charlenes randomness

Nothing can keep God's love from you.

2011-02-13T18:32:00.000-08:00

Hey friends. We are on the tail end of being sick in the Turney house hold, Praise God!! So I was reading my bible this morning and was looking up scriptures for a bible study I am doing and came across I great one. I remember the first time I read it. We were doing a creative date for Valentines Day in 1996 :) Where yall even born at that time lol? Just kidding. Jerry and I were dating and the whole guys group took the girls out. It was so powerful to me b/c I felt like God was super mad at me for always being a knuckle head and making the same mistakes over and over again. But this verse told me other wise. Before I say the verse I want to ask a question and I want you to think about it for a minute. Do you have any sin in your life you would like to have moved out of the way right now, something that you feel is keeping you from walking fully with God. Maybe not something that is your sin, what about a friend, a person, something that is a mountain that is keeping you from getting in the Word. Maybe it is wanting a realtionship that is your focus and that is the mountain. Maybe it is your schooling and it has all of your focus that it is keeping you from having time with God.
Do you feel like that.....like there is this huge space between you and God and no matter what you do you cant cross it? Well here is a scripture for you to write out, read daily, use it in battle when you feel like God and you are separated. Remember There is NOTHING that can keep God's love from us. What ever you have done, or doing, or will do....God's love is always there.

Rom 8:38
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. "

That verse cover everything lol. if we are walking through it , the thing is not bigger than God and he can cross any expansion to get to us. We have to believe that if we want to know him in a deeper way.

poem / It just seems easier.

2010-09-06T09:15:00.000-07:00

In the past two days I have had people I know die. One was a wife and the other was a husband with a new baby of 2mths.

I had thoughts going around in my head ,like I sometimes do for a poem and this is what I came up with. It turned out different than I started it to be but that sometimes happenes when writing. This is different thought I have had through 13 yrs of marriage and some I have heard from other people talking about theirs.

It just seems easier

Thinking it might be easier..........but.......knowing..
that...is...a lie.

The reality of it would ........be..........so .........painful
if he were gone or unexceptionally were to die.

I could do it by myself-------I already do.

I would have to do it by myself there would be no more
"Honey could you?"

If he is gone for a week I am wanting him back.

His strength and his presence is what our home really lacks.

He is back for a day when an argument erupts.

How come those earlier thoughts have so easily become corrupt

The fighting and the pain brings thoughts of a divorce.

Frustration and loneliness was not my chosen course.

Presenting a receipts after shopping for some clothes.

It would seem easier to me if only I had to know.

The enemy throws these imagines of peace into our minds eye,

and people grab a hold of them making divorce a record high.

The thoughts, they will enter but we must immediately make them flee,

or they will grab hold, take root, and grow inside of me.

This world runs on feelings like a car in need of gas,

but it is a choice to love and a choice to make it last.

If we can learn to communicate and we can learn to pray,

than we can grab hold of the thoughts and go another day.

Being thankful is like a light in a dark room,

it pushes the thoughts away and tells the enemy to move.

Be thankful for your partner and for the help they bring any given day.

Be thankful for their job-even if its the one that takes them away.

Be thankful for their income that comes because they give their time.

Be thankful for the moments when they do not bring home a dime.

Be thankful , Be faithful, and make choices you wont regret in the end.

Choose each day to love and choose each day to begin.

charlene turney. sept 6, 2010.

confessions from me (a mom who cooked great food this mth)

2010-09-04T17:57:00.000-07:00

Ok so my twin sister said she was going to make a menu for the whole mth. I thought I would also give it a try b/c I was liking the sound of only getting it ready once and than each week I am ready. Well it back fired. I have cooked amazing meals like whole herb chicken with rosemary rolls, lemon chicken pasta, chicken quesadillas, gravy and toast,sausage and veg. soup, shrimp and rice,shrimp and sausage pasta, curry chicken, bologense sauce with pasta, and homemade chicken strips...these are just a few of the things I have made almost every night and now I have gained 5 lbs. Normally this would not be so bad except I ran a half marathon in April and me weight was really great. Than after the race I stopped running for awhile and gained 5 lbs and than lost 3 of it when I started to run again. So now that makes a total of 7 lbs. My clothes are getting tight, my mind is grossed out about my self. So ok this past week I started slowly training for another half and I ran 3 days. Friday...I break my pinky toe. So now I am on my period, bloated, have a broken toe, and realized I have gained 7 lbs and cant run it off. It is really my pride that hurts b/c I got so many nice things said about losing the weight for the race that I dont want people to see me now and think " Wow, what happened" ya, like I said, it is my pride. I told my husband I am not eating for the next mth. ( I am kidding of course) Also b/c I have been getting up every day early to read my bible I have coffee every morning. I used to drink it maybe 2 times a week but now every day and I dont (or havent in the past) buy the fat free creamer. So this mth of Sept I will face it with a new goal. Keep making the mth meal plan but figure out a way to make it with not so many calories and by fat free creamer and exercise or figure out a way to exercise without hurting my toe. Maybe in a week with "that time of the mth" is over I will feel better about my self and will post about the 5 lbs of water weight I had on me.

pic of the dress and taggie blanket.

2010-09-04T08:57:00.000-07:00

This is the dress I made ava but also works well for a shirt for kori. This is also a pic of the taggie I made for ava since we lost hers.

The breakfast that almost didnt happen.

2010-09-04T07:35:00.000-07:00

Saturdays. They are my favorite day ( I think) I love getting up early (a new thing for me ) and not having to get the kids up for school. I love having almost 2hrs to myself. I love having a fun breakfast. Sometimes it is just something simple like cereal but it is cinnamon toast crunch, this is daddys favorite that he will share on weekends. Today though it was pancakes with strawberries, blueberries, and whip cream on top. The kids loved it. Last night Jerry and I went on a date and on the way home I remembered that I did not have the extra treat items for breakfast so I said we need to stop by the store. We pull into the parking lot and I get embarrassed saying I cant go in there and just by strawberries and whip cream this late at night. We will do something else for breakfast. Jerry says we are going in , we are here, we will get a movie as he is laughing. I say no way but we go in anyway. I remember we have frozen fruit at home so I go get milk and the cream. We dont need milk jerry says to me, we are going to costco tomorrow. I tell him I am not going to buy just the cream therefore we get the milk. So this morning we have our planned breakfast that was a hit and I did not even get to watch the movie last night that we even rented b/c it kept messing up and it got to late.
So today we go to costco,............ even though we now do not need milk.

starting over, cooking and sewing.

2010-09-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since i have posted on this thing. I think I need to just focus on one of them instead of thinking about the fact that I have three and getting overwhelmed with them.
For the past mth I have been cooking a lot more, trying out new recipes and loving it. I have also been sewing more and loving that. I have made two aprons for me , two skirts for ava, one top and also two dresses for ava. I tried to make a shirt for me but it was to small but fit gabi well. If I do another print she might wear it. I had to learn to make the taggie blankets b/c we lost avas favorite one and I could not find any thing like it online to replace it so I made one. They are super easy and she loves her new one. Maybe one day I can get better at the sewing thing and sell a few items.
With the sewing I have gone to the site www.dana-made-it.com and I love that site b/c she has a lot of tutorials for making fun clothes that are simple (kind of) I am still learning what is what in the sewing world. My friend jenny had a link to her site and that is how I found it. Jenny has been doing lots of things to and that encourages me to do new stuff also. You can check out her page her. http://www.thesoutherninstitute.com/

For cooking the site I love is http://thepioneerwoman.com/
I have found soooo many amazing recipes there. I love the whole herb chicken and the rosemary rolls. I have always been scared of cooking a whole chicken before but her site has a step by step guide with pictures for each step and she is funny so it is fun to read. I love this b/c I am so visual. A 5 lbsish chicken fed my whole family and we have 5 kids. It was AMAZING!!!

Ok so I am off to do laundry and put my maid, aka, the washer machine to work while I put up some of the clothes "she" has already washed.

Our pregnancy with no name.

2010-02-08T18:50:00.000-08:00

This was our 4th preg. It was the only one that we tried to get preg for, the other 3 were amazing surprises :) My twin sister was already a couple of mths preg with her third and we got preg soon after her. My other pregnancies had gone smoothly and when at 3mths I felt something like a hard vein under my skin I was not to concerned. We were at campus harvest 2005 and the vein sort of branched out into a few different ways. It was a little tender and I thought at first before I felt the knot that it was just a bruise around my ribs.
In 2001 I had felt something similar to this around my left ovary going up to my belly button. I only have the left ovary b/c the other one was removed b/c of a 10lb ovarian cyst, so there were no playing games. At the time I just had the one child and knew I wanted more. The drs could not find any reason for this and it soon went away and I got preg with my son and he was perfect.
When it happened the second time I made an appt with my OBGYN b/c I was already preg. He did some blood work and one of them came back that my blood was too thick. Dr Trabue put me on a baby aspirin and sent me to a specialist. The specialist did lots of ultrasounds and said everything looked great and I could go back to normal. I asked if I had to take the aspirin and he said no. I was 16weeks preg at the time. I did not know it then but our baby died 2weeks later. For 2weeks I kept thinking the baby is not moving.....well maybe I am not far enough along....this is my 4th, I should know.....I have felt the baby before but haven't in a while.....surely the baby is ok.....For 2 weeks I did that. I would lay in bed at night knowing that this is the time that babies move the most. I would lay on my stomach with my hand under me hoping to fell something. I was praying and believing that it was just a flook. I finally decided to go to the dr. The night before my appt I was 100% sure that I felt the baby move 2 times. I was talking to a friend of mine and told her. She saw my husband at the office and said that is so awesome about the baby moving....i had not told him.....He came home and said " Why did you not tell me?" "That is wonderful" I just cried, I told him I thought he would say that there is no need to go to the dr now b/c everything is ok and I still just needed to see if everything was ok.

I went to the Dr office and we did a quick- in the office- ultrasound. The baby was there with its head slumped over, like a child trying to fit in a small space. I thought to my self ....boy am I glad that I felt it move last night b/c that baby does not look good. The nurse looks all around and says what I fear. She thinks that the baby is not alive. How could this be, I felt it move last night, two times, two hard times. She says this is not the best machine and we need to get you upstairs to the other place that has the better ultrasound machine. I called my husband who was at home with our 2.5 yr old. He gets someone to watch her and comes straight over. I am praying the whole time for a miracle, not really believing this is happening to me. The second u/s confirmed it, the baby was dead and had been for about 2 weeks according to the growth of the baby and where i should have been. I had so many questions, how did this happening, what do we do now, will i miscarry, do i deliver the baby?
I remember driving home and a worship song came on and me crying my heart out to God. I was so thankful that even in that moment I could still worship God.

I was not ready to take measures to have the baby yet, I wanted a miracle, I wanted my body to deliver by its self if that is what was needed. I did not want to be the one to make that decision. I was 18weeks preg now. I did not want to have to tell everyone what happened, to explain...oh by the way , i am not preg any more.
I carried the baby for one more week and than I changed my mine, I had to get this baby out. My husband and I went to the movies and of course I looked preg. I was trying so hard to hid the fact and that made me so sad. I was done. I was done having this dead baby inside me. I wanted it out so that I could start to heal and move on and start over. Up to this point I was very calm. I kept thinking that it will hit me and I will just cry my head off but it never came, not like i thought it would. I did cry, a lot, but there was so much peace that for the first time I knew what it meant to have God give someone peace that surpasses their understanding.

June 2, 2005. We went to the hospital while my family stayed with the other 3 children.

They had to give me this medicine for my body to dilate. I think it was one pill every 4hrs. After 8hrs nothing was really happening. They came in to give me the 3rd dose of the medicine. When they left I prayed for God to make it just happen. I prayed that I would happen fast so I could start to heal. With in 5 mins I had a very strong pain and than about 5 mins later another pain. My husband was very concerned and asked it I wanted some pain meds. A few mins later I called the nurse in and asked if that could have been contractions and than she said yes and checked me and the baby was there, ready to come out. The nurses' were very quick about it and only allowed us to see the baby if we wanted to. They warned us that the baby had now been dead for 3 weeks and did not look normal. My husband chose not to look but I knew that if I did not look I would always wonder. Before I looked they at first told us it was a boy but realized that was the umbilical cord and that it was a girl. I did look at her and she was gray , very very gray, maybe like a little alien. I chose not to have her remains to bring home and bury. I went back and forth with this decision and went with them keeping them. The reason why is b/c a full bond had not happened yet and i did not want a place to go to where she would be buried. I do not regret that decision at all. The Dr's did some testing and found some blood clotting issues in the uterus. Later that day we had lots of problems with my blood pressure, it kept going down very low to were i was passing out.
When we got to leave a few days later it was so hard to leave with out having a new infant. It was not what we planned when we tried for this child. They gave a box that was filled with grief papers and a little dress she could have worn, a blanked, and the best thing was her little hand prints and that she was born at 5:47 pm and weighed 3.5 oz.

Coming home to my kids was one of the sweetest and hardest things ever. They met me at the door with pictures they had made for me and for the baby now in heaven. I just held them and cried. I was so thankful for some many things. I was thankful for 3 amazing, healthy children. I was thankful that I was only about5 mths, that i had not picked a name out and even knew what we were having yet. Those things would have made it so much harder b/c more of a bond would have been made. I was so thankful that I was not further along in the preg or even more so that it was not a living child out of the womb.
It was very sad b/c my milk came in and i had no baby to put to my breast. It was such a waste.
It was so sad b/c my twin was soon going to have her own little girl and they would not be able to be the greatest of friends now.
It was so sad b/c now this was a part of my other children story, a story pf loss and pain.
I remember thinking "Boy that sucked, I dont want to ever go through that again."
My friend set up meals for me and when she first told me about it i felt terrible about it b/c i was not lacking the sleep like a new mother would, i could get up and fix a meal. She insisted and it was one of the most amazing things she could have done. It allowed me to heal emotionally and not have to rush things. I remember being angry about silly things like drinking soda, I was like, I can drink this caffenie it does not matter now, who cares.

Over the next few mths people who hadnt seen me in a while would ask if i had the baby and the worst part about telling them was seeing their faces. I hated the look they had like they just swallowed their shoe. I was ok but it was such a shock of news to them that it was the hard part.

We did finally a few weeks after her birth pick out a name for her and it is Rena.
About a yr after the fact wrote a poem about it and here it is.

A moment of Joy

Know for a short time
but I still loved you the same.

Gone in a moment and
we didn't have a name.

Baby number four the
timing would be just right.

My belly getting rounder
the clothes getting to tight.

My sister and I pregnant at
the same time.

Both a baby girl that we
could each say " she's mine"

One month, two, three
and than four.

We did not realize there
would be just one more.

A tiny heart beat,
a small little flutter,

than one day it stopped
there would be no other.

Going to the doctor thinking
I had felt her move that night.

Thanking God the whole time
that it was going to be alright.

Doing the ultrasound and
finding no movement.

Getting more test done
to try and disprove it.

How could this happen
did we do something wrong.

Leaving the Dr. in shock
but still praising God with a song.

My husband and I crying
we do not understand,

but knowing that God is
with us and has us by the hand.

The peace of God was evident
everywhere in our home.

Family and friends with us so we
do not have to go through this alone.

Going one morning to deliver
the baby.

Praying to my Savior that
he would protect me.

I will always remember the
birth in a very special way.

We had her on June 2
and named her Rena.

charlene turney
jan. 4,2006
had her 2005
her name means joy
you say her name with a long a.

Gods blessing for us.

2010-02-05T05:09:00.000-08:00

i looked up blessing b/c i needed it so thought i would pass it along.

read each line and believe that for your self....even if it seems so far off...believe it. Obey Gods word and he will bless you. His word will not return void ..meaning there are no duds (like a broken firecracker) they all work, every last one of them. If you "light" it, it will produce.

Deuteronomy 28.

Blessings for Obedience

1If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow¹ all his commands² I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.³2All these blessings will come upon you⁴ and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:3You will be blessed⁵ in the city and blessed in the country.⁶4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.⁷5Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.⁸7The LORD will grant that the enemies⁹ who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.¹⁰8The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless¹¹ you in the land he is giving you.9The LORD will establish you as his holy people,¹² as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands¹³ of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.10Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name¹⁴ of the Lord, and they will fear you.11The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock¹⁵ and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.¹⁶12The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse¹⁷ of his bounty,¹⁸ to send rain¹⁹ on your land in season and to bless²⁰ all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.²¹13The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow²² them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.²³14Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left,²⁴following other gods and serving them.--

2009-12-20T20:53:00.000-08:00

Wow are we really at the end of 2009. I feel like the future is already gone and it is not even here yet. This is what movies and songs have talked about, this time right now.
We have talked about flying cars, robots to do chores, dieases that have cures. We may not have it all yet but we have cars that just plug in, hand less robot vacuums, and cloning of animals. We have the first black president and had the first female to run for that power. Things that were in the future...stuff we would get to .....they are here. We cant keep putting stuff off until some day because that some day is to-day , it is now. Tomorrow is not promised to us, we have just this moment, right now to do something. That person at the grocery store, that unsaved relative, the co-worker who has fallen away, now is the time to talk to them. 2009 is at an end, finish it knowing you talked to someone and did your part to plant a seed. God's word will not return void. Even if you make a fool of your-self and finish it by saying something like the amazing " God loves you". That is a seed, plant it, and have faith that God will grow it. Remember this though, God does not need you to plant the seed , he can go on to someone else that will do it but He will bless those that allow themselves to be the vessel that He can use. I want to be blessed, what about you?

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random post.

2009-12-18T20:08:00.000-08:00

i am amazed at how much i want to get on here and blog but cant seem to justify the time to get on here when there are so many other things to do or i am just worn out by the end of the day and would rather sleep.
a few things i want to write so i dont forget them.

this is my fav. my 3 yr old son had a fever the other day and i took his temp under his arm with a normal mercury thermometer. when his older siblings got home he told them that he had a fever and than lifted up his arm to show him that the fever was in the under arm.....so stinking cute. my older son tried to tell him that the fever is in the whole body but there was no convincing him otherwise. he keeps lifing up his arm to show them where it is.

i took my 7yr old to a children's cardiologist the other day b/c she has been having heart palpitations. all the test came back clear though so that is awesome.

my friend jenny made me a sling to carry my baby and i love it, i am looking for reasons to carry her in it b/c it is so great. it is used for hip sitting

i always have a huge lack of motivation and i hate that. i feel gross when i am not motivated to do things but cant seem to muster up the energy to do more things.

i have MS but hate to even begin to blame things on it. is my tiredness b/c of ms???? it could be but i cant stand to say it might be b/c really it could be anything...like the fact that i have 5 kids and one of is an infant who still wakes up at night to eat. i fell like saying it is ms is an excuse and i dont want to play that card.

ok this blog was what the title says...randomness.

painting party

2009-11-14T19:23:00.000-08:00

so in 2 weeks is my daughters 7 bday. it is only 5 days after thanksgiving so not a wonderful time for a party since most of her friends will be out of town.

for those of her buddies who are still here, they get to come over and paint their very own work of art. i am super excited about this b/c i love to draw and paint and i would love for this to be a small side business of mine.....painting parties.

i am drawing the picture kori picked onto the canvas and than leaving it blank, the kids will get to come over and paint the pic them self. i will have all the paints and brushes and smocks....everything to make them a true artist. they than get to take their master piece home with them and hang it up for all to see.

i really hope this goes wells, i know kori is super happy to get to paint. i just hope everyone else is also and that she has lots of friends in town.

here is the picture i drew and painted. i am going to use this as the front of the invitation and this is what all the kids get to paint and take home.

any extra ideas to help it go smoothly?

the need for a story blog and TMI cricket horror story.

2009-10-24T21:13:00.000-07:00

So it has been 10 days since my last blog and every day, more than once a day, i have thought about what to write for a new blog. I do not want to go months and have nothing interesting to write. I have thought long and hard about having something funny to write so that if anyone did read it that would not be bored to pieces and never come back. I have not had anything happen that is blog worthy really but I do have small life moments. I could write about how my kids are on fall break and it has been wonderful sleeping until 8ish every morning. We went to the zoo. It is the 1st time I have been to to the zoo since I was preg with my now 7yr old. It was fun, we do not have an amazing zoo but it works.

I could also say how my son is almost 3 and we had rice crispy treats the other day , he now calls them white christmas trees b/c that is what he thinks we are saying , very cute, i will not correct him just yet.

but the most interesting story is this one.

Last night(warning maybe TMI for ya but oh well) my stomach was hurting so i was on the potty...for the record b/c you will need to know this in a moment i was just sitting i had not gone to the bath room yet. I was sitting there and from the corner of my eye i see something move. I look and there on my pants at the pocket is a camel cricket,,,cave spider...water cricket...what ever you want to call them. It was on my pocket...on the pants that i was wearing at that very moment.!!!!!!!Now i hate this bug b/c like a cricket it will jump but a cricket jumps to get away and this one just jumps like it has no sight, it just jumps and that may be on you. It also has legs like a spider. So here i am on the potty and there is this bug on my pants. i start screaming and kicking to get my pants off of me. Through lots of moving and freaking out i get my pants off and run out of the bathroom with just my shirt on. My husband and oldest daughter come in the hall way wondering what in the world would make me scream like that since my infant was already in bed. I could not speak , i was still doing a closed mouth scream. i run to the other bathroom down the hall (i was in the laundry room half bath just in case you are wondering why have two bathrooms so close, one is a full and one is half) My husband and daughter follow me in the other room laughing at me trying to pull my shirt down to cover my self yet still not able to talk and trying to breath. I am finally able to tell them how I almost got attacked by the monster and how i was inches away from death. Now my head hurts b/c of this massive adrenaling rush and my stomach still hurts. I breath, ask for new clothes b/c of course i cant put the other ones back on , he may be on them and i send my husband in to be my savior and rescue me from the giant , man eating, cricket. My husband was amazing and took everything out of the laundry room and later my daughter did see it and they killed it. They said it was not that big but when you are staring in the eyes of death it seems much bigger than it might really be. I now sadly do not feel safe in that bathroom and will be checking around before I set my hiney down any time soon.

saving money..pull up style.

2009-10-14T20:43:00.000-07:00

So my son is almost 3. I have been saying since I was preg that when he was almost 3 that i would potty train him. I chose not to do it earlier b/c i had a new born and who wants to have a toddler yelling from the potty to wipe his hiney when you are trying to get the nursing down pat. Well not me, so i did not train him and to be honest was not really ready to do it now. He on the other hand seems to be ready when he yells "I WANT TO GO PEE PEE" while i am telling him no it is bed time. After the 3rd time i think , ok i should go with this and he does pee and has every day since than. Well the point to this story is the pull ups. A few mths ago a friend gave us an almost full box of pull ups .........girl pull ups. Fully loaded with purple princesses and flowers. I put them on him the first day b/c we had no undies yet to fit him. He had no complaints and did not even notice that his sisters liked them way more than his older brother or that his daddy gave me the .., what the heck is my son wearing look. I have decided that we are going to let him use all of them. Why waste a whole box just b/c they are not blue, it is not like i can save them for ava who is only 5 mths old.

So there is my little man in his girly pull ups so we can save money...pull up style.

Wow my 1st award

2009-10-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

Wow!! I have only had this blog up for about 3 days and I have my 1st award.

Thanks to Felicial from http://livingjustlikegrandmahousewife.blogspot.com/ who gave me this and I am super shocked.

Thanks also to my wonderful friend Jenny who called and told me about it.

I am supposed to send it to 15 people but I am not even sure I have 15 people to send it to yet.

I will do my best and start off with 6 and add on later.. These are site that I have enjoyed reading and have already gone back from some more. They are fun so go check them out.

The Best Blog Award rules are:1. To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.Here are my 15 in no particular order:

1. http://4littlemen.blogspot.com/

2.http://sidac.blogspot.com/

3.http://nicodemusphotos.blogspot.com/

4.http://beforethebabywakes.blogspot.com/

5 http://www.godsnotfinishedwithusyet.com/

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My money costing amazing handful 4th child.

2009-10-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

This child of mine is amazing and very much the handful. I am pretty sure that the definition of a toddle boy includes his name and picture. He has broken more things and cost us more money than any of the other kids combined. We bought a new flat screen tv for christmas and he was "playing" wii and took the strap off his hand. I was in the laundry room when my older son complains about caden messing up his wii game. I think..ok..he has turned off the game b/c he does this often....turn off computers and such when the kids are in the middle of a game. He likes the flashing lights and so than pushes the buttons. I come into the room and see the bottom part of the LCD screen cracked so bad that the whole pic was messed up. He threw the wii remote at the tv, just like the ads warned you about. I was shocked, omg, what in the world do we do now. I put my hands to my face, like out of the movie home alone, and just kept saying, oh my goodness, omg, omg. I yelled at caden to go to his room now, that this was a huge, huge, no no. He started crying and when he got to his room he stood at the door saying kissa mea (like an Italian accent). i am always saying that to the kids..kissa mea. It was sad but I, understandably, was not in the mood for a kiss.

My older son said call daddy or text him. I yelled....again...this is not the kind of thing you text someone.

That was the most expensive thing he has broken. He has also stuffed bingo chip game pieces into the wii and an air purifier and broken many cd's.

The good news is with the tv he was not confined to his room for the rest of his life, or that day. We called Costco and told them what happened, the truth, and we were able to return it for another one.

This one we kept in the box and than 2 mths later just returned it back to the store. We will buy another one when he is 25.

I am not sure if he is so active b/c there are 4 other kids in the house that he does not get the full one on one attention or if he is just this way.

Praise God for the many fun times he gives us to make it all worth it.

my velcro child

2009-10-13T06:19:00.000-07:00

Do you have one of those? A velcro child? Someone who seems to collect everything they come in contact with? That is my 3rd child. She is almost 7 and if it is standing still she will claim it. For example yesterday will making dinner she was in the kitchen with me. I had an egg container that I had just finished with and she asked me not to throw it away. I look at her (not at all surprised by this request) and ask why, what are you going to do with it. She wants to keep it for her animals, a cage i presume.
This morning I find it in her room b/c my 2yr old found his trains packed inside there. He takes his trains and i throw away the egg container.
Kori is my most creative child though, everything has a purpose. She is the ultimate recycler. I am nervous for her adult years. If she cant throw things away now , what will she be like in 20yrs when she is living on her own and no mother to throw away the old containers.

Do you have any velcro kids? Where things that are lost can always be found in their room?
leave me a comment and tell me about them.