a beautiful man...

yesterday was one of those days!! you know the one's i'm speaking of cuz you've all experienced them....knowing there is much to do but you'd rather sit down in front of that BLASTED computer all day. today, that was me. i had my mind set up to make a book. i wanted it down NOW. i found this great website called Blurb. they are hopping to be able to get me some answers. i was back and forth with them for hours yesterday, getting very little answers. so when rye called on his way home for work asked me if i needed him to pick anything up at the store. in my sweetest, more least irriatating voice, i told him milk and a CASE of wine. when he walked in i was going to aplligize for snapping at him. after all, it's not HIS FAULT that some one's website wouldn't work! i met him at the door, fulling prepared to beg for his forgiveness, when, wouldn't ya just know it....here he comes, strolling in with these gorgeous roses!! instead of thinking about how crabby i was to him, he thought about a way he could cheer me up. i tell ya, this boy is something else. sweet. sweet. sweet. :)
after he had a little dinner, i LOVINGLY set down my laptop in front of him and said, "FIX IT!" i said it in a calm sweet voice if that helps. well, almost 2 hours later, he's shutting down his computers. you fixed it right??? let's just say, this problem has been passed on to the tech department. well then...guess i won't be up all night putting together this blog book that i have been dying to start! oh well, we'll try again tomorrow. wish me luck. :)

learning the really important stuff at school....

Lynden Christian gym class consists of learning how to play soccer, football, jumping rope,doing sit ups, jumping jacks...etc...etc...all the stuff that gets their little heart rates up. one thing i didn't realize until this week is that they are also learning the REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF in life....

learning how to build a pyramid. yup, that's important stuff. jack and max were showing me how it's done. sam wasn't about to let too much fun pass without him. this was one of those moments that rye leans over and says, "gee, maybe they really do like each other!"
it does my heart good. :)

i have talented, wonderful friends.......

my entry title says it all.
it's true.
i have amazingly talented friends.
i don't have hours to tell you all the good in them but let me try to name a few.....

one friend loves to bake. she's good at it. i'm thankful she also likes to share. her chocolate chip cookies are unlike anyone else. very crumbly and buttery.

one friend has the gift of creativity. everything she does turns to 'gold', she's always thinking of how to make everything and anything crafty. i could spend hours picking her brain on how she does it.

one friend has the gift of hospitality. walking into her home always makes me feel loved.

i have a friend who has the gift of making my children worship the ground she walks on. they feel like they are the most important kid in the world when they are with her.

one friend has a gift of decorating. she just knows how to make it 'cute'.

one friend has a green thumb. something i will probably never have in this lifetime. that's why i like her. she helps me.

one friend always has encouraging words for me. when i'm down, she usually can tell. she'll always have something to say to cheer me up.

i have a friend that is always making me laugh. i know she'd be the one to go bungee jumping with me...just because it sounds like an adventure!

i have a friend that always makes me feel like i'm important to her, that she'll love me no matter what.

and a very small handful of my friends would even be considered to posses more than one of these qualities above. :) how lucky are they!
all these friends, in one way or another makes me strive to be better. a better mom, wife, friend, woman of God.

i have been blessed.i am surrounded by wonderful, creative, beautiful, brilliant, and sometime very spontaneous friends. thank you girls...you know who you are...i love you. :)

thinking he's SO sneaky...

my boys, like most children, have a hard time remembering to put the shovels, rakes, loppers, buckets, ANYTHING THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON! so when the boys got home from school, we took a walk out into our 'woods'(a big row of overgrown bushes,if you ask me) and picked EVERYTHING up.
my dad and i decided that the best way to stop all the tool-tossin'(good word, huh?) was to lock it up in the shed.
well, this has made max crazy. not because he's lost access to all the "fun stuff" but because we wouldn't tell him where the key is hidden. he has been begging me just to tell him, 'just a hint'. he's spent the last 20 mins. outside, searching every spot he could think of. he came in with this sweet little grin.

"so, any luck?" i asked.
max says, "I FOUND IT!" (KNOWING dumb well he didn't have a clue)
pretending to be shocked, i said, "really?? where did you find it?"
in the sweetest, most serious face he can muster, he says "since you know where it is,and i do too, why don't you just tell me where YOU THINK IT IS and i'll tell you if you're right."

i actually paused, thinking, just for a moment and then quickly came to my senses...."NO, I AM NOT TELLING YOU WHERE THE KEY IS YOU LITTLE BUGGER".

he slaps his hand on his knee,smiles and says "oh well, can't say i didn't try!"

this struck me so terribly funny. thought you'd like to share in a little chuckle. it's friday after all...i know i need a bit of comic relief! some of US more than others!!