So Behind......

I am so behind in my blogging, I know not many people read this, but the ones who do are surely thinking "what the heck? Nothing is happening in the Moody house?"

Well, we all know that is not true.

Summer has arrived with a bang here with me staying up late with the teens and getting up early with the elementary boy. My eyes have dark circles under the wrinkles, (not my best look) but I am loving having all of my kids under one roof again.

Not that it isn't without its struggles.

College boy being home hasn't been easy...pray for us with our relationship with him. We need wisdom, peace and discernment. It has been hard. Understatement. Can't say much else.

We celebrated Collin's 17th with his friends Monday night and everyone had a great time eating hamburgers and watermelon. I made him my famous chocolate sheet cake with cinnamon and mexican vanilla and several of the girls asked for the recipe. I am not giving that one out until he marries!

I have been pool side ever since which is fun but so dang hot! I told M and E we would go 2-3 times a week. Hope that sticks.

Lindsee and I had lunch today at La Madeline for catch up time and to celebrate her birthday late. We are both going to Florida next week with the youth in our church so we did a little shopping at Wal Mart for our 80's costumes that we have to wear. We also went to Claires and LA Fashions. Oh my. If you ever need costumes, that is the place to go. Except that the customers there probable didn't appreciate us laughing at the clothes that they were purchasing to wear for real.
Sorry girls!

The next couple of days I will be packing, cleaning and packing some more then off to beautiful Florida. Pray for our trip for safety and renewed relationships with the Lord for the kids.

Over and Out!


Blessings-
Dana

Gurgle spat

My coffee pot is making really weird sounds this morning and it is freaking me out. Especially after last week when everything broke. Starbucks here I come!

Doings, comings and goings

I have been so busy that blogging hasn't been on my radar lately. Although, I have been reading blogs, just not updating my own. Well, what has been going on is a lot of house stuff!

Saturday, I woke to Megan standing over me saying the ceiling was leaking..um, ok, just a minute...what did you say? Yea, you heard that right, there is water leaking out of the ceiling. Well, our water heater busted and water was coming out of the attic stairs.

What a way to wake up thank you very much!

My poor husband had to deal with that before his morning coffee. Have I mentioned that we are lovers of coffee? As in can't speak first thing in the morning without it kind of people? It is not pretty but it is the truth.

We called our regular plumber and he kinda sounded like he didn't want to work that Saturday because he wanted to charge us $1200 to fix it. No, I am not refering him to you.

Needless to say, we called around and couldn't find anyone that we trusted to fix it. Our neighbors knew of a guy that would fix it cheap but he wasn't returning our calls. I guess Mothers keep their plumber sons busy on Mother's Day weekend fixing stuff at their house.

So, we took some cold showers all weekend...BRISK is the word that comes to mind. Our sweet buddies offered their shower to us, but it seemed more trouble than it was worth to drag all the paraphernalia that is needed to clean up with over there. Our two younger ones did go over after the pool Sunday because they were cold after wards. Megan said "can't do it again Mom! I took one cold shower Saturday, but that was not a good idea!" B and C agreed.

Oh, and did I mention? We hit the 90 + degree mark this weekend here in Texas and our air conditioner was not keeping up. It was 80 degrees in our house on Saturday. Our air guy couldn't get to us until Tuesday. He evidently was busy fixing his Mom's air all weekend. But I am not bitter.

So really, the cold showers weren't that bad. They helped cool us off some since it was so hot in our house. But not really.

Mother's Day was really fun, my fam took me out to a local Italian restaurant and then we came home to cards and presents. I got to tell them all how much I love them and how proud I am of them all. I am so blessed to have such great kids.

Monday, the cheap plumber called and the expensive plumber called (um, no we don't want to pay you $1200 to fix it). The cheap plumber came at 5:00 and didn't leave until 8. Bless him! I fixed him and his crew sandwiches for the road since they probable wouldn't eat dinner with their families until 9:00 that night. Oh! and he charged us $600 to fix it. Thank you God!

Our air guy did come Tuesday and said we might get another year out of our air conditioner...MIGHT. It is being held together with a prayer and duct tape. It will end up going out the year we have 2 in college I just know it.

Tonight I am taking Megan and a friend to a Superchik concert at Fellowship of the Woodlands. She is so excited. Me, I will be packin' ear plugs. We are pretty close to the stage, and they like to crank it up. I am a rocker at heart, but sometimes the decimal level is too much for my old ears. It will be a fun time I just know it. I think one of the bands playing with them is a rap band. How fun for Megan to see her Mom gettin' all crunk. I wonder if she will be embarrassed?

Ya'll have a great weekend!

Jr. Cotillion

Those of you who know me well know that me and Jr. Cotillion just don't go together. I just don't get into social climbing, hob nobing, etc...what you see is what you get. I am just a real girl kind of person. So imagine my surprise when Megan wanted to do Cotillion. I think the main draw was dressing up and dancing. NONE of her best friends wanted to do it, so I was a little concerned.

But we dove in anyway, and overall, she has had a fun time.

A couple of weeks ago, I realized that we hadn't bought a ball gown for the ball.

Gulp.

So I did what any Mom would do.

I started calling girls in my youth group to borrow a dress. The only problem was nothing was fitting right and everything needed to be taken in, chopped off, or cinched up. And no one wanted me to do any of that to their dress.

A friend of mine made a passing comment about getting her daughters dress at JC Penney, and that it was cheap. After praying a ball gown, Cinderella type prayer, I drove on over there and began my search.

50% off! There was the sign. As I started looking at the dresses, I realized that these were the high school prom cast off dresses. They were shall we say, a little gaudy in color. BUT! For a 13 year old, they were perfect! I dug and dug and kept finding dresses that were $90 and up. I wanted a miracle people! I knew that it was out there.

Then I found it. Hot pink, strapless, very simple, great cut, AND (drum roll please) $40! Thank you God!

But the real miracle was Megan loved it! Thank you God again! And she said "Oh! My black heals will look great with this!" Thank you God again, AGAIN! We don't have to buy shoes!

Then a dear friend of mine offered to alter it for us. Payment? Take her to lunch. Oh, okay I think I could do that.

Isn't God good? He took one panicked Mom, and poured out ball gown blessings on me and my daughter. It was so neat to see how He worked all of it out.

And I got to share a God moment with my daughter about how God cares about everything. We can take any request to Him and he hears our prayers.

I will let you know how it goes Monday night.

Now I just need to order the $24.99 corsage!

Cuisine

Megan asks "Mom what are we having for dinner this week?"

"Well, we are having London Broil with Parsley lemon orzo, then roasted turkey tenderloin with new potatoes and tarragon broth and then I thought...."

"Mom"

"yes, Megan..."

"Could we have hamburger helper this week?"

"!"

Simplify

So when I am home this many days, I start weeding out and simplifying things...so I changed my blog. I think I like it simple like this.

But I do love Monet, and color and lots of pretty things around me. But,I don't want to spend money on a design.

You would think I could figure out how to do it on my own since I was once a graphic designer. But that was in the olden days.

I am starting to ramble.

I need to get out amongst the people!

Help!

Strep, Day 4

You heard right, my 8 year old baby boy has strep and we have been home for 4, yes 4 days straight. Went to the doctor Monday and I think her words were, "Oh my, I wish I had a med student so they could see this throat". Not good. He went downhill so fast Sunday afternoon. One minute he was watching tv with Dad, the next minute he was asleep. It was the strep mac truck. Now we are dealing with the antibiotic funky stomach. He wants to go back to school but he doesn't want to be caught in a "bind" so to speak...Do we change the meds? Do we eat more yogurt? I guess I need to call the doctor and throw away $20 worth of medicine. Don't you hate that!

I have been brushing up on my WII skills, but he can still really kick my butt. I love the carnival games, its like you get to go somewhere and have fun without really leaving home. Except not really. They don't give you cotton candy and a pretzel with the game. I feel jipped.

When I'm not playing WII with E, I have been doing a lot of laundry. Yesterday was wash the sheets day. Five, yes, five beds to strip, wash, dry, remake. Oh the joys. But, I have decided that when I make their beds, I pray for the one that lays in them. Two things at once, I always say...

Oh! I have an idea! A WII wash the sheets game. Oh, I could totally rock that game.

And a WII vacuuming game. And a wash the dishes game..Oh the possibilities.