Ok, I've vented about diabetes, so moving on.....
Carson spent the night away from home last weekend for the first time ever! Besides with grandparents that is. He stayed over with his little buddy from church and had a blast. I was told he teared up once, but took it like a big boy. He will be five next month. Wow! Well, his best friend is back in town, so he wants to stay the night with him tomorrow night. Janessa's friend (his sibling) is coming here, so we are switching kids. I hope Carson does as well with him.
Tomorrow is a big day. We have to do all the school and vacation shopping, Vernon's dad is coming over for a cook-out for his birthday, Vernon and his dad and going on a Father/Son date to the Braves game, Carson is spending the night away from home and one of my best friends is coming over for the evening. I can't wait, but I guess I do need to get some sleep....
But just a few more things.....
Highlights of the week......
*Vernon fixed our AC unit and it only cost $55
*The kids went swimming in the lake twice
*We returned our library books and they were only two days late =)
*We implemented a few new rules including
No TV what so ever on days that start with "T" and the kids were great about it
(and the amazing thing is we already have pretty strict TV rules)
Family Night is now Thursday, but can't include TV (changed from Friday, which always seemed to interfere with something else)
Monday is Family Movie Night
*After much thought following the last two weeks of a parenting class (relationships vs. experinces is one topic) at church, I realized my children are actually doing OK on the relationship side and I'm pretty proud of that. I guess I can stop thinking we are not doing good by our kids, because we don't have them in all kinds of sports and classes or because they don't have that many big electronic toys such as Ipods, game systems, individual TVs or computers. I am so glad we have such great open relationships with our kids and we spend lots of time talking, interacting and listening to each other. (For now..I just hope and pray we can continue to keep it that way as they get older. We are going to try our hardest to say the least.) I do sometimes wish they had more experiences, but I'm going to stop beating myself up about it. They are allowed to participate in two sports per year plus scouts, so we will stick to that (and not get a second mortgage, haha-just kidding) I do, however, need to continue to cultivate their relationships with adults outside of family. Vernon finally sees why I'm always planning something for us to do with others, but we also trying to spend more time at home this summer.
(OK, can you tell I'm getting tired...slur...)
*I found some really good deals on shoes for school. Yeah!
*I figured out how to put pictures on my blog posts
*We made glob as our science experiment this week
*Vernon fixed my headlights on my van and they work great. No more worrying about traveling at night.
*And Vernon fixed his lawn mower and cut grass. Now we can find the sand box! haha Just Teasing!
*We decided to re-implement date nights. We use to do it a lot, but somehow life happens and you get away from it. Vernon use to take Janessa out all the time when it was just her and then even after Carson was born. Now we want to make it more of a priority.
*With that being said, We enjoyed our dates with our boys tonight!
*Not a highlight, but something that happened-Brayden went to the Asthma specialist and is now on 6 different meds and it seems more complicated than Janessa's diabetes, but I will do anything for my baby to be able to breathe.
*We decided to host a monthly get-together at our house beginning in August...more details to follow I'm sure.
*I was able to connect with 4 friends this week
*We finally made our goal for Callaway Gardens memberships...I can't wait to go.
*My father-in-law had a date tonight with a really sweat lady I set him up with. I can't wait to see how it went.
*We went to a very moving prayer meeting at church where I had the privilege to pray over my dad with the rest of the church. Wow, he has changed so much..... Please pray for him to find a lasting job soon. I REALLY am too tired to blog about my dad, but it is an AMAZING story. Maybe some other day!
*We are going to my parents after church on Sunday to go swimming and hang-out. I can't wait. I need a momma fix!!!!!! I'm such a momma's girl I know, but I NEED that time with my family. ALL my family. We usually all meet over there, including my brother and his family and my sister. And the pool is finally full and up and running..Yeah!
*And #1 is Carson learned to ride a bike without training wheels in like 10 minutes flat!
Have a great week!!!!!
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