Big Dreams

Logan is giggling and purring again tonight. He lost tooth #4! He was very proud because he pulled this one all by himself. (I pulled the last one.) He has been wiggling it for a few days and today he ate an apple for his snack - just hoping it would fall out.

During dinner he was laughing til his face turned red because he was squishing mashed potatoes out the holes in his mouth. Ahhh, such small joys!

Now he is off to dreamland, wondering if the Tooth Fairy will leave him $50 "because it is so shiny". Hope he has sweet dreams 'cause the Tooth Fairy is not quite that generous in reality. Dream on kiddo.

Bye Bye Germs!

Well, so far, so good. It looks like all of the kids will be going to school tomorrow. Yeah for mommy! Logan started it off last weekend with a nasty cough and then strep. Zachery followed with a cough and a tummy ache. Lily was next with a yucky tummy virus. (Her poor little bottom still hurts.) Fortunately, Larry stayed well - because he was in Boston! Very thankfully I have stayed well also (Knock on wood!) because someone has to clean up this mess!

So now it is time to completely disinfect the house and any surface the kids may have touched or breathed on. Bye bye germs! Wow, it sure sounds like it will be a fun Monday. Not.

Craft it Forward

A few days ago I was catching up on my friend Jill's blog, The Parks Family. Jill found someone with a fun idea - to have a "craft it forward" give away. You can click on the link above to read all about it. Jill decided to craft it forward and I was one of the first 3 people to leave a comment on her post so I will be getting a fun surprise package! Yeah me!!!

For those of you who would like to play along with me... be one of the first three to leave a comment! Those lucky 3 ladies will receive a handmade gift from me! I'm not sure what it will be yet... but I have several great ideas!

The only catch is that you have to Craft it Forward too! You will have to make a post on your blog & do the same thing I did. You will have 30 days to make & ship your gift. It will be fun!

Also when you receive your gift, write a post about what you got! We all want to see what everyone gets! It's always fun getting a surprise in the mail!

Ready, set, comment!!!!!

Poor Logan

Cough. Sniff. Cough, cough, cough.
Cough. Sniff. Cough, cough, cough.
Cough. Sniff. Cough, cough, cough.

This has been the pattern for poor little Logan today. I kept him home from school because he did not sleep at all last night because of all the coughing. I made him rest today. He was bored, but he did not mind having to play extra video games!

He just started running a low grade fever tonight and he is still coughing. I feel awful, but there is only so much medicine you can give a little boy. I'm sure it will be a rough night for him. I guess tomorrow will be a doctor day.

May"the prayer offered in faith make the sick person well." James 5:15
Please raise little Logan up in prayer.

Addiction

Hi. My name is Deanna and I am addicted.

It started just about one month ago. Larry was pressuring me to try it. He liked it and he knew I would too. I resisted as long as I could but, what could I do when he bought it for me? I am weak.

I have never had anything like it in my life! It is so easy. So smooth. I use it first thing in the morning, all through the day, and I keep it by my bed at night. The kids want to try it, but I won't let them touch it! I didn't think I would like it so much.

My addiction? My iphone.

Ice, Ice Baby

"It snowed!!!"

That was what all the kids said as they work up yesterday morning. Sadly, I had to correct them. No, kids. It iced.

Somehow, that is not near as exciting as snow. But since there was no school, they made the best of it.




They had fun slipping and sliding. Falling. Riding the Henry's green machine. Playing real ice hockey. And eating icicles. The ice was pretty much gone by lunch, but what a fun morning! Texas snow is not quite as pretty as Colorado snow, but it was just as fun today.

Complete Faith

Sunday was a great day at church! Sunday morning we had a bilingual service with our Hispanic congregation including 2 baptisms. Sunday night after the tex-mex potluck, we had a devotional and communion. It reminded me very much of how Jesus and his disciples would have had a communion meal. It was family gathered together, eating, visiting, worshiping, communing. God was in that place.

During communion, Lily climbed up in my lap. Here was our conversation:

Lily: "Mom, not everyone in here is baptized."
Mom: "Nope."
Lily: (laughing) "Cause baby Vivian is not baptized." (She is 3 weeks old!)
Mom: "Well no silly, she is just a baby. But you are not baptized. Not Logan or Zachery. Even some of the adults in this room are not baptized."

She looked at me like I had grown 2 heads!!! Mouth open - eyes wide. Complete disbelief!

Mom: "It's true. Some adults and teens in this room have not been baptized." We then talked about the adults that had been baptized just that morning and that some people do not go to church. Ever. Who teaches them about the Bible?

I'm so thankful that I have a long line of faithful family members and have been taught about God since I was born. And I love that I am passing it on to my children. Lily's reaction to hearing that some adults are not baptized pleased me. It lets me know that she is confident that she will be baptized when she is old enough. That she has complete faith in Jesus. That she can not imagine life without church. I pray that I always have the faith of this child.

"And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3