I looked at

the clock twice today and both times it was 11:11
What is with the number 11 today?

So far

so good this year in Kindergarten.  We are seeing improvements this year with:

his willingness to learn what the teacher is teaching
not trying to be the teacher
getting along with his classmates
not clinging to my leg before I leave the classroom ( I do miss that a little)
playing with his classmates (he still likes to play alone)
not trying to control the classroom

do you see the common thread....it begins with a C and ends with a L

 

I am learning

to forgive but its not easy....
 

Phillies game and a tire cleaner

Happy Birthday, Best!

A birthday wish from Carson

Dear Best, Happy Birthday to you.  I love you.  I hope you have a great day.  Be careful blowing out the candles.  Happy Birthday.  Best- when I see you I am going to give you a great big hug and kiss.  and Best do not forget to put the top up on your car tonight because its going to be really, really cold.
That's it.  wait!  I love you so much.
 

Its 3:00am

in the morning and Cinderella is up singing away in her crib.

Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – A long-simmering volcano outside one of the Guatemala's most famous tourist attractions exploded into a series of powerful eruptions Thursday, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles (three kilometers) high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks and forcing the evacuation of more than 33,000 people from surrounding communities.
Guatemala's head of emergency evacuations, Sergio Cabanas, said the evacuees were leaving some 17 villages around the Volcan del Fuego, which sits about six miles southwest (16 kilometers) from the colonial city of Antigua. The ash was blowing south and authorities said Antigua was not currently in danger, although they expected the eruption to last for at least 12 more hours.
The agency said the volcano spewed lava nearly 2,000 feet (600 meters) down slopes billowing with ash around Acatenango, a 12,346-foot-high (3,763-meter-high) volcano whose name translates as "Volcano of Fire."
"A paroxysm of an eruption is taking place, a great volcanic eruption, with strong explosions and columns of ash," said Gustavo Chicna, a volcanologist with the National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology. He said the cinders spewing from the volcano were settling a half-inch thick in many places.
He said extremely hot gases were also rolling down the sides of the volcano, which was entirely wreathed in ash and smoke. The emergency agency warned that flights through the area could be affected.
There was a general orange alert, the second-highest level, but a red alert south and southeast of the mountain, where, Chicna said, "it's almost in total darkness."
Teresa Marroquin, disaster coordinator for the Guatemalan Red Cross, said the organization had set up 10 emergency shelters and was sending hygiene kits and water.
"There are lots of respiratory problems and eye problems," she said


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/13/volcano-eruption-in-guatemala-prompts-33000-to-flee/#ixzz26P9C8QEw

Happy 6th Birthday

Today we celebrate Carson's sixth birthday. more to come...

First day of school

Carson wanted me to capture the following pictures on his first day of school

 

eating breakfast

Being silly while eating breakfast

                                                       His new "hot" book bag

                                           Stride Rite Star Trek sneakers that light up on the side. 

Jonathan and Carson hugging

Carson asking for another hug

                                                 Already for Mommy to drive him to school
                                                

                                             He wanted another picture with a smile that showed his missing tooth.
                                               please excuse Kyndel as she goes to the bathroom.

one more picture...please Mommy

                                           Coming home from school Carson takes the bus

Wow, he ran off the bus :)

Hmm, Mommy I am little messy.

                                           Mommy, can you hold my book bag as I run into the house as I am
                                                     H U N G R Y
 

Happy Labor Day

I can not believe summer is coming to an end.  It was a gloomy day in Cape May County.   Of course I spent most of my day at work.  However it was not all that bad as I was able to hang out with a new patient who was a very talkative and full of life at 88 years old. 
Carson starts school tomorrow.  Carson is repeating Kindergarten primarily due to his level of maturity.  We felt it was best for him to repeat his kindergarten year instead of 4th or 5th grade.  I explained to Carson that he would be in Kindergarten again this year and he said, "Mommy, that's ok.  I do not want my name to be taken off the wall and I would miss Mrs. H___."  Well, that's what he is saying now... we will see how it goes tomorrow.  Our prayer is that Carson will listen the first time to his teacher and respect authority.  For some reason Carson will challenge authority and campaign for what he wants and believes in.  Yes its a strength at times, however it also can appear to be very defiant. 

 

That's my girl

on the cover of a Harlequin Romance.  The photo was taken of Greta Rebecca when she was six months old in NYC.  The book will be released  in October. 

 

Did you know

Tonight as I was sitting on the couch with Carson he looked at me and said
 "Mommy did you know Jesus is the King?  He made each star and makes the moon shine."

 

Ice Cream Ice Cream

There is no stopping my girl when it comes to ice cream.

The name song

Carson Carson bo Larson
Banana-fan-farson
mee-mi-marson
Carson!

Do you remember singing that song when you were younger?  

His first

Carson has his first lost (loose) tooth.  Oh my, he is so excited.  He said " Mommy is the fair lady coming soon to put a million bucks under my pillow?"

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call asap, changed his clothes & went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On seeing him, the dad yelled:
“Why did U take all this time to come? Don’t U know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t U have any sense of responsibility?”

The doctor smiled & said:

“I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital & I came as fast as I could after receiving the call…… And now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work”

“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would U calm down? If your own son dies now what will U do??” said the father angrily

The doctor smiled again & replied: “I will say what Job said in the Holy Book “From dust we came & to dust we return, blessed be the name of God”. Doctors cannot prolong lives. Go & intercede for your son, we will do our best by God’s grace”

“Giving advises when we’re not concerned is so easy” Murmured the father.

The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy,
“Thank goodness!, your son is saved!” And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running. “If U have any question, ask the nurse!!”

“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state” Commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left.

The nurse answered, tears coming down her face: “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was in the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery. And now that he saved your son’s life, he left running to finish his son’s burial.”

Moral-Never judge anyone….. because U never know how their life is & what they’re going through”

not me....maybe someone else

 but you do not have me fooled....

Hanging out with older kids

brings different words to Carson's vocabulary.

Mommy that is so solid?
Oh dude that is phat.
oh yea tough guy.
Keep it moving dude.
That's so epic. 
Now this is going to be a lot of work hot stuff.

video from our trip to Guatemala

The video is 5 minutes long.  Its really worth watching.  Please keep an open mind and heart.  If you have any questions or comments please do not hestiate to ask me.  God blessed all of us.
http://youtu.be/Jz-TLtktDh0

People need the Lord

We all need the Lord.  We all need to have a relationship with our maker.  We all need to be prepared to meet him one day.  The Lord loves you.  He wants a relationship with you.  He wants you to talk with him.  He knows your heart so share your dreams.  He is waiting for you.



Everyday they pass me by,
I can see it in their eye.
Empty people filled with care,
Headed who knows where?
On they go through private pain,
Living fear to fear.
Laughter hides their silent cries,
Only Jesus hears.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize --people need the Lord?
We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right.
What would be too great a cost
For sharing life with one who's lost?
Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear.
They must hear the words of life
Only we can share.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize that we must give our lives,
For people need the Lord.
People need the Lord.

an hour alone time after the baby went to bed.

Tonight I enjoyed an hour bike ride alone.  I loved every minute of it.  I sang as loud as I could while listening to the ipod.  I had a great conversation with the Lord.  And I returned back to my house with a new attitude. 

summer time fun

Carson is such a fish.  He will stay in the pool all day.  After his four hour swim he enjoyed some corn on the cob out of my dad's garden.  yummy!  Cinderlla was loving the pool as well.

A few pair of shoes

blink of an eye

In a blink we are home. I opened my luggage yesterday and the smells of Guatemala flowed out of my bag. Can't forget those odors of the streets, cement, air and the people. What an amazing mission trip.

Is your foundation solid?

I love my family! They rock all the way around...

3:30 am is going to come very fast.  I need to get the little ones to bed.  Shower.  Try to slow down my thoughts. Pray. 
Off to Guatemala in the a.m..

Some days he does not stop

Mommy,

Can I do this
Why
Can you get me
What
You hurt my feelings
Can I
Why not
But
How about
just one
I promise
Please
Pretty please
Daddy said Yes
I am not talking back
But why

5 days to go

and I am almost packed.

enough said

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great e...nthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -- President Theodore Rooseve

The last time I checked

humans are not perfect.  Not even close to perfection.  I'm really struggling with people who think they are perfect or demand perfection.   It will never happen on earth folks.

Bible Verses about Perfection

Ecclesiastes 7:20         

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

James 1:4          

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Matthew 5:48         

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Philippians 3:12-15         

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

James 3:2     

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

1 John 2:5         

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1 John 5:18         

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

1 John 4:12      

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

2 Corinthians 13:9          

For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

Psalm 119:96          

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.