I guess I should read my daily Bible blog verses more often. Today's is Psalm 16:8“I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”

Let me just start by saying I use this blog to vent my daily stresses. I am very thankful for everything I have, I really am. I just find this season of my life very humorous. I want to blog about it because I know I will completely forget tomorrow about today. And if I can write about it and laugh I feel much better afterwards. So...

Do you ever feel like everything in your home starts to break at the same time? Our microwave has now been broken for I think over 6 months. I have found I can survive with a toaster oven, it just takes a little longer. More recently our front window covering cord broke and I can't get it to open...ever, our dog chewed through the screened in porch the other day, the vacuum hose has a hole in it, the dishwasher has a missing part, the faucet lever won't stay on and the most annoying of all is we have somehow misplaced two cordless phones!! They have been MIA for almost 4 days now. Thank goodness I had a regular phone with a cord to hook up in the meantime. You just don't realize how helpful a cordless phone is until your without one for FOUR days! I am very thankful these are very minor repairs. I guess when I can't even keep my house clean, the broken things just seem that much more burdensome. Oh and I forgot... for the last several weeks when we get those torrential down pours the drains in the street overflow over halfway up our driveway. A little scary since we are in the middle of Hurricane season! I finally remembered to call public works. You know ...that is one of my greatest accomplishments today! I am seriously proud of myself. I also took the boys to the library and for a milk shake without the toddlers. Wow, it's so nice when your kids can buckle themselves up! So on that note.. I am also proud that I finally found where all the sippy cups had run off to... UNDER ALLY's Bed! FIVE of them! I am smart enough now to only fill the cups up with water when the girls are not in their highchairs. The girls are on a mission to toss those cups completely outta sight!
I thank God everyday for protecting us and providing for us, today is a better day! We are blessed! I learned a neat acronym to use in prayer from John Piper: IOUS
So know that before I go to bed and in the quiet times of my day I pray this over my family and friends:
For God to:
INCLINE your hearts towards Him and His truth
OPEN your eyes to His will for your lives
UNITE your hearts toward Him and not have a heart divided
SATISFY your soul completely in His truth and not be deceived by what this world has to offer.
I love it, what a great way to cover those you love in prayer!

Last week of Summer Vacation

Okay, is anyone else feeling stressed about getting ready for this next school year?? I'm having the hardest time keeping my house in order now. I don't know how I'm gonna do it while transporting Nick to school and homeschooling Joe. From football practice every night of the week 6-8:30pm to getting to school on time. I'm feeling the pressure! Then Nick starts soccer in a few weeks after school. I'm in a weird stage of disorderly mess. I'm constantly searching for my own socks in the clean pile of clothes and on a real backed up day my underwear! I can never find matching shoes for Nate! And someone always goes poop when I'm ready to leave. The dishes and laundry are a constant. I can't figure out why I continue to find random choking hazards in my house. Like the broken hangers I keep finding in the hallway. No one fesses up, it is a mystery! Why in the world does Ally have a penny in her mouth AGAIN! I just put it up... how did she get it again?? And while I'm clearing the penny from Ally's mouth Nate pulls the gate down. Nate and Kate run off to my bathroom to play with the bath faucet, trying to soak themselves or anything else they can find. I'm sitting in my half wet bathing suit perplexed at all life throws at me everyday! And most of the time I'm just not energized enough to keep up with it. My back aches every morning I wake up as I begin thinking of what is to come of the day. I must go shower and put the glass back in the cabinet door that fell out earlier and replace the hose on my vaccum. Always something!

Tackeling Twins and Pooping on the Patio!

Nick asked me the other day if he had to get married when he goes to college. I said no, you can get married when you find the girl you love and that may or may not be during college. Nick responded with saying, he doesn't want to get married. He wants to go to college and live with me forever. How sweet! I did tell him as nice as that sounds now, he probably will change his mind when he gets older! I guess he really loves being around me. I would never had guessed he felt that way as much as he misbehaves and as much as I'm disciplining him!

Patio Poops! Ally had a leaky poopy diaper mess on the patio yesterday. I'm so glad it happened on a Sunday while Adam was home to help clean it up! It was all over the patio furniture and tile. Of course Kate stepped right in it. Always a mess to clean around our house! Adam cleaned and hosed off the patio while I hosed off the girls. What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon together!

Tackeling twins! Kate keeps tackeling Ally and pinning her to the ground. Not in a mean sort of way. They end up rolling around giggling non stop. It is kinda funny to watch until someone gets hurt or bites the other! I think the boys are certainly rubbing off on them and I don't know how to prevent it from happening!!