SCRAP HAPPY

A friend of mine has a nice scrapbooking blog and a fabulous scrap retreat house that I hope to visit one day. Check her blog out (& info about The Hamburg hideaway) at http://musingsandmemories-taryn.blogspot.com/

chatterings...

Cass: "daddy, it's official, you're wierd!" Ally: "Cass, it's been official for years!"

Aunt Moo: "Ally, you don't make a lick of sense!" Ally: "yeah, thats why I like to talk to my dad"

Cass: "Hannah Montana the movie is on DVD!" Ally: "you know what we have to do now. BEG!"

Ally: "Daddy, I like to sit on you because when you sit...you like...spread..."

Meeting Jesus...

HOLY CRAP!

Driving along the highway tonight, going to my sisters house when BAM! A truck kicks up a rock that plummets right into our window shield!! If it had gone through and hit Mike in the head, he would have gone home and met his Jesus. Thankfully for us - maybe not so much for him - Jesus had other plans. Here is kinda how it played out. Girls are chatty in the back seat. Mike & I are silent because we are feuding. BAM! I look at him, see no blood, look in the back seat at the now silent girls. I ask Mike if he is okay and there is just blankness. I ask the girls if they are okay when suddenly Cassidy starts screaming. Mouth wide open, blood curdling scream. Lasted about 10 or 15 seconds until I yelled her name and was getting ready to slap the shock out of her. She had seen the gigantic hole in the windshield. I look back at Mike, who is still barrelling down the highway at 70 MPH when I say, "Mike, you should pull over." Again I asked if he was bleeding. I think it took a full minute for him to realize that there REALLY was drama and that he needed to pull over. He kind of came-to at that point and pulled over. I cleaned up the glass - there was just dust and tiny particles on the dash and our seats. He had tiny little nicks on him from the dust and my left arm had some dust on it too. We were all silent in the car for a good 5 minutes. Then I said something about how rediculous Cassidy was for screaming like that and Mike asked me what I was talking about. He does not recall her screaming or me asking everyone if they were okay. He DOES remember seeing the rock coming at us and watching it smash into our car. He draws a blank after that until he pulled over. Should I be concerned? I am still kinda mad at him from our earlier mentioned feud, however, I am SO grateful that Jesus is letting me keep him for a little while longer. I do love him.

more catching up

The other day Mike & the girls came home froma bike ride. They had seen a hot air balloon and we decided to hop in our car and "chase it". We drove ALL OVER Berks County...there were 2 of them. We followed one for a while, but came upon a different one and ended up following that one. They could see us and kept waving to us. Eventually, they decided to land and we followed them to this gravel pit. Once they were safely on the ground, they called us over. They offered the girls a tethered ride, but Cassidy was too scared so Mike went in with them. They went up a good 10 feet or so in the air for a few minutes. It was a great night and an even better experience.

catching up...

Monday I got to bring my BFF home from work. My sweet, funny little Adam. My friend has autism. He is SO smart, unique, funny, sweet, defiant, chatty, and adorable!! He has trouble with communication skills like most people who have autism do. It is what we focus on the most in school. Anyhow, my friend came home with me and we went swimming. It was overcast and the water was SO COLD! There is probably no one else in this world I would have gotten in that water for (maybe my nephew) - certainly not my kids!! =] He was in the pool before I even had my cover up off and did so well. I have never seen such joy cross his little face! He let me do some OT stuff with him - which he hates - and we worked on pronouns and prepositions and he didn't even know it! We had a great day and I wanted to share about it with you - ok, so fine, there are only 2 of you who read this and one of you is Adam's mother, but still!!! If by some chance, some other random person is reading this and you want to check out more about this beautiful child, go to http://www.schaeffer08.blogspot.com/

FAITH HOPE & LOVE

OH MY WORD! today was day 182 and we are FREE!!!! Smell the freedom people!! But I can't get too excited, I get to see my little gems in a week and a half for ESY (summer school).

Ain't i lucky?!

I just love love my job and my boys...they make me crazy, the make me smile, they make me think and they make me smarter. Most of all, they make me laugh. There is no one else who can put a smile on my face the same way they can.

One of the mothers gave me a beautiful gift today - a bracelet that says, "faith, hope, love" I will think of Adam everytime I wear it for as long as I have it. Thanks, Luci =]