just a quickie!

last night i went and got my hair permed, however i am not going to post pics yet because i am going to have them redo it on monday. it just does not have enough curls and when i say enough i meen any. it looks as i woke up and moused my hair and scrunched it, does that make since, nick was so sweet he said he liked it but then said it was not worth the money i spent on it so i went up to the salon and booked a redo (for free) on monday. hopefully i will post pics then.

WOW! :(

I had to get onto Alyssa before I had Job every wednesday for having a bad attitude and acting out and then when i took off for having Job it stopped well when we got back into bible study she started acting up again so last week i went and looked into the window of her class and saw this little girl running and ranting and pulling on the other girls. so after that bible study was over i talked to her about the little girl, and found out that she thought this little girl was alot of fun, I then informed her that just because being bad may look fun does not make it right. Also that Alyssa needed to try to set an example for this girl so she could see how to act right. 

well today when i picked Alyssa up from her class i could tell something was bugging her so when we got into the car i started questioning her like normal about what she learned about then i went into how today was with the little girl and she said that she did not play with her because she was not acting how Alyssa knew to act. and that one of her freinds and her actually told on this little girl. we talked about why and then prayed to god, praising him for giving Alyssa strength to do what was right even though it was tough and then we prayed for the little girl that she would see an example in Alyssa. 

By this time we had pulled up to the place where i was getting lunch and as i opened the back door for the kids Alyssa is standing there with tears swelling up in her eyes and asked if I could pray with her again and of course i say yes and then ask why and she looked at me such hurt in her eyes as she says, "she said she hates me" and then started to cry hard. I started to cry as well and just hugged her. we prayed and went inside when we came out with our food to go home to eat with daddy as we were pulling out she said, "mommy why did she say that to me?" my heart sank i did not want to answer this in a wrong way and just crush her even more so i said a little breathe prayer and waited then said, "Alyssa sometimes when we do what God wants us to do bad things happen for example you were obeying your mommy like God commands and the devil does not want you to do what God wants so he made that little girl say that to you"  then i suggested that we pray for that little girl again and we did.  we talked all the way home about the devil and God.

I told her that when Will layed down for his nap that we would talk this over with daddy and she said why? your an adult (isn't she funny) i told her that her daddy is a very wise man and should be willing and wanting to take all of our worries to him because God has put daddy over us to guide and instruct us. she then said mommy ya know proverbs says alot of good things about being wise! lol!

I have always known that my mommy moments were not always going to be seeing their faces light up when i tell them we are making edible playdoe but that there were going to be those times when we were seriously going to have those talks when it just hurts you both i just did not expect to happen right know. :(

Alyssa just insisted that i take a video of her as i was taking pics of Job so i did and she just started talking. just all out monologue style, it was so cute. she is just a doll. here it is. 

sorry

I am so sorry for the delay in blogging, i was off to such a good start. well long story short, WE have been sick. enough said. 

ya know that is one of my biggest fears, is being out of commission. it happened a couple years back when i had my pace maker put in, i guess that was major compared to just a cold. but it seems as though if i get sick i get so behind on my household duties, and nobody understands i just want to lay down when nobody else is sick. i love being a mom more than anything but ya know moms should have the opportunity to call in sick somehow!! :)  when pigs fly, huh:)  my wonderful hubby helps out tremendously but he is not a mom and my kids are accustomed to how i do things like snug bugging them at night and such.

anywho i am better thank goodness! so i am back to daily blogging.

Potty Training!!

Thursday morning as i was putting away the morning dishes Will walked past me and i could tell he needed a new diaper (by the smell) as i was changing him i said to myself, "i have had it, i am potty training this boy right now"

now when first got pregnant with Job he started pooping in the potty which i hear is backwards to poop first and then start peeing but i just figured thats just us alittle backwards. lol so after a few months of that i trie to potty train him. i tried to do it just as i had done it with my daughter by just putting some big boy undies on him and asking every so often with the promise of candy when the deed was done. but by the fourth day of going through every pair of undies we had in that same day while only having given out 6 pieces of candy in the 4 combined days i gave up thinking that he was not ready. 

when the time came to have Job i tried again with no avail. after i had Job we went to mississippi and visited family and everyone over there has boys so i started asking what they did because by now i knew that he was ready but i thought that i must not be doing something right because he just was not getting it. everyone i talked to said to set a timer for 15-30 min and take hime to the bathroom sit him down and tell him to try, that little boys have to be taught what the feeling feels like.

in all honesty i was not lookin forward to taking my Will to the bathroom every 15 min. but on thursday morning i changed my mind. but i did know that this was not going to be easy. so i got will into his big boy underwear and took him to the bathroom and sat him down and he did not want any part of that so then i came up with the idea of instead of waiting until he got the going potty part and then teaching to stand up to go ahead the do that and treat it like a game (which i knew i could talk him into playing a game, he loves games)

so that is exactly what i did i went to pantry to get some cheerios however we were out but i did have some old stale rice krispies so i filled up a jar and took it to the bathroom and i told will that he was going to put some ceareal into the potty and he was going to get to shoot the ceareal with his peepee just like a water gun and that everytime he did this he would get potty candy (a tootsie roll) he got really excited. 

he did really well that first day only having 2 accidents, then on friday he had 3 accidents (which started calling "ooppsyy" so when i hear that i know i need to bring a towel. now this morning i fought him just to get his underwear on he kept saying he wanted to be a baby and wear a hinny (diaper) after about 15 min of this i finally told him that there was no choice he was a big boy and that it was not an option and low and behold he started telling me when he needed to go potty before the timer even went off and get this we went out to eat with some friends at lunch and i put a hinny on him for this and when we got back he went to his room and brought out underwear and asked if i would help him put them on!!! i about died from happiness. 

we shall see what tomarrow holds

Real SMILES!!!!

today after the two older kiddos and myself got back home from BSF (bible study)(Nick kept Job) i had Job on the couch with me and Alyssa and Will were around him talking and laughing then Job started cheesing really big, I gave my camera to Alyssa and she snapped these pics of him. He has smiled at me for about a week but man nothing like this we were all laughing and Job let out a little laugh as well it was so sweet. Being a mom of three rocks. God is good!

Feed the multitudes

well every tuesday morning nick i and the kiddos go to a church who has a ministry called feed the multitudes and volunteer our time there.  the ministry feeds on average 350 families every week. we have such a good time there serving and praying for people who need and want prayer, our children pray as well for the people, Alyssa always wants to pray that people would learn more about God. and her pray gets answered every week (mainly because every week there is an evangelism message preached). see before they can get there food they have to sit through praise and worship and a church service then as there number is called they get in there car and form a line in the parking lot to get there groceries. 

every tuesday morning Alyssa wakes up and asks are we going to feed people today?

Nick just was asked to join the discipleship team, so he is very excited about that as are we.

Health Insurance, who knew?

I have a pace maker, did you know that? well i do. when Nick left the fire department he kept me on a cobra plan (health insurance) because i was pregnant with Job, well after I had Job the cobra plan stopped and for the time being i have no insurance.

today i called so many insurance companies and everyone of them denied me coverage because i have a pace maker. i have cried alot, i don't understand me being 26 years old and not being able to get health insurance for something that they put in me because they just did not know what else to do. everyone has been really nice about it saying they don't understand why they won't because i am not on medication for it and have not had any complications from it since day one of having it, and in the 7 years of being married i have only been to the doctor about 8 times not including the heart thing and having my babies.  

every company is saying that i am going to have to go to the state for help in finding insurance which pretty much means i will probably have to go on medicaid. which i do not want to do because my OB does not take that. and we want to expand our family, we want a very large family and i love my OB.  so tomarrow i will be on the phone again talking to the state trying to figure this out. wish me luck. 

Tims' Birthday

So today we went to my hubbys' best friends b-day party at the Incredable Pizza company, I had never been there so i really did not know what to expect. But man did we have fun. here are a few pics showing some of what we did. Prizes that we got with our tickets!
Alyssa, Will and Tims' daughter Kylee playing on the dance pad
Nick and Will in the gocarts, Will was so excited about this because everywhere we go he has always been to short to ride with Nick and now he is a big boy and can ride.  He had a blast!!

Nick playing too!

Her goal was to win!
I was there too! see there is finally a pic of corse i took it to prove it, and Job to!!

Quick Funny :)

sorry this will be short tonight as we just got in really late, hubby and the kids and i were in the car tonight and hubby and i were talking and joking with each other and he asked,"well, what are mommies for?" in response to a jab i said to him and from the very back of the van we hear my 5 year old girl say,"feeding and birthing".    we about died. lol!!!

my age

I dreaded turning 26 this past year.  For most women the big year is 30, but for me it was 26.  when I turned 25 I could have cared less, I did not care just a year older right, but when my birthday approached and I thought about it I started to feel so old, "why" I will tell you why, because I have had my drivers  license for a decade and that sounds so old. I know some of you are just shaking your head at me but I can't help the way my mind works. lol anyway I just thought I would share.

Happy New Year!

So I know everyone does this whole new years resolution thing, I have never done this because it is always something you want to stop doing to better your life. So you start out strong (meaning for 1 week) then you lose interest. So instead of saying that my new years resolution is to start blogging I am just going to say that January 1,2009 is my start date for my blog. 

I am going to use this blog to track our lives as God leads us, to share our homeschool with others, to share our savings with coupons and to just share my thoughts.  So I want to say welcome to my blog.