Family Tradition

So, every year on Thanksgiving eve, my family gathers at my sisters house and we make preparations for the big day. We make stuffing, pumpkin pies, put the turkey on, and most importantly we talk. We get to goof off with each other. Tonight, I was picking on my 13 year old niece. I was chasing her with a 2 liter pop bottle. Sounds dumb but it was fun! My girls got to help cut up veggies for the stuffing. This year I made an apple pie from scratch. I even made the crust! I love having family traditions! Next year we will talk about this year and the years past. Two years ago my sisters water line broke under her dish washer! We were talking about it earlier. You can still see where it happened on the basement ceiling! It was not funny then, but it is now. I think it's awesome that we have these memories to look back on. Evey year we will add more. What is your family tradition? What will you pass on to your kids?
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

Life's Healing Choices.

Today at church we had an amazing message, so much so that I want to capture it. :) So, I am blogging the message.
The Sharing choice: I choose to yield myself to God to be used to bring the good news to others, by both my example and by my words.
What can I share to help others?
1) How pain got my attention.
Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways. Prov 20:30
I am glad.....not because it hurt you but because it turned you to God. 2 Cor 7:9
We don't change when we "see the light" we change when we "feel the heat".
We don't help people by our strengths, no one wants to hear how good you are with money and how awful they are with it. We help people by our weaknesses. Who better to help you through a bankruptcy than someone who has gone through it? Insert your own area of weakness. What do you need help with? Find someone who has gone through it!
To help others I must be honest about....
• My feelings
• My faults
• My failures
• My frustrations
• My fears
2) What I learned in the process.
I learned to depend on God's love
I learned to follow God's word
I learned that I need other people
3) How can God bring good out of bad?
We know that God causes everything to work for the good of those who love Him. Rom 8:28
He brings good from the bad. Not Brings what we want!
Life is like making a cake. Eating the ingredients separately would be bitter and bad tasting. (Most of them not so much on the sugar and vanilla!) Imagine eating a teaspoon of baking soda? Or 2 and a half cups of flour? Sounds good right? ;) No! Now put all the ingredients together and you have a sweet tasting cake. :) That is what God does in our lives. We can not understand what or why a God is allowing this awful thing in our lives to happen. Think about Joesph. His brothers sold him into slavery, he was wrongfully accused of assaulting his employers wife, sat in prison for years and yet out of his first 40 years of life, he never doubted God's love for him. Due to those series of events Joesph then became the 2nd most powerful man in Egypt! He saved Egypt from famine and through that, his brothers found him again. They were so sorry for what they did. But Joesph was not angry, he was filled with joy to see them. God took bitter elements (ingredients) put them together and made a "cake" out of his life! It was not all sunshine and lollipops, but it did turn out for the best. God causes everything to work for the good of those who love him! Rom 8:28
They intent to harm me, but God intended it for good. Gen 50:20
4) How Jesus gives me hope.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you ro give him a reason for the hope that you have. 1 Peter 3:15a
We need to be a hope dispenser. God called us to be a witness. Not an attorney! ;) A witness tell what he sees, what he knows. An attorney questions and questions. We are just called to give our testament (our statement.)
God doesn't use perfect people, He uses broken people, that's all He has to work with. ;)
Who will you tell?

I did add a bit more to the message. It is not word for word. I took what Jeff preached and added a bit of my own to it. I really loved this message today. It was and is very deep for me. What is the one thing that you are so embarrassed about? Your worst deep dark secret? Use it to help someone in the same situation. I don't know about you, but for me that is hard. I do not want anyone to know those awful things I did. I want to keep them hidden and buried. But guess what no matter how hard we try to hide them God knows, and he wants us to help others.

I am super excited!

I can not wait for October 9th to get here. We are going to have so much freaking fun! I just don't even know where to go first. Spa? Shopping? Sushi? Kim's house? There are so many choices! All of them sound just great to me!! I am so glad that Jenny decided to do this! Watch out Columbus! Here we come!!!

Had an awesome long weekend. I had a bonfire 2 nights in a row (HOLLA) and we had s'mores, hot dogs, and brats. Mmmmmm. I know those are all things that are packed to the gills with nutrition! LOL ;) I star gazed, which was awesome. I love looking at the stars, I love seeing falling ones. I did get to see one. It was great. I had my cousin and her family up. I love getting to see my cousins, they live in Gahanna (just on the outside of downtown C-bus). So it was a real treat that they came up on Monday to spend the day with us.
The girls are doing great in school. There of course are the bullies, I am really trying to help my girls understand that not all people are nice and warm and fuzzy and loving people. :( There are mean and nasty and rude people out there just looking for a place to spew their hatred. My girls think that everyone they meet is their new friend. I really wish they could keep that innocence but, that just can't happen. Alexis came home and wanted a new lunch box because the one girl picked in her because it is Tinker Bell. Sigh...... :( Brook told me a boy on the bus called her evil. She does not even know what that means. :( Other than the bullies, life at school is great. Alexis comes home so excited everyday to tell me about her jam packed, fun filled day! Brook runs off the bus and right into the house jabbering the whole time about what her and her bestest friend Laci talked about. I think it is so cute.
Tonight I signed up to be a primary parent. They are kinda like the PTO only not. ;) I get to help in the book fair! Yea for me. :D I LOVE BOOKS!!! So do my girls. :) And I will help with decorating the school and fun stuff like that. I get to go in and volunteer at the end of the month in Brook's class. I think she will love it. I know I will. I hope that I get to help in Lexi's class too! It is a lot of fun. :)

I got a goat!!

Here's Molly!!! She is just adorable, not at all psycho like Emmy!! :D

Here's Molly!!! She is just adorable, not at all psycho like Emmy!! :D

What a Wonderful Life

Today was great!! I took they girls to Red Lobster and Coldstone Creamery! Talk about good. My girls are growing up so fast. I can not believe how fast time goes. When I was in school I thought I would die of old age before I graduated. Now I have been out of school as long as I was in school! How nuts it that? Anyway here are a few pics from todays outing. Be sure to go back and compare the girls size then and now. ;) Brings a tear to my eye.

Almost there

The girls are so ready for school that they are driving me crazy. Everyday I get asked "When will we get to go to school?" They have been asking since the beginning of August! I just know they are going to have a great time! I get to go to school with Lexi on Tuesday and with Brook on Wednesday. Friday will be our first full day for both girls. So to celebrate them heading off to school I am going to take them out to eat at Red Lobster and then to get ice cream at Coldstone's. I did this with Lex when she started Kindergarten. She still talks about it. ;) I have been praying for months now that the girls would love school. So far they do, but lets see if they still feel this way on the 30th. ;)

Here are a few pics from when I took the girls before Lexi started school. Look how small they were!! I will take pics tomorrow to compare. :D

Tired

Yesterday (Friday) I was mowing and found a nest of baby bunnies. I happen to know that the mama was dead. So I called up my friend who raises rabbits and asked if she could take them. She was more than happy too. She will get them old enough to live on their own and release them. :) That makes me happy. After mowing I went into Scheck's and got lasagna noodles and burger. I made home made sauce for the lasagna, it was SOOOO gooood!! After I started supper, I decided to wash my jeep. I am just going to say that I have had my jeep for alomst 4 years so, it has only been washed like 2 times in the past 4 years. WAY over due for a good scrubbing. I took gum remover to it. I got all the f'ing tar off of it. :D In the mean time, Rosie texts me and says she is in Wooster! I am only 15 mins from Wooster so this makes me happy, I have not seen Rosie in 13 years. So, after finishing my jeep, eating supper, taking the bunnies to my friend, filling up the gas tank, I head out to see Rosie. Turns out her aunt lives very close to me. I stayed at her house till just about 3:00 a.m. I had a great visit with her and her family. So glad I got to meet Ame and Christian. :)
I was suppose to watch one of Lexi's friends this morning. At 6:45ish a.m.(after all of 3 hours of sleep) I wake up to hear Lexi puking. :( Not good! I waited until 8:00 a.m. to call Lexi's friends mom. I told her I would still watch her daughter I just did not feel comfortable about not telling her that Lex was throwing up. She did not bring her. Now Lex is mad at me for telling Shelly, she really wanted Taylor to some over. She now feels great! and can I just call and ask if Taylor can come over now. :| I wish she could understand. She just does not get it yet. Hopefully Brook and myself do not get sick. I HATE throwing up. >:( Makes me mad!! Anyways, here are a few pics from yesterday. :)

Cleaning..........

I am sweating my arse off!!! I am cleaning and re-arranging Brook's room. Decided to stop and have a brewski. Nice ice cold beer!

School days.

Today I got my girls school clothes. I feel freaking fantastic!!! It is a huge relief to have it finished. :D The only thing left is the supplies. I need to know who the teachers are before I can but those. ;)

Love it!

I got a new camera, and I love it!! I have wanted a nice one for so long. Not that I did not appreciate my old one, cause I did. It's just that it is like 4 years old. It has served its purpose. Now I have a Sony cybershot, it is a 14.1 megapixel! It takes amazing pictures. Here is a preview of a few pics I took. I think they look amazing!

Onward and upward

I have crawled out of my hole. I feel much better. So good in fact that I mowed my lawn! I know right sounds like so much fun. ;) I made two batches of pizza sauce. I am going to make home made pizza tonight! HOLLA! I love home made pizza. Anyways....both girls were away last night. One was at a friends and the other was at mawmaws. So, I had my husband all to myself. I loved it. We played guitar hero (Metallica version). I sucked, Lucas kicked ass! I took a shower with no toilets being flushed or hands being washed, I didn't have to say one time, "hold on I will be right there". It was a nice shower. I got my legs shaved they are smooth as a babys bottom. I wanted to painted my nails, I ended up playing wii instead. ;) I have had a nice day. I have almost finished my latest Sookie Stackhouse book. I love that series, if you have not read it and want to let me know, I have all the books. :) It is totally worth reading.

The Hole

I am down in the dumps. I hate it here, I want to be happy. I NEED to be happy. Small group last night was a disaster. :( I woke up happy only to have that sinking feeling something was wrong, something is wrong. I hate this. I hate feeling this way. I hate that things like this happen. ;_; I want to talk, but I don't want anyone else down in this hole with me. I'm sorry. Reading this is just as depressing as talking about it. :/

Autumn invited me to go shopping with one day this week. I think that will be good. Maybe I will do some light school shopping. I still have no clue who is going to be my girls' teachers. I can't buy supplies until I know for sure.

To my friends out there, thank you for being my friend. Sometimes I am a really rotten friend, but thanks for putting up with me. Love you guys!

The Bad Dream

Around 4:00 a.m. I hear Brook get up and run like the wind to the bathroom. After doing her business I hear a faint tapping on my door. It goes like this.
Tap tap tap
Me: yes?
Brook: Mommy?
Me: yes.
Brook: Can I just have a hug and kiss?
Me: Of course you can, come in.
She runs in my room and throws her little shaking body on me, I asked if she had a bad dream and she says yes in a shaky voice. I ask if she would like to stay in the room with me and daddy. Yes (still shaky).
She then tells me what her bad dream was, there were coyotes outside her bedroom window, and the window was round so they could come in. I told her that her window is so far off the ground only a bird could come in. That made her feel better. She wrapped her tiny arms around me, gave me a hug and kiss, told me she loves me, and then thanks me for letting her sleep with me. Then she snuggled into the crook of my elbow and went to sleep.
Some days are so challenging being a mother. Sometimes the nights are worse. I love that my baby knew mommy and daddy would keep her safe and help her feel better. Days and nights like this, makes me LOVE being a mommy!!!!

Ever wonder?

Ever wonder why people complain? I do. I mean I complain, then I wonder why I did it. Nothing good comes from it. My kids will learn to complain.....strike that my kids HAVE learned to complain. I always want to say things like "that's not fair!" "why does this always happen to me?" "when will it be my turn for some good luck?" blah blah blah!!! I have it so good; yet I complain about such small things. I know people who have a great reason to complain but they don't. Weird huh? They must know some secret. A secret they will not share........"why can't I know the secret?" See that? I just did it!! Complained over nothing. :/ Along with my stupid diet I am going to try not to complain. If I do please for the love of God, tell me to shut up!! I need to be more thankful and less negative! ;) Thanks......in advance.

Whats new in the Rolince family

I enrolled Alexis back into public school. I had to do it. Both my girls will be in school this year. I am wanting to get a part time J-O-B! But it had to be flexible and close. (Good luck huh?) I put my beloved dog outside. Her hair was making me nuts!! For real it was. I was sweeping my kitchen 10 times a day and running the vacuum 2 times a day. So out she went. I have also decided to not put the girls in dance this year. Lex will be in the choir and Brook is trying sports, lots of sports. Soccer will be the newest sport. They both did track. They both liked it. I re-connected with an old friend. We have gone our separate ways 2 times now. I am hoping this time we will stay close. I am on a diet. (GAG) I hate to use the word but it needs to be said. DIET! I have lost 5 pounds so far. I can not stand the thought of getting on my treadmill or walking in this fing heat. So I have to do something. Food controll is what I decided on. ;) Wish me luck.