memory lane....

i promised i'd post with no pictures. remember, i was just going to ramble? well, i need to ease into that. i was searching my pictures to find an appropriate one for the christmas card (now theres something i can blog about!!) and i was taken 'off-road', down memory lane...oh, i love that road.....

creative numbers & gooey eyeballs....

every mom thinks her kids are creative. we just do.

almost every day, one of my boys does something that i think, 'why didn't i think of that'. this past week, after being told that the tv was to be OFF for the night, max came up with a brilliant little game. auntie Karin bought them a gooey eyeballs for Halloween. (they are as nasty as they sound but OH SO FUN!) max took a pile of sticky notes (you know the ones that children should NOT use for scratch paper!) and made a whole points system. he would then stand about 5 feet away, down the hallway and Huck his eyeball(his fake gooey one, not his really gooey one, in case you were confused). of course, jack, knowing there was any sort of competition going on, quickly got involved. it's amazing how a few sticky notes, a handful of eyeballs and a bundle of creativity can keep little ones busy for hours....

no pics...

ok, just made this realization. (this realization 'thing' happens to me SO sporadically!)
when i don't have any new pictures, i don't blog.
what's up with that? i've been doing a lot of 'blog stalking' latley. (that sounds mighty creepy but trust me, it's legal. if you don't want me to read it, don't put it on the web. just saying...)
anywho....
MOST bloggers don't use a ton a pics. just their words. ummm. now there's a novel thought.
believe you me, i've got words.
and i'm NOT afraid to use them.
you've been warned. i feel a good run of 'blogging babble' coming on....

prayer warriors....

i know i have been blessed with amazing prayer warriors in my life. i wouldn't be where i am today without some of you people. i don't usually post things on my blog of prayer concerns that i have in my life/others lives,(as i'm writing that, i know that i SHOULD be posting those things MORE) but today, i'm putting this out there.
i'm asking you to please STORM the thrones of heaven today for my dear friends. our family considers them part of us. as of now, i don't want to give any specifics but i'm asking you to join me in praying for them as they deal with an addiction in their family. i can't begin to explain the hurt that i have seen them experience and in the same breath, i have been a witness of God's faithfullness to them. They are an Amazing family, one that relys on Him & trusts,with all their being,that SOMETHING good will come of this. humanly speaking,this is an impossible situataion, one that we have NO answers for but in faith, knowing that there ARE answers. as i read today, 'life can change in the blink of an eye but thankfully, God doesn't blink'!! God knows the details. God knows the outcome. We believe, with all thats in us that He ALONE can do a miracle.
pray. please pray.