It finally happened!

I should have knocked on wood last Friday when I was talking to a friend about how we were so blessed to not have had any sick kids this winter yet. Just 3 hours later I came home to the beginning of the madness. Carson had a fever and was supposed to go with his brother and sister to grandpa and grandma's for the weekend, but instead got some really great mommy and daddy time. He's been hacking up a lung ever since. Connor stayed home from school on Wednesday and too is coughing like an old man I stayed home from work on Thursday with a achy/coughing nasty bug, and should have stayed home on Friday too, but duty calls. I am now barking like a seal. Andy is now hanging his head over the toilet and I am wondering if the stomach flu will hit us all this week. I guess it's just our turn!

Warms my heart

A friend of ours took this picture of her at the Christmas Eve service. Andy had it in his inbox for about a month so I got it a couple of weeks ago. I've got to figure out where to put a copy of it in our house! A couple of quick laughs this little one has given us this week- I asked her what is her favorite song to sing to God. She thought about it for a minute and said, "You move my salvation." I of course said, "What??? I don't think I know that one. Did you make that one up?" (Side note- She makes up a lot of worship songs throughout the day.) She sang the melody of it and I immediately knew what the real words were. They are from the chorus of Mighty To Save and the words are supposed to be "Author of salvation". She loves this song by the way and has almost all of it memorized, wrong words and all! We were sitting at the table playing a game tonight and out of nowhere she proclaims, "I just love my grandmas! They're so fuzzy, soft, and sweet!" I'm pretty sure you can take that as a compliment! I would take it as one!

Snow day

So what do we do when it looks like this outside and school is cancelled? We paint!!!

We play store and house...

We play with lots of cars...

We make forts in the living room... We even get in a science lesson... Measuring with a tape ruler... Yes, it's a full day! And fun to be together...

Battling it out...

My prayer at 6:15pm was "Okay God, I'm done battling without You!!!" This is how the day looked to bring me to this point. I battled with 1st graders as we made Valentine's bags, went ice skating (yes, real ice skating- there's a rink next to the school) and broke up too many minor issued tifts to care about. FYI- Subs really don't get paid enough to deal with these things!!! I battled with a 2 foot mound of snow at the end of the driveway when I returned from my glorious day with 1st graders. The wind blew most of the snow that I threw over my head onto the 5 ft. snow drifts on either side of our driveway back into my face. AAHHH to be in North Dakota again! I battled with one of my son's as I asked him to pick up some toys and he didn't want to and proceeded to throw a 6-year-old fit! I battled with my daughter as she brought books and dolls to the table and didn't want to bring them back to her room and obey the rules. I battled with the issues in my brain of, "where is the money going to come from?" and "this is so unfair". And after thinking that, I battled with my selfish thinking because it wasn't fair that God had to give up His one and only Son to die a horrible death for me! That's not fair!!!! So, all that to say, I'm done battling without God who deserves glory and honor for who He is, just because He is a good God. He never fails us!!! Oh how I love those words! If that's too honest for you- sorry. I just needed to be honest today!