Uh-Oh!

So, Tyler woke up throwing up this morning - yea! Therefore, our plans for the day have changed. We were going to have Kendall come and spend the afternoon, but now we are putting up the "Enter at Your Own Risk" signs outside the house! Who knows what this is about, but I am so thankful that it is happening this week and not next week. I'm also thankful that he was not at our VBS last night or else I would be worrying about who he might have exchanged germs with! Hopefully we can just keep this limited to him!

So, for today I am going to stay at home and take care of him and sweep and mop my kitchen floor. Craig finished sanding last night, at least for several days, so I am free to mop without fear of it just getting another layer of dry wall dust on it tonight! When this project is done, I'm going to have a major spring cleaning project on my hands, but it will be worth it!

Potty training prayer request... I know I joke about this whole thing a lot, and that is just solely for the benefit of my own sanity, but in all seriousness, please pray for us this week. We have found something that is working, but it is killing me. Craig encouraged me last night to stay strong, so I am asking ya'll to pray for me that I WILL stay strong and not cave in. It is so humiliating to have a 4+ year old that does not do his business in the toilet, but I have to comfort myself with the fact that I have tried everything in the book. I guess this is his strong willed moment or something. Seriously, with everything coming up in the next couple of weeks and vacations we have planned over the next couple of months, plus the continuning expense of pullups and wipes, I am so ready to be done with this, so please pray. Pray hard!!!

Not Much to Tell

There is not a whole lot going on this week, even though it seems like it has been a busy couple of days. I opted for major straightening yesterday instead of cleaning, ran an errand, and then went to VBS. Our registration went great for the first night and we ended up with over 300 kids registered. It was one of the smoothest registrations that I have seen and our directors have done an awesome job on everything! I finally got to see and talk to my husband at about 9:00 last night. He finished the shelf that will be up above my microwave. I will have to post some pictures when it is all installed. Last night he got the boards finished and stained, tonight is putting on the varnish and, hopefully, tomorrow night I will have a new microwave! That means a whole extra countertop for everyday use. I am very excited about that!
I went to work for a few hours this morning while Kayla went with her friend to VBS and Tyler went to MDO. Picked Tyler up and ran a couple of errands, picked Kayla and her friend, McZ, up, and now Tyler is "resting" and the girls are playing. We will be heading back out to VBS in a couple of hours. So, for the time being, I am bored. Not because I don't have things I could be doing, but because I don't want to do any of the things that I need to do - did that make sense. Basically, I am being l-a-z-y.
I'm not going to update on potty training today, but let's just say that we have found something that Tyler hates and we are using that to our advantage. I'll keep you posted!

To Clean or Not To Clean?

That is the question of the day! When there is drywall dust all over your house along with tools and ladders scattering the kitchen do you really feel like cleaning? Oh, and just so you know, there is more sanding to come tonight or tomorrow night so why sweep, mop, and dust when there will just be more tomorrow? Do you think the Fly Lady would approve of that mentality? The fact of the matter is is that it is driving me nuts. I am wearing flip flops in my kitchen because I cannot stand the feel of the dust and grime on my bare feet, yea, TMI, I know. However, it's not like it is like this all the time! Decisions, decisions. I'm probably going to end up sweeping, mopping, and dusting, and then I will just have to do it again in a few days, but I just cannot take the mess any more! Craig is working so hard on all of this, but it is so time consuming!

Okay, on to a more uplifting(?) topic... I'm trying yet another potty training technique. I'm not telling you about it yet though because I want to see if it is going to work. Basically I have two weeks to get Tyler trained before he goes to stay with Grandpa and Grandma for a week. Craig and I have again hit the point of just being royally ticked off with this little guy because he is playing us like a fiddle. He can poop on demand if he thinks he is going to get to do something fun. So now it is just all out war, a battle if the wills, if you will! MAYBE there will be more to come on that later!

This week is going to be a busy one. Kayla just left to go to VBS with a friend; she will be doing that all week. Tonight begins VBS at our own church so we will be gone every night. Our church is expecting a huge turnout so pray with us that we will have lots of unchurched kids who will come and hear the gospel of Christ. I am heading up registration so since I'm working in it, Tyler will be able to participate as well. That will give Craig every night this week to work on the kitchen without his little helper! Yesterday Tyler came into the living room swinging a hammer - a real hammer. Scary.

On another Tyler note, last night we had a band at our church, Eleventh Hour - they rock, by the way! I was very impressed. So was Tyler. I think he will be soon trading his Tonka trucks and tools for an electric guitar and a microphone. In the middle of the concert, he looked over at me, and said, "Mama, you know what I want to be when I grow up?", "One of those", he said, pointing at the band, "I want to be a band!". After the concert, he kept saying, "Mama, that was awesome, that was awesome." He was cracking us up.

Alright, people, I have blogged long enough. I have to dust! Have a great day!

It is Hot!!!

Summer has officially hit here in Georgia. It is HOT!!! It was a long day inside today, because it was really even too hot for the kids to go outside - Tyler wasn't happy with that.

I set off this morning to the beauty salon to get my "hair did", as my friend Vickie Mack would say! So now I have stinky hair b/c I got a perm. Made a stop at the post office to mail some ebay stuff. My mother is getting into ebay, I think! She cleaned out a bunch of books while I was home and I listed them on ebay for her and she did great with them! Yea Mom! Anyway then it was home to a mess, although Craig had vaccuumed up all of the drywall dust and done the dishes, but the whole rest of the kitchen was on the table. So I was trying to get some of that stuff put up. The microwave is going where the cabinet was that held all of my cookbooks so I had to find a place for all of those. I spent the afternoon alternating between reading and cooking. We had the blessing of being able to take a meal to some friends tonight. Wow, what a time we had visiting with them tonight. They have been having a rough time and yet they are able to praise God that it has not been any worse than what it has been. I guess when you, literally, stare death in the face, and God brings you back it puts things into perspective for you. Again, what a blessing!

Craig is now working on my microwave, yes, still. Who knew what a big project this was. My stuff is back out in the middle of the kitchen and we are working around a mess. You got to love home improvement. Next step for me is to pick out the backsplash that I want and to pick paint. For Craig, prime the walls, sand the closet, mount the microwave, build shelf above the microwave. I guess we know who has the harder job, huh - it is hard to pick a paint color!:-)LOL

My Social Butterfly

Oh my goodness Lord, am I ready for these years to come? I don't know.

It seems every year that Kayla's social life gets a little bit more interesting. Today she has had a very sociable day! One of her friend's mom called this morning and wanted to know if Kayla could come and swim with them. So she spent most of the day swimming with McKenzie. She got home at about 4:15, we went and ran a quick errand and by about 5:15 she had Erica coming over asking if she could go to a movie. So she just got home from the movies and I think she will sleep very good tonight. It is so weird having a child old enough to go and do things like this. But, at the same time, I feel like we have been blessed with families inside and outside of our church that are good, godly people that Kayla can be friends with at school and such. I pray that it continues!

New Career Move for Lisa???

Yea, I don't think so! We are back at remodeling the kitchen. It has been on hold for a few weeks as other things have taken priority. Last night Craig "mudded" the closet. Tonight, he is tearing apart the cabinet over my stove. He stopped and got our new microwave on his way home and that will go over the stove. Yea! That means a whole extra counter for me to work on! I will NOT miss my counter sitting microwave. Anyway, while he was doing that, I really wanted to help so he let me sand the kitchen walls where the dry wall came up with the wall paper. In case ya'll don't know this about me - I am a girl, in every sense of the word. I don't like to get dirty, hate to sweat, yadadada... Well, I have my hair clipped up in the back and on both sides, sweat everywhere, and I am covered in dry wall dirt, and I am having so much fun!!! Seriously, I will enjoy every minute of my shower later, but for now it is a lot of fun to be able to help Craig, even just a little bit. Okay, have to get back to it. I will NOT be posting any pictures of me in my new job!

'tis the season....

...for lizards! I found this little guy in my garden this morning and couldn't resist snapping a picture of him. If I wasn't so worried about them coming in my house, I might be tempted to even call him "cute". Okay, no.