Snow #2!!

This past weekend it snowed YET AGAIN in the South. I don't think there was any accumulation since it rained all the day before. But still...that's the second snow in two months. Then 36 hours later it was 69 degrees and sunny. The kids were asleep during this last snow. But it did sleet early that afternoon. So we had a little science lesson on what sleet and hail was and the kids got to pick it up and hold it. I think they liked it. Tink wanted to stand under it while it was coming down. But I suggested that she wait until the sleet storm was over before venturing out....unless she wanted to loose an eye.

Jill

Fun Fun

How cute is this!! Man-Man is the first boy sitting on Miss Jessica's back. His friend Malorie is the little girl in the back. Miss Jessica keeps the kids at church and they all love her. I guess you can see why!

Jill

Tag you're it!

My friend Dee Dee tagged me awhile back and I forgot to do this little task. Sorry I'm so late Dee Dee. Here goes.

Four jobs I've had:
1. RN at Baptist Hospital
2. K3 teacher at MHBC
3. Children's Ministries associate Golden Triangle Baptist Assoc.
4. clerk at Paul's Pastry Shop (the biggest little bakery in South MS!)

Four places I lived: (only four???)
1. Starkville, MS (GO BULLDOGS!)
2. Lancaster, CA
3. Kalaheo, HI
4. Layton, UT

Four movies I've watched over and over:
1. White Christmas
2. Top Gun
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Gone with the Wind

Four shows I watch: (note...we only have bunny ears so we only get network T.V.)
1. Without a Trace
2. Dancing with the Stars
3. CSI-Miami
4. Numbers

Four places I've been:
1. Italy
2.Germany
3. France
4. Honduras

Four people who e-mail me regularly:
1. DH
2. Mom
3. family
4. friends from church

Four favorite things to eat:
1. chocolate
2. salads...any type
3. seafood
4. Mexican food

Four places I'd rather be:
1. the beach
2. TN mountains
3. reading a book
4. taking a bath while reading a book

Four things I look forward to this new year:
1. Watching my kids grow taller, smarter, cuter!!
2. going to Disney World in Sept.
3. celebrating 8 wonderful years married to my best friend
4. growing in my relationship with my Jesus!!

Jill

Princess update

This picture was taken with Miss Jessica's camera this past Sunday at church. Princess is on the right in the pink dress. Her friend Emily is on the left. Emily was born 8 days before Princess. They both have that beautiful red hair! Princess can now sit up by herself...well, until she decides she'd rather try to crawl. Then she falls over and is stuck laying on her belly. She can scoot backwards and around in a circle, but she really doesn't go very far. It won't be long now. She is really interested in eating actual food with her hands. I give her little Zwieback biscuits and she just goes to town. She'd love to eat more but there really isn't much finger food she can eat without teeth. She loves her baby food, too. I just can't believe she's getting so big. She is such a joy...our little blessing from above.

Jill

Yummy!

Princess has discovered the joy of eating...and she tackles it with all her might. Though she can't really eat solid foods yet she loves the biter biscuits that Gerber makes. As you see, though they make quite a mess. But it's great to sit her in her seat and give her one while I'm trying to wash dishes or cook.

Other pics show Tink making her homemade Valentine's Day cards to take to our Valentine party later today with the homeschool group. We will have 50 kids there so we had quite a lot of cards to make. I'll write more about the party later. I know it'll be lots of fun. There are also some pics of Man-Man at a Pump it Up birthday party we all went to. He had a ball. You can see pure joy on his face. We're off to do school and then go to the gym. Have a great day!

Jill

Life changes!

I just checked my email and this was sent to me....it kinda explains some of the rambling of the previous post. Enjoy!


The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning...uphill BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda!

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that...

I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

1. When I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2. There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

3. There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!

4. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal. That's it!

5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics were horrible! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

7. When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

8. Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!

9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire...imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing or a pan with HOT oil and real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an idiot.

10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess what we had to do.....hang up and talk to them later.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.

You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Return from the Stone Age

O.K. I know I haven't posted in a while...and there's a reason. We have a very nice, yet very old computer that sometimes can't keep up with the new, fast-paced, high-tech world. We have a dinosaur from 1998. DH is great with computers and has basically rebuilt this one with all of the new high-tech stuff in it. But it has a problem connecting to the cable modem when the computer is turned off. (At least that's what I think is happening). All I know is that we had some terrible wind up here last Tues. (10 days ago) and the power went out for about 1 second. It was enough to shut down our computer and it took until today for it to decide to reconnect to the internet world.

This really made me realize how much we rely on computers and email to communicate. I mean, I had to watch the local and national news to know what was going on. I'm so glad I don't have to do that on a regular basis. We're so spoiled. I used the internet the first time while I was in college and now I can't remember how I got along without it. This invention has totally changed our world. I mean think about it. We don't have to have the latest editions of the Encyclopedia Britanica sitting on our bookshelves for our children to write reports out of. In one click they know more about Abe Lincoln than any encyclopedia or library could ever tell you. I remember that to write a book report or essay in the sixth grade I had to write my essay on unlined computer paper. In order to keep the lines nice and level I had to use a lined sheet of paper that had the lines marked in black and paper clip that paper to the back of my unlined paper. Does anyone else remember having to do this? These are things our kids will never understand...or do. Oh, I'm just reminiscing here....I'll post some pics later since that's what y'all want to see anyway! Love you guys!

Jill