Archives for May 2008

Day 4

May 17, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

I had a really hard time waking up this morning but wake up I did since I knew my aunt and her family were wanting to leave by lunchtime. We got up and I’m glad b/c we spent time going to pick strawberries at a farm in town. It was a lovely day for it and I’ve been wanting to do it since it opened. I missed the girls not being there since they were at MIL’s house from their overnight stay but it was still nice.

After that, you won’t believe what Mom, Dad, Heather and I spent time doing until the girls got home?? Watching Season 1 of One Tree Hill!! I guess they finally wanted to figure out what all the hoopla was about. I had to leave to get the girls but they ended up watching 2 more episodes. I guess they like it though! All Mom will say is it’s DRAMA!

The kids and I went to a birthday party this afternoon. I totally forgot about it until an hour before so we stopped at Wal-Mart and headed over there. I really didn’t want to go much but I was pleasantly surprised at the party. They have a huge backyard and it was filled with all kind of little stations of things for the kids to do and of course their playground set. The girls stayed busy for 3 hours!

Most of the kids were from church so it was nice to visit with their parents and be outside on such a nice day.

This evening we ended up going BACK to Mom’s after I got the girls baths and put them in pj’s. We headed out for ice cream and then watched two more episodes of One Tree Hill. I guess Mom was getting pretty into it because she kicked me and the girls out so she could concentrate without their late-night craziness. LOL.

The kids were wiped out when we got home and went straight to bed. I’ve been trying to study for Sunday School but keep getting distracted. I’m really tired at this point and wish I would have prepared a little before this. It’s my procrastination kicking in. I guess I better hop off and get to it!

OTH News

May 16, 2008 by Amy 4 Comments

I know I said I had to go to bed BUT I totally forgot my very exciting news. Somehow word must have got out this week that my OTH site is half-decent because I’ve had several very cool things come from different PR people just today.

Rep for Gabe Dixon sent me links to audio of a song that’s going to be featured this week on the finale.
Rep for Amy Kuney sent me video and info about one of her songs that’s going to be featured this week on the finale.
Rep for tvguide.com sent me links to OTH videos and asked to do a link exchange…our link is now going to be on the landing page for OTH!
Rep for Hilarie Burton’s new DVD The List is sending me FIVE copies of the movie to giveaway at the blog.

This has literally all happened today. I literally was smiling so much trying to tell Heather about the DVDs that I couldn’t form the words correctly with my lips. And I’m not joking in the least. How awesome is all that??? No longer am I just copying and pasting info from other sites but now am the SOURCE for a few things! Awesome!!

Day 3

May 16, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

Day 3 pretty much rocked. I woke up to a clean house this morning. The kids were taken by Mom for the day by 10. I took the time to clean the Land Rover at lunch and worked up until 4 when I headed over to my Mom’s to see my aunt and family. We went to a local Italian festival to eat some yummy yummy lasagna. We swung by my house for them to see it since they have never been down here. At that point, I packed up the kids clothes and they went to spend the night with Scott’s parents. I met back up with all the girls at Ross’s and got some very fun coffee cups and a cake plate. We headed to Dad’s and watched Mad Money in their theater. It was a very, very nice relaxing day today.

I’ll head back to Mom’s in the morning to see them off by lunch and I’m not sure what time the kids will come home. I do need to do a bit of dusting tomorrow and bathtub cleaning but otherwise plan to take it easy tomorrow as well. However, if I don’t get to sleep very, very soon, I’m going to miss the whole morning, so I guess this is a quick post to say goodnight!

American Idol Tour Tickets

May 16, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

So Heather and I are officially going to the concert! I just got an email for Pre-Sale tickets and I jumped on it. Apparently they were on sale since 10am this morning so I didn’t get the best seats, but here is where we are sitting in the Bobcats Arena…

We went two years ago when Chris was there but skipped last year. I’m no huge fan of anyone this year but Heather is pretty into David Cook and I wouldn’t mind seeing it either so we’re set!

Day 2

May 15, 2008 by Amy 4 Comments

End of day 2 and we’re surviving. In fact, my house is extraordinarily clean right now. And I have no idea why I measure our survivorship by the cleanliness of my house but I do. I guess when things go haywire, the cleaning is the first to go. If you walk in and there’s dishes everywhere, toys everywhere, most likely, it’s been a crazy day. But if I manage to get it all picked up, then the craziness must have ended at some point.

I guess.

But right now, it’s looking pretty good. I did take the time to finally clean all our hardwoods. My aunt and her family are coming in tomorrow afternoon and Mom warned me they’d probably make a visit. Which I’m ecstatic about but I did have to do some cleaning. Which, hey, I really just got a headstart on this weekend.

Anyway.

It’s not saying things have been perfect since he’s been gone. Let me give you a little rundown of things that have happened just in the past 48 hours…really just in 22 awake hours that I’ve had them.

Lexi spent time in the bathroom today with a sink full of water and half a tube of SpongeBob Toothpaste. When I found her, it was in her hair, in her Barbie’s hair, smeared all over the entire countertop and on the handtowels. Lexi had two baths today and really could have used three because…
Lexi inhaled bubbles when she was blowing bubbles with this new bubble wand thingy in the garage which must have been pretty bad because it made her vomit in the garage and on her clothes.
During her two baths, the floors was completely drenched in water. It took two full towels to wipe it up which I’m now washing…again.
Lexi decided she wanted to pour her own cereal in the sunroom into a bowl. Apparently I didn’t have the eyes in the back of my head open because the next time I walked by, the feet part of the elliptical machine as well as most of the table and floor in the sunroom was full of SmartStart. I’m guess she didn’t mistake that for the bowl and was just practicing pouring cereal wherever her little heart felt like.
But my favorite is us at the post office…Lexi standing in her cherry silk jammies with American flag Crocs because I didn’t feel like fighting with her and Emma is putting on my lipstick. Like dark lipstick. Not the gloss kind. Lexi then gets my phone because she likes to see what’s on the camera. She then starts taking pictures of the lady’s butt in front of us. I think the lady behind us in line was chuckling while I literally laughed out loud while telling her to not do that. Then Emma gets my phone while Lexi puts on lipstick and Emma starts playing Akon’s Smack That in the uber quiet post office where about 12 people are patiently waiting in line. Yeah, we were the rednecks that day.

So while the house is clean, the last 48 hours haven’t been uneventful.

Did anyone else notice most of those started with Lexi??

Maturing in Faith

May 15, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

Hebrews 5:11-14

11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. 12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

On Wednesday at youth he talked about “Hanging out with God”. Basically the more we spend time with Him the more we become like Him. And as he said, the best way to become a better skateboarder is to hang out with Tony Hawk. The best way to be a better Christian is to hang out with God. Go to the expert. Nothing newsworthy, although always a great reminder and really did spur me to think of my study time lately but there was something he said that stood out.

You may have heard many preachers speak on the verses in Hebrews 5 above about maturing in our faith. And when we are new Christians we “drink milk”, or we start out with basic truths and then as we mature, we graduate to solid food, or gain wisdom and then can begin discerning good and evil and digesting more truths of God.

The part that got me was though was when we was talking about maturing and stop waiting for someone to feed you, feed yourself. Just like a toddler learns to feed himself.

I have never thought of that part of growing from a baby to an adult in real life and applied it to being a Christian..that I can recall. For some reason it was a lightbulb moment. I go to church, listen to music, read music waiting for someone to feed me. And yet I don’t take the time to feed myself. I don’t take the time to “hang out with God”. I have to make the effort. I have to spend time with God. Not godly people. Not godly books. Not godly music. And I have to be mature enough to set aside the time to spend with God. Listening. It’s not about going to church on Sunday and Wednesday and waiting to hear something life-changing. It’s not about reading the “Verse of the Day” and being able to connect with it. It’s about becoming like God because we spend so much time with Him.

No, I can’t spend my entire day in prayer. But come on, I can’t even come up with 15 minutes of prayer a day. It’s a sad state of affairs really. I thought after twenty years of being a Christian a may have matured a little and yet I can’t get the basics down.

They say out of the mouths of babes but…

May 15, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

out of the mouths of teenagers can be funny too. Wednesday night at church the worksheet had this question: What would happen if you intentionally spent time with God every day foe one month?

Everyone joked “What’s a foe??”

This conversation happened between a youth and J, another youth worker

Youth: It’s a deer!!

J: That’s a doe.

Youth: Oh Really?? I didn’t know that.

Nice.

That’s a South Carolina education for ya.

And on the subject of mistakes on brochures/worksheets, J said she’d never forget a brochure for a ministry which was trying to state “pork and beans” but instead said “porn and beans”.

Nice.

The dentist owns me

May 15, 2008 by Amy Leave a Comment

Geesh, I just took Lexi for a cleaning two weeks ago and Emma went today. Then we have FOUR more appointments in the next few weeks for fillings. Yes, unfortunately Emma has two cavities and since they’re on opposite sides of her mouth they have to do it in two sittings. The exciting news from today though? Emma’s two front teeth are loose!! I was really shocked as Emma hasn’t mentioned and I had NO CLUE it started this early…apparently I need a “What to Expect” book for school age children because I feel so unprepared for all this new stuff! Anyway, she said it could take anywhere from 2 weeks to a few months for them to fall out based on how much she tries to wiggle them. I’m scheduling portraits pronto so I get some good pictures…wahhhh…my baby is growing up.