Work...an update with some holes

Disclaimer: This is going to be a super short update with lots of missing information and holes so if you want to know more, email me.


So inservice was great and we have a really good team. Besides the normal bureaucracy and politics things looked hopeful, although the new time clock system SUCKS! So we finally got our passwords for the phone, even though ours still doesn't work in our office, and for the computer so we can check our campus email. We also got our DHS faculty/staff ID cards which was super cool despite the awful driver license-esque picture. I even figured I could put up with all the rules about not getting personal, i.e. don't ask don't tell type stuff, and maintaining a strict professional aura about ourselves. All the other stuff we heard about during inservice was for teachers to worry about and care about, not us. Fine with me, I lifted it up to the Lord and will allow HIM to guide my words, hands, whatever.

Then the students came, they are awesome! I am both shocked and disgusted by a lot of the things I have seen and heard but that is for another blog. Anyway, today I was just DONE! I am sick, literally, tired, literally, and just DONE with all of it and on top of it I haven't seen my kids or husband all week it seems! Matt has tried to make this transition as painless as possible by doing the entire morning routine, the entire afternoon routine, cooking dinner, doing bath and the boy's bedtime and even brought me Starbucks on my 15 minutes of lunch break, TWICE! Wow, what an awesome husband I have, thank GOD! Even with all of this and the kids doing fine and first grade being great for Noah, I am just DONE with it all......and then this. (copied from an email I sent to the dear friend that sent the word to me)

I read the first part of this earlier at work very briefly and thought it was great but as the day got harder I forgot about it. The end of the day I have been ready to quit for a number of reasons. Sickness, stress on me and my family, etc have made me really doubt if I am doing the right thing and I was just about to throw my hands up in the air when I felt like I should check my email again. The Lord showed me your email so I thought I would read it again and (I don't say this often) "oh my GOD!" This word had to be just for me, both of them, and it had to be the Lord that showed you you to send it to me. I can't say thank you enough to you for sending it and to the Lord for once again making HIS way clear and known to me and my family. It was just the grace and faith boost I needed!! Blessings to you and lots of love!

So now that I've sparked your interest, here is the email....

Small Straws In A Soft Wind by Marsha Burns -- August 28, 2008:Arise in the Spirit and make your requests known. Bring your concernsto Me and then yield to My leading, for I will certainly show you theway, says the Lord. Refuse to allow yourself to stand still and shakein your boots due to doubt and fear that cause you to stumble infaith. Keep your heart in strong belief that I hear and answer yourprayers. Encourage yourself in the Word and stand on that truth.Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayerand supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made knownto God.

What the Lord Is Saying Today

August 28, 2008. You have My permission to go ahead. You and I knowthe risk you are taking. You can rest assured that if your heart doesnot condemn you in this regard, then you have My blessings to proceed. Why? Because you have a good heart. It has been shaped and seasonedas you have sought Me in so many difficult situations. You havetherefore come into a most trusted relationship with Me. In yourheart you know what is right and wrong have been tested and tried overand over again. So why worry now that you will miss My will? Let Mesay this plainly. You have My blessings. Now go do it.1 John 3:21-22 "Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we haveconfidence before God. " Ras Robinson*

August 28, 2008. You have been rolling over and over in your mind if you have made the right decision. What good does that do now? It iscausing you regret, and wondering about your next decision. You don'tneed procrastination as to your next move. You prayed and felt thatwas what you were to do. Don't rethink now. The move has been madeand now there is nothing to do but start from where you are. Don'tdwell on what has already happened; that you think may not work. Itis going to be better than you think it is. You heard Me right; itjust feels strange because it is new.James 1:7-8 " For truly, let not such a person imagine that he willreceive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, [For being as he is] aman of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstableand unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels,decides]. Bev Robinson**

Isn't God good?!! All I can say is "wow." HE loves me that much....could it be any clearer? Let this be a reminder to us all....when we are all done and ready to throw in the towl, HE loves us so much that HE will light our path and clear the way. Be blessed!!

Happy Birthday Noah!

So the day is here, Noah is 6 years old!! Wow how time flies. So I know I already blogged about his but something too cute not to share happened last night. Daddy aka: Matt, was tucking Noah into bed and asked him if he knew what tomorrow was. We try not to play up birthdays too early in advance because the little ones get fussy about it. Noah said he didn't know so Matt informed him in that excited whisper, "its your BIRTHDAY!" Instead of getting excited and giddy like Noah normally would he got a VERY serious look on his face and said "is it gonna hurt?" At first Daddy, aka: Matt, thought he was kidding but quickly realized that not only was Noah serious but very much concerned. He asked Noah what he meant and Noah grabbed his skin and said when my bones grow and get big, is it gonna hurt my skin and stuff? Daddy assured him that no, it wasn't going to hurt and that we don't grow big overnight, we grow throughout the year and on our birthdays just the number changes and we are a year older. We grow however God programmed us to grow and a little everyday.

After this little chat Noah drifted off to sleep without a care in the world and I imagine a thought or two about what he would get for his birthday. I know the excitement is killing you so here it is......he got a walking, talking, moving WALL-E toy. COOL right! So as I am writing this blog I have been caught by none other than the Birthday Boy himself and he wants me to take his picture so here it is world, my big 6 year old!

Danger is my middle name

Who knew.......click here

Noah is almost 6!

Can you believe it? My Noah is almost 6 years old!  I remember the days when I prayed "Lord, if you just get me to Kindergarten, I'll survive."  Well Kindergarten is said and done, our big 1st grader goes back to school in two weeks. Wow, how time flys!

 

  

 
 

Noah and Chrissa have been friends for most of their lives and the even shared their 6th birthday party together. They have been like "an old married couple" since they were little. In this picture I think they were 3 years old. 

In Mississippi

March 2008

My silly Noah......I love you!

New Job!!

"Once and for all...Sign Language Interpreters DON'T read Braille"

So as many of you know I recently accepted a job offer by Denton ISD.  I am officially a sign language interpreter at Denton High School! Whoo hoo!!  Those who have known me a while know that this is a fulfillment of a prophetic word over my life and also an answer to prayer so we are praising God in this victory.  I start new staff orientation and inservice next Thursday and will have about a week of inservice to get to know the campus, people I will be working with, and protocol. 

A new job brings lots of changes to our house however. Mommy will be working from 8-4:30 Monday-Friday and for some after school activities and weekend school activities. I am working on the realization that I will miss Noah's first grade year for the most part since I will be on the same school schedule but won't have all the days off he does or be able to come to his class parties and events. :o(  I always wanted to be one of those super involved classroom moms but turns out, I'm just not made for that so I will rely on those who were made to be super homeroom moms to care and make my child feel special during those parties too. And...thankfully God gave me a husband that, unless he is teaching too, will be able to go to some of those events and take pictures for me.

The other really cool thing about a new job is I got to go shopping! I have no professional looking clothes and the few I do own are from when I was a size 4, not that long ago but many pounds and 2 kids ago.  For a while now I have been trying to learn how to dress more my age and not like a kid or an old lady so for the first time I actually enjoyed clothes shopping for myself. I have always enjoyed shopping for the kids but that was about it, I am not a shopper.  But today was a success and I now own some professional looking, cute, and of course comfortable clothing. Hooray...new job here I come!

Our Strep Story

So as many of you know we have been passing strep around my house for almost a month now.  Matt started it and thought he was going to die because he was so sick but thank God he got better pretty quickly. I only had a few days with no Daddy help, whew! 

Then Noah got strep, he had a 104 degree fever but was a trooper and did well and recovered fast.  All of this after the Mommy was given a choice by the doctor to do 10 days of oral antibiotics and a slower healing process or a shot in the butt of penicillin (thankfully Noah is not allergic like the rest of us, except Matt) so this was a valid option.  Soooo, the mean old Mommy chose the shot which lasted about 2 seconds and had a super fast healing time but we heard about it for days.  To top it all off we found out that Noah is more frightened of taking off a Band-Aid than anything else in this world, even monsters so we had to wait until it fell off by itself, well sort of.  After bath time one night, about 3 days after the shot, Matt took off the tiny bit that was hanging in there and started a roaring fit but Noah got over it, about a week later. 

Just when we thought we were in the clear, Joshua got this weird blister looking thing on his finger and nose. His finger got really nasty looking so we decided it was time to take him to the doctor because Neosporin was not doing the trick.  Matt took him to Dr. Schulman, who is Joshua's buddy, and he said it was strep in his finger and nose, same virus different location. Essentially,  Joshua contracted the strep virus, picked his nose, bit his finger....you get the picture. GROSS!! So, more antibiotics for the King family. By this point the Target pharmacy staff knows me by name and face, poor guys.

About a week goes by and Hope starts saying her ear has an "owie" and has mild fever but we figure we'll give it a couple of days and see if it clears up. So she is a little cranky and clingy but thats really nothing new for our opinionated 2 year old. Needless to say she kept up with the pulling of the "owie" ear so we figure its an ear infection that is not going to clear on its own and go back to Dr. Schulman. Thank goodness the kids love him as much as we do!  He checks her out and no strep, Hallelujah, but her ear drum is busted. BUSTED, ahhhh, the Mommy freaks out!  Thankfully Dr. Schulman recognized the look on my face and said its ok, when you were a kid that is how ear infections were treated, the filled up and hurt, then they busted and the fluid came out and it stopped hurting, then you got ear drops, right.? I was like, oh yeah, I remember mom heating up the drops on the stove in warm water because it made them feel better. Ok, cool, so she's fine and it will grow back, no problem. But wait, we need antibiotic ear drops and oral ones to prevent a secondary infection, back to Target we go, at least they have a Starbucks. Where everybody knows your name....ok, ok, so Starbucks is my Cheers, so what!

So Hop-e is fine but Mommy starts feeling yucky, oh no, here it comes.  I think I am the most strep/tonsillitis prone person on the face of the earth, why God why? Thankfully I felt it coming on and called the doctor who kindly called in, you guessed it, more antibiotics to Target. By the time Matt picked them up for me I was about half way down the proverbial hill and in bed.  We got everyone to sleep and then I took everything I could think of and went to sleep too. When I woke up this morning, at 10:45 thank you sweetie, my throat was a little better but I felt like I had been run over by a truck! A big truck, bigger than Matt's even!  I drug myself downstairs and did a few errands with Matt and now am writing this blog, which will be followed by a thorough Lysoling of the laptop because I am ALL DONE with strep or any other sickness in my family!!  

Soooooo......we will no longer be sick and we will have Noah's birthday party on Sunday and it will be fun and as nice as the Target pharmacy people are, I really hope I don't have to see them again any time soon.