It's funny my Mom posted a comment yesterday about printing my blog and then deleting old posts to make more room... because that is exactly what I have been doing the past 2 days. I am on page 114 and not even out of 2008 yet.. It is a labor of love that I am hoping to have done in the next day or two, but in the meantime, do you mind so much if I blog with little to no pictures? As I have been combing through all my old posts there are some that I can delete now that will make some room, but not a lot that I want to get rid of yet without a hard copy.
About this blog book that I have been working on. When I started blogging in Dec 2007, I had know idea what I was getting into. I started it so that my brother and sister-in-law could stay up to date with the happenings of the kids since at the time they lived 3 hours away, but as I go through and reread some of my posts, it is turning out to be such a blessing for me and I hope someday for the kids. Back in the beginning I wrote a lot about just the little everyday things that happened around here, the little things that you forget. I can't wait to finish the book, get it printed, and then read through it cuddled up on the couch... laughing and crying as I go. I think too, that I want to get back to blogging some of the everyday things again. Life slips by so quickly and without the documentation, you lose so much. I am reminded what my Grandmother spoke to me a few months before her death. "Lyn, you need to document everything!" She is right, I do...
So on that note... I will leave you to figure out what I can blend for Tyler to eat (more on this subject later) and I will keep working on my blog book project!
Blessings!!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
OH NO!!!!
I just finished writing a post and I was trying to upload the pictures that go along with it and I got a message that said... "Whoops, you've hit your 1GB memory limit."
So now I don't know what I am going to do.... It looks like either I have to start a whole new blog or I have to pay a monthly storage fee...
This just stinks.
So now I don't know what I am going to do.... It looks like either I have to start a whole new blog or I have to pay a monthly storage fee...
This just stinks.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Crazy Week
It's been over a week since my last post. I apologize... Last week was insanely busy for many reasons, but my biggest one was Tyler's "class".
I have so much to write about the week, but right now, I will just have to say, that the progress that he made was amazing! Friday I had to go work with his teacher for 4 hours, at one point she had Tyler come into the room so she could show me how to work with him. He started reading and I started crying. I couldn't help it, it was like the last 3.5 years of pain and frustration were wiped away in a single week. We still have a long ways to go, but he is ready to work!
I am excited to share more with you....
I have so much to write about the week, but right now, I will just have to say, that the progress that he made was amazing! Friday I had to go work with his teacher for 4 hours, at one point she had Tyler come into the room so she could show me how to work with him. He started reading and I started crying. I couldn't help it, it was like the last 3.5 years of pain and frustration were wiped away in a single week. We still have a long ways to go, but he is ready to work!
I am excited to share more with you....
Friday, November 9, 2012
Lorelei
It's been a loooooooooooooong time since I got to spend a whole day with my niece. The last 3 times I was to watch her I was unable to :(
I love the time I spend with her and her cousins love to spend time with her too. It's kind of funny, Jilli, in the past, didn't like it when we were with Lorelei because for some crazy reason she thought I loved Lorelei more than her. Apparently those misguided feelings are gone because the girls had lots of fun coloring and playing together. Not once did jealousy rear it's ugly head.
Tyler on the other hand is amazing with little kids. He loves to be a helper, and play with them. He has such a great way with kids. He was making Lorelei laugh all day. At one point she put her crayons down rested her head on her hands and listened to him tell her a story.
She found the end of the story funny (as we all did) and started laughing.
I took two things away from our day with Lorelei. 1. 2 year olds are tiring! I totally could have laid my head down and taken a nap right along with her. I had forgotten how much effort you put forward and how little you get done around the house. 2. How very precious that age is. I loved reading to her all the books I don't get to read to my kids anymore. I loved all the questions she asked!! Kevin thinks I ask a lot of questions... he should spend a whole day with his niece!!
We are looking forward to the next trip Ama & Poppop go on so we can have her again!!
I love the time I spend with her and her cousins love to spend time with her too. It's kind of funny, Jilli, in the past, didn't like it when we were with Lorelei because for some crazy reason she thought I loved Lorelei more than her. Apparently those misguided feelings are gone because the girls had lots of fun coloring and playing together. Not once did jealousy rear it's ugly head.
Tyler on the other hand is amazing with little kids. He loves to be a helper, and play with them. He has such a great way with kids. He was making Lorelei laugh all day. At one point she put her crayons down rested her head on her hands and listened to him tell her a story.
I took two things away from our day with Lorelei. 1. 2 year olds are tiring! I totally could have laid my head down and taken a nap right along with her. I had forgotten how much effort you put forward and how little you get done around the house. 2. How very precious that age is. I loved reading to her all the books I don't get to read to my kids anymore. I loved all the questions she asked!! Kevin thinks I ask a lot of questions... he should spend a whole day with his niece!!
We are looking forward to the next trip Ama & Poppop go on so we can have her again!!
Thursday, November 8, 2012
My Thoughts...
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” ~Thomas Paine
I did not want to rush to the computer yesterday, it was a day of serious reflection. Of crying out to God. Sadness that runs deep into the shadows of the ocean, threatened to over take me. Did we think that things of such high value would be paid for so easily?? God knows the proper price for freedom.
What pains me the most is knowing...knowing, what my children will now face. All throughout time mothers have sent their husbands and son's off to war to fight for the cause they believed in. Did I think that my sacrifice for my freedoms and those of my children would be any less?
Tuesday was a devastating day. Truth didn't seem to matter for half of our country and the fundamentals that we were founded on went to the wayside. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Over half of this country is being blinded by liberal media and socialistic values. Will they wake up to see what they have done? Will they fully understand the ramifications that Tuesday will forever have on our country? The freedoms that will now be stripped away...
Elections have consequences...
-Three of our states voted for gay marriage (Washington, Maryland, Maine)
-Massachusetts legalized Doctor assisted suicide
-The dollar fell Wednesday against the Euro (currency that Spain, Italy, GREECE use)
-Healthcare will be more money, employers will not be able to afford it now. Government now holds all control over your health.
-Inflation is coming... gas/coal/energy will all be more money.
Within hours of re-election Obama called UN to begin talks again on global ban of guns. Doesn't matter what our 2nd amendment rights are. The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty would nullify them.
Sadly our schools have been indoctrinating our children for so long, we have lost touch to the real history of the United States. Our children buy into the lies that are taught them in school. They can't think for themselves. As parents we have pampered our children, teaching them to expect handouts instead of working hard for what they have.
I will be honest, I struggled yesterday. I told myself things that I had to keep repeating until they reached my heart. Where does my faith lie? In a man, in a country, in me? No, my faith lies with the only One who sees past the present and into the future. My hope is in the One who saved me. I know that consequences are coming, I know that times will be hard, but I trust my Savior.
Tuesday afternoon, the kids and I were talking. I said, "if we have no food, who do we trust? If we have no water, who do we trust? If we have no heat, who do we trust?" Their answer "JESUS!"
It makes my heart so sad to think of all the people who are looking to Obama, and thinking that he is the answer. People were chanting, screaming, dancing... FOR A MAN. I worship the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! I have hope, for what can this world take from me?... my life. But I know where I am going!! Heaven!! I know where my husband and children are going!
Tuesday night I went to bed with tears in my eyes. Last night I went to bed knowing that God is in control of all of things, it took me a day to get there. I don't believe this was what God wanted, God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat the apple... but he provided another way for them. And he will provide another way for those of us who call him Savior.
My resolve is ever so much more, to teach my children where our hope lies, to pour into them truth that is found only in the Bible.
~ I have to share this. On Sunday while in church we saw a video of a remote tribe in South America. They have only had bits and pieces of the Bible in their language. The whole New Testament had been translated for them and was being flown into their village. The whole village showed up, they were singing, and dancing. The plane landed, the box of New Testaments was carefully carried out of the plane and handed to the elders of the tribe. With tears streaming down their faces, they handed it to the oldest of the tribe. One of the tribesmen said, (paraphrasing) "We have believed, and now we pass our beliefs down to you." As this was said, the elderly passed the box of Bibles down to the youth. The whole tribe was crying (including me), because this box held the Truths that they had believed and never had! They handled that box like it was their most prized possession...and it was.
How many Bibles do we have sitting in our homes, that we have taken for granted? We can sit and open the Word anytime we want too. We can get online and look things up whenever we want. But how often do we? Do we handle our Bibles like our most prized possession? I know I don't...
Here it is... I think that allowing a man a second term to finish what he started, was a grave mistake. A mistake we all will pay the price for. But our hope is in the Lord, so while we will be carefully watching what happens next, we will be praying for the leadership of this country. I pray that what I (and many other people) see coming doesn't happen, because so many will be completely unprepared. And that is the most scary prospect of all!
Psalm 112[a]
1 Praise the Lord.
Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
who find great delight in his commands.
who find great delight in his commands.
2 Their children will be mighty in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in their houses,
and their righteousness endures forever.
4 Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,
for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
5 Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in their houses,
and their righteousness endures forever.
4 Even in darkness light dawns for the upright,
for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
5 Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.
6 Surely the righteous will never be shaken;
they will be remembered forever.
7 They will have no fear of bad news;
their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
8 Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear;
in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
9 They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,
their righteousness endures forever;
their horn[c] will be lifted high in honor.
they will be remembered forever.
7 They will have no fear of bad news;
their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
8 Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear;
in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
9 They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,
their righteousness endures forever;
their horn[c] will be lifted high in honor.
10 The wicked will see and be vexed,
they will gnash their teeth and waste away;
the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.
they will gnash their teeth and waste away;
the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.
...Amen
Monday, November 5, 2012
This Weekend
I keep wanting to start writing about our trip upnorth, but things just keep happening over here that push that trip to the end of the blogging line.
My last post I mentioned that we hadn't heard from Tim and Melissa for a few days. Tim called me Sunday morning to update me. They are doing well, the power is back on at Sissy and Sanjay's so they are able to move back there (they had left b/c they ran out of water and it was cold with no heat). Good thing, is that none of their stuff was destroyed, bad news is it will be at least another 2 wks before they are able to move back home. They are also thankful because there are still many buildings that still have standing water in their lobbies, those buildings are not permitted to pump them out because the water has too much oil and gas in it. Many of these buildings are located all around Tim and Melissa's building, the buildings are currently temporarily condemned. People who live in the buildings can't get to any of their stuff, and are being told that it could be months before they will be allowed back into their buildings. I can't even imagine!
After I got done talking with Tim, Jilli hopped on the phone with him for a few minutes then Tim past the phone to Aunt Melissa and Jilli talked her ear off for like the next 20min! She is all girl... I can't even imagine what it's going to be like when she is a teenager!!
OK, so what I am about to tell you next might shock some of you...
Early Saturday morning our home was broken into, however, we didn't put all the pieces together until yesterday. Here is the story...
Friday night Kev and I were watching TV when we heard Tyler throwing up (he is not sick, we think it was an allergic reaction to what he ate). We both ran upstairs and took care of him, got him back in bed and decided we might as well go to bed too. So... we didn't do our nightly rounds of all our doors to make sure they are all locked, our routine was interrupted and neither of us even thought about the fact that we didn't check our doors.
Fast forward to Saturday morning... Kev and I get up and as I come down the stairs I notice that the curtain that hangs in front of our slider is blowing out the door. The slider door and screen door were open about 2 ft. Micah who got up an hour earlier said that he didn't open it. I thought it odd, that I wouldn't notice the slider open, especially because it had been cold outside. I checked to make sure my purse was still here (thankfully it was 'put away'). Kev's wallet was sitting on the counter and all of my computer equipment was still sitting where it always sits. Kevin didn't think there was much to worry about. So we went about our day.
I had noticed that there was one thing missing, but maybe I had misplaced the item (which I knew I didn't), but it didn't really register with me to be overly concerned.
Sunday I told Kevin that this particular item was missing and that I knew exactly where I had put it and it wasn't there. Kevin then asked me if I had read an email that had come in from our neighbor. I didn't, so he read it to me. She was warning us that there had been 2 houses that had been broken into early Saturday morning. We decided to call the police.
The officer came and told us that there had been 3 break-ins (ours makes 4). All on our street. One of the houses being 2 houses down from us. They actually saw the man, he was coming in their front door while there were people sleeping in the living room! That was at 7:56am. The officer dusted for prints... there was some, but there was no 'ridges' on the prints so he couldn't use them. He did tell us there was some really good clues at some of the other houses...
After piecing together the timeline the officer gave us we have kind of figured out that this man entered our house through our unlocked slider, was able to grab the item he stole just as Micah got out of bed and headed to our room to get Romeo. The two of them came running down the stairs, the robber heard them, and took off out the slider. Micah did tell us that Romeo acted weird, heading straight to the slider instead of to his food bowl. We are so thankful that 1. Micah did not encounter this person still in our home. 2. Romeo was with him and makes more noise than a herd of elephants to scare this guy off. 3. No one was hurt. I just have to say that guy is lucky he didn't meet Romeo. It wouldn't have gone well for him.
So, that's the story. We give God the praise for protecting us from a situation that could have been so much worse. I told Kevin that I think I am starting up my childhood bedtime rote prayer "....Please help there be no bats, no fires, no robbers. Amen"
My last post I mentioned that we hadn't heard from Tim and Melissa for a few days. Tim called me Sunday morning to update me. They are doing well, the power is back on at Sissy and Sanjay's so they are able to move back there (they had left b/c they ran out of water and it was cold with no heat). Good thing, is that none of their stuff was destroyed, bad news is it will be at least another 2 wks before they are able to move back home. They are also thankful because there are still many buildings that still have standing water in their lobbies, those buildings are not permitted to pump them out because the water has too much oil and gas in it. Many of these buildings are located all around Tim and Melissa's building, the buildings are currently temporarily condemned. People who live in the buildings can't get to any of their stuff, and are being told that it could be months before they will be allowed back into their buildings. I can't even imagine!
After I got done talking with Tim, Jilli hopped on the phone with him for a few minutes then Tim past the phone to Aunt Melissa and Jilli talked her ear off for like the next 20min! She is all girl... I can't even imagine what it's going to be like when she is a teenager!!
OK, so what I am about to tell you next might shock some of you...
Early Saturday morning our home was broken into, however, we didn't put all the pieces together until yesterday. Here is the story...
Friday night Kev and I were watching TV when we heard Tyler throwing up (he is not sick, we think it was an allergic reaction to what he ate). We both ran upstairs and took care of him, got him back in bed and decided we might as well go to bed too. So... we didn't do our nightly rounds of all our doors to make sure they are all locked, our routine was interrupted and neither of us even thought about the fact that we didn't check our doors.
Fast forward to Saturday morning... Kev and I get up and as I come down the stairs I notice that the curtain that hangs in front of our slider is blowing out the door. The slider door and screen door were open about 2 ft. Micah who got up an hour earlier said that he didn't open it. I thought it odd, that I wouldn't notice the slider open, especially because it had been cold outside. I checked to make sure my purse was still here (thankfully it was 'put away'). Kev's wallet was sitting on the counter and all of my computer equipment was still sitting where it always sits. Kevin didn't think there was much to worry about. So we went about our day.
I had noticed that there was one thing missing, but maybe I had misplaced the item (which I knew I didn't), but it didn't really register with me to be overly concerned.
Sunday I told Kevin that this particular item was missing and that I knew exactly where I had put it and it wasn't there. Kevin then asked me if I had read an email that had come in from our neighbor. I didn't, so he read it to me. She was warning us that there had been 2 houses that had been broken into early Saturday morning. We decided to call the police.
The officer came and told us that there had been 3 break-ins (ours makes 4). All on our street. One of the houses being 2 houses down from us. They actually saw the man, he was coming in their front door while there were people sleeping in the living room! That was at 7:56am. The officer dusted for prints... there was some, but there was no 'ridges' on the prints so he couldn't use them. He did tell us there was some really good clues at some of the other houses...
After piecing together the timeline the officer gave us we have kind of figured out that this man entered our house through our unlocked slider, was able to grab the item he stole just as Micah got out of bed and headed to our room to get Romeo. The two of them came running down the stairs, the robber heard them, and took off out the slider. Micah did tell us that Romeo acted weird, heading straight to the slider instead of to his food bowl. We are so thankful that 1. Micah did not encounter this person still in our home. 2. Romeo was with him and makes more noise than a herd of elephants to scare this guy off. 3. No one was hurt. I just have to say that guy is lucky he didn't meet Romeo. It wouldn't have gone well for him.
So, that's the story. We give God the praise for protecting us from a situation that could have been so much worse. I told Kevin that I think I am starting up my childhood bedtime rote prayer "....Please help there be no bats, no fires, no robbers. Amen"
Friday, November 2, 2012
Update
Updates....
We are waiting to hear from Tim and Melissa, it's been a two days since we have had any contact with them. We are assuming that all is well, we hope to hear from them by the end of the day.
Nadia has been in contact with her family thanks to facebook (the only good thing about facebook). She posted that she was trying to contact them. A family friend saw the post and went to Nadia's sister's house to make sure they were OK. Apparently cell phone coverage is not so great unless you have Verizon. All other carriers are having great difficulty keeping coverage on the East Coast.
I don't think I mentioned my New Jersey family in my last post, but all of my Dad's family lives in Northern Jersey. They all came through the storm without any harm done to their houses, but most of them are without power, there is a lot of flooding and downed trees. Thankfully one of my cousins has Verizon so he could let us know they were all OK. Please keep this family in your prayers, much has happened since Sandy blew through.
That is the family updates... now onto updates about Idiots (and I don't use that name lightly)...
So with basically all of Jersey without power, many places flooded, damage that is inconceivable... Help is coming from all areas of our Nation. Except not all help is excepted. Utility workers were turned away from helping in NJ... Why?? You would think that they would LOVE all the help they could get! Because they were NON-UNION workers! How ridiculous is that! I just cannot wrap my brain around that stupidity!
Then there is the good old Mayor of New York. Bloomberg has given the New York City marathon the green light. What? You mean that you are still going to run a marathon when your city has been devastated by a hurricane? When you have no gas for your residents, no electricity, food is running scarce, people have no homes to live in... and you are going to flood your already flooded streets with runners? When you have police stationed at all your bridges and tunnels not letting any cars into the city with less than 3 people in them, you are going to open your city to marathon runners?? What about first responders? They have to be present for any race, you are going to take them away from the people that are trapped and stranded on Staten Island? I am really horrified. Why would you EVER, run a marathon through the 5 boroughs that have been destroyed by Sandy? I don't care if the NY Road Runners have created a 'Race to Recovery' fund. Why don't you donate your money and your time and help clean up the 5 boroughs? Then when we are back on our feet, run your marathon. I don't get it. These runners have reservations at the hotels where the victims are currently staying. Are the hotels going to kick out the homeless to make room for the runners? I did hear that the Hilton Garden Inn in Bloomfield will NOT send the homeless away, they are telling the marathoners to find another place to stay. Good for them!
Wow, I am getting amped up, time for me to walk away... t.h.i.s. i.s. m.e. w.a.l.k.i.n.g. a.w.a.y.
We are waiting to hear from Tim and Melissa, it's been a two days since we have had any contact with them. We are assuming that all is well, we hope to hear from them by the end of the day.
Nadia has been in contact with her family thanks to facebook (the only good thing about facebook). She posted that she was trying to contact them. A family friend saw the post and went to Nadia's sister's house to make sure they were OK. Apparently cell phone coverage is not so great unless you have Verizon. All other carriers are having great difficulty keeping coverage on the East Coast.
I don't think I mentioned my New Jersey family in my last post, but all of my Dad's family lives in Northern Jersey. They all came through the storm without any harm done to their houses, but most of them are without power, there is a lot of flooding and downed trees. Thankfully one of my cousins has Verizon so he could let us know they were all OK. Please keep this family in your prayers, much has happened since Sandy blew through.
That is the family updates... now onto updates about Idiots (and I don't use that name lightly)...
So with basically all of Jersey without power, many places flooded, damage that is inconceivable... Help is coming from all areas of our Nation. Except not all help is excepted. Utility workers were turned away from helping in NJ... Why?? You would think that they would LOVE all the help they could get! Because they were NON-UNION workers! How ridiculous is that! I just cannot wrap my brain around that stupidity!
Then there is the good old Mayor of New York. Bloomberg has given the New York City marathon the green light. What? You mean that you are still going to run a marathon when your city has been devastated by a hurricane? When you have no gas for your residents, no electricity, food is running scarce, people have no homes to live in... and you are going to flood your already flooded streets with runners? When you have police stationed at all your bridges and tunnels not letting any cars into the city with less than 3 people in them, you are going to open your city to marathon runners?? What about first responders? They have to be present for any race, you are going to take them away from the people that are trapped and stranded on Staten Island? I am really horrified. Why would you EVER, run a marathon through the 5 boroughs that have been destroyed by Sandy? I don't care if the NY Road Runners have created a 'Race to Recovery' fund. Why don't you donate your money and your time and help clean up the 5 boroughs? Then when we are back on our feet, run your marathon. I don't get it. These runners have reservations at the hotels where the victims are currently staying. Are the hotels going to kick out the homeless to make room for the runners? I did hear that the Hilton Garden Inn in Bloomfield will NOT send the homeless away, they are telling the marathoners to find another place to stay. Good for them!
Wow, I am getting amped up, time for me to walk away... t.h.i.s. i.s. m.e. w.a.l.k.i.n.g. a.w.a.y.
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