Mother – “Are you guys done eating? Cause we need to get this house in some sort of … house shape.”
Children – “Homes are for free expressions, not first impressions.”

While I do agree with them, in theory, there has been a little too much free expression going on in this house since I’ve been sick. Why can no one EVER freely express themselves by CLEANING the house, instead of MESSING it up?!

Tonight, is the 1st episode of Kids By The Dozen Make sure to watch! If you miss it, check the website for additional run times.

Free carpet flick

The next person who exhibits cold symptoms, is getting this! hmm…..I just might try it on myself first, even though I’ve already had my cold for a few days. Plus the kids will probably be more open to trying it, if they see me do it to myself first. Hey! Mel is the latest one to get the cold. I’ll do it to her, too. But the kids might have to hold her down while I do it!

Well, we got all the errands done yesterday. At the pharmacy, I saw our neighbor, who also cut our hair (hmmm…guess I didn’t blog that. I’ll find the pic and post it) she asked how I liked my hair, and said it looked pretty on me. 🙂 The ladies at the library noticed, too and said they liked it, as well as Hannah’s.

In the van, on the way home, Calen called Zachary a nut (although he now denies this) and Z told him “I’m not the nut, you and Hannah were the ones born in nut town!”
roflol C & H were born in OH, you know, the buckeye state! roflol That’s a pretty good comeback from a 6yo! roflol

Well, I need to go light a fire under my kids, expecially the OLDER ones. We have to leave in like 45 minutes for Mel’s dr’s appt, and certain OLDER children (adults?) are STILL sleeping!

We were talking about poppa eating his spaghetti and meatballs with a paint stick, because I forgot to pack him a fork. And someone (mel) said do you remember the meatball song? So of course we had to look it up!

On top of Spaghetti, all covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table, and onto the floor,
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.
It rolled down the garden, and under a bush,
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush!
The mush was as tasty, as tasty could be,
And then the next summer it grew into a tree.
The tree was all covered, all covered with moss,
And on it grew meatballs, all covered with sauce.
So if you have spaghetti, all covered with cheese,
Hold onto your meatball, ’cause someone might sneeze.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/ontopofspag.htm

Which led us to this song:

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she’ll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly –
Perhaps she’ll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly –
Perhaps she’ll die
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird …
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat…
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird …
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog …
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird …
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat… She swallowed the goat to catch the dog…
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat…
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird …
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she’ll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse –
She’s dead, of course.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/oldlady.htm

which I’d never heard of before, but my children thought was funny, or gross, depending on who you asked.

acutal quotes heard by me that we said by my actual children:
“why do you have your foot in front of my face?”
“because your face is in front of my foot!”
“do your ears hang low?” “with a feather on it’s back?” “quack quack quack”

I have to go now. They are trying to outdo them selves with quotes for me to use! roflol

is shaping up to be quite busy. sigh.
My sinus’s are still bothering me. I didn’t use any saline drops yesterday. bad me. I’m going to go back to that today, even though hanging upside down on the side of the bed makes one sinus’s feel much, much worse, and makes you quite dizzy when you get up, it does help.
I have to do mega amounts of kids laundry today. sigh….Looks like it’s going to be in the 50’s and sunny today. FINALLY a good day to hang laundry on the line. I also have to check on the clothes that I took off the line last night to make sure they are dry. Yeah, that’s right, I brought them in the house and haven’t touched them since. I much preferred going to bed early and getting some much needed rest, as I haven’t been sleeping well because of this cold. So yeah, I need to check on those clothes. And MAKE the kids get all their laundry out of their rooms, despite the fact that they aren’t SUPPOSED to have any dirty laundry IN their rooms!! grrrrr!!!
Then after lunch I have to pick up D’s meds, go the library, the cheap grocery store, and to get hay, oh, yeah, note to self: pay the water bill while your out! Which would require me to update the check book. sigh

Is it nap time YET?!?!

Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don’t have what it takes to be one without Your help.

Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long-suffering, and the willingness to bear all things.

Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.

Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace, and joy (Galations 5:22,23). I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me.

Show me where there is sin in my heart, especially with regard to my husband. I confess the times I’ve been unloving, critical, angry, resentful, disrespectful, or unforgiving toward him.

Help me to put aside any hurt, anger, or disappointment I feel and forgive him the way You do—totally and completely, no looking back.

Make me a tool of reconciliation, peace, and healing in this marriage. Enable us to communicate well and rescue us from the threshold of separation where the realities of divorce begin.

Make me my husband’s helpmate, companion, champion, friend, and support. Help me to create a peaceful, restful, safe place for him to come home to. Teach me how to take care of myself and stay attractive to him. Grow me into a creative and confident woman who is rich in mind, soul, and spirit. Make me the kind of woman he can be proud to say is his wife.

I lay all my expectations at Your cross. I release my husband from the burden of fulfilling me in areas where I should be looking to You.

Help me to accept him the way he is and not try to change him. I realize that in some ways he may never change, but at the same time, I release him to change in ways I never thought he could. I leave any changing that needs to be done in Your hands, fully accepting that neither of us is perfect and never will be. Only You, Lord, are perfect and I look to You to perfect us.

Teach me how to pray for my husband and make my prayers a true language of love. Where love has died, create new love between us.

Show me what unconditional love really is and how to communicate it in a way he can clearly perceive. Bring unity between us so that we can be in agreement about everything (Amos 3:3).

May the God of patience and comfort grant us to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5). Make us a team, not pursuing separate, competitive, or independent lives, but working together, overlooking each other’s faults and weaknesses for the greater good of the marriage.

Help us to pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another (Romans 14:19). May we be “perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10).

I pray that commitment to You and to one another will grow stronger and more passionate every day. Enable him to be the head of the home as You made him to be, and show me how to support and respect him as he rises to that place of leadership.

Help me to understand his dreams and see things from his perspective. Reveal to me what he wants and needs and show me potential problems before they arise. Breathe Your life into this marriage.

Make me a new person, Lord. Give me a fresh perspective, a positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the man You’ve given me.

Help me see him with new eyes, new appreciation, new love, new compassion, and new acceptance. Give my husband a new wife, and let it be me.

Amen!