the back door

if you don't read hoosierhappenings you are missing out. but i just have to say.....what dear hubby wrote on love....wow!!!!! i'm most definitely blessed:) do you remember that giddy feeling? oh yeah...we still got it!

for those of you who read this you know that i have "complained" frequently about the many days we have not had school this winter. between flood days, snow days, teacher in service days, fog days, sick days, etc...i have not had what i consider to be a normal week since thanksgiving. that is quite a long time!!! for our town, last week proved to return to normal but i was blessed to have mapboy home 2 days with an ear infection. so, as i anticipated this being the week our house returns to normal, God quickly decided to bless me yet again...with a snow storm on monday night!! we woke up to about 8-10 inches of snow and sure enough - no school!! well, i have so many other things to do than come up with more entertainment. but after a brief discussion with God in the shower, i was reminded to enjoy these times with my kids - it may have something to do with the book the preschool teacher read at mom's day on monday as well. the book about all the lasts we have with ...

my best friend that i wrote about a few weeks ago just celebrated her birthday! it was a few days ago, but friend, i hope it was great. it may sound silly, but i have to share about one of her most memorable birthdays... we were seniors in college and both christian ed majors. that really means we played a lot of games and most of our tests were youth activities. needless to say, we had a blast almost every day. she had commented a few weeks before her birthday that she had never had a surprise party. well that put me in motion. she happened to work the night of her birthday. she called prospective students with a group of about 25 other people. a friend and i had spent the afternoon at a prof's house making cupcakes and had invited about 20 of our closest friends to hang out with us that night at the student hangout. i had also arranged for 3 of our closest guy friends to "kidnap" her that night. remember how i said we were christian ed majors. all i told them ...

some of you may have wondered where i am! i know most of you could care less and most of you already know, but my computer is visiting with the good computer doc this week. i have to confess....i feel lost without it!!

okay, by the time i joined our family my dad had a rule about NO PETS!!! at first i didn't mind, but at some point i really wanted a pet. i would often tie my jump rope on my stuffed clifford and drag him around because i wanted a pet so bad. but i digress... like i said we had a no pet rule. i'm not sure why we didn't seem to honor that rule, but my brother came home from work one day with a giant dog!! i was about 4 at the time and he worked at the local holiday inn. my details might be fuzzy, like i said i was 4, but they are what are deep in my mind. he drove in with this giant red great dane dog!!!! he had brought home clifford!!!! i think it was the pet of someone staying there and he felt bad for it so decided we could lodge it at our house - not sure on that one. i remember my dad not really being all that thrilled...but wow!! i had my very own clifford. that was cool. and since it was temporary:) then there was this cat named mitz that i think was my s...

this morning we all woke up - hubby was leaving a little later to day so we shared coffee on the couch before the munchkins headed downstairs. it was wonderful!!! then mapboy headed off to school and i hit the grocery quick before hubby left. then - are you all ready for this - then it was a NORMAL FRIDAY!!!!!!! oh yeah! princess just plays, i get some work done, it is nice and peaceful! oh what a joy!!!

it has been almost a week since i posted. and since so many of you want to know the play by play of my life i'm offering a recap today. last friday - well....you read that for yourself! great day! saturday - i won a jousting contest, rode a bull for 13 seconds, lost my race in the obstacle course, and rocked at laser tag! did i mention i was at a children's ministry event????? sunday - left the family at home and went to church alone. sent the good doc over to see hubby, picked up prescriptions and lunch, came home and started to crash myself. couldn't even make it up to watch pride and prejudice!! monday - sent everyone to school and work and felt myself slowly go down hill. wait, by bedtime i was a mess!! tuesday - had a fever, princess had an earache, mapboy went to school. princess and i got prescriptions and slept. okay, i slept, she played. then i mustered energy to go to a church meeting - bad idea!! wednesday - mapboy screams at 2 am his ear is hurting - wa...