No Internet

Hello all! Just wanted to give you all a quick update. I've been without internet for over a week now. Occasionally late at night and in the early morning I am able to check my emails, but that is the extent of it. In fact, sometimes I can't even finish retrieving my email before it goes out. We've had a tech guy come change our modem this past week and now someone else will be coming this week to try and fix it again. I'm going through computer withdrawals! The girls and I took a walk to my parents' house so I can post this blog. I just wanted to let you know that I haven't abandoned my blog, but my internet has abandoned me. Hope it gets back running soon so I can catch up on posts. Until then.....

"The Talk"

So Hannah is 7, she'll be 8 next month, and sometimes things come up in conversation and she doesn't quite understand it so she'll ask. I'm glad that she asks, but there are definitely times when my answer is simply, "We'll talk about that when your older because that's not something you need to worry about now." And usually I'll give her a really quick response to satisfy her curiosity. And she understands that and never presses for more. They know that they can ask me any and everything (at least I hope they know) because I drill that in their head, but they also understand that some things are just not meant for little ones to hear, not yet. So on to the "talk"...a couple months ago we learned some about worms. We learned that the reason they stay beneath the dirt is because if exposed to direct light they become paralyzed. Now we are learning about chicken eggs and have been candling our eggs on occasion to see if they are fertilized. Well Hannah cannot get the words paralyzed and fertilized right to save her life. She keeps saying she hopes all of our eggs are paralyzed, and I keep correcting her and saying, "You mean fertilized." They know that if the eggs are fertilized then they have the ability to produce a chick, but she finally asked me how the eggs become fertilized. Our curriculum just says that fertile eggs are obtained only when roosters are kept with the laying hens. That wasn't enough for her. She wanted to know exactly how it becomes fertile. Well I don't know how chicken eggs become fertilized, but I know how human eggs become fertilized. So I sit her down and start explaining the whole menstrual thing, not in great detail, but enough for her to understand that at this point in a woman's life they have the ability to produce a baby. But then I go on to say that the only way a woman's eggs can turn into a growing baby is if the man fertilizes her eggs with what we call sperm. Ok, I know some of you may be thinking, "Donielle, she's only 7!" But as soon as I was done explaining she said, "I can't wait for the Easter Bunny to come tonight!" She still has her innocence!

Just another meal story

I've already mentioned that I do not care for cooking. So when I made a casserole two nights ago to have for lunch yesterday I was extremely happy. When Jimmy is on 2nd shift it's good to cook a big lunch and have a simple dinner so he could eat before he leaves. I knew cooking would be the last thing I would have to worry about that morning. So, the casserole got done around 10 pm or so, and I left it out until Jimmy got home in case he wanted a little before he went to bed. Around 11:30 I went on to bed and woke up at 7 am with that wide eyed "Oh crap" look. "Please tell me Jimmy put it away! Please tell me he saw it before he went to bed! Please!" When I neared the end of the hall I saw it. The casserole still sitting on top of the counter, waiting for me to cover it and put it in the fridge. Can you believe that? So I had to throw it all away and make another one for our lunch. I was SO mad!

I'm Not Dead! - God

The kids at our church practiced for a couple of months on our Easter play titled I'm Not Dead. They did it at both the 9 and 11 am services. My digital video camera does not take the best videos, and I'm not the best videographer, but you can still get the picture. These are only three of about six videos that I took. The kids and youth did several different skits and songs, but for time's sake I only posted these three. I am so so proud of our kids and youth! They are awesome!

Premeditated or not...you be the judge

I was just about to start dinner. Hamburger was thawed out, Leah and I were getting what we needed to make hamburger helper, and I just turned the eye on to heat up the pan, when Jimmy asked what we were cooking. I told him what I was planning and he said he really wanted to cook something on the grill.
*Me*- "Why not cook hamburgers?"
*Him*- "No, the hamburger isn't even thawed out."
*Me*- "Yes it is! It's completely thawed out."
*Him*- "Well, that's not good for making hamburgers. Not that kind. If you could have anything on the grill you want, what would it be?"
*Me*- "BBQ Chicken"

I could tell he definitely didn't want hamburgers so my next choice was chicken. At this point Rebecca had heard the whole story and when she was asked what she wanted she said hamburgers. So he proceeded to go ask the other two girls the same thing.

*Him*- "They all want hamburgers."
*Me*- "Well, then fix them hamburgers and fix us chicken."

So he goes to the store to buy some chicken, and probably wanting to buy some hamburger meat, but I talked him out of that. We had a perfectly good pack at home, thawed out, waiting to be cooked. He returns home with the chicken. I'm in the process of folding laundry and putting it away, so he starts pattying the hamburgers.

*Him*- ***major groans***
*Me*- "What's wrong?"
*Him*- "Nothing." ***more groans*** "Where did you buy this hamburger meat?"
*Me*- "Food Lion."
*Him*- "Well it's not worth a dern."
*Me*- "Well it's fine for the girls."

I'm starting to get the impression from some of those groans that I should have been pattying the hamburgers while he was gone to the store. But hey, I was getting ready to fix dinner and he decided to change the menu, so I decided to let him do it and I would finish laundry. I finished putting away all of the clothes and then started on the sides for dinner. The mac-n-cheese is almost ready and I'm working on the cornbread (which is not going very well) when he walks in the house mad but with a grin on his face.

*Him*- "You'll never believe what I did!"
*Me*- "What?"
*Him*- "I dropped every single one of those hamburgers!"
*Me*- "What???? All of them?"
*Him*- "They were done and I was putting them on the plate to bring in and every one of them slid off the plate. Now Sammy is enjoying them. Must have been all that fat from the hamburger meat that made them slip off the plate."

Are you kidding me? So now I'm getting blamed for them slipping off his plate because I bought the more fatty meat this time. Well OH WELL.....it was on sale!

175th

This makes my 175th post! Judi gave us all some homework, and I thought this was about where I am and I was right. Far from 500, and if I keep posting like I have this week I'll never get there...lol. I've been fighting sinuses this week. There is so much pollen out in our yard, on our porch, and on the cars that I would be shocked if I wasn't affected. Funny thing, I use to have TERRIBLE allergies growing up. Ask anyone who went to school with me and they will confirm that there was never a time when I didn't have kleenexes on me. I think I was in middle school when I started taking allergy shots, but they really didn't work so I quit. All you girls who played ball with me, remember when I was catcher and would have to call time-outs just to blow my nose?? LOL! Well ever since I became pregnant with my first daughter I kind of outgrew them. I still have problems several times during the year, but nothing like when I was younger, thank God! This just happens to be one of those times. I was fortunate enough to get a good couple of naps today. Not so fortunate that I had to still take Hannah to dance. But I'm home now and plan on going to bed shortly.

Looking for an excuse?

Have you ever just wanted to call in work and play hookie? Well, I've been out of the work force for quite some time, but I when I heard this excuse I thought it was too funny not to share with you. So, you call in work and tell them you have anal blindness. When they ask you what that is, you say, "I just can't see my butt coming to work today." LOL!!! Good luck using that one!

Why isn't it on the calendar?

This is what Hannah asked me this morning regarding April Fool's Day. I told her it was not a holiday, and not important enough to put on the calendar. So then an email I received a few months ago popped in my head and I shared it with the girls. I thought it was cute. This is the paraphrased version: An athiest went to court to plead his case to the judge. "Judge, it isn't fair that us athiests don't have a holiday. The Christians have Christmas and Easter and we have nothing. That's descrimination!" The judge replied, "But you are wrong. You do have your own holiday." Confused, the athiest said, "We do? I'm not aware of this day. What is it?" The judge says, "In the Bible it says those who don't believe in Jesus are fools. So April 1st is your day!" LOL!! Love it!!