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I have noticed a lot of visits on my "site map" from towns I am not familiar with...Merna, Dewitt, Benson, Plano, etc...some from Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, even someone in Japan! Send me a comment and let me know how you found my site and what you like best about it!

Princess

Punky loves to dress up in her princess clothes...so the other night I decided I had better get a picture of her in each of the outfits before she outgrows them (and note how the socks sooo compliment the outfits)! Here is the little princess as...

Tinkerbell

Snow White
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

Cinderella

I am so thankful for my "girlie girl" little princess and hope that we will always be great friends (even though she clearly says Hubby is her BEST FRIEND!!)

Winter Weather

I am so over winter...ready for sunshine, going for walks, playing outside, and most of all...opening our windows! I feel like everything is so dreary and my body needs sun!

I hope the warm weather comes soon. However, I am thankful for winter...I am sure if I didn't have winter, I wouldn't appreciate spring and summer nearly as much.

My Valentine

I have this picture of Hubby and me...I think it is before we were married, probably while we were in college...for some reason, I just love it. Look how young we looked! Kinda scary...

I am so thankful to have a Valentine, especially one as wonderful as Hubby! I love you honey, and I hope you have a great day!

Waiting...

I am the type of person that LOVES to get emails, comments to my blog, telephone calls, or cards/letters in the mail. I am filled with anticipation as I check my email to see who has taken time to send me a message.

That being said, I heard a very interesting talk on the radio the other day. The speaker said that just like we enjoy communicating and getting messages from each other, SO DOES GOD! He also waits in eager anticipation for the moment I spend time with Him, in prayer and reading His Word. It really made me think that I am probably disappointing God quite a bit because I know I don't talk with Him nearly enough. Sure, I may send up a prayer here and there, but there are not very many moments when I actually give Him all of my attention and focus on what He wants me to know. Sometimes, I am so caught up in giving Him my message (requests) that I fail to seek what He would like to say to me, either through devotions in His Word, or even through the words of other people. I am thankful that He patiently waits for me, and that he is never angry or upset when I come crawling back to Him. I hope I can do better.

Who picked these anyway...

So, I had been thinking about having an "Oscar's" party...having people over to watch it on TV and have a little "pool" as to who was going to win each category. I had heard of people doing this before and it really sounds like fun.

However, when I went online to see what the categories were to start preparing for this, I realized I knew NOTHING of the nominees in most of the categories. Most of the actors and actresses are people I have never heard of, and if I have heard of them, I haven't seen the movie (and really don't intend to). So, now I am bummed because I would get no enjoyment out of watching the Oscars this year...I guess I will wait until next year.

Snowman 2008

Hubby decided it was a perfect day to make a snowman...something Punky has never done. So, here is the result!

Punky & Daddy

Punky & Mommy

And a hug for a new friend ~ Crusty (Punky named him all by herself ????)

So, for this reason, I was thankful for snow today, because it gave us such a fun memory!!

Busy Week

Well, this week has been incredible. Work has been crazy and pretty stressful-the snow storm didn't help. Needless to say, I have had a headache everyday this week. Hopefully this will get better. Next week at work shouldn't be as stressful (I hope I didn't just jinks that).

Punky's eye is pretty much healed, and the incision mark is almost gone...we are very thankful she did not hurt it worse when she fell.

In more fun news, we have decided to go to Florida this spring! I have always wanted to stay in a condo right on the beach and that is what we are doing. Cocoa Beach, here we come! We plan for most of the week to just lounge around the beach. One day we will do Magic Kingdom for Punky...she is already so excited about seeing Cinderella's castle and is already talking about dancing with the prince. We think she will really enjoy Disney this time.

We decided to surprise my parents by asking them to come along with us on the trip...it is a much deserved vacation for them, especially since my Dad will be graduating with his Master's in May. It should be a fun trip!

Broccoli

I was reading a Pooh book to Punky and we were looking for Tigger on the page (he wasn't there). I asked Punky where he went, and she pointed to a picture of the forrest. She said..."He is in the broccoli storm!" (She calls broccoli trees, so I guess she thought she could call all of the trees broccoli). How I wish the world were so naive sometimes.

Moretodothanihavetimetodo Blues

Sometimes as a wife and mother you feel as if your job is NEVER done...kind of like a case of the moretodothanihavetimetodo blues. I often feel like if I could get everything done that I would be the perfect wife and mother and Hubby and Punky would be so proud of me that everything would be perfect.

Well, we all know that will just never happen, because things will never get caught up. But what really helped me this week was a quote I read out of the book "Irregular People". It is as follows:


"If you do things because you love, then you yourself will be healthier. If you do things to gain love, then you will get sick."

I take it to mean that we will continually be bogged down and feel like we are constantly behind if we are doing things, trying to "gain" approval from another person. This quote made me realize that I need to do all of these household chores because I love my family and because I know they love me in return, no matter if the laundry gets folded or not.

Also to help, I am taking one of my New Years un-resolutions and trying to implement it. Simplify...I have begun by organizing Punky's toy room...we are getting rid of a lot of stuff, and packing other "baby" toys away. I am trying to make it easier for her to know exactly where to put toys away, so that I am not constantly doing it for her. The basement toy section is next...UGH!