My Long Weekend.....

Okay this weekend we had Sarah and Megan. I went and picked them up on Thursday and visited with thier mom and played with thier new baby brother before we came back to B-ville.
For those of you who don't know Sarah (4) and Megan(3) are the little girls I started babysitting in 2004 and stoped just before we moved to B-ville last year. We loved having them at our home everyday and miss them so thier mom and I made araingments to have the girls come visit us one weekend every month or so.

Well any way we stayed busy all weekend and went to the movies then helped some friends of ours move into thier new home. The girls played and helped and did really well. Megan loves being Ernie's shaddow! She has been his little buddy since she was about 7 months old. Sarah on the other hand said on Saturday that she should have stayed home with her mommy and baby brother.

She is always the one to get homesick. Megan is used to being around us more than Sarah and has never really been super attached to her mom. She does really good with me.

Well I took them to our half way point on the highway yesterday after noon and decided to call one of my old friends. She is pregnant with Triplets and her mom was there to pick up her 2 year old. I wound up talking to her mom for 45 minutes while I was driving to and dropping off the girls and then for a little while on the drive home. My friend Penny was resting on mandantory bed rest so I talked to her mother. I really enjoyed catching up. It has been many years since we all have contacted eachother! I loved getting to talk to her.

After church I called Penny back and we talked for about an hour we have picked up right were we left off as teenagers. It is amazing! I love having her back in my life we were such good friends when we were younger. we spent all of our time together!

She is supposed to have her babies on May 31st. and if I can swing it I'm going to New Mexico to be there.
Well I better get off here and try to get some house work done. My hubby will be home later wanting me to cook him some dinner. I have to go out with my Grandmother tonight and I am going to help her clean out her pantry before we go with the other wome in our church to dinner with the Pastors wife.

God Bless Have a Blessed day!
~G~

Time For Tough Love

We gave our daughter a cell phone for christmas in 2005. She did really well with it and did not abuse the priviledge as long as she lived at home. Well for a while after she moved she didn't have it because mine got messed up and I was using it. Well I got a new one and we gave her back to her in Feb.
Since then she has totally abused this priviledge by over using it and not paying her portion of the bill as agreed when it was given to her. So I had it disconnected and we went and took the phone from her this weekend. There was apparently some issue ... because she thought that we did not want her or love her anymore because we had kind of pushed her out of the nest. She is almost 20 years old and she was refusing to do anything with herself. We just wanted her to start taking responsibility for her own actions and to serve God like she commited to.

She has stopped going to church and is talking about living with some guy when she graduates.
I pray that she will not do that. I hope she will stay close to home and learn that God really needs to be the man in her life right now. She is looking for love in all the wrong ways and places.

I know that I cannot tell her how to live her life any more but all I can do is pray for her. I really hope God will hear my prayers and bring her back to serving him as she is a different person because she has truned her back on God.

Please pray for her she needs your prayers. I do know that I will not allow her to rip my heart out any longer and I told her just that. I have got to be strong for the child(ren) that God places in our home.
We are looking for another house and right now have not come up with anything. Please pray that God will allow us to find a home that will accomidate our family as it grows, that will allow my Dogs and my cats and that is in our budget.

Thanks and God Bless!
~G~

APPROVED!!!

Our home study has been approved!
My CW called me this afternoon and informed me that our homestudy has been approved. She asked me to write a short Profile on the two of us and So I am going to create it as soon as I can .
She wants me to include a casual picture of the two of us but I'm not sure I've got one. I'll have to find something from one of our family reunions, or something like that.

Funny thing... the ONLY casual picture I have of us is two years old and our updated picture is one year old in May we should really take pictures more often.

So anyway,,, that is the adoption update!

now on to another subject. ... FLY Lady... I have been on again off again flying with the FLY Lady. I mean I love using her system I am just having trouble training myself to do the routines so that I can be more organized because Lord knows I need more organization.

Anyway I am going to start tomorrow by not procrastinating and getting things done 15 minutes at a time. I know my husband will apperciate the fact that he will get to come home to a clean house and maybe it will motivate him to pick up after himself.

well I've got to get off here and try to get some sleep ....
God Bless and I'll post again soon.

~G~

Being Found

I couldn't sleep last night and I decided to check my email. well I found that I had a message on myspace and I didn't recognize the name. So I went on and checked it out.
Come to find out it was one of my old friends from my hometown. She and I were very close when we were young and her little brother and my sister Kristina were best bud's.

I was so happy to hear from her! I could not believe that it was her. She is of course doing great and to my suprise expecting Triplets!!! I am so excited! I can't wait to get re aquainted with her.

She told me that her dad passed away last month and it is very hard on her mom and brothers. I would like you to pray for them. Her name is Penny and her mom is Juli.

Well I have some more FLYing to do so I am going to get off here. I'll post again soon!

~G~

Mall Trips and Road Trips

So I went to the mall today and picked up some more bamboo for my collection. I love bamboo. it is easy to care for and it requires little light and maintenance. I don't normally shop at the mall because I am what you would call a non shopper. I don't like to just go walk around the mall and see if I can find something to buy. I only go to shops in the mall when I know exactly what I want. For instance, today I wanted bamboo and body splash from Bath and BodyWorks. I got what I wanted... visited with my friend Natalie and we sat in the food court and at ate a pretzel and waited for her mother to meet us.

Then Debbie , Natalie's mom and I took Natalie back to OSU Okmulgee which is almost 2 hours away. We stopped in Owasso first and picked up something and then ate dinner. We finished our drive with Natalie and I joking all the way and laughing our heads off! it was so very fun and we had such a great time with each other.

I will be glad when she gets to graduate and come back to b-ville so we can spend time together. It is nice to have someone who even though she is 5 years younger than me she is such a kindred spirit. We love the same things and we get along so very well.

Natalie, Ernie and I have a great time when we all get together because we are so laid back and love to just sit and talk and cut up. Ernie and she are like brother and sister so it is fun to just sit and listen to them banter back and forth.

Well here it is after midnight and I really should go to bed. I have a few things to get done tomorrow before Ernie gets home.
God Bless and good night.
~G~
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HOLY COW!!!!

IT IS SNOWING IN OKLAHOMA!

I left work this evening and it was raining with some snow flurries. I went to my grandparents to help them learn how to use their laptop. When I got ready to leave there and go up to the church for a bit it was just snow. and it is still just snow!

Ernie is going to wake up to a surprise! I haven't seen snow in April in a very long time!
WE have had snow in March but I honestly cannot remember the last time we had snow in April.

We have been preparing for our Youth Group's First annual Summer Kick Off Luau!
It is very exciting and we have just a little more than a month to get it planned. We are going to have a couple of bands and we are hoping to have some fun and games for the event as well. I have been trying to find door prizes that they would enjoy. I am going to see if I can get some CD's or something like that.

I don't have to work for the next few days and I am praying that I will be able to find a couple of families that need a good sitter. I really don't want to have to go back to work full time.
Well I need to go for now ....
God bless and take care !

~G~