Pixiemom

Jeremy and I went on opening night. We couldn’t get into the showing we had wanted because it was sold out, so we went to the next one. Jeremy and I enjoyed it. You have to remember that this is only Sherwood pictures third film, so the acting and editing and stuff isn’t as good as many of the Hollywood films, but the message can hit your heart. The story was so good that it had Jeremy crying in a few places. I think he cried more than I did. You know about how it will end from close to the beginning, but the journey from beginning to end is what made it so good. It had some parts I wasn’t expecting and I enjoyed seeing the camaraderie at the fire station. Anyway, I would suggest checking it out. It was good food for my soul.

Sorry, Dana. I was busy baking all day yesterday and hardly on the computer at all.

Here are my good things for this week.

1. Got a lot of desserts done… chocolate cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes, strawberry jello, and my very own recipe that I call Chocolate Cheesecake mousse pie.

2. Have visitors come last night and talked a while and having more come today.

3. Noelle learned some phonics this week.

4. AnnaBeth is enjoying doing her math workbook.

5. Library cards! Finally got them for here and was able to get books this week.

6. I have a clean house.

The best news this week though was: Emily’s scan showed NO cancer!!!

I hope you all have a good Labor Day weekend and enjoy this next week. Remember that even when it feels like you have had a bad week, if you look for them, you can find the good that God gave you to help you through it all. Hugs and kisses from your children. A nice good piece of chocolate at the right time. A friend’s IM just to say “Hi”

At the moment, I don’t have time to really post. I have been extremely busy, but circumstances around here have really helped my disposition. I’m feeling so much better now than I was in the post a little while back. I will update you all as soon as possible. In the meantime, pray for our washing machine. Something isn’t working right and we just can’t afford a new one (or even the ones on Craig’s list that are big enough for our family.) We also can’t afford to do our washing at a laundry mat. Can you imagine how much it would be to do enough laundry for 7 people? Yikes!

The four kids who helped me with the VBS songs in church yesterday did a good job. Christine was nervous because she didn’t feel like she knew the movements very well, but she did fine.

I have my schedule and will be teaching the song of the day to the different classes of kids. There are five different classes of kids, so I’ll be getting my exercise. We have the assembly at the end of VBS, so we’ll do the theme song and the song of the day during that. I bet I’ll be ready to fall into bed every night this week.

As I’ve probably mentioned before, Jeremy has the 7-8th graders. He’s more comfortable with adults, but he’ll do fine with these kids too. He is running the assembly tonight and on Thursday since our Pastor has classes to teach at a Christian college those nights.

Anyway, pray for all of us who are teaching that we may have the knowledge that is needed to teach the children what they require to have a good relationship with Jesus and pray for the students that their hearts will be prepared and open to the messages we have for them each night. I’ll let you all know how it goes.

I have found a teenager at our new church who is as much a music-aholic as I am. She sings and is trying to learn to play the guitar. She wants to learn the piano and is interested in all kinds of instruments. Last Wednesday, she asked me to bring in my tuner this week, so she could get her guitar strings tuned. As we talked about music, she asked what instruments I had and could play. I ended up bringing my guitar, mountain dulcimer, and bongo drum in as well as my tuner. I’ve taken the bass string off of my guitar because my hands are too small to reach it to push it properly. Her eagerness to learn all about the different instruments was so exciting to see. I let her borrow my guitar book. I look forward to sharing what I know about the instruments and teaching her to play some of them.

I’m also teaching her little brother how to use the autoharp that I play as accompaniment with the children’s choir. The older kids in the children’s choir are being taught how to use instruments, mostly percussion. Amie is learning the bongo drum (which has a neat technique to bring out two different sounds), James is learning the tambourine, and Christine is learning the maraca. If we get any other kids in, I will need more instruments. I have a few ideas and I need to find a music store up here.

Jeremy’s 15 seconds of fame was pulled by the user on YouTube.

He’s enjoying working for Google… see how they spend their days…

He’s the guy who shoots the Spam!

They are done! My girls are all happy to know that they have their dresses ready for Easter. I bought material for my skirt and after we pick up James from Grandma’s house on Saturday, I plan on getting the material for his vest. This week, I’m working on my skirt and then next week is the vest. The week after that is a baby gift for a friend’s baby shower at the end of the month. I know, I’m going to be cutting the baby gift close. I may have some time to work on it this week or next week too, so we’ll see. After that, I’m taking a break for just a little while. My sewing machine is earning it’s keep.

Amie’s penpal had a friend who made this meme and she tagged her mom, Crystal, and so I’m doing it now.

RULES:

1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Try not to tag a person someone has already tagged.
3. Tag at least 5 people (if you know that many people).
4. Tell who did it and their URL

1.What do you like about best of Spring? The end of snow for a while

2.What is your favorite season? Late Summer/Early Fall

3. What is a random thing about your house? (the one we own) needs the under house plumbing all replaced

4. What do you like best about blogging? Making friends and being able to write things down to remember them, being able to get things out

5. How old are you? 32 on the outside, forever 20 inside

6. How many rooms are in your house? (the one we rent) 3 bed, 1 bath, kitchen, living room, laundry room… that’s all

7. How many people are in your family (including you)? 7

8. Do you play any instruments? If you do name them? Ooooo, you hit a big one… I play a few instruments. I will list instruments and put either o(wned) or p(layed) after them, some may have both. Flute (o, p), Piano (p), recorder (p), dulcimer (o, p), violin (p), autoharp (o, p), ocarina (o), guitar (o, p), clarinet (p)

I am hoping to find a piano somehow that I can get sometime soon, but I’m not holding out hope, also I’m planning on getting myself, Amie, James, and Christine nice recorders and teaching them how to play them. Someday I’d like to get my own violin and clarinet, but that is in the future. I learned clarinet by using my sister’s high school one some and later I owned one, but lost it in a move. I learned a little violin from some friends when I was pregnant with AnnaBeth and have been wanting one of them ever since.

9. What is your favorite subject in school? when I was in school, it was reading/english, now I’m fascinated by geography and history

10. What is your favorite book of the Bible? Genesis, second to that is Ruth and then Esther

Who to tag? Who to tag? Well, if you do this meme, let me know and I’ll read it and link you here.