the back door

so, once again it has been a little while since i've posted. it has been crazy busy for me lately and i have learned some things about myself - mainly one big thing - i am not cut out to be a working mom!!! i work part time and mostly from home, although these days, i spend most of the day either at work or out in meetings about work. i do get to enjoy a fun coffee with a friend and occasionally a lunch date with hubby, but the past several weeks have been nuts. while i love my job, i have learned i don't cope well. there have been several days that when i get home the kids arrive just a few minutes later and i am mentally not prepared. i feel like the house is in disarray and i'm scattered and tense. i know, i have no room to complain. i have a lot of working mom friends and i have such a great respect for their ability to fully function in both realms. somedays i think if i could just totally leave my work at work it would be easier, but my work is here at home with...

if we had one of these charts at home it would look like this: last week - 60's and breezy weekend - cooler and very windy yeah - just like spring monday - RAIN, RAIN, RAIN - COLD tuesday - flooding - cold wednesday - MAJOR FLOODIING - really cold thursday - SNOW!!!!!! okay, at the risk of sounding like a wacked out environmentalist - something is not right!! this is not normal - even in northern indiana!

last friday was quite traumatic at our house. i had been out of town and was greeted by mapboy when i got home. his words - before i had even closed the door to the house - were "princess forgot to get off the bus and she hasn't stopped crying!" "um....honey!?!??!" so i find them both sitting on the couch watching strawberry shortcake. it was quite the site. princess was having those left over sob things. you moms know what i'm talking about. so when i ask for details - she lets loose again. this must have been bad.. hubby went to get the kids off the bus. he didn't see princess so he asked mapboy where she was. he looked behind him and said he didn't know. the other kids said she was on the bus. so hubby and mapboy take off following the bus. it turns the corner and they decided to come home and get the car to go and find her. as they are starting the back, the bus has come around the block and dropped her off where hubby was standin...

princess: mom! me: what? princess: can i get out of bed? me: yes.. princess: i can't see mapboy: i'll turn your light on, that's what big brothers are for! me to myself: yeah..he's finally getting it mapboy to princess: do my legs look longer? princess: yes they do mapboy: my underwear are so much shorter this morning me to myself: oh boy.. princess: do my legs look longer? mapboy: that one does. princess: wow, i really grew mapboy: i know, now i'm really tall.

this beautiful young lady is my oldest niece....i love this girl!! i remember the day she was born. i was sitting in 9th grade health class when someone brought me in a note that i was now an aunt. being all of 15 i was super pumped! she was an adorable little baby that i loved playing with. today she is 19 and an incredible young lady. she has had to endure a few trials in life that are in no way fun, but she has handled them with grace. she is a joy to anyone who knows her. talk about a girl that is just happy. i happen to think she is beautiful too..but maybe that is because everyone says she looks just like me!?!!? he he! anyways....i see in her a girl that seeks to do right. a girl that loves her Savior and longs to please Him with her life. she seeks Him. i also see a big sister that loves her siblings. she genuinely likes them. i see a girl that enjoys the simple things in life and gives to others. i feel blessed to have her as my niece. i pray that as she con...

so, we all have them..those people that become a friend for a lifetime. the one that can never be replaced. while i feel so blessed to have had several friends that have a forever spot in my heart like this, today happens to be one kindred spirit's birthday....so this is for you brooke!!! us in 1995 like most of my lifetime, forever, best friends, i thought she was quite the snob fall quarter of my freshman year. she lived above me and would vacuum at 2 in the morning...drove me nuts! then she always had her hair done, make-up on, and wore suite coats to classes...can i just say weird!! she would also sit down front. i on the other hand - rolled out of bed and barely made it to class, sat near the back, and pretty much doodled my way through class. and vacumming? well, did we even have one of those? but nevertheless, we were forced to associate when tennis rolled around. she was on the team too...geesh...honestly, by the end of our freshman year i'm pretty sure i totally annoye...

too cute for words