The man I married

Today I am thankful for my husband. We have known eachother our whole lives....seriously. He is truly my best friend and I don't know what I would do without him. When we got married six years ago we never would have dreamed that we would walk some of the roads we've been down, but we have stuck together and I can honestly say our marriage is stronger for them.
He is an amazing Dad, the girls adore him, and he always takes the time to read them stories, dress their dolls and just sit and play with them.
He has cried with me over the babies we've lost, he has dreamt with me of what the future will hold for our family. He has held me up when I was pretty sure my world was crashing around me.
He's a great cook (which is sometimes annoying...cause I'm really not) He can do anything....even things like make little girl hairbows....I'm thinking about getting him to figure out tutu's next :-)
So today I am Thankful for the man I married, for everything he was, for everything he is and for everything he is yet to be.

Not Me Monday

It's been so long I could probably fill a page on everything that I ummm did not do....but hey lets go ahead and confess a few.
I may or may not have baked cookies, pies and other scrumptious deserts every morning this past week just so the oven could warm the house up...we are learning to live without central heat and umm yea not really loving waking up in a cold house.
I did not hold Saturday school (I mean really, they don't know you're out of school on Saturday :-)
I did not walk into my girls room to find them with the salt shaker....shaking salt into their hands and eating it.
Oh I could go on and on, like the day I did not open a can of soup to feed to the dogs because I was out of dogfood, or the cookies I let the girls to make that turned into a pan of sprinkles....cookies with your sprinkles anyone???

We have definitely been having fun in the Parker household! I love this time of year, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm not going to lie and say that it's all great, I keep coming across things that make me think about Lilly and how we should be preparing for a new baby. I see toys I would love to buy and baby's first Christmas tees and it's like a punch in the gut it seems like a lifetime ago that I held her for the first and last time and it really makes me sad. So if you will keep me in your prayers this Holiday season, because as much as I love this time of year it's sometimes hard to keep a happy face on.

Now in the spirit of Thanksgiving starting later today I am going to try (if the girls will let me sit long enough){grin} to write something that I am Thankful for everyday until Thursday so stay tuned....

Pumpkin Time

The Parker girls 2nd annual "pumpkin party" took place last night! I try to make this party all about the girls and let them help with everything....although it was Josh and I who spent all day frantically cleaning things while they spent all day pulling toys out and asking if it was time for the party yet :-)
The party was a success that is if you omit the whole dog and cat debacle (my kids almost witnessed a feline murder....almost... thankfully the cat is okay and so are the innocent minds of my kids :-), who said to the dog later "Aww poor Angus his face is all scratched up" poor Angus, whatever, stinking dog deserved all the scratches he got!)
The girls had a blast carving their pumpkins, roasting their marshmallows and playing in Blackbird pond (no water involved!) When the party was over and the girls were in bed Josh and I both breathed a sigh of relief....the party was over, it was a success, and the rootbeer and candy that was left, well, that was just icing on the cake!:-)

Just a minute

Today is National pregnancy and infant loss day. Please take a moment out of your day to say a prayer for all those who have suffered such a loss. As I have found the pain of losing a child to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death is something you learn to live with everyday.
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb."Psalm 139:13-14

thoughts from a 3 year old

We are not much on wasps around here...I mean really, who likes them....they fly and sting we run and scream! So, we have what appears to be a massive colony, town, heck I think it could be a wasp city located on a corner of the back of our house. Yesterday Josh decides to eradicate them, as best he could anyways. So here's the scene, me and the girls gathered around the window (cause this is exciting stuff at our house) Josh on back deck, one hand on door knob one hand holding spray legs in running position (this is serious stuff here, like I said we're not much on wasps) He sprays and runs, the girls scream, a few wasps fall, many wasps fly....it was no massacre....we are scheduled for another battle next week! Later Emma is talking to her Dad and asks....
E- What were you doing with the wasp spray?
Dad- I was killing the wasps dead (cause what other way is there:-)
E- why?
Dad-so they won't sting you.
E-But Dad, won't the wasps sting Jesus?
Oh the sweet, innocent thoughts of a 3 year old

Not me Monday

I haven't done one of these in a while so here we go....all the things that I did ummm not do this week...
I did not feed my kids oreos and teach them songs such as trick or treat smell my feet...you know the rest, just so they wouldn't fall asleep on the way home from Grannys.
I did not allow them to bring their bikes into the house to ride since it was raining outside.
My girls did not put away all my groceries....I did not trick them into doing this by allowing them to play "store" and take turns being the checkout lady and buggy pusher.

We've had a busy weekend, we went to our first highschool football game of the season. Hopefully we'll be able to get to more, my girls love them some football...well maybe its the snackbar....but they do seem to enjoy watching the game and love to see Manda cheer. The girls also danced at the catfish festival, that was a Disaster with a capital D...I don't know if they were just tired or what but if you were at the catfish festival and saw a "happy" young couple with 2 screaming girls in dance costumes then you saw us!
We are looking forward to another great week, enjoying this cooler weather and maybe getting to relax a little.

Who's the Boss???

We had a "first" at our house today....a phrase I had never heard from my daughters....a phrase I may or may not have used when I was younger :-)
Me: Becca stop beating your sister with that inflatable sword
B: You're not the boss of me
Me: (After I had a minute to process what just came out of my sweet daughters mouth)
Becca come here now!
B: (runs over and quickly says) Momma I was teasing....I know you're the boss of me....

I had turn my head I was laughing so hard, I've been told this isn't the last time I'll hear this....I'm pretty sure they're right.