Fall

Well I believe everyone at least who loves fall is blogging about fall. I thought that I should blog about fall since I have not entered in a blog the whole month of September. I am trying to keep up, but my life is so chaotic right now. I know that everyone can relate.
I do love fall and in fact I have been in fall transition for over a month now. You all are saying fall was not official until yesterday but in the retail world everything is months ahead. So in 2 weeks I will be off into Christmas. Holy Cow is all I have to say. Life is full right now. Let's see we have pre-school with Madeleine. Jeremy is into his 5th year of teaching and has nothing but raves from everyone (YEAH GOD). I am moving into management at my store (sorry, I can not actually say the company although I think I have in the past oops). Claira is almost 2 and I get some one on one time with her while sis is in school. She is starting to get possessive of me especially toward her sister. I am one of the pastors in the nursery program at our church. Crazy that I am one of the pastors and it is only in the nursery. That tells you the size of our church, so crazy. The rest of the time Jeremy and I are trying to establish our family time, date day, and community with others. All in all it seems to be a circus act, but one that works ( I know not a real analogy because circus's do in fact work). I guess I should just add to this blog since I did title it fall, I love fall. It is so appreciated by so many here when summer seems to last for 4-5 months. Bring on the pumpkins!!!!

A conversation with Madeleine before bed.

Madeleine: Mom!

Me: Yes Madeleine

Madeleine: Jesus gave me a book.

Me: Yeah what is in that book?

Madeleine: It is a book of songs and music.

Me: Wow you are a very special girl.

Madeleine: Mom!

Me: Yes Madeleine.

Madeleine: There are angels dancing around my room.

Me: Really!

Madeleine: Yes, they are blue and there is one on your nose.

Me: Wow, You are so special mom can not see those angels God gave you some special eyes.

Madeleine: Mom, why can't you see the angels?

Me: I don't know.

Madeleine: (silence)

Madeleine: Daddy says that there are good angels and bad angels.

Me: What do you say when there are bad angels?

Madeleine: I say go away in Jesus name and they go away.

Me: YUP!

What a very special things for little minds to know. God teaches me so much through my girls. He also reminds me of how real He is. I feel very blessed to have such special girls. I hope you enjoy them too.

What a summer.....

So I am still alive and proceeding with life. I know that some of you were worried because I was null and almost void, I am back and hope to get into a rhythm here. We have had quite the month and also quite the summer.
This has been our summer:

colds, fevers, sinus infection, pink eye, sore throats, swim lessons (torture), Lavender Farm, Daytona beach, more pink eye, sand castles, pools, lazy lagoons, 6 year wedding anniversary, sore throats, diaper rash (really bad), swimming in the ocean, body surfing, boogie boarding, walks, Disney World, Princesses, bad food, Urinary track infection, loss of sleep, ferry boats, time with Grandparents and Aunts and Uncle, Plane rides, smokey air, flu, and last Yeast infection not the so common kind but a rash like yeast infection on my little girl.

So, I think this whole summer so far we have dealt with someone being sick and everyone multiple times. I am so tired of Sickness. But our trip to Florida was nice. We are glad to be back although we still have a few bugs. I have never ever been around so much sickness.

Until the next blog I will look forward to writing about regular summer events without any sickness.

Grumpy old man...

We are officially into summer. We smell like chlorine and need the airconditioner running. So Claira is almost finished with her swimming lessons. Jeremy likes to call it swimmig torture. She screams the whole time. She also claws at you and pinchs. She loves the water, that is not the problem. It is the structure and she is unable to choose what she would like to do in the water. Our second born does not enjoy being forced to do anything. You may have ice cream for her but to feed it to her would only cause her to become a grumpy old man. (I know she is a girl, but I have met many of grumpy old men and she is one when unhappy). She has finally stopped screaming when we clothe her. Right now taking baths is becoming a problem. She use to love them and would let you put her in anytime. Well now she does not want to go in. And after many many minutes of screaming in the tub we reach for her to take her out and guess what...Yup, she does not want to get out. What a headache. I love her to pieces. To see her laugh is amazing. She has 2 dimples one on each side of her cheaks. Her smile is so adorable. She even enjoys making others laugh. So it is not that she is unhappy, she is full of joy most of the day. But when she is forced into somthing that was not initiated on her own, this is where we encounter the old man in her. Oh well just 2 more days of swimming and than she is on her own accord.

Lets go to the movies...

Well we took the girls to their first movies last night. We went to see "Kung Fu Panda". I would put one of those picture icons here but I am not savvy with the computer. So maybe you can just picture it in your head. You know that big panda in a kung fu stance. Yup that's the one. Well it started off great than after 10min of intro and trailers the movie started. About 20 min into the movie Claira started to get the wiggles. She wanted to walk around the dark theater of complete strangers and say "Hiiiiii"! She is into saying hi to strangers everywhere we go. So than she tried to stand on the seat with a booster in it. Screaming as I tried to catch her before she fell. We walked to the back of the theater and she touched all the lights that light the path. Jeremy and Madeleine had migrated to the very front row of the theater. Claira and I finally joined them. As we were all getting a bit of motion sickness watching animated kung fu we finally found our spot in the theater. The girls loved the front row and stayed there the rest of the time. All in all the movie was a blast of humor. We really enjoy Jack Black. We also made a family memory and spent a little too much for snacks and evening tickets. I think this will happen again....Next year!

Prayer from a mighty heart...

So we have always put our girls to bed with a kiss and a prayer. We also have taught our girls to pray for sickness or anything that hurts. Madeleine is at an age where she will volunteer to pray when we are sick or do not feel good. Jeremy has introduced a new ritual for prayer. He has Madeleine choose a friend to pray for (in hopes later to have her pray for others who may need prayer or when there is a rift in relationships). He than asks her to pray for one of her family members. Last night she chose me. This was her prayer....

"God, Jesus pray for healing and for mom to go to church with me. Pray for love and for mom to go to gymnastics with me. I love her you love her too. Amen."

This is the best thing ever. God has given us a little prayer warrior. By the way I am sick and have been for a few days and missed church. This really made an impact on her for her prayer.

Count down....

Monday-Jeremy golfs, has a meeting, and works. I will clean our carpets.
Tuesday- Jeremy has his last academic day. I will go to the gym, babysit, and we both will work at night.
Wednesday- Jeremy will have award ceremony at school ,rest of school day at the skating rink, . and head to work. I will go to the gym, babysit, and work that night.
Thursday- Jeremy has his class party, and has 8th grade graduation (his brother is graduating). I will go to his class party, babysit and go to 8th grade graduation.
Friday-Jeremy has a min. day at school, and will go to work that night. I will go to the gym, babysit, and go to work.
Saturday-Jeremy is on call. We will go to the gym as a family and I am working afternoon into the evening.
Sunday- Jeremy and I are at church all day.
That next week Jeremy has inservice, will work 3 more weeks for his drive to Chico, and we will go to FLORIDA!!!!!!!
Okay, we are almost there. Yeah!!!
So if you are jealous of our week I will gladly share =)