A couple of the blogs I read are doing the following posts for the month of March. I think I'll try to do them, too. It will give me something to focus on each day. I copied and pasted this list or I would have capitalized the word "day". :0) I'm forcing myself to leave it as it is and not correct them all. (nails digging in ....)

day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
day 2- the meaning behind your blog name
day 3- a picture of you and your friends
day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have
day 5- a picture of somewhere you've been
day 6- 5 favorite TV shows
day 7- a picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
day 8- short term goals for this month and why
day 9- something you're proud of in the past few days
day 10- songs you listen to when you are happy, sad, bored, anxious or mad
day 11- another picture of you and your friends
day 12- how you found out about blogger and why you have one
day 13- a letter to someone
day 14- a picture of you and your family
day 15- put your ipod on shuffle: first 10 songs that play
day 16- another picture of yourself
day 17- someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
day 18- plans/dreams/goals you have
day 19- nicknames you have and why you have them
day 20- someone you love
day 21- a picture of something that makes you happy
day 22- what makes you different from everyone else
day 23- something you crave for a lot
day 24- your last five facebook status'
day 25- what I would find in your bag
day 26- what do you think about your friends
day 27- why are you doing this 30 day challenge
day 28- a picture of you from last year and now, how have you changed since then?
day 29- in this past month, what have you learned
day 30- your favorite song
day 31- the best thing about being you

I hope you don't get sick of hearing about me by the end of the month. I'm afraid I might get sick of me by the end.

Church

It's a blessing that Baby was sick. I took Little Boy to Sunday school, and Baby and I ran a couple errands to burn an hour. It was nice to have a day off. Although, I was at church setting things up until 11:30 Saturday night.

The son of a deacon filled the pulpit yesterday. This son lives in Virginia, but came up here just to "bless us". Bless us out, is more like it. His father walked out of a pulpit committee meeting recently, and walked out of church recently over KJV-Only stuff.

I would have been in Children's Church, anyway, but if I had been in the service I would have walked out.

This guy got up and said, "I don't talk to my parents about church stuff..." LIE. I'm sorry, but that was a LIE. He got up and crammed a bunch of KJV-Only stuff down their throats. He was loud, and angry. And he spewed Gail Riplinger lies. I would have walked out. Plain. and. Simple.

I was talking to the wife of a deacon who sat there. I asked her, "Didn't you learn anything from sitting under the last pastor? Why did you sit there?"

One of the ladies talked to the speaker after the service, and told him, "You've reaffirmed my belief in the KJV."

Sad. Little. Lemming.

I'm afraid things are going to get ugly.

Freezing Rain

It started about 6:30 last night and continued through most of the night.

DH is on last shift.

I'd imagine it will take him awhile to scrape his windows.

I'm just praying he'll make it up our "hill" safely.

Is it spring yet?

Tired

I have to say, I am tired. I could use a good day in bed. Without 2 little interuptions. Or maybe I could just go to bed earlier.

I'm a little sad/jealous. I've been browsing some blogs, and most people sharing their Valentine's Day stuff. It would be so nice to go out to dinner with my husband. Not just a quick/rushed stop at Denny's after church for dessert (which was GREAT, btw). But it would be nice to be able to take our time.

I'm irritated. People at church (men) who decided one thing in their pastor search committee meeting, and then today, 2 of the 5 decided to go ahead and do what they wanted anyway. THEN when they were talking to the guy preaching about being our interim pastor, they didn't even bother to call DH over to be included on the discussion. He was close enough to hear what was happening, and went over.

This morning I woke up with a TERRIBLE sinus headache. I took a decongestant and some Motrin. On an empty stomach. So then my stomach started hurting, and I had to eat something. I was feeling pretty miserable. But by the time I left for church, I was feeling ok. If it wasn't for the list of things that I'm responsible for I would have climbed back into bed. I got the kids ready, and DH took them so I could finish getting ready. My To-Do list: Teach Sunday School, run the Praise and Worship slides, sing special music, cookbook sales forms, arrange for cookbooks to be handed out, teach children's church, check on cookbook sales... Isn't that enough? So I got to church, and I had no students. I ran off the forms for the cookbook sales, I didn't have to sing b/c the lady scheduled actually showed up ready to sing. We only did one P & W song, a very capable, responsible lady agreed to take care of the sales stuff, children's church was ok. I knew the kids would like the craft. We used foam hand shapes, and I let them decorate them load them up with big, plastic jewels and my all-time favorite - GLUE DOTS. Our lesson was about clapping our hands, and praising God loudly. (Ps. 47:1) It was a bit light on substance, but the kids had fun. I taught them the song, and we memorized the verse. But by the time Little Boy got to the sanctuary after church, he couldn't remember why we decorated hands. sigh. rolling eyes. But he can tell you what happened last night on the half hour he was allowed to watch of Over the Hedge, and even remembers a couple lines of dialogue. ROLLING EYES. And likes to keep repeating them.

We got McDonalds on the way home. First time in a while - everyone's order was correct. Mark it on the blog calendar.

Yesterday we made a quick trip to Morgantown. I wanted to go to Sam's Club. I picked up a table for another teacher and a set of two pitchers for the church kitchen. And I got the staple items from Sam's - TP, paper towels, green beans, ravioli, Honey Nut Cheerios... you know. I stopped at Michael's and picked up some $1 goodies. I love picking through their rubber stamps in the dollar bin. I found some others on clearance, and I got a new cuttlebug embossing folder and a big circle paper punch. Love it. And the kiddos did pretty good in there, too.

Little Boy has been running low lately. We haven't changed anything. He hasn't been getting more exercise than normal. It is frustrating. From what I've read, occasionally, the pancreas must be able to produce some insulin? IDK. I happened to look at his finger when he had to check while we were in Sam's. He's been poking the same finger repeatedly. The tip of his finger looks terrible. So he's now sportin' a camouflage band-aid on that finger to remind him to not poke it. Poor kid.

Baby came home today with new hair elastics - the kind with the plastic balls? She cracks us up. I put a couple pony tails in, and the next thing we knew, she had the rest tucked into the top elastic of her undies, and she was shimmie-shaking to make them clack into each other. Another thing I never thought I'd say: "Baby, take the hair elastics out of your undies." LOL

Did I mention I'm tired? I should have taken a nap today, but I wanted to watch the Daytona 500. My two faves are out - Biffle and Kenseth. Oh well. My first fave, Elliot Sadler, is now racing in the Nationwide Series. I read an article about it. I think he's a really nice guy with very little ego. (I think you have to have a smidge of an ego to race professionally, but I could be wrong.)

I'm ready for a nap. Or a vacation.

Money & Stuff

Last year we took all the money in our family's savings accounts and paid off a big chunk of credit card debt. Since then, DH has been making double+ payments each month to pay off the last card. With the money we'll get from our tax returns, we'll be able to pay it off. DH almost cried; I got teary. What a relief. And now we need to decide what to do with the "extra" money we'll have. We need to be thinking about a newer vehicle, and I'd like to put some money aside so we can go to Disney. That's probably not at the top of DH's list. I can't help it. I want to take my kids there - badly.

Our church cookbook was delivered here yesterday. I am so excited. They look so good! All that hard work... Is going to help mail a bunch of shoeboxes to kids through Operation Christmas Child!

Teachers striking in Wisconsin. I think parents should organize town hall meetings and force the school officials to fire any teachers who are striking. There are so many teachers out of work, and kids graduating from college who are excited to get into the classrooms. I don't think it would be all that difficult to replace the ones who have decided to not show up. Just my opinion.

Winday. Here you thought it was Friday. But with huge wind gusts here, I think it has earned a new name. Little Boy did get out there to play today. He had fun.

Pastor search - new developments, some possibilities, hard to keep on track in the meeting, and some men blew up at each other at last night's meeting. Someone stormed out angry. You know. Same old, same old.

So busy - doing what?

I feel like each day I am so busy, but at the end of the day I have a hard time figuring out what it was that kept me so busy.

Today my leg bothered me all day; it still is. Pain in my ankle/heel - joint pain - radiating up my leg into my hip and sciatic nerve and up into my shoulder - has kept me on my butt most of the day. But tomorrow morning, there is a service guy coming to adjust the angle of the satelite dish. And he'll have to come into my living room. And it's still a pit. So I need to just get at it.

Tomorrow morning Little Boy has therapy, and then at 1:30 Baby and I have a hair appointment. DH is off tomorrow, but with the service guy coming it looks like I'll be taking Baby with us to therapy and keeping Little Boy through our hair appointments. That means lunch out with them. Could be interesting.

Missing my Dad

What today "is" has been in the back of my mind all day; it's been an "off" day all day.

I was 16 when he died, and the pain is still strong enough to make me catch my breath. So many things would be different if he was still here. I don't know what that would mean for my life. I can only look forward to the day I get to see him again, and try to live in a way that honors him.

A box of sunshine and smiles!

DH bought me a box of white grapefruit from Florida again this year for Valentine's Day, and it arrived today. I had one for dessert after lunch. It was so yummy. I have the scent in my head, and it is much quicker-acting than my anxiety meds. :0)

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

I heard a guy on TV say that once, and it struck me funny and stuck in my head. LOL

So my team won! Gotta love it. It's been a long time since the Packers were at the Super Bowl, and this year they got there the hard way. It was great to see them win.

We didn't have a party or anything. We DVRd the show since we went to church last night. That made it nice; we fast forwarded through the commercials and half-time show. I might go back and watch commercials later, but I've been told we didn't miss much.

My husband is a Steelers fan. We had fun; Little Boy cheered with Daddy, and Baby cheered harrassed the guys with Mommy. She kept needling: "Daddy, your team has a ZERO." "Daddy, your team has a 3." "Daddy, your team is losing."

And then she found a baby wash cloth. It is purple, with cute trim. She asked if it was a "terrible towel". I told her if she was getting out of the tub, and that was what she had to dry off with, it would definitely be a terrible towel. DH was laughing at me, because I cracked myself up. LOL

We let the kids stay up to watch the end. It was a special event, and I hoped they'd sleep in this morning.

No such luck. Oh well. Maybe we used up all our "luck" last night. :0)

Don't shoot your fellow soldier.

My kids have been fighting a LOT lately. Mean words, ugly voices, sassy faces... it wears on a person. They don't get time apart. They need time apart. We've talked about them being on the same team, that soldiers shouldn't shoot their fellow soldiers. But tonight, they must work together. They have the job of cleaning up the living room. It's become a pit. A colossal mess. And I don't have the energy to clean up their piles of toys. I don't know where they'll put them in their rooms. I don't really care. I'm tired of tripping on toys. I can only kick so many of them under our 3 couches. (Rolling eyes.)

And today, I almost blew a gasket. They were allowed to go outside to play. I called them in. Baby answered, but as I waited I wondered if they were coming. I called again. I could hear them, but they sounded very far away. I went outside. They were sliding on the ice crusted on top of the snow. They were sliding a LONG way - into the neighbor's yard. It was probably a lot of fun. I called them in, and re-warmed their lunches. And still, no kids. I went outside again. They were playing in the snow by the driveway. And I lost my temper. Stink.

I gave them directions and went to my room. I needed to cool off.

They ate and went to bed. And tonight, instead of going next door to visit their grandparents, they are cleaning.

Awwwww!

That's what Little Boy said today when he came out into the living room.

"Awwww! It's just not the same!"

EXACTLY!

Last night I had HAD it. The Christmas Tree HAD to come down. We did it in about an hour.

So now there is an empty spot that will soon be filled with the chair. The spot where the chair is will soon be filled with a big bin for toys. And hopefully the mine field that is now my living room floor will be cleared again.

Yay!