Family Vacation 2010 Day 1 and 2

Lane and Hynlee girl:)

The kiddos playing in the pool in Albany

Derick and Jonah Lance

We just took our annual family vacation. We know there are tons of places we could visit..and I'm sure there more educational,history-filled,nature loving places we could go but there is only one place for us...DISNEY WORLD. But this year made a pit stop on the way here. We decided to stop by Albany, Georgia to visit Sherwood Baptist Church. This is the church who has produced Fireproof and Facing the Giants. I loved this church! I even joked with Derick that since we have nothing tying us to home now we could pick up and move down here. It was everything you would expect it to be. Don't get me wrong, I love my church. Derick and I have grown up in the same church our entire lives and hope to raise our girls there also. But if you have known me long you know I am just about the farthest thing from racist you can be. Most of my family have their views on things but since a early age I have stood out on this subject. Back to my point that was one of my favorite things about this church. I believe just about every race was present. And there was no weird feeling about it. How neat it was to be in a meeting with everyone and no one worried about who was next to them! I REALLY enjoyed the service there. The girls even wanted to go to their assigned age room classes. They had so much fun and really enjoyed their self.

What a difference a day can make....

Too often you take everything for granted. Everything from your children's health and your own, to being able to provide for them the way you always have. As I mention earlier Callee has been VERY sick lately. But in one day on the right medicine and she is a completely different child. Her appetite is slowly coming back and she is step-by-step becoming the wild child she has always been. She's running and playing and finally feels like fighting with her sister again. I'm so very grateful my baby is on her way to recovery! But just as fast as something bad can get better, it can go the other way around. Derick has worked for the same company for the past 10 years. He has been able to provide us with everything we have needed and I have been so blessed to have had the privilege to stay at home with my angels. But he walked in the office Monday and they told him it was his last day. A lack of work is what they are calling it. And yes I understand that things are hard and there aren't that many jobs for them right now. But seriously I wish we would have a warning of some sort! But my amazing husband and his unfaltering faith is not worried. When I first saw him after we got the news he came up and put his arms around me...not the other way around. Hello...he was the one who just got laid off and here he was supporting me. Worried how I was and how I was taking the news. Cause we all know I can sometimes how do you say it?...OVERREACT!!

I was busy asking what are we going to do?

And how long are we going to be ok?

I need to find a job!

He then looks me in the eye and says,

It's your job to raise these girls, to take care of them.

It's my job to provide for you. Don't worry!

Man how I wish I was that strong! To have that kind of faith.

Don't get me wrong. I know the Lord has brought us to this and if we trust in him, he will bring us through it. I just let the devil get the best of me. So just like my last post please say an extra prayer for us again. That Callee continues to improve. And that Grace and Hynlee don't get any worse(forgot to mention they are coming down with the same thing)and that Derick finds a job that not only provides us with the necessities but also makes the most deserving man alive happy. Something that he will enjoy doing and getting up and going to everyday. And for me, that I will continue to put my trust in the Lord. That I will be here to support Derick in what ever it is that he chooses. And that I can be half the spouse to him that he is to me!

A special prayer request

I have a very special prayer request. My family and I have been suffering from the worst stomach virus for a week and a half now. When one gets over it another comes down with it. And just when it looks like its getting better it starts all over again. Derick has missed a couple days of work and the girls have missed an entire week of school. I thought we were over it and spent mothers day with our families and now half of them have it too. I took Callee bug back to the doctor for the second time this week. He is going to run some test BUT first we have to collect her POOP! I know but there is really no other way to say it!! So hopefully we can take it back today and get the results as soon as possible. Grace has managed to fight it off this entire time but today she finally caught it. So now we have three sick kids, one sick daddy who has to start 3rd shift today, tons of dirty clothes, three medical tubes that have to be filled..., and one very disgusted mommy!!Please say a prayer for us, please!! Oh and you can thank me later for not uploading any pictures with this post.....

Happy Mother's Day!

What Did I Do Today?

Today I left some dishes dirty;
I got the bed made around 3:30.
The diapers soaked a little longer,
The odor grew a little stronger.
The crumbs I spilled the day before,
Are staring at me from the floor.
The fingerprints there on the wall,
Will likely be there still next fall.
The dirty streaks on those windowpanes,
Will still be there next time it rains.
Shame on you, you sit and say,
Just what did you do today?

I held a baby til she slept,
I held a toddler why she wept.
I played a game of hide and seek,
I squeezed a toy so it would squeak.
I pulled a wagon, sang a song,
Taught a child right from wrong.
What did I do this whole day through?
Not much that shows, I guess that's true.
Unless you think of what I have done,
Might be important to someone.
With bright blue eyes and soft blonde hair,
If that is true...I've done my share.

Not her Mommy anymore

It seems like every post I make is something along the lines of how fast the girls are growing and changing. I know this, I know I can't stop them from it, nor can I slow it down. All I can do is make the most of the time I have with them. I accept that..not that I don't want to stop time and keep them babies forever. But with that being said I was not ready for this!! The other night when Callee was so sick she asked if I would lay with her until she fell asleep. So as she was dozing off, Grace was getting ready for bed. She was turning down her covers, making sure her slippers and housecoat was at the end of her bed, even turning on her alarm clock(yes on the weekend) that she just got, because she doesn't need me to wake her anymore she says!! But as she was climbing in her bed our little conversation went like this:

Mommy, I'm starting to feel like a BIG girl!

Well, Grace that is because you are, you are growing so fast!

I know Mommy, but big girls don't call their moms mommy anymore

Really?

Yes, they just call them Mom

Well I guess some do.

What do you think I should call you?

Well what do you wanna call me?

I'm not sure?

You can call me what ever you feel comfortable with (I say this as my heart was BREAKING!)

Well I guess I'm gonna rest my eyes now MOM!

Ok Gracie! I love you forever!!

Love you too!

Thank God she has slipped up and still called me mommy a few times. I know she is growing up but I want to always be her Mommy!!

15 things about Hynlee

1. she asks What's that? about everything

2. new words..Nana, Gracie, Paw-Paw,Peees(Please),See

3. has shoo-shooed twice in the potty!!

4. loves her Nanny Myrt and her green peas

5. climbs on everything

6. give her a pocket book and a dollar and she is one happy girl!

7. loves her cozy coupe from her Nanny Holley

8. is still a little skinny-minnie!

9. just like her Daddy about some loud music!!

10. loves to dance!! Thank God better than her daddy:)

11. gives the sweetest hugs and kisses:)

12. thinks she is as old as her sisters

13. still nursing....and only during the night!!!!

14. loves to pick flowers..especially while your planting them!

15. is a HUGE Mommy's girl!!

So yesterday I said I was going to get this thing updated. Then I spent WAY TOO much time creating a (very cute I might say) collage of pictures from Callee's party for my last post. Just to upload it and it didn't work. It just very plainly placed my photos in a line. So I got frustrated and signed off. But now it 4:59am and I can't sleep so why not try to finish this thing, right??
Well for the past 6 days...yes I said 6 WHOLE DAYS my entire family has gotten the stomach virus. Thank the good Lord not all at once. Like Hynlee and I had it for the first two days, then Callee and Derick. So I thought ok by some miracle Grace didn't get it and we are done now. Boy was I wrong!! Then once again Callee got it. And did I mention the reason I'm up is Hynlee just got sick again! So I'm wondering how in the world are we ever going to get past this if we just continue to pass it back and forth? And how is Grace the only one who is immune to this?? Maybe her HUGE fear of bathrooms and germs have finally paid off?! So please say a special prayer for us that we may very soon see the end of the virus or you can come visit me at the mental hospital!!!

Worst Blogger Ever!

The reason I started this blog in the first place was for the girls. A scrapbook online if you will for my girls! Well turns out I as bad at this as real scrapbooking! I never have time to just sit and post. Kinda funny I want to do this for them..but because I have three kids age 6 and under I don't have the time!! So I'm not sure how to do this make one HUGE post to catch up on all I have missed or post ten mini post? ....The Big thing I haven't had time to blog about is Callee's 5th birthday. How can my baby girl be 5? She is growing and changing every day. She is still her wild crazy self but slowly she is changing from this tom-boy to another little princess. She is growing out of the batman stage and is starting playing with dolls, make-up, dresses..In a way I'm glad but it also makes me sad. She still gets hurt EVERYDAY doing something. Whether its trying to climb a tree or jumping off something way too high but does that stop my Callee? No Way! She just wipes it off and she's fine. She amazes me at how strong she is. But she does wear her feelings on her sleeve! The slightest little thing will send her crying and hiding. These past few days I have got to spend a lot of one on one time with her. She loves nothing better than playing in the dirt still and she has been helping me plant some flowers. Callee is an amazing little girl when you sit and really listen to her.I feel some times that she has gotten the bad end of the deal sort of. I had one on one time with Grace before Callee and now little Hynlee takes so much of my time I don't feel like I get to spend enough with her. I'm the middle child and if your not one you just don't understand how it feels. But I'm so very blessed that the Lord saw me fit to be called her mother. I love you Callee Bug:)