Milieu of Me

We are all reading the headlines and seeing even some of our friends impacted by the state of the housing market.  Whether it’s people paying mortgages they can’t afford, two income families wanting a parent to stay home but they can’t afford it, bankruptcy, foreclosures, it’s reaching epic proportions.  There is a huge debate going [...]

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Sometimes in my life, I come accross the most amazing people.  I still am amazed each time I meet a super cool Christian person.  I don’t really know why, but I just always think two years ago in November I was baptized, and since the people and minsitries that have come into my life just [...]

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There is a major cleaning of sorts going on in our little Pants household.  The house has been trashed due to my unmedicated, remedicated, hormonal, ovary cysty state.  So this morning we started right in, and hit the toys first.
This has been a big source of frusteration, as each time someone comes to see Grant, [...]

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I’m not pointing any fingers here but something happened to my child.  He came home from my parents terrified of sleeping.  He refused to take a nap this afternoon, you saw what happened last night.  And tonight he fought me tooth and nail for two hours to go to sleep.
I talked to my mom and [...]

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Last night my child boycotted his life.  From 9 until midnight, his father and I fought him.  He did NOT want to go to bed so for THREE HOURS he screamed.  I got him up once, and read stories and talked with him.  Then at midnight, I finally just got him up and cuddled with [...]

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Oh my word, I would need a HUGE one….

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Well he’s spent four days at Grandma’s, hitting, kicking, punching, buying, and satisfying every ego impulse he’s ever had.
Today I had to fight to get him to eat lunch, and SIT whilst doing it.  I won, but it was a brutal battle.
I nipped the hitting pretty good.  He tried whomping me this morning and I [...]

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There are some things in life I have learned I take for granted.
My hubby’s physical presence is one.  When he’s not here, a giant hole develops.  I never know how much, even when he’s being a pest, I love just sitting on the couch with him.  Especially if he’s got a hand on me, or [...]

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“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into [...]

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Today was one of them days.  A day you can’t stop the force of, and just keeps kicking at you.
Luckily it ended with picking up our boy.  WHO is spoiled rotten, and acting like a turd.
BUT he and his Grandma and Grandpa had SO much fun.  They were all too sad to leave each other, [...]

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