Little baby prayers

Aren't childrens' prayers the best. Today, Joseph thanked Heavenly Father for body skin hair. I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be body skin hair or body, skin, hair. Then he thanked him for his "five senses, which are..." and proceeded to name each one. I love when they don't have any restrictions on what they think is appropriate. Emma's and for that matter my own prayers have been stunted by our age. Emma's always start out with Thank you for this wonderful... Always wonderful. I thought today when she stopped and thought, just before she said wonderful anyway, that I need to teach her some synonyms!
Max is starting to pray all on his own. 3 year old prayers are great, too. He is so eager to pray and gets very upset if he doesn't get to pray all the time. We usually have to have 2 prayers if I ask anyone else. He doesn't start out Heavenly Father, no matter how many times we have tried to teach him. He starts out "tank you Father". So cute. He doesn't really like it when I help, but he does seem to take a long time. If you wait, he gets it all out, even the "name of Jes Christ, Amen" part. Today he prayed that the family would get along and love each other. What a big prayer for such a little guy.
Children can teach us so much. How thankful I am to be a Mom!

Tagged

Ok, I think I have just been tagged by Jamie. Here are the rules:
Link the Person who Tagged you.
Mention rules on your blog.
Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
Leave a comment to let them know.
So here goes:
1. I always have to go to the bathroom twice before I can go on my morning run.
2. I always leave a tiny portion of my food on my plate. My Mom said that it was my offering to the Gods. Of course, I have gotten a lot better at eating everything these days.
3. I can't share milk products. If someone drinks from my water glass, no problem. If someone drinks from my milk glass, forget it. Can't share ice cream or cereal or anything like that. You want what I have and it involves milk, take a quick bite and it's yours.
4. I don't like to talk on the phone with people I don't know well. I can talk with you on the phone if I know you well, but I would much rather talk with you face to face or e-mail you unless it is my husband or one of the Grandma's.
5. I like everything better warm. One of my favorite things to do is put chocolate on a plate and microwave it.
6. I have to sneak a peek at the ending of books so that I can enjoy them. Otherwise I am too nervous for the main characters. I do not like reading depressing books where everyone dies in the end. That's why Ernest Hemingway is out!

Ok, so there you go. Now I am going to tag 6 people who will probably not do this, but here goes: Stacey, Rebecca, Natalie, Megan, Jodi and Gretchen.

Getting Ready for Halloween

I went to the orthodontist the other day and got my last set of power chains on. I decided to go all out and put on Orange and Black for Halloween. The assisstant that put them on said, "you will have to make sure your appointment is after Halloween." Well, my appointment for taking off my braces was set for Oct 24th and I'm not changing it!!!

I saw this idea several places and had to copy it. Here and here are some examples. I went to Walmart and picked up a $3 frame and used 3 different fonts and some scrapbook paper. It turned out pretty cute, I think.

I went to the thrift store for the first time the other day. It was a momentus occasion. I found a princess/fairy type outfit for $4 that would fit Emma. It needs a lot of work, but I was able to find some $2 material and some $4 butterflies. I think with a little sewing and some ribbon, it might turn out pretty cute! We also found a complete Buzz Lightyear costume that fits Max. He had to have it, even though we already had the stuff for him to be Indiana Jones. So now he has to figure out which one he is going to be this Halloween and which one he is going to be next year.

Speaking of Supermen...

Here's another one and the one that gave it to him was a hero, too. When I went to buy the brakes for the car at the Auto store, Max found this metallic Superman decal and wouldn't put it down. I ripped it out of his hand to get him to the bathroom, but then he came out, grabbed it and ran and played keep away with me. The man in charge of the store was looking at me, so I said, "he doesn't want to give up that sticker." He said, "he can have it." I told him that I knew it cost some money and that I didn't want to pay it and then he said, "we have hundreds of them in back, he can have it." And so that's how my little man got to be Superman for 2 days- because he wanted the same shirt on the next day. Thanks Mr. Auto Shop working Man! You are my Hero and I know Superman and he kind of likes you, too!

Color test

This is a fun little website where you can learn what career is best for you, just by picking the colors that you like to look at. My first characteristic was a creator, the second was an organizer. So I am both self-controlled and impulsive, creative and organized, romantic and intuitive. I would work best in a place that would give me free reign to express myself and in an office filing paperwork. Yep- that pretty much descibes me to a tee! Just this evening I watched Sweet Home Alabama (romantic) while I put together book orders for Sam's class (office work). Now, if only I had been composing a new song while doing it all!

Little Miracles and the Military Wives' Curse

Since Rob has been gone, I had to take my car in to have the brakes changed and they wanted to charge me $800 to do all kinds of things, my water heater stopped working, and I was caught in a deluge. Typical Military Wives' Curse. Luckily, I have some wonderful friends and God to watch out for us.

My friend, Rebecca, volunteered her husband to change my brake pads which he did this Wednesday.

My friend, Midori, came to scrapbook last Wednesday and called her husband up immediately to come fix the water heater- which he did. It did go out right after he left, again. I called up another friend's husband and he tried to figure out the problem, but couldn't. I said a prayer, fiddled with it and it lit and stayed lit- yeah!

Friday I worked from 7 pm until 3 am. I got home and finally went to sleep around 4 am. I had to wake up at 7:45 am to start the whole soccer game thing. By Saturday night, I was exhausted and my whole body hurt, but I had to go to the store and pick up some milk for Sunday. As soon as I got inside the store, it started raining hard and didn't stop while I shopped. When I came out, I noticed all the ladies under the awning waiting for their husband to pull up. I even noticed a husband waiting for his wife to pull up. I looked out at the deluge coming down and I got a little depressed. I gave a little sigh, thought, "well, no one is coming for me, so I better just get out there." As I started to step out into it a lady called from her car that had just pulled up to the door, "Ma'am, here. This is one of the stores umbrella's." So I got to walk to my car under a big umbrella, that I handed off to someone else when I pulled out. The store also had guys out there in rainslickers helping people unload their groceries, quickly. It is things like that that make me want to frequent a store like Wegman's more often!

The Lord has definitely been looking out for us. The fact that after each one of those things went wrong, immediately there was someone there to offer help, let's me know that we are being taken care of. Thank you to all my Supermen and Superwomen!

SPT- because of a blogger...

I am considered a crafty person. I never was much of a crafty person, until I got married and started learning how to at Homemaking. Ok, is Homemaking so much easier to say then Personal, Family and Home enrichment. Whoever came up with that name? Way too long! Anyway, it was still called Homemaking when I first got married. Besides wanting to make my house look nice with a minimal of income, I love to learn new things and craftying was very new to me. Since I started blogging, I have found a wealth of knowledge and creative people out there, who actually put tutorials and everything on their blogs. They are saying, "please, steal my ideas!" So I do! I have a whole folder of downloaded crafts and such to make- sometime! The only one that I have actually finished, though, is this- our chore charts.I got the idea off of the last Pink Christmas. It was to Amanda H. from Liz H. Hers turned out so much cuter. I couldn't find the bigger boards and of course 3 of them were for boys, so I couldn't make them as cute.

How people come up with these amazing ideas is beyond me, but I love getting inspired by them!