Last fall Tim and I stumbled across, "The Celebrity Apprentice" and ended up watching it almost all season off and on. We had our favorite actors, (mine had a normal tongue!) and I totally fell for Trace Adkins. I've been an on again, off again country music listener, more so since we've moved away; my mom is a huge fan and listening makes me feel closer to her sometimes and Lindsey likes it too now. Anyway, since we got to know Mr. Adkins I have started listening more again and on one of the last shows Trace sang his new song, "You're Gonna Miss This" and the first time I heard it I was all nostalgic and everything but since then I have had many days where I think, "Really? Are you Sure??" Everybody says to be careful or you'll blink and miss it all and sometimes I just want to sit in a dark corner and blink, blink blink!! Please let me miss just a little! And then the moments come, when you can almost see the light switch come on, when they do actually act like they know you in public, when they are actually all getting along, if even for a moment... Last weekend I had a great moment like that, I looked outside and saw my oldest 2 shooting baskets together - it was really awesome, until Kurt accidentally hit Emma in the head with the ball so Lindsey slapped him in the head and then he of course had to hit her back... and poof! it was gone. I'm Gonna Miss This? Whatever you say... I have a t-shirt that my friend gave me with funny sayings on the back of it that you never thought you would hear or say like, 'Dinosaurs don't belong in the toilet", "Please don't leave worms in your packet" or "Who took a bite out of my lipstick!" and my all time favorite, "You take care of you and we'll take care of them". Lately its been at my house things like, "Who put Tupperware down the laundry shoot?", "Why is there Grilled Cheese in your bed?" or the most expensive question of the week, "How much laundry did you put in the washing machine anyway?"
I know life is so busy for everybody and we are no exception to that. Sometimes too busy. And its the times when I see them playing outside together (even for a minute) or catch them talking to each other with a tone that does not sound like they hate each other, or receive a fistful of dandelions that I realize I will miss this time. And I'm glad that a simple song can make me stop and realize that for a minute. So, I want to "miss it" later when its all gone instead of wishing it away to fast by blinking too much!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Fun Times
A lot going on right now, but its all great stuff! As I type, Mike, Eskai, and Sarai Foster are driving here from Charlotte, NC to be our new Campus Pastor family. We are so excited about this process and thrilled that they are coming - God is good, even when the drive shaft falls out of the UHall on the way! They should be arriving by bedtime to start this new journey, please pray for all. You can read more about this on Tim's blog if you like. ** Added note, they have arrived and are settling in, its just taking me a long time to actually get this post up!
Yesterday Emma got bifocals - poor thing. We got a 3rd opinion on her eyes once Shopko said we were done with the patch. The Pediatric Ophthalmologist prescribed the bifocals because her eye crosses when she is reading. Apparently Shopko has a different philosophy on it because they weren't very optimistic about the bifocals. But I think she'll be fine once she gets used to them, it will just take some time. We are pretty happy with the new doctor too so we'll just keep plugging away with it. Bless her heart, she's been through a lot with it but she's been a trooper. **Update, she is doing great with them, we still see her trying to figure out which to use but she is doing well. And she has survived skating week at school!
This weekend marks the first Meant for More Conference being held at North Point. I have been a small part of the behind the scenes happenings with this and it is amazing to sit back and watch God move through the hearts of those who have been praying and planning for this event for so long. Their goal is to encourage and equip young women (6th grade thru 12th grade) to be set apart for God and to give tools to be more for God than can be imagined. How cool is that? I know as a mom of girls how I look forward to them being a part of something like this. I know that I personally was praying for them to break 100 girls and I believe the last count I heard was 138 plus adult women mentors. I am especially excited for the prayer walk; it sounds incredible and my friend who is putting it together has done this several times before and again, has a huge heart for these girls, coupled with her gift of prayer = something very awesome. **Keep in mind they are still allowing registrations and walk-ins on Friday evening are more than welcome!
** The final count was 175 girls - wahoo!
My boy is turning 13 on Sunday - ug! What an awesome kid he is. We celebrated some while we were back home for Spring Break and this weekend Tim's folks will be up to help us celebrate, everybody is excited about that! He walked in after school today and met me eye to eye, never thought that day would come but it is here. There is a song by Cheri Keaggy that I was introduced to when I first attended Hearts at Home many years ago when Kurt was really little. Its called, "Little Boy on His Knees" and when I heard it I fell in love with it, probably because it talks about his 'little sister' - that hit me! But mostly because Tim and I pray very hard that our kids will become followers of Christ, and that they would want to be close to Him. Hope you enjoy the song; it took me long enough to figure out how to link it (like 3 days!)! It should be playing for you now and here are the lyrics.
He see's me in the morning,
Lifting him out of bed.
The sun comes with little warning,
A brand new day's ahead.
To the kitchen for some breakfast,
A plate of toasted bread,
A cup of milk just as expected,
Close your eyes and bow your head.
You can thank him for anything you want to,
For the flower's and the trees
And pray,Lord Jesus, make me,
A little boy on my knees.
He's Mommy's little helper.
Learning to comb his hair.
And loves his baby sister,
Though he doesn't always share.
A quarter in the bucket,
A memory verse or two,
Although he may not know it,
He's beginning to follow you.
You can thank him for anything you want to,
For your Daddy and for me.
And pray, Lord Jesus, make me,
A little boy on my knees.
As we teach our Son to serve the Lord, in every way,
Lord the most important thing is this that we now pray,
Lord, we thank you everything you give us, but most importantly,
We pray Lord Jesus, make our Son a little boy on his knees.
Lord we thank you for everything you give us, but most importantly
We pray, Lord Jesus, make our Son,
A little boy on his knees.
We pray that someday he'll become,
A young man on his knees.
Yesterday Emma got bifocals - poor thing. We got a 3rd opinion on her eyes once Shopko said we were done with the patch. The Pediatric Ophthalmologist prescribed the bifocals because her eye crosses when she is reading. Apparently Shopko has a different philosophy on it because they weren't very optimistic about the bifocals. But I think she'll be fine once she gets used to them, it will just take some time. We are pretty happy with the new doctor too so we'll just keep plugging away with it. Bless her heart, she's been through a lot with it but she's been a trooper. **Update, she is doing great with them, we still see her trying to figure out which to use but she is doing well. And she has survived skating week at school!
This weekend marks the first Meant for More Conference being held at North Point. I have been a small part of the behind the scenes happenings with this and it is amazing to sit back and watch God move through the hearts of those who have been praying and planning for this event for so long. Their goal is to encourage and equip young women (6th grade thru 12th grade) to be set apart for God and to give tools to be more for God than can be imagined. How cool is that? I know as a mom of girls how I look forward to them being a part of something like this. I know that I personally was praying for them to break 100 girls and I believe the last count I heard was 138 plus adult women mentors. I am especially excited for the prayer walk; it sounds incredible and my friend who is putting it together has done this several times before and again, has a huge heart for these girls, coupled with her gift of prayer = something very awesome. **Keep in mind they are still allowing registrations and walk-ins on Friday evening are more than welcome!
** The final count was 175 girls - wahoo!
My boy is turning 13 on Sunday - ug! What an awesome kid he is. We celebrated some while we were back home for Spring Break and this weekend Tim's folks will be up to help us celebrate, everybody is excited about that! He walked in after school today and met me eye to eye, never thought that day would come but it is here. There is a song by Cheri Keaggy that I was introduced to when I first attended Hearts at Home many years ago when Kurt was really little. Its called, "Little Boy on His Knees" and when I heard it I fell in love with it, probably because it talks about his 'little sister' - that hit me! But mostly because Tim and I pray very hard that our kids will become followers of Christ, and that they would want to be close to Him. Hope you enjoy the song; it took me long enough to figure out how to link it (like 3 days!)! It should be playing for you now and here are the lyrics.
He see's me in the morning,
Lifting him out of bed.
The sun comes with little warning,
A brand new day's ahead.
To the kitchen for some breakfast,
A plate of toasted bread,
A cup of milk just as expected,
Close your eyes and bow your head.
You can thank him for anything you want to,
For the flower's and the trees
And pray,Lord Jesus, make me,
A little boy on my knees.
He's Mommy's little helper.
Learning to comb his hair.
And loves his baby sister,
Though he doesn't always share.
A quarter in the bucket,
A memory verse or two,
Although he may not know it,
He's beginning to follow you.
You can thank him for anything you want to,
For your Daddy and for me.
And pray, Lord Jesus, make me,
A little boy on my knees.
As we teach our Son to serve the Lord, in every way,
Lord the most important thing is this that we now pray,
Lord, we thank you everything you give us, but most importantly,
We pray Lord Jesus, make our Son a little boy on his knees.
Lord we thank you for everything you give us, but most importantly
We pray, Lord Jesus, make our Son,
A little boy on his knees.
We pray that someday he'll become,
A young man on his knees.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Finally!!
Emma finally lost her first tooth. Her friend Elizabeth, only 1 month older has lost 8! Awhile back we noticed that the new teeth were coming in but she hadn't lost any yet, weird. So, we were all pretty excited - so excited I didn't have her wash her face before we took the pics, oh well!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Holiday Ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oad...
So, it started out with a bang, with Tim and Kurt puking.. and the rest? Well, lets just say our last name was "Griswold" for the week! We took off Wednesday morning, not really knowing what we were getting into - if anyone else would get sick or not, and the good news is that we girls were just fine. God Bless Clorox! Poor Tim, I made him scrub himself and clean every time he puked, and that was a lot! I offered to clean but after the first 3 times, he just did it himself. Anyway, we take off to the Dells and find out along the way that Tim's Uncle Tom (Harry's sisters husband, they live in Lincoln) had passed away the day before suddenly. So sad for us, he was an awesome guy! We find out that the funeral isn't until Saturday so we stayed in the Dells.
We go to check in and are asked if we went to the "Welcome Center"???? You see, we had booked this trip under the obligation of going through, what we thought was going to be, a 90 minute sales pitch tour for Christmas Mountain. Nobody told us we needed to go to the welcome center but off we went, across town to get our information. After our tour we are supposed to get 2 $25 Visa cards and that will take our fee to $50 for our stay, good deal - right? It was almost 3pm at the time and we were told our room wouldn't be ready til 4pm anyway. By the time we get back, we figure out that they had told 500 other families to come at 4pm as well! We were in line out the door! Luckily, (aka - God!) someone walked by and whispered that there were 3 open lines to the right that nobody could see so about a dozen of us hussled over there! Here I find out we owe another $66 for our stay! I knew it! I knew we couldn't get away with $50 for 2 nights! But I pay, because what else can I do? 45 minutes later we trudge up to our room to find families lined up all down the hallway - all waiting for the cleaning crew to clean the rooms. You have bouncing children saying, "Hurry up, hurry up!!" and the parents all trying to hush them because we really don't want them rushing to clean!
So, by 6pm we are headed to the theme park/water park and really did have a fun time. The kids played and enjoyed themselves. I sit next to a lady who tells me she paid $720 for 3 nights here and was not happy at all with the service - I can imagine! I was already irritated with $116 for 2 nights! We hang out for a couple of hours and go back and order Domino's and watch the result show for Idol and finally all fall asleep, whew!
We awake at 5:30am hearing what appears to be a circus out in the hallway. I got up to - address the situation - to find that its our neighbors next door, in their room with at least 50 kids in there (ok, probably only 2 or 3 but it was loud! and it was so early) and they weren't doing anything wrong other than being alive at that hour, but still. So we get up and get ready for our tour, oh, everybody is so excited! Tim is feeling ill still - probably form Domino's the night before on a tender tummy, but we go because if you don't go they charge you for the rooms and we're not paying that kind of money!
We arrive to meet our tour guide, Ty Pennington Jr. - only hyper! He had to have been on something, the poor kid could not sit or stand still for 2 seconds. He takes us out to the table to talk and he's on the chair sitting on his feet! Our 90 minute tour turns into 2 hours and we're thankful because everybody else we walked in with was still in their "meeting". Tim made it pretty clear we weren't buying! I go to the desk and ask for our gift cards and she tells me they gave them to us yesterday at the Welcome Center... no they didn't. She says yes, here's the numbers from the cards they say they gave you yesterday. I say, no they didn't... and end up having to go back across town to the Welcome Center again! The only good thing about it was right behind us was a family saying they didn't get theirs either! I guess when I got out of the car Lindsey said, "I bet she comes out with bloody knuckles!" After they tell me that their inventory came out fine, and everything says we got them... I insist we didn't so they did give me - Bass Pro gift cards! And it just made me mad because they made me feel like we were stealing or something. But if we want to go back to the tour center they can exchange them for Visa cards... whatever. So, Tim's excited he gets to buy something for his boundary waters trip in August, and our vacation just cost us another $50.
That was it for the Dells, the rest was a really good time with the kids - and they really weren't subject to any of the drama, stuff we should have realized would happen. Nothing is free! But they had fun at the theme park and water park before we left to travel back home, and that is the goal we were shooting for.
We landed first at my sister's house for an early birthday party for Kurt. She had made lasagna and went to a lot of trouble, as always, to make a cool party for him with a hunting theme! It was a short evening but welcome none the less. Its always good to be with family, and Kurt got a lot of money to put towards his 2 mission trips this summer.
We head to Roseville and get in around 9:30-10pm to find everyone still up there! A relief kind of because the kids were bummed we weren't going to get to see much of the cousins. But the plan was to leave at 7am for Uncle Tom's funeral so we were off to bed. Had a beautiful day really. Sad of course for us, but just a joy to get to see extended family even for a short time. Wish I had thought to take some pics, I know Aunt Penny was - maybe you could send some? The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxing, went to church at Tim's home church. Again, fun to see people you haven't seen in awhile and catch up.
And we're back... back to life at its grandest form. Busy as always but not any worse than everybody else! Thanks everybody that was a part of our '08 spring break, love you all! Here are some pics from the trip.
We go to check in and are asked if we went to the "Welcome Center"???? You see, we had booked this trip under the obligation of going through, what we thought was going to be, a 90 minute sales pitch tour for Christmas Mountain. Nobody told us we needed to go to the welcome center but off we went, across town to get our information. After our tour we are supposed to get 2 $25 Visa cards and that will take our fee to $50 for our stay, good deal - right? It was almost 3pm at the time and we were told our room wouldn't be ready til 4pm anyway. By the time we get back, we figure out that they had told 500 other families to come at 4pm as well! We were in line out the door! Luckily, (aka - God!) someone walked by and whispered that there were 3 open lines to the right that nobody could see so about a dozen of us hussled over there! Here I find out we owe another $66 for our stay! I knew it! I knew we couldn't get away with $50 for 2 nights! But I pay, because what else can I do? 45 minutes later we trudge up to our room to find families lined up all down the hallway - all waiting for the cleaning crew to clean the rooms. You have bouncing children saying, "Hurry up, hurry up!!" and the parents all trying to hush them because we really don't want them rushing to clean!
So, by 6pm we are headed to the theme park/water park and really did have a fun time. The kids played and enjoyed themselves. I sit next to a lady who tells me she paid $720 for 3 nights here and was not happy at all with the service - I can imagine! I was already irritated with $116 for 2 nights! We hang out for a couple of hours and go back and order Domino's and watch the result show for Idol and finally all fall asleep, whew!
We awake at 5:30am hearing what appears to be a circus out in the hallway. I got up to - address the situation - to find that its our neighbors next door, in their room with at least 50 kids in there (ok, probably only 2 or 3 but it was loud! and it was so early) and they weren't doing anything wrong other than being alive at that hour, but still. So we get up and get ready for our tour, oh, everybody is so excited! Tim is feeling ill still - probably form Domino's the night before on a tender tummy, but we go because if you don't go they charge you for the rooms and we're not paying that kind of money!
We arrive to meet our tour guide, Ty Pennington Jr. - only hyper! He had to have been on something, the poor kid could not sit or stand still for 2 seconds. He takes us out to the table to talk and he's on the chair sitting on his feet! Our 90 minute tour turns into 2 hours and we're thankful because everybody else we walked in with was still in their "meeting". Tim made it pretty clear we weren't buying! I go to the desk and ask for our gift cards and she tells me they gave them to us yesterday at the Welcome Center... no they didn't. She says yes, here's the numbers from the cards they say they gave you yesterday. I say, no they didn't... and end up having to go back across town to the Welcome Center again! The only good thing about it was right behind us was a family saying they didn't get theirs either! I guess when I got out of the car Lindsey said, "I bet she comes out with bloody knuckles!" After they tell me that their inventory came out fine, and everything says we got them... I insist we didn't so they did give me - Bass Pro gift cards! And it just made me mad because they made me feel like we were stealing or something. But if we want to go back to the tour center they can exchange them for Visa cards... whatever. So, Tim's excited he gets to buy something for his boundary waters trip in August, and our vacation just cost us another $50.
That was it for the Dells, the rest was a really good time with the kids - and they really weren't subject to any of the drama, stuff we should have realized would happen. Nothing is free! But they had fun at the theme park and water park before we left to travel back home, and that is the goal we were shooting for.
We landed first at my sister's house for an early birthday party for Kurt. She had made lasagna and went to a lot of trouble, as always, to make a cool party for him with a hunting theme! It was a short evening but welcome none the less. Its always good to be with family, and Kurt got a lot of money to put towards his 2 mission trips this summer.
We head to Roseville and get in around 9:30-10pm to find everyone still up there! A relief kind of because the kids were bummed we weren't going to get to see much of the cousins. But the plan was to leave at 7am for Uncle Tom's funeral so we were off to bed. Had a beautiful day really. Sad of course for us, but just a joy to get to see extended family even for a short time. Wish I had thought to take some pics, I know Aunt Penny was - maybe you could send some? The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxing, went to church at Tim's home church. Again, fun to see people you haven't seen in awhile and catch up.
And we're back... back to life at its grandest form. Busy as always but not any worse than everybody else! Thanks everybody that was a part of our '08 spring break, love you all! Here are some pics from the trip.
Kurt not having so much fun on the spinning teacups! Totally saving this one for his wedding!
Emma was so excited that she was big enough to drive herself!
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The highlight of Emma's trip, driving with dad and learning to blow a bubble!
Last but not least, 10 minutes before we get home... I believe Lindsey sums it up!
Emma was so excited that she was big enough to drive herself!
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The highlight of Emma's trip, driving with dad and learning to blow a bubble!
Last but not least, 10 minutes before we get home... I believe Lindsey sums it up!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Free Camp!
I learned last week that Lincoln Christian College is offering their Alumni an opportunity to send their kids to attend the camps offered on campus this summer - for FREE! Lindsey is the only one able to take advantage of it and we are very thankful!! Check it out!
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