My God is good!

My God is so incredibly good to me. I'm so grateful for his provision and grace.

I'm constantly amazed by the thing stat I learn about God from my children. It's really quite amazing. At the end of the day, when all I've heard from my kids is wanting and whining and arguing, I look at them and reflect on the day and am still overwhelmed by how much I love them. How much more so my heavenly Father loves me, despite my faults and imperfections and sometimes selfishness.

I'm also delving into God's plan for me to disciple my children and am really surprised and happy to know that physical discipline is NOT a part of God's plan! When referring to the original Hebrew, you'll find that God is not commanding us to spank our children.

More later, but please check out some of the links on my blog!

BOOMER!!

I'm so excited. Brian and I were blessed with free tickets to the OU game tonight. This will be my first OU game.
BOOMER SOONER!!!!

Smaller sizes, here I come!

I am so excited! I have gotten the opportunity to go to boot camp at Go Time Fitness starting next week. A girl I went to high school with owns it. I cannot wait to get my butt kicked back into shape! I can't fail this time - I just have to do it.

I'm getting very sleepy...

This week already seems long, and it's only Wednesday. I'm not feeling well, and neither are the kids. I think it's some kind of upper respiratory thing. I'm gonna give it another day or two to see if it goes away on its own.

Monday was Bella's field trip to the pumpkin patch. We had a blast. I'm so incredibly grateful that I get to do things like that with her now! Here are a few pictures from the day.

Having fun on the hay ride

Mommy and Alex on the hay ride

My pumpkins with a pumpkin

Yesterday was another crazy day, so I'm looking forward to today being a little more relaxed. I've got things to do around the house, but no appointments or errands to run. Yay for that!

Rain, rain, go away!

Well, no field trip to the pumpkin patch today because of the rain. It's been rescheduled for next Monday.

I got the kids approved for SoonerCare this morning, and Brian and I are approved for Insure Oklahoma. Praise God!!

I'm still alive...

I am so incredibly terrible at this. I think that's how I started my last post as well.

Lots of exciting things happening in our lives. I have been blessed with the opportunity to become a stay-at-home mom. Today was the first day in my adult life that I have not been employed by American Airlines. Literally. I started there at 19, and 11 1/2 years later, here I stand on the other side of life at AA. Wow. It was hard to walk out the door, but I'm so happy that we've made this change.

I enjoyed my first day at home. Drop kids off at school, a trip to the grocery store, laundry and house work, playing with Alex, cooking dinner, cleaning the kitchen and now enjoying my family. Those are the days that make me tick.

Tomorrow is Bella's field trip to the pumpkin patch. I'm so incredibly excited to get to go with her! Then Wednesday-Friday are fall break. And next Friday is her fall party at school. This will be her first school party (including preschool) that I've been able to go to. Needless to say, I'm beside myself.

Tomorrow after the pumpkin patch, it's dance lessons for Bella and my 12-step group for me. I'll try to remember to get some pictures at the pumpkin patch.

Yep, still suck

Still suck at this, but I'm here.

Work has been...difficult lately. I love my work, but the stress level has been incredibly high for close to a month now, and there's no end in sight. I keep praying for peace and a resolution. Hopefully soon.

I'm turning :gasp: 30 on Saturday. WOW! We're both taking Tuesday off, so we'll have a long weekend to celebrate. We're actually planning to paint the living room, dining room and hallway over the weekend. I know we're also going to have a date night this weekend to celebrate just the two of us. Very excited about that!

My babies start back to school on Tuesday, which is the real reason for taking Tuesday off. We'll both be home to get them ready for their first day at school and do drop off and pick up. I'm very excited about that! While the kids are at school, we're going to get massages. I can't wait for that!

I must have been incredibly uninhibited Saturday evening, because I got a tattoo. I was nervous and scared of the pain, and I honestly didn't think I would do it, but I did. It's a small black butterfly above my left ankle. LOVE IT! It didn't exactly feel good, but certainly bearable. So glad that I did it!

It's off to bed to cuddle my handsome prince for me. :-)