Jennifer

New Chapter Begins

August 15, 2008 by Jennifer 11 Comments

First off I want to take a minute to thank you for all the emails, words of support, and prayers from all you wonderful blogging mamas. It helped just reading all your words to get through each day. I will be writing more of an update on what is going on with hubbs in the next post.

And she’s off…. on to a new chapter in her life. Her first year of elementary school. The tears sure did flow down my worried face when I looked back in her classroom. I just wanted to run in and grab her up and run forever. My little girl how can she be in school.

She was so excited and couldn’t wait to check out all the cool centers in her classroom that they use to teach the children by.

Once we got to the door, I just froze. Please stand still time. Let me relish in these last moments of my little non-schooler and press into my memory forever.

That smile made it so much better to get through that first morning. I love my girls more than life itself and just seeing one go off to school makes you think to never take one moment for granted. As we will blink and they will be walking down the aisle for marriage. SIGH!

She came home that evening and was so full of stories about her day! I sat back and just listened at how well my little girl was taking it all in at school. I can do this… I can do this… I can do this I kept repeating. This will be a great year!!!

A couple first day stories:

Mom, this girl in my class said the tooth fairy left her 16.00 for her first tooth she lost!

Me: Madisyn was you good at school today?
Madisyn: Mom, ugggh I am always good at school, just not at home.

Hey at least she’s honest huh? LOL.

My Heart Is Heavy Tonight

August 10, 2008 by Jennifer 8 Comments

I just put my oldest daughter to bed. I just tucked her in and kissed her. I told her I loved her. I rubbed her forehead. This is the last time I tuck her to bed as a non-schooler. She starts her very first day of kindergarten tomorrow morning. I don’t want her to go. I am going to miss her soooo much. That is my little girl and now she will be gone all day everyday during the week. 🙁

Also as if that wasn’t enough to send my emotions all out of wack, hubbs has his tests tomorrow on his heart so we can get to the bottom of what happened with his heart on his accident Friday. I am worried of what they will find, but yet I want answers so we can take care of this and get him healthy. Its way too soon to let him go, and I will do all I can do to get him healthy with his heart.

As tears fill my eyes, and my heart is so heavy…. I will be going to bed soon to get up and face a Monday emotional day :(.

I Will Never Forget 8/08/08

August 9, 2008 by Jennifer 19 Comments

A day that will be forever etched in my mind.

Scott was in a car accident yesterday on his way to work. We are so thankful he is alive and he definitely had some guardian angels looking after him. I keep telling him it was his mom and dad and God.

Yesterday morning on his way to work about 6:30am, he was driving up the hill and got to the top of the hill. He began feeling faint but thought he could make it to the stop sign to pull off the road. That is the last thing he remembers. When he came back to and alert, he had nose dived his car down an embankment and flipped the car. The car landed upside down on the driver’s side.

I had just woke up and came to my desk to work for the day. I heard someone knocking really hard on our front door, it was my mom. They had contacted her because that is the phone number they could find. I swooped up the girls and fled to the hospital. I walked in and we caught eyes and I immediately hugged and kissed him.

He had to stay in the hospital because his cardiac enzymes came back elevated, so it could have been a mild heart attack that made him black out and loose control of his car.

You can see the pictures I uploaded, and I don’t even think the pictures does any justice of just how bad the car is.

He is very lucky to be alive and no I’m not even going to say its luck, he had guardian angels looking after him. God has a purpose for him on this Earth and I’m so glad God kept him here and didn’t take him away from us. It has really made me do a lot of thinking the past couple of days. All the what-ifs keep running through my mind. What if God took him yesterday morning and not let him live? That is my husband, that is the daddy of my girls….I had been fussing at him the last couple of weeks because he had been coming straight in from work and just collapsing on the couch and sleeping. Here I thought it was laziness, and obviously it was his heart trying to give him a warning sign.

Both of his parents died young of massive heart attacks. I didn’t even get to meet them, so he does need to take pre-cautions. The cardiologist said this was your wake-up call Scott. It was also a wake-up call for me. I could be without him right now, I will never take another day granted with him. I will live each day to the fullest with him. I will not sweat the small stuff with him and argue over the stupid stuff. We will embrace life and enjoy our girls.

Thank you so much Lord for letting me have more time with him. Thank you for having your hands over him during the accident.

They are doing more testing on Monday morning at the Heart clinic so we can get answers of the damage that was done to his heart. I am very anxious and so worried but I know with God on our side that we are going to get through this. I have did my fair share of crying, because all the what ifs running through my mind. I am just so happy he is here with us today and for that I am going to REJOICE!

My Girls The Dog Lovers

August 7, 2008 by Jennifer 4 Comments

The wonderful sisters over at 5 Minutes for Mom are having a adoption for three super cute dogs.

I just wanted to take a brief moment to let you know why my girls would love to adopt these fur babies. You see, my girls are huge dog lovers and have been since they were old enough to realize what doggys were. Ok… phew the tears are welling up in my eyes.

You see, a couple years ago we had to make a move from the country to the city. That meant we had to give up our wonderful Charlie who was a peek-a-poo. He went to a great home and family, but still that was my first baby and my girls lovey too. Both girls cried when they realized they wouldn’t see Charlie anymore. I’m secretly wishing he will show up one day, but I know that wish will probably not happen.

It has been so sad ever since, everywhere we go the girls run up to doggies and just have the best time with them. They love to hug them, pet them and just run with them. It just brings the biggest smile to their faces too, but you see we have not been allowed to have doggies since we moved to Florida in a rental house, and now we are in NC in a rental house just for short term till we can either build or buy. It breaks my husbands and my heart each and every day the girls ask for a doggie. They long for a doggie. They tell everyone they see, they just want a doggie to love and care for.

My sister in law in Florida has 3 doggies and everytime we go see them, its love at first site with the doggies and my girls. They don’t want to leave them. It warms us to see our girls being such big dog lovers, so just understand the pain when we cannot grant the girls wish right now to have our own doggy again in our family.

I would love for the girls to be able to adopt the doggys from 5 Minutes For Mom right now, so it can help them until next year we are able to fulfill the girl’s wish. I could just imagine their big smile now when they see 5 Minutes for Mom doggy at the door now.

Wordy Wednesday – Blueberry Picking

August 5, 2008 by Jennifer 18 Comments

No, I didn’t mis-spell the title wrong. Instead of being “wordless” today, I want to be wordy!

We set out on a little adventure this morning. My neighbors told me about a cool blueberry farm that you could pick your own blueberries for only 5.00 a gallon. I love me some blueberries, and I couldn’t believe you could get a whole gallon for 5.00. You would be paying out you know what… for a gallon at the grocery store.

I was told it didn’t take long to get to, it and was just a few miles. Ummm Hummm? Sorry about that had to clear my throat. HA!. I didn’t realize we were going further up the mountain and on a dirt, winding road.

Thank goodness hubbs, had me take his little car today since he took the Van to get tires. I don’t know what I would have done with our min-van. His car handles the curves much better. So we are going

and going….

and oh… is that a house I see? So are we getting close to some kind of civilization?

I think we may….. so we go a little bit further… OH! There is the sign we are looking for. FINALLY! The girls were screaming YAY… we are here finally mommy.

So let the fun begin and let’s get to picking.

The girls were such big helpers. They were grabbing all the berries their little hands could handle.

Look, at these beautiful blueberries. Yes, I had to taste them. I couldn’t wait. They are soooo delicious.

Lyndsee didn’t complain one time. Her little hands were just working so hard too.

After some fun laughs with the girls…

It was time to head back with our buckets of berries in hand. I had so much fun just enjoying the beautiful nature scenery and the girls having a blast as well.

Anyone have any blueberry recipes they want to share?

Jennifer

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