• Sick boys getting better
• Kindermusik with Miss Lisa – both boys have a blast and love love love her
• Kevin cleaned while I slept in…God bless him
• Sammy listening when I say stop
• Oatmeal for breakfast
• Making a good home cooked meal
• African Violets
• Matthew’s half smile when he is cranky and I say “Peek a Boo”
• Our Wonderful Amazing All Sufficient Savior Jesus Christ
• WAH Friends
• Morning bike rides with my family
• Evening bike rides to the Ice Cream place (only occasionally)

• Sammy snuggles
• Matty snuggles
• Watching my boys play together
• Drinking Diet Coke with Lime
• Coffee
• Fresh Homemade Salsa made with tomatoes from my dad’s garden
• Morning bike rides with my family
• Sarah Palin
• Getting my house cleaned and decluttered

• A week of showing Jesus to children
• God’s guidance and comfort
• Remembering my Mom
• Matthew going from a crawl to a seated position
• Matthew trying to pull himself to standing
• Samuel learning Geography from his cousin (he can pick out several African Countries and most continents)
• Samuel telling me about Jesus
• Being asked to teach a homeschool co-op class
• Lunch with my family and my sister’s family
• Snuggly kitty cats
• Watching Shawn Johnson at the Olympics, there is just something about her that makes me feel proud!
• Making a new friend

Right now I am working on my scrapbook materials. You know, the ones I rarely use since I went digital. I am trying to part with the majority of them and only keep the essential stuff. Problem is, I have this addiction to background papers. Which means I have LOTS of them. Not too sure I can part with them. Not sure why. Silly, huh? I have many many things that I have decided to EBAY. Most of them still in the package never used. Yeah, I went through a period of time after my mom died that I thought the key to feeling better was going to be found in accumulating stuff.

Speaking of my mom dying, on Friday it will be 2 years since her death. Some days it seems like yesterday. Not a single day has gone by in those 2 years when I haven’t thought about her. When I haven’t vividly recalled finding her lying there, her heart having given up and her life cut short at only 53. I am not depressed, I am sad and I am mourning…still. I miss her. Terribly. Some days I want to pick up the phone and call her and I can’t. She never met Matthew. Sammy knew her until he was 10 months old. Now he knows her as a photograph and as a name on a grave at the cemetery, where he likes to run in the open field. She would like that. Seeing him run and dance and be happy. I find comfort in the fact that she is with Jesus in Heaven, no more pain or sorrow for her. Jesus has carried me through the tough times and I cannot imagine losing someone without Him to carry me.

I miss you Mom and I love you…

• Spending the day with my silly 14 year old nephew yesterday
• Spending the day with his crazy 10 year old sister today
• Sammy getting his hair cut – He looks sooo cute (will post pics later)
• Homemade Lasagna with Homemade sauce – Mmmmmm
• Making soft pretzels with R
• I get to meet Dana tomorrow!
• Reading and sipping Iced Coffee
• We got a new cat – he claimed us – abandoned and clawless (yes I tried to find his owner)
• Trying to decide what car to buy – I enjoy the research part, Kevin handles the negotiating
• I’m getting the car for my birthday!  How cool is that?  My hubby is buying me a car for my birthday!
• My birthday is 8-31

• Getting to know new people
• Going Green(er)
• Making a weekly menu and sticking to it
• Seeing progress in our Infertility and Adoption Ministry
• Looking for a new (to me) car
• Fresh Blueberries
• Playing Captasord (Captain Feathersword) with Sammy
• Matthew is *almost* crawling – doing the hands and knees rocking thing
• I get to meet Dana this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• My hubby cleaned the kitchen and finished laundry for me
• Sammy is sleeping in a big boy bed now (with Wiggles Sheets)
• This Song: You Never Let Go – David Crowder Band
  

• Doctor Who on the Sci-Fi channel
• Snuggling with my hubby while watching Doctor Who
• Listening to Matty say “da da”
• Watching Sammy dance with The Wiggles
• I CAN do all things in Christ!
• A Heavenly Father who loves me to bits even when I am not so loveable

You would see:

Toys Toys Everywhere! We have way too many toys!

We’d probably feed you:

Usually company meals are either Lasagna or Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots

And offer you this to drink:

Let’s see…we have iced green tea, coffee, diet Coke and Tab, Watered down juice (75% watered), water, soy milk and chocolate milk

We’d undoubtedly ask if you’d read:

Any good adoption books, children’s books, any good mysteries or any good cookbooks (I love to read them)

We’d want to play this music for you:

Sammy would choose The Wiggles or The Doodlebops, I would play Chris Tomlin or Micheal Popenhagen

We’d want to tell you the latest about:

Something the kids have done! I’m one of those annoying people who talk too much about how cute their kids are.

We’d probably suggest a game of:

Scrabble, Dutch Blitz or Pac Man (we have an upright arcade version of Pac Man from the 80′s)

We might show off:

Our gorgeous boys!

We might get on the computer and show you:

Kevin has a million things that he likes to show on the computer…trust me don’t get him started or you will be here for a week!

If it was a long enough visit, we might watch:

Pride and Prejudice or as I like to call it “Mr. Darcy” … I love the A & E version with Colin Firth *swoon*

What would a visit to your house be like?

Want to play along? Let me know if you do this – I’d love to come read it! In the meantime, I’m going to tag:

Anyone who wants to do it…I am so late in doing this that I am not sure who has already done it!

• Sammy “helping” with laundry
• An Ice Cold Diet Coke
• Strawberry Kiwi Slush
• Matthew NOT getting the stomach virus that has plagued our family
• Napping boys
• Sitting on the front porch watching the birds
• Having a savings…finally
• Snuggling my Sammy while listening to music
• Kevin helping me even when he doesn’t feel so good