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I Just Saw One Hamster Make a Mad Dash to the Kitchen.
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Aug 6, 2008 8:23 pm
Mood: whatever,
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I don't think the tape my son used for a door to Caramel's cage was very effective at keeping her from escaping. Yes, we did have enough cages for each of the hamsters, but one of them was missing a part. I wonder what kind of plan my sons will devise to keep her at home, now.
Hey, everything that was supposed to happen yesterday, did. I mean, I had that root canal. I gave them $600 more and now I owe them $210. I have another appointment in three weeks. I'm looking for a different dentist after this because I know there has to be one kind-hearted dentist out there, somewhere, in our city....at least one with a good dental insurance plan.
After I got that root canal, I went to get a haircut. It was starting to bug me having so much hair with it being a hundred degrees out. I still have plenty of hair...just not as thick and a couple of inches shorter.
I went back to that flea market where I bought one of those cages and they still had the shelves I wanted...so I bought them.
And I got home in time to watch Mary. We took her swimming at the YMCA and she had a good time. I even met a very nice person who homeschools his kids, too. It was good to talk to another adult.
Today wasn't so bad. It wasn't very good, either...but I tried to bear with Fallon's spitting and doing everything she isn't supposed to do.
We had a picnic at the park....and three of them took a nap, so I guess it wasn't such a bad day.
I went to praise team practice tonight and found out that I was supposed to sing on the praise team last week and nobody told me. I wish they would have given me the calendar that told me when I was really supposed to be there.
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Back to the Drawing Board
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Aug 5, 2008 6:41 am
Mood: uncertain,
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The end of summer.
Two kids go back to school.
Will I ever see them again? I don't know. Their parents have made other plans for them before and after school.
I don't blame them. It doesn't matter, anyway. God will provide...for them and for me.
This week is the last week for them to be here. I'm faced with uncertainty. Uncertainty of what will happen next. Uncertainty of whether or not I made the right choice in getting this dental work done..uncertainty of how I'm going to make the money I need after I empty out a third of my account to the dentist office today..........because I know I'm also losing $165 a week after the girls start school.
And something inside me tells me that God wants it this way. God wants to show me another miracle! He wants to tell me that no matter what happens, He's going to get me through...and maybe I will be broke for a little while. Maybe I won't have more than three full-time kids for a little while, but maybe God wants me to clear my head so that I can be a better parent. I know I haven't done that very well, lately. Not that I hurt the boys...but that I let them get away with too much...was too much like their friend instead of their parent.
Something has got to be done about that.
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Hamster Land
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Aug 3, 2008 8:30 pm
Mood: good,
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On the way home from my Aunt's birthday party at the lake, today, I took Zach to find a couple of more cages so we could separate the baby hamsters. They're almost as big as their mama, now...at four weeks old.
I was going to take him to a flea market, but on the way, I found someone starting a garage sale. They had what looked like a mailbox, but it had chickenwire or something like it for the walls. The boy I spoke with said his grandpa had made it to be a carrier for his cat. It makes a good hamster cage, though.
My dad made something similar to that years ago when we needed a carrier for our hamsters to go to the pet parade. His had a handle on it and you couldn't see through it. He put wheels on the bottom of it and it was noisey, but it was a nice hamster carriage.
The cat carrier reminded me of that hamster cart, so I bought it.
We did go to the flea market and they had a nice hamster cage there, too, so we bought it.
Now we have lots of hamster homes....just like I had when my daughter was little....our very own hamster zoo.
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Is It Just The Drama Queen In Me?
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Aug 3, 2008 8:18 pm
Mood: uncomfortable,
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I'm just wondering if my imagination is going wild or if I was a witness to something very terrible that was going to happen if I didn't stop it.
Today, after I heard a Brazillian minister speak at church and went to the store to get groceries, I went home to put them away and get my sons to go with me to my aunt's 84th birthday celebration at the lake. It was 100 degrees out, and I was going to skip out, but decided that I should go.
Chris wouldn't wake up, but Zach was willing, so I took him with me.
We had been there maybe 20 minutes or less when a man approached my son to ask him if he wanted some pop since the lemonade was all gone. I didn't know the man. Zach didn't know the man. I wasn't sure that anyone knew the man, so I was very surprised when he told my son to go to his van with him to get the pop.
What surprised me more, was that Zach went, without a thought. He just followed a stranger to his van! I followed him because I wanted to make sure he was okay...and when he opened the back of the van, he opened up a cooler full of mostly beer! I think that's even prohibited at the lake!
He did give Zach the pop he asked for and I didn't want him to think I just followed him because I didn't trust the man, so I asked him if he had any Diet pop. He gave me some.
Maybe it was nothing. Maybe he was friends with someone at the party and was just being nice...but why didn't he just go get the drink for my son...or why didn't he ask me if it was okay for him to go to his car? I thought Zach knew better than to follow someone he didn't know.
Could that man have just crashed the party, looking for gullible children?
I had a talk with Zach. I hope he understands that he can't just follow people to their cars.
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I Want to Make a Difference!
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Aug 2, 2008 10:38 am
Mood: courageous,
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I want to make a difference
every day by what I do.
I want the people out there to see Your Love shining through!
I want to make a difference
to this world so full of sin...
I want to bring a solace
to the little space I'm in.
I want to make a difference
when I'm spinning round and round
trying hard to get things done.
Lord, let Your Love and grace abound!
I want to make a difference
when the accusations fly!
Lord, please help me to be humble
when You know I want to cry!
I want to make a difference
to the future of our young!
Lord, although it isn't easy,
please, help me control my tongue!
I want to make a difference...
in my dealing with the lost
though their words are cold and ugly
help me love them through the frost!
I want to make a difference,
although it might be small
Lord, Your Love, makes all the difference
and Your Hand is in it all.
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Saturday Morning.....A Nice, Quiet Time
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Aug 2, 2008 8:04 am
Mood: lazy,
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My house is a wreck, but I'm still tired. I'll get to it later. I didn't do laundry all week, either, but I'm tired. That can wait. This hamster cage that's sitting in front of me with three little hamsters and their mom could stand to be cleaned. I need to seperate them o they're going to start multiplying again...just what we need....but, I need more coffee. I'm just a little motivationally challenged today.
I'll get to it...eventually.
maybe...
if I want to...
or, maybe I'll go back to bed.
Did you ever have one of those weeks where someone comes in and undoes everything you do every day and keeps you from doing what you need to do, because it's just too hot for them to go outside and leave you alone?
Well, every day is like that here, but usually, I have enough energy to clean it all up after I take a good powernap.
The problem, I think, with today, is that I was going to just take a nice little powernap on Thursday, and accidentally went to sleep for an hour. That was from 6-7. I was wide awake after that and took the kids to Walmart because our phone was acting up and we thought it was because we needed a new one.
The problem with me going to Walmart is that I can't seem to go in and go out after I get what I think I need....because there's just too much other stuff that catches my eye. And the problem with my boys going with me to Walmart is that they like the display Guitar Hero and the other games for the x-box or whatever it is. It's really hard to pull them away from that.
Between them and me, we end up staying there for a couple of hours every time we go.
So, after we did get home, it was pretty late. That made it kind of hard to get up on Friday...but I did, anyway, of course. I had enough energy to push that double stroller with two girls in it while Mary pushed the other double stroller and we went to the community center a few blocks away. It was fine. Some of the daycamp kids had trashed it, though, so I cleaned it up. It just irritates me that they just throw their wrappers and cups everywhere. Didn't their parents ever teach them not to litter?
It must have rose ten degrees while we were there, because it was SO HOT going home. Pushing a double-stroller in the heat is twice as hard. I felt bad for Mary because she's so little to be doing that, too, but every time I asked her if she was okay, she said she was.
I think that trip wore her out, because she fell asleep after lunch. I would have, too, but the little ones wouldn't let me.
I just dragged the rest of the day.
Then, after my powernap, I took the boys out to pizza.
We met KSdad there and decided to go see Iron Man at the dollar movie. I forgot that it was a two-hour movie. It was pretty late when we got home.
I really need some motivation to get started on stuff....but I really just want to go back to bed.
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What I Love About my Job
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Jul 30, 2008 9:35 pm
Mood: good,
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Little Kharys went up to me today and said, "I potty..." and we went into the bathroom and she went! She's only 18 months old! When Melanie saw what she was doing, of course, she wanted to do it, too. Later, they were even arguing over who was going to get to sit up on the throne.
It's just so cute to see them going through different phases. I've been taking care of both of them since they were four months old and now they talk! They laugh. They nurture...and today, I watched them dance to Big Daddy Weave. I had that CD playing and they all decided that would be the thing to do.
Last night, I found all kind of animal and letter decals at the Dollar store, some poster board, glue, and other art supplies. Today, I spent all morning with the older girls making posters, so Fallon can learn how to recognize the words that go with the pictures and little Melanie and Kharys can learn their animal names. We've been reading a Veggietales Creation story, so I headed the animal poster, "God Made animals". We'll make another one with the fish decals tomorrow.
The weather cooled off after all the rain this week and we were able to go to the park. It was nice after being cooped up inside all week.
There are a lot of things I don't like about this business. It's a lot of work and the parents don't often realize just how much work it is...but, sometimes, they do.
When one woman dropped her baby off this morning, he smiled really big while he was looking at me and she said, "I knew he'd like coming here!" and that just made my day.
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Trying to Figure This Out
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Jul 29, 2008 8:41 pm
Mood: angry,
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My son just told me I wrote three posts with this title because I'm always trying to figure something out.
There's always stuff to try to figure out...especially in my case.
Call it blondeness, brain-damagedness, or whatever makes it easier to understand why I'm always trying to figure out something.
Okay, Charla, go on with the post and quit rambling....
Fine. I will.
I just got an email from someone who either loves me or hates me. I can't figure that one out. He either says something really nice, or he's calling me Satan's child. And he gets really upset with me because I hardly ever read what he posts.
I have a simple explanation for that....the stuff he writes is VERY hard to understand because a lot of it doesn't make sense to me!
I had my genius son read something he wrote and he told me that it didn't make sense to him either....and he really did score high on the IQ test he took. I won't tell you what I got....but it was higher than my ACT scores....LOL. I still say that was because I was hungry when I took it.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
There are very few people that make me mad. Usually, if I get mad, I get over it pretty quickly, too...because I just think to myself..."this too, shall pass". But when someone calls me Satan's child and says I need to repent because I'm a promiscuous woman who doesn't know God....that makes me angry. Maybe it shouldn't, but it does. Not because it's true, either, because it isn't. If anything, I avoid certain situations because I don't trust certain types of people.
I do admit, though, that I try to look for the good in people and even when I don't see it, I keep on trying.
I'm going to try to forget the hateful things he wrote...because I know he's been banned from bigchurch several times for being hateful to people. I just wish people like that would keep their opinions to themselves and get to the bottom of things before they start accusing people.
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Time to Pray!
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Jul 27, 2008 10:08 pm
Mood: concerned,
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I was just writing a letter to a friend this morning when a neighbor came over to ask me if I had heard about my daughter's friend's mom. She died yesterday of cancer at the age of 45. I had heard and told her that the State was going to take her younger siblings and put them in foster care because her father had cancer, too.
Immediately, she suggested we pray....right in my doorway. So, that was just what we did. I'm really glad she reminded me to because I alway have so much going on to think about that I forget some things.
I kept emailing my friend after she left and the phone rang. It was my mom saying she wanted to go to church with me today. She usually goes to another church. I was glad she wanted to go with me today, though.
I saw her and sat by her and we sang together when it was time to sing. During one song, though, I lost my balance and fell backwards almost onto the person behind me. I was more embarassed than anything....but I was feeling dizzy even after I sat down.
Mom and I prayed together in our seats after the sermon was over. She might have to take Dad to the hospital tomorrow because he threw his shoulder out. We all keep telling him he needs to quit working so hard.
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Short and Funny
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Jul 27, 2008 9:56 pm
Mood: high,
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I was reading Noah's Ark to Fallon, on Wednesday, I think it was...and I noticed that my Bible was on the couch, so I picked it up and told her that the story I read her was in the Bible I was holding. I told her that if a story was in the Bible it was true because everything in the Bible is true. She seemed really interested about that and wanted me to read it to her from the Bible, too....so I did.
On Thursday, I saw four-year-old Fallon pick up a Bible and browse through the pages. I said to her..."Oh, you're reading the Bible, Fallon?" and she told me...
"I was looking for the story about Cinderella!"
I thought that was cute, but I told her that Cinderella wasn't in the Bible because it wasn't true.
I told one of my friends about this and he said, "In a way, we can relate the story of Cinderella to the Bible, because she's humble, and working until the day she meets her prince."
Just like we shoud be humble and waiting for Jesus! Wow, what you can learn from kids!
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