It's a CRAZY life....but it's mine and I LOVE it!!!!!

This post is NOT going to be for the faint of heart....it is going to be LONG! (At least I am owning it!) First of all, I have to say that the pictures above are some that I had taken with my phone, and I just wanted to put them up so I could feel like having a phone that is also a camera is actually useful.....I have some other perfectly blurry pictures that I could have uploaded but that would actually require me to get out of my chair right now and go and get the camera and hook it up....yadda, yadda, yadda....and I am not going to do it!

Anyway, our life is just crazy! I am sure pretty much everyone's is, but sometimes I feel like we are crazier, or maybe busier, than most...but I know that isn't true either.....but I have been trying to blog for TWO WEEKS I tell you and I have not had a chance, but let me tell you, we have had some fun activities.....

1. The middle picture above is from the Alabama Power Company Water Course that is in our town.....I had to go to the credit union there and I took the boys over....not that they haven't been 3 or 50 times, but they always have a good time!
2. We have done more swimming than most fish I know (not that I know many....) That has really been huge for us this summer!
3. We have secured ourselves a babysitter! PRAISE the LORD! We have NEVER, I repeat NEVER, had a babysitter outside of our family members, so this is a HUGE step for us! The last picture, that is Leighton lying in wait for her on the first day she came to play! They adore her! She is truly an answer to prayer. She is a godly young woman who adores my children and they in turn adore her! It is great!
4. Our kittens have come ALIVE! (That is one of the pictures I am to lazy to get up and upload for you!) They are crawling in and out of their box....they are SOOOO cute! We have plans to get rid of them, and since I am not a cat person and since I don't have a money tree from which to get the money to pay for cat food, that is probably what will happen...7 cats is more than I can handle...but right now, oh, I can't imagine getting rid of them...they make me smile!
5. Last week my 2 sweetest friends and I had a little 24 hour get away to a resort just about 45 minutes up the road from us. This particular group of resorts offers discounts to RSA members, and since we all fit the bill, we headed up for an afternoon of relaxing by the pool, eating more than is humanly possible, talking, laughing....just being together! It was wonderful!

Um, let me think....

I know there is more...every single day I think of something that I want to blog about but I just haven't found the time to do it....

Oh, I know...for those of you have endured this long and who are still even remotely interested, I have a few more...not so much activities but just things....I will start over with 1 since we are in a different category (don't worry....I won't be long...Promise!)

1. We found out who Leighton's first grade teacher will be today! Her name is Ms. Tipton, and we are so excited! He has several kids that he knows in his class. So, she goes straight to the top of my prayer list! For those of you who remember, we had a rocky end of the year last year, so you will never waste a prayer on my precious first born regarding his first grade year! He seems pumped though.....
2. In completely unrelated news, I finally figured out something about my uploading of pictures to blogger....no, my home internet won't do it any faster.....but I have been really getting.....uh hum, aggrivated, no AGGRIVATED!, trying to get my pictures to be in the middle and the words be under them....not out to the side or wherever...so I put in all these spaces and such.....(for those of you who use blogger, you are laughing at my right now....please don't.....technology is my area of disability)...anyway, today, as I was uploading, I saw the button that allows me to tell how I want the pictures (text to right, left or in center)...it was like a gift!
3. Last week (or maybe the week before) Leslie wrote about the Terrible Twos and that is the first time it has dawned on me....THAT. IS. WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. LOGAN. I don't know why I didn't think of it before...I mean, what with having a 2 year old before and all, I should have been anticipating such antics....but I just forgot, or blocked-out, the "terrible twos"....not that it is all that terrible....Leslie said it oh so well....but it does give an explanation of why my baby boy is just crazy these days! He has always been, um, strong willed, I think that is the word James Dobson would use.....but lately he is just too much! The other day, I just stopped spanking him....it wasn't even worth the energy I was putting forth.....I wish I could even give you some of the many examples of ways that he is beginning to exert his independence, but let's face it, if I am too tired to get my stinking phone to upload pictures, then it isn't likely that I will recount all of his antics and further exhaust myself. The mere thought of them makes me want to crawl in bed and cover my head.......and through it all, he remains as PRECIOUS as you could ever imagine.....terrible twos and all....

And, for the 5 or 1 of you who are still even reading at this point, you won't waste a prayer on me either....I officially started back to work today....and I think I have clearly covered my gratefulness for my job....but oh, how anxious I am about getting back into the swing of school.....

Well, I am spent.....and I am sure you are too after reading this novel.....I will try to do a better job of documenting day by day in hopes that you will continue to read my blog instead of putting it on the same to-do list as things such as scrubbing the toilet and cleaning your oven.

If there is mercy and goodness in the world, I will now be able to flip on the tv and find a re-run of Criminal Minds...I will be there until morning or until I get hungry, whichever comes first (which means I will be up in about 5 minutes scouring the cabinets.....)