2012...and another baby on the way!!!

I thought the year 2000-the year I graduated high school- would never, ever get here.  But now it is 12 years later?!  I can't believe it!  The Lord blessed us through another great year...and now He is blessing us with another baby!  Baby #3 is due July 25, 2012.  We went for my first doctor's visit yesterday and saw the baby on the ultrasound.  At only 11 weeks, it is already an active little thing!  It (I hate saying "it" LOL) was squriming all over the place, kicking its little legs like crazy! It was so precious!
Gracelyn and Ayden were just amazed and stood staring at the screen with their mouths dropped open.  Gracelyn has been telling me "Mommy, there's not really a baby in your tummy!"  So maybe after seeing the ultrasound, she will be more willing to believe it! ha!  I guess it's just hard for a little kid to comprehend that there is a little person growing inside their mommy's tummy!  And Ayden thought we were going to the doctor yesterday to actually get the baby out!  LOL  They are so funny!

We had a wonderful Christmas, and like always it was over before we knew it.  Gracelyn, however, is still in Christmas mode.  She has been going upstairs to their playroom and finding random toys and wrapping them up to give us as Christmas presents.  She wraps the "presents" in blankets, paper, or whatever she can find!  She has probably used three rolls of tape in the last week! ha!  She "wrapped" Michael about seven different things a few nights ago and put them under the tree and couldn't wait for him to get home from work to open them!  Ayden had to get in on the fun, too and colored a few sheets of computer paper and then tore them up in a million pieces and put them under the tree for Michael's presents.  LOL As soon as Michael walked in the door that night, he got to live Christmas morning all over again with all the presents he got to open!! :)

Talkin' About Heaven...

Last night, on the way home from church there was a beautiful full, glowing moon.  Gracelyn and Ayden were sitting in the back of the car, talking about how pretty it was.  Then Gracelyn asked, "Mommy, does Jesus live on the moon?" And then started one of the sweetest conversations I have ever had in my life...

"No, Gracelyn, Jesus doesn't live on the moon.  He lives in Heaven," I told her. 
"Well, is Heaven in the sky?"  asked Ayden.
"No," I replied, "Heaven is past the sky.  We can't even see it," I told him.
"Well, how come we never go there?" asked Gracelyn.
"Yeah," said Ayden, "Let's go to Heaven!"
I had to think a minute before I could respond to this.  What exactly could I say?
"We can't go to Heaven yet.  That's where we'll go when we die," I told them. 
"Well, I don't want to do that!" Gracelyn exclaimed.
"You don't want to do what?" I asked.  "You don't want to go to Heaven?"
"I want to go to Heaven, but I don't want to die!" said Gracelyn. 

TO BE CONTINUED...

Five Question Friday

This is the first time I've ever joined a blog hop!  I always love reading other bloggers' posts, so I thought I would give it a try myself!

1. Do you close the bathroom door when you are home alone?

LOL Funny question...Well, I am never home alone...ever.  But, I still don't close the bathroom door.  LOL I don't even close it at my parents house! ha!  If I hear someone coming I might try to close it real quick, or sometimes I just scream that I am using the bathroom and tell them not to look! :)

2. You have to walk around with a word on your forehead. That word describes you. One word. What is it?

I'm having to sit a minute and think about this one.  I think it would have to be BLESSED.  Because that is so true about my life.  Every person God has placed in my life is amazing, and I never want to take that for granted!


3. What store do you refuse to shop at and why?

Hot Topic. Hands down.  I am probably the furthest person from gothic, and that store just freaks me out. 

4. If you participated in arranged marriages for your child(ren), who would you choose for your child(ren)?

I have absolutely no idea who I would choose fo rmy children.  I have thought about them getting married, but that is soooo far away, and I don't even want to think about that yet!
I just want them to marry someone who will love them, treat them right, and make sure they are always happy.


5. If you could pick how and when you would die, would you?

I really don't want to know when I will die.  Because that day would always be in the back of my mind.  I want to enjoy my life up until the very last minute.  As far as choosing how I would die?  Of course I would rather die peacefully than in some tragic way! 
But I am so thankful that no matter how, and no matter when my life ends, I will be spending eternity with Jesus.
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Ready for Some Sleep!!

I am SO glad tomorrow is Friday! Today was an exhausting day...I had work, of course, then as soon as I left there I went straight to Gracelyn's school for open house...then tonight I had to go back to my school for a meeting. I am so glad to be sitting on the couch right now, and in just a few minutes I will be laying in my bed!
Gracelyn and Ayden stayed with my mom while I was at school tonight, and thankfully she gave them a bath and fed them for me!! They both fell asleep on the way home so I put them straight in bed. I am hoping they let me sleep a little later than 6:30 AM this Saturday...last Saturday morning they were wide awake before the sun came up! LOL!
I want to write about something funny that happened yesterday morning because I don't ever want to forget this...my iron is messed up so I had to iron Gracelyn's school clothes at Mama's yesterday morning. I went ahead and fixed her hair and put on her shoes before we left our house, but I left her in the t-shirt she had slept in. She had a hard time waking up yesterday morning, and when I put her in the car I said, "Gracelyn! Are you really wearing that to school??!!" She looked down and saw she was in just a t-shirt and panties and the look on her face was priceless!! Her eyes popped open and her mouth dropped, and she said, "Mommy! Are you kidding me?! Everybody's going to see my panties!" It was hilarious! How scary it must've been for a minute for her to think she was actually wearing that to school. I've had nightmares about things like that! LOL She was a funny looking sight, though with her hair fixed wtih a big pink bow, her cute little shoes...and then her panties and a t-shirt!! haha!
Well, it has come time for me to crawl in bed and snuggle close to Michael :)
This is definitely one thing that will make me smile at the end of the day...

There's not a night that goes by that I don't kiss their little sleeping faces over and over, praying the Lord will keep them safe and save their souls as soon as they are old enough to understand how.

It's Monday Again!

I can't believe it's already Monday already! Why does this weekend always fly by so fast?! I love, love, love Friday afternoons because I know the next two days are MINE! But before I know it, it's 5:00 AM Monday morning, and I am being awoken by the annoying sound of my alarm. I always hope that I'm just dreaming that I hear the alarm going off. I love when I wake up and look at the clock to see it's only 1:30 or 2 in the morning, but when I wake up and see that's it's 4:30 or anything close to 5, I literally want to cry! LOL

Saturday night we went shopping so I could buy some work clothes. I am sooo picky when it comes to buying clothes, and I was so excited that I actually found quite a few things I liked!

I wore one of the outfits to church yesterday and after church Ayden ran up and hugged me when he came out of the nursrery....I sat down and bent over to hug him, and my skirt got caught underneath me and ripped down the side. I was so upset :(

Then I started this morning off by trying to iron my brand new shirt...I really wish I had read the tag that said DO NOT IRON first...I pretty much burned a whole through the entire sleeve. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't ripped my skirt yesterday. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I was so upset. Michael asked me what was wrong, and I just started sobbing. He was so sweet because he just stood there and hugged me until I stopped crying. This was after he only got about four hours of sleep because he worked three wrecks last night, one of which was a fatality, and was called out at 6 this morning for another wreck. But, I'm glad he still found the time to hold me tight and let me cry because of my streak of bad luck with putting holes in my clothes! ha!

This afternoon Gracelyn had to decorate a "flip-flop" for homework. I had bought her some glitter, sequins, and stick-on flowers, so we went outside on the front porch and started glamming up her flip-flop! Of course Ayden wanted in on it, so I drew him a smiley face and let him sprinkle glitter on it. They had so much fun, and so did I :)
Even Paws tried to get in on the fun!

Such a bittersweet day...

Today was the day I knew would be hard ever since I first held my baby girl on May 24, 2006. Gracelyn started kindergarten. We went to Meet the Teacher last night, and Gracelyn was so excited to see her new classroom. But, this morning, when I kissed her bye and knew I was leaving my little girl at a big school with so many people without me there to take care of her...it just broke my heart...into a million pieces. I'm still supposed to be feeding her a bottle and looking into her eyes as she stares at me and makes those sweet little baby noises. I'm still supposed to be rocking her and singing her to sleep every night. I'm not supposed to be leaving her by herself all day, every day! I need to be there to take care of her if she gets hurt, take up for her if someone is mean to her, tickle her to get her in a good mood when she's upset, wipe her tears when she cries. I was so proud of her, though. When I left her in her classroom this morning, I left in tears...and when I got in my car, the tears kept flowing...and throughout the day, every time I thought about her eating her lunch in the cafetera or playing at recess, the tears would start again...and as I am typing about it, replaying it al in my mind, I sit here with tears rolling down my cheeks again.

Yes, I may be a bit emotional about it, but this is MY baby. I never want to see her hurt or see her heart broken.

I am so thankful, though, that Gracelyn has the absolute sweetest teacher and teacher's assistant in the world. They are so loving and caring, and I know she is taken care of..it just hurts that I'm not the one taking care of her while she's at school. The teacher gave all the mommys a little note today that was sooo sweet (and of course, made me cry more), but it was so thoughtful of her to think about us and what we were going through.

My once in a while update...

Summer vacation has already come and sadly almost gone! I looked at the calendar today...which I had been putting off for a while now..and realized school starts back three weeks from tomorrow :( But, I am starting a new job teaching at the high school this year, so I at least can look forward to something new and different...and hopefully something more enjoyable.

I want to catch up on a lot of pictures tonight. I haven't posted pictures from Gracelyn's birthday party in May..and what's worse than that, I haven't posted pictures from Ayden's party wayyyyy back in January! I think that may be why I dread blogging sometimes, because I feel like I have to catch up on things every time I do. So maybe after tonight, I can stay caught up. I highly doubt it, but we'll see.

Today me, Gracelyn, and Ayden went shopping with my mama, Kortney, and Jayden. I have to say I wasn't in a shopping mood today..which is very rare! Not sure what was wrong, but I have just felt tired, sleepy, and short-tempered all day! So I am guessing I wasn't the most fun shopping-buddy today, and I feel kind of bad about that. Also, while I'm thinking about it, I know I am and English teacher, and trust me, I know proper grammar...I know that I should've written Gracelyn, Ayden, and I at the beginning of this paragraph, but I was raised in South Mississippi, and that's just how we talk! I know it's not "grammatically correct", but I just feel weird saying it any different! ha! So, sometimes, I may say it correctly, and other times I may not! LOL

Anyway....back on topic :) I cut Michael's hair tonight after supper, and he (like always) was in a mood to pick on me, trying to be funny. Wellll...I got him back tonight! While he was in the shower I went and took every single towel out of the bathroom so he was left with nothing when he got out of the shower! I have to say it was pretty funny when I was watching from the balcony and he came in the living room looking for towels! hahaha!

I guess I will start with pictures of Ayden's birthday party:
Ok, maybe I won't! For some reason, it's not letting upload pictures tonight...oh well...maybe tomorrow :)