I promised myself I would not blog at night anymore after the last incident. Last week I was laying in bed with Jake while Cody was at work and decided to blog about how cute, funny, and smart he is. The next morning I vaguely remember even blogging. I am the head hit the pillow, I'm out, kind of sleeper so I have no clue why I thought it would be a good idea to blog. Anyway, I got to school and decided to look at it and realized my blog did not make any sense and all 15 of my followers were no longer. I apologize to any of you that read the blog pre edit process. It was terrible.
I am wide awake tonight and just sat down for the first time this evening. My house is in complete shambles. I had to clear a spot to sit in the living room. Jake is with his dad until tomorrow so I have been able to get everything out and wrap it. I shopped all day long today with my mother in law to get the last minute things I needed. We are leaving tomorrow for our long journey to spend Christmas with my brother and his family in Morgan City, Louisiana. I am regretting the hours I spent making bows for these cute boxes and curling ribbon with the edge of my scissors to throw it all in a box and pray it doesn't rain the whole way! Either way, it's going to be a hilarious trip, my brother may be the funniest guy you have ever met.
I am blogging tonight for one particular reason. I want to share a story that gave me the chills tonight and prove to my children our God is an awesome one. He plans it all before we have any idea what's going on. Here it goes...
A few weeks ago mom came up to stay with me and the boys while Cody was working nights. When she got here she went on and on about some kids she saw walking home on the hwy we live on. She was very upset a mother would let children this young walk home when it's getting close to dark or just walk period. After explaining to the small boys she was not going to hurt them but just wanted to drive behind them to make sure they got home safe she turned around at their hot pink house and came to mine. She would not let it go. Like to the point I finally had to tell her," mom I see this everyday in my classroom. You just can't save everybody."
I contacted Abby a month or so ago asking if she knew of a family I could adopt here because her daughter is in school in Centerville. She contacted Peyton's teacher and replied back with 4 names and their lists. I was set. Little did I know Cody and I would get robbed and have to spend money on replacing some items at Christmas time of all times. I was beginning to question myself as to should I have even done this? I knew that some family out there was depending on us and I had to make it happen. We went and bought all of the gifts today and met one of the girls at the school to deliver the gifts because she didn't have room in her car for it all. I had no plans on going with her UNTIL when we were all loaded up and she said mumbled directions and I heard 3 words. THE PINK HOUSE. We were going to the pink house. The one my mom has been worried about for over a month now. Of course, I got chills all over and had no question as to was I doing the right thing. I KNEW from that point on we would have the most wonderful Christmas ever. Delivering the presents was a eye opener but knowing it's all in God's hands gives me so much peace about those children. I immediately called mom and told her God is walking everyday with those sweet babies from school and she can rest easy knowing that.
Merry Christmas my sweet friends! Hope you all have a blessed weekend!!
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
4 year old wisdom
I have noticed Jake is going through one of those "growing up" stages again. He gets sweeter by the day. And witty. I have rubbed off on him and realized I am raising the most sarcastic child ever. Nothing like me, of course.
Some funny conversations lately:
1. Cody and I were going to have a night out and the boys were going to stay with mom. All of the other grand kids were at her house too....
Me: Jake, I put your pj's and blanket in your bag.
Jake: I don't want to bring my blanket.
Me: Jake, I'm not coming home early if you are crying because you don't have it. None of your cousins will see it. Leave it in the bag until it's bedtime.
Cody: What are you going to do when he is playing football at Texas? Call and say do you have your blanket for bedtime?
Me: I will drive to Austin every night at bedtime and tuck him in if I have to!
Cody and Jake laugh and Jake turns to me and says," yea, good one mom"
2. I was cooking dinner last week and as I was chopping potatoes and half of it fell on the floor. Jake quietly chuckles and says,"awesome."
3. Jake's teacher came to my room and told me Jake went to the bathroom and came back out very quick. She asked him if he washed his hands? He said well no cause I didn't even "touch it"
4 And tonight: he asked me what he would do when he was 15? I said well you won't be driving, but you will be a big boy and mommy will be very old. He says,"that's ok
mom, I will still love you!"
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Some funny conversations lately:
1. Cody and I were going to have a night out and the boys were going to stay with mom. All of the other grand kids were at her house too....
Me: Jake, I put your pj's and blanket in your bag.
Jake: I don't want to bring my blanket.
Me: Jake, I'm not coming home early if you are crying because you don't have it. None of your cousins will see it. Leave it in the bag until it's bedtime.
Cody: What are you going to do when he is playing football at Texas? Call and say do you have your blanket for bedtime?
Me: I will drive to Austin every night at bedtime and tuck him in if I have to!
Cody and Jake laugh and Jake turns to me and says," yea, good one mom"
2. I was cooking dinner last week and as I was chopping potatoes and half of it fell on the floor. Jake quietly chuckles and says,"awesome."
3. Jake's teacher came to my room and told me Jake went to the bathroom and came back out very quick. She asked him if he washed his hands? He said well no cause I didn't even "touch it"
4 And tonight: he asked me what he would do when he was 15? I said well you won't be driving, but you will be a big boy and mommy will be very old. He says,"that's ok
mom, I will still love you!"
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
So Violated
I'm supposed to be getting my Christmas cards ready to mail out. When you get them for New Years just know I have had them the whole time. I just can't get in the spirit.
Tonight is the only night we don't have anywhere to be after school. Family is coming in on Friday and I am wondering when I will be able to not clean, but at least straighten my house. I am lucky CJ and Harper love us so much and don't care what my house looks like! Cody is on evenings and it's so hard without him home. Once my schedule is back to normal I am going to try this at home. I think it will work but it may take me 30 minutes. I spend 15 washing dishes and picking up. Maybe I could talk Cody in to the picking up part and I could do the cleaning. I actually love that idea. I will let you know if it works. I dated a guy once that always joked about Mondays being vacuum day and he would have to hold the vacuum up in the air for his mom to do the fans. Even though my children will never be able to say that about their mom, I hope I am never that bad. Who does ceiling fans once a week? I just never turn them off and you can't tell if they are dusty or not. I have realized the older I get the worse I am. It's bad. Like even when I pack the car for out of town I catch myself telling Cody how to do it. I can't relax if its not done the way I like it. Is there an pill for that?
Last weekend Cody and I were so excited to get away for the weekend. His Christmas party was in College Station on Saturday night so we went up Friday to hang out and do some Christmas shopping. We checked in our hotel about 8, dropped off our things, and met friends at Roadhouse at 8:30. After stopping off at Fox N' Hound we got back to our room at 12:30. As I was getting in the shower I noticed our bags were gone. The front desk, of course, had no clue where our stuff was. We filed a police report and insisted on being transferred to another hotel. The police were able to see they used some kind of tool to break in our room. It was the weirdest thing. The first thing Cody and I noticed was that there were NO cars in the parking lot of Homewood Suites that night. Some body had to watch us go to our room and watch us leave. They had to know what room we went in. I cried and cried and just wanted to go home. Cody wasn't having it. After I made a trip to Wal- Mart, the mall, and Ulta the hotel called and said they found our bags on the 4th floor in a vacant room. SO WEIRD. They took anything worth any value out of our bags. Cody's pistol, my camera, and my jewelry. We pretty much had underwear left and we damn sure weren't wearing them. The room they found our bags in was a smoking room so our stuff REEKED. I cried more when they found our bags. I know that officer questioned if he should take me in and have me admitted. I don't know if you have ever had stuff stolen from you but I felt so violated. I still do. I made Cody clean out the bags and throw the bags away. Every time I have looked at them my stomach turns. The hotel has given me the complete run around and I am sure I am saved in the GM's cell phone as DON'T ANSWER. My mom has always told us if somebody steals from you they need it way worse and let them have it. The thing that makes me most upset is that it's Christmas time and I have no camera to take pictures of my kids. Yes, I will go buy a new one until we figure out if they are going to reimburse us or not. It's still just the point. I have tried not to ever use the word steal in front of Jake because students in my class always think someone else stole their things when they have misplaced it. He heard us talking about all this and is now very familiar with the word. Its become such a sad world we live in.
** Y'all know about my mom, I talk about her all the time. She was in Vegas last weekend for their annual sales meeting. I called her to tell her what happened that Saturday morning. Anytime I hear my mom's voice at a time like this I immediately start crying. This is what mom tells me," Dry your eyes, go buy what you need, call the Corporate office, and we will talk when we get home. I gotta go in a meeting." I knew at that point it was time for me to do just that. She is a tough woman!
The Nucor Kids Christmas party was last night. Nucor is who Cody works for. They are such an incredible company. For Christmas Cody was able to pick an iPad, $500.00 gift card to Academy, or $500.00 to Sears. They had all kinds of things set up for the kids to do. It was fun, and free dinner! Jake LOVED the chicken legs. He get it from his mama!!
Tonight is the only night we don't have anywhere to be after school. Family is coming in on Friday and I am wondering when I will be able to not clean, but at least straighten my house. I am lucky CJ and Harper love us so much and don't care what my house looks like! Cody is on evenings and it's so hard without him home. Once my schedule is back to normal I am going to try this at home. I think it will work but it may take me 30 minutes. I spend 15 washing dishes and picking up. Maybe I could talk Cody in to the picking up part and I could do the cleaning. I actually love that idea. I will let you know if it works. I dated a guy once that always joked about Mondays being vacuum day and he would have to hold the vacuum up in the air for his mom to do the fans. Even though my children will never be able to say that about their mom, I hope I am never that bad. Who does ceiling fans once a week? I just never turn them off and you can't tell if they are dusty or not. I have realized the older I get the worse I am. It's bad. Like even when I pack the car for out of town I catch myself telling Cody how to do it. I can't relax if its not done the way I like it. Is there an pill for that?
Last weekend Cody and I were so excited to get away for the weekend. His Christmas party was in College Station on Saturday night so we went up Friday to hang out and do some Christmas shopping. We checked in our hotel about 8, dropped off our things, and met friends at Roadhouse at 8:30. After stopping off at Fox N' Hound we got back to our room at 12:30. As I was getting in the shower I noticed our bags were gone. The front desk, of course, had no clue where our stuff was. We filed a police report and insisted on being transferred to another hotel. The police were able to see they used some kind of tool to break in our room. It was the weirdest thing. The first thing Cody and I noticed was that there were NO cars in the parking lot of Homewood Suites that night. Some body had to watch us go to our room and watch us leave. They had to know what room we went in. I cried and cried and just wanted to go home. Cody wasn't having it. After I made a trip to Wal- Mart, the mall, and Ulta the hotel called and said they found our bags on the 4th floor in a vacant room. SO WEIRD. They took anything worth any value out of our bags. Cody's pistol, my camera, and my jewelry. We pretty much had underwear left and we damn sure weren't wearing them. The room they found our bags in was a smoking room so our stuff REEKED. I cried more when they found our bags. I know that officer questioned if he should take me in and have me admitted. I don't know if you have ever had stuff stolen from you but I felt so violated. I still do. I made Cody clean out the bags and throw the bags away. Every time I have looked at them my stomach turns. The hotel has given me the complete run around and I am sure I am saved in the GM's cell phone as DON'T ANSWER. My mom has always told us if somebody steals from you they need it way worse and let them have it. The thing that makes me most upset is that it's Christmas time and I have no camera to take pictures of my kids. Yes, I will go buy a new one until we figure out if they are going to reimburse us or not. It's still just the point. I have tried not to ever use the word steal in front of Jake because students in my class always think someone else stole their things when they have misplaced it. He heard us talking about all this and is now very familiar with the word. Its become such a sad world we live in.
** Y'all know about my mom, I talk about her all the time. She was in Vegas last weekend for their annual sales meeting. I called her to tell her what happened that Saturday morning. Anytime I hear my mom's voice at a time like this I immediately start crying. This is what mom tells me," Dry your eyes, go buy what you need, call the Corporate office, and we will talk when we get home. I gotta go in a meeting." I knew at that point it was time for me to do just that. She is a tough woman!
The Nucor Kids Christmas party was last night. Nucor is who Cody works for. They are such an incredible company. For Christmas Cody was able to pick an iPad, $500.00 gift card to Academy, or $500.00 to Sears. They had all kinds of things set up for the kids to do. It was fun, and free dinner! Jake LOVED the chicken legs. He get it from his mama!!
Luke is officially pulling up on everything and I would not be surprised if he starts walking real soon. He pulled up for the first time over the Thanksgiving break. Cody made me type that. Cody lowered his crib yesterday and we started putting him in his crib at 8:30 when Jake goes to bed. It kills me to hear him cry but after he put his head directly on my shoulder when I got close to his crib last night, I know he is very much aware that staying up until 11:30 is not acceptable! He's just so precious.
I have Christmas break in 1.5 days and I am more than ready. You will find me and the boys chillin', and that's it.
Friday, December 9, 2011
It's the freakin' weekend
I started off the morning with a little dispute with the lady from our local post office. I went to pick up our mail yesterday and couldn't get the thing open. Jake tried and he couldn't either. I text Cody and told him to try and get the mail on the way home. He didn't have any luck. We then realized that they locked our box. It is a constant with these people. They are a joke, really. I am always getting my mother and sister in laws mail and they call my mother in law and tell her when I get a package. They locked our box because my name was not added to the list to receive mail there. I have lived in Centerville for almost 2 years. Her excuse was she was trying to get our "attention." After the conversation we had I am thinking my box will be WIDE OPEN when I get there today. She got my attention alright. Oh, the life in a small town.
Cody has been on nights all week and I am proud to say I survived! He was given the opportunity to work overtime and he took it. It's Christmas, who wouldn't take it? We did miss church this Wednesday and we will miss Sunday too because of his out of town Christmas party. It makes for a long week. Thank God for my dad and step mom. They are coming to stay with the kids for the WHOLE weekend. Do you understand what that means? Cody and I get a whole weekend without kids, shopping, Christmas party fun, free hotel, sleeping late, quiet, etc... I could really go on and on. I don't think I can count on my fingers and toes how many times we have each said how excited we are to get away!
Jake has become quite the helper around the house. Who would have known he would have become the sweet big brother 9 months ago? He fed Luke this week and even wanted to change his poopy diaper last night. Luke is everywhere right now. I knew my Christmas decorations would turn in to his favorite new toys. He loves the presents under the tree and any kind of lights he can get his hands on. The older I get the slower I move. I am thankful I have Jake to pick up my slack!!
I have become an avid pinner. I am slightly obsessed with the house decor ideas. I can honestly say Tuesday night is the first night I have actually sat down and studied our house plans. I have not wanted to get my hopes up about something that may not happen. I told Cody I am so glad we are building after Pinterst has come about. Decorating is my favorite thing to do and I feel like I am so out of practice because we only have so many options in our little house. I LOVE the house Cody found and I love the plan. He fired me from house plan hunting because every house I showed him was the ones I loved on the outside but the inside was nothing like I explained to him. I am getting very anxious and we still have so much to do. Please pray we sell our house QUICK so I can make all of my Pinterest dreams come true.
After today I have 4.5 days of school until two weeks off. My students have lost their minds and better bring me good presents this year to make up for it. They need the break as bad as I do.
Happy weekend!
Cody has been on nights all week and I am proud to say I survived! He was given the opportunity to work overtime and he took it. It's Christmas, who wouldn't take it? We did miss church this Wednesday and we will miss Sunday too because of his out of town Christmas party. It makes for a long week. Thank God for my dad and step mom. They are coming to stay with the kids for the WHOLE weekend. Do you understand what that means? Cody and I get a whole weekend without kids, shopping, Christmas party fun, free hotel, sleeping late, quiet, etc... I could really go on and on. I don't think I can count on my fingers and toes how many times we have each said how excited we are to get away!
Jake has become quite the helper around the house. Who would have known he would have become the sweet big brother 9 months ago? He fed Luke this week and even wanted to change his poopy diaper last night. Luke is everywhere right now. I knew my Christmas decorations would turn in to his favorite new toys. He loves the presents under the tree and any kind of lights he can get his hands on. The older I get the slower I move. I am thankful I have Jake to pick up my slack!!
I have become an avid pinner. I am slightly obsessed with the house decor ideas. I can honestly say Tuesday night is the first night I have actually sat down and studied our house plans. I have not wanted to get my hopes up about something that may not happen. I told Cody I am so glad we are building after Pinterst has come about. Decorating is my favorite thing to do and I feel like I am so out of practice because we only have so many options in our little house. I LOVE the house Cody found and I love the plan. He fired me from house plan hunting because every house I showed him was the ones I loved on the outside but the inside was nothing like I explained to him. I am getting very anxious and we still have so much to do. Please pray we sell our house QUICK so I can make all of my Pinterest dreams come true.
After today I have 4.5 days of school until two weeks off. My students have lost their minds and better bring me good presents this year to make up for it. They need the break as bad as I do.
Happy weekend!
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