Is There an Amen in the House?

The Doc that I work w/ told me about what I missed on Idol Gives Back, and I couldn't believe it. But it's true, and it rocked. So, I have to post it here. Enjoy!! DISCLAIMER: I don't know why Ben Stiller's act was included in the clip, but it was-- so just turn your ears off after the music ends.



Whether it was done in sincerety or a publicity stunt, I really don't know nor do I really want to. Watching some of them actually worshiping blessed me tremendously, and hopefully it touched someone else... maybe someone who would never normally enter a church.

Prayer Needed

Please be in prayer for one of my closest friends. She and her family lost a baby (whom we had nicknamed 'Simey') today. She was in her second trimester, and already had a 'belly bump'. Please, Please keep them in your prayers.

WFMW! I'm Back :)

I thought that I had run out of ideas that really worked for me, so I've been on hiatus. Something simple that I've been doing has really been a lifesaver at times, so I wanted to share. If you already do this, you can shut up humor me ;). Just playing. Sort of!

You know those mini m&m's that come in a tube? Instead of throwing them away they make the perfect size crayon holder. I think that I have one in every purse, as well as each vehicle that we have. Each one holds 3-4 crayons, and keeps them nicely in one conveniant spot (and doesn't add splashes of color over everything that you own).

The crayons come in very handy in places like restaurants (our fave mexican joint has paper placemats, and one Italian Cafe has butcher paper on the table),at the DR's office (Mikey loves to color on the table paper), grocery lines, friends houses, etc...!

So that's my brillant tip for this week. For more (even better ideas) go visit the uber-real and hillarious Shannon!

I hate mornins!

Have you ever searched your house high and low for a while looking for your keys? Yeah, I just did. Finally I decided to just snag Hub's keys.... yeah guess where mine were. Locked in the vehicle. Great. I hope that this isn't an idication of how my day is going to go.

Blaahhh

So here's a quick update of the past week:
*Nieces and nephews got sick...pediatrician said the flu
*Mikey got sick... trip to pediatrician... dx: virus
*Got called home from Maunday Thursday... Mikey had temp of 103.5
*Left Good Friday services for trip to urgent care..dx:flu (did you know that they can actually test for this?)
*Saturday, sil got letter from County Health Dept... her daughter had salmonella which the pediatrician did not tell them... so probably not the flu had been going around, but salmonella in that household.
*Trip back to dr to get speciman bowl to test Mikey for Salmonella
*Trip to Dr for me for severe sinus infection and strep throat last night.
*Leaving for Tennessee today w/ in-laws.

Talk to you all Monday!

Now, Where Does the Oil Go?

Yesterday, I pulled my hiney out from my nice comfy bed earlier than I had planned, and woke up a sleeping 3 year old, so that I could chaperone a boy scout trip to the auto show. Mind you, Sat is my only day to sleep in, so I figured that this trip had better be good (or atleast involve a cafe mocha from Tim HoHo's)!! Understand, I know pretty much close to nothing about cars (and base my oppinion on a vehical by it's looks) I knew that this was going to be an experience.

My favorite parts of the show were the concept cars (way cool), the interactive Ford Robot that Mikey got to dance, and winning an ipod shuffle!! Yep! Me who never wins anything!!! The funny thing is I won it by playing a trivia game about Hundai's new safety measures, actually, their "Passive Safety Measures" (how much does that make me sound like i know what I'm talking about?!?!)! Whooohoooo!!!

The really cool part is that I've been wanting one of these because of their size, but could not justify buying one since Shawn had bought me one of the original ones 2 years ago. This one I'll be able to use oh so much more effectively!! AND I won't have to be scared to death that I'll loose it or break it, as is the case w/ my original one!!!!!

Blizard Update '08

That's right folks, the foot of snow that I talked about yesterday morning is a thing of the past. We have a grand total of 20 whopping inches of snow!! It is the perfect makings for a perfect playground. I honestly don't mind it. Really, I was tired of hoopla over 'snow' and then only an inch or so would appear! So this really made my weekend!

The only thing that sucked was the fact that our furnace went out yesterday. Good thing the family trade is HVAC! So between my hubby w/ his back (still bad...) and my father in law still recovering from surgery, they took off to go get the part that they would need.... 2 hours later they made it to the supply house, got the part, and made the treck back home (should have been an hour trip at the most on a normal day)! We had to pay $50 for them to open up the supply house, but that was nothing considering we didn't have to pay for labor!

Today we went outside and had a ton of fun with the cousins! Mikey built his first snowman... and had so much fun, even though he could barely stand up!! Pictures will come as soon as hubs shows me how to download them!!