Monthly Archive for February, 2009

A Great Babysitter!

My little “gran-dog” Chloe has always loved our little foster children.  She likes to lay with them in their carseats, checks on them if they cry, and is very protective of them.  We had to put her outside one time because she wouldn’t let one of the children’s guardian ad-litem come near him–she was protecting [...]

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Keeping up with Jack!

My friend Jack, who is now 5 years old and very ready to go to Kindergarten next year, posed some very interesting questions to me today—-
Would you rather eat a live tarantula or keep a live wasp in your mouth for 5 minutes?  I chose the latter.  Jack agreed!
Would you rather have feet hanging off [...]

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A Big Leap!

My husband is without a job, my house is for sale, the economy is in the tank…so I’m going to Zambia!
After several weeks of “bargaining with God”, I have decided to take a big leap of faith and go forward with my plans to go to Camp Life in July.  When Wray lost his job, [...]

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Thanks Josh!

I have not been ignoring my blog—something was wrong and it wouldn’t let me on.  It said something I didn’t really understand—thankfully, my blog master Josh, fixed me and now I’m back up and running!  It is nice to have a technologically saavy son to call on.
If you want to see some more of his [...]

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WES!

Twenty four years ago today, I gave birth to a 7 pound 13 ounce preemie!  The doctor said he would have been 10 pounds if he had gone to full term.  For 10 days we worried and prayed that he would be okay as he spent time in the neonatal ICU.  He was!
Today, Valentines Day, [...]

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“Making the family proud!”

Jacob has made the big time— well in San Marcos at least!   His sand volleyball team won a tournament so their picture was in the school paper!  He said clearly he was more interested in the free food than he was about getting his picture in the paper.  I’m glad he’s having fun!  I hope [...]

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New Math?

Okay, I admit, I’m not really great at math—but I’ve decided that our government is not very good with it either!  How can our government have such a huge debt and still hand out trillons of dollars in bailouts?  Do they just keep printing money until we get all we need?  What is our money [...]

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