Trying the 1500 again!

Ok...I failed at following 1500 calories I'm trying AGAIN...

Please pray I get through it this time...ugh!

How I would love to look like this hot mama again...

odd winter

So it's been a very odd winter...very little snow...warmer than usual days and I must say...I have not minded it one bit...some say it means it's near the end of the world some say global warming...

My opinion for what it is worth...try to live every day as if it's your last...when time runs out it's out...preach the gospel as if it's your last day to tell folks about Jesus and love you kiddos with everything you have...

We did have one or two cold days...here are some pics of the boys!

Twiggisms

Boys fighting before dinner...Shawn says: Sit down...right now...don't you want to act like a civilized human being...Jake's response...NO!

Jacob tells me he would like to marry me...I said buddy you can't marry your mommy I'm already married to daddy...he says but I cuter I has dimples.

I set up a baracade so that Evan will stay in the living room using chairs turned opposite of each other...he crawls through all the holes and then looks back and laughs. Ben said "you can't keep a good man down"

Jacob falls backwards off the back of the couch directly on his head while playing his DS...I run over are you ok...he says is my DS Ok...yup I'm fine.

Ben brings a Joe Corbi's Pizza order form home for church basketball...I said go upstairs to daddy's office and see if you can sell something...so he comes down and says well out of everyone there everyone ordered something I said that's great! He said yeah too bad there was only one person there...lol

FIRE AND POLICE

I am reading One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury and wow have I forgotten what a sacrifice so many made on September 11th and every day for that matter...

The children and I will be making cookies and delivering them to all the fire and police stations in the city this week...for sure!

I'm encouraging each of you to do something to thank these men and women...what a sacrifice they make...

Love all of yoU!

Interesting...thought provoking and written by Ben Stein

So this was sent to me and I never thought I would ever be posting something Ben Stein said on my blog...but check this out:

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on

CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was

Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit

when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees,

Christmas trees... I don't feel threatened.. I

don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are,

Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas'

to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting

ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like

it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters

celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at

all that there is a manger scene on display at a key

intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people

want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a

few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I

don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being

Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick

and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no

idea where the concept came from, that America is an

explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the

Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come

from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed

to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a

sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of

us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and

where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a

laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended

to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you

thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and

Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this

happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina)... Anne Graham

gave an extremely profound and insightful response..

She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as

we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of

our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of

our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He

has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us

His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us

alone?'

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school

shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine

Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years

ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we

said OK. Then someone said you better not read the

Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill;

thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as

yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children

when they misbehave, because their little personalities would

be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's

son committed suicide). We said an expert should know

what he's talking about.. And we said okay..

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no

conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it

doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and

themselves

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can

figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with

'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then

wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we

believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible

says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and

they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending

messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about

sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene

articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public

discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

michelle

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