Sometimes, People Just Make Me Sick!

Forgive me Lord, but some of the people in this world really need your help! 


Sunday was one of those days when I said that over and over.  It started early that morning at Church.  Yes, Church.  Children's Church to be exact!  You see, a few weeks ago I bought 3 boxes of individually bagged animal cookies for the kids.  Our class is made up of 3 to 6 year olds (with a few exceptions).  After each class we give the kids something to snack on.  It is really close to lunch time by then and they really enjoy it.  We have a few kids with certain food allergies and so, the cookies work for everyone. 

I got to Church Sunday to find out that the 15 year olds form a Wednesday CCD class had come in our room, felt hungry, and so went to the closet and pulled out the 2 1/2 boxes left.  They then decided to eat every last one and leave the mess behind.  (Cookie crumbs on the floor and all!)  I was shocked!  What happened to the teacher in charge of them?  Did she care as little as they did about the little kids?  This is not the first time they have come in our class room and played around leaving a mess, but to eat the little kid's snacks!!!  I don't know who their CCD teacher is, but are they really learning about Jesus here?  What exactly are they doing. 


Then I come home to find out that a playground in a local town was burnt to the ground!  It was a beautiful playground made our of mostly wood.  It had been the same playground we where going to bring Will to Saturday, but ended up not having time.  We  had promised him we would bring him another day.  Now the playground is gone.  On top of that, they think it was destroyed by arson. My question is Why?  Why would someone do something like that?  It was for the children people!  The children!!!

I then made the mistake of watching the local 10 pm news.  After watching the news and hearing about all the other stupid people in the world, I remembered why I don't watch the news anymore.  Now I just read it on the Internet.  Why would that one guy open fire on all those people in Arizona?  Did he realize he was going to kill Innocent people?  For goodness sakes, a 9 year old girl was killed among others!!!! 


This is why people just make me sick sometimes!  I just have to remember that not all people are that way!

Meet Me On Monday!

Welcome to Meet Me On Monday!  You will find that you can learn a lot about someone by joining in on this wonderful meme.  It is hosted my Java over at Never Growing Old. 





Today's questions are:


1.  Have you (only you..not a group) ever won first place in anything?  I have won first place before in a High School Science fair.  Not only did I win first place, but I won prize for having the best project in the school.  (The categories covered science, history, math, and more.)  I am very proud of this still! I wish I had a picture to share, but I will tell you that I made my own barometer!  I also won first prize in science the year before too.  (But, not first overall in the school.) That year I showed how to grow radishes in a homemade green house.  Yea, I know I'm a smarty pants. LOL!

2.  Are your toes always painted (sorry guys...this question for girls only)?  My toes are ALWAYS painted in the summer.  In the winter I give them "breathing" time.  They get to rest for the colder months when they are covered in socks.

3.  What color eyes do you have?  My eyes are Hazel.  They seem to change with what I'm wearing.  I like this fact.  With my red hair and a blue shirt, I have amazing light blue eyes.  With a green shirt, I have beautiful green eyes!

4.  Look to your left....what do you see?  My kitchen sink.  Nice and empty.  I just did the dishes! Yea Me!! I love a good clean kitchen.

5.  Soft cookies or crunchy cookies?  Well now, that all depends.  I like both really.  I don't discriminate on my cookies.  All cookies are yummy to my tummy!  I do like homemade cookies softer, but store bought a little crunchier.  Who am I kidding.  You offer a cookie, I'm gonna eat it!

Thank you for visiting my page! I am still having some computer dificulties and am behind on visiting others, but will be swinging your way soon!

Saturday's Giveaways!

I LOVE giveaways!  This week I was able to enter a lot of them.  (I hope I win some!!!)  This is a list of some of the giveaways I entered that have not ended yet!  Hurry and enter with me!  Good Luck!!!


Mommypants is giving away a copy of the children's book Amazing Cows-Ends 1/10


Menopausal New Mom is giving away this fabulous All Inclusive Long-Leg Seamless Body Suit-Ends 10/11 (This could really help hold it all in!!!!)


Kiddies Corner Deals is giving away a Walmart and P&G Movie Package-Ends 1/17


Kiddies Corner Deals is giving away a $50 Gift Card To Amazon from http://www.joeshopping.com-ends/ 1/18


Sweeps4Bloggers is giving away The Cheap Diva's Guide-Ends 1/14


The Cartoon Lovin' Mama is giving away a Cheetah Zippo Candle Lighter from Zippo-Ends 1/18


Living on Ashley's Allowance is giving away a $25 Victoria's Secret Gift Card-Ends 1/31


Sweep Tight is giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card from http://www.joeshopping.com%20-ends/ 1/22


Stop by Moms Own Words – New England Mom Blog, Freelance Writer product reviews and giveaways. Enter to win the Giani Italian Granite countertop paint kit-Ends 1/18


Head over to Eighty MPH Mom where you can win a Tassimo T20 single-server brewer!-Ends 1/10


Head over to Eighty MPH Mom where you can win a Pork’s Perfect Pairing Prize Pack (spices,cookbook,$25 meat & more) $125 ARV!-Ends 1/15




Head over to Eighty MPH Mom where you can win a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card from JoeShopping.com!-Ends 1/10


Woman Tribune is giving away a Tassimo T20 Brewbot-Ends 1/11


Susan Heim on Parenting is giving away a $25.00 e-Gift Card to Scentsy-Ends 1/12


Susan Heim on Parenting is giving away a NOOKColor Reader's Tablet-Ends 1/9

A New Blog I Found!!!

I find blogs I like all the time, but this blog had me laughing so hard.  You have to go and check this one out!

I love a good blog that can make you laugh!  Her post are not exactly always child friendly, but they sure to put a smile on your face.  One of her post I like the most is called Anybody Need A Teacher Gift?.  It took me some time to pick a post to share here with you.  She has so many funny ones.  She even has a disclaimer at the top of her blog. 

So, what are you waiting for?  Hop on over and read it all for yourself!  You can click on her button or ho HERE to get to her home page!

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday this month is hosted by Lynn over at Spiritually Unequal Marriage.  Head on over and link up, and share what you are thankful for today!

Lynn made her post this week about fresh beginnings or fresh starts.  I think I will join her today.  As I think of all the things that happened in 2010 that I am thankful for, the list gets longer and longer.  So, to make this post shorter and save you some time, I will only list a few here.

1.  My Hubby was found to have high blood pressure and is now on meds that seem to help a lot.  I am so thankful this was found when it was.  If not, no telling what could have happened.  I don't even want to think about loosing my soul mate so soon in life.  Now we know about his high blood pressure and are changing how we live. 

2.  We had no visits to the Hospital this year.  We are healthy and doing well.

3.  Our family is growing!  We have more babies to love and old friends back in our lives.  Some old friends we haven't seen in a long time have come to visit us in 2010!

4.  God has blessed us with another year of watching our son grow up bigger, healthier, and older.  I can only hope He gives us many more!

5.  We still have electricity, water, food, and a house to live in.  Our credit cards took a hard hit this year, but we still made it through!  Best of all, Hubby has a good job.  So many others don't have some or any of these things.  I know we are truly blessed!

6.  I have become closer to God than I have ever been.  I have even heard His calling and now teach Children's Church!  I have a lot more understanding and love than I have ever had, and can't wait to become the Woman God wants me to be.  I am on the right track and want to say thank you to all of you who have helped me along the way!  You may not have even realized it, but my bloggy friends have helped a lot!

I pray that 2011 will bring more great things!  For now I will be taking it one day at a time, and trying my best.  I can't wait to see what this year will be like.  That may mean I will be one year older this year, but it also means I will have one more year to enjoy life and all that it brings with it!

I love the luxury of a late morning.  When you can sleep in for just a little longer. 

It's no secret that I'm not a morning person.  (I'm not much of a night person either, but that's another post all together.)  I am one of those kinds of people that love to lay in a warm, soft, comfortable bed and just listen to the world around me as I fall in and out of sleep.  But, as most Moms know, this is not possible to do the majority of the time.

Some mornings Hubby will get up earlier than me (he is more of a morning person) and keep Will from waking me up.  This allows me to sleep a bit longer and have the joy of listening to my little family as I lay all snuggled up in my bed.  I love to here the conversations Hubby and Will have when I'm not in the room. 

Yesterday I awoke to a morning like this.  I could here then making breakfast in the kitchen and Will talking nonstop.  I don't remember all of what they said, I just loved to here their voices.  After they made breakfast, Hubby let Will come to tell me breakfast was ready.  He climbs up in the bed and wakes me up as I pretend to be sleeping.  (I think he enjoys this just as much as making breakfast with Daddy.)  I realized that this was one of those little moments in time that I would always remember, and will miss so bad when He grows up.  I just thought I would share this with everyone today and remind you to grab those little moments in life that won't be there forever.

Meet Me On Mondays

Meet Me On Mondays is another way for everyone to get to know who I am just a little better.  It is hosted by Java over at Never Growing Old.  I would love to here your answers to these questions here in my comment section or over at your own blog.  Just link up and share who you are with all of us!

Today's questions are:


1. Do you have any New Year's resolutions?  I'm not a resolution kind of girl.  I don't think I should make a resolution just because it's the new year.  I make resolutions when I find something in my life needs to change.  I believe a New Year's resolution is something you make because everyone expects you to, but you kind of know you won't keep it.  I did just recently decide to "try" not compair myself to others and not to "try" to be the perfect person I think people are expecting me to be.  We shall see how that turns out. The second one will be the hardest for me!

2.  What food item are you craving right now?  That's funny, because I am sitting here eating nacho cheese with crackers (its one of those prepackaged deals I got for Will) and drinking a Dr. Pepper (which I am addicted to, so always crave).

3.  When is your birthday? March 31st!

4.  What were you doing an hour ago?  Cleaning out my laundry room.  I took my Christmas decorations down today and was trying to organize and store my totes which hold it all.  I store it all in the laundry room, so had to clean it up and make room for the extra tote I added this year.  (That's what happens whey you add to your Christmas decor.)

5.  Last thing you cooked?  Since I am doing writing this post on Sunday night to post for Monday morning (something I hardly ever do), the last thing I cooked was dinner.  I fried some chicken which Will and I at as is, and Hubby added his favorite buffalo sauce to his.  So healthy I know!