Praises of a Wife and Mommy

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It was almost a year ago when I shared with you that my husband got in a motorcycle accident.  He was very fortunate and only had a big arm gash.   Well, we have no motorcycle thankfully but he did get a big gash tonight from working on the van!   He said it was a stupid mistake and he was working too quickly and made a mistake.  A big painful one as a spring came up and hit him in the eye.  OUCH! I am thankful we did not have to go to the ER.  I called our friend from church who is a nurse and sent her a picture of him and she said since we stopped the bleeding we could put some butterfly strips on it.  So after getting it all cleaned out and bandaged and taking some Ibuprofen he went back to finish the van.   I am even more thankful that the spring did not hit him dead center of his eye...that could have been really bad!  God is doing a quick healing in him but what scary evening!  Thanks for praying for his quick...

As we were at church we saw the rain falling and then this beautiful double rainbow!  It was so awesome to see and reflect on God's promises in our life!  What encouragement!  :) Trust me this picture does not capture the magnificent beauty of this rainbow!  

It is back to school time and on many school lists are color crayons.  How about sending your child to school with a little bit more personality with these fun Scribblers Crayons .  Go take a look at all the fun options to choose from which are sure to please any child or adult! Thank-you to Randi from Scribblers Crayons for sending me a wide variety of Scribblers Crayons to conduct my review.  I was not paid for this review and all thoughts and opinions are 100% mine.  Some of the samples that were sent to me include: Stars, Legos, flowers, butterflies, Dino's, squares, and a multi-colored star.  (I also received party favors for my daughters party next month but you all will have to wait to see those.)  :)   The package arrived very quickly which is always a pleasure when you order online.  Once we opened the box it was full of surprises that were all packaged very organized.  All of the packaging w...

Joyce Meyer is one neat lady and it is so fun to read her new children's books!  I have already reviewed her story " Every Which Way to Pray "  a couple months ago. I was very excited to review "Field of Peace."  This story takes place at the Everyday Zoo and the baseball championships are underway.  Boyd, the star pitcher is not on his game because he feels terrible about a not so nice choice he made.  Can He fix it? Will he find peace again and make the right choice? Will they win the game? I love all the animal characters within the story.  My daughter loves giraffes so the star, Boyd, was a giraffe and even though he made a bad choice he was able to admit his wrong and fix his mistake.  Arnold the Armadillo was the character that Boyd was not very nice too.  I could see a second book off of this one teaching about Arnold overcoming FEAR!  :)  I like the lesson applied to the story.  I think it is so impor...

I know this blog is positive but every now an again a mom has to vent a little.  This vent is mommy vs. DOCTORS and tests and IRON! I have shared that at my son's 12 month and 15 month appointment his iron count was low and that we had to see a GI doctor.  We saw the GI doctor earlier this month where we discussed his low iron and low weight gain the last couple months.  The doctor threw out some things that I was not happy to hear such as Celiac disease, heartburn, Anemia, Chrones, and Stomach inflammation.  We had to gather some BM samples and do another blood draw. I left that first appointment thinking my son is pretty healthy and does not seem to have any concerning factors for anything he had mentioned.  His iron numbers were 9.9 in April, 10.1 in June, and 9.9 in August but they want them 10.5-13.2.  So they are not too terribly low. Yesterday the nurse called with his results and his blood and poop samples all were negative...

Usually on Wednesday's you find us at the church for youth group.  I love helping my husband but over the last several months I have not been able to help as much as I want with chasing two kiddos.  I really need to find someone to babysit my bundles for me but budget wise we just can't pay someone.  Tonight at youth they were having a bon fire and my daughter loves hanging with the students but her little brother needed to go to bed since he was very fussy.  So she started to have tears roll down her face when I said we would miss the fire.   Well, as soon as I got the little brother in bed we had a deck date with candles and s'more making.  :)  My little girl is growing up so fast.  As I starred at her through the candle light I got misty eyed because she is so big.  She was talking non stop about so many different things.  I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!  Mother's make sure you make the time and prioritize some one-on-one ti...