God. He made me.

Actual conversation that took place tonight.

Me: (in the shower)

Daughter: "Mommy!"

Me: "Yes?"

Daughter: garbled excitement, hard to hear through the door and shower water

Me: "What did you say, I can't hear you"

Daughter: "I'm a protector of feathers"

Me: "Is that what your name means?"

Daughter: "I do it all the time"

Me: "OK"

later...

Me: "So you are a protector of feathers?"

Daughter: "yes"

Me: "Where did you get that from?"

Daughter: "God. He made me."

It is what it is....

Yes I am aware the picture sucks, don't know if it's my phone or just the way things are working for me today.

Yep. That is exactly what you think it is. A stack of broken down boxes.  We are unpacking! No. We are not unpacking in our new house. It seems an unfortunate chain reaction of events means we will be staying here in our home for a while longer. I have been weighing our options for a week now and I decided tonight that we should just unpack. I don't think I'll pack again until we close on this house and have, and I mean have to leave. Surely with the months of packing, searching through boxes and unpacking boxes I should be able to accomplish this task somewhat easily. Amazingly enough I feel pretty serene about the whole situation. I know that the Lord moves us to improve quality of life and that wherever we are going will be exactly where he wants us to be and I keep praying that he will continue to work in his awesome ways.

a little of this a little of that

This post is mostly a random update on my weekend. Work was amazingly decent. Not too busy not too slow. Just right to keep me awake and no drama so that was nice. Sunday was spent with the fam. We had another Family Fusion service, love love those. If you are a local family you should definitely check it out.

After the briefest of naps, during which I had the most amazing dream, we were off to Christmas programs at Southport Presbyterian Christian School. The dream was one of those dreams that you wish you could just live in. I don't remember much of the details except the clothes were amazing and I was having a super good time. Anyhoo the kids did a great job during their performance. Yes this year they both actually sang. I cried, just like every other year. I don't think the hubs gets it, but I can't really hold back those proud momma tears. To add a huge glob of butter cream icing on the whole cake of sweetness.....drum roll please. Wyatt wore a tie.  Huge accomplishment thanks to a massive amount of thickly applied guilt and an awesome kindergarten teacher. I will try and post pics sometime this week.

Lastly I went and bought my Christmas present last night. According to Fed-Ex it should be here on Wednesday. The question is whether or not I have Trav wrap the box empty.

Source: coach.com via Beth on Pinterest

Isn't she purty? Not sure what her name will be yet.

 

As for today, it's been pretty good so far. Ava Elise had blood work done. No puking this time. And hopefully we will hear something about our house. We have had to move it back to active status after a chain reaction of events that has caused more delay and irritation. 

Hope you all have a great start to your week too.

Photo Personality

I borrowed this from Kim. I didn't have the patience to put it all in a cute little collage, but I gave it the old college try (teeheehee).

{1} my name

{2} my favorite food

{3} my favorite color

{4} my celebrity crush

{5} my favorite movie

{6} my dream vacation

{7} my favorite drink

{8} currently reading

{9} my favorite holiday

All questions answered using the first three pages of Flickr search results.

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Germany? Really?

So today has been super fun. Already today, I've listened to two stories, helped 13 four year olds make the cutest little gingerbread boys and girls, and played bingo. When I got home I sat down....four hours with four year olds can definitely wear a girl out. So I thought... I'll post about my fun times with Ava Elise at school and I find on my dashboard this.....

Pageviews by Countries

United States 493 Germany 7 Russia 2 Brazil 1 Japan 1 Who the heck is reading my blog in Germany? I'd love to know and what about the rest of these folks. That's just craziness. I'm baffled and probably will be for days. Oh well, no matter where you are when you read this I hope you enjoy it.

 

Prayers for Zander's Family

Hold your children close. They aren't ours to keep, but only on loan from the Lord. Today little Zander would have been four weeks old.  My heart breaks for my family, people I love so dear are hurting. I have faith that even though sometimes we can't put into words what it is we need to say, God hears and understands us. He knows the pain of our hearts and he provides us with a peace that no one can provide.

"⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵ Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:4-7

Praying for peace and comfort for Andy, Dana, and thier families.  

Zander's Obituary

A Big deal

Posting late from last Thursday.

We had a super exciting experience tonight. Maybe nothing much out of the ordinary for most folks but it was big stuff around here. We went out to dinner. Yes, a real family night out at a restaurant.  We went out to celebrate Wyatt's "book it". Originally the plan was for me to take Wyatt to pizza hut. But by 3 in the afternoon I said "Screw it. We are all going to Pizza King". I didn't want to leave Ava Elise out, while Wyatt and I enjoyed pizza. I made her a gluten free cheese less pizza (not as bad as you think), and we headed to dinner. It was wonderful, the pic is not so great. But, it shows how happy we were. Ava hasn't stopped talking about being able to go out to eat. It's been so long since the four of us went out together. Feeling blessed that Ava Elise was able to enjoy time out in a restaurant and her own food. Some times it really is the little things that make the biggest moments!