I'm Weird

I'm weird, and I'm not afraid to own my weirdness.  While there are many things I could post about to prove my weirdness, I'm just going to mention one thing today.  The other day I was in a store and had 4,598,760 things I had to do that day.  Let's just say I had very little time.  While I was there, I realized I had forgotten some things at home so I was going to have to go back home before I could go on with my errands.  I let out a (apparently rather loud) GAH!  The clerk looked at me like I was crazy. (Which I am, but I didn't admit it.) I just hurriedly made a short explanation about leaving stuff at home and booked it out of the store.

After this experience, it occurred to me that I do this kind of thing a lot, but I usually do it either by myself, or in front of people who know me and understand how ridiculously dramatic I can be sometimes ;).

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Ms. T




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He's Not Embarrassed By Me Yet!

A few weeks ago, I taught the Bible lesson for Firecracker's Wednesday night class.  I then taught it again the next week.  The next Wednesday Firecracker asked me if I was going to teach his class again.  I told him that it was just coincidence that I taught two weeks in a row, and that while I will teach it again sometime, it wouldn't be that week.  He got all bummed out and told me how much he liked it when I taught his class.  

Talk about high praise!!!  My 8 year old isn't embarrassed by me yet!!  This is something to celebrate, my friends!

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Ms. T




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Christmas Hangover

I love Christmas.  It's my favorite time of the year.  I love it for different reasons as an adult than I did as a kid.  Now I get to watch my munchkins open their presents and see them get all excited about their new toys.  It's truly awesome to be the Mom to these two little people.  

That being said, I'm so over them having all this new stuff.  We spent 30 minutes (roughly) reading the Christmas story from Luke 2, talking about what we're thankful for, praying and then opening presents.  The rest of the waking hours yesterday were spent either putting together new toys, opening new toys or going when the kids said, "Hey, Mom, come see ________ ."  By 6 o'clock I was sooooo over it.  When I finally looked up, what felt like 34 billion hours later, it was 8 and mercifully bedtime.

Today will be better.  It has to be better, or I'm going to lose my ever loving mind.

Oh, and happy second best day of the year!! (It's my birthday today!!)

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Ms. T




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Happy Jesus' Birthday!!

While all the trappings of Christmas are wonderful, let's not forget that JESUS is the reason for the season!

Have a Merry Christmas!!
Ms. T




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So Close to Christmas!

I love Christmas.  However, this year the season has just seemed to zoom past me.  I feel like it's almost over before it even started.  This being said, I'm woefully behind!

I should be done with all my holiday stuff, you know baking cookies, buying presents, wrapping presents, shipping presents etc.  However, I'm not.  I'll be working double time for awhile to catch up.

Have a Merry Christmas!
Ms. T




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Generous

Last night our church had what we call "Share Store".  The way it works is for 3 months the kids that come to church earn "shares" (aka points) by learning verses, bringing their Bibles and coming to church.  Share Store is when we set up a little store for the kids to come and spend their shares.

This was Firecracker's first time having Share Store with the older kids.  He was so excited.  When we got in the van to come home I asked him if he got some good stuff.  He said he got some good stuff, but then he said he spent some of his shares on presents for the Hubs, Sweet Pea and myself.  What a sweet boy!  Spending his hard earned shares to buy gifts for the family.  I melted. =)

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Ms. T




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Pictures

I was just perusing the blog and I started looking at the pictures that I've posted.  While they're perfectly good pictures, they're woefully out of date.  I mean Sweet pea was about 3 months old in that picture, and she's now 6...  Maybe I'll update those soon... Or not, I mean who doesn't love pictures of adorable babies?

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Ms. T




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The Sum of All Knowledge

According to their children, (at least the children under the age of 12, because you know that once a kid becomes a teen they know everything) parents are the sum of all knowledge.  I had never really thought about it like this until the other day Firecracker asked me what something was and I told him I didn't know.

He stared at me with a completely shocked expression and with an equally shocked voice said, "You don't know?!"  I'm fairly certain that it was on par with learning Santa Claus isn't real.  All at once I felt awesome that he had that much faith in my knowledge, and terrible that I've shattered the illusion.  I TOTALLY could've worked with that for much longer!

Maybe now he'll just assume we are the sum of MOST knowledge instead of all.....  Here's hoping!

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Ms. T




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Generosity

The Hubs is generous nearly to a fault.  It appears that Firecracker has inherited this trait.  He has always been sweet and generous. (Now mind you, I'm not saying he is perfect in that regard.  No, he has plenty of times where he is selfish.)  That quality has showcased itself here recently in the form of cookies.

The other Sunday Firecracker's Sunday School teacher gave him a little tin of cookies, because he had been working so hard (on what I still am unsure.  He didn't give me specifics, but I was proud nonetheless.).  Firecracker offered the Hubs, Sweet pea and myself each some of them.  Then later that night, he decided that he needed to share some of them with his teachers.

Firecracker came home and made up four little snack baggies filled with cookies to share with his teachers.  He was only upset that I had eaten so many (they were small cookies, about an inch in diameter. So I ate several.  Don't judge me!) so he didn't have as many to share as he would have liked.  

Sometimes Firecracker can be a stinker, and then other times he does things like this that show what a sweet spirit he has.

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Ms. T




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My Minivan Prayer

Big Mama, our minivan, is showing her age.  She is a 2007.  We bought her in 2009.  She has been fantastic, even though before I had kids I swore up and down and sideways that I would NEVER drive a minivan.  I never desired it at all.  I figured if I needed a larger vehicle I'd get an SUV.  

However, and I honestly don't remember how it all worked out, I ended up with Big Mama.  And I've loved her ever since!  The self opening and closing doors are one of my favorite things!  There are a few other things that I like about it for instance: I can haul up to 6 other people with me whenever I want to.  And with the size of my family that really is a HUGE plus.  

Anyway, this is not a post about all the reasons I love my minivan.  Unfortunately, this post is about how Big Mama is on her last leg.  As we're driving down the road rockin' out to whatever songs we're listening to, she'll start to shudder.  That's right, folks, the transmission is giving way.  :(  

This is saddening for multiple reasons: 1. As stated above I really love driving a minivan. 2. And probably most important, it's PAID OFF!  

So my minivan prayer is, "God, please let Big Mama hold out 'til we can get another vehicle that will also hold 7, that will be a smokin' deal, and be reliable."

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Ms. T




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A Near Miss

I used to be "that mom."  The one that went to every school field trip.  So, when the papers came home that said, "An adult must accompany the child on the field trip," I never batted an eye.

However, those days are gone.  I'm working again now, and while it's at the kid's school, I can't just take off whenever they have a field trip to attend.  Thankfully, Firecracker is old enough that his class doesn't require an adult to attend every field trip anymore.  

The other day a note came home stating that Sweet pea's class was going on a field trip, but that a parent needed to accompany each child.  I spoke to the teacher about possibly allowing Sweet pea to go without me.  She said she would think about it.  After a few days, the teacher said she didn't think it would be fair to allow Sweet pea to attend when other kids wouldn't be able to if their parent didn't attend.  I totally understood this stance, but Sweet pea was heart broken.

It was the night before the field trip, and Sweet pea was sure she was going to get to go (even though I had told her she might not be able to).  I had to explain that if one of her aunts or uncles didn't go with her cousins she wouldn't be able to go.  She was heart broken. Many tears were shed. I felt terrible.  

After Sweet pea had gone to bed, my sister texted me and said that by a twist of fate she was going to get to go after all.  (Previously she had said she wouldn't be able to go with her kids either, because she had to work.)  She got the day off and offered to take Sweet pea with her.

The morning of the field trip I got to give Sweet pea the good news.  She was SOOOO excited!  Auntie T saved the day.

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Ms. T






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A Significant Loss

Recently, our assistant pastor turned in his resignation.  This is a huge loss to our church.  We don't fault him at all, he is following the call of God to another church in another state.  

The Hubs and I are going to miss our assistant pastor and his wife.  They have become friends.  We've labored alongside them in the ministry and truly respect them.

Although we will miss them, and we envy their new church family.  We wish them well.  And we will be praying for them and their new ministry.

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Ms. T  




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Helen Keller Museum

Firecracker had learned about Helen Keller at school.  Some how he found out that her birth place was only a little ways away from my Father in law's house.  He made us promise that the next time we went up there we would try and go.  Well, we weren't planning on going up until November for thanksgiving like we do every year.  However, we made an unexpected trip up when we evacuated for Irma.  So we ended up going to the museum. It was really neat!  
They had all kinds of things that I never even thought about a blind person using.  Like a scrabble board that has a raised waffle pattern so the pieces stay in place. And playing cards that had braille on them.

Apparently, Helen had a genius I.Q. she graduated from the sister college to Harvard and she studied in Italian, Greek, French and English!  It was a really enlightening trip.  Even the kids liked it, and of course it's always cool to put learning into action.

This picture wasn't one I intended on taking, but the lady that worked at the museum was insistent that I take the kid's picture in the dining room.  It was easier just to humor her than to fight it.

   
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Mrs. T



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Butter Smoothness

 The Hubs has a thing about butter.  He can't stand it when the tub of butter isn't smooth.  For the last 10 years I have done my best to comply with this because I know how easy it is for pet peeves to drive you crazy.  I try to keep it looking something like this:

  However, now we have children, and they are proud of themselves for doing things on their own.  Therefore, the butter often ends up looking like this:

The poor Hubs is destined to be annoyed with the butter tub until the kids move out.

Have a great day!

Ms. T

Girl's Night

A few weeks ago, the Hubs took Firecracker to the race track.  Since they were doing a boy's thing Sweet pea and I did a girl's thing.  We got all dressed up and I let her choose what restaurant we ended up at.  She chose Cracker Barrel.  So the two of us went to Cracker Barrel in our dress clothes.  We played checkers, and I spy while we waited for our food.  We had a good time.

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Mrs. T




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Uncomfortable

While traveling, Sweet pea sometimes sleeps.  Firecracker almost never sleeps, but Sweet pea will take pretty good naps.  What can I say, she's like her mama.  Anyway, she ends up in some of the weirdest positions.  Case and point:

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Ms. T




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Sand Bag Helpers

Since we were predicted to have Irma's wrath, the kid's and I went to fill sand bags.  The Hub's worked on the generator to get it up and running.  I called my dad to see if he'd come and help me fill sand bags.  I figured each kid could hold a bag open while my dad and I filled them.  It turns out my kids are TERRIBLE bag holders.  They kept pulling the bags mouths away, because they didn't want the dirt on them.  Finally, I got my dad to put one shovel full of dirt in one of the bags and they used little beach shovels to fill one.  In the time it took my dad, mom and I to fill 14 sand bags the munchkins had filled one about 2/3 of the way full.  Hey, every little bit helped.

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Ms. T




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The H Word

While we were at my Father in law's house with my brother in law, sister in law and their two kids, the kids were playing in the other room.  As happens when you have more than one kid in a room for any length of time the kids started fighting.  I went in to figure out what the problem was.

Firecracker was all upset saying about his cousin, "He said he h worded me!"

My nephew was all upset because he was insistent that he did not say that word.

At first I was thrown off until I realized Firecracker actually meant the word "hate" not the other h word. Ahhh I love the innocence of children.

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Ms. T




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Evacuating

We were in Irma's direct path, so we decided to evacuate.  It was last minute, but we did at any rate.  We evacuated to my Father in law's house.  We were not the only ones that decided to evacuate to his house either.  My brother in law, his wife, their two kids and their two cats all evacuated to Dad's also.  Now, mind you my father in law lives in a little 1,000 sq ft house with 1 bathroom.

I'm not gonna lie, I was very nervous about how it would all work out, but it was better than I imagined.  Yes, it was crowded, but it wasn't as bad as I worried about.  Needless to say, we're all glad to be home.

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Ms. T




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Mmmmm Lime Popcorn!

Ok, something you may not know about me is that I'm a lime lover.  Some people want lemon with their water.  I would rather have lime.  I love the lime flavored tortilla chips.

Ok, with this preface I jump into the post. The other day we had a movie night.  While I was at the store buying popcorn I discovered a new product: Skinny girl- lime and salt popcorn!  OH MY WORD!!!  It is fantastic!!! I LOVE IT!  So in case any of you are inclined to try it do it!  It's wonderful.

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Ms. T






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