My broken Break!!!

I told you that when I get a break it is usually broken and sure enough I got a break from work and then Jake came down sick! He was home Monday and Tuesday hacking and barking with a nasty cough. It turned into a wet cough but it seems to be finally on the clearing side now. Tomorrow I am chaperoning Cody's field trip to the medieval fair in Gainesville. They are calling for a 50% chance of rain so I imagine we will be home early. I am driving us over instead of riding the bus so if it does get nasty we can leave when we want. I hope it is nice for at least part of the day so he can enjoy a field trip with his class mates.

Gosh, I'm tired!

Well, I just got home. I went to church this morning and made it to Sunday school and then covered Children's church after that. We had a meeting that pertained to our Wednesday night classes and then home. I feel like this past week I have been playing catch up. I worked all week at the middle school and the classes were good for the most part but you know there is always one that has more than a few "turkeys" in it. Thank goodness that it was my 6th period class or my patience would have been shot first thing in the morning and I wouldn't have had any left for the rest of the day.
I am probably going to wind up taking Jacob, my youngest, to the Doctor on Monday. He is coming down with this "crud" that is going around. It is a little of this and a little of that. Some are complaining of sinus' and others are complaining of cough and sore throats. I think Jake might have a touch of both. I hate to take him to the Dr if there is nothing they can do but I also hate to wait and then it turn into something worse. Some days you just never catch a break and I think today the break I caught was a already broken!

A rainy and cold day today

We are finally getting some much needed rain. When we woke up this morning it had already started to drizzle. The weatherman said the rain wouldn't really getting going until this afternoon and continue through the night so I figure since it started so early for us we will really get a good soaking. We have been in need of rain and if we don't get it we will be in for a time this spring. We have problems in our area with idiots that think it's funny to start woods fires when we are under fire warnings. Since it has been so dry for the past few years it has been rather scary when they announce the fire warnings.
When it's cold and rainy all I want to do is sleep, but this morning after I went to the bus stop with the Boys my dogs were sitting at the door begging to come in so I was bathing dogs at 8:30 this morning. It's a good thing they like the water because Petey (my male Boxer) has gotten up to 85lbs! All I have to do is point to the tub and tell them to get in and they will! Tosha, my female also must have the blow dryer after her bath. She LOVES her baths and she just thinks she is the Queen when she is sitting getting the dryer blown all over her. We also now have a new Princess. One of their daughters has come back home. A gentleman called and said that "Sugar" wouldn't get along with his wife. She kept peeing on his wife while she was in bed so he offered to return her to us. We have had her almost a month and have had NO problems. She has actually adopted Johnnie as her own and now they are inseparable. She has turned out to be beautiful. She is a flashy fawn like her daddy but has her moms playful personality. She is 17 months old and is already bigger than Tosha. I have posted a pic of my dogs to show them off since I do breed them and I am proud of them.

Happy New Year ? I think.

Well, as you can see the whole blogging thing has not been working out for me. I guess I exercise my brain the same as my body and it shows! I am not making resolutions since I probably won't keep it any ways, but I am going to set a goal as my sister-in-law said. I hope I will get better at doing this blogging thing since it gives me time alone each day just for me. (which is why I am not getting it done. I have to have time for sleep somewhere in my day.) The past year was a struggle in many places in my life. Health, financial, Church, and spiritually so these are where my goals lie.
Health....My husband found out he is diabetic in November and now we are struggling with getting his sugar back in control. He is doing great with it but I know how we both are. We start out strong but get weak rather early on. So we HAVE to make changes in that part of our life and not look back.
Finances..... Well, I guess we are in the same boat as the rest of our country with gas prices jacking the prices of everything else up! I had to take a job as a substitute teacher. My neighbor asked me what we were saving up for and I guess my look must have shocked him as much as my response. " So we can eat and go back and forth to work!" We haven't taken on any new bills but it now costs almost $100 a week to get back and forth to work and almost $200 for groceries with milk costing $4.00 a gallon and bread at $2.50 a loaf. I told Mark is costs $100 a week just to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a glass a milk! My goal here will be to try to economize where possible and work at making a little extra to get us by.
Church...There has been some turmoil with usual stuff but it just got to me a little. I have a problem when people don't want to help in the church but are the first to criticise the ministries of those that are working very hard! I have had a lot of praying to do and God has answered most of them so I will just leave it with him and know that his will be done not mine!
Spirituality....I have to learn to pray more and have a more loving heart and stop being judgmental. These are areas in my life that I have always struggled with and now I am being convicted of it since I KNOW what God expects of me. Before I could just go through life and say to myself, "If I can get through that stuff, why can't they?" But I am learning that God gave me trials to grow me in a different direction than the next person so I need to use what he grew me into to help others that need his wisdom and unconditional love to shine through me.
These are the goals I am shooting for this year. I ask that anyone who reads this to please help me by putting me in your prayers at night and ask God to show me the path he has for me.

I guess I have made step one toward my goal!!!!! Now for step two.......