Saturday, January 30, 2010

Thank U's!/Update

Thank You!Thank You!Thank You! to everyone who has helped us with so much since Wed. night.
Update: G-ma Mary is doing well. She's still in the ICU department at the hospital but is awake and alert. We still don't know what cause everything that happened but we feel lucky that she is ok and is still with us.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Believer

I've never been a believer of natural medicines, home remedies and essentials oils until recently. My friend April is a miracle worker. I call her often for advice now. This morning I had a headache that was more annoying than painful but by 2 it was a bad migraine. After school today Korbin had a piano lesson with April. When I picked him up @ 4 I told her about my migraine and explained to her all I wanted to do is to lay down in a dark room. Next thing I know she's pinching my hand hard and I have essentials oils on my forehead. April's order...go home and lay down for a bit. Less than an hour later the migraine is almost gone. Just in time to make it to a basketball game. My mom's a big believer of essentials oils too. I never paid much attention to the oils she has sent me in the past but I will now.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Basketball

Korbin is playing basketball on a rec team with a few friends. He likes it a lot and is happy to be playing. Jason and I haven't heard much winning so it's safe to say he likes it more than soccer. He's had a few practices and one game. All the boys hustled through the game and had so much fun together. His team did get creamed but at least they scored once. So WOOT WOOT for Korbin's team! I need to find something that triggers this skinny mans competitiveness(thanks Crystal competitive is a better word to use). If it was only as simple as turning an on and off switch.
Update: Nevermind.Korbin can be a bit frisky not when shooting hoops but on the the wii. He shows no mercy for his friends on Super Smash bros Brawl. lol.

Unplanned lesson


A humbling unplanned lesson...
After leaving McDs the other day with the kids Maddie threw a fit because she wanted to go to my aunts store for a balloon and instead I took them to the post office. After a fit that lasted what I thought was an eternity I gave the kids a long lecture of how some kids never get to play with friends and how some kids never get ice cream and how we just did both ect ect. This wasn't helping so towards the end of my lecture I brought something up I had never brought up before with the kids. Kids that don't have parents (not sure where that one came from but it came out). This lesson could have been better taught. It must have struck a nerve with Maddie because that night Maddie asked me a few times what those children are called. I explained to her they are called orphans. A little while later she asked if we could visit them. I told her I would see what I could do. She offered to give all of her stuff animals to them. Then after a while she wanted to adopt one and by the end of the night she wanted to adopt three. Children have unconditional love for all. Here I though I was telling my kids earlier how much they are loved and I wanted them to see how lucky they are but of course they already know how much Jason and I love them and also know how much they have. Maddie was totally willing to extend her love and all the things she has to those that need it the most. A good lesson for me to become humbled by how lucky I am to have all that I have and how we should do more for others. I have a testimony that we have a father in heaven that loves us and that he sent his only begotten son so we can live with him someday if we do that which he has requested from us. Heavenly father doesn't give us anything we can't bear and that he sends us these little ones to make sure we stay on the right track so that we don't forget the way back. Mads keeps asking me when are we going to go and take her stuff animals to the kids but I'm stuck I don't know where to begin in finding a place to start.