Month: February 2009

I need to add some pictures for the grandparents.  I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I probably should these past few weeks.  I think I am just cold all the time, so my brain isn’t quite working right.  I don’t see how people live up north.  I am near miserable just walking into the garage for two seconds to put our recyclables in their bucket.  OK, so that is an exaggeration, but I am REALLY cold when I walk out there.  And it stays pretty cold in our house.  The stairwell is the warmest place in the house, but it is not very comfortable to hang out on the stairs all day…and can be downright dangerous with Mack around.  So we just stay cold.  ( I can hear my dad say, “You think it’s cold in here?  Just step outside and you’ll know cold.”)  Ha.

 

So, in keeping with the “freezing cold” conversation, here is what the kids have been doing a lot of…not really laying around, but just being in the house.  Mack loves the remote and does his best to hang on to it once he gets it in his hands.  That is, unless Josh is around.  He gladly takes it straight to him.  What is that about???  He will even take it out of my hand (the TWO times I have ever held it) to give it to Josh.  How do they already know that men hog the remote?  Craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

 

We went to my room mate in college, Paige’s, little girl’s birthday party.  It was in Dallas, GA.  The kids had fun feeding the geese.  Molly made her way to the cake that was intended for Ila Belle to dig into…but as soon as Molly saw another girl stick her fingers into the cake, she was quick to join in on the fun.

 

 

 

I love Valentine’s Day!  It is my favorite holiday…a fact that Josh thinks is hilarious.  I don’t know if it was all the heart shaped boxes of chocolate I got growing up or the heart shaped lipstick that I remember to this day.  My mom was always so great at making my dad look good to us on Valentine’s Day.  She bought us cute gifts and gave my Dad all the credit.  What a good mom.  I hope I can do that for my girls, too….and I hope Josh will be a part of the fun as well, as I am sure my dad was at some level.  🙂  Anyway, you hear a lot of talk about V-day being just another way to get people to spend money.  I disagree.  I mean, it could be that if you want it to be, but I view it as a chance to show you love someone in a creative way.  No doubt life is busy, and we don’t always show our love in neat ways or sometimes even at all.  So I want to take this day as an opportunity to DO something for those I live with to let them know that I love them.  

Today I was playing dollhouse with Ruby.  She had me being a man that was a delivery person, and she was the mommy and the three children inside the house.  The delivery man (me) said, “HI.  I have a special delivery for the mom of the house–a dozen roses and a box of chocolates.”  The mom (Ruby) paused for a second and then said, “Don’t you think the chocolates are for my kids?”  I think she didn’t want the kids to be left out….meaning, she doesn’t want to be left out on Valentine’s Day!….especially when it comes to chocolate!  I thought it was cute.  

Tonight at church we talked to the children about who their #1 Valentine should be….not mom or dad, though they love us a ton.  Not our brothers and sisters or friends, even though they love us a lot, too.  BUT, we have a God who sent Jesus to live on earth and then die on the cross for our sins and be raised from the dead.  I want to learn to think this way and act on this thought, that Jesus showed the ultimate love for me by dying for me.  Wow.  

“For God so LOVED the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  John 3:16

Have fun thinking about how you are going to creatively show your love this V-Day!

 

Evidentally, my munchkins were born in the wrong family.  Josh and I clearly aren’t royalty.  However, these are some little comments I have heard in recent days.

Ruby: (in a sweet soft voice as Josh is fluffing her pillows and tucking her in) “Daddy, remember that I want breakfast in my bed in the morning.”

On another occasion, I walked in the kitchen and Molly said, “Hey, Mama, my feet are cold.  Could you warm them with your hands?”

And Mack, the little booger, takes a bite of food, then pulls my arm down to provide a soft place for him to lay his head while he eats!  I would take a picture of this, but I haven’t figured out how to get the camera and snap the photo without causing the little prince to have to eat holding his own head up.  

I could add a few comments about some things that Josh does that could suggest he thinks we live in some sort of royal palace, but we have a marriage retreat this weekend, and I would hate to start things off that way!  Ha!  I am TOTALLY KIDDING.  It is my joy to serve my husband in many diverse ways, and I am sure I could do a lot better at it.  (He scheduled me a facial and massage for the weekend, so I better stop right now and go get dinner fixed before I get myself in trouble!)  Ta-ta!