Random

There are been a severe lack of blogging on my part lately. Don't really have a good reason other than, mainly, I'm just not feeling it.

I got several books recently and I've been reading at night after the family is in bed instead of blogging.

I read one of Max Lucado's classics, "The Applause of Heaven". I thought I had every book he's ever written, but somehow missed this one as well as "The Great House of God", which is on the shelf waiting to be read.

I also bought the Duggar's new book and read it. I personally love them.

I went to see The Help in the theater last week with my mom for my birthday and LOVED it so much. I went out and bought the book the next day. I started it after I finished the other 2 books, but only made it through the first 2 chapters, because my stack of bonding/attachment/cross-cultural/multi-racial adoption books arrived in the mail. So, I put The Help back on the shelf for later and started "Black Baby White Hands" last night. So good. Read a few chapters last night and hoping to be able to keep my eyes open long enough tonight to read a few more.

I've been planning to have a garage sale to benefit our adoption fund since we officially started the process in April 09. Best time to have garage sales are in the Spring and Fall. We have soccer every weekend in the Spring and Fall though, so I've been putting it off.

I thought we didn't have soccer this weekend, so 2 days ago decided to bite the bullet and throw the sale together. Later that same evening, after the garage had already been over taken by 50 something trash bags of stuff from the attic, that we do have soccer. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to miss one Saturday of soccer. But it BREAKS my heart!! I'm not one of those mom's who's just content to send Daddy with the kids for sports. No way-- if I'm going to live my life in a way that I (hopefully) won't have any regrets later on-- I'd better not be missing ANYTHING unless I have to. That's just the way we roll. But, I'm pretty sure we'll both survive and Daddy is more than capable of handling it with me for sure.

So, if you live around here, come see me Friday or Saturday from 7-1 and see if you can find something you want!! I have tons of ladies and kids clothing. I didn't realize I had such a nice work wardrobe until I started pulling things out to organize them for the sale. I had about 50 pairs of jeans/pants/capris/skirts in size 10 and 12. Guess that's the main size I was during those years! I also have quite a few in size 6, 8, 14 and 16. (Can you say yo-yo? Wow. Too bad I can't seem to stay one size for very long before I'm jumping up and down! Ugh!)

The kids are doing super great with school. They are all loving it.

My husband is my hero. He's been making a huge effort to come home earlier in the evenings than he's ever been able to so that he can help Rhett with his home work. Can't even begin to express the blessing it is to both me and Rhett that this is happening. My sweetie-pie-hunk0fahubby- has never made it home for dinner everynight for 2 weeks straight. Not in over 12 years of marriage. It's just so weird to me! But the best kind of weird. I'm afraid I'm gonna get to used to it and if he has to adjust his schedule drastically again, I will be grieving him being gone. I've been so used to him working so many hours all these years that it was just our normal.

I know he'll read this eventually: JK- I love you so much and I don't take a single bit of it for granted! You are amazing and you BLESS the socks off of me. XOXOXOXOXOXO

I'm trying to get caught up with my office work that I SO took for granted all summer by doing the absolute bare minimum. Sometimes I get caught up in the "I wish I could just be a stay at home mom and worry about my family and my house and not have to work" but MAN, is that DUMB and SELFISH! God has blessed us so much by allowing us to own and operate our own business for the last 6+ years. I'm trying to remember everyday what a blessing it is. Yes, we have to work hard, but yes it is so worth it.

Ok, I blogged. Back to work now :)