Halloween Weekend Fun

What fun we had this weekend!

Friday night we took the boys to their school for the fall festival. There were a ton of kids and lots of lines. It was mostly fun, but that kind of atmosphere sets N into a sensory tizzy, so we have alot of re-directing to do. It's such a hard spot to try to contain without suppressing his fun....and ours.

I think it was a success and the boys slept really well that night!

Saturday dawned early, D and I ran in the Wicked 10k race down at the oceanfront...lol oh my goodness, it was a not so comedy of errors. The morning was beautiful, we were feeling good, it was cool and sunny and there were lots of people.

As our corral was moving to the front I felt the urge for the portapotty...but chalked it up to race nerves so just pushed through it. MISTAKE! By the time I got about 6 blocks I was really feeling it... and of course no potty in site. D is urging me forward trying to get me to keep up. And to risk tmi here... I am no longer a spring chicken and can I just say the 'control' is not what it once was...LOL I kept telling him to go ahead I would walk my way to where I knew there was a potty on the course... 2 1/2 miles later... there it was! Never been so happy to see a portapotty in my life...LOL

Then I was feeling great and took off... passing people feeling good... then OUCH who knew you could get a cramp in your Gluteous???!!! Well ya'll let me tell you... You can! So there I am gluteous cramp on the right and new weird foot pain on the left. Seriously... I was pretty annoyed at this point. I mean heck I have been to the gym at least 4 days a week for the last 4 months or so... what is my body doing??!!

I felt worse on this 6 mile run than in the 13 miler in March and I was in worse shape then.

I did hobble myself over the finish line and fall into my waiting, perfectly happy and not sore husband's arms...lol

That afternoon was spent with S at a modeling interview...we will see if she gets accepted tonight. Prayers for doors to either open or close. She is good with either, although she's always wanted to model.

Saturday night was a party with our friends. It was fun to be out with my hubby and just hanging out with friends.

Sunday church and trick-or-treating were beautiful and special. My boys LOVE dressing up and running around. By the time we were done collecting candy N says "Momma, my feet have run out of batteries". Man could I relate!!!

This week is a short one... we will be in PA on Friday for the Mid-Atlantic Orphan Summit. There still time to sign up! Please join us!!!

Hope your weekend was fun and cramp free! :)

Longing....

There are days like today that the longing in my heart and arms for another child become almost overwhelming… you would think that at the age of 40 I would be thinking of my empty nest.

Dreaming about the time I could spend with my hottie hubby all alone…day dreaming about sleeping in again and not having snotty boys, and cleaning up the mess around the toilet that little boys make…lol

But I am not… I long for more of that. Which is really rather ironic, because N has started his routine of acting out again. Seems a bit strange to me that the more he does that the more I want more children. Now do not get me wrong, I don’t want them to replace him!!!! I just seem to want them more… wonder if he senses that desire and it sets him off… (hhhmmm love blogging, sometimes I give myself things to think about.)

Today I was looking at pics from our mission trip in April and saw so many beautiful little faces that I fell in love with while there. Then got to go their family blogs and see so many of them home and happy and so very beautiful. I also saw the faces that are still waiting for a mom and dad to come get them and give them the love they deserve.

This waiting until January to even start the process is killing me… I thought that I would feel better knowing that at least we would be starting, but it’s almost made it worse.

So while I long for the children that are still waiting for us… I will go home and love on the ones that are already there.

China Kidz A Christmas Project

If you are like me you have already begun listening to your Christmas music...yes I have! :) And thinking about what this Christmas may bring. This Christmas you can help babies in China stay warm.

Check out this post and see what you can do to help!

Keep a child warm this winter!

Not As Calm As I Had Hoped....

So, over all it was a successful weekend. I got a good bit of cleaning done, I actually got to go to the Jeremy Camp concert, and we were able to get pumpkins and carve them.

We did have a bit of a wrinkle though. Hubby went to work on Saturday for a few hours, and while there thought it would be fun to attempt to remove his eye with a piece of metal. Ok all you OSHA peeps, yes he had been wearing his safety glasses...he was getting ready to leave for lunch and had taken them off. Someone had propped the metal up near his keys and wallet, he wasn't paying attention, and bent over into it.

He then calls me with the dreaded "Honey I am going to the emergency room".... sheesh who likes THOSE calls?

Now this happened on Saturday morning, cleaning day, so I had of course not showered, dressed, brushed my hair or even brushed my teeth...lol I mean who gets clean to clean? So I had to brush my hair and teeth (didn't want to kill him in the ER) and throw on clothes.

The HUGE praise is that while he's got some damage to the outter part of his eye, and the white part, the cornea was completely spared. The Dr showed me the glowy eye thing when he was checking D's eye (SO cool by the way!) and the cut was amazingly close! SO praising God today!

So the rest of the weekend ended up much more quiet afterwards. He wasn't able to go to the concert, so S and I went. It allowed D's mom to come over and take care of him, it makes her feel good. :) It was great... interesting... but great. :)

So here are some pics from the rest of the weekend....

our sweet doggies...

We played with trucks...

Crazy boys...
The boys drew their own faces...


ewwww pumpkin guts..
Creepy

This is P. He is S's friend from Kenya, he's never carved a pumpkin before, so she invited him over to help.

They did a good job :)
The finished products... not very scary...lol

Friday!!

It's Friday!!!

We have nothing significat planned... can you believe it? I know me neither!

My biggest plan for tomorrow is to clean my poorly negelected house. And then on Sunday get to the yard. We will be getting our pumpkins for carving, and costumes ready for next weekend.

Jeremy Camp is coming tomorrow night... SO wish I could head over to watch but we have no sitter, so I am letting D and S go with D's mom. It will be fun to hang with my boys for the night. Perhaps we do movies and popcorn and snuggle time. Sounds grand!

I have been working slowly on getting my VA Project Hopeful Blog together. I hope to share it with you soon! SO excited about the work being done and coming together. There are truly a wonderful group of on FIRE women working together to get these kids homes and love.

And speaking of which ...please pray for 3 in particular. God knows who they are... and how much my heart hurts for them... not more than His though. My heart has been so longing to get this next adoption started... I cannot WAIT until January!

Praying you all have a wonderful productive...or just plain blessed weekend.

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