Thoughtfulness to others

I like many other moms and dads question if I'm raising the kids right, are they learning what I'm trying to teach them? Do they hear me? Are they just ignoring me? Then they will go and do something that makes me think "wow that's really something" They do listen!
Nick is my 14 year old. He is a "normal" teenager for sure. All knowing and all attitude.....at least at our house. Well Tuesday he came home from school and as part of his homework he could not speak...I tell ya I wanna hug that teacher hahaha. Anyways we were trying to coomunicate with each other and he settled in to doing whatever he wanted to occupy himself then he comes over and hands me a note on the paper he was using to get messages across to me without speaking. Turns out his teacher for swim class had a heart attack on friday. He wanted to buy him a card. Seriously!! What teen would want to do that??? I'll tell you....a really good teen that's who!! I was extremly proud of him for wanting to do that!! So he picked it out,signed it, wrote in it, we sealed it and put a stamp on it and he took it to the office and asked them to address it and put it in the mail, they we more then pleased to do it for him!!!

This blogger thing is pretty cool

So this morning I decided to waste a little time before Molly woke up and I used the "next blog" tab at the to of the page and scrolled through other peoples blogs to see if I stumbled across anything cool. Of course, literally, the next 10 blogs were in foreign languages so they may have been cool but I would have had no way of telling. But I did stumble across a pretty cool blog http://sherbetblossom.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html (sorry I haven't learned how to imbed a link on here yet...better work on that) and she is having a Yoplait giveaway that looks pretty darn cool!! So I entered it! Never know what cool things you can find on the internet!

What to write?

We had a very beautiful day today. Molly and I took a very nice walk this morning with our friends and a little inside playdate. We spent lots of time outside and have some sunshined skinned to prove it! I am feeling a bit abandoned hahaha!! The boys all took off to go to Wright Patterson Air Force base for scouts. They get to tour the museum there tomorrow. They were very excited! My mom and dad also left today though! They went to go see my brother and his family down in South Dakota! So it's just Molly,me and hubbies business phone. needless to say we will just be hanging around the house and enjoying the weather!!

"Friends do not have dollars"

That is the lesson Molly learned the other day at school. We were just chatting this evening while I was doing the after dinner cleaning of the kitchen. She told me that her and her friend needed to be seperated during snack time. Of course she then just clams up so I have to drag the reason out of her. Apparently her friend was asking Molly for a dollar and she was getting upset that Molly did not have a dollar to give her. So they told them "Friends do not have dollars" hahaha!!! To funny!! I said "well why did friend want the dollar" Molly informed it was so she could buy her own things!

April is here!

Where has the time gone?? I see I haven't posted anything in quite awhile. Bad Me!
Lets see, I was lucky enough to have been chosen to participate in a Betty Crocker advisory panel. it went for three weeks. 3000 people applied and they picked 50!!! It ended to quick but hopefully I can have more opportunities like that one! I won an official Betty Crocker Red Spoon so Molly and I have been using that when we make our cakes and brownies! I also won something the other day but I dont know what it is yet and we also get rewarded thru an Amazon Gift code or something! YAY!!
This week at church is MCREST, it stands for Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team or something like that! Basically our church is hosting homeless people,familes for a week. Today we are making two cakes to donate nd im also taking 2 pounds of shredded mozzarella cheese they'll be using for part of a meal. Monday i'm helping my mom and a few other people in the kitchen preparing lunches for the next day. hen Wednesday Mlly and Joe and the rest of the Kids Club will be passing out Easter Goodie bags they made up last week. i'll help Molly so she's not so nervous around all the new faces. tehn the boys will be performing with the handbell group with the rest who joined up. Molly is to young for that!
Last night Joe earned his Citizen in the World merit badge and Nick earned his Citizen in the Nation merit badge and he's almost done with the Cit in the World one..only two more requirments to do for it. Today Nick is at D-Bar-A with a few other scouts finishing up his Archery Merit Badge. Paul went up with them too.
Other then that not much going on besides spring soccer starting so practices are starting up plus finishing up the indoor soccer season!!

It's Spring!!!

Yay it's spring time!!! In the front flower bed we have our tulips popping up out of the ground! What a welcome sight that is!. The kids are taking full advantage of every nice day that comes our way! We realized Nick needs a new bike. He is just about as tall as me so it's time! The boys are not pleased with me though because I am enforcing the helmet rules now especially when Nick is riding his Ripstik and they ride the skateboards and scooters. After the actress passed away from her injury I am so nervous! Nick has been banged up so many times we sure want to keep him safe!
This weekend Joe is away with the youth from Church I am sure they are having a great time! He even called me! That was funny!! After Nick got hurt when he went I was a bit nervous seeing a call from a cell number I didn't recognize! I called back(they didnt leave a message) and he just said "Hi we are just calling people!" meaning calling parents to check in!! Guess thats the difference between the high schoolers and junior high!!
Oh my weight loss is going ok...I had a gain the week before and I am still slowly working that off!! I lost a 1/2 pound this past thursday so hopefully more will be off this next week!! I am so happy warmer weather is here! We need to get out and exercising!!
Thats about it for now!!

A few pictures of Baby Molly

Since I posted the other day about looking through older pictures and I heard from some people that hadn't seen pictures of Molly as a baby so I picked just a few of my favorites.