Angie was playing with toy cars and held up an ambulance and asked, "Momma is this a band aid truck?"

The Naked Chef

things to do with an old shirt

I cut up some old shirts and experimented making these little dresses for the girls. I love how they turned out. The cool thing was that the yellow dress fit all 4 of my girls. Now thats a good dress in my book. :-)

Roses

Who doesn't like pictures ot Roses? My Roses in Texas never did this well. My yard is in full bloom now and it's beautiful!

Mother's Day Smother's Day...

Oprhan Alert

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Over 180 new Waiting Children were added to CCAA's multiple agency list on Monday. Most of these children are older——most of the children with the more manageable special needs are over five years old. There are a large number of boys on this list also. Here are a few descriptions of typical children on this list.

Twenty-eight children with Hepatitis B, ranging in age from a nearly 5 year-old girl to a fourteen-year- old girl, including an adorable little girl, nearly seven years old

Twenty-three children with Congenital Heart Defects, ranging in age from an eighteen-month old boy to a twelve-and-a- half-year- old boy, including two lovely girls, both eight years old, both post operative

Thirty-seven children with cleft lips/palates, ranging in age from eighteen months to 13 years.

Eight children with blood disorders (mostly thalassemia & hemophilia)

If you are interested in opening your heart to adopting a chinese orphan, there are many good agencies that can assist you. One I can highly recommend from experience is Harrah's Family Services.

You can call Ja'net at theHArrah's office at 281 465 9990 if you are already DTC or soon to be so and desire to review the file of one of these children.

All of these children need families of their own.

genius!

I have the morning ritual down to a science, I taught the kids how to do each other's hair. Great time saver.

Keys

Yesterday when Brent came home from work he let Lucy have his keys although he had a feeling he'd regret it. She loves keys and started trying them on all the doors.

This morning Brent got up early to go work out before he started work. He couldn't find his keys anywhere. I got up and helped him look. Lucy was sleeping with me so she soon got up after me. Brent turned on all the lights in the house in search of his keys, so soon all the girls where up. We all searched for his keys for at least 40 minutes. He finally gave up, and took his car keys off my key ring and started to leave. He turned to Lucy one last time and said, "Lucy, where did you hide my keys?" Amy jumped up and said, "I know where they are" and marched into the kitchen, opened a drawer and pulled out his keys and gave them to him. Brent and I just looked at her. He said, "Amy thank you! How did you know they were in that drawer?" Amy said, "Because that's where I put them!"

I'll never know what Amy thought we were searching for all morning.

My town

Here's a haystack that has permanent residence outside the elementary school across the street from us. It showed up at the appropriate time around Halloween last year. No one has bothered to move it but someone goes through the trouble of repainting it for every holiday and season. It has been a pumpkin, a turkey, a snowman, a heart, a pot of gold, and presently it is a bunny. Can't wait to see what it looks like for July 4th.
I know of no other school that has a haystack in front of their school in May. That's what makes my town - Collinsville, Oklahoma, unique.

The knot bandit strikes again

This is quite impressive when you think baby shoes have maybe 3 inches of shoelace to work with! There are 4 layers of knots here.