Missy's Moments

10 From The Phone What's on your phone? What do you do with those pictures? Here are some randoms I found. 1. and 2. Zipline at Ironwood Christian Ranch. Yes I have height issues, apparently my children don't. Eric: Sam: Rick's response when I texted this photos to him: "and you don't let them cut their own meat?" That's fair (but they still can't touch a steak knife) 3. and 4. Flapdoodles. Have you been there? YUM-ME! A gift from a student - Thank YOU! 5. A visit with Rick's Dad and sisters Becky and Cindy. 6. The first time I saw our Grand-Baby. I went with Kayla to her appointment and the little sweetie waved to us :) (I'm already wrapped) 7. My fun co-worker and his pink sunglasses. (seriously he cracks me up daily!) 8. The near death moment for Macy aka garbage mouth, bottom feeder, carp or whatever else you can come up with for an animal that does this! Her days are now spent in a kennel again. grrrr...

When I took this picture today I can assure you the look was simply due to being green at the gills because of the slow moving enclosed monorail I was riding at the zoo. I don't care for heights and I don't care for enclosed spaces. I really love the 9 kids that were in my group but at that height and in that small of a space I felt a bit tested. Especially when they'd bounce back and forth to see animals from side A to side B . I was sure the weight of these 9 3rd graders would be enough to bring the train car crashing down. (I know ye of little faith) but whatever I’m a wuss and I know it I started my day feeling a bit stressed. I think I hit new reality checks daily with all the out of the normal things that is in our life these days. Feeling a bit like a juggling act that I’m about to drop balls on. But I just keep taking a deep breath and praying for strength. Reminding myself I’m a big girl and this is just a season of our life. Regardless 9 out of 10 times when I...

So I mentioned the house sale in my last post. Wow what an adventure that was. Having our home on the market proved to test my patience and my little girl "I want it now!" button on more than one occasion. Years ago (in a good market) when it came time to selling our home we put it on the market and it sold and it closed within 2 months. We were expecting Sam and had already purchased our new house and faced the possibility of having 2 mortgages. Well I tell ya... if that had to be done in 2010-2011 it could be a little frightening! But seriously every time we'd start to fret one of us would talk the other down, we never lost our peace for more than a moment and really were relieved of any anxieties that went along with the stress that came with trying to sell. One of the main complaints from lookers was the same as ours: a small kitchen- (trust me I know that kitchen is small) and the one complaint I never understood was our small backyard- yes it's small but there ...

Rumor has it that I don't like change. Apparently in the past I have been known to get a little... shall we say "on edge" when things change. I am quite certain that I am making good strides in getting past my refusal to accept reluctance to change, yet there are changes happening in my life, and in the life of my children, and in Rick's life. The emotions with each situation are so different I wonder some days just how one can go to through all these different feelings and not loose their mind. Well I don't really wonder, I do know how, but it doesn't change the fact that some days the rawness of emotion is exhausting and frankly there are days where I just pray and thank God for those distractions that keep me going. Last summer we made the decision to put our house on the market. We really had no timetable to keep for when we sell but honestly I don't think either Rick or I was prepared for the fact that it would take 9 months to sell our house ...

The boys and I started our spring break by heading up to St. Paul to visit the Boy King- The King Tut Exhibit . The exhibit itself was pretty interesting, what was tough was trying to get the boys interested in the journey to Tut himself- really it was all about the prize at the end for them the mummy. (which is just a exact replica). Sam would stop mid tracks and again remind me of how they make mummies... the gory details of how they are gutted. Nothing morbid or future serial killerish about his fascination but regular boy goofiness. Case in point- one of the statues had his son standing next to him naked- and yes all the parts showed- and yes Sam and Eric pointed, giggled and completely missed the fact that the statue like all the others had incredible details and colors and it was just amazing to me the ability and talent put into each one. I wish we could have taken pictures but they were not allowed inside the exhibit. In fact my friends daughter was scolded for trying to eat a...

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.... I believe that... I do. For that reason I somehow got it in my head that it was OK (and it may be for you) to allow what is naturally happening to areas of my body- specifically my grey hair that was overtaking the top of my head. Well I have since decided this was silliness.....I read in a book recently that everyone is young in heaven..... I'm okay with a little heaven on earth. Before...... After

Last fall while in the ER with Sam for some abdominal pain the ER doc noticed in an x-ray a small curve in Sam's spine. Now granted these x-rays weren't meant to view the spine so he just told me the next time we're in to mention this to Sam's pediatrician. Well the abdominal pain turned out to be an on-going issue we have with Sam and his bowels (a post I will spare b/c of TMI) and so recently we finally had a chance to visit because of illness. I wasn't in a huge hurry b/c Jordan had mild scoliosis in his earlier teen years and I figured Sam possibly had the start of the same. Jordan's never required treatment and with Sam still being young there was no rush. Anyhoo we had to go up to the Mayo building to the peds imaging department (which like everything else at Mayo is quite plush) and Sam was asked to undress to his underwear and put on this blue paper robe. I had my camera- I wanted to sneak a pic- I really REALLY did but the fear of what Sam might do over...