Sangria Two

10:44:01 AM EDT
Feeling Fabulous

For some reason I can't add pictures today.  Oh well I guess  I will have to do without

1.  He makes me feel loved.

2. He makes my children feel loved.

3. He was brave enough to date a woman with 5 children, who were all teen agers at the time.

4. He loves working at the church as security for the babies.

5 He loves working at with the high school youth group at church.

6. He loves his Mom and Dad.

7.  He loves his brothers and sisters.

8. He enjoys his job and likes to go to work each day.

9. He never calls in sick to work.

10. He loves to go camping with me.

11. He pays all the bills.

12. He cleans the house.

13. He likes to go see my boys at thier sporting events.

14.  He is a great dad to his daughter.

15. He likes to cook.

16. He sits in the hot tub with me and listens to me complian if I need to.

17. He doesn't feel the need to "fix" my problems he knows I just want to vent, and he lets me.

18. He gets me a glass of wine so I can unwind when I have had a bad day.

19.  When he knows my feelings are hurt by someone else, he always asks "what can I do to make you feel better?"

20. He always asks if I need money for lunch, even if he just gave me money for lunch the day before.

21. He is very good looking!

22. He loves our animals.

23.  He is letting me get my new dog Maggie.

24. He goes to all the football games his daugther cheers.

25. He volunteers to be the "team mom" for his daughters cheerleading team!!

 

I could go on, but it said 25 so I did 25!

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10:27:39 AM EDT
Feeling Bored

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10:25:53 PM EDT
Feeling Fabulous
I don't know how many of you read my old journal before I deleted it, but in that journal I wrote about the day that I was baptized.  It was a wonderful day for me.  Before we were dipped in the water we were allowed to say something first if we wanted to.  All of my children were there with me that day. Only one of my children, on that day, had the same beliefs in Jesus Christ, that I did.  They did go to church with me and I prayed that they would understand the way that I had come to understand.  That was the only thing that I said that day.........that I hoped that my children would understand someday what it was that I believed.   I didn't want to be pushy and slam the things that I had come to believe down thier throats.  I had not gone to church when they were little so thier Mom going to church was a new thing to them.  I wanted the to explore and make thier own decisions.  Oddly enough, the only son who was interested in even exploring was my son, Robbie.  Robbie is gay and he had had experiences with "religion" that had left him feeling........not so warm, shall we say.  Robbie had many talks with our teaching minister.  He really was an awesome man.  The pastor of the church at the time refused to baptize Robbie because of Robbie "lifestyle" as he called it.  The teaching minister came to our house and baptized Robbie in our lake.  The teaching minister, and us, are no longer at that church. 
Well anyways back to the picture.  My youngest son, yes the youngest of the twins came home with this tatto.  I was surprised that he got one.  He had never shown much interest in one.  He has been involved with the  youth group of our church for awhile bit I wasn't sure where his beliefs were headed.  He went to a camp for a week in January and when he came home he told me it was "awesome".  OK, that sounds good, I was thinking.  The tatto is a cross (duh) with his favorite bible verse ( I didn't even know he had one) and the date 1-19-2008 is the date he accepted Christ into his life.  That would be while he was at that camp.  That would be why it was so awesome.  Ok Lord, two down, three to go....................Thank you Lord.  


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6:38:32 AM EDT
Feeling Anxious
I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.  Let me tell you first off that no one in my family is hurt.  One of my kids did get into trouble though and it is going to be a long road of repair.   Although I was very disappointed and scared and angry, I do know that what happened happens to alot of people.  I don't want to go into detail, it wouldn't be fair but I wanted you all to know that everything is ok.  I had just hoped that they would of listened to me better!  Don't all Mom's say that?
On to better things.  The picture I posted today was taken at the twins graduation party.  It turned out wonderful.  I will post more pictures soon.  We are camping this weekend so I probably won't be able to post more pictures till I get home to that computer (the one with the pictures on it!)  till Sunday.  I hope you all have a wonderful 4th and that you take all the rest and relaxation that you need.  I know that i am going to!


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7:27:55 AM EDT
Feeling Exhausted
Please keep me and my family in your prayers.  There have been some very bad things that have happened to us since last night, I can't go into detail but my heart is broken right now. 


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10:10:39 PM EDT
Feeling Bored
Crabby, bored........not a good combination.  We had tickets to go see Chicago and the Doobie Brothers, we didn't go cuz of many different reasons, none to my liking but.......my neighbors are having a party and it is LOUD.  I want to be at the concert not sitting here listening to others having fun.  Yep I am not in a good mood.


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8:04:47 AM EDT
Feeling Enlightened

As I was driving to work this morning my head was full of things that I needed to do.  One of the things that has really been on my mind is the party that Brenda and I are going to be having to raise money for our marathon for the Leukemia Society.  I had spoken with the youth pastor from our church last night about getting the teenagers involved with us so they can sell some tickets for us also.  We will be having all kinds of food, drinks, games, boat rides, bouncy houses, dunk tank at this party and we will be selling tickets to it.  The youth pastor thought it was a great idea.  I was having doubts because there would be adults there who would be having drinks that were not "suitable" for teenagers, so I was torn.  Should Brenda just sell the tickets ourselves or should we get the youth group involved?  So here I am driving to work, the radio is on but I am not listening to my either of my normal morning stations (one is a christian radio station and the other is like a top 40 station) for some reason my dial was on a classic rock station.  There were two announcers on and they were talking about some event that was going to be happening, I caught the announcer saying "Sell the tickets"  I was like "Wow, guess that answered my question"  and then just to make sure I knew what my answer was the other announcer said something about "doing the Lord's work"  Now mind you this was not the Christian radio station, it was a classic rock station. 

So guess what?  I think those kids are gunna be selling tickets.

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8:35:18 PM EDT
Feeling Thoughtful
Yep there they are, taller than me, much taller than me I guess!  I never noticed that so much till I looked at the picture!  They are so excited to be graduated and to be going on to college.  John has less than two months before he moves and Josh will be right behind him.  I am starting to get used to the idea and starting to realize that I just might be able to enjoy my free time!  I just might be able to lose that weight that I am fighting so hard to lose when I don't have to make dinner (well teenage boy kind of dinners!)  every night.  I would be happy with grilled talapia or chicken breast.  Not these boys, they want all the calorie filled carb filled stuff they can get!   And when they come home next spring they will say "where is my mom?"  I will be so skinny they won't recognize me.  LOL ummmm yea I bet.

I keep forgetting to tell you my miles for the weeks like I said I would.  I know I am forgetful sorry.  This week we did 4 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 4 today, fridays are off and then Saturday we do 8!! I can't believe we are already up to 8 miles.  I will have to take some pics of me and Brenda in trianing so you all can see us.  Brenda is my friend that talked into doing this with me.  I think she is regretting saying she would!!  She is doing a really awesome job though.  And she is doing great on her fundraising!  She has over $900 in her bank already.  Way to go! I just got home from doing my miles a little bit ago.  I have to wait till after work to do my miles except on the weekends.  I really prefer to do them in the morning and wish I didn't have to be to work so early or I would get up and do them before work.   But I have to be there by 6 so there just isn't the time! Well I need a shower so I am off to do that!

http://pages.teamintraining.org/mi/nikesf08/llawrenmqo

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2:04:07 PM EDT
Feeling Lazy

This was from a few weeks ago but I have been busy and forgot about this party I decided to add them now.  The kids had alot of fun and they behaved really well.  There were alot more of them than just the ones pictured here but I liked these ones the best.  The boys looking so tough and the girls looking so...........skinny.  Yeah I hate them.  LOL

They grilled dogs and burgers, had lots of junk food and pop and played basketball, floated on tubes in the lake and took my paddle boat out.  Fun was had by all, yes even me. And best of all...............the twins said "thank you mommy"!

In case you haven't and want to: here is the link to donate

http://pages.teamintraining.org/mi/nikesf08/llawrenmqo

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2:33:01 PM EDT
Feeling Determined

 

I was getting a bit worried, ok alot worried because I did not have a tent yet for the boys graduation party.  I called a few places and they were sold out.  I made a few calls this morning and found a place that had tents left.  Not only did he have tents left but he had a blue and gold one, that is thier school colors!  I got all the tables and chairs and the tent and they come and set it up and take it down!  Here is the best part.....it was alot cheaper than the other places that  had the smaller white ones (the ones I really didn't want) left.  I am so happy.  The invites are all out, have been for quite awhile.  We will go shopping soon for the drinks and food and we will be all set to have a party.  I can't wait!  The twins are going to be so excited that they are going to have a blue and gold tent!

 

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