A lot of catching up....

I'm sorry I've been so terrible about blogging lately. It seems now that the weather is warm, we are busy doing other things, then with trying to finish up school and my job...there's just not enough time to get everything done! I have still been reading blogs when I have time, just not making time to blog myself!



I did have a nice Mother's Day. We went to my parent's house after church and ate lunch-we were there with my sister and her family. The kids had a nice time playing together. I always loved playing with my cousins-I'm glad my kids get to be close to family. After lunch my sister and I went with my parents to the cemeteries where my Grandmothers are buried. It was nice to have the time to just stop and remember them. We didn't have church last night, so after visiting the graveyards we just sat around being lazy. We did go back to my parent's house so we could play on their Wii that my dad bought the other day. Sarah beat us all in bowling...crazy....Shelby beat Todd and Spencer in tennis, I think. It is a lot of fun.


Saturday, we went to our church for a little while for a yard sale, before going to Cassie (my niece's birthday party). After "partying" for a little while, we came home so Todd could cut the grass. I didn't know what to do for my mother for Mother's Day-she usually doesn't want anything and if she does decide she wants something, she just goes and buys it...so it's hard to know what to get her. While sitting on the porch, watching Todd cut the grass, I decided I would clean up her car for her. We loaded up the kids and drove down to my parent's house to get her car and headed to this new car wash close to our house. Todd drove our truck through (we had a coupon for a free wash-since it's a new place), and I drove behind him in her car. Then we pulled over to these pull up stations (it's set up kind of like Sonic) for the vacuums. They also had a machine that cleaned the floor mats. Then we came home and Todd and Spencer cleaned on her wheels, while I wiped down the inside. On her back window there are the words, Let me tell you about my grand kids, and then there is a character for each child and their name. My sister, Glenda bought them for her. Savannah hasn't been added yet and Timmy, my nephew was still shown as a baby in a crib. Glenda bought a person for Savannah and a different one for Timmy. So Todd worked on getting those put on, too. We finished up and drove her car back.

Friday, Todd had an interview at one of the tallest, if not the tallest building downtown (40 stories). It was a maintenance position-"building engineer". He seemed pretty interested-we'll see how it goes. When he got home I had to take Savannah to the doctor for her 4 mth check up. She weighed 15 lbs 5.5 oz and was 26 in long. She's getting so big. She had to get 3 shots and take an oral vaccine. She was highly upset about the shots. She was not about to stop crying....I finally gave up on trying to comfort her and just put her clothes on, so we could get out of there!

After we left the doctor (Todd and the kids came along and killed time while I was in the dr) we decided to go to Todd's parent's house to visit for Mother's Day. It wasn't the best visit I've ever had with them, but that's how it is sometimes. We had been there for a little while, when these friends of theirs came by-we'd never met the people before. We were sitting there for a few minutes when the woman says to me, "so what are you doing with all these kids?" I just kind of laughed...not really sure what kind of response she wanted. Todd said something about trying to keep our sanity...like I said-I didn't really know these people and I wasn't sure where she's was headed. Anyways, we went on talking and then out of the blue a little bit later, she says, "So why do you homeschool, Gal?" I proceeded to tell her that we didn't want to turn our kids over to complete strangers (we live in a pretty big city)-we don't know people who work in the schools or anything...before I could finish she was making comments about basically how bad our society is and kids being into things at such young ages, I agreed with her (although that isn't our reasoning for homeschooling). Then, her husband chimes in and says, "Well, you can't keep them away from the heathens their whole life-when they get older they won't know what to do" or something like that. I told him, that wasn't our intentions (although it is nice that our kids aren't exposed to so many things) to keep our kids away from everyone, we just don't want them to be subjected to the teachings and philosophies of the world. For instance evolution....his response was they have to teach both sides in school. When I was in school, they didn't teach "both sides", it was pretty much evolution and that's it. But like I told him, they might have to teach both sides, but we don't have to send our kids to be taught that. I will be happy when I get to the place that I won't be defensive about the number of kids we have and different things we choose to do with them...if I ever get to that place....I guess I just never imagined all of the attention (good and bad) having several kids would bring. Not that I would change anything, but I just never knew.

I know this is turning into a novel (since I haven't talked about anything really lately), so I will tell a short story and quit. Last Sunday night at church, there was a missionary family presenting their work-they are going to Egypt. They had two children-a girl, 7 and a boy, 5-they are from North Carolina-where my oldest sister happens to live. The kids seemed to become instant friends....they were playing together in the nursery after church. I overheard one of my kids ask the little boy, "Do you know a teenager named James?" (which would be my nephew) I think he said no. Then they said, "Well, do your parents know a woman named Glenda?" (Surely they must know them, since they all live in North Carolina.) :-) It was just sweet watching them play....and how they think sometimes...it's just cute.