Chasing the rotten dog

OK. Try to visualise this scene. I am cleaning out the garage, The kids (Abby, Erin, Emma, Samuel and Andrew) are playing outside and Charlie the dog is frolicking around the yard. Charlie does not usually get to be out of the fence because he runs into the road, but today he was out. I hear the kids yelling at him and go to see what is happening. He is down in the road. Samuel chases him trying to pick him up. This just makes Charlie run further away. By this time we are all at the edge of our hill screaming at Charlie. He is in the neighbors yard which is on the main busy road. I send Abby to run around the other side of their house to try and stop the dog. But instead he runs across the busy road into someone else's yard. So now I run down the hill, down the street and across the busy road. So do you have this pictured? Samuel and I are across the busy road and Abby is standing at the end of our road crying. We all think at any moment Charlie the dog is going to get run over by a speeding car. So here comes the police. He passes me and Samuel then sees Abby on the side of the road crying and comes back. He asked me what was going on and I proceed to tell him we are chasing our dog. About this time the dog runs back into the busy road and back to our street. I asked the policeman to wait in the road until we caught the dog. So he did. He pulled onto our street and watched me catch Charlie and spank that rotten dog. So all this time I am thinking I know this police is wondering why all these kids are not in school. I did not take the time to tell him that we home school and this is our spring break and I am keeping my niece and nephew today who are sick. My appearance during this episode was horrible, sweaty and dirty, I wasn't planning to see anyone while cleaning out the garage. But everything turned out OK. Charlie did not perish by way of motor vehicle but he did get a bad spanking. And I managed to complete my spring cleaning of our garage.

Lisa

Our Spring Break

We decided to take a break from our regular school routine this week. My hope is that we will get out of the house, ride bikes, maybe plant some flowers, jump on the trampoline, anything but watch TV and play on the computers. We had a really good weekend. We spent time with several of our friends. We are enjoying getting to know all the church members. Kim's daddy is doing very well. He had his open heart surgery on Thursday and hopefully will be going home on Wednesday. Thank you to all who prayed for him.




April 16, 2007 was the day Grandaddy White went into the hospital. He never got to go back home. So many things have made me sad about him lately. Yesterday Dave was flipping through channels and came across the Braves game. That was his favorite thing to do. He watched them every time they were on TV. He also liked Walker Texas Ranger. He liked Oreo ice cream and anything fried:) My kids still talk about him all the time. Andrew(my nephew) waves and points at thing just like Grandaddy did. We all miss him a bunch. He died on July 3, 2007. That was exactly 33 years to the day after my Grandmother died. She died 4 months before I was born.

Well off I go to do something outdoors. It rained a little, maybe the soil will be good for some digging......till next time.

Lisa

Easter Pictures

These are a few of the pictures we took over the Easter weekend. We dyed eggs at home, hunted eggs at Granny's, took some pictures at the park, went to church at Grace Fellowship and atelunch at Mamas. Whew... that was a mouthful. Enjoy the pictures.

Chloe, Emma and Andrew

Abby, Erin and Samuel

Ruthie and Brady

All the"big kids"
at Granny's

I do not know why there is such a BIG space below!!!!!

I cannot fix this if you have any ideas please tell me. I guess I

could write a lot more to try and fill the space. Maybe I should

just make a list of my favorite things......I like coffee and cake,

long hot baths, cold bed sheets, kids market with Kim, date

night with Dave, Sunday lunch at Momas, Law and Order(any

of them), family devotions, scrapbooking, yard work(my Daddy

will laugh at that), Andrew calling me "moma" I love him, any

song Abby sings, Daves laugh, Erins artwork, Samuels

voice, Daddys knowledge, Moma's cooking, watching the news,

sleeping and writing this blog.



I dont know if that took up alot of space but it sure

was fun to write. Have a good day!!






Lisa

Family Devotions

We just finished our family devotion and the kids are off to bed. I am about to study for our Home Bible Fellowship. We have it here on Thursday nights. Kim's daddy is having open heart surgery in the morning around 6:30. Please pray for them during the day. We have been having really good devotions. Last night was one of the best. We are going through Acts and every night Dave just reads a portion to us. Then he goes back and asks questions about the passage and previous passages. Saturday afternoon on the drive home from Birmingham, Erin told us about someone who said God wasn't real. So Dave posed the question to all three of the kids "Do you believe God is real?" and "Why do you believe God is real?" They all three said they believed God was real but none could say why. So instead of answering for them, Dave left the to think about it. Every day he would ask them again individually. So last night he asked the question again "why do you believe God is real?." Abby said because of the world, Samo said cause He loves him and Erin said because of sin. Of course the answer we were looking for was because we see Him in the Word and in nature. They really started to understand the more we talked. Abby was looking stuff up in her Bible and they were all three referring back to the past couple of Sunday School lessons. Its really neat to see them beginning to understand.

Lisa

Please Pray

My sweet friend Kim just called me with a very heavy heart. Her Daddy went in for heart tests and they are having to do emergency open heart surgery. Please pray for her family today.

Lisa

Samuel and Andrew

So this is how the conversation went between Samuel who is five and Andrew who is two. I hear something fall into the kitchen floor and Samo says " No Andrew, that is being direspectful. Do you know that Jesus does not like when you do that, but you are making the devil happy." Andrew said "NO, NOOO!! Sanal(Samuel)" Then Samuel came to tell me Andrew just sinned. All of this argument had something to do with Andrew knocking something off the table and filling the dogs food bowl with his ham sandwich. Andrew is spending the day with us. He has purple glittery hair right now and maybe some colored chapstick, that sounds better than saying he has on lipstick. He loves coming to stay with his favorite aunt!!!(Lori and Giny you know he loves me thebest:) I snapped a picture earlier of the kids playing outside. They had all that "stuff" pulled out. It was kinda funny.



We started working in the yard today. Dave mowed the grass and I am putting pinestraw down in the flower beds. I hope to start planting some things soon. Abby helped me weed the flower beds, Erin picked up trash and anything Charlie had chewed up, and Samo watched Andrew. I know Tracy would be glad to know that. My friend Julie said I like this blogging because its like Scrapbooking. I think thats exactly why I like it. I love to scrapbook but cant seem to find the time to pull all that stuff out. I am over a year behind on my albums. I did finish the kids books. Enjoy this beautiful spring day!



Lisa

Childs Play

Abby, Erin and Samo can't seem to play without pulling everything out. Today the girls decided to lay on the swing outside. They took around 5 pillows and who knows how many blankets. I think Tracy, Lori and Giny used to do stuff like that. I remember one time when they were little they laid out in the sun at the end of the driveway(almost in the road). I'm sure they took half
of the house with them to lay out. I'm glad its getting warm so the kids can play outside. But.......when they play outside they pull EVERYTHING out of the garage and put it all over the yard. I mean they get the ladder , beach chairs, all the riding toys, the tent ,any tools Dave may have forgotten to put up, coloring books, pens, pencils, baby dolls, swords, guns, sticks(this is Samuels latest item to collect), and the list goes on and on. Why do they need all that stuff to play? What happened to hide and seek or freeze tag? Soccer, dodge ball or playing on the swing set? They do jump onthe trampoline sometimes. Samo got some rope for his birthday(thanks Jason:) and he ties everything up. Once he tied my bedroom door to the closet door in the hall with the tie from one of my robes. Iwas in my bedroom and had to wait on him to untie the door. He has tied Daves truck to the van. The lasted episode with the rope is when Samo and Erin tied the chest of drawers to the bunk bed. That turned out to not be such a good idea. The chest fell over barely missing Samo's head, the tv fell off and pulled the cable straight out of the wall. I don't think they will do that again. Do things like that only happen at our house?

All that said, I love my children. They are all healthy and happy(most of the time).They don't always do things like I would do them. They certainly don' keep things as tidy as I would like them to. But how much does all that matter in the scheme of things. This is a big lesson I'm trying to learn. How to let things go...maybe not having everything in its place all the time. This is hard for me. I can't relax unless the dishes are washed and a load of clothes is in the washer and dryer. I know it sound crazy. For those of you who pray for us, please pray that I would get better at this. I would like to be able to sit down and play Connect Four with Abby even if the laundry is piled to the ceiling and the floor needs to be vacuumed. I want to be able to play barbies with Erin even if the dishes are not washed. I want to read Samo his favorite book or jump on the trampoline with him even if I haven't dusted in a month.

Well now I'm off to see what the kids are doing. Erin has changed clothes a couple of times and they all keep coming in for more stuff. So now I'll go see what the outside looks like. While I've been typing they have been playing outside. Theres no telling what I may find........but I'm sure it will not be kids playing hide and seek.

Lisa