What a week-end..

Lets start on Friday, my day off. Nothing to do... no school and no work. AHHH relaxation. The day started with me and my wonderful son hanging around the house watching Little Einsteins which he loves and I never get to curl up with him and just do nothing. Jamie was running errands and Grace was at school. We then went for a walk. It was so nice and sunny. I could see GOD in everything that afternoon. The sun on my face walking hand in hand with my beloved. Sulls is just chattering away about the leaves and the flowers (weeds) and all the nature..ants, bugs and birds. He grabs my hand as we are walking and says, "I love you Mumma" my heart melts and I love him more than when he went to bed last night. The walk was confirmation that I am to be at home with my children, just a little longer. The walk showed me today that I am a mother first. That I have to sacrifice for my wants for the moment. I might not get to go out with friends and do the "fun" things now, but someday I will. I also don't want to clean as much so I'm only keeping two jobs.

Then came Sat. We got up and decided that this was going to be a work day. Get stuff done around the house. Jac lugged all the wood out of our garage and set a pile out by our shed. Cleaned all the traces of the mouse house in the log pile with bleach, that felt good. We then cleaned out the clutter of the garage, hung things on the walls and got things put away that hadn't had a home in awhile. I can park in there now which is great! Then McDonalds and a movie, pulled the hide a bed out and had family time. So Awesome!!! I ended up doing math homework until midnight and then Jamie and I watched Grey's alone, no kids. Great day!

Sunday came and Jac let me sleep in until 9 30, the phone rang. My mother in law calling to let us know that my father in law was going to die today. We got to Grayling in a little over two hours, but we missed him. Mike died at 1:30pm and we got there at 2:oopm. We shouldn't have stopped at the rest area, I shouldn't have taken a shower or had a whole pot of coffee, we would've made it. I saw GOD in the moment that we just missed, like he was almost detaining us. So we didn't have to be there for the worst of it. The screaming and the crying and the misery. After hospice and the funeral director came and removed the body Sullivan asked to see papa. I told him he was gone. He said, "No Mumma he's just sleeping." I'm regretful. I thought they understood. They are too little. Grace may remember, but sulls most likely won't.

Today, Monday, I had my second math test. To tell you the truth I know I bombed it. I wanted to cry right in the middle of the test, I wanted to walk out of class, I wanted to tell everyone who'd listen that I am sad, that my family has suffered great loss. But I didn't. I did the best I could and said alot of prayers to keep me in my seat and to stay in class. It stunk! I wanted to leave so bad, I wanted to run out to my car and scream and cry. Then I got home and I saw the sweetest little faces and heard laughter so loud that it made me snap out of it. We had the honor of Kendall coming over after school today and boy it was great. The kids' had a blast. From playing in the camper, going for a walk, riding scooters, playing in the leaves, having lunch, playing littlest pet shop and letting Sulls tag along. Kendall is a sweet little girl and was a blessing to us today. Thank you Amy for allowing us to have your sweet daughter today. We would love to have her anytime!!! I mean it too.

What have I been doing???

Hey blog friends... I can not believe that I have not posted in a very long while. I merely have not had the time or the inclination to want to sit and write, but tonight I will...Therapy. No pictures just thoughts. I can promise you it won't be too exciting. I have been busy with everything and nothing really. As we speak my red neck husband has found a mouse in our garage and has stabbed it repeatedly with a screw driver!!! I'm very happy as I do not like mice at all and to realize that we have a family of them living in our wood pile close to the entry of our house is enough to send a chill up my spine. I hope they don't live in my camper either, but I am terrified to look, like standing on the chair screaming bloody murder scared yuck!! Jamie is all about getting them all, kinda like Bill Murray on Caddy Shack lol! Kristi, can we borrow Murray for a few???

I had my first test in this stinkin math course and let me tell you I am dieing a slow death already on the third week.... I got a 73% on my test. I am sad, I thought I only got like maybe two wrong..NO 8 wrong. Not good. It is only going to get harder. I saw my tutor yesterday, hopefully that will work out. Stress big time.

I missed book club last night and am very sad about it. I look forward to book club every month and am just really bummed that I decided not to go. probably won't do that again.

I have spent the last couple days staining our kids swing set ( will get picture soon) looks super fresh and new and inviting to play on. That's been on my "To do" list so it felt really good to cross that off.

Last Sat. sold alot of my babies things in a Mom to Mom sale. Feels good to get rid of clutter in my basement. Which leads me to say that I am very excited about our long awaited basement remodel, it is on it's way. It's framed and Jac is working on the electrical, hopefully we'll be able to start insulation this week-end yeah!!! I have my colors and know where everything is going! To excited! With that I'll end........end with good thoughts.

10 years of wedded bliss!

September 11th 1998 at 6pm on a balmy Friday evening in front of our dearest friends and family we became one. It is hard to believe that we've been married for 10 years. I can't really say that we've had our "ups and downs" and that we've "been through it all" because God has graced us literally. Thankfully, we've seen great times and have had alot of fun. Do we argue? yes, do we disagree? yes, Do we get on each other's last nerve? Of course! The things that I thought were adorable about him when we were dating seem to irritate me now. That's normal right; when you've been with someone for 12 years? Things have changed (physically mostly lol), but we've stayed true to ourselves and our marriage. 10 years ago I was blonde, tan and a size 2. Now I'm grey/brown, certainly not a size 2 and suffer from skin cancer lol! Yes things have changed. We laugh alot and we've got a nice life. We have two beautiful children that we are in love with. We are all healthy (for the most part) and we are grateful. Thank you to Jamie for loving me and Thanks be to GOD for sending this awesome man my way!

Hubby turns 36!

As of 9:42pm today in 1972 my sweet lovey was born in Owosso mi. We are so blessed to have Jac in our world. I tried to make this day special for him so I cooked breakfast. Okay first I have to fill you in on my cooking abilities...I don't have any! I can not put a pinch of this and a dash of that and have something turn out fantabulous. It's just not what I do. I clean up the mess, but don't create it. I don't enjoy cooking. I get by with the things that I grew up with: super healthy spaghetti O's, hot dogs, mac & cheese, cereal, all soo yummy. Anything that I "cook" turns out great in the Microwave ya know zap, nuke, reheat. So this breakfast was a big deal to Jamie. He was so happy that the house smelled like food when he came down the stairs this morning. I made a ham, mushroom and cheese oven omelet, cinnamon rolls (no Kim not homemade!) and super greasy, but yummy crunchy bacon. It was good and I was proud of myself. In my opinion it was the best gift I could've given him. We also got him some "U of M" lounge pants, a "U of M" beanie cap, and some yummy smelling cologne. I love a good smellin' man. We laid around all day, relaxing, he got away by himself and hit a bucket of balls. I also made him a coconut cream pie (his fav) in lieu of a cake, which turned out alright, not the best, but not the worst. Again made a good effort and that's what counts around here. Cheers to my "1" man!!! Happy birthday !

1st Day of kindergarten!!!

Today came and went without a hitch! Grace was very excited about her first day of kindergarten. I was more anxious than she was.
She had a great time riding the bus, especially with her friend Brooklyn. The pictures of Sullivan are funny because He fights with his sister when they are together, but he literally played with all her littlest pet shops and barbies all afternoon and kept asking where sissy was. And yes it was too busy of a morning to get him changed out of his PJ's, so he is in Grace's classroom with them on. Oh well, I never said I was a perfect mumma, although I have been trying hard lately. As you can see from my hard core attempt to mimic the cupcake recipe from the Family Fun Mag. They looked cuter in the mag, don't they always though? I feel I get an A for effort! Can't you just tell the cookie is a blackboard, the white good & plenty is the chalk and the red skittle is the apple for the teach. I know I need a life lol!!!!

Michigan Adventure...........

We no sooner got back to the reality of it all and decided that we were not ready for summer to be over so Sat. we decided to take a road trip to Muskegon for one final hurrah. Sunday morning we were up early, I know we are slackers about church lately, Arrived at the park @ 11:30 and stayed all day. We snuck Sulls on Zach's Zoomer which in my opinion is the best ride ever, for littles that is. We got busted after the third ride with him. He's like 3 inches too short. He absolutely loved it! Both of my kids' love all the rides! Last year when we went they loved the rides, but liked the water park. This time we stayed at the water park for half the day. I just feel like we have done so much with them this summer. This by far has been the best summer ever for our family. We've spent time with friends doing cook-outs, hosting cook-outs, going to the beach, camping, spending time with our families, play date upon play date, free movies, riding bikes, going to the park, eating tons and tons of ice cream, going to the splash pad and really enjoying each other. I feel so blessed to have been gifted with all these things and all the people included in them.

Fun in the sun!!!

We started celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary vacation going to see Def Lepard, REO and Styx at the Joe in Detroit the night before we were flying out. What an awesome concert!!! Jamie and I had a blast!! We laughed and danced and sang all the songs, it was a riot! We are back to the daily grind of it all, but we had the best time with each other lounging by the ocean and pool in Playa del carmen, Mexico. We ate good food, I read a good book (1,000 Splendid suns), and basically did a whole lot of swimming and laying in the sun. I was under these huts all day from 9am until the sun was going down. Believe it or not we were up everyday around 7am! We couldn't even sleep in on vacation. We are so used to our kiddies coming in and waking us up lol! We missed our babies dearly, but are very glad we got to get away. Many thanks to our dear friend Kim who got us there through her savvy computer skills and very useful travel knowledge, to our awesome friends Kristi and Jeff who watched our kids' for 48 hours even though I hear it didn't go well. Sorry about Sulls! And to my cousins' Julie and Shelley and their families who picked up the remainder of the week. We have got the traveling bug for sure next. We're already planning our next trip. Can't wait!