Happy Birthday

Yep, it's the big 41 today...we're heading up to Celebration of Praise in Clermont to do a big kid-fest gig up there. I am missing my own celebration of praise at Calvary that bums me but I have actually wanted to do this event as a vendor since the get go so I am going to consider it a blessing and go have fun behind a table for a change instead of managing 50 others behind their own tables.

Rachel is making me a peanut butter silk cake later and I suppose a few presents will be in store.

My bd falls on a non-bd caring heart this year but I will put on a happy bd heart for the kids.
There is too much to do to have a bd!

We continue our Dave Ramsey class tomorrow evening with some friends. For 14 weeks we meet Sunday nights with their 5 kids (and one on the way!!)
We all have dinner here and then leave them behind as we make our way across to class at Faith Lutheran. You've heard of Dave Ramsey right? Good stuff.

I haven't done our homework either and it likely won't get done unless I do it. Not mentioning any names or anything. lol

It has been a good training for the girls to prepare that much food at home. 13 people and then to manage the home without parents with all those kids,
They did great though and with a second family of reformers, that equaled everyone wanting to sew or bake bread and loving taking care of the little bits.

Harmless and the kids were glad to have some like minded friends around again. You know, they just speak the same language which we don't have in our lives right now.

Off to the CF Kids Fest at Celebration of Praise!

Cool name for a church.

Love and War

I took Lauren and Rach to Walmart today after a 2 week long endeavor to make Lasagna.
Yep, that's how we roll these days.
Got all the ingredients but by the time we got around to it I only had 1/2 the ingredients and kept having to go to the store to replace ingredients when we finally got around to trying to make it.

So the big thing now is to let them, her, whomever go into the store by themselves as they are growing in their training....Lauren has been wanting to go since she was 7 and I am STILL sending an older one with her..though she does handle smaller stores just fine, but Wal Mart? I dunno, I still want Rach or Sloan with her.

So I was driving along in and out of aisles looking, waiting, peering to see if I can see them in there...up down, in, out, I go... and while I go up one aisle I see a Hispanic Father pushing a cart to the car fast and seriously with Mom holding her toddler and walking behind.

I do NOT know why I immediately thought this, but Jeff and I never walk that way and I thought wow, does he beat her? Is she walking behind so the child doesn't irritate him?
Is she living a life she needs, hopes, PRAYS she gets rescued from? From this terrible man????

And I round the corner to go back toward the entrance and start peering again to look for the kids.

But I steal one last look at the family and he has turned around to say something to her and she throws her head back laughing unabashedly and totally NOT like an abused woman would.

And I was relieved for her. And remembered that women tend to always go to the most dramatic response. Or at least I do. And that they probably had a very happy life but by the meer fact that he was walking ahead of her purposely made me think something.

And of course their life wasn't perfect but at least at that last moment I saw them, it all seemed ok. And I was thankful for them and the relief I felt for them.

And for right now, the world's ok.

The blog revisited

Wow. This is weird. But I had to do it. I missed it! Well, I missed it just today long enough to do it. I won't alert anyone in case I change my mind. (who me?) But someone is bound to find it eventually. Maybe.
I think I just wanted to see my past posts.

Those kittens are done grown up! And mine are a gittin' purdy big too!
How are YOUR kids???