Happy Friday everyone.

I only have one more to go........one more.....and then I'll be hosting my first ever giveaway.

I hope all of you have a great weekend.

My mom, dad, brother, SIL and my grand-neice and MIL came over tonight and we had the new lasagna from Pizza Hut. It was good. But not as good as mine (yeah, but it's way easier to fix theirs). And they all played cards while I played with my grand neice and she is so cute I can hardly stand it.

They will spend the night tonight and head on back home tomorrow. It really has been fun having them all here.

Happy weekend.

Sometimes I don't even know who I am.....

Hello everyone. Update is that I finally got to the bottom of the inbox of comment love from being featured on SITS on the 27th. I absolutely adored it. Thanks again to all who stopped by. I tried to respond to each of the comments, but a lot of them had a no-reply email so I'm was not able to respond to them. But, oh, well, it was a grand day.

Now on to my problem for today. I am really struggling with my, I guess you could call it my expectations. I wonder if I have PMDD or something. I love my kids, but lately, all they do is get on my last nerve. And it makes me feel like Godzilla mom or something. I ratchet off about the smallest things. For example, yesterday I told my two boys to take out the garbage (today is garbage day) and they get into a tussle in the kitchen about who is going to do what. That really aggravated the stuffing out of me and I began to yell. After that, I was just snippy and snappy and naggy. I kept finding stuff of theirs lying about (that prior to that little tussle) that didn't really bother me at all. And lately, it seems to happen more and more.

Please tell me that I am not alone in this. I feel like such a failure as a mother and I don't want my kids to grow up with this *itch.

Thanks for any suggestions and for listening to me vent.

First of all, I want to thank Tiffany and Heather at SITS for featuring me yesterday.

I feel the love. I had a wondiferous day and my solemn promise is to read each and every comment (I had to go to bed at three am, I just had to) and if you left an email, I will get to you this week.

Thanks to all of you who stopped by. I hope you left with a smile.

Keep checking back, I'm almost to 100.

YEE HAW!!!!!

I'm being featured on SITS today. I'm so excited. And I just can't hide it.

Hello, lovely SITStas. So glad you could stop by today. I'm super excited about being featured on SITS. These two lovely ladies have really got their groove going. Most of the blogs I follow, I found through SITS.

I hope you all will stop by in a few days as well. When I hit my 100th blog. I will be doing my first ever giveaway!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Thanks for all the SITSta love. I hope you find something that makes you want to come back.

Oh, and please continue to pray for Kat at Sunshine and Lemonade and for the quick recovery of her husband.

My son......

Today, in the daylight hours while we were getting ready to go to church this morning, in the AM, told us that he thought he might have an ear infection. Because his ear was hurting.......

Okay, fast forward to this afternoon about 5 pmish. We are getting ready to go back to church and ask him if he thinks he needs to see a doctor today or if his ear was better. Well, of course, it wasn't hurting him at all. So we forgot about it. That is...

Until 10PMish. He wakes up and tells his dad that his ear is hurting really badly. Translation: there is not a doc in the box open for hundreds of miles, so DH gets to take him to the ER. Translation: way too much money for something that could have been taken care of earlier today.

What can you do?

Hope everyone has a great week.

Happy Friday, Everybody......

Well, we made another week. And my middle child has HGD class today.
That's Human Growth and Development class. It is presented by the school board's nurse to all students of a certain grade. I was fortunate enough to be present at one of the presentations of this class. DH and I had signed a permission slip with much trepidation at the beginning of the school year allowing our children to be present when this is being taught. We both prayed about it and basically left it with the Lord and promptly forgot about it.
I was volunteering at the school one day last week and was basically a non-existent observer.
I was taken aback. In a day and age when "if it feels good, do it" runs rampant, this school system is actually taking a stand of "Abstinence". And they presented the materials to be covered in a well thought out, easy to understand, intelligent manner. They were compassionate and made the boys feel very comfortable about asking any questions (and I mean any). There were a few nervous chuckles, but for the most part, it was really an informational time for these boys. And they explained what changes were going to happen in puberty and why these things happened and that not everyone progressed at the same rate and how it was so unkind to ridicule others who were or were not progressing at the same rate.
And I remember thinking, man, I wish they had given us this kind of talk when I was this age, it would have explained so many things that were such a mystery to me.
They were talking about STD's and one child spoke up and said that they could always use condoms and they thoughtfully explained that while you could use condoms, they weren't always effective at birth control or in preventing STDs and the best bet would be abstinence. They explained the physiological and the mental issues connected with sex in a tasteful manner. I'm glad I was there. It put my fears to rest as to the content of their HGD classes.

A day to remember......

My bible instructs me to pray for our nations leaders. Notice it does not say, if you agree with or like or voted for these leaders. It says to pray for the leaders.

So today, and everyday, I pray for our newly elected leaders. I pray for our new president and his wife and their lovely children. I pray that he will seek God's favor and advice on decisions that he will have to make. I hope he does this without even thinking about it.

I pray that God will heal this nation and restore her.

No opinions, no jokes, no politics, just prayer for all our leaders right down to the local level. Please join me in prayer this day and every day.

May God bless the United States of America.....