You Know You are Sick When...

You know you are sick when...
Everything hurts and your throat is on fire.
Laying in bed makes your back hurt, but standing up makes your head hurt and the room spin.
You get up and a stream of yellow gooo just runs out of your nose and you have to catch it in your hand.
You can no longer use your nose for breathing.
You have already been sleeping for 19 hours, but that is still the only option.
You have on warm pajamas and piled blankets on top, and you are still shivering.
Every time you get up there is new rooster tail in your hair do. Talk about a bad hair day!
Drinking plain water seems really good.
Yep- I'm sick. I did get up long enough to put a pie in the oven and a pot roast in the crock pot, for Ron's birthday. The only bright side of this is that Wednesdays and Thursdays are the only days when there is even a remote chance of me not being at the store. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Speaking of Birthdays...

Ron has one tomorrow. And I am in big trouble! He got the good gift for Valentines day- for his birthday he gets clothes. :( Ron is not a shopper. He never has been and he never will be. The only time I can remember him going into a store to pick out clothes was right before we got married. (Do you know how long ago that was?) He needed some new things to wear on the honeymoon, instead of items he bought in high school :) So, I don't know if he looked at the credit card last night or not. Should I tell him how much I spent or how much I saved? LOL I think I will just tell him that I saved $358.00. :) He will claim that we can't afford to save that much money. Another way to look at it, is the clothes I bought will probably last him for the next ten years. That is only a monthly clothing budget of $3.34. So I have a big bag of stuff- two pair of jeans, two pair of dress pants, one casual shirt, three ties, one pair of sweat pants, and one pair of shoes-- and one suit coat and pants. I doubt if he can even remember when he last bought a suit. I may end up taking stuff back or exchanging. He has been playing his "bum" off at basketball- literally! I may have gotten a size too big on most things. Anyway... now he can shop at home and I'll do the leg work. I better go get a pot roast and a razzleberry pie for dinner tomorrow- that will make everything all right. :) :)

Happy Day!

It seems like I don't have very many pictures of just A2 any more- now it's always A2 and W.E. :) She lives in Wylie- she works at JCPenney- she is a role model for teenage girls- she is our right-in-the-middle child- she loves Sam, WAY past the moon - she wants to be a CIA when she grows up :) :)- she has a birthday today! Happy day!

BBall Tickets

Ron loves sports. Most evenings he has some kind of game to watch. I realized lately, he has been watching the Denver Nuggets basketball games. I thought the perfect valentine gift for him would be tickets to one of their games. I didn't even realize that they play the Houston Rockets until I started looking at the schedule of games. Even more perfect! The game here in Houston is on March 15. I originally thought I would just buy two tickets and I would go with him. Then I realized that Annie and her boys will be here that week. So I bought four tickets, so Ron can take Annie, Nathan, and Jared. (GG and I will take care of Owen at home). I wasn't sure if I could actually keep it a surprise- it's pretty hard to spend money around here without Ron knowing it. ( Remember he has that DebGPS called Quick books.) I had to just hope that he didn't look at the Visa card in the past few days. And I did grab the email confirmation before he saw it. Anyway... I came up with an idea of rockets/nuggets game pictures, a small basketball, a valentine card, a picture of Annie and the boys, and a charge card receipt for four tickets to the game-- all in a cute clear paint can.

I'll have to admit, he wasn't as excited as I expected. I think the cute packaging caught him off guard! I should have just handed him the credit card receipt. :)

Happy Valentines Day.

(I know he'll love the game- that is if he can see it from the neighborhood section- way up in an upper section of the stadium. LOL)

This Week...

I had to work but I also had several other projects to finish. On Monday, my goal was to finish 9 little scrapbooks to send to my family for Valentines day. I got those (and a small Bday gift for Audrey) in the mail on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, I sent out Valentines to all of my nursery kids. 2-year-olds love to get mail :)

On Thursday and Friday, I worked on Ron's Valentine gift. (More details on that tomorrow :)

Tonight Ron and I went to an adult Valentine dinner/dance. It was good. We don't dance very much, but dinner was good- I didn't have to cook. hehe

Then I came home and made cookies for tomorrow.

(Of course heart shaped ones)

The last picture is beautiful Valentine roses from Ron.

It's amazing how flowers can show up in a box and look this good.

Now that I have all of my Valentine projects done- I can think about Ron's Bday next Wednesday. One thing at a time around here :)

Valentines

Getting in the spirit of Valentines Day.

Annie and I have a special friend, who posted a picture of a beautiful glass vase that she uses for holiday decorations. She just puts different items inside the vase for each holiday. The picture above is my multi holiday decoration. It's a black "bird bath" and I fill it with different decorations for each holiday.

PS- Ron bought flowers for Mom and me :) They arrived yesterday.

And I have a special surprise for him...but not until Sunday. Can't wait :)

How Firm a Foundation

At our church today, a lady read a short section of an article talking about what our church is doing in Haiti. ( I have also been reading a few articles, because I was wondering about the church involvement there) Most of our church buildings there were undamaged and have become places of refuge for hundreds of people. The article that was read today said that members of the church could be heard singing a song called "How Firm a Foundation". This song talks about some of the trials that we all face, but through it all the Lord will be with us. What an amazing thing to think about the saints in Haiti singing a song about being built on a firm foundation of faith when all of their homes (which were built on a weak foundation) are gone. One of the comments this lady made about this article was, "Aren't we all a bit like Haiti". Speaking of our faith, are we built on a firm foundation or a weak foundation? When the trials of life come, will our foundation stand or will it crumble? For those of you who know somewhat about the organization of our church- you know what kind of response system of relief was in place to help these people. And while it may have met a most difficult tragedy, it still functioned properly and aid was (and is) there.

How firm a foundation, ye Saints of the Lord,

Is laid for your faith in his excellent word!

What more can he say than to you he hath said,

Who unto the Savior, who unto the Savior,

Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled?

In every condition- in sickness, in health,

In poverty's vale or abounding in wealth,

At home or abroad, on the land or the sea-

As thy days may demand, as thy days may demand,

As thy days may demand, so thy succor shall be.

Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed,

For I am thy God and will still give thee aid.

I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,

Upheld by my righteous, upheld by my righteous,

Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.