Teenage Doubletake

Today I locked myself out of the house. I know, yay me, the big retard. In my defense, I did have my laptop bag over my shoulder. It, like my purse is black and so I thought I had it. SO while we waited for my poor husband to come home and let me in ( I never put the spare key back in the shed :/ ), Matt and I sat in the car as it was kinda sprinkling. He fished a small New Testament out and began to read Proverbs aloud. He read the first three chapters and then got tired of reading passed it off to me. I read chapters four and five. Then I got to these verses:

18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at
all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

I didn't think he was really paying attention because he was fiddling around with the stuff in the glove compartment. But his double take was so sharp he almost snapped his neck off! I said I didn't think you were paying attention. He then asked me what chapter it was in (I was thinking he wanted to go read it again and see what it was all about) I told him it was in chapter five. "Well, I am never reading that chapter again !" he said. Thought you would enjoy this. :)

Challenging Quote

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck

If you have ever read Erma Bombeck you know she is a great comedienne. I was a bit surprised to see this quote but love it. As a teacher I often feel like I am bashing my head against the wall. It often seems like there are no changes being made in these kids lives. This helps me remember that it is my faithfulness that counts not their responses. I guess the same can be said for parenting too, or anything in life really.

2Co 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

For Vickie

My little sister is a nag! She is tired of the kitchen pictures and nags me about it often saying I need to put something else here. So, since I love her this is for Vickie:

One of my students was asking me what we were going to do the next day. (We are doing achievement tests and he wanted to know which tests would come next. ) I told him it was a matter of national security and if I told him he would have to be beheaded. He said "NO, they don't do that any more all they do is legal injection." I thought that was pretty funny.

Yea, A New Kitchen!

Before: ugly wall paper
This is the cleanest the kitchen has been since we moved in! Ha! Matthew kept raving over how big the room is and how much counter space there is. It really is just that his mother chocks it up with junk.
Stud muffin working! After one days work!

The Gang's All Here

Here is our gang. They are all here. But are they all there? You be the judge!

Say What?

I have seen this sign several times as these people are "professional" yard salers. I always get a hoot out of their signs. Not all of them are misspelled but they often have one of their 7-8 signs that look like this one.

Andrew's Wedding- Behind the Scenes

Just what you want your child to do at a wedding. Something dangerous!

Julia and Sydney, the flower girls, admire themselves in the mirror. Julia found snails, then Nicholas found one too.
Then Nicholas stomped on them. "That is what Grandpa said you are supposed to do to snails" he said.
The flower girls pick the flowers in the beds on the veranda. (a much better word than porch I think!)
The pillows the kids sat on had grapes sewn on the corners. Ella and Calvin tore them off the pillow they sat on.

Something tells me Calvin doesn't want to take anymore pictures.The rest of my pictures can be seen here on my facebook site.