Ready to run

I have been away from my exercise routine for 4 weeks and three days and I am just about ready to pull my hair out. I had just started running in the mornings, early, when I had the accident and broke my toe and hurt my leg. I think I am just about ready to start back. One day last week I stepped off the curb at the kids' preschool and hurt my toe again. So, I am hesitant about putting the strain of the mile run on my toe, b/c I DO NOT want to cause a stress fracture that could make more of a problem in other areas in my foot. But, I gotta do something to get some of this stress out. Drinking and other things don't work. I was doing great for a while. But, just this week with the stress of travelling in a tropical storm, being away from home and the kids, cleaning the house for people to look at it that don't show, trying to sell the house, wanting to sell the house, finding out that my brother and sister in-law sold their house without even advertising it, holding a jewelry party at my house, having Jeremy come in from being out of town longer than myself, Tristan and Sam not sleeping through the night, working a full time job, and finally devoting my Saturday to Jeremy's family for Sandra's Birthday party has worn me out slightly. Wah, wah, wah, right?!

T-r-i-s-t-a-n

T-man can write his whole name now!
He insists on saying it letter by letter so that you know that HE knows how to spell it AND write it! It is so cute!
That is such an awesome thing as a parent to see your child become his own "person."

Wish I was still at the beach

The whole time I was at Orange Beach it either rained or the wind blew like a hurricane was coming in soon! Sucks for me that I left the day it was the worst and came to find out by my sweet, left behind hubby, that the tornadic rainy weather followed me right on up to North Alabama! Orange Beach has been gorgeous since about 3 or 4 hours after I high-tailed it this way on Monday! I still wish I was at the beach with my man drinking Pina Coladas and Mud Slides! Jeremy will be home tomorrow! YAY! I missed the kids so bad that I could not stand it! I had to come on home! Sammy told me Sunday night that he "Luvs me 2." I broke down and bawled! I wished I would have sucked it up and stayed another day! But it was great to be back! I showed our house tonight to a couple and their three daughters! I would love to see them make a great offer on the house and sell it this week! Pray that God has His hand on this one! That is where we started with the whole house selling thing, God Lead Us in YOUR path, not our own.
Bless your day!

Hating Tropical Storm FAY

I have been looking forward to getting away with my hubby for weeks now and wouldn't you know it, a tropical storm is heading right to my hide-a-way!

Sucks............

Make it go the other way.

Maybe it will just turn to the Atlantic.

Wishful thinking, I know.

Going on a trip

Jeremy and I get the awesome chance to get away from it all this weekend. He is going to a conference in Orange Beach and I decided to go down for the weekend with him, just the two of us!
The kids will have a blast being spoiled by Betty. Hopefully Betty will use the grandparents as a resource and let them go see them for a while. But, all will be good!
I just hope that TS Fay stays out of our way and allows me to catch a few rays. My summer tan that I worked on in June and July has slowly faded. It is so quick the way things happen.
Watch out folks, here we come!
YAY!

Battle of the cousins

Yesterday we went and watched my nephew, Caleb (#8) play against my cousin, Scott (#74) in Hartselle. They were so cute to watch play. They were awkward in their gear, they squirmed around trying to impress their parents and peers and just had a blast. It was a little frightening to me to watch the 5-6 year olds play. That is Tristan like next football season. WOW! They grow so fast. Sammy and Rachael cheered on the pair as they "battled" to beat each other. Tristan was coached on the Sidelines by his dad and papaw for his upcoming season NEXT YEAR. I don't know what will happen then...

Helping a friend in need

I have this amazing sense of when to get involved in a situation when I probably should not. I cannot help it. I WANT to help people. I am a sucker for people who need and want. I am gullible, and at times naive. No, not her, you guys are saying. I am an idiot when it comes to having judgement issues. My sense of radar must be discombobulated. Help people, help others, show kindness to someone in need, that is all I hear. Well, I am going to continue on my path. I will help you when you need it, when you think you don't need it but you do, and when you think that I should stop. How's that for gumption?

Just Peachy

Yesterday I had a car accident, Boo-Boo, whatever you want to call it. I backed into a brand new Cadillac CTS. Sucks for me. It was at CVS in Decatur. I never even saw the parked car there. That is a very narrow parking lot. I feel like such an idiot. That was a first for me. I have never had a speeding ticket, been pulled over (well, there was one time that I flipped off my uncle in his squad car and got pulled over for that-another story at another time on that one), I have never been in an accident in my adult life. I am idiot. My insurance premium will probably go up. Phooey!

I stand humbled

My son Tristan has began singing to Jesus...
He says that "God Forlives" instead of "forgives" and Jesus "Lives!"
Too Precious...hope you enjoy and are blessed by this.

I am humbled by his precious attempts to worship our Savior, who DID die on the Cross for us and forgives us of our sins and that Christ does live in us. Christ does not care how we come to him, just as long as we come. I have an awful singing voice, but when I sing to God, I don't care. I can't sing loud enough to Him. It is a good thing I go to a church where the music is like a rock concert and the only one hearing me IS God! I want the whole world to know that Jesus lives and saves. I am just so thankful that Tristan wants to tell the world that too!

I have others of T-man, I will post at another time!

Healing

My burns are healing, finally, and my foot is bruised, a little weak, but healing as well. I think I may have to get more antibiotics, because I am having some issues still with that.


I found a picture in my archives of the tree that I tripped over. The roots extend way out and you cannot even see the part where I fell, but you can get an idea of how big the roots are. Also, I took Sam back out there so that we could face the "elephant in the room" and he ran right back up to the tractor and then slapped the bush hog and said, "Bad tracker" and ran back to the house from it. He dealt with it in his way.

I dealt with it in my way. I prayed. I cried, a lot, when I got home. I thanked God for all He has given me and I am changed. As for my Dad, he is still working on his grief of what almost was. I understand that it will take a while.

Fighting back tears

To watch my grandmother in the hospital, just lying there, waiting for some answers, breaks my heart.
She had plans to fix apples. She had plans to gather in her tomatoes today too.
Those plans were botched. Her body just won't let her do what she wants.
She is in the hospital waiting to see how much longer she will have to be there before she can get back to her apples and tomatoes.
She told more stories of her youth with her sisters and brothers and her dad how kind he was and how to cook things properly and, despite her desires not to, she ate the hospital food and remarked how hers at home tasted much better. We all say that when we eat the hospital food, but seriously, hers does taste better.

The first days of school

Well, despite the pain of my week old injuries from Sam's accident, I have done okay for my first week of school. On Tuesday, I had to go to the doctor because I was beginning to run a fever and I felt horrible. I have an infection in the burn on my leg and the scrape on my hand. The place on my elbow has begun a big scab and feels like it is healing. Two days into the antibiotic and I think I am going to make it!

School was good today, I enjoyed meeting my new students and reminiscing with some that I knew previously to the new school year. Tristan and Samuel have done wonderfully at preschool this week. Despite a new snotty nose, Samuel has done great! T-man is who I was concerned about and he walks right in his class every morning like a big boy. Every night this week, Samuel has "punished" me by whining and crying from the moment we get home until he goes to bed. Things will get better with that!

With a confused blob of emotions

Tomorrow, with a big confused blob of emotions, I will return to work. I was already dreading it. But now with the events that have unfolded in the last 3 or 4 days, I have such a heavy heart about returning to work. I don't want to leave my babies. I am still very sore and every morning when I wake up, something else hurts. Yesterday it was my ribs, today it is my head. The day before that it was my toe. The day before that, it was my shin and my elbow. My heart is what hurts today as well.

Jeremy and I had our first talk about the whole situation last night, it was our first chance to do so. He is so amazing and strong. God knew that when he put us together. He is amazing. He listened, got me tissues, and held me.

I have been reading in 1 Samuel about Hannah's prayer to God for a son. She wanted one so bad that she vowed to give him back to God if he would first give her a son. I really have been meditating on that. God gives us our children and then wants us to give them back to him so that He can protect them. It is a hard thing to do. But, yet so easy. Life is quick. Life is a gift.

I am so not ready to go back to work. I want to sit around and hold my sons a little longer, a little more, just a few more times, just more and more...

Some more information

My dad called me just a while ago and he was able to talk a little bit about Samuel's accident. He told me that when he looked back as Sammy was falling that he could only see a cloud surrounding him, like he was protected by something that was "blurry." My heart just gave away and I began to cry, because when I saw him fall, I saw him fall into that bush hog. I knew that he was protected, because there were no scratches and scrapes.

Thanks to all of you who are praying and using this story to renew your faith in the miracles that God gives us. God is Awesome and so amazing.