Who's Idea Was This?

Oh my goodness gracious! I'm sure there'll be a day I look back on this season and laugh, but it's not today.

4 kids with chicken pox. Hum, it sounded like a good idea to get it over with at once. The problem is that they have them all at once. Lots of itching. Lots of crying. Mayfee Boy is a mess of bumps. I can not make him feel better. So I lied in his bed with him tonight praying for him and telling him not to scratch. My poor baby.

Buying a house in Colorado? It did sound like a good idea. I'm wondering if we're the fools in Scripture that didn't count the cost before he started to build. I'm sure it's some sort of blind spot, but of course I can't see it. Who knows. There's gotta be a lesson in it somewhere.

So here's what I've been pondering today.....this world stinks. There is no way to get around it. Sickness, poverty, addiction, pain, loneliness, mice. How could anyone bear it who thinks there is nothing else? Praise God that He is our Living Hope that will never perish! Praise God that there is an eternal home for us with no sickness, no pain, no heartache of any kind, and no mice!!

Hey Look!

#1 put that video on *my* blog! Ain't she smart? Scroll down a bit and it's on the left. Really, you gotta watch the whole thing.

3 more down with chicken pox! It'll be good to get this done at once. So I named them my "little chickens", the family room is the "coupe" (is that how you spell that?), and Lane is Momma Hen since she is also recovering now. Lots of spotting with the pink stuff, oatmeal baths, and grape juice (my mil's Korean remedy). They are isolated to the family room and away from Baby Z. The only ones allowed to touch him are the ones that have already had it. He is isolated to the "nursery"...my room.

Lane had chicken duty, the rest of us worked. It's all still a mess but it's getting done. It feels good to put in such a hard day of work.

Tomorrow we're giving a party for the chickens.

UNbelievable!!

In the past 24 hours my son has killed 13 mice in the garage!! THIRTEEN! Where in the world are these things coming from? He set traps and they were going off as fast as he could set them. With so many in there you would think I would've seen one, but no. Thank you Lord. It is proof that the Lord will not give you more than you can handle.

House hunting woes

Honey made an offer on 2 foreclosures. The banks rejected them both. There is nothing else right now.

He's looked at rentals...apts, duplexes, condos, houses, whatever. Lots of money. The ones that allow dogs have a restriction list that includes chows. Joey looks NOTHING in the world like a chow but has the purple tongue so that includes him. Somewhere down the line in some ancient ancestor dog there was a chow.

No idea what to do or where we'll go. It is hard to not be discouraged.

One thing is for sure. God knows the perfect place for us and will show us at the right time. In my flesh, I want to know where it is NOW. But He is telling us to wait. So wait we must. I know it'll be good.

You Gotta See This

Watch the video at the bottom of my daughter's blog. WOW!

www.mt-thoughts.blogspot.com

Watch the whole thing.

Winn Dixie

Winn Dixie is the name we've given the stray dog in our neighborhood. She's been here a long time...probably around 3 months. The dog catcher is out every week trying to get her but she always gets away. She's very scared and won't come anywhere near you and will even run if you speak to her from a distance.

She's a nursing mom and has lost her puppies somewhere. Our neighborhood feels sorry for her. She's thin, she's hot, she's hungry and thirsty, she has no place to go. Recently I found her in my garage with her head in Joey's dog food bag. Now we open the garage for her every morning and set water next to the bag. She helps herself while the kids watch her from the window.

We were concerned that after we move, she may have no other place to eat. But, I saw the dog catcher out again last week and stopped to talk to him. He told me that lots of neighbors are feeding her now. That's good. He also told me that they have lots of volunteers that want to socialize dogs like her so that she can finally be adopted.

I hope she gets a home soon.

I was cleaning out the freezer in the garage yesterday. My daughter came out to ask me a question when she suddenly stops in her tracks and yelps "I saw a mouse! And he ran right toward YOU!"

ME???!!! I decided the freezer was clean enough.

My son comes out to find him. He reports to me that he thinks he can shoot them. (Catch the plural?) He goes out with his BB gun and returns later with his first kill. He got him! Much rejoicing from Momma!! My son was happy...then sad. He was sad that he killed him.

I remember running over a squirrel once and how horrible I felt. I'm glad he didn't rejoice in the sport of killing or even take satisfaction in it. He called his dad right away. He also, had a similar experience to relate to him.

So we told him we were proud of him on two accounts. 1) For doing the job that needed to be done, and 2) not taking glory in taking the life of something else.

I'm so glad to move to CO and leave the mice here. And everyone knows that there are NO mice in Colorado....right?

Here We Go Again!

Round 2 of CHICKEN POX!!

My granddaddy is very sick with liver cancer and is in a lot of pain. Please pray for him. I'm sad.

You should see this mess around here. Seriously...a big MESS! Things are getting done. Packing and packing. I'm getting some more boxes tomorrow. Also, some help. Friends are coming over! FUN!!

There is a house in CO with great promise. It's a foreclosure. Honey has 4 more to look at after work tomorrow.

Joey has ear mites. I bought him a new bone. He doesn't like it, but my 3yo is crazy about it.

Chicken pox are gone!

We're taking advantage of the pool while we can. Lots of swimming going on here.

Zekey can swing on the high speed without getting scared. Oh yes, he is so brave.

Just when I thought most everything was done, I've discovered there's still much to do. Not terrible, just enough to keep it fun.

Got more boxes today.

Bought Jes a snowcone. He's COW.

Pizza night tonight.

Jes is sleeping with me.

Big work day tomorrow with 2 soccer games, Fan the Flame, and breakfast at church.

Honey looks at a lot of houses with the realtor tomorrow.

Happy Day!!

We sold the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Storytime is so crowded these days! It has obviously gotten more popular with the new librarian.

She read books about body parts today. The first book was about hands. She asked them about different things you do with your hands and was trying to get them to say "wave bye-bye". She asked, "What do we teach our babies to do?" Jes answered "LAUNDRY!"

No deal on the house selling. They wouldn't come back with an acceptable offer. Too bad. I think we did the right thing and now we're thinking of what to do next. In any case, I'm glad it's over. The waiting was hard!

It's good to have all my chicks back in the nest. You should hear all the noise they make "catching up" with each other! They definitely missed one another. They worked together cleaning the kitchen last night. Although they would claim to not enjoy kitchen work, I don't believe it. Every time they all work together there is so much giggling and noise you'd think they hadn't seen each other for months even though they just worked on the kitchen at lunch!

Chicken pox have been a cinch so far. The 2 that have them are just about done. No more itching and the spots are dry. They both had pretty light cases.

My mil left this morning. What a sweetheart she is to us. She is just genuinely happy to be of help. She is also anxiously waiting to hear about the house (nothing yet) and is planning on coming back next Thursday or so to help us pack/move. I hope it happens! The offer is set to expire at noon today. Since today is Sunday I was really hoping to hear from them yesterday. Oh well, today is the day...I hope. Our realtor in CO sent us a house that I LOVE (by the pix anyway). I showed it to my mil and she said that was the one b/c it has an rv parking place for her motor home!

Off to church....

Read The Fine Print

I bought crackers at Sams yesterday. I knew the box looked different, but crackers are crackers right? We were having hummus for tea yesterday and I sent LB to open the cracker box. She came back laughing with cracker box in hand. Uh oh.

Instead of the long sleeves of crackers that I was expecting, there were all these tiny 2-count packages of crackers like you get at restaurants. I looked at the box again and there in the corner , in small print, it explained the contents. Oh brother! Since most of my kids can't open their own stuff, it's going to take forever to go through these.

The boys were delighted to have their own little cracker packs. 4yo was determined to open his by himself. He has these thick tough meaty little hands and was wrestling with this little package. Nobody could help him. I told him to be careful and try not to break the crackers. "I'm not....I can do it", he says with his determined game face.

He couldn't do it. By the time he gave up, the crackers were like dust. I guess he'll have a lot of opportunity to practice though. There are 300 of them!

We Got An Offer!

Too low. We're negotiating today. Please pray for wisdom. Honey is anxious to settle for anything just to have this over with. We gotta meet in the middle somewhere.

Please pray that #1 can go to Fan The Flame. It's very important to her and I'd really like for her to be able to go. With chicken pox and moving, I just don't know. Part of their offer includes a closing date of Aug 31! Fan the Flame is Aug 25.

Working at CCU has been great. They are so generous with time. And so understanding of our situation. Today his boss said (out of the blue) that there was no reason that he couldn't work from home for a couple of weeks. WHAT? HOME!!! Oh yes! We might even be able to do a 2 week home/2week in CO until the house sells.

God is good.

It always seems like when we are at the edge of what we think we can handle, He comes right along with help. 2 weeks at home is such a help.

I'm so excited!!!

Chicken Pox

We got 'em. CT has them in CO, J-Man has them here.
The good news is that CT and Lane are coming HOME!! When she heard he was sick, my good mother-in-law decided to go get him and bring him home. It'll be good to see them and to be able to take care of my sick one.

If you want to expose your kids before school starts just let me know. I've learned that there is actually a name for that. It's called a "pox party".