Tuesday, November 25, 2008
















Poinsettias put me in the mood for Christmas! Today we went to Bruce's Greenhouse in Blythwood...they have the most beautiful poinsettias! We were able to get the kids in their Christmas outfits and take some wonderful photos! Jase is now 6 months old and growing like a weed. He's on the brink of turning over and even maintains his balance just enough to begin sitting up (ironically in the baby bathtub you put in the sink..think I might try the one that suctions to the real bathtub in a week or so). Emma Grace is really getting excited about going to get our live tree on Friday and decorating the house for Christmas! Then comes her BIRTHDAY "just two days after Jesus' birthday!" I love it when she says that! She has such a sweet personality. I am a bit afraid that this staying home thing has made her very clingy to her mommy. I am hoping that she will want to get out and do more with other people. Tomorrow she is supposed to go to Ms. Jennifer's and play with Zoe and Emily and maybe even bake cookies, so that should be fun! Just hope she remembers her manners. We've been really working on that and trying to praise her a lot when we see it. She reminds us that we don't say "Oh, gosh!" we say "Oh goodness".


Well, here are some photos of our wee ones surrounded by a sea of poinsettias; go to Bruce's if you've never been there and get some great photos and pick up a poinsettia or two!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bestest Mommy

Emma Grace told me yesterday that I am the "Bestest Mommy in the WORLD"! Can I just tell you how wonderful that made me feel? She hugged my neck and gave me a kiss...all that and she wasn't fishing for any kind of reward!! :) She's been my closest buddy here lately. I mean, she's sitting on my lap as I type not knowing that it's about her! Well, it's time for this bestest mommy to get these bestest children some breakfast before time runs out and it'll be time for lunch!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I'm back in business!

Quickly---it's getting late and my hubby is already sacked out on the couch! I'll just say that my computer is back today and I'm typing on it right now! :) Prai-ses!!! PRAISES! I hope to do a better job at blogging now that I have daylight hours to work. So many things I've missed these past few weeks. Don't think I can recall them all. OH, do want to remember how Emma Grace asked me (and Jason and Papa Jeep) tonight if we were Christians and if you told her yes, then she gave you a smiley face recipe sticker my mom gave her. Sweet child of mine! She also prayed for baby Brooke and for the 2 teenage boys' families here in Winnsboro who died in the car accident. She wanted to know did the two boys go to heaven....told her I wasn't sure if they loved Jesus or not, but that we hope so.

Monday, November 10, 2008
















Here are some pics from this past Sunday as we headed out to church and two of our final pumpkin! Also, Jason and EG went out to put the deer camera in the woods and he took EG up in a deer stand. He hopes to get a two seater stand so he can take her deer hunting sometime!

Fun Zone and the Park
















One day last week we went with friends (Ms. Jennifer, Zoe, Emily, Madeline, Alex, and Ms. Julie) to the Park at the Old Armory here in Winnsboro and today we went to the Fun Zone in Irmo for the Puppet Playhouse (pictures attached) with Ms. Julie, Madeline, and Alex. It's been great to get out of the house! Can I say that loud enough...to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
I also was able to go to aerobics tonight, which I have not done in over 4 years since becoming pregnant with Emma Grace. I briefly went to Curves for about a year while trying to get pregnant the second time, but that's when I miscarried and dropped out of exercising all together. So it felt great tonight to get my body MOVING, although I'll pay dearly for it in the morning and for the next few days!










I'm also trying to decide if I should order the Sonlight curriculum for K4/5 and start now before Emma Grace is officially 4 and continue throughout next year and up past her 5th birthday. It's just a big decision for something that costs $400+. Really that's not a lot of money considering how much people pay for private/Christian school tuition and/or daycare!! Well, it's time to head out and get the kids in bed so I can have a few peaceful moments tonight while Jason is at Men's Monday night Bible Study.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Long overdue
















Yes, my new Gateway notebook computer took a turn for the worst and so I’m typing away on Jason’s laptop he brings home from work. I have to mail the laptop to Gateway to let them work on what they call the "motherboard" or the brains of the computer. I find that there have been so many things I should have blogged in the last month or so, but at 9:30pm when dinner is put away, meetings are over at church, and kids are bathed and in bed, I just don’t have enough time or the energy to write. So this one will be sort of long….bear with me!

First, Emma Grace has ears!! I mean, she’s listening ALL THE TIME. Don’t be fooled because she doesn’t look at you or appear to be listening. She may not even be in the same room. Rest assured, however, you will hear things you say repeated by an almost 4 year old at some point in the future!

Example #1 (this may be graphic for some of you): “Mommy, Jase has nuts in his hiney.” Do what? What is she talking about? Now I’ve seen carrots come out in the same form as they went in, but we’ve never fed him nuts!! So I pry a little more only to recall that she’s describing his boy parts, specifically his “sac”, which his daddy and I had a conversation about in the nursery a few days (maybe a week) ago when I asked Daddy to please be sure and wipe all the stinky off Jase's nuts. MY FAULT! Completely my fault. Guess I just never thought of it until having a boy and now that the messes are much larger with oatmeal and carrots on the menu! Then, it gets better, except that this time she uses the appropriate terminology….she says, “Why do you have to clean his penis?” She heard that while I was bathing Jase the other night. Well, thank the good Lord that I didn’t say something else for that body part! She was actually helping to scrub Jase in the baby bath that night, but I had no clue with the “nuts” conversation she was even around or taking it in.

Example #2: “Mommy, you shouldn’t talk at the table while you’re eating. Oh, I forgot, you’re finished eating….but I don’t tell you what to do because you’re my mommy and you’re older than me. You tell me what to do.” So I say, “Yes, Emma Grace I am your mommy. You’ve been listening to your daddy, huh?” Then she says, “Yeah, I get truth from Daddy!” I laughed so hard I nearly cried. I had to call Jason at work and tell him. Who said she wasn’t listening at the lunch/dinner table?!

Example #3: “Mommy, this card from Mimi has a jack-o-lantern on it. We don’t celebrate Halloween.” I affirmed her (we’ve had this discussion before about why we celebrate the Harvest, etc.) and then I said, “We’re Christians and we believe Jesus Christ died for our sins. That’s why we put 3 crosses on our pumpkin.” She starts singing, “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our looooove.” We had just sung that song at church either last Sunday or the one before. I had no clue she was listening to the words of the song!

Teachable moments!!! And these are the best days of our lives!!! This is why the Lord has lead me to stay home with our children!! May He always give me the words to say (and the actions to go with it) to glorify Him alone! I’m sure I’ll think of other things I have forgotten to blog, but this serves as a good starting point.