Errand Day

It started at 8:40 AM...

• Pick up Neighbor/Classmate
• Drop Boys off at Preschool, AJ stays with me.
• Shop Aldis and load the cooler with our cold groceries in the back of explorer.
• Hit Bank
• Buy Coffee Mate creamer at Walgreens - $1.48 for 4-16oz bottles! ($.37 each!)
• Hit the Bread Outlets for 100% Whole Wheat Organic loaves on the cheap (and throw in reduced powdered sugar donuts for the boys, I swear.)
• Shop CVS. Got $20.91 in merchandise for $.96 that I put on a free CVS gift card! And received $4.49 back in CVS money!
• Hit Goodwill and scored winter boots for Andrew for $5!
• Picked up boys from preschool
• Dropped off Neighbor/Classmate at his home
• Went to Staples and got gifts for Andrew's two teachers for free after coupons!
• Hit Meijer for the few items we couldn't get at Aldi
• Forgot to stop at the gas station ($1.97 Gas!!) and came home.

1:00pm.

• Feed boys a late lunch of rotisserie chicken and potato wedges from deli, while I try to put all my bags of groceries away.
• Get boys down for a nap (or attempted nap).
• Put frozen food away in freezer and decide to clean out upright freezer and update my freezer inventory.
• Receive a call that we might have someone stop by the house and do a mad-dash pick up.
• CRASH on the couch with the laptop listening to the boys not nap.

2:30pm

What a blessed errand day - even in this November rain. But I will be ready for a little night out tonight. Dinner with my friend before off to Bible Study. Phew.

Can't really punish them for that.

I'm sure that I have mentioned this before, or if you know us at all, you know that my boys have an issue with staying in bed at night and keeping quiet. It's a regular battle both at nap time and at night time.

The other day during nap time, after already telling the boys that they needed to settle down and be quiet, I could hear the boys giggling and AJ yelling out, "NO!" over and over.

So I practically stomp upstairs, ready to lay down the law, when I pause long enough to listen in.

What I hear is Andrew reciting Luke 2, but substituting a regular word every phrase or so with a silly nonsense word. When the nonsense word is said, AJ yells out "NO!" (among lots of giggles) and gives Andrew the correct word. They were practicing their Bible verses in the same way I taught it to Andrew last year.

Needless to say, they didn't get in trouble... for that instance.

My New Book

One of my lovely 20-Something ladies, Miss Emma, offered to give me her copy of Redeeming Love when she found out how much I loved the book. It was very sweet of her and now that I have it... I am very excited about it and wishing for time to read it again already. Thanks Emma!

Our Halloween Weekend

It's coming a little late, but here is how our Halloween weekend unfolded.

It started out with a parade at preschool.
Then we made pumpkin cookies after naptime.

My Superman and Spiderman were ready to pass out candy and wait for GIDEON (and family) to come visit!! We had a great visit with them, with the kiddos running around Friday night.

Saturday, the daddy's went fishing, so we packed up the kids to head to the Gardens... but we got sidetracked when Krispy Kreme's Hot and Now sign was lit up.

Hot, free donuts. Perfect.

Grandma Fred and Grandpa Lena Meijers.

What a fun weekend.

Preschool Field Trips

His most recent field trip to the fire department. Aren't they adorable.

His trip to the Orchard.

And the blonde little girl he is sitting next to in the top picture on the firetruck....

....is his girlfriend.

Who Won?

I snagged this from my friend, Shannon's, blog.

So – Did Your Guy Win?

As of the writing of this note, the new president hasn't been chosen yet but by the time you all read this the choice will be made. Did your guy win?

If he did, what do you do now? Pop the champagne and taunt the opposition? Throw a party? No - you pray for him and his administration.

If the other guy won what do you do now? Shake your fist at the news, throw the remote at the TV and swear never to vote again? No - you pray for him and his administration.

The Bible tells us that leaders are set up by God, it also tells us that we, as followers of Jesus, are to pray for those in leadership.

Today as we go about our day may we all stop and thank God for our country and then may we all pray for the safety and wisdom of the incoming president.

-Written by Kelly Hegi

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and
thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we
may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

1 Timothy 2 1:2

Only took 90 minutes.

And believe it or not, I am looking forward for tonight after the kids go to bed and I can watch the coverage.

...I'm also waiting for my friend Jen to leaving a comment rooting for her canidate. :)

Who am I and what have I done with Kelli?

This week's preschool theme is spiders. (Not sure who's brilliant idea that was.)

Andrew's Spider Hat

A spider that was on our garage door that I caught!

(You read that right.)

I'm not sure it (or I) will make it long enough for Andrew to take him to school next Wednesday. Plus, I don't drive on Wednesday, so I'd be asking our neighbor to trasport the spider to school.

Andrew made sure the count the legs (like he learned to do in school) to make sure it was a spider. The boys have named it "Spiderman".

Update on AJ: PRAISE!!

I know I was vague before, but I wanted to let you know that AJ seems fine. Thank you, Lord!! Man, I prayed over that kid last night. His throat is bloody and looks sore, but he is eating and talking this morning. He even let me look at it with a flashlight. Something I couldn't really do last night and therefore wasn't sure the extent of the damage. But it looks minor. We will have to have him avoid salt until it heals, but over all - he seems fine. He even slept decent.

If you had a chance to pray for him - thank you. Praise God.

Pray for AJ

We about had ER trip numero dos tonight. And of course, Marc is in another state.

I really don't even want to go into details about it. I'm not far enough removed yet and I'm still in the 'shaken' state, but it involved the 'stick' that open and closes the blinds and the back of his throat.

He is sleeping now, thank you Jesus. It just might have been the worst 20 minutes of my life. Please pray that he sleeps tonight and that I can sleep tonight (he will be in my bed all night so I can keep an eye on him). Pray that his 'owie' is minor and I made the right decision not to take him in. Pray that he heals quickly and is back to my happy AJ tomorrow.