She's wearing applesauce for goodness sake!

Hey Journal what up!

So I’m in a weird mood today… I’m having a real hard time staying awake at work… so I decided to journal… umm I’ve discovered Facebook… I guess I’m slowly getting into the 21st century huh… whatever… my friend Wendy sent me a link cuz there’s all these people from college… it seems like a neat place to find people you have lost I guess…

So I was thinking about this the other morning. Think back to certain parts of your life. Think back to the people that surrounded you at that time in your life. I can think back to almost any time when our little church in Port William was thriving spiritually and I can remember just wanting to live at church because I loved those people so much and I just never wanted to leave and I thought I’d always have those people around me.

Have you thought of someone. Where are they now? It breaks my heart but I’ve realized that you can’t collect people (I mean, of course I’ve always known you can’t actually collect people but you know what I mean – keep reading! Lol), you can only collect the memories of those moments with those people and you may never see them again or have another moment like that so you better cherish every moment with those people that you enjoy because in a puff of smoke… they are gone… it’s like the scripture says.. we are but a vapor in the wind…

I think, when I was thinking of this, I was thinking of a few specific friends from my past who I thought I’d have forever but now I haven’t a clue where they are. But I was also thinking of when and if the girls leave us to go home or to go live with their grandmother. Not that we’ve heard anything about it… but my mother said something really profound one day when I was talking to her. She said children do not belong to anyone. They belong to God. The more we learn that lesson the better off we’ll be. And it’s so true. For whatever reason, God has allowed Jimmie and I to be a puzzle piece in the lives of these girls but eventually they will move on to receive the next piece in their puzzle…

Anyway… I don’t know what go me off on that tangent this morning… I told you I’m in weird mood! Lol

So this week has been crazy busy. We had VBS, much like most of the northern hemisphere I do believe… lol…. Monday morning Mayce also decided to add a little spice to the getting ready routine. The applesauce I gave her to finish off her breakfast with, she decided it was some sort of new hair product… yep… and not just in her hair… she rubbed it in there good like mousse or shampoo…. So we added a bath complete with hair washing to that morning’s routine…

One really nice thing they do at our VBS is they serve dinner. Our church does this summer feeing program for whoever wants to come to church and eat a meal. It think it’s sort of a branch off of like free school lunches… somehow those programs are related. Anyway, during VBS week they just up the order of how many meals we get and all the kids and helpers and teachers along with any parents etc. that want dinner – it’s there… I did not fully appreciate this last year but this year it was a God send…. I’m not sure how I would have fed the girls and gotten them to VBS while keeping my sanity… lol

Jimmie had an emergency job in Alabama this week so it’s just been a little bit chaotic at our house… but ok…

And now for some potty talk….. Aniya has now, under my watch anyway cuz they are working with her at daycare too, gone poopie in the potty 3 times !! The second two times, she actually asked to go potty… the 3rd time was especially happy/funny because she as actually holding her pants and doing a dance… she has actually pooped more than she has did number one in the potty. I think it will just take time for her to get used to exactly what we’re trying to accomplish… but you can tell that she understands every single word you are saying to her.


Well this is making me sleepy. I better get up and do some stretches… happy weekend!