I'm sure many of you out there are possibly recovering from the wonderful, yet very hectic Christmas day. Now, I'm thankful that I've had three days to recover before our Marathon picks back up. Families are a blessing but it can get a bit much. I sat down and totaled up the amount of Christmas's Michael myself and the kids have and still have to go. 8 total this year and we cut out 2 or 3 don't remember.
Brief run down:
Dec 23. 9 a.m. Teresa and John Blackaby's house (My mom)
Wonderful had breakfast. Let Lydia take short nap and was overall calm. My sister Andrea, Stepbrother Joshua and stepsister Jordan, were there, Minus Adam and his wife they are expecting Jan. 21 at Fort Lewis, WA.
2 p.m. Farm Bureo Building Jenkins's Family (Michael's Dad's side)
hectic. All smoking done outside of building (thankfully). Michael's cousin Randy informed all that she is expecting twins in May. Michael's cousin Dillian 8th grade fell off skate board, hurt elbow. Gabriel walked into one of the metal support beams that run from ceiling to floor. Grew third eyeball. (OK now) Michael's uncle Stacey refrained this year from fist fight with his brothers. Instead yelled.
Dec 24. 10 a.m. Antioch Mills Christain Church
Wonderful sermon. I loved way it was done from point of view. wonderful pick me up. Gabriel gave Em her present and received a Kiss in return. I couldn't help but laugh. Michael said you couldn't get better in laws.
4:30 p.m. Childer's family Aunt Bridgette's house's
Hectic. Michael's younger cousin's followed Lydia around like she was a live baby doll. I was alerted to her every move though. Everyone kept feeding Lydia and she got a stomach ache. Michael's cousin Tina showed up with a guy and informed everyone they were married. He was wasted at the time of introduction and shortly after passed out in basement.
Dec 25. 9a.m. Jenkins family (Our House)
Nice quiet time with Gabriel and Lydia.
12 p.m. Granny Perkins (My grandma's)
Very nice. My cousin and her boyfriend came with there cute boys. charlie age 2 and Conner age 1 Both with bright blue eyes and red hair. Conner and Lydia are only 11 days apart, Got call that day that they didn't expect my great aunt Ruby to make it. (My grandma's last sibling)
5 p.m. Bill's House (Michael's stepdad's Father)
top by real quick. He had his families Christmas at noon.
5:20 p.m. Christina and Mike Oaks's House (Michael's mom)
Very quiet. Michael's Stepsister's Brooke and Brandy usually come with their families, but they are not getting along with their dad, Mike and won't let him see his grand kids, so it was just us.
Dec 29 6 p.m. Marvin Mains's House
Dec 30 12 p.m. Bishop's Family Christmas (Michael's stepmother's family)
Dec. 31 5 p.m. Jenkins's House ( Here with Michael's Dad, stepmother, sister and her husband)
I'll let you know how these go.
Honestly, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Friday, December 29, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Lydia
My daughter Lydia is now 13 months old now. I have been wanting to find ways in which I may be able to introduce things about Jesus to her. We all sit at the table and pray. We pray before bed and I tell her Jesus loves her. But I wanted more. So like I always should I prayed that Jesus may show me how.
Now, Lydia loves for anyone to read to her. Most children have a book that at one point they make you read over and over again until you can recite the whole thing from memory. Lydia has her favorite book. Not once do I ever get that, not again feeling, when I read her favorite book. I'm over joyed to do this. It is as followed. Her book is :
"The First Night"
By: B.G. Hennessy
At the edge of an old and crowed town there was a field.
In the field were two shepherds and their sheep.
As the sheep slept, a star moved across the night sky.
The star settled over a stable in the town below.
In the warm, dark stable there was a lamb. There was a cow, too, and piles of crisp, yellow hay.
Lantern light shone softly from a rafter above while a donkey slept in a corner.
There was a mother, a father, and a baby. the baby lay on a bed of hay.
the baby was seeing this world for the first time. He saw the swaying lantern, the donkey, and the woolly lamb.
He felt the night air, his soft blanket, his mother's arms, his father's hands.
and in that warm, dark stable his life began.
Isn't that wonderful. I mean I always wondered how I can start introducing Lydia to the story of her savior and one day she comes trotting out of her room with this book. I was so happy. It was amazing to think that God showed me how by my baby bring me a book. Isn't it amazing. Thank you Lord.
Now, Lydia loves for anyone to read to her. Most children have a book that at one point they make you read over and over again until you can recite the whole thing from memory. Lydia has her favorite book. Not once do I ever get that, not again feeling, when I read her favorite book. I'm over joyed to do this. It is as followed. Her book is :
"The First Night"
By: B.G. Hennessy
At the edge of an old and crowed town there was a field.
In the field were two shepherds and their sheep.
As the sheep slept, a star moved across the night sky.
The star settled over a stable in the town below.
In the warm, dark stable there was a lamb. There was a cow, too, and piles of crisp, yellow hay.
Lantern light shone softly from a rafter above while a donkey slept in a corner.
There was a mother, a father, and a baby. the baby lay on a bed of hay.
the baby was seeing this world for the first time. He saw the swaying lantern, the donkey, and the woolly lamb.
He felt the night air, his soft blanket, his mother's arms, his father's hands.
and in that warm, dark stable his life began.
Isn't that wonderful. I mean I always wondered how I can start introducing Lydia to the story of her savior and one day she comes trotting out of her room with this book. I was so happy. It was amazing to think that God showed me how by my baby bring me a book. Isn't it amazing. Thank you Lord.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
War, Why?
(Real quick, Lonnie I would love to have dinner with you all. Of course I will need to talk with Michael when he gets home.)
But not right away. I was able to talk with him last night for just a little bit and it seems what they are doing there is effecting him. He didn't sound like himself. I'm a little worried. What little he told me is that they are trying to simulate what it is like in Iraq as much as possible. So I've tried to let some family know that he may need a little space when he first comes home. He even said they have about 300 hundred Iraq people there playing the part of insergents.
My cousin Josh is a leuitenant and a platoon commander. His platoon has recently been hit. He told the family that they where out in a convoy when a man approched them. Apparently the man had a bomb straped to him and detinated the bomb right beside them. I'll leave out the gorry part but there was nothing left and what was left you could'nt tell what was what. Some of the fragments hurt some of the men in his platoon and had to be taken to the med-vac.
Right before this his men where out patroling on foot. They came across a group of insergents and were pinned down for four days by live fire. By the end of the four days two of his men where dead and another hurt so bad they don't think he'll live.
Pray for my cousin. He soon comes home after spending a year in Iraq. He's home for 30 days and then they are sending him to Afganistan. Pray for Michael. I don't know what he is doing. But all I know are the stories from my cousin and that Michael is training for the possibility of being sent to Iraq. Michael said the rumor is that his unit may-be going in 2009. If he goes, he's gone for a year! When you are in the military you hear the stories that civilians don't. Alot of solider are not ok when they come home.
When Michael and I spent the first nights together after he came back from basic, he would do push-ups in his sleep, in bed! (The drill sargents warned the families that the soilders may do weird things when they came home.) The first few times it scared me, until I realized what he was doing. Only once, but one night I got to experience some of Michael's hand to hand combat training that he was taught. Thankfully I got him to wake-up and stop chocking me. He felt awful but he said his dream was so real. I laugh now about it, but I'm worried if he is sent how he'll be when he comes home?! honestly I would just want him to come home. Hey, I could always learn some hand-to-hand combat training for bed at night.
But not right away. I was able to talk with him last night for just a little bit and it seems what they are doing there is effecting him. He didn't sound like himself. I'm a little worried. What little he told me is that they are trying to simulate what it is like in Iraq as much as possible. So I've tried to let some family know that he may need a little space when he first comes home. He even said they have about 300 hundred Iraq people there playing the part of insergents.
My cousin Josh is a leuitenant and a platoon commander. His platoon has recently been hit. He told the family that they where out in a convoy when a man approched them. Apparently the man had a bomb straped to him and detinated the bomb right beside them. I'll leave out the gorry part but there was nothing left and what was left you could'nt tell what was what. Some of the fragments hurt some of the men in his platoon and had to be taken to the med-vac.
Right before this his men where out patroling on foot. They came across a group of insergents and were pinned down for four days by live fire. By the end of the four days two of his men where dead and another hurt so bad they don't think he'll live.
Pray for my cousin. He soon comes home after spending a year in Iraq. He's home for 30 days and then they are sending him to Afganistan. Pray for Michael. I don't know what he is doing. But all I know are the stories from my cousin and that Michael is training for the possibility of being sent to Iraq. Michael said the rumor is that his unit may-be going in 2009. If he goes, he's gone for a year! When you are in the military you hear the stories that civilians don't. Alot of solider are not ok when they come home.
When Michael and I spent the first nights together after he came back from basic, he would do push-ups in his sleep, in bed! (The drill sargents warned the families that the soilders may do weird things when they came home.) The first few times it scared me, until I realized what he was doing. Only once, but one night I got to experience some of Michael's hand to hand combat training that he was taught. Thankfully I got him to wake-up and stop chocking me. He felt awful but he said his dream was so real. I laugh now about it, but I'm worried if he is sent how he'll be when he comes home?! honestly I would just want him to come home. Hey, I could always learn some hand-to-hand combat training for bed at night.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Awhile
I feel so bad that it has been this long since I was last able to post. But things are doing well. I have a fallow up appointment on wed. the 13th. But I feel almost 100% again. Michael comes back home from CA. on the 16th of this month. It's so hard for him being away. Gabriel doesn't understand time so that makes it hard. Lydia is too young. As for myself. My heart goes out to all those single parents out there.
I know alittle what it must have been like for my mom, after the divorce from my dad. I feel like I'm not whole and I won't be until Michael is home with me. The only part that is good, from his being away is that it reminds me how much I need him in my life and how much I love him. Plus it's hard to have any alone time. That time only comes after the kids are in bed and then you hate to stay up for fear you will be tired. Life doesn't stop because you feel like your going to die if you can't go to the bathroom or take a shower without the baby screaming at the door, or your son has to go to the bathroom and then flushes the toilet while you are in the shower. I just hate this feeling of great lonliness.
I know it wouldn't be so bad if I had some friends or a friend. But it is hard for me to make any becasue when Michael is home he has the car and I can't drive any where. Plus I've never really had any and I don't know who to make any to be honset. Moving all your life either makes you able to make freinds easier or you don't. I don't. Michael and I are dying to meet a nice married couple who has kids and would tolerate going out with us.
Now I don't want you all to get it wrong. We do have family. Yes we spend every weekend at someone's house. But only my parents go to church. It would be nice to have some Christian friends that we could talk to about God. I love our group and they are all nice people. But we don't see them outside group. Michael does go out and have lunch with Chad. which I couldn't be more happier about. Michael didn't exactly have the best role modles or friends when growing up and Chad has become a wonderful friend to Michael. He's challenged him in ways I never dreamed of. Thank You Chad!
I've rambled on enough for now. I'll write more later.
I know alittle what it must have been like for my mom, after the divorce from my dad. I feel like I'm not whole and I won't be until Michael is home with me. The only part that is good, from his being away is that it reminds me how much I need him in my life and how much I love him. Plus it's hard to have any alone time. That time only comes after the kids are in bed and then you hate to stay up for fear you will be tired. Life doesn't stop because you feel like your going to die if you can't go to the bathroom or take a shower without the baby screaming at the door, or your son has to go to the bathroom and then flushes the toilet while you are in the shower. I just hate this feeling of great lonliness.
I know it wouldn't be so bad if I had some friends or a friend. But it is hard for me to make any becasue when Michael is home he has the car and I can't drive any where. Plus I've never really had any and I don't know who to make any to be honset. Moving all your life either makes you able to make freinds easier or you don't. I don't. Michael and I are dying to meet a nice married couple who has kids and would tolerate going out with us.
Now I don't want you all to get it wrong. We do have family. Yes we spend every weekend at someone's house. But only my parents go to church. It would be nice to have some Christian friends that we could talk to about God. I love our group and they are all nice people. But we don't see them outside group. Michael does go out and have lunch with Chad. which I couldn't be more happier about. Michael didn't exactly have the best role modles or friends when growing up and Chad has become a wonderful friend to Michael. He's challenged him in ways I never dreamed of. Thank You Chad!
I've rambled on enough for now. I'll write more later.
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