Happy Monday!

Besides being a troll (I was poison ivy face all weekend – although on the plus side, my eye didn’t swell completely shut as was predicted by the doc so yay! I’m still on the road to recovery – I’m still all blotchy faced blah)…I had a really great weekend. I was bitten by the cleaning bug! So I cleaned like a fool. Mostly I got the guest rooms upstairs ready because well mostly, they needed some attention. We have this big ole farmhouse and we really only live in the downstairs area so the upstairs rooms are those type of rooms that you open the door, throw something in and shut the door quick! So two trash bags later -these are also the rooms that a few weeks ago when we had the spontaneous yard sale, I gleamed five boxes of yard sale stuff and two large trash bags full of trash- more purging. I must say the upstairs guest area looks smashing now. And you can even open the closets without being pummeled so that’s real progress!

Anyway, I don’t have a whole lot to say but I just wanted to leave a better post than I did last time. I’m not gonna let all the plagues get me down. It’s actually sort of humorous to me.

Ok so I was thinking about it and I think ya’ll need a good laugh so I’m gonna recap an actual conversation that I had with my husband yesterday. We were watching the news and they were advertising a story that they are going to cover later this week about how they go to parks and are undercover and basically entice small children away from the park – I’m sure you’ve all seen these type stories. The premise is obviously to show us that we should teach our children about stranger danger. Anyway, so we saw this commercial and my husband turned to me and said:

Jimmie: “So hypothetically speaking, say we go wherever and get a “Dishes” and I take “Dishes” to the park and some fool undercover reporter entices “Dishes” to go with him, should I get arrested when I beat the guy up for being a freak?”

I should explain here, that my husband and I have a very warped sense of humor (I think I’ve put that disclaimer out there before – oh that reminds me! I have an update to the cow leg story – remind me to tell ya!) and anyway, often when we talk of adopting or being foster parents, he (and I must admit I do too) finds it funny to refer to our hypothetical foster children as dishes, laundry, yard mower, etc. I think it stems from a story I tell him every time we are weeding the garden. My sisters and I often accused our parents of only having children so they’d have someone to weed the garden, wash dishes, etc. Anyway, that’s who he was referring to in the above statement.

After I laughed at him, he said no I’m serious. And I then explained that how those stories usually are setup, the parents are totally in on it. They are approached about allowing their children participate in such a story.

But the part I found so humorous is just his whole phrasing of the hypothetical situation and the whole “Dishes” thing…what a funny boy.

Now - an update to the cow leg story. Do you remember the cow leg story? Our dog Trinity appeared one day with a fresh cow leg in tow and we were freaked out that she was out killing a neighbor’s calf. Well, Jimmie was talking to our neighbor the other day and the neighbor did have a calf die of natural causes recently and his dog Sally also was (how shall I put this politely?) enjoying the remains. I won’t tell ya how Jimmie put it. And I know that ya’ll are beginning to see what big hillbillies we are! lol

Anyway…. I just wanted to wish ya’ll a happy Monday. I also want to say how much I truly appreciate all the advice and support through the whole infertility thing. I’ve been reading a book about infertility and at the beginning of the book, the author suggests that if you are struggling with infertility, bring it up in conversation and you’ll be amazed at how many other women are struggling with the same issue. So, just knowing that some of you all have struggled with the exact same things that I am is reassuring because you have kids! It really is all in God’s timing. Thank you for your continued prayers and advice in our endeavor!

Have a blessed week! Lots of love….