Pray for Amy

Amy has been told there's nothing else they can do:

http://wilhoite.blogspot.com/2007/06/beginning-of-end.html

Lift her up in prayer.

Cliffhangers

Now where was I? Oh, yeah. The "No, I understand you're going out of town but we just can't send one of our helpers to the location that you gave me in such succinct detail it would be impossible to miss it to retrieve and hold in the office your daughter's photography record sheet until your friend comes to drop off your projects for you." And I quote, "I pledge my HEAD to clearer thinking, my HEART to greater loyalty, my HANDS to larger service, and my HEALTH to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world." EXCUSE ME? Am I not part of the community? Are we thinking clearly here? "Ma'am, it would be better if the record sheet and project were kept together." Yes, I understand that. That's why I called. It was left in the bag my daughter's drawing was in and she accidentally left it in there. We are leaving for a convention in Columbus, Ohio and need to leave." ""Sorry, can't help ya." Larger service? I gotta tell ya (excuse my grammar, or lack thereof), my HEALTH was compromised greatly that day as I zoomed BACK to the fairgrounds, then BACK to my friend's house to keep the form with her color prints (which got CHAMPION for her age group, BTW), then BACK home to finish loading the camper and van then zooming off ALL while trying to maintain the PROPER attitude. I know you know what I mean. Natalie already felt bad enough and I confess, I threatened to turn around and go home at one point, I was so stressed. I did apologize, however. It was, yet, another growth opportunity for mommy. Those are so fun.

I'll finish catching up later - these days, I blog while feeding baby and he is done. (I took so long to get back to this because I kept hoping for time to type w/ 2 hands. Yea, right! Forgive my procrastination and for not pledging my head to clearer thinking.

I leave you with some of those Champion photos that so desperately needed that form kept with them:













Hugs in Him!


Sorry to leave ya hanging like that. I had to stop, drop, and sleep! We were that tired.

Didja miss me?

Well, it's been quite awhile since I've been here. It's been a whirlwind of activity and I haven't had a moment to tap away. I don't know if anyone grieved my absence but I sure missed being here and hope I won't be gone that long again.

Right now, I am coming to you, LIVE, from Columbus, Ohio after wrapping up a tremendous half-week at the Christian Home Educators of Ohio convention. WOOT! What a blessed time we had. Our adventure began with elevated blood pressure and a frenzy of activity, though. Just trying to recall all that has transpired in the past weeks causes me to get confused as to where to begin. Plus, I'm so tired, I'm sure I'll come back and read this later and wonder if I was the actual author or if one of my children played a practical joke on my blog.

Anyhoo, I will probably be doing some retroactive blogging to catch up if for no other reason than to put in order the recent events that have caused my current state of volatality.

Real quick, before I crash and burn, I will bullet events I remember from the past couple of weeks:

• Work on 4-H projects
• Make cake for Civic Theater Awards
• Work on 4-H projects
• Do all laundry so we can pack for trip and kids at home have clothes to wear
• Work on 4-H projects
• Turn down "opportunity" to make Black icing wedding cake with red roses for pirate themed wedding in high humidy weather - yikes!
• Work on 4-H projects
• Discover that Creative Memories will not be represented in the homeschool convention vendor hall. Inquire to see if it's too late to get in on this.
• Work on 4-H projects
• Reconsider 4-H as a positive experience for our family
• Work on 4-H projects
• Nervously mail in check to reserve booth at convention - first- time vendors.
• Father's Day get-together at FIL's, bring home his camper to borrow for homeschool convention
• Work on 4-H projects
• Pack for trip, plan schudule and menus for both those staying and those going.
• Pack camper
• Wed- deliver 4-H projects to 4-H frenzy fairgrounds, drop off photography projects at friend and upline's and borrow product for booth
• Realize Natalie left record sheet in bag at fairgrounds
  Get Home, call fairgrounds to see if someone can retrieve and hold Record Sheet in office. Big fat no...
• AND...I'll finish the saga later. I must needs sleep.....

Those Were The Days

Another good onel:

Comments made in the year 1955:

"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's
going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long
before $2000 will only buy a used one."


"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a
pack is ridiculous."


"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to
mail a letter?"


"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire
outside help at the store."?


"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday
cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the
garage."


"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible
to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as
long as the girls."

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let
Clark Gable get by with saying '****' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems
every new movie has either "hell" or "****" in it.

"I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a
man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows
they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas ."

"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for
$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday
they'll be making more than the president."

"I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married
women are having to work to make ends meet."


"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone
to watch their kids so they can both work."


"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to
be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."


"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole
lot of foreign business."

"Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes
half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best
people to congress."


"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously
doubt they will ever catch on."


"There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It
costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."


"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too
rich for my blood."


"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."

Carpal Tunnel

Yep, I have the beginnings of Repetitive Stress Injury a.k.a. Carpal Tunnel. So, my DH has been closely watching over my shoulder to make sure I'm not making it worse by, duh, blogging. Repetitive Procrastination Disorder doesn't help with keeping my posts current. Besides the good news my chiropractor gave me about this annoying tingling, pins and needles down my arm and fingers, x-rays revealed that I don't have the curve in my neck like normal folk. So, now traction and weird exercises for that commence. I still have pregnancy rash though Isaiah is now 10-weeks old and we are looking into the possibility of Candida or some such condition. And for the first time, instead of losing weight after having a baby, I gained. I'm really not whining. I know it could be worse. I've just been amazed at how fast a body can fall apart!


I'm sure birthing 11 children has contributed to my body's ailments but spiritually, emotionally, the kiddos keep me young. It just seems like my body doesn't "fit" me. How can I play mud football when my hip hasn't recovered from playing 5 years ago? How can I crawl around on the floor with my toddlers when I might get stuck there? Well, I'll just keep looking to the Great Physician for healing and strength. Good grief - I have at least 18 more years of homeschooling! I can't get old, yet!


Okay, this time, some of Corinne's way cool photos from her Color Prints 4-H project:





Anybody can take a picture of a flower.



Remember snow?


Corinne's clone, Autumn, watering the flowers.


The viewer is mesmerized by Isabelle being mesmerized...


TOODLES!

Kersplash!

I watched Poseidon last night with the girls and couldn't help but think that I saw this week coming like a rogue wave and tried to take evasive action but you don't get enough time to turn your tub around!

We had our friends from NC in Sunday - Tuesday, Luau to have friends in to visit w/ NC friends on Monday, Craig left for Wisconsin on Tuesday, Lenae took Jillian to pottery class, I had training on Memory Manager in Muncie on Tuesday evening, Wednesday was a dentist appointment for half of us, pottery again, and yesterday, I refused to leave the house but my mom came over for half the day.

Okay, that's just logistics. We saw the wave of activity coming but did not anticipate the height or weight that was to hit. Emotions from our friends being here then leaving, I've been sick due to my diverticulosis for a couple of weeks and it's getting worse (yee haw), I have a cake to do this weekend (but that will be fun), 4-H meeting today (more minis than regular 4-H - it's nuts), and I'm suppose to have a crop today. Oh, and not to mention the personal, emotional stuff that families have that I can't mention here but I'm sure you have "stuff," too.

It doesn't end there! A grad party Sunday - should be fun, FINALLY, a new roof next week, not fun but a blessing, we have 3 birthdays in June, Father's Day, and the homeschool convention which we are camping in my FIL's camper during so it's a double whammy. Oh, and of course, 4-H fair the same week as the convention. (Does anybody else regret 4-H every year and swear it's the last year?) AND, we are schooling through the summer since we took off around birth of baby.

Whew, baby! I'm tired just thinking about it. I'm seriously considering taking out a loan to buy "disposable" clothes from the thrift store so we can just wear and toss.