K.'s Pillow

K. has enjoyed sewing for years and even bought her own machine a few years ago.

K. is taking Home and Careers in school. They had a sewing section and they made pillows. This is the one K. did. I think she did a beautiful job.


FYI the picture in the middle was taken using our digital camera. It was a flower in the Botanical Gardens in Va.

An Unusual Rainbow

On April 2nd (the same day as the kitchen fire, but earlier in the day), my kids called for me saying there was a rainbow outside.

I dutifully followed them outside and I am so glad that I did. This is what I saw:



I have never seen an upside down rainbow before. It reminds me of a smile.

I felt awed by the beauty of God's masterpiece and felt loved.

Bees vs. Hornets

Yesterday afternoon after I got home from the busstop, K. tells me that daddy called and that he was stung by a hornet, he's ok and they put ice on it.

I was worried because Wayne is allergic to bee stings. I did some quick research via the web and found out that just because you're allergic to bees, that doesn't mean you're allergic to hornets or wasps. Luckily, it turns out that Wayne didn't have a bad reaction to the sting.

What a thing to happen on his birthday, however, I am very grateful that it was a hornet and not a bee sting, and that he is ok. Blessings!

J. and His Teeth

J. lost his first tooth on March 27th! He was so excited!

Wayne pulled it right out.

Since then another tooth has fallen out.

He's growing up so fast!

In the days preceding the event, his teeth began to shift. The first picture is of him after his teeth shifted, but before his teeth came out.



After 2 teeth came out:
They grow up so fast!

Word Choice Says a lot

I am appalled.

As I was reading the news, I read an article on Yahoo entitled, "Supreme Court upholds TV profanity crackdown". I thought that was great and went to read a postive article. It spoke about how the Justices voted 5-4 in favor of restricting profanity used on TV and I thought, "Good."

I realized they'd have the other side's opinion and they spoke of their "constitutional free-speech rights."

It was, however, the very last sentence that is so appalling. It said,

"Writers, artists and directors on the front lines of the First Amendment face continuing pressure to err on the side of the blandness." (Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Media Access Project)

I'm not even going to get into what the authors of the First Amendment were talking about when they put in free speech; that's a topic for another day.

However, are they stating that to not use profanity is to be bland?

How utterly ridiculous!

Gordon B. Hinckley said,

"Those who routinely take the name of God in vain and resort to filthy, crude language only advertise the poverty of their vocabularies, a glaring paucity in their powers of expression, and a flaw in their moral makeup. Civility invites the ability to speak, to converse, to communicate effectively."

Need more be said? I should hope not. It seems rather obvious to me.

Another Round

Well, just when I thought everyone was better, K. woke up sick this morning. Hopefully this will be the end of it!

My Sickies

Just when I think I'll have the time to blog, I get sickies in the house. In situations like these I often say, "The best laid plans of mice and men..." and when I'm with my mom she finishes the quote as I have trouble remembering the ending! :)

Anyway, on Tuesday, S. was sick with a stomach ailment. She only ate crackers, ginger ale, and 1 piece of outside crust from a homemade pizza.

On Wednesday I decided to keep her home so she could regain some energy. She did, but unfortunately I didn't have very much as my allergies were totally knocking me out and the medicine hadn't kicked in yet.

Thursday found Wayne ill and he even called in sick to work. (He rarely does this.) He started to feel better around 11 am, but then got really sick again after dinner.

Friday Wayne woke up sick again and again called in. He decided it was time to go to the Dr.

I also got a call from the school nurse saying J. came down to her office with ear pain and his ears were red and she thought I should take him to the Dr.

I scheduled an appt. for J. for after school as he had a poetry celebration that he very much wanted to attend and has worked on it for a long time. Plus his sister, grandparents and I were all planning on being there.

Long story shorter, Wayne has a really bad sinus infection and is on medication. I am hoping that he will feel better soon.

J. has a very small ear infection in his right ear and a horrible ear infection in his left. They were using words like bulging and red to describe it. He is on medicine for that.

Thankfully we have insurance.

So, I guess now I have blogged, although it certainly isn't what I was planning on writing about!