Thanksgiving!!!

Okay so I didn't take any pictures! We had the Richardson's over for Thanksgiving along with my sister and grandmother! It was a small but wonderful Thanksgiving. I thoroughly enjoyed the company and was grateful for a the food everyone brought. I have so much to be thankful for including good friends and a loving family! Sean is due home on the 15th! I will definitley be thankful when he comes home! I love Saxton but I am not a good single parent- need some backup help with the discipline!

Email somewhat resolved!

I can access my email through someone elses screen just not mine- so weird- I do not know what is up with it. I will figure it out later- no time to mess with it now! The good thing is I can check my email!

Email trouble!

I have been able to access my aol email for 2 days now- if anyone is trying to contact me that way- i am not getting it- so call me or write on my blog instead!! Hope this resolves itself soon!

More Pageant Pictures!

Sage & Saxton before the Pageant The back of the dress

The opening dance number

After the pageant

Look how pretty!

Sydney's Pageant!

Sydney was in her school pageant this past Thursday! She was chosen one of the class beauties- yeah!! This is one of her good friends Tori- she was one of the other beauties! Sydney is so much taller than she is-funny! I think she is gorgeous! I will post better pictures when I get them!

Trials!!

Today's lesson in church was mostly about being thankful for your trials. Well this is what I took from it anyway! That which does not kill us makes us stronger. The Lord gives us trials so that we can grow from them. If we never knew adversity than happiness would have no place. I am not the greatest at this concept so I will try to improve. When tragedy comes my way I do usually ask why? but then I realize that I could possibly grow as a person because of it( however long this takes varies). I do try to keep my head up when things are bad because I know they could always be worse and I am thankful for that!! Sean being gone for 6 months has been a big trial that I am not yet grateful for but I hope that I have grown from it:)

I do want to share with you a poem that was read at my mother's funeral- and I once had it framed and want to put it up in my house again- it is by William Wordsworth? I think that is right- I am doing this from memory-

What though the radiance that was once so bright
Be now forever taken from my sight
Though nothing can bring back the hour of
splendor in the grass, glory in the flower
We will grieve not but rather find strength
in what remains behind!!

I will never be grateful that my mother passed away but I am working on finding inner peace about it- although it is a daily struggle!! I try to find strength in my family that I do have and I love them dearly:) I hope that they can be patient with me and my emotional roller coaster that I take sometimes.

SICK!!!!

Well on Monday I decided to take Saxton to the doctor. He was diagnosed with another sinus infection and is back on antibiotics. The poor kid- how much can one kid take!

While I was there I had my prescriptions renewed and they talked me into the flu shot. It has made me so sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will no longer take the flu shot!! I am on my second day of sickness and am so tired of it! Say a little prayer for me that I will feel better:)