CAMRYN IS HOME!!!

Horray for sweet Camryn! Her numbers have been going up slowly - but she is doing well! She whet home Monday!

Be sure to use the button at the top of my blog to read about her home coming! And keep her in your prayers!!!

The stove story...

Ok, I hinted yesterday that there was a story about the stove that I wanted to share. It started simple enough with my oven light burning out. I asked Andrew to change it for me. When he went to change it, but bulb broke off inside the oven. Knowing the old "use the potato to get the light bulb out" trick he proceeded to do that. He had to actually unscrew the light socket from the back of then oven to do that. He got it out and when to put it back in - there was all kinds of popping and sizzling inside the oven - not sure if it was still wet with potato juice or what. We have an electric oven and Andrew didn't think to unplug it. In his defense, I'm not sure I would have thought of it either.

Thank God all it did was pop and sizzle. Andrew left everything as it was and told me about it when I got home. I look inside the oven and the light socket is hanging by only one wire inside the stove - the other wire had apparently melted. Looks like stove top dinners until it is fixed.

The boys tackled the light the next day - only to produce more popping and sizzling - from both the inside of the oven and the outlet. I come home and my oven door is off and it's the stove is completely out of commission. Take-out it is! Today they were able to use wire nuts to cap off the wires and put the socket back into the back of the stove. The light doesn't work (no big deal) but the oven does.

It may not seem like a big deal to some people, but the fact that Andrew was ok - he didn't get shocked - a fire of some sort didn't start - and the only cost was two wire nuts, to me is a blessing. So many things could have gone wrong, but by the Grace of God - everyone is ok.

I mentioned the other day I was a little blue and depressed. But the old saying is true:

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

I guess I just needed to take a moment and count my blessings to realize how the Lord has continually watched over our family. Even from when I was a kid. He has given us so much more than we deserve and has provided our every need - even when it truly wasn't a need.

So tonight I leave you with this blessing:

Forgive us Father as we bellyache and complain of what we think we need and what we want. May we always see You in all we have - which is more than what we deserve. Thank you Father for watching over us, holding us when we need held and for choosing us as yours.

Did it again...

Remember this post?  

Something about me not putting much gas in my car and letting it get to 4 miles to go on my gas gauge and only putting $5.00 worth of gas in and it wasn't enough to reset my gas gauge? And then I drove around for 2 more days with it like that?

Well, I did it again. 

Here is the proof.

It drives Michael and Andrew crazy.  But I've always been like this!  I get to know my car and the gas mileage and how far to push it.  I've only run out of gas ONCE and we had just got the car and I didn't know when the gas light came in it meant that it was on fumes.  :o)   No, I've never lived it down.

More in love everyday...

I know many times I've mentioned how blessed I am to have Michael as Andrew's father.  I thought tonight I would share one of those examples.  

While carrying in groceries Michael got a splinter in his foot from the back deck.  I looked at it, and being the loving, nursing wife  meanifyouaresickgotakecareofityourself kinda wife, I told him to go soak his foot and I would put the draw out salve on it - the same stuff mom used on me when I was a kid.  After bellyachingteasing me awhile about not taking care of him, Andrew piped up and said that he would get it out.  Michael said, "go get the tweezers boy."  Michael propped his foot up on a chair and the operation began.  Andrew was as gentle as he could be and got 1/2 the splinter out.  I told Michael to go soak his foot and we would put the salve on it!  But Michael told Andrew it was ok and to go for it.  To take nail clippers to clip the top layers of skin off and get the splinter out.  At this point I go into the kitchen - just thinking about it gave me the heebie jeebies!!  Anyhow, from the kitchen I kept watching Michael's eyes. His eyes would get real big as Andrew clipped and dug.  His toes on this other foot were curled as Dr. Andrew worked on the splinter.  But the entire time Michael was encouraging Andrew, "it's ok buddy - you are doing a good job" and "it's ok buddy - it only hurt a little" - (in Andrew's defense, no blood was drawn) - finally after about 15 minutes operation "get the splinter out" was a success!  

It may not seem like much to you, but to see Michael interact with Andrew on something like this or in talking about WoW, while we discuss teenage issues with Andrew or encouraging Andy with most anything, blesses my heart.  Michael is so concerned as Andrew grows to keep that relationship between them strong that he goes out of his way to talk to me when he feels like something isn't right.  I love Michael as my husband, as my best friend and as the one who chooses to be there for our son in every part of his life.  Seeing them together in the pool yesterday, today while the fixed the stove (more on that later) and tonight as Michael encouraged Andrew made my heart swell.  I love Michael, and moments like these make me realize that I not only love Michael, but reminds me how much I am in love with him!

Just needed time to be me...

Didn't sleep well last night.  I tossed and turned and had sad dreams about mom.  I haven't done that in a long time.  Woke up tired and frustrated and well, just down right cranky.  

Long day at work today - didn't want to be there, didn't want to work.  It was a good day - we had lunch and even and ice cream today from a vendor.  So there was no reason why I was cranky except for me.  I struggled to get any work done - I haven't been this way in a long time.

Michael and his dad went to breakfast.  Nothing was resolved.  Papa is going to lead his life and Michael doesn't want to stir the waters.  So we are back to ground zero except for the fact that Papa and I are at odds.  I really really don't want to be around him right now and I'm not sure I would be able to bite my tongue.  I'm really going to have to pray on this one without ceasing.  I struggling bad.  

So tonight I needed some me time.  I didn't want to be mom, or wifey or anything.  I just wanted to be me.  So I took off to JoAnn's (with my coupon) and got some stuff to make a baby gift for a coworker.  It's a cute bib.  I wish I had never given this up years ago - I'm really enjoying it!  I also found a store called "The Christmas Tree Store" - absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, but all the stuff you can never find and you can't live without!  :)  And then I went to 1/2 price books.  I got some Christmas gifts for the boys - at least that is my intent.  I did some geocaching this evening and had a lot of fun.  I forgot how much I enjoy it.  The weather broke just enough to cool it off a bit so that helped a lot too!!  I did have a run in with some bees - here is my log:

 June 26 by ATMS (482 found)
Ok, so the information in my GPSr wasn't as up to date as I would have liked when I got to this cache. I didn't know it was disabled until about 10 seconds ago.

Got to ground zero and was happy to find a mulberry tree for snacking. Looked like there was another type of berry bush close, but I didn't recognize it so I didn't touch it.

Make my way to GZ and found the cache easily enough. I got the container - it looked like it had fallen from it's original hiding spot. Heard a bit of buzzing around - a few bees but being the diehard (uh, stupid) cacher that I am, I continued to open the container. The log was ruined and water was in the cache. I put in a new log and as I was putting in the pencil I dropped it - so keep your eye out for a small pencil. Oh, and the baggie I put the log in was too small - you'll need a bigger one. Put some loot in the cache and snapped the container shut (I hate when these containers get water in them 'cause the lid wasn't snapped down).

I was getting concerned about the bees - I noticed about 6 or 7 now - they weren't too agitated or cranky - just buzzing. I went to put the cache container back where it belonged and as I dropped it in there I heard LOTS of buzzing! I hightailed it out of there only to realized I had left my GPSr at GZ. So I braved it and went back in there to get it and only got stung once - although sitting here I would swear there are bees on me!!

So thanks for disabling it - maybe next time I'll have my Palm charged and I'll take note of the status!!! I'm just thankful it was 9:30 at night and the bees were getting settled down for the night!!!

Thanks for the adventure

It was fun.  A nice safe adventure and it really did me a lot of good!!! 

Michael and Andrew are at Tox City tonight for a lock in.  They are there from 10pm until 7am playing video games!  They get a "Tox Dog" at midnight and pancakes at 6am.  If you fall asleep they put hot dogs in your mouth or something equally as funny and take a picture and put it on the website.  They either went so I could have MORE time to myself or they were afraid of me. I don't know which it was - I'll assume it was the first.  :)

Thanks for listening.  I appreciate the e-mails of encouragement.  I'm struggling with this thing with Papa and I know it is not my battle to fight.  God wants me to turn it over to Him and I just need to let Him work on Papa.  Unfortunately, that is easier said than done! 

:( I opened a can of worms...

I'm not going to go into too much detail, but things with the father-in-law (Papa) came to a bit of head today and I just although the cards were put on the table, it's never easy.  

I told Papa tonight that I was ready to meet Autumn.  I said that since she was still such an important part of his life (from what happened on Monday) that it was time that I meet her. Words were exchanged (not in anger - more frustration than anything) and when he left nothing was resolved.  I had been brewing about what happened on Monday the last few days and I talked to Papa before talking to Michael.  Although I only said what I knew he had expressed to me, I should have talked to Michael about what I planned on doing.  I should have made sure that Michael was ready for this crossroads.  This will either (hopefully) have Papa realize his actions aren't good for him or her or it will push him closer to her.  Michael wants me to talk to Papa tonight now that all the cards are on the table and see if we can discuss it. I'm not sure I want to - I'm tired of talking to a brick wall.  I was accused of treating him like a child and as much as I wanted to say something MEAN I just said "I don't think you are being honest with yourself about this and if you are, two wrongs don't make a right" - he continues to justify his actions and no one will talk about the elephant in the room.  I'm the only one that will.  Oh well.  We will see how it plays out.   

Anyhow - cereal for dinner.  It's one of my comfort foods.  The boys had spaghetti for dinner - my comfort food tonight was Kroger Frosted Mini Wheats.  I'm feeling very blue tonight - I miss my mom's.  They were both good listeners and had insight on how to handle things.  So I decided to put on my MP3 player and play lots of Roller Coaster Tycoon tonight.  Michael asked if I wanted to stitch, but I think I'll just stick to RCT3 tonight.  

Will you pray about this for me?  Even just one prayer for wisdom, guidance, patience and the rest of the fruits of the Spirit that I don't feel right now.  :o)

Post started (early) Sunday Morning - finished today!

(Started early Sunday morning when I couldn't sleep)

It's been a good weekend so far!  I will admit that I've spent uh, way too much time on RCT3 and I just started the Expansion pack.  If I keep up at this pace, I'll be done in no time.  But that is ok, every once in awhile we need diversions, right?  

Kenny is back from camp (came back on Friday) - and he is in Andrew's bed and Andrew is on the couch behind me.  Kenny is quite the sleep talker!  Andrew just seems to tossing a bunch. We all went swimming at Papa's for 2 hours or so tonight - and had a good time!  Then we came back for game night - Yahtzee Free for All.  You would think I'd be exhausted, but I tossed in bed for almost 2 hours and when Michael came to bed I got up.  

I worked on my cross stitching last night when the storms were coming through.  We knew we would probably lose satellite so Andrew put on two of my favorite movies - The Emperor's new Groove and The Hunt for Red October.  I got a lot done and I really enjoyed it.  I'll post pictures soon - and it's a lot for an evening of work, but it doesn't look like much.  I did about 3 inches worth of work.  See why I'm working on this already?????

Today is Father's Day and it just reminds me of how blessed I am that Michael is Andrew's father.  I mean, when you marry someone, you have no idea what kind of father they will be.  I couldn't have asked for anyone better.  Michael takes such an active role in what is going on in Andrew's life  - and yet in all the friendship they have, there is still a parental role that has molded Andrew greatly!!  I often thank God that He selected Michael as Andrew's father.  And I enjoy telling both Andrew and Michael how thankful I am!

(OK...it's Tuesday now!)

Well, I'm closer to using the inhaler like I'm supposed to.  I've got my mom's cough and I don't like that.  I remember doing a school functions and the best way I knew mom was there was for her cough.  Isn't that weird?  My earliest memory of that is WAYYY back in probably 1st grade or so - the 6 of us kids did the play "Henny Penny" - and I remember mom's cough.  Anyhow, as I grew that cough meant sickness and eventually death.  I don't like feeling that way.  I like that less than the thought of doing the inhaler.  SO I'm at least carrying it with me now.  It's a start.   I still have the cough and the wheeze...I'm afraid the Dr. is right and that it is asthma. :(

We've had a good couple of days - Swimming a bunch and enjoying that.  We play baseball a bunch - Kenny and Andrew against me and Michael.  Since the pool is oval shaped, we only have two bases.  And if I am on your team, you get 4 outs.  They play rock/paper/scissors and the loser gets me on their team!  I'm good with that.  Michael tends to lose on purpose (you can predict what the boys are going to do) and he has me on his team.   Marco Polo is another favorite - our rule is that you only have to say "Polo!" every third time someone says "Marco!" - if not, we would find each other really fast.  Most times we don't say "Marco!" - we just listen for breathing and laughing!  We were there for over two hours tonight - the boys beat us bad at baseball - I gave up keeping score after they were ahead 9-5.  I think the boys (Kenny is spending the night again) are going over tomorrow at 1 and Michael is going to meet them there at 1:30 straight from work.  I wish I could go!!!

We are having issues with his dad again - Papa is rather involved with Autumn again and I really want him to look at this relationship through clear eyes - he was ready to propose to her last fall and caught her in a huge lie.  To the point that he admitted to himself that she was using him for his money (not that he has much left) and that he was using her so he felt important to have someone like her on his side.  I told his dad we need to talk - if he is serious again about her, it's time we meet her and hash this all out.  I mean, to be quite frank, is she going to be there for him in 20 years (if we are lucky) to physically take care of him?  I doubt it. And if he keeps giving away his money like this, he isn't going to make it another 5 years financially.  Sigh.  Can you pray about this for me?  I need to know the right words to say.  I know he is lonely since we lost Nana 2 1/2 years ago - but it's just not good.

I've really been working on my cross stitching!  I'm in a groove and getting a lot done!  My goal is to get a picture on for you this weekend!  I'm still working in all one color (the suit of the groom) but hopefully by this weekend I'll start stitching his shoes and part of the bride!  I've got silk floss for the bride....I hope she just stands out!!!

I know posts without pictures are boring...but I'm lucky I get the computer at all right now!  :) ok ok...I admit, I have been spending a *bit* of time playing RCT3 when I do get the computer. I'm planning on taking a day off soon and hopefully geocache if the weather is nice or stitch the day away if the weather isn't.  :)  I *will not* play the day away on RCT3 (like I did Saturday for 3 hours straight!  Time sure does fly when you are having fun!!)

Mercy and Grace - and Angels Unaware

I started a post the other night at about 2am when I couldn't sleep but never finished it. I have lots to catch up on but in the mean time I would like to direct you to an interesting read. She calls it Mercy - I call it Grace.

Please click here.

Andrew often tells me stories of how some of his teachers, mostly Mr. Thomas, shows Grace in class. Grace is when we don't get what we deserve. Mr. Thomas is a very Godly yet humble man. He is very soft spoken and a man of few words (I could learn so much from him) - he is genuine and direct and loves his students and his heart's desire it to see them grow into Godly men and women. I am so thankful that he is in Andrew's life to not only show him a wonderful example of a Godly man but to also how a life can be lived as an example of Grace. I've always said Andrew is an only child for a reason. Not my choice by any means, but God has chosen this for him. And I know we could not afford to keep him in Baptist Academy if we had more children. That 'still small voice' in my head has told me often that it is God's will guiding Andrew's life and in that I find the peace when I long for more children.

Anyhow, this story reminded me of Mr. Thomas. We know not when we are entertaining angels unaware. Mr. Thomas is one of the many angels God has placed in Andrew's life.

Where does the time go!

Wow!  It's been awhile!  I can't believe it is Thursday!  But I sure am thankful!

Good week at work - we are finally almost caught up.  WHEW!  I put in 5 hours last weekend and hopefully that was it!  It's hard to work on submittals during the day with all the interruptions I get, but we are plugging through.  The phones have been slow(er) the last few days, so that has helped. 

Andrew is enjoying his summer.  We had a talk about his getting a job.  He feels like he is trying, but getting frustrated because there isn't much out there and there is pressure from us. He felt like we were pushing. So we compromised and agreed to him putting in 5 applications a week - all in one day or one a day or whatever.  And he needs to be productive in the house.  So that really seems to be helping.  I thank God that we seem to have the communication with him so far.  I truly think we are blessed with Andrew.  As much as I wanted more kids, he is an only child for a reason and what ever that reason may be, God is in control.  

Michael and I went swimming last night at Papa's.  The water was a little cool...(ok...it was COLD) - but as long as we stayed in the sun, it was good.  We didn't swim very much, but we actually had time to talk.  It had been awhile.  We talked about our mom's, our job, Andrew and just life.  And it was so nice.  It's amazing how a little time to talk without stuff catching our attention really strengthens relationships. 

When I got home from work today Andrew and Michael had cooked dinner!  Meatloaf and pan fried potatoes!  Not the healthiest meal, but it sure hit the spot!  And it was nice to come home and dinner was done!  

Tonight I FINALLY started cross stitching.  Ok, I lied.  I FINALLY got RCT3 to work as well as SOAKED!  WHOOT WHOOT!  Now the boys an I will be fighting over the computer!    Andrew and I also went to Garfield park and picked Mulberries - we took Cocoa and he ran and ran and ran!!!  I'm sure I'll make time to cross stitch tomorrow night (I'm sure I won't get the computer!)

Not much planned this weekend.  For that I am thankful!  Not much money - but here is a huge praise!  JAPANESE BEETLES!!  Michael got on the bugging team at work and he will be getting 10 extra hours a week!  WHOOT WHOOT!  That will help out so much!  So on Tuesday's and Saturday's he will be working an extra 5 hours each day!  Good timing too...I got our electric bill today from us running the air and fans.  :(

Lastly and most importantly - please keep Camryn and now Baby Stellan in your prayers.  Camryn has been blessed this entire time and seems to be on the upswing.  She seems to be producing DVH (donor vs. host) cells - and that is what we want!  That means that Wyatt's bone marrow is finally "growing" or duplicating her Camryn!  And Baby Stellan is back in the hospital.  His heart keeps going into SVT and this is NOT what we wanted for him.  There are buttons to both of their websites at the top of my blog.  As well as the link to Anna's Caring Bridge.  Prayers for her are needed as well...it's a long hard process for each of these kids and prayers for them and their families are truly needed.

Game Night!

We found out awhile ago that a game night at home means more to Andrew most times than going and doing something (that usually costs lots of money!).  So we try to have game nights fairly frequently.  Among our favorite are UNO Attack, UNO Flash, Clue, Titanic, Bermuda Triangle, Dark Tower and Phase 10.  Tonight I invested in a two new games - SORRY! Slider and Yahtzee Free for All.  What fun we had.  Usually I fix a little something as a treat so since I had to go to the grocery store today I picked up an assortment of cheese, hard salami crackers.  I also got a small vegetable tray, but I forgot to pull it out.  We had an absolute blast tonight.  We enjoyed SORRY! Slider, but we LOVED the Yahtzee game!  We played two games and were laughing till we almost peed our pants...seriously! My sides STILL hurt from the giggles!!  We will definitely be adding these two games to our favorites list!!

The rest of the day was ok.  Andrew and I are now set up on the iwireless phones through Kroger - we earn free minutes when I shop (usually every other week supplemented by Aldi). We went prepay about a year ago and went from spending $120.00 a month to $20.00 each month.  One month I put money on Andrew's, the following month mine and the month after that Michael's.  So we are down to $20.00 a month for cell phones.  We use the sparingly but at least with this program we will be able to use them a little more without worrying about it.  

I went into work today for 3 hours - trying to help us get caught up.  I would like to get overtime for it or at least take off a little early next week, but I'm not holding my breath.  Since it really isn't my job anymore, I kinda feel like I would like compensated some how.  BUT I've always given of my time willingly to keep things caught up.  I love where I work and I love what I do (especially now) - so that always helps!

Tomorrow (uh, today now) I plan to go to church and then back to work for a few hours.   Not too long, but at least a few hours to continue to get things caught up.  I am also hoping it works out that we get a game night in again tomorrow!  What fun we had tonight!

I did work on my cross stitching last night, but unfortunately I found a mistake and took it all back out.  Michael is going to ask his dad for one of his mom's old crafting lights.  Something like that will really help!  I enjoyed working on it again (my big project) so I think I'm finally over my nervousness about it not being perfect - that was really holding me up!!!

Michael's spirits are back up again.  It's nice to see him laughing and playing around with us.  I think the fact that his dad talks more about his friend Kay who is his age and not Autumn who is young enough to be his granddaughter is helping some.  He is still frustrated with his dad, but doing better.  My family seems a little bit more settled again and that is just a breath of fresh air for me.  Andrew is at peace right now with school being out - he is earning a little bit of money by cutting grass.  I just need him to work on getting enough sleep.  He is so worried about missing his summer that he is fighting sleep and getting up too early.  I think he is a little too old for this, huh?  =)

I'm just thankful for the peace I feel.  We've not been settled for awhile and it just feels good.   Even Cocoa is happy (but I haven't told him he has to get a bath tomorrow!!)

What a busy last few days!

Yesterday was again another very long and busy day at work.  Every time I think we are getting caught up on submittals, we fall behind.  But we are doing all we can, and my GAME plan is to go in this weekend.  

Yesterday Andrew went and volunteered at the Habitat house (yes, in Indy - not Columbus) - and he was on painting duty!  I warned him NOT to wear good clothes and it's a good thing!  He now officially has a painting outfit he will wear every week!  I think there was more paint on him than on the walls!!  His shoes, jeans, tshirt and over shirt and even his hair!   It was cute, he had paint in his hair the exact same place that Michael first started going grey (waaaayyy back when he first met me - he is now salt and pepper all over - I love it!) - it reminded me of how much Andrew looks like Michael.  Andrew plans on going back every Thursday the rest of the summer.  But he still doesn't have a job.  He now has to go out every day and put out applications.  I'm still hoping that something comes from Marsh (O'Malia's) across from my work!

I started (finally) working on my little cross stitching projects during lunch yesterday. UNFORTUNATELY I dropped one in my lunch  - chili of all things.  I'm hoping I can get it out!  I need to try to do at least one a day.  It would be nice to go see Nece and take ALL my stitching with me and stitch while she works or plays WoW.  

This weekend shouldn't be too busy.  I'm probably going to go into work and then just the usual stuff.  I was on the treadmill last night (yes, I use it) but I think I pushed it. I only did a mile  - in 20 minutes) and I think I'm just not up to being myself yet.  I ended up going to bed at 9 not feeling well.  No, I still haven't used the inhaler.  I'm really trying, but I struggle with it.  Stupid, huh?

I've missed going to church since I went to the Great Banquet a month ago.  It was so nice to get an e-mail from someone in my Sunday School class inquiring how I was doing.  Even though it is a big church - when you find the right small group, the size of the church shrinks.  I'm not going to over do it Saturday so I have the energy for church Sunday!

The best laid plans...

What a wet drizzly day!  It was a long (but good) day at work.  I know at one point I IM'd Andrew and typed something like "It's the day that never ends...it goes on and on my friend" (yes, you WILL be singing the lamb chop song all day now!) - but all in all it was a good day!  

Yesterday after work I ate a bowl of Rice Krispies for dinner, took a bath and promptly fell asleep on the couch by 7pm.  Michael woke me up at 7:30 and off to bed I went.  I only woke up for about 10 minutes about 9pm when the phone rang but other than that, I was out.  Didn't get up until 6:30(ish) this morning.  Must have needed it!

Needless to say I didn't get any cross stitching done last night.  

So tonight I got home from work about 6:30- grilled out for dinner and curled up on the couch for an evening of stitching.  About 8:15 I remembered that my sister from TN was in for the night! DOH!  So I grabbed the puppy and we went over to dad's for a visit.  Nece brought a teenage friend of the family with her and they spent the day at the Children's museum and other fun places!  Tonight most of us ended up at Dad's to visit. It can be so much fun when the family gets together!  Next thing I know it is 10pm and I better head home - I've got to work tomorrow!

Needless to say, I didn't get any cross stitching done tonight.  But it was worth it!

Matthew, my nephew, invited Andrew to a Habitat event tomorrow so he is planning on doing that!  Unfortunately, Matt told him to go to west 25th street in Columbus.  That is not good enough for me!  So the director for the local Habitat community is a friend of mine (through Schmidt) so I sent him an e-mail for more information!  Andrew doesn't go anywhere until we get the scoop!!!  The mom in me needs more info!  The fact that he is planning on driving about an hour south for this makes me nervous enough!  

That is about it for tonight....It's now 11pm and that is past my bedtime!

Please continue to keep the amazing Camryn and her family in your prayers.  She is such a little trooper but these are not easy times!!  Make sure you visit her mom's blog using the button above!

(((HUGS)))

Sha

Starting the week again....

What a nice surprise today to come home and the boys had cut the grass, fixed the microwave stand and vacuumed the living room and picked up. Sometimes that is all it takes to just make a day good!!!

Kenny broke up with his girlfriend and we've seen lots of him lately! I was paying RCT3 the other night and they were playing Halo 3 on XBOX Live and just listening to them giggle and laugh together. My heart just melted to hear them laugh - to the point they were in tears laughing.  Sometimes I wish Andrew had a sibling he was close to so that he could have these moments more often.  But maybe because he doesn't, these moments are more special.

Good day at work today. We've hired a CA intern and right now he is being trained to do submittals as a back up. What I used to spend 8+ hours a day doing downstairs with my ear plugs in so I wouldn't be interrupted was moved upstairs and is phone back up. And to top it off we are at the peek of submittals right now on a lot of our projects and in two days we got over 60 of them. The point being that we just can't get caught up. So having the intern trained for times such as this will really really help.  I'm looking forward to that!!!

I had to take all the stitches out the other day from my big cross stitching project.  I have a bad habit of not using enough light and then when Michael turns on more light for me, I realize I have a mistake.  So I'll have to get going on it soon.  But not tonight!  The expansion for RCT3 came in (the water park - Soaked!) so I need to try it out and make sure it works...right?  :o)

Feeling Better....

It's been awhile since I've updated. I've been fighting something for over a week and it's has taken all the energy from me. I finally went to the Doctor on Thursday and he is thinking more asthma over anything else. I'm on an antibiotic since my lungs are a mess right now and an inhaler. But I'm really having a hard time taking the inhaler. Mom was on this exact same one. I know it is stupid, but I can't bring myself to use it. I know it will help break up what is in my lungs but today is Sunday and I've yet to use it. I even have mom's cough - and I hate that. I've done nothing to intentionally hurt my lungs and for the last year I can't get them healthy. Oh well, maybe today will be the day.

I've got so much to update! Let' see...

I'm FINALLY getting moving on my BIG cross stitching project. Well, I've got everything back together and I need to start working on it. AND...remember I said I want to make bookmarks for the ladies at the Great Banquet in October? Well, I'm working with a lady I met via E-Bay and I rec'd my first order of bookmarks. Here is the bookmark that' I'm making. We went simple style (because I have to make about 80 of them) and elegant:

I wanted to do something on the theme of God's Grade and my E-Bay friend came up with this. Here is the first shipment of them...yes, 25. I want to do 25 of them this month and then 25 in July, 25 in August and 25 in September. I did it as much for the spacing of doing them as well as the cost - I can save up in between orders!

I *plan* on working on them here and there when I have a few moments. My big project is one that will need to take planned time to get it done - blocks of hours. And I also need to make sure I have time to get it framed!!

Oh! Here is a picture of the one that I made for a friend a few weeks ago. It is a different type of bookmark it gave me more room stitch on:

I ordered Roller Coaster Tycoon and I'm really enjoying playing it again! Although I do have to share the computer with the boys. My thought is that Andrew gets it each morning, Michael in the afternoon and I get it in the evening!!! Sounds fair, right?? :) Last night they started bellyaching about 7pm about dinner...my thought is that they BOTH know how to cook, but I got up and fixed dinner. It wasn't done until almost 9pm, but they sure ate well!!

I'm going to WW again. I joined (thanks to a friend) at her work but with all the changes at work I haven't been able to go for over a month. It was nice to know that when I did go back I had still lost a tiny bit of weight. I found out there is one closer to work, so I might just go to that one starting in a few weeks. I was doing good on the treadmill for a while, but with me not feeling well, well, I haven't been on it in a week. I hope my energy comes back soon.

Andrew is doing well. He REALLY needs to get a job. He is going to apply across the street at Marsh (O'Malia's) and I hope they at least have him come in for an interview. The more practice the better. AND I know they will make sure he is a hard worker. That is what I want for him. Well, I really want him to get a job there!

We have a mouse in the house. The cats have been sitting in the kitchen watching under the sink. Well, Tanner caught the mouse today and started to come into the living room with it. I wanted her to go outside with it, but I got her in the basement. Well, we weren't paying attention and she brought it back up here. And then it got lose!!! We tried to corner it again but it got away. So now I have to go get some traps. I hope it is only one mouse!!!

That is about it for tonight....I went to the grocery store today and I'm going to come up with something for dinner. Nothing too hard, that is for sure!!

Do keep little Camryn in your prayers please. She is an amazing little girl fighting a hard battle. The next 100 days are critical to see if this transplant is going to work. Please please please pray!!!

Prayer Request Please

I know I haven't posted the last few days - still not feeling well - my Dr. appt is today.

Please pray for Camryn and her brother Wyatt.  Today is transplant day.  They are taking Wyatt's marrow out today to give to Camryn.  Today and the next 100 days are critical for this family. Please pray for the entire family...

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