It is all because of Ben!

Yup. I just gonna blame it on Ben. I think he is nuts any way. The weird stuff in my life, the way LOST didn't record last night, the difficult time consuming job Keith had last night. It is all Ben's fault. (Plus now I want a little wheelie thing to turn and make time go backwards by more than three years! - WHAT was that ???) Sorry Ben but you are the bad guy anyway. (And I am still banking on the Casimir Effect on the island of LOST!)

Lose My Soul

Yep. I came pretty close to that today. It was just not a very good day. sometimes I just question WHY God allows things to happen. I just don't get it. As if I am not stressed enough he throws a curve ball. No, it was not as bad as someone in my family getting hurt. It was an EMOTIONAL curve ball. And it just made me a wreck. This day was pretty much just a day that could be wiped from the books forever. I still don't get it God, but I am sure you have your reasons. so just take a few minutes and listen to the two songs that are first on my play list. Toby Mac's "Loose My Soul" and Kanye West's "Stronger". Cause both have words of truth. Too bad I couldn't find the Beatles, "Help".

Merry CHRISTmas!

Merry CHRISTmas!! Happy Birthday Jesus!

We had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas Eve with the whole family and a glorious Christmas Day at home just relaxing and being together and celebrating the birth of our Savior!

Yeah, it has been a while. It is cold and flu season here in the Ohio Valley! Yuck! I am almost never sick and I just haven't been able to kick this cold. I had a cold, went to Detroit, MI for 6 days and thought I was on the end of it, came back and it started all over again after a few days home! The really fun part was loosing my voice - How do you yell for your kids to hurry up before school with no voice??!! I had to actually treck up and down the steps several times trying to hurry them up. Not fun. I personally like the yelling up the stairs route! Of course, we just got a letter from school this week warning us that both kids have been tardy three times and if it happens more, we will have to come in for a counseling session. Yea - fun!! Just what I always dreamed of! Getting in trouble at school as a parent!! I thought my school trouble days were over!! Well, these kids are going to be on time even if I have lost my voice and have to pick them up and carry them to the car! On to the good stuff!! We are all ready for Christmas Break (only now it is called "Winter Break" here) and for Christmas it's self too! I have all the gifts and cant wait to give them out. Keith will probably shop in the two hours before the stores close on Christmas Eve, as always. He is like my dad! I am too afraid to wait to buy presents, I am afraid they will sell out of the thing I want! Speaking of, I need to go wrap before the nosy kids find my stash!

I just figured out Blue's Clues, I just figured out Blue's Clues, I just figured out Blue's Clues BECAUSE I'M VERY SMART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry but I just fixed the Html on my Playlist at the bottom of the page ALL BY MY-SELF!!! (See I just got all happy and proud so if Blogger shuts down for the day, I am really sorry. I told you it was my X-Man power to screw up computers!! - It won't happen though! Yea Me!!)

Don't Bring Me Down

Seriously. I knew it was coming. I knew Obama would be our next president. The Republicans just pi**ed away too many years. And really, how can you not win running on a platform titled, "Hope & Change"??? Really. All I have to say is, "Don't Bring Me Down". (I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor, DON'T BRING ME DOWN!)

I am going to concentrate on the happy things in life. That and I'm gonna go collect on my "redistribution of wealth" since I have no job right now. Where do I sign up??!!

Just Like Tina, Ike Can't Keep Us Down!

Birthday Breakfast by Candlelight!

Who would have thought a hurricane could come through Kentucky?!!! Here we are in the middle of the East, right between the dividing line of the North and South and we get a Hurricane!!! Not a lot of water and no tornadoes but HUGE WINDSTORM!!! Several of my friends had trees fall on their houses, cars, pools, etc. It was amazing to watch!! Apples were blowing off the apple trees out back like missiles! We have three beautiful pine trees out back that serve as a type of privacy screen for our almost all glass family room and Keith watched as one of them just snapped in half from the force of the wind and fell into our neighbors yard! I was really sad. I watched them sway sooooo far each way. I prayed over my front pine tree that it would be able to withstand the force of the wind and it did! I really do think my praying helped because the neighbor right next to me just beyond that pine got trashed!!! It was like a wind tunnel or something right between our two houses. They lost several trees. We were lucky too because as we pulled in from church, my other neighbors big tree came down right across our driveway!! We were trapped at home with both cars in the garage. Also, the power went out all over the city!! There were almost 700,000 houses without power that day!!! We were some of the last 600 homes to get power restored too! I really enjoyed not having power for the first 6 - 7 days and would have been more than happy to continue without it but we have an electric water heater!! UGH! That is really all I needed to survive. A hot shower! That is the one amenity that I can not live without!!! Cold showers SUCK and are actually physically painful!!! I was really thankful/grateful to God for giving us a much needed BREAK in our hectic running lives!!! Everyone HAD to slow down. It was so nice! Schools were closed all week and we got to relax and read and play games and play outside and just really praise Him for a BREATHER! We had wonderful cool weather for the first week too and then it started getting hot and the kids started having their sports practices so they were not so happy with the cold shower thing either! Thank God my parents only live 15 minutes away and have a GAS water heater!!! anyway, we all survived and even thrived (at least I did for 7 days) without power. Thank God I am low maintenance - no hair dryer or make-up for me. (good thing too cause I saw some people that definitely put theirs on in the dark or by candle light! Just kidding but it was kinda funny to see!) Nothing wrong with makeup I just feel like I cant breathe with it on my face. Your skin IS your largest organ so if you use it, make sure it is good and natural - no petroleum products!! {soapbox ;-)}

So that was our bout with Hurricane Ike. Ten days with no electricity, no hot water, a birthday by candle light and lots of money spent eating out.

But, JUST LIKE TINA, IKE CAN'T KEEP US DOWN!!!