Forecast: Scattered Showers

Boy, it has raining a lot! Raining with blessings!!!!

Kanyon is scheduled to go home at the beginning of the week. We have praying for this little man and he sure has worked hard. He has grown up into a little man!!!! We rejoice with the Phillips!!!!!

Other friends have received long awaited jobs, husband's return dates, and much more!!!

I finished summer school! Yipee! Summer, summer, summertime has begun!!!

Walking Humbly with God

"He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do
justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8

This verse has been a daily plan for so many people. It was PawPaw's favorite verse. I remember how the verse prefaced the celebration of his life so many year ago. This verse was also a favorite of a precious sister at Clear Lake that passed away from cancer last night. At first I thought "lost the battle," but that is not fitting at all. She was a fighter. She was courageous and always had a positive spin on her battles. I have spent the last week or so reading daily updates and mentally preparing for today. I guess what is so different about cancer these days is you LIVE with it. It may not take your life immediately, but you spend years living with it. And she did. Her little girl who just finished Kindergarten has only known as Mommy with cancer, mommy with no hair. How blessed am I that I was able to grow up with my parents.

This verse must be a fighters verse. PawPaw lived with lupus and She lived with cancer.

We just continue to shower this family in our prayers of peace and ask you, too.

Get Therapy!

Just look into the bullseye... Put your feet up on the cart and roll. (Of course you would need your husband to push you. )

Target was my therapy for today!

Dinner for 1=99 cents (Popcorn and a Coke or lemonaid in my case)

Shaving Cream=$1.81

JT's CD=$13.88

hundreds of square feet of entertaining and therapudic merchandise=priceless

I love Target. Sometimes I think my subconscious forgets things at other stores just so I can visit the Therapist. Today to recuperate from a long day at work and working out, I strolled the hours of the nearest Target.

Another kind of therapy-Baby therapy!

Congrats to Pinsons! Baby Sam is here. We have been praying for this little guy and we are continuing to keep this family of 4 in our prayers as he continues to grow and as mommy recovers.

You say goodbye. I say hello!

I'm a Reader, not a writer.

I am not doing so well at the blog thing. I am much more of a reader than a writer. One month later here's what has been happening-

I finished school! Yea!!! My 4th year is completed. I looked at my teaching certificate the other day for something and realized it expires in January! Yikes! I need those 150 hrs. to renew. Anybody know how that works really?

Had a little wedding cake-Miss Mary got married! We had a great time driving to Tyler. She was so beautiful. All the girls look great. Little Reese was such a cutie. Mindi looks precious prego.

Started summer school-I signed up to keep me busy during the month of June. Michael is usually busy with Youth stuff, so I thought this would be perfect! Well, I am teaching 3rd grade! 4 grade levels difference. I have really had to learn a new wheel. 2 more weeks to go.

I am also helping teach the 1st graders at church. I love this age. I missed them this past year. This has been a lot of fun.


I am excited about July. Lots of trips planned. Time to see friends and fam. Can't wait.

I am going to try to be a little better at blogging. But like I said, I am a reader.

Time for a new post

5 more days!!! I am so excited to be almost done with my 4th year of teaching!!! I have never looked forward to summer as much as this year.

May has been quite busy. We had family come in for Graduation and my 21st B-day. ;) It was lots of fun to entertain a house full of guest. We even made a video card for my cousin that has to have massive surgery on her hip. The singing cousins made a superstar performance!

This week we worked liked a dog for Graduation. Whoo, glad that is over.

Now, just 5 days to go.

Prayers for Jayde

Jayde continues to fight, but she needs our prayers. She is such a little fighter and the Lord is holding her tight. I can't wait to meet these little guys who are so strong and so much braver than I am. If you want to keep up with the twins, just follow the link.

http://thephillipsphamily.blogspot.com/

My Special Friends-PRAYERS NEEDED

Please be praying for my little friends: Samuel, Reese, Jayde, & Kanyon! I love them so dearly and their mommies are very precious to me.

Samuel is such a fighter and is continuing to grow in his mommy's tummy. Mommy has been extremely ill and hospitalized (in and out) since September! She has hyper-emesis which is non-stop nausea, vomiting, and EXTREME cramping. I went to visit her this weekend and I am still so amazed at how she is such a survivor and fighter. I can see where Sam gets it! She is very inspiring.

Reese continues to bake in Mom's tum even though we are anxiously awaiting her arrival-She is already a week overdue. We continue to pray for a safe birth for mom and baby,

My other 2 friends are new to this world and came quite a bit early! They are 26 weeks and weigh only 1 lb 9.8 oz and 1 lb 12 oz. Please be praying for these fragile little lives as they are little fighters, too.

Just shower my little friends in prayer. They so desperately need it. I love their mommies and these little guys soooooooooooooo MUCH!!!!

I just blew in from the windy city...

Yesterday was quite exceptional. I got to experience the West Texas Gusts. They were so powerful they broke the glass door at the nail salon where I was yesterday-Just blew open the door and all the glass shattered.

Once I got home I discovered that the backyard fence blew down,too! Luckily, I had anticipated such and put Zeke up before I left. I am glad I did bc I would hate to have come home and he be gone.

The orange skies have passed and blue ones have returned. (I didn't have a filter on the lens-It was really that orange! )The sun is yellow once again-bc yesterday is was crazy weird.

The fence doctor will come Monday!

Over the Last Month...

Every MLK, the most fabulous girls-My girlfriends get together for GIRLS WEEKEND! Even though we were dealing with icy weather, piercing loud security alarms, and more we had a wonderful time. Fireman Dan (my personal friend from the 1402 days) even came by to save the day!

All the girls are prego!!!!!

Hanging out and enjoying the down time.

Girlfriends 4 ever! Melania and Kynlee meet.

PICTURES FROM MICHAEL'S PARTY

SURPRISE!

Doggie Days

Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, It is sunny in the sky!

It has been a cloudy and snowy winter. For this Houstonian, it has been very, very cold. Even my 4 year olds have told me they are ready for it to warm up. Actually, their new favorite song is Sunny, Sunny. They LOVE it when it is warm and sunny because that equals our favorite time of the day=RECESS!

Zeke, our dog loves it too. He gets to be out and play. Today we took him to the park and he got to play with his Xmas present from his aunt-Chunk it toy. It is a blue launcher that hoist the tennis ball high in the air. He has to really huff it to catch it. After 15 minutes, we were already on our way home. He was tired.

Zeke playing at the park

Body Jam?!???

How do you really make your body jam?
Well, the gym knows...

I have been going to the gym with Kate lately. Tonight we did body jam class. I just have to laugh the whole way through because never in my whole life through have I moved liked this! Even 1402 Washington Dance Nights. :) Sorry class, you have to look at me.

I think I will stick to hiphop alphabop with the 4 year olds. I can bring a mean head, shoulders, knees, and toes.

Heaven

Over the weekend one of the little girls at the school I am teaching at was killed in a drive by shooting. It is just so tragic, yet very common in the lives of the little ones I teach.

Being 4 years old, they talk about everything and process a lot verbally. This morning they were talking about the little girl that was shot.

One little boy said,

"She is in heaven now,but it takes a long time to get there." :)

They began to discuss heaven. What is it? Where is it?

One little boy said,

"It is up in the sky"

Another little boy said,

"No. It is where the grass is and then you turn into a zombie"

Did you break the code: graveyard


I wonder what they will talk about tomorrow morning.

The Queen Bee!

I am such a proud teacher! 4 years ago I had my first Kindergarten class. They have grown up so much and are now big 3rd graders. They will always hold a special place in my heart as my first class.
I just happened to check in on my old school and saw pictures of my little friend WINNING the spelling bee! Hydroperiod was the winning word and it was from the intermediate book! She was a smartie in Kinder and still a smartie today.

I love my first class. They were the perfect class for a first year teacher. All of them were SUPER SMARTIES! I had 2 students that year reading the Junie B. novels IN KINDERGARTEN!

Good Luck to my special friend as she goes to compete on the county level.
You go girl!

Goodbye 2006, Goodbye House.

December 27th we finally closed on our 1st home. We are thankful that this day finally came after 14 months on the market. I am also a little bit sad that we said goodbye to our 1st home. It was a fabulous home and we will really miss it.

I am glad 2006 is over. It was a year full of challenging moments, growing pains, and groans. I am praying 2007 is full of more challenges, but maybe not as hard to get through.

I have rearranged my classroom in attempts to start fresh. I am almost done. Why do I do this with only 5 months left in the year? Michael asked the same question. I am hoping that this will help. We shall see next week.

We had a great Christmas full of travels and family. It was so great to see everyone. My sister and her husband were down. He leaves for his 8 month tour in Iraq this month. Please keep them in your prayers.

Happy New Year, friends!

Do you know who Jesus' girlfriend is?

In the world of my 4 year old class everything revolves around boyfriends and girlfriends. (Another whole blog in itself...)

Yesterday at lunch my aide and I overheard our students having this conversation:
Boy: "Hey. Do you know who God's kid is?"
Girl: "No."
Boy: "It is Jesus."
"Do you know who Jesus' girlfriend is?"
Girl: "No."
Boy: "Her name is Mary."
Girl: "Ha,Ha, Ha (giggle, giggle-You know the "g" word was mentioned-GIRLFRIEND!)

In a 4 year old's eyes, everybody needs a girlfriend. Forget the important role of having a mother. They are too much!

Babies Here, Babies There, Babies Everywhere!

I have a wonderful dear, close group of friends. I enjoy all of our visits together, girls weekends, even when we can meet for cheesecake.

Many of them are already mommies and I have lots of new little best boy/girlfriends.

Now many of them are prego.

I am so excited to love on all these little guys!

Congrats to all my Mommies!

It was. :(

So it was too good to be true. The deal went south today due to the couple not being forthcoming with all of their information and not begin approved for financing.

The facts:
How many days the house has been on the market: 1 year, 1 month
Total offers: 1-fell through
Tired and weary believers: 2
Doors to open: 1, any one

Too Good To Be True?

Ok. So it has been a while since Aug. 27th, my last fake post. And even longer since I thought of something to say.

Today I might have something good to pass along...

We finally have received an offer on our house. We spent the last week counter offering back and forth with each other. Today we received a contract! No high hopes or really any expectations. I will be truly excited and relieved once we sign on the dotted line in a couple of weeks.

It is truly fitting as 1 year ago in October we put our home on the market. Michael had the stomach virus and was throwing up. I had to take care of all the wonderful details alone. And here we are 1 year later receiving a contract. Michael has the stomach virus again and is throwing up. I have been running around town today to tie up all details.

We will see in the weeks to come.

I guess we will be here in Abilene after all.

Brain Research

You Are 65% Right Brained, 35% Left Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

Michael and I are the complete opposite! How funny... no wonder we are a match made in Heaven. :)

(Hooray! I posted!)

Another month, still no change

But maybe it is on the horizon. ????

But there is a lot of change going on at my old school. It is like Kindergarten caught the baby bug at my old school with 3 teachers prego so far. Whoo. I got out just in time. hee-hee

Let's hope by August 21st I will finally have some change to report.

I am returning to the City!!!!!! This wkend I am hanging with the girls in a metro area!!!! This brings me much joy. I love the City, any city. Yipee.