My Greatest Blessings Call Me Mom!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

No More Cast!!

In case you hadn't already heard.. We are cast free!! Monday morning when I returned home from jazzercise I found that Cadence didn't have a cast any longer?!?!? While she and Brett where playing Brett accidentally pulled it off!!! I have to say that I am very Thankful that we didn't have to have it Cut off!

My Cadie Lynn is defiantly back in the swing of things. I guess I didn't really notice how much her cast did in fact slow her down or detour her from doing something. Not Any Longer =) My family all went to Colorado this week, and we stayed behind of "dog duty"! It actually worked out pretty good, and gave us something to do. It allowed Curtis a chance to earn a few extra stickers for his chore chart.

Of course as soon as the cast came off... We went straight to the pool!!

My little fishy didn't miss a beat!!

I almost opted to leave this out, but Curt is SOO CUTE!!

Of course going for walks is always a joy for us! I am Thankful that we are able to live where we do and this is possible! I do truly get so much joy from being Curtis and Cadie's Mommy!!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Everything has a Season...

"The end of a matter is better than its beginning,

and patience is better than pride.

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,

for anger resides in the lap of fools."

Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

To finish what we start takes hard work, wise guidance, self-discipline, and patience. Anyone with vision can start a big project. But vision without wisdom often results in unfinished projects and goals. I am having to remind myself of this today... I was offered a second part time job today, and with a reluctant heart I smiled and took the offer. I would have liked to have just returned to the coop full time, but was placed back into the same position I had last year (which is part time). So to help make ends meet I am now working two part time jobs while going to school full time and running a household. Please don't take this journal entry as a seeking for pity. In fact it is the exact opposite. I would be lying to say that I haven't had a few tears this evening (privately) with the thought of working evenings, and what that will entitle that I miss out on... also working Saturdays now and every 4th Sunday afternoon. This isn't want I would choose to be doing, but it is what I have to work with right now. I am going to do everything in my power to make sure that Curtis and Cadie can be home with either Brett or I as much as possible. I am very Thankful for my Mom and the love she has for my children, but we are supposed to be raising our children, not Grandma. It is important that I focus my thoughts that "The end matter is better than the beginning" and remember that this season of our lives too shall pass. Although I am in no hurry for my "babies" to grow up any faster than they already are. So I chose to be thankful for a second job, in a time when some people have a difficult time finding one job. Two years from now I will be getting ready to start my own classroom, and I will know then that the "end" was worth all of the hard work put in, in the beginning!

Friday, July 23, 2010

Remembering...

I was going to save this post until July 27 ~ This is the date my Grandpa Peeka (Coslett) went to live with Jesus! I can now smile and have such *beautiful* memories of this wonderful man. The pain and tears are still there, but I have such a wonderful love and memory of him that hasn't faded even a little....

I decided to go ahead and post about him today because my three year old unknowingly brought me to tears this evening. Curtis was up in his room playing and carrying on a conversation with someone. Upon entering his room to put his laundry away I asked him who he was talking to? His reply, "An Angel!" ~ Oh I said smiling~ put his cloths away and went to walk out, with my back to him he then says, "Yea he says that he likes firetrucks and that he loves you Mommy...." I stopped there in the middle of his door frame as tears filled my eyes I was speechless...... As I recomposed my thoughts without turning to Curtis I simply replied, "Hey Curtis, tell him I love him too!"

Curtis and My Grandpa on Father's Day 2007

Hubby Bragging

I have so very proud of Brett!! He has been *hard-core* on a diet since January and has lost almost 100 pounds!! He counts his calories and goes to the Y every other night (more if possible)! I see him everyday and had of course noticed (*believe me*) but hadn't really noticed until looking through pictures from last Summer!!

Brett July 2009

Brett July 2010

*Am excited to see how much hotter he looks next summer* (although he's always been to me)

One more week...

Well One more FULL week of the cast =) That makes everyone in this house VERY VERY happy!! Yesterday she started saying "done please" and pulling at her cast! She has done exceptionally well, but we are very ready for it to come off. Her blisters have almost gone away on her finger, but we are not watching blisters on her lower forearm. (one more full week)..

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As much as I'm ready for the cast to come off, I am not wanting to wish away summer either. Two more full weeks before my summer of 'officially' over. I am very ready to be done with the classes teaching elementary social studies, reading, and math.. however next semester looks as if it will have a new set of challenges. I know that anything worth having is worth working for so I guess I'm ready!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

There are NO words....

Other than I now *love* having an outside dog

While outside playing with Ella tonight working on: sitting, catching ball, retrieving the ball and returning it to Curtis, Ella decides to have dinner instead ;P (OH MY LAND)

*my camera even refusses to take pictures of frogs*
see where I was at on the balcony off of our bedroom, Brett took the above picture with his phone.