11.31.06

Ok...so I am gonna cheat here a little bit.  I told Lorenda the dumb thing I did today...and instead of retyping it, I am just going to copy and paste our conversation on to here.  lol  I know, but it saves me time.  lol  Ready??? ok.

Lorenda: did you have a good day?
eva_moore1980: Ya...I would say I did.
Lorenda: good
eva_moore1980: besides forgetting to go pick up Isaiah from the bus stop
eva_moore1980: which is in front of my home mind you
Lorenda: lol
Lorenda: lol
Lorenda: did he walk home by himself?
eva_moore1980: It was bad...I was talking to Tiff on the phone...lost track of time...and I keep hearing this honking, and I keep thinking..."who the heck keeps honking?" Then, I get another call, and as I go to click over I see the clock .... 3:38pm....(his bus comes at around 3:30) and I say "AGH!!!!" look out the window and there is the bus...I tell Tiff bye....click over as I run to the door, it's my mom...she is telling me that the bus is outside....(evidently they called her since she is the emergency contact)
eva_moore1980: I tell her I know...and hang up.
eva_moore1980: run outside in the rain with no shoes on my feet, just socks.
eva_moore1980: and apologize profusely to the driver.
eva_moore1980: they said they had been there for 5 minutes
Lorenda: lol
Lorenda: LOL
Lorenda: goober
eva_moore1980: I know
eva_moore1980: The thing is...they aren't allowed to let Isaiah off the bus unless we are right there..so they wait for awhile...call people, and then if they can't get someone..they take him back to the school.
eva_moore1980: I felt so dumb though
eva_moore1980: I just lost track of the time
Lorenda: it happens
eva_moore1980: ya, I figured, but I was worried the bus driver would be mad at me.
Lorenda: was she?
eva_moore1980: he said it was ok..but I could tell he was annoyed
eva_moore1980: I am sure I messed up his schedule
Lorenda: yeah
Lorenda: but it happens
Lorenda: you were not the first and wont be the last
eva_moore1980: ya i know

LOL...ok...so that is what happened to me.   I felt so bad.  I won't be letting that happen again.  lol  The rest of my day was uneventful.  Thank goodness.  Tomorrow is December 1st...and I am gonna start with the decorating!  YA!!!  Oh...and I am learning HTML from a great book that James got.  I am learning it easily, and I hope to finish the book and be excellent at it.  High hopes I know...but still.  lol  Anyway...ttyl.  Bye.
 

11.30.06

Stuff happened today.  What kind of stuff you may ask?  Well, I am getting to that, be patient!  lol  So this morning Evelyn woke up at 5am!  Ouch.  Thank God it was not my night to have her.  James had to get up and take care of her.  Isaiah woke up at like 7:30am and James wanted to go back to sleep, that was fine with me...I actually let him sleep longer than he had wanted.  After that though I was feeling pretty tired, who knows why...so I decided that I would nap when he got up.  That was at about 10am...I figured that I would be awake in time to say goodbye to Isaiah before he got on the bus....wrong!  I woke up because I heard the dogs barking at the door, and realized that it was 12:12pm!  I couldn't believe I slept so long.  I was glad, but I was still surprised.  I felt so much better though and immediately took a shower since Evelyn appeared to still be sleeping...after I got out though she woke up...good timing.  So then I started my day which consisted of deep cleaning the living room.  This means that I went that "extra mile" and even moved the large rug to straighten it out and dusted/cleaned the entertainment center.  I also removed all toys from the room.  I am so sick of toys being downstairs.  It was easier to have the toys in the kids rooms when we had our other house, it was only a one story home...with stairs...well it's harder.  But Evelyn has mastered the stairs now and there is simply no reason why she can't go to her room to play if she wants to.  Isaiah does it, so can she.  I am simply not one of those parents who feels ok with having my living room be a toy room.  I don't like it.  That is NOT what that room is for.  Toys go in my child's room...simple as that.  I had Isaiah trained early...it was easy in the old house.  He knew that toys stayed in there and that he could only bring them out to play with them...not leave them there.  It's just harder here with the upstairs though...Evelyn couldn't walk for a while there (duh) and so all the toys had to be down stairs with us...since that is where we always were.  I hated it.  But now...things are changing...she goes upstairs all the time now to play and get things...so I am gonna help her along with that.  :)

So...after all that deep cleaning I just went a head and hung out with Evelyn...we played in her room and I even worked on her mural some.  I got a lot done in a short period of time.  I am going to try to work on it some more in the next two days...I think I can get it all done...except what James hasn't finished drawing yet.  :(  Isaiah came home though on time and we began the day with him...he played his game for 40 minutes, and the watched KING KONG!  He loves that movie.  I fast forward to where it gets good though.  The first hour is boring as all hell.  I then lucked out some more because my mom made dinner.  COOL.  I only did the clean up.  Works for me.  Between all of this I talked to Lorenda and Tiffany too, they are both doing good.  Tiff is packing up for when they move to their new home in a couple weeks, and Lorenda is buying her kids Christmas presents.   I am excited to start buying gifts for our kids.  I have a good idea of what to get them...but we have to go to the store to be sure.  Isaiah loves dinosaurs, and Evelyn loves Dora the Explorer, so that is a good start.  :)

Also...all day yesterday and today www.fbcgalt.org was down.  Finally after James looked into the problem for a while, he discovered that the site was up for renewal, but the company that hosts it must have had the wrong contact info because no one knew...so it expired and not only is it down, but someone else bought that domain!  Sucks.  They do have a back up site that James got set up for them...but everything has to be redone.  I don't know how long that will take or even if it will continue to have the blogs/journals on them since Pastr Rob is leaving the church.  So...for the current time I guess my blog will just be posted on MySpace and Yahoo 360.  I just hope that if there was any one who read it on the church website wants to keep reading it, that they somehow find the other pages.  It's kind of a bummer.  I was mostly worried though about losing almost 2 years of journals...luckily, I found out where to get them from the server host...and am making copies of everything.  Anyway, so that is all for me though.  It was a good day I think and I am also well on my way to losing the extra weight that I put on during the holiday week.  YA!!  Anyway, talk to you later then...bye
 

11.28.06

I am getting this done early.  I want to be able to enjoy tonight with out the worry of having to type this out.  Currently the time is 12:13pm, and Isaiah is at school and Evelyn is sleeping.  Kevin just woke up like 40 minutes ago ( I wish I could have done that ) and James is back to work once again.  By the end of the night I suspect things will be back to their usual routine.  I really do wish that I could have slept in...I remember the day before having kids when we would sleep in til 10am all the time.  I did no matter what.  lol  Those days are gone.  Anyway...the reason I wish I could have slept in though is because after playing Monopoly with James and Kevin until midnight, James and I were then up until 2:30am buying Christmas gifts online.  I don't know how many of you may know this...but just like the malls have Black Friday, the cyber world has Cyber Monday, which is the big online shopping day when they have GREAT sales.  James and I decided to shop at www.buy.com because they were having a collaboration with Google that if you used Google checkout, and your purchase was over $50 then google would pay for twenty of it.  AWESOME!  We ended up finding so many great deals and then getting that discount on almost everything we bought.  It was so helpful.  Not that I wouldn't have rathered went shopping...I missed that.  You would be surprised at how hard it can be to find a gift for someone when you have no idea what you want to get them and you aren't walking around a store looking at all of the possibilities.  I mean I had to sit there and just visualize things in my head that they might like and then do a search for that actual item.  It was hard.  We only have two more people that we haven't found gifts for, and that is James' parents Rick and Patty.  We have a good idea, but we are waiting to hear from each of them about what the other one might want.  lol 

Anyway, so James and Kevin got back not too late last night and said that the hockey game was awesome.  I wish that I could have been there to see it.  He said that a fight almost broke out and that there were some great shots.  Detroit won by 1 point and I think it would be great to go to one myself.  The tickets are around fifty bucks or so...so that isn't too bad.  I want to do that and a couple other things.  I would like to also go to Canada like they did...and then drive all around Michigan and just see the sights.  I know for a fact that there is so much to see here in this state...and I want to take pictures of it all.  I know there is a big bridge that goes over one of the huge lakes too, they have a picture of it on our drivers license.  Did you know that for the Michigan drivers license they do not list the persons weight?  Now, I am not complaining, as much as every ones weight can fluctuate there is really no point in it, but still I found it odd.  The back of the licenses are just as odd though, they ask a ton of info and it is all about donating your organs and such.  The whole thing is full of things to fill out.  I just always assumed that all of them had the same info at least, but I guess not.  lol 

Ok, so now the time is much later and Kevin is gone...on a bad note, he lost his plane ticket...and when he got there they said there was nothing that they could do about it for him, so he had to buy another ticket at the last minute and it cost over $600.00!!!  They gave him some lame paper that he can fill out and return to try to get a refund.   I am just shocked that they couldn't simply get him another ticket, I mean they must have it in the records that he bought them...he was after all on the first plane to get here....oh well...I guess the system stinks.  So that was my day though.  Ordinary Eva.  That's what they should call me.  lol.  I will talk to you all later then.  Bye.

Food For Thought:

Philippians 2:3-11 

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
 Who, being in very nature God,
      did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
 but made himself nothing,
      taking the very nature of a servant,
      being made in human likeness.
 And being found in appearance as a man,
      he humbled himself
      and became obedient to death—
         even death on a cross!
 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
      and gave him the name that is above every name,
 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
      in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
      to the glory of God the Father.

 

11.26.06

I know I don't generally write on weekend ( and I don't plan on permanently changing that ), but I wanted to write something today just because I know I haven't done so that much since Kevin got here.  First, I want to say that my tummy feels huge.  I have lost 2 of the pounds that I gained back already, yet I still feel big.  I guess it is all in my head though.  I feel bad for having gained some back as it is, but I knew it would happen and so I know I just have to buckle down and stick to my diet really good again. I KNOW I can lose it easy.  Yesterday Kevin and Jeff had gone into Canada for a couple hours...they checked out the mall there and went and saw some of the Casino's.  I guess they have a lot of different stores there.  It is cool to know that Windsor Canada is only 30 minutes or so a way from our house.  It would be cool to go there for one day and just see what they have there and do some shopping.  I guess things are cheaper there too, our money here in the US is worth more.  After Kevin got back this morning (He stayed the night at Jeff's place) we took him to our mall.  Figured we could show him some more of our area that way and he got to buy some more stuff too.  James and I let the kids play for a while at the play structure they have...I hate that they have the Cinnabunn store right next to it, we can't help but buy one.  They are so addictive!  But since then I just made dinner and they guys have been playing their video games a bunch.  James upgraded his membership for X-Box Live and he is now a gold member, which just means he can play online with other people around the world.  So James and Kevin have been busy trying to kick everyone's butt, sometimes though...it has been the other way around.  I love that, puts them in their place you know.  No guy should get to thinking he is the best after all.  lol

The kids are in bed now and I must say that I am glad.  I have been feeling pretty tired and Isaiah keeps wanting me to play with him.  I was feeling like telling him no, but I would go upstairs with him anyway, being the wonderful mother that I am.  lol  I think that he just wants to have me up there is all, so I took advantage of that and I put all of his clean clothes away.  I put a way Evelyn's too, and because her's are so little, they are much more time consuming to do.  It drives me crazy.  When are we all going to have robots that do everything in our homes for us??  Not that I would probably get one though, after all that would make me truly lazy, and odds are the robot wouldn't do it exactly how I wanted it too, which would mean I would want to get rid of it, and thus having wasted God knows how much money.  lol  I know I have said this numerous times before, but all I really want is MORE TIME!  I want more time to sleep, and more time to do all the things I want to do during the day.  That includes spending time with the kids.  I would like it is no matter what time I went to bed, I could always get 8+ hours of sleep.  And not based on what time I went to bed, but just because it would magically happen.  lol  That is my Christmas wish this year. lol

 I haven't even talked to Tiffany or Lorenda very much this week.  With Kevin here there has just been so much going on that I haven't had the time.  I am anxious though for when I get to talk to the both again for hours at a time.  Why is it that girls can talk on the phone for so much longer than men can?  It always cracks James up when I tell him that we were on the phone for 123 minutes or something like that.  The nice thing is that I usually clean up while I am on the phone...so that is at least very helpful.  Do you remember a while back, maybe almost 2 months ago, when I was stressing out a lot more about getting the house clean and taking care of the kids?  I was always cleaning at like midnight and I would lose my patience with the kids a lot quicker then.  I am much better now.  I got my self into a great routine and now the house is always clean before the kids are in bed, and James and I have even more time together.  It is really great.  I guess it just took James talking to me about it for me to realize it though.  Anyway...I guess that is all for me right now.  I am done.  I would like to play a board game with the guys, but I don't know if that will happen or not.  ttyl.  Bye.

Food For Thought:
Romans 8:31-39 

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies?  Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:  "For your sake we face death all day long;  we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

11.23.06

 Happy Thanksgiving!  I know that I didn't write yesterday, but that is because it was very hectic.  Kevin and I went to the movies that day and saw Stranger Than Fiction.  It was excellent and I recommend it to you all.  I think, but I can't be sure, that it was rated PG-13.  In case you care.  After the movies we went to Toys-R-Us because Kevin wanted to buy James a new video game that had just come out and is supposed to be the best game, visually especially, for the X-Box 360 yet.  SO we went and got that and then after a very interesting time of me trying to ensure we were going in the right direction home....we made it home.  After that it was all about playing that video game, and then we went out to dinner.  I stuffed myself silly and enjoyed every minute of it.  The food was really good, but I must say that the best thing there was the Artichoke Spinach Dip that we got.  I love that stuff.  Anyway, so after that it was just more video games and then trying to figure out what they were doing for the rest of the week.  I also made a couple of things for Thanksgiving early...so I wouldn't have to do them today.  It was the Jello Desert and the cookies.  Oh, and I might add that the cookies only survived for 24 hours, they all got eaten...and I made a double batch.  Kevin was like the Milk and Cookies Bandit.  Seriously. lol

Today was great, but odd.  I will of course explain.  Today while my mom and I prepared dinner, and got the table ready etc...James and Kevin decided to drive over to Lake Erie to have a look see.  On Kevin's last visit, he didn't really get to see much of anything.  Sadly, I guess the fog was really really bad.  They couldn't see two feet in front of them, which meant that couldn't see any of the lake.  So that was an hour of driving up there, and another hour back, wasted.  lol  Oh well, he still has til Monday night to see a lake.  He goes home on Tuesday morning.  I forget what time.  Anyway, so they came home right after that and while James had the kids at the park I realized that the turkey was done early, so I had to get everything else in the oven...my mom was a great help, she did a lot.  We got everything done on time and wow was the food good.  Again I stuffed myself and I didn't even get to have a taste of everything because there wasn't enough room on my plate.  Anyway...here is why I thought that today was also a bit odd.  It felt strange.  This is my first Thanksgiving with just my parents, me and James, and the kids...and of course Kevin.  But I didn't get to see my Great Grandma Wright, my Grandma Sheila, my Aunt Shari and cousins...I didn't get to hear any arguements that simply get louder and louder.  lol  I didn't get to see James' family either.  No nieces and nephews...nothing that I am used to basically.  agh.  I guess I will just have to get used to it.  I just wish I didn't have to.  I feel like I am missing out.  I feel like my kids are missing out too.  I don't know, I guess that even though it was a great Thanksgiving, there was still some sad moments in my head.  But it was only me evidently...because everyone else was perfectly happy and thought that this was perfect.  Am I overly sentimental?  Myabe.  I guess I just like to hold on to the way things always were...it can be hard to let go...as you all should know, I do not like change.    lol  Anyway, so there you have it...that was my day.  It was great, and I was missing everybody...but new traditions will be made, and that is always a good thing I suppose.  I guess I will talk to you all later though.  I hope you all had a wonderful and filling Thanksgiving...I know I did.  ttyl.  Bye.

 

11.21.06

Well, James is home and so is my substitute husband Kevin.  When I got to the airport to get them it was obvious that something was going on, because traffic to where I needed to be to pick them up was WAY backed up.  I was moving like 5 feet at a time.  James called and said that they were standing there waiting for me, but I informed him that it would be awhile...since I wasn't even in a remotely close view of seeing the pick up area.  In the end, they decided to start walking towards me, which worked out good.  I waved my hand out the window to show them I was there, and they quickly got there stuff in the car and I pulled out of the never ending line and got in the fast moving line instead which led to the freeway.  I was so glad to get out of that road to nowhere.  lol  I was also VERY happy to see James.  At first I wasn't sure it was him...because he SHAVED HIS HAIR OFF!  I don't remember if I told you that before or not, but he had his brother Gus do it and once I had my second glance at him, I knew that was my handsome husband.  It was so good to see him looking the way I like the most.  He is so good looking and having all that hair gone also makes him look thinner I think too.  And now, I can actually take our pictures and they won't look all stupid.  It was impossible before because his hair just looked so out of control all the time.  Anyway, the point being was that it was so great to see him. 

It was great for me, and for Isaiah, but it was not good for Evelyn when she saw him.  Why?  Well, ever since Evelyn was born, James has had semi long hair.  When she was born it was a couple inchs long.  When he came in the door tonight with his shaved head, and she was there waiting for him...well, lets just say that she didn't know who he was.  She actually got very scared when he was holding her and started reaching for my mom.  She was just scared, he was a stranger to her and he had to go and find his hat that he always wears, and once that was on she was better.  He would put his hat on, take it off, and back on, back off, trying to show her that it was still him.  Eventually she warmed up to him but it upset James a little bit that she was so afraid of him.  Well, upset is probably the wrong word, but it made him a little sad I guess.  He didn't even think about the fact that she wouldn't recognize him.  I hadn't either. 

 Tomorrow I have to start cooking some stuff early.  Things that I can, like my cookies, the jello fruit thing I am making, and hopefully some other stuff too.  I am almost afraid to make my cookies because I know that I will be snacking on the cookie dough the whole time.  I can't help it!  It tastes so good and I just want to keep taking fingers full.  But I am still doing so good with my diet.  32 pounds is a lot, and I am so proud of myself.  I am figuring that I will gain back at least 5-6 pounds though in the next 5 days.  Having Thanksgiving dinner, going out to eat with Kevin...and that dang cookie dough.  Sadly, my body puts on weight very quickly...but luckily if I stick to my diet like I should, I can lose it very quickly too.  That is very helpful. 

Well, I guess that is all for now.  I am hopful that Isaiah will stay in his bed tonight, and even if he doesn't, I am designating this James' night for him....and for Evelyn.  I am so sick of having both of them in the morning, and getting what seems like no sleep due to Isaiah's sleep problems.  So tomorrow is my morning to wake up because I woke up, not because Isaiah is next to me telling me I should wake up now.  lol  Anyway, like I said...that is all for now. I will go.  I expect to have a great week.  ttyl.  Bye.

 

11.20.06

James is on his way to Kevin's parents house at the moment.  By this time tomorrow he will be home.  For the first time today Isaiah told me that he misses James.  It was so good to hear him say that.  Not because I wanted him to miss James, but because he SAID it.   I have never heard him say that phrase before.  Everyday I am surprised at him...new sentences...using new words and using words that connect other words together.  It is SO exciting.  He is doing great about getting on the bus now too.  Taking toys on there with him really helps a lot.  I am just so proud of him.  Part of me is even hopeful that he will be able to start Kindergarten on time.  I can't wait til Evelyn is this age, I am so anxious to know her personality. I want to have a conversation with her.  I guess that is just something I will have to wait for. 

I talked to two different friends today, both who had very different problems.  I always try to keep myself objective...but it is so hard.  You find yourself wanting to tell people what they should do, because you think it is best.  I make it a point usually, and I think I did in these two occasions also, to say that "this is just my opinion" or that "I could be wrong".  I know from experience, that when you are the one with the problem...everyone else's advice seems easier said than done.  I don't want to be the friend who pressures her friends to make a decision that I think is best.  I would want them to simply take my advice for what it is...advice...and decide for themselves if what I think is the best.  I think that in today's two cases though the advice I gave was good.  Well, at least for one of them I think it was...the other there wasn't much advice I could give.  But for the first one I did give what I thought was good advice, and so I do hope the advice was taken.  I guess you could say that in the long run, when a friend asks another friend advice everyone tries to do their best.  I think I did my best.   I hope that my best was good enough.  Anyway, that is actually it for me.  I am excited for tomorrow evening to arrive.  I will tell you all about it then.  Bye.  

 

11.20.06

James is on his way to Kevin's parents house at the moment.  By this time tomorrow he will be home.  For the first time today Isaiah told me that he misses James.  It was so good to hear him say that.  Not because I wanted him to miss James, but because he SAID it.   I have never heard him say that phrase before.  Everyday I am surprised at him...new sentences...using new words and using words that connect other words together.  It is SO exciting.  He is doing great about getting on the bus now too.  Taking toys on there with him really helps a lot.  I am just so proud of him.  Part of me is even hopeful that he will be able to start Kindergarten on time.  I can't wait til Evelyn is this age, I am so anxious to know her personality. I want to have a conversation with her.  I guess that is just something I will have to wait for. 

I talked to two different friends today, both who had very different problems.  I always try to keep myself objective...but it is so hard.  You find yourself wanting to tell people what they should do, because you think it is best.  I make it a point usually, and I think I did in these two occasions also, to say that "this is just my opinion" or that "I could be wrong".  I know from experience, that when you are the one with the problem...everyone else's advice seems easier said than done.  I don't want to be the friend who pressures her friends to make a decision that I think is best.  I would want them to simply take my advice for what it is...advice...and decide for themselves if what I think is the best.  I think that in today's two cases though the advice I gave was good.  Well, at least for one of them I think it was...the other there wasn't much advice I could give.  But for the first one I did give what I thought was good advice, and so I do hope the advice was taken.  I guess you could say that in the long run, when a friend asks another friend advice everyone tries to do their best.  I think I did my best.   I hope that my best was good enough.  Anyway, that is actually it for me.  I am excited for tomorrow evening to arrive.  I will tell you all about it then.  Bye.  

 

11.17.06

I can't believe that I forgot to write last night.  I don't know what happened.  I guess I just got too caught with talking to James on the phone and then talking to Lorenda on the phone.  By the time I was done with it all it was midnight, and I was ready for bed, it didn't even dawn on me that I hadn't written anything yet.  Oh, and I was also too busy getting my butt kicked at Battleship by Lorenda.  We played online at this website www.games.com and I lost 3 times in a row.  That is horrible, because I am very good at Battleship.  I know what most of you must be thinking, it is a game of luck.  But that is really not the case at all and I do have a strategy...somehow though she would just get those last couple ships before me though, and then...she goes and writes her own blog all about her victory!  lol oh well, after all the bragging about how good I was at it, I guess it is only fair. 

Yesterday was a busy day in our house though, mostly for me.  I cleaned up a lot of stuff, and basically just let the kids do what they wanted.  I talked on the phone though a lot too during most of my cleaning.  For instance, while cleaning out the turtle tank I was talking to Tiffany, which I might add, was one of the harder things to do.  Holding the phone with you shoulder and washing out the tank was not easy.  But it looks a lot better now so I am glad.  I vaccummed the entire downstairs today.  Moved the furniture and got underneath things, just to make sure that it was a extra good clean you know...mostly to make sure the dog hair was as gone as possible.  I don't know why I bother though, as soon as I am done with it they just come right back and roll all over the floor, making it all dirty again.  I am not even gonna bother with sweeping and mopping the floor until the day before the guys come home.  Why bother?  I mean the dogs will just ruin that again too.  And Evelyn, she is not much of a help in that department either. 

 Isaiah and I both weighed our selves this morning.  He is now at 47.5 pounds.  It was exciting.  He is getting so very big.  I have lost another pound, which puts me at having ost 32 pounds now.  It is really exciting.  I am almost in a whole new number on the scale and I am very excited about that.  I am so proud of myself for doing so well.  I know that the holidays will be hard, and so I am just gonna enjoy them, and then get back on track after, but I KNOW I can do that too.  I feel good about myself.  James is proud of me too and he can really see the difference in how I look.  Speakin of James, he is doing fine.  Last night he stayed the night at his parents house, and will be until Monday, upon which he will sleep at Kevin's mom and dad's house.  I guess Kevin wanted to leave his car there and then drive with James in the rental to the airport, so they will both just stay the night there instead.  Kevin's mom is going to make a nice dinner for them too.  Should be nice.  Anyway, so that was my day yesterday.   Nothing too exciting right...oh well.  lol  We'll see how the weekend shapes up.  Talk to you all later.  Bye.

 

11/16/06

     Ok, so today was a little bit more hectic than I had thought it would be.  Not emotionally or anything, but I was out and about for a little bit, and it kind of through my whole schedule off.  My mom and I went to Target together with the kids.  I had planned on buying Isaiah the movies Eight Below, and Monster House...but when I found them there they were way too expensive.  $20.00 each.  I thought that at least Eight Below would be like $12.99 or something, since it isn't brand new.  But they weren't and so I was having to debate if I should get both (like Isaiah wanted) or just one.  After a while though I was on the phone with James and he didn't like the idea of spending that much on the movies.  So he said he would look for some in Ca and told me to tell Isaiah that he already bought the movies for him.  So I did and Isaiah didn't seem to care too much.  Hopefully he will be able to find them though.  Anyway, so what I did buy there were picture frames...I had gotten some developed a while back and I needed to get some so I could put them on the wall upstairs.  Well, I bought a big black frame that had openings for like 10-12 pictures in it, it was only $20.00 and I thought it would be perfect...but when I brought it home I noticed that the wood all along the front was cracked and you could almost pop it up.  I couldn't believe it...now I have to take that back.  I hate, and I mean I really hate returning things.  I don't know why, I just do.  So anyway, instead of buying a new frame, I am going to buy a new shower head for Isaiah and Evelyn's room.  The one we have in there is very good, except for the fact that it spays the water very hard.  And you can't adjust it either.  I figure it would be easier for Kevin if he could just take a shower in there while he stayed with us, but I didn't want him to have to deal with that.  So I will get a new one in a couple days and that will be that.  I am just so annoyed though that the frame was broken.  Anyway...so I talked to James today a couple times though, he is doing really good.  He stayed the first night at Kevin's house, and then last night at Lorenda's.  I think that he will be staying there again tonight too.  I couldn't believe that Kevin didn't even have a couch at his apartment...he only had a bean bag chair!  James slept in a sleeping bag!  lol  Oh well at least over the weekend he can stay at his parents house.  They have a bed for him, he will probably sleep in the RV. 

     I guess work is going ok though for him and even though driving to San Fransisco up and back, 2 hours each way can be kind of "blah", I guess he doesn't mind so much.  I feel like he isn't really gone though...well except maybe the fact that I don't have to hear any of his little smart remarks...but I just mean that I have been talking to him on the phone and online so it doesn't really feel like he is gone anyway you know.  The only difference for Isaiah has been that he doesn't have James here to help him with his video games.  The only time he mentions James is when he is about to play his games, and he asks, "Mama, where James, he need help me."  lol  I just keep reminding him that James is gone and will be back later.  Poor kid, he just wants some help with his X-Box games.  lol  Soon enough though James will be back.  Or maybe too soon!  lol  j/k He can come home eventually.  LOL

     Well...I can't think of anything else to really say tonight.  I guess I will just be forced to watch all the great shows that are on tonight.  So sad.  lol  I love my TV shows..Tiffany currently can not watch any TV at all.  They don't have an antenna that works, and can't get cable right now...I can't even imagine. I know that is sad to say, but when you think about how connected TV makes you feel to the world in general...not having that can be very upsetting.  Anyway, talk to you all later.  Bye.

 

Food For Thought:

Hebrews 13:5-6

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
   "Never will I leave you;
      never will I forsake you." So we say with confidence,
   "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
      What can man do to me?"

 

11.13.06

     Good morning.  It is shaping up to be a good day.  Isaiah left for school on the bus and seemed much more "ok" about it.  Before we all went outside to wait for the bus we first asked him what toys he wanted to take on there with him.  He ran upstairs and picked out two good ones.  After that he wasn't upset at all about getting on the bus or leaving us behind.  I was really happy.  And even though I just heard her cry, I think Evelyn is still napping.  I am not going to go and check on her just yet, because sometimes she will scream randomly when she sleeps and then be quiet again.  I know, she is an odd ball like her mother.  lol 

     Well so now it is NOT the morning anymore.   lol  It is 11:27pm actually.  Quite a bit has happened since this morning.  I have helped James pack for his trip, Isaiah came home crying off the bus because when he got on the bus he somehow scratched his eye.  Evelyn took two very short naps, and then acted sort of cranky for the rest of the day.  I did talk to Tiffany twice, and Lorenda once.  So that was nice.  I played Monopoly with James too and got a beat down the first time and then the second time I lost also, but it was a slow death.  lol  I did much better though that time.  Now we are just sitting here watching the TV show Heroes.  At first I didn't want to watch this show, but it is really interesting and so I have been recording it.  It's like X-Men, but as if you were watching it from the beginning when people just started getting powers.  Now, here is the thing, it has always been a fun "what if" question to ask someone, "If you coud have any super power, which one would it be?"  I like that question...I like to ponder on all of the possibilities.    Which super power really is the best one to have?  Super strength?  Flying?  Invisibility?  Super Hearing?  Who knows...I can tell you that Super Man pretty much has every power out there, which quite frankly, seems unfair.  I think I would want to hear people's thoughts.  But I would want to be able to control it, I wouldn't want to HAVE to hear them all the time, I would just want to be able to look at someone and if I wanted to hear their thoughts, then I could.   I imagine though that it could also be a curse, especially if you heard something you wish you hadn't.  But this whole topic is pointless I guess, since getting super powers is IMPOSSIBLE!  lol  Oh well. 

     So anyway, I guess that is all from me today.  I am so tired already and I want to go to bed, but I also want to finish this show.  James has to leave for Ca tomorrow.  I am taking him to the airport and we will probably try to get him there around 4:30pm.  He should be arriving in Sacramento around 10pm or so and I think he is staying with Kevin.  So...I will go now, and talk to you all tomorrow.  Bye.

    

 

11. 12.06

     Well, last night I was chatting with Pastor Rob and and that end of our conversation when we were saying goodbye he said, "And go to church tomorrow."   I of course had planned too, and I said, "I am."  And then he said, "Write about it."  lol  So here I am and I am writing about it even though I had said I would not be writing on the weekends anymore.  Well, church was good.   Originally I had planned on putting a video on here.  I took the camera with me and I video taped the entire sermon.  I had put the camera on the lowest quality because I wanted it to record for a longer period of time.  Usually it records 3 minutes at a time.  Well, the quality was so low that it was WAY to small to view and when I enlarged it the quality looked worse.  So, I scratched that idea, and now I am typing.  Nino's sermon was about earning eternal glory in heaven.   He talked about people who try to get glory here on earth, earning things to make themselves look good, but how all those things are useless, and will not last forever.  We talked a lot about the word VAINGLORY.  When I went to dictionary.com this was the definiton.

    

 

 

  He used for example of this Mike Tyson.  When Mike Tyson first started out, he had a very promising future, but now, after so many problems and hardships he said in an interview last year, and I quote, "My life has been a waste."  You see, he was seeking vainglory.  Trying to gain personal glory, and not seeking after what was eternal.  Only seeking self gain, trying to impress others...and being too proud of all he had done.  Nino then went on to say that getting glory in heaven costs a lot.  Not a lot of money, but costs a lot in life.   Self sacrifice for one.  Anyway...so it was a very good service.  In the end I felt like God spoke to me and then they had the worship service AFTER the sermon, and the songs were excellent.  One in particular...called Desire.  Here are the lyrics:

Desire

You want to be real, you want to be empty inside
You want to be someone laying down your pride
You want to be someone someday
Then lay it all down before the king

You want to be whole, you want to have purpose inside
You want to have virtue and purify your mind

You want to be set free today
Then lay it all down before the King

This is my desire, this is my return
This is my desire to be used by You

You want to be real, you want to be empty inside
And I know my heart is to feel You near
And I know my life
It's to do Your will
It's to do Your will

This is my desire, this is my return
This is my desire, to be used my You
This is my desire, this is my desire
To be used by You

All my life I have seen
Where You've taken me
Beyond all I have hoped
And there's more left unseen

There's not much I can do to repay all You've done
So I give my hands to use

This is my desire, this is my return
This is my desire, to be used by You
This is my desire, this is my desire
To be used by You

     Anyway, I hope you enjoyed hearing about my day at church, and what song touched my heart today.   Have a great night.  Talk to you all tomorrow.
 

11.10.06

The time is 8:57AM.  Yep, getting a early start, especially since I know that I wont actually sit here for very long and type this, something will come up,  a child will need something, as they usually do.  I just remembered that I need to write out a list of the food items that I want to have for Thanksgiving.  I need to figure out what I am preparing, and give my mom a list of things to help buy.  She wants to be able to buy the food while she still has the money.  I don't blame her.  Luckily we have been doing very well with our money lately and so I am not worried about us.  Especially with James being gone for that one week, less food will be getting eaten.  That will save on money too.  I just wish I had a better idea of what kind of food I wanted to have for Thanksgiving.  I need to look online and find something cool.

     Well, talk about not getting back to writing this very soon.  The time is now 7:45PM.  Well, I would like to say that my day got so very busy that it was impossible for me to write, but sadly that is not the case.  I think it was more like one thing after another, but not in a crazy sense.  We took the kids to the park this morning, around 9:30a.m.  and then after that we all went to get my hair cut and Isaiah's hair cut.  His turned out great, and although everyone else loves my hair so far, I am still adjusting to it.  I have never had layers through out ALL my hair, and so it is a big adjustment.  Of course I am including a picture of my new hair so you can see it.  What do you think?  After that though we came back and it was time for lunch, then Evelyn's nap, then it was me trying to keep Isaiah occupied, which wasn't easy.  The day just seemed to drag on, and I mean really drag.  By the time 6p.m. came I was certain that the clock must have been wrong, because it certainly felt more like 9p.m.  I am so glad that very soon it will be time for the kids to go to bed and I can just sit down and watch the rest of my TV shows that I didn't get a chance to watch last night. 

     Ok, so now they are in bed.  James should be coming down stairs in a little while, so maybe we will hang out together first.  I have no idea really.  He has been working so much lately.  I don't think that I actually saw him for more than a total of 60 minutes so far today since he started his work day. Lucky for us he doesn't start work until noon.  Gives us more time together.  So anyway, I think that was the basics of my day.  Nothing to exciting.  I hope you like the picture of my new hair cut, and I guess I will just talk to you all tomorrow.  Later.

 Food For Thought:

 Proverbs 28:13
 13 He who conceals his sins does not prosper,
       but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.