
I should know by now that when I get tired, and am finishing an important project, I will probably get sick. It's just the way I am wired. Well, after having worked 7 days a week, 3:00-6:30am since the end of June, with two mornings off -one in July after my van was rear-ended, and Christmas morning, I had started feeling a bit run down the last couple weeks. We wrapped up Spring 2007 Electives Co-op registration on Friday, signing 42 families with a total of 109 kids up for 6 weeks of classes in March and April. The application and registration piece is my baby - all of it! I was relieved to be done Friday and exhausted! SO much so, that instead of watching Thomas play ball Friday night, my mom ran me to her house for a nap while they went to the game! I worked both jobs Saturday and Sunday, though I was feeling a cold coming on Sunday morning. Well, it hit yesterday like a tons of bricks! I was DONE! I got home from my route at 6:45 am, showered and collapsed on the couch, where I spent the day and evening. Thank goodness Norman was here, and Thomas could help with the littles while Norman did laundry, cause I was OUT! I ate a bit of soup, drank OJ, and slept! My mom came and got Thomas and Benjamin at 3:30,and Norman took Max to Thomas' games at 7 and 8 and I missed it all! It has been a long time since I have felt that bad, and hope it doesn't return ANYTIME soon!
The good news is, I am better! 24 hours down time does wonders! I was up at 3:00am, did my route and got home at 6:30am. I have a busy day ahead, with Max's 18month checkup just one of our places to go today, but I feel refreshed and ready for it all! I have a few Electives loose ends to wrap up, laundry to put away, dishes to do (the payment for having Norman taking care of the kids all day!), and schoolwork with Thomas to go over and discuss. I'm glad things are back to normal, or what passes for normal in our world, anyway!
I did get to go to church Sunday, and actually made it into the service, instead of Mommy Ministry in the Nursery. We had an AMAZING guest speaker, Brian Heasley, who is part of 24-7 Prayer, an inspiring ministry of prayer. He and his wife and their 2 boys live in Ibiza and do street ministry to the drunk and drugged tourists there on vacation. His stories are truly inspiring, and his message is so true - we are called to be light in darkness, NOT light in light. He spoke of it being so easy to get wrapped up in all things Christian - friends, books, music, conversations and ideas - that we forget that the world needs the Light and Love of Jesus, and that it is each of ours job, as Christians, to be OUT THERE spreading light, not in here, sharing it amongst those who already know. He had a powerful message and I am interested in learning more about his organization. You might want to check it out!
http://brianheasley.blogspot.com/index.html
http://www.24-7prayer.com/
Well, babies are awake, and the day is full! I must be off and about my tasks!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A Questionable Legacy
To my present (and maybe future) children - I am so sorry that I have passed on the sad and painful legacy of ear problems. I suffered ear infections as a child, and have apparently inflicted the same on my beautiful children. Thomas had TONS of ear infections, and a ruptured ear drum as a little one, before he outgrew the problem. Benjamin had his 1st set of ear tubes in at 18 months, and Max had his in before he turned one. Well, Benjamin's 1st set came out, and he has had a nasty infection since then! Some tough strain of antibiotic resistant pneumococcous (sp?). We just got back from the ENT who said (no surprise!) "New tubes for those very infected ears." The child has been on high dose antibiotics for 6 weeks!! Good grief!! Oh well, at least we know the drill!!
Everything else is good! Thomas' Middle School Spirit Homeschool Basketball team lost their first game of the season last night, which he is taking hard, but he is doing well. We are ready for Spring Electives, where he will be taking Grossology, Creation vs Evolution, and a World Geography class, in addition to co-teaching P.E. to kindergarten and 1st graders! He has WAY more patience than I!! We are right now in negotiations about our Spring plans. Thomas hasn't played baseball for the last couple summers, but is now thinking he wants to play this year. I am OK with that (really, I am!), but we are trying to decide if that will work with all the other things we have going on in the Spring and Summer. It would seriously limit the volunteer work he could do at Meadow Farm that he loves so much, and would be a BIG time and energy commitment from Norman and I that I don't know if I am up to. I guess we'll just wait and see! These things tend to work themselves out just the way they are supposed to! Humh, wonder how THAT happens?
Benjamin and Max are doing very well. Into EVERYTHING and BUSY little people! They are truly just SO FUNNY to watch, they just bring me such joy. They love each other and play together and fight each other all in the span of 2-3 minutes. Makes things interesting! The picture is the two of them just the way they like to sleep - together, in Norman and I's bed.
Well, time to run and clean the kitchen, and check on Electives issues, and get Max out of his PJs, and check Thomas' math, and cook lunch and dinner, and get ready for basketball and my HEM Mom's Night Out tonight (yeah!!!), and get billings ready for the 33 newspaper customers who owe me money so I can drop off their bills with their paper at 4:00 am tomorrow! Busy, oh yeah, I stay busy these days!! Change it? Nope, wouldn't change it for the world!
Friday, February 9, 2007
Begin Again
Ok, I am starting, or re-starting, my blog with the idea that this will be a wonderful place to share and communicate. I have started twice before, but just didn't have the desire at the time to keep up, and in a life as RICHLY full as mine is right now, if it isn't a passion, it isn't happening!!
February is a busy time for us - Thomas is busy playing Homeschool basketball on both the middle school and JV Spirit teams, which involves A LOT of travel and time; we are gearing up for Spring Electives Co-Op, for which I am the Administrative Coordinator; we are active with Thomas' Middle and High School Boys Co-op; plus MOPS, and volunteering at Meadow Farm, and me delivering papers and working Applebee's, and a HomeSchool Basketball Tournament in March at Liberty University to prepare for! Add in a busy husband and two littles three and under, and my life is FULL right now! SO very, very good, but very FULL!
I look forward to having a place to document the journey my life is right now, and what an amazing journey it is!
February is a busy time for us - Thomas is busy playing Homeschool basketball on both the middle school and JV Spirit teams, which involves A LOT of travel and time; we are gearing up for Spring Electives Co-Op, for which I am the Administrative Coordinator; we are active with Thomas' Middle and High School Boys Co-op; plus MOPS, and volunteering at Meadow Farm, and me delivering papers and working Applebee's, and a HomeSchool Basketball Tournament in March at Liberty University to prepare for! Add in a busy husband and two littles three and under, and my life is FULL right now! SO very, very good, but very FULL!
I look forward to having a place to document the journey my life is right now, and what an amazing journey it is!
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