Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
Some things in my life are really hard right now. Still...I am SO grateful for what I have!
I hope you all had a happy, healthy day full of great food and good times with the important people in your lives!
I hope you all had a happy, healthy day full of great food and good times with the important people in your lives!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Yum!
My friend Kathy asked about favorite Thanksgiving side dishes. I LOVE a turkey dinner and mainly for the sides lol. I LOVE good mashed potatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and stuffing. I'm not sure I could pick just one thing lol. If I HAD to I guess it'd be the mashed potatoes or stuffing.
What I don't eat at a turkey diinner is the turkey. I like it yeah but I can take it or leave it. And, really, it's better as leftovers anyway...mmmmmmm turkey sandwiches with mayo or hot turkey sandwiches.
Boy am I glad tomorrow is Thanksgiving! ;)
What I don't eat at a turkey diinner is the turkey. I like it yeah but I can take it or leave it. And, really, it's better as leftovers anyway...mmmmmmm turkey sandwiches with mayo or hot turkey sandwiches.
Boy am I glad tomorrow is Thanksgiving! ;)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Great News...Tricia Lawrenson Update
I was reading Nate's blog tonight and it appears the doctors now think all of Tricia's lymphoma is gone and the spots they thought were the cancer are an infection that she is being treated for. I am beyond thrilled for them! It's so hard to look at this wonderful family and not see the miracles God has worked in their lives! Thanks so much to those of you who prayed or sent good thoughts their way. Please continue if you would...the infection needs to be cleared up and Nate is now sick (a cold) and isolated from her but tonight I'm just grateful for the blessing of answered prayers!
Please click the link to CF Husband to read his blog for yourself if you're interested!
Please click the link to CF Husband to read his blog for yourself if you're interested!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Vitamin Zero
We went to watch Kung Fu Panda at my sister's house recently. She had dinner for us...pizza, carrots and celery, and cake and ice cream. We were talking about nutritous foods and L asked if ice cream was good for you. The following is a pretty good approximation of the converstion that followed:
me: "No, ice cream isn't good for you."
Aunt Val: "Well, it does have some good stuff like calcium in it."
J (with his ever sarcastic wit): "Oh yeah! It's just full of vitamin ZERO!"
me: "No, ice cream isn't good for you."
Aunt Val: "Well, it does have some good stuff like calcium in it."
J (with his ever sarcastic wit): "Oh yeah! It's just full of vitamin ZERO!"
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Mini Me's???
I have yet another adoption bone to pick, so to speak. I haven't seen this complaint recently but I've seen it often enough in the past and it's always bugged me. What is it? That adoptive parents expect carbon copies of themselves in their kids. So...of course their children don't feel free to be who they are, which of course is automatically different than the parents because there's no genetic link. Yeah, right. I think that is completely ridiculous! There is no guarantee of having a child that looks or acts like you, likes the same things as you, or has the same talents as you even if he or she IS your biological child. I would not expect that of ANY child of mine. Any parent who would...well, imo that's just bad parenting.
All four of the boys have some similarities to me. Tyler is very particular about things just like me (ok, ok...we probably both have OCD. But just a little lol.) I had to laugh on our first Christmas together. He set up the nativity set and SO proudly asked, "Did I do a good job? It looks just like it does on the box." Sure enough it did lol and that was SO something I would've done, especially as a kid. I use each boys' talents and interests that match mine to strengthen our relationships. For example Cory loves to cook as much as I do so he often helps me in the kitchen and we have fun and a lot of great talks then. Jay is my little bookworm so we read together and talk about books a lot. But don't all good parents do that? Spend time with their kids doing what they both enjoy doing?
On the flip side I also accept and enjoy my boys for who they are, including their differences. Cory and Ty love rap music for example. It's probably the one genre of music I can't get into. At all. Ah, but do I tell them they can't listen to it? Nope. It's hard becuase so much of rap is inappropriate for kids but as long as the song isn't violent or explicit I'm ok with it. Ty's taste in clothes is NOTHING like mine. It's totally West Coast choppers, flames, and the like. I don't buy him, or any of the boys for that matter, clothes they don't pick out. I have the last word in appropriateness of course but it's all clothes they have chosen. So yeah I let them express themselves. And I spend time doing things they like that I may not, like watching football with Ty. I don't pick the sports they play or clubs they join. They tell me when they're interested and if it's possible they join. I HATE the cold but every year I go watch the boys ski. But again isn't that what a good parent does? Encourage their kids in what they're good at and enjoy even if the parents aren't or don't?
When I began the process of fostering and adopting I never signed on for a carbon copy of myself. Never expected it. I just assumed that we'd be alike in some ways, different in others. A relationship like I have with my mom and dad...enjoying our similarities but respecting our differences, and know what? Enjoying them too.
All four of the boys have some similarities to me. Tyler is very particular about things just like me (ok, ok...we probably both have OCD. But just a little lol.) I had to laugh on our first Christmas together. He set up the nativity set and SO proudly asked, "Did I do a good job? It looks just like it does on the box." Sure enough it did lol and that was SO something I would've done, especially as a kid. I use each boys' talents and interests that match mine to strengthen our relationships. For example Cory loves to cook as much as I do so he often helps me in the kitchen and we have fun and a lot of great talks then. Jay is my little bookworm so we read together and talk about books a lot. But don't all good parents do that? Spend time with their kids doing what they both enjoy doing?
On the flip side I also accept and enjoy my boys for who they are, including their differences. Cory and Ty love rap music for example. It's probably the one genre of music I can't get into. At all. Ah, but do I tell them they can't listen to it? Nope. It's hard becuase so much of rap is inappropriate for kids but as long as the song isn't violent or explicit I'm ok with it. Ty's taste in clothes is NOTHING like mine. It's totally West Coast choppers, flames, and the like. I don't buy him, or any of the boys for that matter, clothes they don't pick out. I have the last word in appropriateness of course but it's all clothes they have chosen. So yeah I let them express themselves. And I spend time doing things they like that I may not, like watching football with Ty. I don't pick the sports they play or clubs they join. They tell me when they're interested and if it's possible they join. I HATE the cold but every year I go watch the boys ski. But again isn't that what a good parent does? Encourage their kids in what they're good at and enjoy even if the parents aren't or don't?
When I began the process of fostering and adopting I never signed on for a carbon copy of myself. Never expected it. I just assumed that we'd be alike in some ways, different in others. A relationship like I have with my mom and dad...enjoying our similarities but respecting our differences, and know what? Enjoying them too.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Tagged...7 Things
Camille tagged me for this lol.
7 things...
To do before I die:
1. Take my boys to Disney!
2. Go on an archeological dig.
3. See a Broadway show.
4. Visit some of my TT friends (you know who you are!)
5. Scuba dive, go white water rafting, and/or sky dive.
6. Visit Ireland and Scotland.
7. Become a great and famous photographer. (I never said these were reality based!)
I cannot do:
1. Fix every problem of my loved ones.
2. Style hair (including my own).
3. Sing well.
4. Drive standard.
5. Ride a bike.
6. Ski.
7. Quilt.
That attract me to a man (changed from Things that attracted me to my spouse).
1. Honesty
2. A great smile
3. A great sense of humor
4. Kindness
5. Faithfulness/loyalty
6. Singing ability
7. Intelligence/wit
Things I say most often:
1. My sons' names.
2. I love you!
3. Pick that up!
4. Get to bed!
5. What do you want for dinner?
6. Are you STILL hungry?
7. I'm tired.
Books I love:
1. The Twilight Series.
2. The Harry Potter Series.
3. The Wheel of Time Books (also a series).
4. The Name of the Wind.
5. The Ghost of Windy Hill (a childhood favorite).
6. I'll Love You Forever (a mommy favorite lol).
7. The Stephanie Plum books ( a series of light mystery/action by Janet Evanovich)
Movies I could watch over and over again:
1. Dirty Dancing
2. Beaches
3. Robin Hood (with Kevin Costner)
4. Dave
5. any of the Harry Potter movies
6. A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out!")
7. Pretty Woman
People I'm Tagging:
As always anyone who reads and wants to. I don't have enough readers who haven't been tagged by Camille lol.
Becky
7 things...
To do before I die:
1. Take my boys to Disney!
2. Go on an archeological dig.
3. See a Broadway show.
4. Visit some of my TT friends (you know who you are!)
5. Scuba dive, go white water rafting, and/or sky dive.
6. Visit Ireland and Scotland.
7. Become a great and famous photographer. (I never said these were reality based!)
I cannot do:
1. Fix every problem of my loved ones.
2. Style hair (including my own).
3. Sing well.
4. Drive standard.
5. Ride a bike.
6. Ski.
7. Quilt.
That attract me to a man (changed from Things that attracted me to my spouse).
1. Honesty
2. A great smile
3. A great sense of humor
4. Kindness
5. Faithfulness/loyalty
6. Singing ability
7. Intelligence/wit
Things I say most often:
1. My sons' names.
2. I love you!
3. Pick that up!
4. Get to bed!
5. What do you want for dinner?
6. Are you STILL hungry?
7. I'm tired.
Books I love:
1. The Twilight Series.
2. The Harry Potter Series.
3. The Wheel of Time Books (also a series).
4. The Name of the Wind.
5. The Ghost of Windy Hill (a childhood favorite).
6. I'll Love You Forever (a mommy favorite lol).
7. The Stephanie Plum books ( a series of light mystery/action by Janet Evanovich)
Movies I could watch over and over again:
1. Dirty Dancing
2. Beaches
3. Robin Hood (with Kevin Costner)
4. Dave
5. any of the Harry Potter movies
6. A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out!")
7. Pretty Woman
People I'm Tagging:
As always anyone who reads and wants to. I don't have enough readers who haven't been tagged by Camille lol.
Becky
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Veterans Day
I know a lot of veterans, and several current military folks, so I didn't want to let today go without acknowledging it.
Mom, Dad, Grandpas K and C, The C Uncles, Cory, Kimmi, and all the other people past and present who fought or worked to keep or country safe...Thank You. May we never forget your sacrifice!
Mom, Dad, Grandpas K and C, The C Uncles, Cory, Kimmi, and all the other people past and present who fought or worked to keep or country safe...Thank You. May we never forget your sacrifice!
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