Missy's Moments

  **This is my second attempt. I had this all written out and really had fun with it earlier and my computer decided it need to encounter an error. Arghhh! Last week Kayla and her friend decided to get out some older CD's. I could hear them in her room giggling and saying things like "oh remember that one" and "oh I forgot about this song". They were listening to stuff from her 'younger' days.... Rick has teased me about my younger days. The 80's girl that I am. I love all things good and bad from the 80's. I shouldn't as my teen years weren't exactly the greatest but there is something to the innocence of youth that I just can’t deny. If I knew then what I know now type of thing. I really was a twerp but a naive one In reminiscing about those days I decided to dig up some pictures and I just have to share a few things that I came up with. Now I realize this first picture is not of me but in the early 80's if you were looking...

  Well Kayla is off. She left yesterday for California and should have a great trip. I’m so so thankful they didn’t raise the terror alert until today. In fact I set a flight status notice to email my box when her flight had landed and as soon as they arrived I slept soundly. There is just something uneasy about knowing that your child in thousands of feet in the air that makes  this fear of flying mama a little uneasy. This morning Rick woke me up and he always has a cup of coffee and watches the news. Well this morning when he flipped the TV on that the whole terror plot thing was on and he just turned it off and said to me. "Don’t watch this" Kayla sent me a text message when they landed, she knows her mother well. This morning she sent me another message telling me that she had no luggage. The airline is pretty sure it just didn’t make it aboard. I am still waiting to find out if they have found it. The bag that is lost is the one with her clothes. I didn’t realize that ...

  On Monday Sam and Eric made little mini pizza’s at day camp. Sam was just elated as this is his favorite food. (mine too ) So Sam was telling me about this and said "you know mom I just love’em. No I really do love’em yummy" I wish I could type out the passion in his voice but I’m quite sure those pizza’s made his week. OnTuesday I decided to make a big breakfast. This alone creates excitement in my house but Sam walked by and looked at me and said so sweetly "mmmmmmm mommy I think I love those....and I love you " (sausage and mommy ) On Wednesday it was back to camp and on our way there we saw a Kemps truck and on the side was a cow holding a scoop of ice cream. I said "hey look at that cow holding the ice cream. Do you know how to make ice cream?" Sam says "NOT FROM THAT COW Euwwww and cows only like milk, NOT ice cream. euwwwww" . Hope I haven’t ruined his love of ice cream. That same day after camp we got into the car and Sam opene...

  I have much to write about but don’t know what to write. Make sense? This week has been one of those weeks where I’ve found myself feeling so overwhelmed both good and bad. AKA thinking to much. I’ve found myself really thinking about the different areas of my life, I’m a homemaker, a wife, a mother, now a co-worker, a daughter (as I’m lucky enough to talk to my mom almost daily) I’m even getting pretty good at getting to know Missy, You know for so long not only was I not interested in who I was, always searching for myself in the eyes of others but I must admit I was afraid of what I’d find. I mean there are some down right ugly things that happened in my life either as a matter of choice and sometimes just life circumstance. I blame no one or myself for those things. What’s done is done and Jesus handled that for me. I was driving home the other night and I was thinking about the sermon that I heard in church that morning. Our Pastor started a series on Studying the Bible.Thi...

  So what happens when you take one micro-managing mama, give her some change, a new job, new opportunities for service and way to many thoughts? ( In order to get the true effect of how my brain is working you have to read the next paragraph really fast... ) Well you have ME! I'm a CRAZY woman with worrying about this and worrying about that, thinking about doing that, or typing up this. Calling this person, arranging that meeting, mailing a note to that nice woman I met last week, wanting to sit down and scrapbook (don't even mention selling it). Getting MOPS stuff ready, making a menu for this week, oh the grocery store, that darn grocery store! Crap have you seen the laundry room, and that ironing is STILL not done. Jana where are you??? Husband I think his name is Rick, oh and that dirty look I just got, was that my daughter? Jordan has a rash? Where? Oh my gross gosh..... get out the benedryl. SAM AND ERIC IT'S TIME FOR BED...... GET BACK IN YOUR BEDS...NOW!! ( O...

  Mommy and Sam about 3:00 this afternoon. Kayla came through and snapped the picture. We grocery shopped, picnicked and played at the park. Needless to say this was the perfect way to spend the rest of our Friday afternoon.....

  Not sure what got into me yesterday, being grumpy is such a waste of time. Unless of course it spurs a cleaning spree in which case I need a good grumpy day once in a while. Most likely a sleep issue, little bit of a teenage issue and without a doubt choosing to ignore the many things I do have to smile about! Funny Eric and Sam story today. They have little air filled swords that were in a happy meal at McDonald's. Pirates of the Caribbean toys. Earlier today I took them both on and started a little sword fight with them. Boy give my boys weapons and the OK to come after mom, I couldn't believe it! Thankfully they were air-filled otherwise I might be damaged. The good thing is the dog protects me over the boys! She started barking at Eric and Sam. I might grow to like that dog yet. My little angels are over enjoying a little daddy time at the park. Jordan is on house arrest for the night, I just saw him pass through with the clippers. I think he may be giving himself a hair...

  A friend of mine has a post right now called Things that make me smile.... not quite there today! I'm going to put it here and leave it here: 1. My alarm clock going off. 2. The dish network going out every time it storms out. (can't get the weather radar) 3. The back door having a sticky doorknob yesterday and today. 4. My freezer being full of Panera bagels when I'm trying so hard to stay away from that. 5. The 8-12 year olds that invaded McDonald's play land and made the fun slides torture chambers for anyone trying to get through. 6. The mother of these boys not thinking anything of this! 7.My daughter grunting on the phone. 8. Going to fix Sam's glasses and leaving with advice about putting duct tape on them until the part comes in. (another 7-10 days) 9. Having Eric bark at me when I ask him to get his shoes on. 10. My endless pile of laundry and now ironing that needs to get done. 11. Sam looking at me funny and then telling me he waited to long again. 12....

  On top of the many things that curled my toes today the best (almost humorous) was trying to share a picture of the boys in the local paper! What a computer loser I am some days. Anyway this link WILL get you a peek at the page they were on For those of you that I emailed a zillion times I'm so sorry! I'm learning, slowly but surely. EricSamPB.pdf The picture was taken as Mommy was after Tom Thumb donuts! I turned around and Sam and Eric were wet and having a blast! PS: The balloon says Choose Life

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