wireless

I have to say that I have not been a great blogger lately I have not had use of a lap top or wireless Internet so if I wanted to blog or even check email I had to go into my office. How archaic! But thanks to my very generous brother in law and my very handy father I am siting in my quite room enjoying my very cool view and BLOGGING!!
yeah me!!

An up date

Can it really have been almost 2 months. I hope every one is doing well. I just got a new computer so I am finally back on line. and it seams like life is slowing down a little. we had a great big busy couple of months. Ray and I had birthdays Ray is now 45 that is almost 50
I can hardly believe that. We also celebrated our 12th anniversary witch we are so blessed to have. Mom and Dad stayed with us for about a month while mom recovered from her hip surgery. We had a great time. well I did any way. have to say we miss them even though they are only 3 miles away. it was a big help having them around I did not have to worry about how every one was because I had every one under my own roof. I also had the Smith kids for a time. That was a blast to I think that I am just a gluten for I really did enjoy the craziness.
I guess that is why I took on a community theater production of Peter Pan in the last month of its production. They needed a stage manager and I needed more craziness so it work out well. I have been transported back to my High School days of Drama Club. I have to say it as been a blast. If not tiring. I will post Pics soon of the kids and of the play. any way just a little up date in our life.

We Love School!!
Lily and Kaden getting down with workbooks!

I Love CORE!!

We had fun this morning in our controlled chaos
I have to say that I am glad that we are loyal to our TJed schooling; or I would be pulling out my hair

Winter Again!

It is winter again, after some really weird weather with all the snow melting and terning our streets into ice rinks it has finally gotten back to normal weather. We got about 8 inches of snow yesterday and it is beautiful out side.

I love it!!

Mundane or Mircale

So I have been inspired by every one's postings. I really liked Amy's about the mundane. I think that we can get into rut with our life and think that is mundane and that there is nothing to share with others. But then when I start to think about all the things that are going on in my life and the lives of loved ones around me, my eyes are opened that the mundane is really the miracle. Mom and I where talking about that yesterday in the car as we where running around taking Ray to therapy the Smith kids back to there house, and Wallmart for some sweats for mom to where after her hip surgery. What a Miracle that day was.
Not just the miracle that Ray is alive and can go to therapy and that Abigale is alive so her older siblings need some tending or the blessing of mom finding funding for her hip surgery. But the even smaller things like I have a car that will fit all the kids in it and we have never had to worry about how we are going to feed every one.
Our heavenly father really has a plan for us. It is an awesome event when you have to sit and be still long enough to learn what that plan is. I have been so blessed to not have any other dept but our house and cars so with careful planning and we can almost make all our ends meet with Ray's SSA. I have started a practice and it is very small and I get very stressed and think that I need to be doing more or something and then I realise If I was dong more the family would not be getting Medicaid and Rays medical would not be covered and it really needs to be covered just his therapy's cost over $2000.00 every month. I also would be spending more time away from my family and they really don't need that and I would not be able to help mom when she has her surgery or have Tammy's kids three days a week. You see the lord has a plan, and his for me right now is to be still and take care of my family. He has provided a way for me to do that. I just need to remind myself that he is in the drivers seat. What a miracle our mundane life is.

Girls just want to have fun!

So we had the Smith kids for the weekend while Todd was down with Tammy. They had a blast.
I just loved the pics that Sabrina took of the girls for a "photo shoot" to cute!!

They changed there outfits all the way down to the shoes.

And used my make up "someone should"

We also went swimming and took the kids a movies.

We loved having them over.

what did you do while I was gone?

Yesterday was Kyle's Birthday! I can not believe that he is 10!

Can I be that old? I am so glad we were able to celebrate his birthday with the Earls and Grandma and Grandpa because I have been very busy for the past couple of days. I was called in to assist at couple of births and that is always fun but very tiring. It was so fun to help a mom have her first baby 10 years from the day I had my first baby. It was double fun because I was assisting the women who assisted with Kyles birth I think that's very cool.

When I got home last night at 10pm I asked Ray what he did while I was gone and we talked a little. Then he says " Before I forget there was water dripping from the celling and I climbed up in the attic to find out what was going on and I cut a hole in the ceiling."

"You did what!"

you see Ray is not to do projects while I am gone. He is doing really well but if he has a laps in judgment which he is prone to do these days some one is to be around to help.

I was stunned. I reminded him that we have that leak every year when the weather worms up to melt the snow of the roof and he should of waited for me to come home to check it out.

He then told me that the laps in judgment was not that he went into the attic space and took a piece of Sheetrock of the ceiling it was that we had not done it before his brain injury. It is hard to argue with that logic. But I still don't think it was a good idea for him to go in the attic with out another adult in the house.