BACK TO SCHOOL!

So...summer is done...over...gone! :( It's back to this crazy mess of a busy schedule...back to balancing kids, family, life, school, PTA...blahhhh! The kids and I go back Monday! So sad! Thankful I got to spend yet another summer home with my babies! Hollyn is getting so big so fast...talking, singing, praying, dancing! Ridiculous how smart she is! I so want another baby...but money, school, timing and EVERYTHING else says no! lol! Maybe someday...maybe. River starts 2nd grade on Monday. Where does the time go? Seems like yesterday I was sitting in Chrissy's bathroom taking the pregnancy test, wearing a blue jumper, just got done eating lunch at Schlotzkys'. Such vivid memory! And tada!! 8 years later...! Lily is starting 1rst grade! So crazy! She is as sassy as ever....hope the teacher has fun with my little fire-cracker! hahaaa! Beautiful girl she is! Well...that's it! I'll let you know how I do with the balancing life thing! lol

Lily's complex and amazing mind...

So...for some reason my creative thinker has been asking alot of Heaven/hell questions...and tonight she tells me her theory on hell. which is ... "hell makes you run slower and the monsters run faster". Wow! What better way to describe it!  

Another Lily-ism: I was telling Andy how somebodys name is on all the rosters for all 4 of my small-groups at church and she hasn't came to any of them...saying how i didn't know her...and I said "nobody knows her"...and Lily says..."Umm...God does". Well said child! Well said!

Kids say the darndest things!

Lily: "Daddy, are the dinosaurs in Heaven?"
Andy: "Yes, I'm sure they are".
Lily: "Darn it! Oh great...now they are going to eat all the pretty angels!!!".

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Lily on the way home from the spray park today. "This is my pet worm, he eats popcorn and smells like poop...I LOVE him!"

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Holly while we were feeding the snake a frozen mouse: "Awww...the bunny wabbit is sad"..."poor wabbit"..."I'm sad"...

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LOVE MY KIDS

Welcome to the most shocking rose ceremony in writing prompt history. Please award roses to the ten people (or items) in your life that you'd like to continue pursuing a relationship with.

This is another writing prompt...sounded interesting! Plus, I'm bored! (yes, I have home-work and dirty laundry..but I need "me" time!)

So...Welcome to the most shocking rose ceremony in writing prompt history. Please award roses to the ten people (or items) in your life that you'd like to continue pursuing a relationship with.*decided to make this a very non-serious list*

1. My hairbrush* I wake up looking like the geico caveman..thank God my husband loves me regardless..but others would run away screaming "Zombie Apocolypse"! I was not blessed with "jessica alba" hair...I instead got a mixture between Taylor Swift and Steven Tyler...blahhh!

2. Coffee* Ohhhh...the mornings where Hollyn screams so loud that I think something may break, and River and Lily are fighting...nothing fixes my day like coffee! Ahhhh....

3. Facebook* My little indulgence to life outside of "my life"...it's nice hearing about other peoples crazy days when my own life is going nutso!

4. My car* it's an old, messy mommy mobile...but it is paid for..and gets me from A to B...aww..the little things! And it is wayyyy tooo hot to walk in Texas!

5. My Plants* They make me crazy happy...I dunno why..it's strange....

6. Desperate Housewives* It's like a soap opera...only better!

7. The washer and Drier* has yours ever broke with 3 kids and  a weeks worth of laundry? Nuff said...

8. The internet* How else would I worry myself like crazy if I didn't have internet to look up my kiddos sniffly nose symptoms every time they get sick? Sheesh...

9. Paper plates* shhh...don't tell the environmentalists! These will save TONS of dishes...sorry mother nature!

10. On a more serious note...I'm really thankful for the big things...such as an everloving GOD, my husband, my children, my friends, my family....food, money, LiFe, the list goes on and on and on.......

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My 10 biggest fears.

Another writing prompt!

 So my 10 biggest fears and why...dunn..dunnnnn...dun!

*Losing a child #1: I fear this because the world is a scary place! I have seen this first hand...I would never recover! I would be devastated....completely dead inside. This is my BIGGEST FEAR EVER!
* Dying #2; Before you call me a "Christian hypocrite" please hear me out! I feat this because I know my children genuinely need me. Their are certain things fathers can't do by themselves. If God wants to take me...I pray he does it after my kids are 18. I know Heaven will be wonderful! I do! I just want to raise my babies!
*Failure #3: I hate starting things that I could possibly fail. I have too much pride...I take things way too personally!
* Acceptance #4: Hate to admit this..but I always wonder what peoples first impression of me is. I don't think it's good. I think I'm an acquired taste! I think people think I look "young" or "dumb"...blah....
* Being dumped #5: rather it be by a husband, friend, child...I really fear getting hurt by someone I love!
* My kids being atheist #6: Another silly one! But I want my kids to know and love Christ! I want their souls saved someday! I can't fathom the minds of atheist and do not want my kids to ever have those "non-beliefs".
* Failing as a mom #7: Do I punish well enough? Do I do a good enough job? Do they get enough hugs? it goes on and on and on and on and on.....
*Getting in a car wreck with my children in my car #8: I should bump this up to number 2! I am so paranoid driving! So scared.....
* FORGIVENESS! #9: I know this is bad...another "your a Christian...this should be easy..." well...for me it's not! I fear forgiving people because then I think that maybe ...just maybe I am opening a gate for people to hurt me again!
* Abduction #10: My kids are so stinkin cute...I just know someone out there wants to take them! I know...silly silly....but that is a HUGE fear of mine!

Okay...so those are my fears! I know God says "do not worry...do not have fears" but these are mine! I do my best everyday to hand them to God!

If my Mom were a blogger.

Okay, so those of you who know me well...have probably met my mom! The crazy lady with the mind of a 17 year old/ 5 year old...it's always different! Anyway...this is a writing prompt that I thought would be oh so frickin funny! Don't get me wrong...I LOVE my mother...but she is weird! And this writing prompt has to be written! lol.

So....If my Mom were a blogger. Here are some phrases (based on a true story) that she might say!

*The guys have the eggs and the girls have the sperm
*If I could just have one more kid for that tax write off....
*Both of you girls are stupid...(to me and my sister)...but that's okay...look at your parents!
*I don't need to be "babatized again..I've done that at lots of churches! GOD".
*Some day I'm just gonna pack my stuff and go somewhere you won't find me"

LOL! I guess this only funny if you truly know my mom! I do love her! But the stuff outta her mouth..... :)

Had to share this! Just had to!!! Lily-isms!

Lily in the car today: "Daddy, do dinosaurs go to Heaven?".
Dad: "Yes, I'm sure they do".
Lily.."Ahh..man! They are going to eat all the pretty angels! Ughhhh!"
Dad and everyone else in the car "**DEAD SILENCE!**"
hahhahahahaaaaa!
So adorable! Love that little girl!