I’ve noticed that for some reason people are fairly interested in reading complete strangers day to day experiences. I will attempt to address this interest. My daily journal will be kept on the side. This will protect those of you who couldn’t care less from hearing about my trip to the grocery store, the Doctor or the back yard. If you are interested in my randomness click on the journal category.

Expect nothing poetic or inspiring only Reality. We have a lot of that around here, Reality, I mean. It piles up on the couch, on the kitchen table and pours out of the kid’s rooms. Sometimes it hides in the bathroom and overflows into the hall. Watch out it might get stuck on the bottom of your shoe. Reality its a sticky thing, and no matter how hard you try you just can’t seem to keep it shoved under the bed or in the closet. It’s never very exciting and not too shiny but we do have an ample supply. Enough to share anyway. . .

Happy Birthday Kenzie. I love my Kenzie she is my dear friend Janae’s little girl. Well actually she’s not that little she just turned 9 and she is about 2 inches shorter than me. (I admit that’s not saying much)

Today was the first day of the First Baptist VBS. I went to drop Kaleb and Charleigh off and I had to wade through what seemed like hundreds of kids. Dragging Joshua through the masses I finally found my way back to the van. Poor thing just doesn’t understand why his siblings get to have all the fun and he has to go with me. I convinced him our day was going to be equally as fun. He cheered up when I mentioned that we were on our way to church to and that he was going to see his friend Abbye. I met Sarah at the Church a few minutes later only to find that she had not brought Abbye. This fact did not please my two year old at all. He was only slightly pacified by the new baby Hannah who was very pretty, had cute toes to tickle but just couldn’t play ball with him like her older sister.

Sarah and I are starting a Cookie Ministry at our church in which we will take a goody bag to recent visitors. Today our goal was to sit down organize our grocery list, go purchase the items, mix the dough, bake the cookies, then deliver them with a smile. . . Didn’t quite work the way we had planned. By noon we had retreived all necessary ingredients as well as going back to both of our homes to get mixers. With out having touched a chocolate chip we had to break for lunch. Cookies or no Cookies husbands and children still get hungry. It took me about 15 min for me to pick up the kids, I was waiting at the wrong door for Kaleb.

At lunch Kurt and I worked on his application for the position for Shop Supervisor(not sure if that is the official title but it’s close) He left early to go retype it up. I had planned on meeting Sarah at 1:30 and it was just barely 1:00 so it seemed like a fabulous chance for a nap. Within the first 5 minutes I had received 4 calls. 3 telemarketers and one local church doing some kind of week long prayer drive. The lady on the phone was so nervous I couldn’t understand what she was saying. I told her she could pray for Charleigh’s hearing and for her DR visit tomorrow. I could tell the lady was trying to get us to go to her church so I also added that I would love it if her church would pray for our church seeing that we just got a new Pastor and this was a time of great change for us. At that request she said Uh UH ok then she hung up. Interesting. . .

Back to church and back to work. Sorta we got the two batches of chocolate chip cookies mixed and rolled and put in the freezer. But none were baked or delivered. I have no idea why we were so slow could be the 5 kids accompaning us.

We arrived back home in time to get cleaned up and go to the Lakeview Methodist church for their VBS. Two Vacation Bible schools in one day? Why not? Once again Joshua was too young but by this time Daddy was home so he didn’t care. We had a nice dinner then Kurt went to Reunion group (men’s prayer/accountability group) Hmmm. . . wonder what they talk about. And here I am talking about probably the most uneventful day I’ve had in months. Hmm kinda nice to go disaster free for 24 hours.

Tomorrow we are headed to The ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Dr for Charleigh’s hearing. We will find out what is causing the loss and the means to restore it. Our possible options are medicine, tubes, or surgery. I choose healing, with medication coming in as a second option. Not to keen on the whole surgery thing.

Joshua has found his way out of bed so I best be off to tuck him into his glowing star sheets