My boy...

who loves school (and looks so handsome in his chapel uniform) took part in the following conversation the other day...

Me: Daddy, Jack got a 100% on his math and spelling tests and 96% on phonics this week.
Alex: Wow, that's great.
Jack: That's just what I do. I just get it all right!

PSF and Ouch!

Despite my promises of entering back into the blogging world (which I know no one believes any more) I've been insanely busy and neglecting blogs yet again.

However, this is the end of the business for me.  That's it.  It's over. I quit.  I've had too much going on and I'm slowing down my life.

Hold me to it.

In the meantime, I leave you with this cute little guy who has an important lesson to share; it's not a good idea to get up close and person with a sidewalk!

Ouch!

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Men in Costumes

I'm not really a Halloween person, but I do think it's funny to see grown men get dressed up.

Here we have Rocky, an outdoorsman dude, and, my husband, an Alabama fan.  My apologies to all my Alabama fan friends.  I hope they all can see the humor in this and appreciate the fact that it's all in good fun and be the true sportsman that they are.  (Kind of hard to be mad at me after that, right?)

Seriously, though, isn't the Saban tat a nice touch? 

Batgirl, Cinderella, and Princess Aurora

Halloween is not one of my favorite "holidays".  Ok, let me be honest, other than the candy I don't really like it at all and I don't like the fact that it lasts a week.  There, Ok, I said it.

That being said, I do think it's cute to see my kids dress up.  (Of course, I get to see it fairly often, since dressing up is a frequent occurrence for us.)  This year, we had a Batman (shocker, I know,) a Batgirl, and Spiderman.

I even got a chance to dress up too.  I was an Auburn fan. (Yes, I've already been told that was a cop-out.)  One of my oldest and closest friends, Anne, was in town this weekend.  It was great to get to spend a whole weekend with her as I definitely don't get to see her as often as I'd like.
(And in case you can't tell from his expression, Charlie was pretty worried about the spiders hanging from the ceiling.)

And like any true girl, Melody had multiple costume changes.  She began as Batgirl, moved on to Cinderella, and for the grand finale decided to go with her old standby, Princess Aurora.  Really, you just can't go wrong with Sleeping Beauty.  And as Melody told me Friday, "Grruls weally wike to change der minds."

And now off to enjoy some of that candy.  And least these three days of chaos weren't for nothing, right?

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PSF and Meet Sasha

In the past few weeks, we've had some exciting stuff going on at our house.

Alex and I recently became involved in a non-profit, Christian organization that brings over orphaned children twice a year from Eastern Europe to share with them God's love and allow them to experience Christian family life.

(Click on the photo to visit their website.) 

We have decided to be a host family this Christmas.

Meet Sasha.

Sasha is Russian and he's 13 years old.  We don't know a whole lot about him, other than he's a funny, sweet, and active boy.  He will be joining our family in mid-December and will stay with us through mid-January.

New Horizon's is a wonderful organization.  I urge you to check out their website and our website as well for more information or for more ways to be involved.




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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  James 1:27

A Tribute to Grandma

I have not been around much the past few days and it's because last Thursday, my wonderful grandma passed away.


(Granddaddy and Grandma shortly after they were married.)

She was a wonderful woman...generous, caring, and she loved Jesus and her family and friends.


(Grandma and Mom at Jack's 1st birthday party)

Like all old people do, she had her quirks.  She loved to tell stories.  Over and over again.  I had to laugh at her memorial service, when the preacher told one of her stories.  He had obviously heard it many times as well, as he knew it word for word the way she would have told it.

I have too many memories to count of fun times I had with Grandma.
I miss her.
But the joy I feel in knowing that she is now more alive than ever before, in heaven, worshiping our Lord is greater than my sorrow.

(Granny and Grandma at Melody's Baptism)

PSF and Diva-in-Training

How do I know that Melody is a future diva?  

(Other than the fact that she has mastered drama completely.)

She has also mastered the fine art of pulling off a wardrobe malfunction.

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