A Second Chance...

Every night before bed time, Allie and I go through a list of responsibilities that she has everyday to evaluate how she did each day in order to receive a reward at the end of the week or not. Tonight, we came to the last thing on her chart which was "no whining". I explained to her that she had whined a little bit today, and that I would give her a star, but that tomorrow if she whined, I would not give her a second chance. She looked at me without hesitation and said, "Mommy, Jesus gave Peter a second chance, why can't you give me a second chance every day?" Now I cannot take credit for her biblical knowledge from today, for it is a result of a weekly bible program she attends called Bible Study Fellowship. I'm amazed each week at how much she learns. The adults do a study every week, and the kids' study parallels what we study. If you have one near you, I encourage you to strongly consider attending. It has been a huge blessing for my life this year!

Not one of our better days...

Well...the pictures speak for how today went for Faber. He has been on nights for 2 months, and finished his last one last night. As a day of transition, he had to stay awake after his shift this morning until he could go to bed tonight in hopes of getting on a "day" schedule. All that to say, it was going to be a hard day for him anyways. We went to eat at Chilli's and upon leaving, we were second in line to pull out into the street from the parking lot. A young driver was in front of us, and suddenly decided he wanted to try a different way out, and without looking, he put his truck in reverse with no warning, and plowed into the front corner of Faber's truck. YIKES...it was of course not a major accident, but very disappointing to this tired driver. Turns out, the young man had just bought the truck from someone else, and he was not insured yet, although the truck was supposedly still insured under the previous owner. We called the police because it seemed too complicated to work out amongst all three parties. OH WELL....we'll take it in whenever this baby decides to come because we won't need 2 vehicles for a few weeks at that point. It looks like it is all going to be sorted out fairly. Stinks for the previous owner of the vehicle because he's actually the one responsible!

Helping the "Poor"

I just had to post this because it made me laugh. Today after church, Allie said.."What are we doing now?" I said that we were going to rest. She said she wanted to make my bed out, so on the couch she placed Minnie mouse, pillows, and more blankets than I could ever use. She covered me up and kissed me on the cheek and said, "Mom, I'm doing just what the bible said to do.", and I said, "what's that?" Without hesitating she replied, "I'm helping the poor....poor mommy is so tired!"

Soccer 2008

Today after having played 2 soccer games, Allie wanted to put on a fashion show with Mary's help. She dressed her and did her make up and was quite proud. Faber is out of pocket for the whole weekend, and they wore big mamma out, so I'm signing off..at 7:51pm..pretty sad.

A Clean Mess

Oh, she looks so happy and innocent..Mary I mean. I walked upstairs after answering the phone this morning, and smelled baby soap. She had broken through the plastic wrap and plastic seal inside of a bottle of baby bath soap that I had in a gift set on the floor. She poured a whole bottle into my leather reading chair. It has lots of button holes in it, so I'm still drying soap out of the chair...oh and what didn't land in the chair is all over the carpet. It is a sudsy mess! OH well...

Here's a sweet video of Mary singing one of her favorite songs!

Rock a baby

"Rock a baby, daddy!" Yikes, we may have problems when little bit arrives. This is the nightly routine. After Faber bathes the girls, Mary screams "Rockababy" over and over so that he'll hold her and sing to her. He doesn't seem to mind it!

Sad to go home

Did they have to come home???? I'm just kidding! The girls had a GREAT time with Em and Adam. I'm not sure Allie wanted to come back after getting 100% attention all weekend, but Em said Mary said "home" a few times. They went out to eat, played with the WI, ate snow cones, went to the park, took the dogs for walks...what was not to love! As for us, we just relaxed! It was so great. I archived hundreds of pictures from the past 5 years that I've just never gotten around to doing. Sounds like a way to spend a weekend off right? Faber was sleeping during the day due to a flip flopped clock from working the night shift since March 1rst. We did go out to eat both nights, and it was just very quiet! We were glad to get them back though and can't thank Em and Adam ENOUGH! Thank you guys!

The Waiting

I guess I'm the blogger who doesn't blog because it's been 2 weeks since I tried this out! Since I last wrote we've had 3 sets of company, 2 baby showers, and 1 case of "lammonia" (pneumonia). It's been a great couple of weeks though and we always enjoy our visits with grandparents, cousins, and friends.

I entitled this post "The Waiting" because I don't know who has waited for this weekend more, me or the kids. Em and Adam took them for the weekend, and they were SOOO excited that they pulled their stool up to the door and watched for Emmy with great excitement. I'm so thankful to Em and Adam for loving them and keeping them this weekend while Faber and I rest. I went to bed at midnight and slept until 9! It has been great.