just because...

just because it may just be one of the most beautiful places God ever created...

and then when I see a picture like this I think...wow...He made it even more beautiful today!

I just had to share!

the economy in the eyes of a 7 year old...

Our family...I'm sure like most families in the country...is trying very hard to watch our nickles and dimes.

We are firm believers that our children should not be shielded from the fact that times are tough. We are very upfront with them when they want to do or get something...most of the time they end up paying for the majority of whatever the thing or activity is. We are firm believers that even at 7, 11 and 13...you are more than capable of working to earn money for the things you want to do. We were not handed everything on a silver platter...and our children are never going to be "those" children. (don't act like you don't know a few).

So...the other night Haidyn was hungry...and I was going through all of the options of what I could make for dinner. She of course said no to everyone...and said "can't we just go out for dinner?" I told her that we really don't have money for going out, especially when I have plenty of food in the house. I told her that she would need to pick one of the choices I had given her.

So, Cam and I are sitting on the couch waiting to hear her response...and she says "are we in a scarcity of money?"

why yes...that is a very good way to put it.

another in a long line of "where does she come up with this stuff"

Brittany's random picture challange...

I have a teenager

I have so many random pictures

I always wondered what I would ever be able to do with them

and then...

a Random picture challenge...

ask and you shall receive

So...here is one of the more random of my random pictures...

my daughter(Tatelynn aka T bug) and her friend(Chloe) wrote each others name on the other ones foot...

and really what is left to do after such a activity but to

take a picture...

to see other random pictures visit Brittany's blog at 4 little men and girly twins!

(well true to form I did not read or follow the directions...SORRY! This is not from February 2009...it is not the first picture from the first folder of anything...and it is of one of my kids, and another kid who is as close to my own as they come...I should probably have read all the way through before posting...but I didn't...so enjoy my randomness anyway :)

March 1, 1996...

So...this post is a few days late...but on March 1 the child who made me a mommy for the first time turned 13!! Holy Crap!! Do I really have a teenager??? When did that happen??? I don't feel old enough to have a teenager!
I was thinking that if the first 13 years of her life went by in the blink of an eye...the next 13 probably will too! YIKES!!!


Just think of all the things that will and may happen in the next 13 years...

• she will get her drivers licence (scary)


• she will graduate from high school


• she may go to college


• she may graduate from collage


• she may move out of the house


• she may get married


• she may have children

Unbelievable...

But for now...she is 13 going on 30...trying so hard to grow up faster than she should.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TATER!!

I look forward to having a front row seat to the rest of your life!!!