My "blog game"...

I was informed by my sweet, always(never) says the right thing at the right time, husband last night that I am really off my "blog game". What exactly does that mean?? Apparently, I have been so focused on Aliviah that I don't blog about the everyday, cute, funny stories that I used to. So this is a post dedicated to recapturing my blog game.

Having said all that, I do feel the need to inform all my prayer warriors of the happenings of our situation. I am going to make it quick and fast and as painless for me as possible. So, here goes...

As of about an hour ago, Aliviah Mae is on her way home to live with her Mommy. The last few weeks have been excruciating on me. Let's just say I have been praying for peace for weeks. And when I say every day, I mean every single day, MANY, MANY times a day. My prayer? "Lord, give me peace about the decision I am making". I NEVER once felt at peace. I don't know how to explain it. Many people have said to me that the feeling of not having peace about the situation comes straight from SATAN. But in this instance, I have chosen to go with the feeling deep down in my gut and call it God. I feel like there is a good chance I will disappoint all of my faithful prayer warriors. Please know this decision was not made lightly. Heather has been putting up a HUGE fight for her for about 3 weeks now, and Aliviah wanted to go home. That is the natural order of things. We have to give her one more shot. Please continue to pray for Aliviah. Heather has great plans for their life together now. However, she doesn't have much of a track record, so please pray for her too. Right now, she seems very good. Who really knows.

Does this mean I will make amends with my mother?? Probably not. I think she is probably to proud to reach out to me, and frankly, I am too hurt with her to reach back. Time will tell. Forgiveness is mandatory, I know that. It will just take some time.


OK....the end. Thanks for sticking with me. Now, what have we been doing....(how bout a good ol list for old times sake, just to revive my "game")

1. House update. The house is still in a ridiculous mess. The kids cannot sleep in their bedrooms because we have had to pull up the carpet and beat the bed to remove all the glass. Truthfully, they are just scared to sleep with the floors all messed up and the windows boarded up. So, my living room floor has been the resting place for 5 little children for 3 weeks. The adjuster finally came on Tuesday and it looks like we will get a pretty sizable amount to repair. They are even replacing all our mattresses. YEAH!! We are planning on pulling the rest of the carpet up this weekend, and I am going to go ahead and redo Kate and Kenna's room while it is empty. That should cheer them up a bit.

2. Koop spent a week with some friends of our in Hamilton. He is home safe and sound, but sure misses Abbey and Shelley taking him swimming every day. Especially since our CCC pool is not reopening. My poor kids are about to die.

3. Jason woke up last Saturday and surprised us all with a trip to Castaway Cove Water park in Wichita Falls( this is where I should provide a link, but I'm trying to finish this before my kids start asking for food!). We were so excited. We got to the park, paid a large sum of money, took all the kids to the potty, lathered up all the kids with sunscreen, spent 20 minutes trying to get our locker open, slipped floatation devices on 3 of the kids, walked very quickly, because running was not allowed, to the beach front of the wave pool. Then it happened. They blew the whistle for everyone to get out of the water. Apparently, in the 45 minutes it took us to prepare for the water, a storm had blown in and they had spotted lightening in the distance. Needless to say, it began to pour down rain and we never entered the water one single time. B.U.M.M.E.R.!!!! We(I) were so stinkin disappointed!! So we left. And by the way, the sign on the front gate says "NO RAIN CHECKS"! But, we asked and they gave them to us. Praise the Lord for the light at the end of the tunnel.

4. So, being that we went all the way to WF, and had nothing to do, we took the kids, bathing suits and cover ups and all, to see Kung Fu Panda. It was a cute shoe. OOPS...show!!! The kids loved it and Jason and I enjoyed it too. When we asked Case which character was his favorite, he of course said "the real mean one, Master Cheetah." Leave it to Case to pick the bad guy as his favorite!!

5. Jason's birthday is tomorrow. He's a little firecracker baby!! Born on the 4th of July. I love that. We are planning a big party at his parents house with the fam, complete with red velvet cake. His absolute favorite. I am putting together a list of "32 things I love about Jason" to celebrate his 32nd B-day. It may be a little late. Sorry babe, you know I love you. In fact, there are way more than 32 things!!

And that completes a good list of 5. It feels good to be a little bit back on my game!! I have lots more to share with you, and hopefully I'll get some new pictures at the 4th of July birthday bash. Enjoy the holiday!!