Dry Season.....

So my one and only follower has brought it to my attention that I have not blogged in a while...... Right now I feel like we are in a dry season, not much is coming to mind. Matt has not worked in almost weeks, something neither one of us is use to. I think we are about to drive one another crazy!!!!! I am trying to wrap things up for the kids with school only to realize we have to do school until mid June because we have slacked too many days this year. Hopefully our Carowinds season passes will get use this year"who knows"...I do know no more slacking.. There is nothing better than getting up on a summer day having all my house work done before the children even get up and then when they do spend the rest of the day at the country club pool. Most of our springtime activities are about to be wrapped up shortly so we'll find something else to do to burn off that wild energy.....Actually I was thinking about going into business, bottling that energy the children have and selling it. I am sitting on a gold mine.............

Amazing...

This week was pretty amazing... We had a guest speaker at church Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It was awesome!!! Completely made us put a whole lot more into perspective. Although on the down side had some things revealed about myself that was not so pretty, but at least it has made me aware of things to pray about and work on. Well by Wednesday I was so completely overwhelmed and exhausted I felt like I could not move. Emotional stress tires you out more than physical labor!!! Well on top of all that the children were full of it that night. As I was laying in bed still hearing them at 1:30am(??????) I know what your thinking I was too. I decided to get up and really enforce my authority.....ha ha did I get a surprise!!! When I walked in the room I seen that they had taken dry erase markers and painted each others faces completely.....grrrrrr So for the next 45 minutes I spent in the bathroom scrubbing faces while hearing very comfortable,relaxing snores out of my husband from the other room. By the time I got back to bed I was so frustrated I could fall asleep for another half an hour. Why do the children do the dumbest stuff sometimes????? Seems as though they know right when to push you when your working on an area of your life that you truly have to strive to overcome in situations like these. I passed the test and was even will to wake up so encouraged this morning!!! God had blessed us with the gift of parenting and it's up to us to raise them up and direct them in the direction that is true to them yet is right. That's the ultimate goal of mine and I hope this will be something i look back on in 15-20 years and see we have succeeded!!!

Hunting...

Matt got up and went hunting with Steve after just 3 hours of sleep this morning. Was extremely excited to get a phone call saying both of them had shot a Turkey. Hunting is totally not my thing but it sure does joy me to see him accomplish something that makes him happy and proud. This is his first turkey and really his first season he has really hunted turkey. The kids were so excited for him also. It now is sitting in his refrigerator in the shed. He says we will be deep frying it tonight. We'll see.....

It seems as though this time in my life seems to be very trying. Although I guess that's what we ask for when we are pursuing something that's really profound! I have taken a coarse following the book Battlefield of the Mind" truly inspirational. Last night we reviewed the chapter about positive thinking and how it can change your life to a positive life no matter the circumstances. That's where I want to be. If we truly worked to find the good in EVERY situation we would be strayed away from fear and doubt. Anyways...I'm very encouraged.
On the second note....it is said that terrible two's are the worst. Well I just made a new observation......has anyone ever thought about the age of 7? As I look back I realize 7 years of age seems to be just as difficult. It's that age they are truly trying to find there place and what to see what exactly they can do to push mom and dad the furthest. Now that I am going through this with a girl, I see that it just has added drama to the whole trying times. Let's see yesterday I gave Madisyn a dot to dot page to do 1-120 (which see has been doing for 3 months now) and she had complete melt down. "I don't want to do this, I hate this" complete drama!!! I remember when I was in school dot to dots were fun so I thought a simple dot to dot page everyday would enforce her numbers and location of the numbers as she's learning to add and subtract. Yeah well she did not think so. Well after her huge throw-down she realized I was not giving in and she had to do it. She completed it in two lousy minutes after 90 minutes of chaos??? POINT??
I never believed people when they said girls were harder than boys...I'm starting to agree!!! Even with all of that said she is a true blessing and just tends to teach me who I am as they are figuring out who they are.