I finally learned to make a craft!!

I learned to make these rings with wire and beads. My neighbor Hannah taught me how to do it. They are so fun and easy to do! I have several more fun beads to use. I plan to make them for all the ladies in our family for Christmas this year, and for some friends too. If you would like one for yourself or as a gift for someone, let me know. I'm only going to charge $8 each.

Let me pause to brag on my husband for a minute

So I didn't get to blog at all yesterday, this cold has really taken its toll on me. Thankfully it is just a sinus cold with a little bit of a cough, but my head is so congested that its just hard to even think, let alone do all I have to do in a day. My wonderful, hardworking husband stayed up to clean the house so I could go to bed once the kids were down. How cool is that???

I thought it would be appropriate for me to talk about him a little bit. :) He works hard every day so I can stay home and raise our babies. I am very grateful for that, and I never want to take it for granted. Ron is a sales rep for a drum company (I'll let you figure out which one ;) and he travels one to two weeks a month to visit the dealers in his territory. He also sometimes leads drum clinics, where one of their endorsed artists comes to a store and plays and shows drumming tips. Last week Ron had a drum clinic in Richmond VA with Todd Sucherman (middle in the photo above), the drummer for Styx. The clinic started out with Ron talking about one of their newest products the Demon Drive drum pedal, then Todd played and talked to the audience. It went very well. Ron and Todd are hoping to do more clinics in the near future. Later this month, Ron will travel to Boston to do a clinic with Mike Mangini, the fastest drummer in the world.

I know some of you are probably thinking, "well that sounds like fun, easy work to me". Let me reassure you that it's not easy. He does enjoy himself, but he also is extremely busy when he travels and does clinics. There is very little down time as he goes from dealer to dealer and almost always a new hotel each night. Driving on roads he is not familiar with and often getting caught in rush hour traffic. Usually the only time we get to talk on the phone is when he has a long drive between dealer visits, or late at night when he is finally in his hotel room and finishing up some work on his laptop before going to bed. By the time he gets home from his trip, he is ready to crash. Then he does it all over again just a few weeks later.

This is just one of the MANY reasons I love and appreciate my hardworking husband and all he does to support us.

Hoping to be back tomorrow

Since it is the weekend, and Ron is home to help with the kids, I should be able to get some writing done for my blog, and maybe finish my story. I will return!

We interrupt this blog to bring you......

A cold virus. Rats!!! I was hoping I would be able to avoid it, but when you are a stay-at-home mommy with two sick children, it is almost impossible to not catch it yourself. Right now it is a sinus cold, and I pray that's all it is. I do intend to still try to post something on my blog everyday, I just won't be able to get back to my story quite yet. Maybe the suspense will keep you coming back! LOL! I don't even know if I still have an audience out there or not, so maybe I am just writing this for my own benefit. :)

Shutterfly photo book review and giveaway!

Please visit I'm an Organizing Junkie's review of the Shutterfly photo book and then enter to win one for yourself! Click HERE for the review.

Love Photo Booth!!

I hope to return to my Life lessons and experiences story in the next day or two. I have two sick baby's, so that is keeping me busy right now and not allowing me much time to sit and think and type out a nice post. So here is a photo from last night when Ronnie and I were playing with Photo Booth on the iMac. :)

Life lessons and experiences

Graduation day, a warm Michigan summer day in June, 1992. For my readers who do not know me in real life, I am the tall one. :) These were three of the girls I was close with throughout my high school career. And just the way it usually happens in life, this was one of the last times we would all be together for a photo. Some of us started college, some started jobs, and we just sort of parted ways. New friends came in our lives through work or school, new boyfriends, and new life experiences.

When I look at that 17 year old girl, I see a girl who was excited for what life held in store for her, for whatever endeavor was next now that high school was over. But she had no idea at that moment exactly how, or why, God would allow certain circumstances and people to come into her life that would ultimately lead her to Him, and on an amazing adventure 600 miles away.

Sometimes we wonder why certain things happen in our lives, or why certain people come into our lives for a time and then leave. At times we find out the answer to those questions, but other times, we often never have an answer for that. We are not going to have all the answers here in this life, only God knows why He allows certain things to happen. But as Christians, our hope and joy is in knowing that our Sovereign God is in control of all things, and that he working those things according to His will. If there is one thing I am learning in life, it is to let God work in me and through me how he chooses to do so. Because fighting it just frustrates me, and then it just takes longer for God to do what He is trying to do in my life.

More to come!