Can't Think of a Title to Save My Life

It is sooooo cold. It's only 11 degrees. The good news is that there is no precipitation and it's not windy at all. It's after ten 'o clock and the frost still hasn't melted away.

The saga of the rabbit continues. Bowzer is obsessed with getting under the deck to get them. He has scratched up the deck and dug up the yard. He's so anxious to get the thing that he actually drools the entire time he's out there. Ang, if you would be in the market for a moose, I'd almost be willing to send him to you with 500 lbs of dog food free of charge. Because he's digging, his paws are muddy and he tracked it all over my house!! We have toyed with the idea of getting a kitten, but I'm not sure that he wouldn't try to kill it after watching him!!

I talked to Cleanin'Cuz '75 yesterday. She lives in the Greater Nashville area. She said last week they were at the park without jackets and this week it freezing cold... crazy weather. Smart Guy and I are trying to plan a trip down there in the next month or two. When we lived in AL, I would drive up there or she'd drive down to me every couple months, so we saw each other often. I miss our visits. With Smart Guy's weekend schedule, it can be hard to do weekend trips, so we'll see!!

Cleanin' Cuz, you'll love this.... Bee woke up (kinda) at about 10:30 last night, three hours after she went to bed, crying and rolling around in her bed saying "ouchie, ouchie". I couldn't figure out what was wrong because she wasn't really coherent enough to tell me. She finally grabbed her feet and pulled on them. When I looked at then with her blanket sleeper on, it looked like she had her toes all curled up. When I felt them, I knew what the problem was immediately. I picked her up and carried her to our bed, unzipped her jammies, pulled her feet out and sure enough.... she had ballet slippers on with her sleeper. Real ones that Cleanin' Cuz '75's daughter June (D.K picked this name for some reason) passed on to her last fall. Smart Guy helped her put her jammies on and when she said she wanted to wear the ballet slippers with her jammies, he saw no problem with it. By the time she woke up crying, her toes had been scrunched up for three hours and she couldn't stretch them out. When I took them off and her toes relaxed, she started screaming in pain. Now, you would think she'd have learned her lesson, but just now when I went to put on her jammies tonight, she wanted to put them back on... I didn't let her!!

Bee and I went to McD's with Mrs. Music and her little girl Dora this afternoon. We then went over and played at their house for awhile. It was fun having girl time with someone here. I've never been one to find close friends in any of the churches we've been in!! I usually stick to my far away best-friends. It's too hard when you leave a church or when something happens in the church and people start choosing up sides on something to have a close relationship with someone. It happened in one of the churches we were in and it hurt when I felt that she betrayed me. Mrs. Music is also a staff wife, which makes it seem safer to befriend her. Maybe it is, maybe it's not.

There's only been one friend in any of the churches we've been in that I could count as a good friend that never did anything to hurt the trust I had in her. She and her hubby were always there to stand in the gap for Smart Guy if the need arose and was always honest when the occasion called for it, instead of being sweet one minute and then turning into someone else and being horrible the next. If he did something stupid, she told him right then, instead of pulling it out of nowhere to use against him at a later time like most people would do. We did things together on occasion, and she chastized me on a regular basis about not giving it all up to God and know that I could trust her completely. I miss her. We certainly don't have a youth sponsor like her up here yet.

I'm watching the new season of American Idol and typing during commercials. They're in Seattle tonight. They keep talking about the rain... fathom that!! I actually feel like I have a connection with that area now that I have friends up there... cool!!

Well, I need to go talk with my hubby, he just got home from his evening meetings and it's now 8:38 pm. Yes, the time on this post is probably gonna be sometime this morning when I started posting. I ran out of time. We went for a girls day, picked up the boys from school, went to the church to get three hours of work in, came home around 7:00, ate dinner, and then put the kids to bed by myself, which is a very rare thing for us!! So, goodnight dear friends and family!! I love you all and send cyber hugs your way!!

Snow

It snowed the rest of the night. We've got about three inches or so. Just enough to put the county schools on a delay. Billy Boy's mom works for the city schools, so he's here and so are my very wound up boys...... it's nuts here right now. They're all runnin' around and yellin'. They're so excited that we actually got a real snow.

The bunnies are apparently under the back deck because Bowz is going crazy trying to get under there. He was pushing his nose into the snow on the deck, but for now has settled on one spot about 3 inches out from the house. The poor little rabbit's probably close to the house trying to stay warm. Bowzer is going nuts... he's chewing on the deck and keeps digging up the satellite wire trying to get under there. He's being very loud during all this with his wining, barking, and howling. That poor little rabbit's gonna have a heart attack. I'm gonna let him back in the house.....

....okay now he's back in the house. I had go out and grab his collar to get him in. Normally I'd have to chase him down, but he's so fixated on that one spot on the deck that he didn't budge as I walked toward him. Now he's in the kitchen wining (very loudly) and sniffin' and scratchin' around the door and under my kitchen cabinets like there's something under there. He's crazy!! Just one more thing to add to nutsyness of our house this morning.

Smart Guy just called to tell me that he slid into the church parking lot, but he's there safe and sound. He said our subdivision streets are horrible, especially the hill that leads to the entrance. I think maybe I'll go out the back entrance so I don't have to do the hill. Unfortunately we live just outside the city limits so they don't touch our streets with the plows, thus the reason city schools are in and county schools are out. When Billy Boys mom was driving over here to drop him off, she hit a slick spot and spun around to face the opposite direction she was intending. She was still shaking when she got here. Bee school is canceled today... I think... Our church, where the school is, is technically inside city school limits, but is literally within a 20 second drive from the city/county line so most of the teachers, the director, and many of the students (with older siblings on the two hour delay) live in the county school district. It's a little hard to have school when all your teachers have their children with them because they haven't gone to school yet.

Well, dear friends, stay warm and safe. I'm gonna leave at 10:00 Eastern time to be sure to get the boys to school on time on these roads. If you happen to read this by that time, say a little prayer that we get there safe!!

Finally!!

Well, here I am!! I've made my appearance in the world of blogdom. My best friend, Inkling, has been telling me I should for ages. She laughs at me when I say, "If I had a blog, I'd write about that." I can't wait to see if I actually come up with things to post about now that I've got my own place to do so. Of course, my family should provide me with some interesting stories. Prophet is 9 years old and so fair-minded. Drama King is 7 and just that. He causes me to revisit the story of the boy who cried wolf a couple dozen times a month. Bee is three and a fun combo of girly-girl and up and coming tomboy. They're all Y.P.K. s( that's youth pastor's kids ) so they have not a single shy bone in their bodies.
The person who gives them their Y.P.K. status is my wonderful husband. We'll call him Smart Guy!! I've always said that between him and my dad, I can get any question answered. Who needs the internet. He was once told by a principal he'd never amount to anything. Can you believe that? If she could only see him now!! Three college degrees later and I think he needs to find her and make her eat here words!!
Oh yah, there's the dog... we'll call him Bowzer...uhhhh well because that's his name and it so fits him!!! He's been mistaken for a pony in the back yard. If you ever walked thru my backyard when it's been a week or so since "poop patrol" was done, you'd swear there was a moose livin' back there, but since that would probably be illegal, I promise, it's just a dog. A very large, 130 pound, brown beast that we all love incredibly. ( Inkling has issues with my dog. She says it's just allergy issues...yah whatever...I just don't get it.)