Finally....

I have at least 5 posts in lingo right now...they have all been started, but I have not had the time or the mindset to be able to finish them and hit the publish button. They range from the sublime to the ridiculous and everywhere in between.

I will say that we started school today, and I am a little stressed right now. I make changes every year, but this year we REALLY switched things up. I feel a little out of sorts, going from such a hands on approach to more individual study with the boys, but I keep reminding myself that this year is Micah's BIG year, with her learning to read, so I need to just chill out some.

Aside from all the school stress, life is just hectic in so many ways. I feel strung out mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. I hope that getting back into the routine of school will bring some resemblance of normalcy to my life.

Anyway, just wanted to touch base...and actually post it. So, I better run before this one isn't finished either.

Larry King and Steven Curtis Chapman

Did you catch the interview with the Chapman Family last Thursday??? If you did, you might be interested in seeing this follow up by Larry King. In a segment called "About Last Night" Larry reflects on the previous nights interview. His thoughts on the Chapman family are truly a great insight into how non-believers can be impacted through gracious, quiet, and unwavering testimony.

Check it out HERE, it is only 90 second long.

She's a Girly Girl

****UPDATED****






I am not a girly girl, but somehow she is. If she can paint it, brush it, curl it, spray it, you name it, and she will. Maybe one day, by osmosis, I too will be a girly girl.

Update: I just read this entry to Micah, and this was the conversation that followed.

Micah: "Momma, you can not be a girly girl. "

Me: "Why not?"

Micah: "Because you can not be a 'Hot Momma' AND a "Girly Girl."

Gotta love the reasoning of a near five year old.

Men's 4 X 100 Beijing Olympics

DID YOU SEE THE MOST AMAZING RACE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF RACES??? THE US MEN JUST OBLITERATED THE WORLD RECORD AND WON GOLD.....YES I AM SCREAMING!!! I WAS SCREAMING SO LOUD THAT JAKE CAME RUNNING DOWN THE HALL TO CHECK ON ME....AMAZING...YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT..

The Men's 4x100 Freestyle at the Beijing Olympics

HERE IS THE LIVE CALL CLICK TO SEE THE MOST AMAZING RACE EVER

GO USA

Beijing 2008

I LOVE THE OLYMPICS!!!!

Really, I do. I love the sport of it. Swimming, diving, gymnastics, track and field, gosh I could go on and on. I love the story pieces that the networks show about the athletes. I love a good story, you gotta know them to love them.

Our church is doing a Olympic theme for the sermons, and each SS class is praying for individual athletes. A funny side note on that...I was not in SS when they came around and explained what they wanted each class to do, because I was filling in for the teacher who was making the announcement. So that meant that I had to get the low down from my boys. So this was the conversation on the way home from church on Sunday.

Me: How was class today guys?

Boys: Fine

Jake: Ms Linda came around and wants our class to sponsor a christian athlete during the Olympics.

Me: really Jake, that is so cool

Jake: Yeah, I picked....(at this point he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny slip of paper)...I picked Bryan Clay

Jared: Hey, I didn't get to pick someone. How come I didn't get to have one?

Me: I have no idea Jared?

Jake: I was the one sitting at the end of the table so I pulled the name out of the basket. But he is mine, cause I picked him.

Me: What does he compete in?

Jake: track and Field

Me: What do they want you to do while he is competing?

Jake: I don't know, they just want us to SPONSOR him Mom, we don't have to do anything.

Me: Well, maybe you could pray for him, and follow him online?

Jake: Whatever, I am just going to sponsor him. This is my guy.

Then later that day, he was cleaning his room and he came and asked for some tape. I questioned him because we had just painted his room I REALLY did not want tape on the walls. He assured me he wouldn't put it on the walls and away he went.

That night, he came to me and showed me his chap stick(he is an addict, really he is, he has it with him AT ALL TIMES, he even sleeps with it in his waistband of his pj bottoms)
He held it up proudly to show me. It was now covered with not only an obscene amount of DUCK TAPE but also the little slip of paper that had Bryan Clays name on it. You can read about him here. (He is in the Got Milk ad on the right with the track shoes around his neck.)

That was so Jake, not even really sure what "sponsor" means but knowing it meant something important. Important enough for the beloved chap stick, it might as well have been duck taped to his heart.

Touched by Grace, and Ashley

Sometimes, I take grace for granted. I take a lot for granted, actually. Today I followed a link from another blog to hear the story of Ashley. You need to find a quiet corner, and listen. It is about 45 minutes long, and is told by Pastor Louie Giglio, who has seemed to sneak into my life over the past few months through various avenues.

Really, if you have been captured by grace, or if you need to be, this is for you.

The message is under the Home Free/Even Me series and it is titled Fruitcake and Ice Cream. You can find it here.

Be Blessed.

Snip Snip!!!

I have always said that hair is just hair. You can color it, curl it or cut it, and it is still just hair. That is one reason why my DH and I have really never cared how our kids wore their hair. We have done the long thing and the short thing, the mohawk, the pink thing and the blonde thing. As long as it can be cleaned up for church or a night out, I am game.





That being said, Jared's hair has gotten REALLY long. With football coming up, he thought it was time for a trim. He is thinking about doing the mohawk look again, so this is the inbetween cut. I only wish I would have taken a pic of the hair that was on the bathroom floor.





Just for the record, he does not wear his hair in a pony tail, I was just showing him how long it had gotten.