Flashback Friday 8.8.08

So here I sit nervously, wondering if I really want you all to know how crazy things have been around here... biting my nails, wondering what reactions this story will get. Then I read of another mom spilling her guts and even running a contest on the craziest thing that you ever said or never thought you would say as a mom. I am about to enter "you don't play in the gasoline, oil, and washer fluid!" to the mix. Maybe I will win... read on and find out about the horor.... Oh and check out that contest here... Top 10 things moms never thought

This is an e-mail I sent to my friends last September. Before I was blogging I was always e-mailing. I had just been introduced to my first mommy blog, BECAUSE I SAID SO, by now famous author/blogger Dawn Meehan.

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9.11.2007 (something about that date)

Subject: Oil, Gas, Car Wash Soap... Don't mix.

Subject: Children's lives spared by Grandpa...or not??

Subject: Just when I thought I had things all under control.

Subject: Women's Blog Spares children's lives.

Subject: IS THIS THE ABUNDANT LIFE LORD???

Subject: When all else fails... LAUGH...

Curious yet???

So, there I was. Praising God for all His amazing Blessings in my life. Folding the laundry down in the basement. So proud of my accomplishments in the midst of a busy week. So glad that God has given me the grace to survive... "THUS FAR!"... The laundry is all caught up, I have even ran the vacuum today!! The little ones are playing out side in the beautiful weather... The humidity has lifted... Life is good.

Do I smell gasoline??

Yes, I am in the basement and the little ones are outside...

I go to the garage. I did think, "I should take a picture" , but then they might think they did something good.

NOT GOOD!!

There is 1/2 of a 5 gallon container of gas emptied, 4 quarts of motor oil emptied, and a I don't know how full it was to begin with, bottle of car wash fluid emptied. Can I go to jail for admitting my children did this?

There stands Jadon in the center. And Kiahna is running around the outside laughing. She continues to slip and slide and giggle profusely throughout the whole ordeal. He, on the other hand, took one look at my face and knew...

Oh, yeah... Funny.

Their immediate lives are spared when I think about this mom's blog I have been reading written by a mom of 6 kids....BECAUSE I SAID SO Today's blog was titled... Don't put chocolate milk in your pants 20 things I never dreamt would escape my lips (until I had children). From Dawn's blog I have learned to laugh at myself and my kids more, and that maybe I don't have the only kids in the world to do these types of things!!! Thus sparing my children's lives today!

I take hold of both of their arms, unsure of what to do with them! And behold here comes Grandpa pulling in the driveway. I ask, as he views the incredible sight... I ask if he has come to spare their lives or help with the hanging!?!?!

I took the kids in to the tub, after stripping them down in the yard. Scrubbed them down with Borax powder hand soap. (Hee, hee) Tried to display the seriousness to my two 3 year-olds, (while they kept giggling, maybe they were high on fumes?) and put them to bed.

Dad called mom, and we cleaned up the garage.

Meanwhile, the phone rang.

It was my lawyer. More divorce stress and issues to deal with.

Soooo... That all said. I have a sink of smelly, greasy, gassy, clothes. I have a clean garage. I smell gas in my house, I need another shower. And I have to pick up Leah and Lucas at school to go to the dentist, soon.

STILL PRAISING YOU LORD... Dad said he was talking to a man this morning that was telling him about a book he was reading that was talking about a missionary that had all these bad things happen to him, and he asked God if this was the abundant life that he signed up for. God assured him that it was.

Maybe the fumes have gotten to me too.

Pam

Faith...

Sees the Invisible.

Believes the Incredible.

Receives the Impossible.

No more pretending?

Take 3.

I had this all ready to send and the ELECTRICITY went out!  Would you believe it!! 

I made the slide show of my two daughters and 5 nieces last week.  They all wanted beads in their hair!  It was fun! 

What hasn’t been fun is getting this slide show to post.  I don’t want to even think about how much time I have spent this morning trying to get that slide show on here.  It works fine on the website, but it won’t transfer.  URG!  So here are the pictures anyway.  Maybe another day it will let me put the slide show on!  At least today it is letting me put on pictures!

All the girls…

Kiahna’s hair on the 4th!

I pushed the beads up on the braids with the stars on them.  I looped ribbon around the pony tail holder to have the streamers in her hair!  Still loving those big ballies!

Leah with 2 cornrows.

Kaitlyn, 4 braids…

Livia, 2 braids, 2 cornrows…

 

Whitney and Breann, who wanted their hair just the same, with snaps at the scalp and 6 braids each…

Hallie, a veil style with braids… snaps and beads…

That isn’t nearly as fun as that slide show I still can’t get to publish!  OH WELL!!

My finished hutch!!

Close up of the distressed look…

I am very pleased with the finished product!  I am going to try it out on the INSIDE of one of my kitchen cabinets today… we will see!!

This is a huge accomplishment for me!  If you are visiting my blog and don’t know me or my life for the past 3 years, you just have to know that this is God’s power to help someone accomplish the impossible!

PRAISE HIM!!

Leah had friends over yesterday.  I took them to the pool…

After we got home, the spent the rest of their evening practicing and putting on two plays!  Some of the girls had written one at the end of the school year and preformed it for their class, and the other one Leah spent the week writing!  A singer and a writer that girl!!

I’m gonna see if I can’t get a small clip to post.  I give myself 1 minute to accomplish it and I’m stopping… ready?  Go…

Okay, times up… I thought I had it…her are some pictures of their disaster, stage.

and performance…

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Memories were made, pants were peed, laughter in abundance, Mt Dew was spilled, all is well…

The evening ended by staying up until 1 am to watch the first video tape of Anne (with an e) of Green Gables!  I see why it is so loved!  What a neat mother-daughter movie to watch!!  Thanks for suggesting it Kite Flying Sarah!

Where did the day go?

It has been a long day here. One of those days that ends, and you know you have done lots of things, but you look around the house and it looks like you did nothing! Okay, not nothing, you must have done something, and it probably involved making a bigger mess than was already here!

I did accomplish this...

1. Took my van in for an oil change, check-up, and tire rotation before our big trip next week.

(see I am being proactive!!!!)

2. Helped my parents figure out how to order pictures online from their new camera.

(being a good daughter!)

3. Worked 2 hours at the PTO Carnival... putting bread sticks on a plate... with cheese... and telling unsustpecting customers that they only cost $2.00, when they actually were $3.50... opps!

(Innocent mistake)

4. Did Kiahna's hair. 3 plus hours... the hope is that this will last until we get back from Florida. The Lord BLESSED her hair clips, giving me EXACTLY the right number of them!!!

HERE SHE IS!!!

She was a little annoyed to have her picture taken after having to sit still that long. She did so well though! She had her comb and clips and was doing her Strawberry Shortcake doll's hair while I did hers! Chatting away to me... that is new for her!

This picture happened after I was done posting yesterday... Anti freeze on the garage floor. He was trying to get something off the shelf and it fell and spilled. Earlier he dumped the gas can again. It only had a little in it. That was NOT an accident.

I am ready for another massage now. Think one day Kiahna will learn to give me massages after I do her hair? A mom can dream, right???