Happy Birthday!

Today is my Mom...Marsha's Musings...birthday. I will not tell you how old she is. I will tell you that I am 32 and she had me when she was 23! So for 32 years I have been her pride and joy. She actually used to carry a picture in her wallet and then ask people if they wanted to see her pride and joy....unsuscpecting people would say yes, and then she would show them a picture of a bottle of pride and a bottle of joy detergant. She also had a picture of her kids which was a picture of baby goats. This is the kind of person that raised me if that helps you to understand me a little better!

My sister coined this phrase about our Mom years ago. She said..."Our Mom takes something simple and makes it spectacular." If you've ever read Mom's blog, you know that this is true. Everything she does and everyone she loves, including the Lord, she does so too the fullest. On our own, my Dad, my Sister, my Brother, and I would be simple. But with her in our lives, she has strived to make us spectacular. I'll never reach the highest level of spectacular, but her input in my life definetly pushes me in that direction.

My children adore her. In the above video Logan states his favorite thing to do with Marmi is burping contests. I know that there are many other things he loves too, but as a 7 year old boy, burping contest are a big deal! Simple burping made spectacular!

Lana states that her favorite thing to do with Marmi is go to Christmas bizzares. I think Lana's favorite thing is actually Tea parties, but put on the spot Christmas bizzare is what came to mind. However just a simple thing like going to a Christmas bizzare, in Lana's mind was made spectacular by her Marmi.

So Happy Birthday to one of the most spectacular people that I know! I hope your day was as spectacular as you are!

Sheperding a Child's Heart

Check out my friend Jeri's blog.
She has a link for the new Ted Tripp book that is coming out.
If you haven't read "Shepherding a Child's Heart", it's a great book!
If you have read it, pick it up again.
I'm looking forward to this new one.
He has such a refreshing approach to parenting.
It all comes back to pointing our kids towards Christ.
I imagine this new one "Instructing a Child's Heart" will be even better.

Planetarium

Attention my fellow homeschoolers:
It appears we may all have a case of the wintery homeschooling blues. Or maybe it's just me getting tired of winter sickness!
But anyways...Did you know there is a Planetarium at Bham Southern College?
It's only $2 a person for groups of 10 or more.
That would be a fun winter day field trip.
Let me know if you are interested and what day would be best and I will see about setting it up.

Also...what if in conjunction with this field trip we do a Hot Soup/Hot Cocoa lunch with a planetarium type lesson or craft for the kidos?!

Come on...you know you want to!

SNOW!!!

I don't know about anybody else, but it is coming a flood of snow at our house right now!

The kids are soooo happy!

Logan can't find any gloves so he is running around outside with socks on his hand...very ingenous!

And Lana keeps proclaiming that its the best day of her life!

I know it probablly will stop soon, but it sure is pretty right now, and the kids sure are loving it!

Hope it's snowing where you are!!!

Yada Yada

So I went to the Dr today and I have...drum roll please....
Eustachian Tube Disorder
Sounds very technical doesn't it.
Bascially my sinus tubes in my face are inflamed and hence pushing on my ears and hence causing the dizzy-drugged like feeling.
I got a nice Steroid Shot, a nasty nose spray, and an antibiotic that cost me $115.
Yes folks you heard me right...$115.
Do they think paying my co-pay, paying for stuff to squirt up my nose, and then paying that much for an antibiotic are going to make me feel better?
My head was spinning even more and my hand began to shake as I swiped my debit card through that machine.
So now here I sit...$150 poorer. Head still swirling...steroid shot making me jittery as all get out, and another day of minimal school time.
I hate wasted days!
I can tell you however how things work, what myths have been busted, how Charles Ingalls found Laura (again), and what Paula Deen is making for supper!

Blahs

I feel yucky! My body hurts and my head is spinning and my ears feel clogged. I stayed home from church yesterday and just layed on the couch all day. Now today seems like another wasted day. Everytime I get up to do anything my head starts spinning. It is very hard for me to do nothing. I have to do at least a little something. So I put dishes away and started a load of laundry. Then I had to sit. That makes me crazy!
I am however taking Zycam...thanks to Kims constant endorsments! So hopefully I will feel better by the end of today. I've only had 3 doses of the stuff.

So for school today, Lana is watching Dora the explorer and Logan is watching Myth Busters and How it's made. I've got some of his worsksheets for him to do to. This morning I thought how nice it would be if I could send them to school today...but then I thought about the fact that I would have had to make them lunch, get them ready, and get them too and from school. This is much better...I can lay on the couch, they can bring me stuff, and I don't have to go anywere!
Just kidding...they aren't bringing me stuff...but maybe they should!

On a happy note, according to my scale I lost 3 pounds this week. I don't know if it's right or not. Stacy thinks the scale is off...but it's brand new, so I don't know. So for the sake of encouragment to carry on, I will hold to the fact that the scale was 3 pounds lighter today.

I must go lay down now. Hope everyone else is having a non typical Monday!