I decided to sit down and update on what is happening in our lives. We are keeping busy and trying to stay healthy. Mark was sick last weekend and he still is not back to his normal self and I have once again caught the cold and cough and cough and I’m so tired of it. I told my husband I feel like kicking the bucket and he didn’t think that would be a good idea 

  Today is just a gorgeous day and so I decided to go out for awhile this afternoon while the girls were napping and enjoy the suns warm rays and did it ever feel good. We had rain over the weekend and so it was nice to see the sun the last couple days. We wanted to start putting in our lawn this weekend and now they are calling for thunderstorms on Saturday so we shall see. I wanted to work in the garden tonight and start getting it ready but looks like that will have to wait, still to wet. I’m so ready to get my hands in the soil and see things come up and have fresh veggies. YUMMY!!!

  Gwenyth is out there  chatting away to herself. I have never seen a child talk to herself like she does!!! Can anyone else relate to that?? And the imagination she has and the things she can come up with. I’m not kidding you she could talk to herself for a whole hour!!! At least she entertains herself and she loves to look at herself in the mirror and talk and make motions I told Mark not sure where she gets that and not sure if its good for her!! I’m trying to decide if I should work with her on talking to herself esp, when she imagines things or is it something she will grow out of?? Any advice?  We started to work on goals for the girls, esp. with Gwenyth. She is getting ready to go to Sunday School and is all excited but she loves her thumb and blanket and we decided to take it away before she starts Sunday School and so we told her we will give her money for her blanket and then we’ll take her to the store and she can buy whatever she wants and of course that sound so exciting to her but when we ask her if she is ready to give it up, she is not ready, so we keep telling her that before long she will need to say good bye to her dear friend the “BLANKET”I know it will be an adjustment for her but I think it will help her to grow-up.  (A little insert here,) Michelle, Gwenyth is out there calling Adam”honey”  Where did she hear that?? I made some charts for the girls the other night and they think its so exciting to get stickers every evening IF they are good, poor Gwenyth is trying hard but forgets so easy! Danika still doesn’t quite understand the charts but I thought it would still be good for her and she love stickers. Sometimes I wonder if I expect to much of my girls at this age but its so embarrassing to go away for lunch and your child has food all over the floor and around her plate and it looks like their dress is their napkin and they eat with their mouth open We have been trying to work on this for some time and it is taking so long for her to get the hang of it. I know children will be children and we can’t expect them to be perfect but………… She is doing better, I know that some children are sloppy eaters and some are more paticular. Danika is defiantly more of a paticular eater and doesn’t tend to make as much of a mess. But we love them either way. Recently I saw another little girl about Gwenyths age eating and she was also a messy eater and I felt a little better!!

   To those of you who wondered if we got to go out that one night for a date night, yes we did, even tho I was sick it still felt good to get away and rest and not have to worry about the girls and we slept late the next day and just relaxed and then went out for supper before we picked up the girls at dads. It was good to be together and the cabin was so cute and cozy.

   I need to start sewing for my brothers wedding. Gwenyth has part and is all excited about it. We are planning on flying and I’m looking forward to that. I love to fly. It will be a short weekend but we are looking forward to seeing cousins that I haven’t seen in years and meeting Missy’s family. When they were here over Christmas we weren’t able to see them.

  Well my dear husband is going to be home soon so I need to go get the burgers ready to put on the grill. Blessings to each and everyone.

An update is coming. I promise It’s high time to hit the sack, tomorrow morning comes around to early for me.

Tomorrow my husband is going to wisk me away to a cabin for the night and all day Saturday and we can hardly wait, but I was very sick today and still am and if I don’t feel better by tomorrow I’m afraid we will have to cancel it and that would be so disapointing. So please pray that God would heal me from this flue bug, plus in the next four weeks we are planning on singing at two weddings and with my voice like this there is no way I can sing. Its so discouraging cause I was sick with a bad chest cold a couple months ago and now I get it again. I’m so glad for my dear mother who lives close by, she came over today and did some of my cleaning and washing and took care of the girls. It felt like a ton truck ran over me, I ached from the top of my head to bottom of my feet and couldn’t get any relief cause there was no tylenol in the house. Thankfully my dear husband got some for me and I must say that helped alot, took care of my fever and achyness. I don’t think I ever felt this sick before and its no fun laying around all day. Poor girls got kinda neglected today, thankfully mom was here. I just pray thats God’s will would be done. Good night!

                This is what I’m ready for,   Flip-Flops 

                                                                               Sandy Beaches

                     Fresh Corn-on-the-cob

                              Camping

                         eating popsicles

                            Ice Cream

                              Flowers

  and it just doesn’t come fast enough

 Last night we decided to go out for date night and it was so much fun eating in peace and just being able to talk without interruptions! We were ready to come home to our little girls. Mom and Dad kept them for us. It has been so long since we had date night and we both miss it. After we had Gwenyth, we tried doing it once a month and it was so refreshing for us but it just seems to get harder and harder to do. I love spending time with my honey and having his undivided attention and just being able to connect again and talk about his work and things that were going through and talking about our little girls etc. I love being married to him, he’s my inspiration, my dream come true, my lover, my best friend and I never have to worry about him being unfaithful. He makes me feel like his queen and I know that I still make his heart skip-a-beat! I thank God for bringing us together and that I have the privileged of being his wife! God has been so good to us and I know that I don’t thank Him enough for all He’s done for us! God so good and He is love! 

  We stopped at the mall to do some shopping and I got a pair of support hose and on the way home from picking up the girls, Gwenyth wanted to know what i got so I told her and she just couldn’t figure out why I would buy hose to wear. Finally she said, “Mama, you do not wear hose, they are for spraying.” I wish I could write it in dutch cause it sounds so much funnier! She thought I was talking about a garden hose. Now wouldn’t that look comical We had a good laugh over that.

  Today I’m trying to get some sewing done for Gwenyth and it seems every time I sew the girls are naughty I need to remember they still need my attention and love and it doesn’t help to get all bent out of shape when I realize I didn’t get much done by the end of day. It seems after lunch they are often happier so we will eat at 11:15 or 11:30! Then they play nicely until its time for naps and I usually live for that quiet time. Now I need to think of what to make for supper! 

   It’s been about a month since I updated So here’s a little glimpse of what is happening in our lives. We just came through a week of Winter Bible School and it was very refreshing and interesting. Joe Mullet was our guest speaker and his topic was on Jewish culture, it was much better then I expected! He is so passionate for the Lord and it made me want to have that closeness with God!

   Today I had a VERY good day and I’m praying it will continue to get better. I actually made barbecue meatballs, mashed potatoes, and mixed vegetables for supper and that has been the first in about two weeks! I actually felt like cooking and it didn’t gross me out to eat my own food, so that was a bright spot in my night. I never knew you could feel so sick when your pregnant! It’s the first for me to be so sick, with the girls I was nausea some but not near this bad! Poor Mark, he is ready to have his wife back Last Thursday I had my midwife appointment and Gwenyth was so excited cause she thought she was going to get the baby out I wish! I told she will have to wait a long time and she replied with, “next time she comes she’ll get it out.” I will have some good babysitters, Danika loves babies and she will pick them out anywhere and Gwenyth informed me that it’s her baby 

  Today was such a beautiful day and we were outside this evening trying to figure out for sure where we want our garden and it will have to have a fence around it cause we have deer here and I have a feeling we are going to have trouble with them. I can hardly wait to get my hands in the flower beds and plant till my hearts content. I love flowers and plants but I do not have a green thumb like my mom. She always has such beautiful flower beds, so I will try and persuade her to come help me 

  Now for some pics, Enjoy!  

Here’s my brother Marcus and his wife-to-be, Missy. Don’t they look happy? Excited about them living here!!

My sister Joanna and her husband Allen. He’s the goofy one in the in-laws! Sorry sis. HA!!

My Brother Joe and his wife Rhoda.

My sister Rachel and her husband Mike.

Here is my wonderful parents. I thank God for godly parents and for the example they are. I love them dearly! I thought I had a picture of my sister Kris and her husband Dan but I discovered I don’t. Maybe next time.

Best friends and cousins!  They are close to the same age and they have lots of fun together and can be very mischievous. Trouble, here we come!!!!

Danika and Lakisha (Rachel’s little girl) looking at books!

Kervin and Lakisha! This was so funny, they were both trying to tell each other what to do and being very serious about it,  and as soon as the one would have his hand on there the other one would push it off. Cousins!!!

The girls painting with daddy. They have had so much fun already with their paints. It keeps them happy and out of trouble!

          Here are my little coffee drinkers! No, its not straight coffee but just a little coffee with lots of milk or creamer and sugar and of course decaf! They can be such little stinkers when I leave my coffee on the table they will sneak it when  I’m not looking! They don’t get any now beings mommy’s not drinking coffee!

That was the story of my life this past weekend. I have been struggling with a cold and sore throat for over a week and finally this morning it feels like maybe it will leave me alone. Thankfully the girls have not come down with anything major, Danika had a slight ear infection and Gwenyth had nothing but a cold. Somehow she ususally manages to skip out for which I am thankful. So I praying we don’t get anything more this winter, I keep on giving the garlic oil with juice and manna bears and glyco bears and vitamin C and whatever else I can give them. I’m very much for natural herbs and will do anything to keep from going to the DR. I thing we are all on the road to recovery. Friday I was to the Dr. about my over active thyroid and got some blood tests again and lo and behold it is still over active and  so I will try something else to keep from taking medication. About a year ago I went to the Dr, cause I wasn’t feeling very good, legs hurt, I was always tired and felt shaky, etc and here it was my thyroid so I kept going in for tests and my Dr. told me sometime it will correct itself after you have a baby so he wanted to wait for awhile, in the mean time I went on something natural and  it helped and I didn’t go back until I got pregnant and then my midwife told me I need to get it checked so I did, so we will see what happens.  Sorry nurses, I don’t have anything against you’ll.

This past weekend Mark went to Indiana for a Moterist Aid meeting and I stayed home with the girls and believe me its amazing what for noises you hear during the night that you don’t normally hear when your husband at home! I wasn’t feeling up to par and then to top it off, there was a” HUGE Yard sale” in town and I kinda wanted to go but then gave it up but then decided the last minute to quickly run cause what if there were some good bargains! It was a big JOKE!!!!! there were only about 4 or 5 vendors and nothing worth talking about and I wished I would’ve stayed home. By Saturday night I was so tired and sick I almost didn’t care that my kitchen floor wasn’t swept and washed up and that the living room wasn’t cleaned or the girls bathroom floor didn’t get washed up or the laundry room swept. I just wanted my hubby home so he could take care of sick me and the girls. I’m not even sure what time he came home, it was close to midnight and did it ever feel like wonderful to have him home, my troubles and cares didn’t seem so big anymore My heart goes out to single moms and widows. I know the Lord gives grace in time of need. Sunday morning he stayed home from church and took care of the girls and I slept till 10:30 and that was so much needed. We decided to keep the girls at home beings there is so much sickness going around and Danika still had a slight fever on Saturday. We had a lazy sunday and it was so nice to have daddy at home again. The girls really missed their daddy and I sure did too. Made me appreciate him in new way and I know it’s easy to take him for granted and I resolved in my heart to love him more and to be the wife that God wants me to be and to not take those little things he does for me for granted but recognize them and to thank him for it! He’s wonderful and I thank God for bringing us together.   I can hardly believe this, the girls are still sleeping and they are usually up by 8. I love this quiet time in the morning, I miss it if they get up early or they wake mommy up! 

What a beautiful day outside! I’m ready for spring. We were in Ohio visiting my sister and her family and they had snow and I think it snowed a little every day and I was ready to come home where it’s not quite as cold.  My day wasn’t very prosperous, trying to catch up from being gone all weekend and not feeling the hottest. I started with a cold and now it has affected my voice and I sound like a frog. The girls both have colds and I getting tired of wiping noses so I’m thinking it would be nice to have spring.

 We are expecting a BABY come fall and we are excited. I have felt pretty good until last night I had easy pregnancies with the girls so we shall see what happens with this one. Today hasn’t been to bad, evenings are worse.  I’m just trying to decided what to make to supper now and for the next eight weeks YUCK!  Congratulations to all you pregnant mothers

 Today I was reminded of the goodness of God and how he watches over us. I was upstairs combing the girls hair and we were going to go to town and do some shopping, and all of a sudden Danika started screaming so I went flying out of the bathroom and here she had put a hairpin in the electrical outlet and she burned her little hand and she just screamed and screamed and I didn’t know what to do, except put her hand in water and vinegar and she just couldn’t hold still for the pain and I just wanted to cry with her but held my emotions in check,  I tried different things but nothing seemed to help finally after about an hour she settled down and fell asleep (thanks to the motrin and Lavendar oil) so Gwenyth and i went to town and Mark stayed home. She slept till 3:30 and then he finally woke her cause he neede to go take the trash and he said she was fine and you would never know that she burned herself except for the looks of it. I felt so bad cause the other day I caught her before she did it and I explained to her that is NO,NO and it will hurt but I guess she needed to find out the hard way, The hairpin was melted down on the one side. To top it off she couldn’t suck her fingers cause they were burned. Poor thing!! It reminded me of the time Gwenyth fell into the hot coals and burned her hand, that was awful and she cried for a long time and we ended taking her to the ER. Why did it have to happen to my little girls??? I know it helps me to trust God and not worry cause He is in control and He did heal Danika’s hand and I praise Him for that. I just pray she will never do it again. That was my Saturday and Oh, I found some wonderful bargains in town, Belk had some wonderful sales and as did JCPenny. I think Belk is one of my favorite department stores.  Have a good weekend.

 Well guys, I know I should update again, but I don’t know what to write, or my mind seems to be in slow gear the last few days and I can’t post any pics  We had a beautiful snowy day and I just loved it. I love when it rains or snows cause that means my honey is home all day. YES!!!! We went out this afternoon after the girls got up from their naps and made a big snowman and that brought back so many childhood memories and it was so much fun again. Gwenyth kept asking if the snowman will be there in the morning, guess she figures it will run away. I didn’t get much done today, that is usually how it goes when Mark is home, but I did find time to sit on the recliner and drink my coffee and read my book and that was fun. I’m also trying to get some sewing done for the girls. They are in dire need of dresses, esp. Gwenyth. Tomorrow will be another cleaning day and then we have a supper invitation so that will be very nice. My bed is calling me, so long friends and have a wonderful night of sleep. Gina