See - Told You...

Told you we weren't slowing things down around here!

I missed posting last week due to some wonderful visitors!

Decided to entertain and enjoy my company.

We took 2 weeks off from school

Week 1 to prepare for our guests

and

Week 2 to enjoy our guests:

My mom & grandmother!

Yeah!!

So I am going to attempt to catch you up 

over a few posts so as not to make them

*too* long.

Once again - I am TOTALLY looking forward to 

the start of a new month and new budget,

again,

we have BLOWN this one

again!

UGH!!

And I have a feeling May is going to be just as bad

if not worse than April.

We are planning a mini-vacation to Dallas 

in 2 weeks to celebrate 

our oldest's 8th birthday.

We have been talking about dong this for months...

we better do it before we don't.

I haven't worked out in 2 weeks due to the cleaning

and

visitors.

PRAYING I can get up tomorrow morning

WITH my husband

and get my BUTT

in GEAR

and work out and shower before the kids get up

at 7am.

HAHAHAHAH!

Then back to the grind to finish up our school year.

Our new books should be here sometime next week.

And I am ANXIOUS to get 

our new books

and get organized 

for next "year".

We will probably start in June,

July at the latest

(which is what we are used to back in the 

year-round schools that we came from in NC).

This afternoon we will find out whether

we are expecting a niece or nephew in September.

I am guessing niece,

but God does have a wicked sense of humor

and He might bless me and my sisters

with a slew of boys

since we grew up

with nothing but sisters.

Let me just tell you how nervous I was

about having a boy

when I found out 

with my oldest.

I didn't know a THING

about BOYS!

Except for what my sweet,

God-fearing 

Aunt told me years ago...

Raising boys is a helluva lot easier than raising girls!

She has 2 boys and 1 girl. 

Wonder if she has changed her mind recently!

(ha!)

On a totally unrelated note

a family in our local homeschool community 

is burying their 11 month old tomorrow.

One week ago, Monday morning at 4am,

he cried out,

daddy got up to console him

and he heard a gurgling noise and then the baby went limp.

Mommy did CPR while daddy called 911.

His heart had stopped.

An hour later, 

the doctors at the hospital were able to regain a pulse.

However, it was too late.

They disconnected him from artificial life support at 

8:36pm on Tuesday evening.

He would have been one on May 14th.

(One day after my oldest turns 8).

I have never met this family,

but know quite a few families who know them and

love them.

I have heard nothing but praise as to how this family is

handling this loss.

They are pillars of faith

and give Glory to God

for blessing them with this 

child for those 11 months.

As they looked back over his short little life,

they were confident that they had not missed

an opportunity to show this child love.

Hug your children,

tell them and show them that you love them.

and 

as another blogger (who also lost a child)

states at the end of each post:

Cherish every moment!