Free for All Friday

My brain is scattered today...my girls missed the bus this morning, so the rest of the morning was in a rush....it all worked out fine everyone made it to school on time and I was only 5 minutes late. But then I realized that I forgot my toothbrush and I have a dentist appt today, ANTs suggestion was just not to eat anything.....wow kids are so understanding!!!!

Having a 3 day weekend made this week go by so fast, in addition momma and I took Tuesday off, so 4-off, 3-on was wonderful...I am all for this every week!!!!

Well the end of the month has arrived, and as I told most of you at the end of the month I was going to evaluate if I should keeping blogging, or just write in private or just stop all together. Well I have decided to keep going...to be 100% honest each morning I have looked forward to writing...I am not exactly sure how to explain it, but I have felt accountable to each of you via this blog. I have shared the good and the bad in my day, I have felt that I had to be honest. By sharing my insecurities, I felt stronger after.

In addition, I have received wonderful feedback from most of you, both as comments to the blog and from email and phone calls. This has been really encouraging...as I have said previously....I felt that a few changes in my life needed to occur, and releasing my frustrations has helped.

I love each of you, and you each mean something to me.....I wish you all a great weekend, and I look forward to talking with you on Monday Madness!!!

Mick

No Worry Thursday

As most of you know..ok all of you know...I have a daughter from my 1st marriage. And as she has gotten older, she has had some bumps in the road with the different houses, and they way that they operated. I am not sure if it is a positive thing or a lack of backbone on my part, but on most confutation's, I would allow 'ANT' to just go with her mom. My thought process was, it made it easier on her (ANT), she was not stuck in the middle and having to choose between the two of us...Each time I just told her that I loved her and that it was fine, I would see her on my next day. Although each time it hurt me....it was easier for me to be hurt than for her to be hurt. Well her mom always knew this, and took advantage of it....I would mad, just I hated to see ANT suffer because of the poor parenting of her mom. (I am trying to be nice....and not say what I feel....this is my biggest challenge in my walk....I figure if I can forgive her....I can do anything!!!!!!). After many court battles....the custody has remained 50/50, which I have been told for SB County....this is a MAJOR win for a dad, especially with a daughter. However, now that we have moved further from the schools that ANT has gone too here whole life, the drive is difficult for both sides...we each have about a 25 mile drive to the school. We have agreed, at least at this point that she will finish jr. high at the same school....but I know that H.S. there is going to be another fight....I am having major difficulty in what to do. Do I allow her to go to school by her moms, if I do that then she will probably stay with her mom during the week, and me on every other weekend. Just typing this breaks my heart, I promised NEVER to be a weekend dad. However, an hour each way is not fair for ANT to have to endure, and I am not sure it is visible for me and work. Or I could fight and try and have ANT go to H.S. by me and let her be at her moms on the weekends...it is an extremely difficult situation.

Well this issue / conversation came up this morning with ANT on the way to school....I try to stay calm and not show my emotions when we talk about this..I just told her not to worry about, she still has a full year (8th grade) before any decisions have to be made...I reminded her of Matthew 6:34, "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own." I am encouraged by this scripture, I pray that I can put my human mind and heart aside and trust in my God, to take care of tomorrow.

Mick

Wordless Wednesday

This photo and scripture really stuck with me, in this scripture Isaiah is talking about how we put emphases on temporary items, such as the grass and flowers, which are considered living things, yet we need to feed them, give them light, care for them. If you neglect them, sometimes even for only one day, they die. However, Isiah reminds us that the word of God stands forever, even if we go a day without it, it is still there. We call it the living word because the scriptures that were written over 2,000 years ago, still apply to me and you today!!!!! There is so much comfort in knowing that each day, I have God speaking to me....

Mick

Thankful Tuesday

As the long weekend begins to end for most of us...the kids are getting ready to go back to school, most of the neighbors are getting ready to go back to work, momma and I are excited to have one more day off, we are planning to us it just to spend the day together. For this I am so excited, not that we have any major plans or anything...but as most of you can relate sometimes just spending time together and with no plans are the most important. After this weekend, I am extremely thankful for everything that we have been blessed with. Not just for the possessions that we have but for the blessings that we receive each day. Over the weekend, we spend a lot of time together as a family, everyone together. Although our plans of a day at the beach fell thru due to the weather, we still spent time together. Weather we were watching movies together, playing 'Are you smarter than a 5th grader?' or playing wiffle ball at the park....We had a lot of fun. One of the things that I can not express how much I have enjoyed over the past few months, is our prayer life, we have made a valid attempt to have dinner together each night. Even if someone is not hungry we still gather to pray, and each kid has his/her night to lead in prayer....The kids have lead some awesome prayers...I am so proud of them, I can only imagine how happy the Lord must be with his children worshiping him. As we continue to go to church the family is getting more adjusted to the new church and we are certain that as a family this is the church that the Lord has lead us to.....we feel that we are getting fed and are growing in our walk. It is so wonderful to hear the kids talk about what they have learned.

On Sunday, our service was about King David. We went thru Psalms 18, if you have never read Psalms 18, I highly recommend it. In this Psalm, David tells of his story, he is past many of the events that he has gone through, he now realizes that the Lord has been on his side the entire process, and as Psalms 18 begins to end, David is now fighting for his God....Please read Psalms 18, and let me know what you think....how this Psalms relates to your life....here is a link so you each and read it....

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2018;&version=31;

Love
Mick

Memorial Day

To say Thanks to all the men and woman would fight for our freedom, seems so petty. These men and woman, many who have given the ultimate sacrifice deserve so much more, but everyone of them would be so grateful to hear that one word. With the war in Iraq so fresh in each of our minds, with the one sided media coverage, we each have either tuned out what is going on overseas, or have chosen to just ignore it. Regardless of how you feel about the war, and I have my mixed feelings as well. We cannot forget a few things. First, there are thousands of kids, ( I call them kids because most are younger than me and you) that are fighting so that we don't have to. Many of these kids are dying for a cause, a cause that some do not believe anymore, but a cause that we all stood so strong for after 9-11, I guess we have forgotten how we felt that day...no one said don't go when we went to Iraq for Osama after that day..it was personal to all of us.



Now this weekend is a time to remember these soldiers, these men and woman who have stood up for our freedoms for many, many years. Many of our parents, grandparents, uncles or brothers have fought for us, some of them went to war, some of them were just ready to go if needed. Some of them got to say good-bye, some of them came home with no more words. We each have to remember that every soldier gives something, some give it all.



So while we each are enjoying that one extra day off, let us each take an opportunity to say 'Thanks' to a soldier, it could be a veteran, or a current soldier, this simple word means so much to them, they deserve it and so much more. In addition, we need to pray for these soldiers, for their safety, for their families, and for our country, our world. God created this world, are we using it to glorify him?



In closing, their is a message board for our soldier on Air1.com, take the time and send a lil note to say Thanks to our soldiers who are away from home, let them know that we support them, love them and miss them..http://air1.com/promodetails.aspx?i=3935

I Stand Before You

I stand before you all today

But not one eye can see my way

My time arrived, to leave this earth

A fact so planned, to every birth

It happened where I had to go

My torch for life was so aglow

I transferred while in uniform

Protecting freedom, through a storm

Should I resent I died for you

Not on my life, red white and blue

Please help my family through each day

Tell all my friends, try not to stray

And of the country I did love

Do think of me, through God above

Your memories, brought forth this day

Send love to us, who could not stay

©2001Roger J. Robicheau

Former SP5 US Army

Free for All Friday

Wow....what a week, so glad that it is over..3 day weekend here we come......

This weather is so crazy...early in the week it is in the high 90's then it starts to rain, well yesterday we had tornadoes in Moreno Valley, and big ones...turned over a semi-truck and
derailed 8 train cars. In addition, it took me almost 2 hours to get home, (normally only 20-25 minutes) I figured that it was just an accident, then while sitting I noticed that the cars coming from the opposite direction had snow on them, then I noticed that all of the cars had it. Well it was snowing....crazy only for about a 3 mile stretch..then just rain...wow what weird weather (4 W's in a row....)

We all made it home safe and that is the important part, other than just sitting in the traffic, it was pretty cool to see the winter wonderland view.



As I reading my devotions this morning, a statement really hit me. It said that many times when we have a problem, we get with someone else and we put out heads together to try and solve it....when we should be putting our hands together and praying...wow that is so true....As I kept thinking, I wondered why we always get with someone else and try and figure out the answer, rather than just go to God and get the answer.....and the right answer at that.
I remember back in school, the teachers saying, "There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers!" Which makes me think about our kids, when they are about 3-5, they are nothing but questions, we try and answer the first 50, but after that..we are just making up answers to make them stop..which only leads to more questions. The wonderful thing about our God is that he keeps answering them, and he tells the truth every time......

I hope you each have a wonderful weekend.....

Mick

No Worry Thursday

Good morning my friends....I hope all is well with each of you. Today started off as a great adventure...as most of you already know or have seen previous post, it has been pretty hot here in Calif. but then this morning as I am getting ready....it is raining..wow...what a change...
I then go out to warm the car up while 'red' gets ready, and I see that I have a flat tire....yeap..nothing like a flat in the rain....it had enough air in it to get to a station...so we did...and everything worked out OK, will have to get it fixed later today. We made it to school and to work ok. The thing that made me smile when I got to work was that I was cool with the whole situation, having a low / flat tire would typically just get me upset, raining while I am out there airing it up, would typically make me more upset and then sitting in traffic doing 10 mph trying to get to school and work would probably push me over. But today...I was like this is nice, 'Red' and I just talked and enjoyed the view of the cars in front of us...no big deal... I got to work, 20 minutes late, no one said anything, it was just all OK.

As a side note...I have to say 'Thank You' to my brother-n-law....he got my driver door fixed for me....it was broken in the locked position and the door would not open at all...so if you can picture me crawling through the passenger door of a Honda civic.....it was worthy of a 'wordless Wednesday' photo!!! Not only did he get if fixed but he saved me over $300....that I am so grateful for.

As the 4 day weekend approaches..(I have Tuesday off) I am starting to get excited....We are just planning to go to the beach on Saturday, more for the fire pits then the water, but will probably hit the waves a lil bit. It will be a great time with family and friends. In addition on Saturday night is UFC 84, which is going to be a wonderful fight card......I love TiVo, so on Sunday I will be watching the fights...I am so excited. On Tuesday, Momma and I are going to have 'Date Day', since the kids will be in school, we both took the day off just to spend together...I am really excited...I don't care what we do...although I have a few ideas / plans....it will just be nice to spend some QT together.

Any of you have plans for the weekend...would love to hear about them....please be safe..

Mick

Wordless Wednesday

You might be wondering why in the world I have a picture of flip flops as my post...well these flip flops had a very short but hot life. Last Saturday as most of you California people know was very hot, 105 was the high....Well during our little league game (11-1pm), I put my shoes in the back of the car (the trunk, well it is a windowed hatchback)...When I left they were a size 13 and they fit me, when I returned they are now a size 9, and don't fit. Notice the curve on the back...they just shrunk.....now that is what I call Hot!!!!!

Thankful Tuesday

This is a daily devotion from a few days ago that just really hit home, now that momma and I have a bit of a longer drive to work, and to many of the things that we used to just jump in the car and go to are a bit further we tend to just drive to get there and don't always pay attention to what is around us. Yet when we drive around the new neighborhood, we drive like an old couple, slow with our blinker on (sorry, couldn't resist). But what I am trying to say, is that we notice everything.

Now this devotion reminded me that I need to slow down my life, each day and enjoy the millions of blessings that I / we have. Each second there is something that we take for granted. It might just be there was no traffic today, or our new roses have a new bloom. Or it could be something major like we got to work safe today, or the doctor found the disease before it spread. I am guilty at times before of being thankful for a miracle and not giving God credit, saying it was luck or a coincidence....this is God and his work, there is no such thing as luck.....only God.

May your day be blessed, as you each are a blessing to me.


What's Really Important
This devotional was written by Robin Dugall

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.—Romans 1:20 (NASB)

There is a freeway that I drive every single day on my way to work. The thirty-mile trip to my place of employment is filled with the same twists and turns on the road to which I have grown apathetically accustomed. If something new or exciting was within view, I don’t know if I would see it. I have the feeling that day by day the same old grind, the routine of my life would never hold a surprise. In fact, even if there were something new or extraordinary, I probably wouldn’t see it because my eyes are fixed on the road and I’m concentrating on getting to my destination as quickly as possible. I’m so focused on my commute that I’ve often thought when I arrive at work, "I wonder what I just missed in the past 45 minutes?" Think about your own life…do you miss a lot? So much of the time, we blow by all sorts of things like relationships, the beauty of creation, signs of the loving and wonderful God we serve because we have more important things to do.
Not too long ago, I heard a pastor give a sermon where he used some unique words to describe the presence of God in our world. He said that our world was "drenched" with God. In other words, there isn’t a place you can go, a molecule of air you can breathe, a sight you can see, where you can sense that God is missing. All it takes, as Jesus said, is "eyes to see and ears to hear" the wonder and magnificence of God. Maybe instead of driving so hard in our lives, we should be opening our eyes and ears to seeing and experiencing the presence of God in new ways. Maybe instead of wondering how we are going to see God at work in our lives, we should simply be on our knees thanking Him for the many ways He has already worked and we were too busy to see.

Monday Madness

As the week begins again..I am really excited on what God has planned. I do not have anything that is on my calender, but a long 3 day weekend....YES!!!!! As most of you Calif. boys and girls know, it was quite hot this weekend, so last night around 930, I went and sat on the deck with a cold glass of water, just to enjoy the cool breeze. While I was sitting out there, I got to enjoy a beautiful full moon and just a calm night. I sat there and reflected on just how blessed I am. Not only was I sitting on the deck of a new house, I have the most beautiful wife sleeping in the next room, and wonderful kids each in their own bed. On that same note, I was able to remember some of the people that stuck by me, when times were not this good.

On Sunday we went to a baby shower for a friend of mine that I have known since 4th grade, yeah that was over 22 years ago, that is just so crazy. What is probably even crazier is that he is still the same person, nothing has changed. Now he lives a few states away so face-to-face meetings do not occur very often, but when they do, it is like we just saw each other the day before...we don't really even talk about the last time or anything like that, we spend about 5 minutes catching up, then it is on to current topics...it is just weird like that. But that is what a true friend is...you just click, no words needed. I am so excited to see the new addition to his family, he will be an awesome DAD....

On that thought, I really have to say, Thank you to all of you who are reading this...because each of you have played, are playing or will play an important role in my life. When I started this, I sent it out to about 10-12 people. Of these 12, I have known some of you since the day I was born, (that is you mom!!!!), I have family, friends and co-workers. Some of you have known me over 20 years, you have seen me though good times, bad times and lost times...but the important aspect is that you were there for each of the times, you never left me, you were never more than a phone call away.

Some of you are friends that I have known while in the Army...although we were only together for a short period of time, you were there when I was alone..you were my family...for that I will forever be grateful....words cannot express my thanks.

Some of you are my co-workers...but in reality you are just my friends that I work with, some of us have been together for almost 11 years together, we have been thru life changes together, relocation's, bosses, inventories, disasters and day-2-day headaches...but we got thru them together. And as we look back....wow...what great times. With many more to come!

And there are some of you that I have only known for a short period of time, but you have had an impact on my life in this short time, and I look forward to extending our friendship.

Because this is a public domain, I have not listed any names, but you each know who you are, why the others may ask....because we are friends.

Thank you for being my friend......

Love ya
Mick

Free-4-All Friday

As the week wraps up...figured that I would share some thoughts that make me go WHAT?

Why does someone order 2 slices of Peperoni pizza with extra cheese and a large Diet Coke......

Why does anyone get onto the freeway at 25MPH....and then look at you like you are speed racer.

Why does any parent allow their daughter to wear sweats that have writing on the butt...Hey sweetheart I am not looking at your butt, I am learning my ABC's....let me tell you as a father...I will never allow my daughter to wear a pair of sweats that say 'Juicy'..on the butt..come on parents...I don't care what the style is

Why is there braille letters on the drive-up ATM....don't believe me look next time?

Why does anyone only put $3.00 in gas at the station...that is not even a gallon....is this just enough to get to another gas station or is it better to run out in front of your house!

Why does someone put Lamborghini doors on a Chevy S-10?

How can it rain on Tuesday and be 102 on Wednesday?

Hope you enjoyed my ?s...if you got more I would love to hear them...or if you got answers to any of these..I would really love to hear them....

Have a wonderful weekend...see you all on 'Monday Madness'

Gas Prices

I could not wait until tomorrow to post another blog....I had to run an errand for lunch, and since I had the expedition, I saw that it was at about 1/4 tank and I was at Sams Club, I figured I would feel up there.......OUCH!!!!! I had to put $87 in.....now I know that some of you are paying even more.....but this hurts every time...I wasn't even on Empty!!! Now let me say, as most of you know I have been driving the expedition for the past 5 years and I had errrggghhhh as the prices continuously went up, but once I had to put $100 in to fill it....I knew it was time to get another car......Thanks be to God for placing the Honda in our viewpoint, it is so nice to put $40 in and fill it up....and I still get 40-mpg......I am so thankful....Each time I fill up the car, that is $60 in my pocket....why you ask...well if I had driven the expedition, I would have put $100 for those same 300 miles....so the way I look at it, I saved $60....
On that note....I figure that I need to give back to society...so I am going to do this for each of you....Each time I get gas the next day I drive by the same station and it is cheaper....so what I am going to do for all of you is........I am going to get gas everyday, even if it only get one cent cheaper each day that I get gas, if I do this for 1 year (365 days) and with gas prices at $3.85 (what I paid today) then gas will only be 20 cents a gallon.......you are all welcome!!!!!!

Have a gas less day!!!!!!

No Worry Thursday

Wow, this week has really flown by. I hope it has for you as well, or went really slow so you could get everything completed..whichever you needed. Things have been really good these past few days, Yesterday after doing some work around the house, I took the baby for a walk...it was more for me than her, (I wanted to see the different houses in the neighborhood, which had paved walkways to the backyard, which had rock and just get some ideas) But as I was walking, I had the chance to just enjoy being outside, It was a beautiful day. After about 20 minutes, I realized that 'L' was no longer singing, (she really doesn't talk much, or at least in English..long loud conversations in baby...but only a few words that I can understand at this point..but look-out when she starts.....) She had fallen asleep, Grandpa still has it!!!!!! This made me think even more, she felt so comfortable with me walking her, that she could relax and go to sleep. She had no worries, Mam-pa had her. I then realized that as I walked I too had no worries either. My Lord had me.....
When I left 20 minutes earlier on my investigation, I was trying to see what I liked and what I could afford to make additions to the house. I was beginning to stress, even thought these quotes were honest fair quotes...they were still more than I could afford at this time, and as we all know, concrete is not something that you can do just a lil at a time, if you are going to pay to have a truck come to the house, get it all done at once.

****This lil note is for all the woman out there****Although you may feel that we do things around the house because (1) we are avoiding you or (2) we want to have the best house on the street...due to our pride or ego or (3) it is something that we think that we have to do. Let me give you a lil insight....we do it for you!!! As a man, there are certain things that we do that are for you, it may not always be what you wanted from us, but this is a way that we show our Love for you. Don't get me wrong, we want nice things, we want to have the nicest looking house on the street, but so that you can brag about 'your' hubby did it. Just like when the kids win 'student of the month' you are so proud, we want that same admiration. We want you to enjoy coming home, not feel stressed when you come home because you have so much to do.****

With each house I looked at, my anxiety reduced, not because my house looked nicer than that one, or I could do that myself and save some money. I was just reminded of a prayer that momma and I had said at least a hundred times.(based on Joshua 24:15, 'But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord') ...that this house is the Lords house, we are only there to keep it clean.....! (I added that last part....LOL) but from the time that we started looking at houses through last nights prayers, we want this house to be a house of God. If I truly believe that this is the Lords house, then he will take care of the needs of the house and I should not worry about how I will afford this, or what it looks like or anything. He wants me to just trust him, obey him and use the house to glorify him.

Choose to have a great day!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

I am going to steal an idea from my friend, Cathi (She is actually my sisters mother-n-law, not sure what that makes her to me...so I will call her my friend). The thought of just having a picure up to make you laugh or encourage you half way through the week will hopefully get you over the 'hump'. I know that I am calling it wordless wednesday, but it will probably be word less (in other words, less words then normal :-P )

This is from a Catalina trip we took...it just reminded me of those days that you get up and all you really want to do is pull the blankets up over your head and pretend that you have 5 more minutes...not becuase you are still tired, you just don't want to face the day. Guess what you are not alone....so why not apologize right way...Hope today is not that day for you....

Thankful Tuesday

I want to start off by saying, "God is Good and Faithful". Yesterday I was going through my plans for the week, seeing what needs to get taken care of for the week, what projects I need to complete or start....so on. In addition I had to make sure that everything that needed to be paid was taken care. As most of you know, when you have a new house, the bills come in at different times, and because it is new, you are never sure how much they will be, so you cannot plan accordingly. I can tell each of you that God is good, because as I sat down and estimated what was due in the next or so, and what funds were available I knew that it would be close. However yesterday I found out that money was sent to us earlier than expected and we were A-OK. Now let me just say this.....this was a big step within me. As I believe with many people, somethings are easier to give to the Lord, such as thanks when something is going well. But as I have talked to people, money is one of the hardest things that we as humans can give to the Lord, we never feel like we have enough, there is always something that we need....or want....in most cases. Momma and I have really been tyring to place all of our finances at his feet, trust in him and not worry about it. As new home owners, some of the times have been harder than others, but each time God has proven faithful, which makes it easier on our human minds! I do believe that by taking that small step in faith and ensuring that we continue to tithe and trust, he will continue to reward us.
Another thing that has been on my heart these past few days, is all the families that are being affected by the earthquake in China that occurred yesterday. As of this morning, I hear that over 12,000 have died and over 18,000 are still missing. China is considered a Buddhist country and many of do not believe in God. This really sat hard on my heart, this may have been the last chance that many of these had the opportunity to ask the Lord into their lives. This scares me so much. It is hard to imagine the situation of losing a loved one, and all the destruction that is going on there, while sitting in my nice office. Yet on the same note, I am hurting because we live in a county that allows for us to choose to love and worship a perfect and loving God, and so many of us don't take advantage of it. None of us are promised tomorrow.
It is kind of weird but death has been on my mind....not that I am worried about dying, but certain lyrics in songs have caught my attention. And the storms in the mid-west and east coast have made me think more about it. I also think that as I get further back in the word, and my prayer life continues to grow, the Lord is showing me compassion. Something that I think I was losing. In addition, I feel that that the Lord was revealing to me, that time is short on this earth, what am I doing with the time that he has blessed me with, am I serving him or me?

I will leave you with lyrics to a song, (sorry cannot remember the name of the song or the artist, but I will update when I find them)....."Why did I wait until I was dying to start living"

Monday Madness

I have thought for a long while if I wanted to do a blog....I read blogs from different people, although I do enjoy seeing what is going on in their lifes, I am saddened by the fact that many of them have no responses put to them... This only made me think more, do I really want to do a blog...let people in to what it going on in my life, do I want replys, do I even want people to read it. If I am only doing it for myself, then why not just do a journal and keep it to myself...so I guess I will give it try..see how I feel after a few weeks and then keep going or just delete it....
I am going to call every Monday....'Monday Madness' becuase as the weekend ends, it is madness attempting to get back to work and back to a routine. This weekend was Mothers Day, and I have to be so thankful for my mothers, my actual mom, my grandma and my wife, and now this year my daughter. Each woman is a great mom and a mom that always puts their kids before themselves. Although I do not show my appreciation to them enought, I made sure that for this one special day, then knew how much I love and appreciate them.
Saturday, my day began early, I got up and had brekfast with the men of our new church, although I think I was in the top 5 for the youngest people there, the men were very accepting and made me feel confortable. I look forward to more of this fellowship. The rest of the day, Eli and I worked in the yard, we dug up and layed the irrigation pipes along the side of the house, it was hard work but we had a great time doing it...even when Eli pretened to be a dog and kick the dirt into my face.....it was a job that had to be done and he was a great help. By the end of the day, I just wanted to shower, eat and sleep.....and that is exactly what I did.
Sunday.....woke up around 8am and wished mamma a happy mothers day, we layed in bed and watched TV, had some coffee and just relaxed. Around 930, I took Ash to meet up with Tamera so that she could spend the day with her mom......(drama queen). Then got back in time for us to go to church...this was our 2nd time at Crossroads....I think that this is the church for us...although it is smaller than I am accustomed to, we feel at home and feel the Lord working withen us.....After Church we went to my parents house....it was a good time, good food (Bar-B-Q) and is always nice to spend time with my grandma and my sister and mom/dad. The only downer was that the Lakers lost....We then went to my brother in laws...which meant more food...but I really enjoy being with them...each time I meet new people and the time there is always enjoyable...
We finally got home around 10pm and mamma opened up her gifts, then it was mi-mi time, Mamma and I had a really good prayer time......next thing I knew the alarms was going off...back to Monday Madness