Today...

Today I...

1. ran 3 miles

2. made breakfast

3. caught up on blogs

4. played a game with meg

5. went to target

6. gave ella a bath

7. played with ella

8. ate thanksgiving lunch with chocolate pie (yum)

9. swept the floors

10. Forgot to pick up Lauren at school

Yes, you read that correctly! One of my biggest fears came true. I have always been afraid of losing track of time and forgetting to go p/u L from school. And today was the day! I was busy packing for our trip, talking on the phone (big shocker) and lo and behold the phone beeps in, it's my friend Jenna and I knew before even saying hello, didn't even have to look at the clock. I said i forgot Lauren didn't I, she said yep! SO i threw the phone down, didn't even say goodbye to the other person and jumped in the car! Laughing all the way of course! I could not believe I did this! On my way there, it's a whole 2 minute drive, the office calls, your daughter hasn't been picked up yet! Yes I'm on my way, my phone dies! Quite comical! I get there and I'm still laughing, the nice assistant in the office who has always been nice to me, didn't think it was so funny! AHHHH!!!! I feel like the best mom in the world!!! Luckily L has matured a lot in the past year, i thought she might be a bit hysterical, but she wasn't, she was just sitting there looking pretty! I apologized to her of course! Yeah! She'll probably need therapy for this too!!!

So if you ever forget to pick up your child from school, just know you are not alone and we all have those days!

Thankful Thursdays

I got this from yesterday's devotion from my book "At His Feet". I thought it was appropriate going into thanksgiving.

Thankfulness for what God has blessed us is not enough;knowledge of the blessing is granted us that we might extend the blessing to others.
God's favor comes to those who know their need. Abundance and status are deceitful, often blinding us the to the very need God wants us to acknowledge.
Our gratitude often contains a tragic irony. We think we are being spiritual by thanking Him for things, but we may end up thanking Him for our own idols. Are we really grateful to God for material blessings? Or are we just thankful to have them, regardless of how we got them? The difference is subtle.
Ask yourself: If God took the blessings away, would i still love Him? If so, you were truly thanking God. If not you only saw Him as the means to another end. This Thanksgiving, thank God for all he has blessed you with. Be aware of spiritual pitfalls in the blessings He has given. Do not let them mask your deeper needs.

What am I thankful for today, truly thankful?
1. my wonderful husband
2. my precious children
3. my family
4. my friends
5. I get to go to church and read my bible whenever i want.
6. that i get to buy christmas presents
7. that i will eat a very yummy thanksgiving
8. that i run almost everyday and can run
9. that i already have my christmas cards done
10. my home.

God does give and take away and i pray that i will still be thankful even when He takes away.

Tooth Fairy!

Lauren has been waiting and waiting for a loose tooth so the tooth fairy would come visit her. Well a month ago, i guess, she had her first loose tooth! We were all so excited. Of course i had all these grand plans of "fairy dust", cause my friend amy does this and at school last year the tooth fairy left notes for everyone and dust everywhere, aka glitter! anyway, so i've been checking it a couple times a week and telling her to keep wiggling it and eat on it. Last night, it was so loose it was literally about to fall out! SO her daddy tells her it's time and of course, my drama queen, starts freaking out! They come into the bedroom and she want ME to pull it out! ME! hello! i have never pulled a tooth, i don't know what i am doing and i'm so afraid to hurt her. So after lots of tears and prayers and soothing i carefully pulled it right ou! Finally, she lost her tooth! Except now what? i didn't have any cash, i didn't have a chance to get the fairy dust, i was going to get the "pearl necklace" thing. DIdn't do that either! great mom i am. so she went to sleep, nate happened to have a little cash and he did the fairy thing! it was kind of funny, i think he was bummed he didn't get to pull the tooth. But he is a little squeemish so maybe he was glad. SO this morning when i got up to run at 5, i found some glitter and sprinkled it over her. She wakes up and she is more excited over the glitter than she is the money! crazy kids! i think she has 2 more loose now. other bottom and one top. she'll be the kid without any front teeth at all. just a little too late for the christmas card of "all i want for christmas is my 2 front teeth". Oh well, maybe megan will be the one.

Crazy Soccer Mom!

By the way that is me!! I am the crazy soccer mom! you know we got in trouble a couple of weeks ago for too much "coaching" from the side lines. I was really embarassed and last week i really controlled myself. But tonight the team we were playing against was really irritating me by their dirty playing and then i just got all worked up. We did end up winning though, so it doesn't pay to not play by the rules. You know, you would think that a city run sports complex would have their lighting on some sort of timers! well i'm not sure exactly what happened but the lights were not on at first and then it took some einstein a little too long to finally get someone out there to turn them on! IT's cold and dark! hello!!! i never thought i would be that crazy soccer mom but i am! Good thing the season is almost over.

Thankful Thursdays!

Top 5 things i'm thankful for!

1. We have electricity
2. gas prices coming down, for the meantime
3. all my family is healthy
4. my husband is off tomorrow
5. spending time with my mom this week

what are you thankful for?

Running

ok, so before i got pregnant with ella i was running and training for a half marathon. Once i found out i was pregnant i stopped running, didn't want to take any chances. So now i've been running again for about 6 weeks and i'm finally feeling like i'm making progress. Today was 3 miles. Not too shabby, i just bumped up my mileage this week from 2.5 to 3. My friend Vicki is running with me, i hope i don't "run" her off. It's great having a running partner but i might be pushing her too hard. Running for me is a great release, i feel so much better and hopefully some of this post baby weight will come off.

About yesterday, my first day back at school. It wasn't too bad! THe class is actually really good. and i love this age group. i forgot how much fun they are. Sweet group of babies! Can't wait for january. Oh and my future teaching buddy is great, we are similar so i think it will work out well! Thank you Lord.

i'm spending the day with my mom today! we'll probably go "window" shopping.

Why does it take a 6 year old, 20 minutes to eat cheerios?!?!? Seriously!?!?!? how many times do i need to say, hurry up, you have stuff to do!??!?!?! oh, the joys of motherhood!

Blogging Bandwagon

Ok, so i've been reading all these blogs and have been inspired by so many people but i have yet to start my own so at 8:00 tonight i decided i was going to start mine. So here i go....

I want to blog for a few reasons..

• to keep my family updated on our daily chaos
• to hopefully inspire someone the way i have been inspired
• to have an outlet since i can't scrap everyday

So today is Monday and my sweet baby girl had her 4 month doctor's appt this morning. She is doing fabulous, weighing in at 14 pounds and 24 inches, she is going to be short i think. Her sister, Megan, had fun at the doctor's office, of course she thought it was her job to entertain the doctor and play peek a boo with her. She is always the attention grabber! Of course her favorite thing about going to the doctor is she gets a "sugar free" lollipop as we leave. She does not know they are sugar free of course, but makes mom feel better when she's eating candy at 10 in the morning!

So it rained on and off today and was cloudy so it was one of those lazy kind of days where i got absolutely nothing accomplished. Now for those of you who don't know me, i am trying to be a good "keeper of my home". However with three children and a dog, the house just always seems to be a mess. Now my OCD is setting in because i like the entire house clean all the time. hmmmm...do you think that happens often? not so much! I am subbing tomorrow, so i really won't get any housework done. That's ok, there's always the next day. I am excited to be going back to my little part time teaching job, i will go back in January, but i'm just subbing for the day to get acquainted with my new class. It is a wonderful christian mother's day out, where my girls have been attending since they were 1. I have taught there the past couple of years and took a little time off to be with my sweet blessing #3! So i am a bit worried about how the other teacher in the class will be. But i've prayed about this and God definitely said to go back to work and He hasn't failed me yet, so Lord, i'll put my trust in you! Maybe this is the beginning of a new friendship! I will be keeping my eyes open for the blessings!

Last night our sunday school class had our mom's nite out...we went to Charming Charlies! Awesome store!!! i could not get over all the wonderful jewelry, clothes and purses, it's a girl's dream store! then we went to Cheesecake Factory, yum yum! I just have to say i love hanging out with friends, i don't go out to eat often with friends and when i do it's so much fun, great conversation, i really need to do this more...thanks honey for letting me go and for taking care of the girls by yourself! i appreciate him so much!

One more thing before i go today...the title of my blog came to me yesterday at church. it was the end of the service, the invitation had been given and i was standing there singing, praising God and praying and all of a sudden i said "who am I" and the first thing that popped in my head was "you are the daughter of the king" . That really stuck with me all day! and i said to myself why did i ask that...then tonight as i'm thinking of a title it comes back to me! For those of you that don't know we are all royalty and our Heavenly Father is the King and we are His children and heirs. Once you have asked Jesus to be Lord of your life and into your heart you will reign with him in heaven forever! Goodnight!