Good habits.
Eat fresh fruit every day.
Drink 6-8 glasses of water every day.
Read the Bible every day.
Exercise every day.
Journal every day.
the list goes on and on and on
BUT I have finally done one of those things EVERY DAY for the past MONTH!
A month ago today our pastor challenged us to read our Bible for five minutes EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF OUR LIFE.
yep, THE REST OF OUR LIFE.
That's huge.
I took that challenge, prayed a prayer of commitment, and...
I have now read my Bible for AT LEAST 5 minutes EVERY DAY for the past month.
I'm pretty pleased with myself
and mostly
I'm pretty pleased with God and how He is working in me.
So many changes in my perspective
attitude
priorities
Yea God.
So here's to the first month of MANY!
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Well, nearby for us means about an hour.
It's ALWAYS fun
We've gone many times with the Brouses often with friends as well.
This year we brought some new friends into our tradition.
The fun was as wonderful as always although I don't remember the strawberries being this small before. They were almost ALL really really small.
Still big in flavor and sweetness but definitely little in size.
The kids seemed to approach the strawberry picking very differently than years past or than each other.
This was Georgia's first year that she was more focused on picking than eating.
Her main focus was to attach to a friend (it was a wonderful daughter of a friend of mine... I think S is 7 years old) and either follow her friend around or make her friend follow her!
Caleb was definitely focused on picking.
He picked and picked and picked.
When the rest of us were tired of picking, Caleb didn't want to stop!
He took it pretty seriously too, not eating any of them until he was finally finished picking.
He also was fine with running off to whatever row was calling his name, not needing anyone to go with him or really paying attention to anyone at all! He was just all about "finding the hidden treasures!"
I LOVED that the kids kept saying that "Look, I found the hidden treasure" or "I want to find more hidden treasures", referring to the strawberries with wonderful delight.
When the fun ended we had plenty of little tasty strawberries.
Like every year, it was tons of fun and we are so thrilled that we enjoyed it with some new friends.
Also like every year, I'm now trying to figure out what to do with all of these strawberries!
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He's tried many times to impart this love on his sister.
Sometimes it works
sometimes it doesn't.
She often has fun with it...minimally... with limits.
Caleb has no limits when it comes to mud.
Tonight found them playing an interesting game.
Caleb had made mud and Georgia sat nearby on the porch steps.
I watched them from the back and listened to them talking
and giggling.
Upon closer observation I saw what they were enjoying so much...
Caleb was THROWING handfuls of mud (the REALLY GOOPY kind)
at his sister's legs.
She thought it was great!
He of course thought it was the GREATEST GAME EVER!
I was shocked that this new-found game was being enjoyed by both involved.
Caleb then went from throwing it onto her legs and feet to just grabbing two handfuls at a time and smearing it onto her.
She just sat there watching him from up on the step as he gently (he really was being adorably gentle about it!) slathered her feet with mud.
It continued for quite a while and by the end of it, my porch had a good 1/2 inch of mud covering the entire thing.The kids were covered in much more than 1/2 inch.
But they had fun.
They had fun TOGETHER.
(and I love watching that!)
What they did NOT LIKE was the hosing (and partial stripping) they received before being allowed back into the house!:0)
Even poor ducky got a mud treatment!
I sure do love these kiddos and I love watching them love each other!
For those that don't know...
here's the story:
(for those that know the story and have been asking for photos, you have permission to scroll down)
I decided to finally get off my behind and start using my treadmill.
It has been in my living room for a year now untouched.
I came home from work and did my WiiFit and then had a little meeting with the kiddos. I explained that the treadmill is not a toy. That it can hurt you. It can "break your bones" or burn your skin. That they DO NOT TOUCH the treadmill.
hmmm...seemed simple enough.
So I put a movie on in the playroom for the kids and I started walking/jogging.
The kids would come by on occasion and I would remind them "DON'T TOUCH!"
Caleb went to play outside.
Georgia came up behind me once.
In a matter of 3 seconds, she sat down directly behind me and stuck her hand in the back of the treadmill.
Right here.
I was already aware that she had come up behind me so I looked back over my shoulder and saw her. She hadn't even made a noise...yet.
I yanked the emergency stop chord.
Jumped off and grabbed her right as she was saying "AAhhhhh.??...!!!"
Her hand wasn't really stuck but she wasn't pulling it out on her own either.
I held her in my lap and assured her she was fine.
She looked fine.
I didn't see anything too wrong.
At first look.
Then I walked her into the kitchen to get a better look.
Her fingers were getting red and I noticed a bunch of stuff at the base of her fingers.
Skin.
All bunched up where it wasn't supposed to be.
Yuck.
Ouch.
Oh goodness.
I quickly went to my neighbor's house (Jen is the best!) who just had something similar happen to her niece.
I asked (with a slightly panicked look on my face). "Ummm....what did they do when J got those burns from the treadmill?????"
She replied "neosporin and gauze....but let me look."
then she said "Ok, well, how about I go watch Caleb and M while you go ahead and get her to the emergency room."
We went home to tell Caleb and M where we were going, that Jen was staying with them. Then we called Brandon to fill him in a bit.
Off we went.
Brandon met us there shortly after we were brought back to a bed.
Georgia was a real trooper.
She was so brave.
Brandon was fabulous at reassuring both of us.
The nurses came.
One doctor came.
Then another doctor (pedi) came in.
They cleaned it and wrapped it up.
We were given the name of a Pedi hand surgeon to go see within two days, no later.
We did.
It went great.
We have to soak it in soapy water each day for 15 minutes and then slather some of her prescription goop (thicker than any lotion or ointment I've seen) all over (we literally just plop it on by the spoonful .... that's what the doc did so that's what we do) and then rewrap it in reg. gauze and then the cling gauze.
We'll do this for 10 days or more..until the deeper layers of skin start growing back.
Then they will splint it for as long as it takes for all the skin to grow back.
If her fingers aren't kept straight while it heals then she won't grow enough skin and then she wouldn't be able to straighten her fingers... making her then need skin grafts and surgery. (at that point in the directions was when the surgeon said "That's why you are seeing me now...to avoid surgery in her future."
After the splint comes off then we'll see how the healing went and if she'll need any further help.
We'll be praying not.
She wasn't real thrilled at having her photo taken during the ordeal. That's why the following photos weren't taken until a few days later.
The two photos above were taken Friday and the one below was taken Saturday.
I can already see where some skin is starting to heal and grow back together! YEA!She has done wonderfully.
She is already moving her fingers while they soak (the first couple of times we were just thankful she put them in the water at all!).
I "hide" some of her toy animals under the bubbles and she and I find them (she has to use her hand/fingers to move the water/bubbles out of the way) and we take turns picking them up, she is only allowed to use her "bobo hand".
She really is doing great!
We are super proud of her.
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Thank you for all of the prayers.
We continue to pray for complete and quick healing.
It already looks 100x better than it looked in the beginning.
The way it looked last Monday compared to these photos from Friday and Saturday... it's an amazing difference! Praise God!
I think the prescription goop must be a wonder ointment!
Something I want to always have around! :0)
She likes her pink "big band aid" a lot! :0)
Our latest glitch is now she has bobos on her "good hand". We went to a birthday party last night and had a blast. Right towards the end though, a guest's chihuaha decided it didn't really want kids around anymore. Georgia didn't have the dog cornered or anything, as a matter of fact they (some kids and the dog) were all by the back door. All I know is Georgia started screaming and running to me.
The darn dog bit Georgia.
Now, it's a chihuahua so don't go visualizing a bite like a pitt bull would leave.
BUT
in Georgia's eyes...she now has two "bobo hands".
She walks around now with both hands held up.
She'll be fine and by tomorrow she'll probably forget all about her new bobos.
In comparison, these bite marks are nothin'.
I'm not quite sure if the dog had it's legs up on Georgia's arm too and that's where the deeper cuts came from (the one on her hand was bleeding and the one under the band-aid)...it's obvious where the teeth were and a chihuahua's mouth isn't that big! The four marks where the canine teeth were broke the skin but I'm glad chihuahua's teeth are small. :0)For having Irish blood in her, Georgia doesn't seem to have much luck!
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P.S....the treadmill is going back OUT OF MY HOUSE. Already have a friend that has dibs on it. :0)
She chose a Ball Party.
Not the kind of Ball Party Caleb would want.
The kind of Ball Party a little princess girl would want.
Dancing.
Fancy dresses.
Tiaras.
Dance cards.
Fancy cakes and punch.
It was AMAZING!
I loved everything about the party (my Sis is just great at parties!)
BUT
there was one thing that was my favorite.
See, I'm a little biased and see the world through my Momma glasses.
My little girl FINALLY wanted to wear her "twirly skirt" that she got for Christmas.
She's never wanted to wear it before.
Oh....it was too darn precious.
But how precious she was wasn't my favorite part.
The part I will NEVER FORGET was how darn cute my TWO KIDS were when they were dancing together!
They really danced!
AND
enjoyed it!
They even continued for a few songs.
Complete with Georgia being twirled by her big brother.
I fell in love.
(again)
Here are some photos for my girl before leaving and then at the party (with her fabulous dance partner!).
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Literally, I RAN to the computer because I needed to share this with everyone real quick.
My hubs AND my dog are taking a shower.
yes, you heard me right.
See...we got a lot of rain today and my dog was outside for it.
That means MUD.
and LOTS of it!
if you have never seen my dog in real life...he's huge. REALLY huge.
and VERY HAIRY.
He's a super tall German Shepherd.
And so I sent my hubs out to clean him off tonight so we could bring him in.
I suddenly hear "turn on the shower".
UMMM????....
"ok???"
And so there they are now...
in the stand up shower
together.
Oh...and ours is just a standard size (small) stand up shower.
FUNNY!
Seriously, if I could take photos...
I would.
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