Walk with me.....

Walk in my shoes
for one single day.
Then you'll see why
I ask you to pray.
Come live in my home
for a week or two
and then remember
I am just like you.
I did ask for the things I was given
I did choose this road I have taken
Just Walk a mile with me hand in hand
Then perhaps you will understand.

I'm not really complaining
about the stress in my life,
I know that we all have
some toil and some strife.
But walk with me, when you think
I am wrong, walk with me
and you'll start to belong.
Embrace my sorrows, and Strengths
like they are your own,
And then you will know me
And see I have grown.

The journey I take
is different from yours
My life took one of those
unexpected detours,
But this road that I travel
is not really so long,
If the people who watch me
will join in my song.
Listen to my footsteps
and watch how I dance
And then you will know me
and give me a chance.

Take heart and remember
It can happen to you,
who knows where my pathway
will cross over to you?
So speak to me softly
if you can't understand
Remember I once stood
right there where you stand.
And walk with me gently
when the day is at end.
And then I will know
I can call you my friend.

Mommy Rhapsody (Mother's Day Opening 2010)

F's MRI.......

Here I sit with Richard waiting for little F to come back from her MRI. It really isn't that bad right now, as I have the computer to play on. F had been screaming all morning due to hunger. She got her last bottle at 4:30 this morning.
Here is how the morning went.
-Up at 4:30 to make sur F got a full 8oz bottle.
-Try to go back to sleep till 6 ( try being the opertive word! I more had nightmares about not comming home from the hospital)
- 6am get Big kids up and ready for school.
- 6:20 Trin leaves
- 7 Levi & Selah leave
- 8:15 take Z to Nana.
- 9:45 Drop E at Aunt Corries
-10:30 @ CHOP

( remember to call Aunt Pammi to remind her that Trin gets off the buss at 3:15)
So, yes if you were counting that is 3 sitters for 5 kids......

Now we sit around and wait.
They just brought her back and again we wait. She needs to stay asleep for an hour to an hour and a half....
Waiting , Waiting , Waiting
Never again will I ask God to give me more patience!

Plannig for a day at the hospital

Once again it is time to be thankful.....

Really it is the small stuff the things we all seem to over look...... Top 10 for this week...random order.

1. the sun is shining, the kids are playing in the sprinkler and yet the living room is still cool and NO AC.
2. I get to go to the Food auction tonight with my hubbie , My Mamma and some good friends sans kids!
3. the Babies are all playing!
4. VOC my foster association is giving me the opertunity to go to this years National foster parent conferance...with out there help there is no way I could go.
5. ..Got to paint my toe nails!
6. For wonderful friends that help hold you up when you feel there is no floor!
7. For people who understand that " yes I chose this crazy life" but still need some help every now and then!
8. Good books
9.Sisters who take great pic's of my kids....thank you Stephanie!
10. For a God and family that love me for who I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


p.s. will fill you in on the food auction when I get home!

Footie PJ's

Are the best!!! There is nothing like a baby in fuzzzy fottie Pj's, I just want to eat them up! On rainy cold days like today there is nothing I like more then declairing pajama Day!
I remember a pink pair with a rainbow that I wore when I was little... Wore them till my mamma had to cut the feet off because I was getting to tall...I just had to do that with a fav. pair of Selahs.. and what did she do, she wore the feet like slippers:)
So if you are in the North East and it its cold and yuck... Declair PJ day and cuddle up with a warm blanket!

getting to know me

*So y'all know the drill..copy the questions..answer them..then come back her and link up!*

The questions..

1. The most expensive thing hanging in my closet is.....?
*there not hanging but I have a great pair of Jimmy Choo heals.

2. Have you ever played a team sport?
* no i am not that cordinated

3. If you were a bug, what kind would you be?
* a dragon Fly

4. Where on your body is the worst place to get sunburned? (thanks Ian)
* The back of your thighs , I seem to do this every year when I start my garden.

5. Are you happy?
* Yes


6. People are always abbreviating..are there any abbreviations that make your skin crawl when people use them?
* I don't really mind , it is when they abbreviate and you can't figure out what the are trying to say that bugs me!

7. Do you love where you live..or could you live anywhere?*
* I could not live any where! I really like Pa , But the older i get the more the cold gets to me!!!!

8. What, if any, extreme measures do you go to to keep yourself from overeating when you're full?
* I eat when I am Bored so I try not to be..... Bloging helps:)

T.G.O.F .......Thank God On Friday

So every Friday from Now on this will be where I share the Things I am thankful for.

1.That I know for a fact F is in no pain! and having one of the worlds greates childrens hospitals only 1 1/2 hours away!
2.For Levis love of giveing hugs and kisses and always seeming to know when iI need one.
3. For Richard!!! With out him I could never live this crazzy life of mine!
4.For friends and family who pull me out of my self pitty.
5 CHOCOLATE
6. TV..... I really love my TV....I love turning off my brain and veging out....... Thank you syfy for your marathons!!!!!!
7. For this Blog where I can unload !!!!

And for anyone reading this! :)

Thank you Jesus for Loving me as I am!

Practice Babies?!?......

I found this very interesting!

Beginning in the early 1900s, collegiate home economics programs across the nation included "practice house" programs designed to help female students learn "mothercraft," the scientific art of childrearing. At Cornell each semester, eight women students lived with a resident advisor in the "practice apartment," where they took turns performing a full range of homemaking activities in a scientific and cost-efficient manner.
In 1919, the first practice baby, named Dicky Domecon for "domestic economy," came to Cornell. Cornell secured infants through area orphanages and child welfare associations. Babies were nurtured by the students according to strict schedules and guidelines, and after a year, they were available for adoption. Prospective adoptive parents in this era desired Domecon babies because they had been raised according to the most up-to-date scientific principles.

Flora Rose, an early proponent of the program, believed that babies were essential to replicate the full domestic experience. Albert Mann, Dean of the College of Agriculture, called the apartments "essential laboratory practice for women students." As time passed, however, new research in child development pointed to the need for a primary bond with a single caregiver, and social changes in the lives of women made the practice house focus on domesticity seem old-fashioned. In addition, by the late 1960s, the ideology most prominent in the college favored hard science over practical applications. By 1969, the year the college changed its name, practice apartments were dropped from the Cornell curriculum.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/cases/apartments.html

MY HEART

MY

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorow

I know it has only been a few days but, come on all ready! As a mom of 6, three days seem like forever! And i'm sure Richard and the kids are sick of me. I'm not very good at being sick. I tend to go till I drop and when you want to drop by 8 am thats not good. ....

But... the sun'll come out tomorow! No, Really , the sun will come out and it is going to be like 83 degrees!!!!!!!!! So even if I can't do anything but lay on a blanket in the sun and watch my babies play ( they really are about the cutest things in the Whole world!) That is what I will do. .......

........On second thought Longwood Gardens is calling my name! :-)

Just one of those days....

...... I realized it was going to be one of those days when I was listening to thee Baby cry so I started to bounce her on my lap... The crying got louder and more pissed off... continued to bounce.... Only to look down and realize the baby I was bouncing was not the one crying...that one was on the floor staring up at my , with a look as if to say " What a dumb Ass, she's asleep and I'm down here"

E has not let me forget it all day, either!

Cold, Rainy mornings ...

...they suck ! I think I have the flu or something...Prob. just fibermialgia( or how ever you spell it) everything is irritating me, and everything hurts! I just want to be in my own little world and not have Z yelling at me again and again and again. For the love of every thing sacred and Holy, child! Your life is NOT that hard, your only 18m old for pete"s sake! Why can't I read a magazine? =/ I still love you even if I haven't looked, hugged, or talked to you in the past 30 seconds! I'm not going anywhere, even though sometimes you make me wish I was--I say that with love =) Please, stop shouting. Please, stop crying. Please be nice to your sisters... they put up with alot! Please, stop pushing my buttons...they are officially broken and will arrive through FedEx in 2 days...be patient.

If you weren't so darn cute and adorable, you'd be at the doorstep of a convent! (again said with love and tenderness!)

Monkey Minute.

Ian tailored this week's questions specifically for Monkey Minute.

The rules are simple. Copy his questions. Answer them. Link back to Ian’s blog.

1. How old do you act?- I always see my self at 18, for some odd reason.
2. As far back as you can remember - what did you want to be when you grew up? - I wanted to be a midwife and still do some day. Bust most of all I have the job I always wanted... MOM.
3. If you were to write a book based on your life, what would the title be? -Three Sundays from the Moon ! That is me!!!!!
4. What's something that you do that's considered "childish" by most? I like to play in the dirt and take naps.
5. The last question isn't a question. Write a story of a time of when you or someone you know overcame great adversity. Right now with F. and posssable Brain surgery!! EEEEEEKKKKKK. I'm a little freeked out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

We all know that pictures tell a thousand words.

We’re hoping you can tell us what your picture says in six.

Ok so it has been awhile!!!!

Trinity & Z, Levi & E, Selah & F

at Longwood Gardens

Our family has blossomed again!! We now have 3 foster/ Adopt Babies. Z, E &F. E joined our family on April 16. After quite a battle. But we never gave up! God told me that this little girl was my Daughter and I would have crawled over broken glass and hot coals for her! Now adding another baby under 2 has not been the easiest thing we have ever done, but this is where God wants our family to be so we have welcomed it with open arms! Z is now 18m and having a bit of a time adjusting to, yet another little one. His temper has reared it's ugly head and i am learning not to react as he screams at me. ( my ears are ringing though) E is fine as long as she can see me. Richard tells me that when I am out of sight she is Ok. But the min. she hears my voice or see's me she wants nothing to do with him. E & F ( See God has a sense of humor. Those are the first initials of there names.) They are like twins in almost every way but there Birthdays, they are 5m apart. Things with F are a bit crazy right now. When she was 3m or so she started bobbeling her head. At first the dr. said "no worries , just weak neck mucsels." But over the next few months everyone else seemed worried so to apise the masses , back to the Dr. I went........ Well after the third Dr. entered the room with a medical dictionary I knew we were in for some news!! " Well we think she has Bobble head Doll Syndrome" to which I Laughed out loud. But that is really what it is called and it has to do with her Head not draining right causing preasure on the brain:( So on Friday we saw the Nerologist and he came to the same conclusion as the ped., We will no for sure after the MRI on the 25th. God is in Control!!!!! Prayer Always welcome! Now I need to go work on my audobiography, for the adoption.

P.s. please pray for TPR on Z & F s Bio-dads on June 3rd, so we can proceed with the adoptions!

E is TPRed and DHS has moved her to the Adoption Dep.!!!!!!!!!!!