Happy New Year

Happy New Year - 2010! Amazing...it feels like I was just getting ready for Y2K...yes, I was one of those that planned diligently for it! My garage was full of water, canned goods, can opener, powdered milk, batteries,flashlights and chocolate galore! Also, plenty of pull-ups, baby wipes and toilet paper!! The older I get the speedier a decade gets! Whew! So excited to see what the next one brings! It will certainly bring me into a new realm of motherhood, the teen years (eventually) for all three of my boys. Clark and I are praying about major changes in our lives, and although I do not feel I can discuss them now, I am asking that you will help us in praying about them!

Monday night I started MAKING the boys get in the showers. They have not yet realized the necessity of daily bathing. I heard all showers come on and once again felt victorious! Avery called for me in a calm, yet panicky-filled voice. You know the voice, the one that immediately makes your heart pound and all fight or flight sensors tune in! I rushed to his bathroom. The bathtub was splattered with blood and was streaming down one wall. He said, "I'm bleeding, Mama, and I don't know where it is coming from!" At this point, I am scared out of my mind. I begin checking all cracks and crevices(literally) for spurting blood. My oldest son was shaking, and I was too. It finally hit me that he is shaking from laughter...I then notice that he was holding a new bottle of Axe Bodywash in his hand. He (so sweetly) turns it upside down and squirts a stream of manly smelling, look a-like blood into the tub. Now, MY blood is boiling - Avery, and all the other men-folk in my home enjoyed this immensely!

My home is never quiet, calm or boring...

He might look sweet and innocenct..but looks ARE deceiving!