Hi all! We've been dealing with a bunch of little sickies over the past 7-10 days. I currently have 2 boys on antibiotics and the baby woke up with what looks like pink eye. Some of my other children have had it. Hopefully, all will be well soon! It's mostly annoying stuff like ear infections and pink eye. Oh, and Celeste has laryngitis--that hasn't been too bad, ha ha! I took Max to the doc yesterday and he hadn't been in for a sick visit since March of 2004. We have some rockin' immune systems around here! Eden is sooo cute! We all just love her...see picture!

Eden Joy is 5 months old!

Today little miss Eden is 5 months old! I can't believe it! And she is still nursing. What a blessing that has been. She is very quick to roll both ways...which she demonstrated while I was trying to get her dressed for bed this evening. (See above.) I took Tommy to the doctor today and he has a right ear infection and pink eye. He's on antibiotics for the first time in 1 1/2 years. All else is normal. Just doing loads of laundry right now and trying to clean up. I made a yummy dinner this evening from my Momys cookbook. It's called Easy Sanchos. I will post some recipes, soon. We had white chicken chili last night and it rocked!

Around home

Everyone seems to be doing better today, except Tommy's eyes are quite something. He seems to have a bad cold. If his eyes don't look better by Thursday, then it's off to see Dr. Kathy. The kids were hanging out watching Thomas the Tank Engine with Dad this evening. Check out that tan/sunburn Stuart has. It's from driving the Porsche Boxter that is being raffled for charity. Enjoy the cute picture! Oh, also, for some reason, my boys were enjoying wearing empty kleenex boxes on their heads this afternoon!

We've had a bunch of sickies around here over the weekend. Jamie and Tommy had high fevers, sore throats, cold symptoms. Jamie spent Friday in the wee morning hours throwing up--for some reason. I have been very tired and a bit nauseated. I go to the doc to check out my elevated thyroid on Tuesday. Maybe that's what's going on. Please pray that Eden doesn't get any of it. Hopefully, nursing will help her keep her immunity up.

Today we're taking the day off from formal schooling. Although, Celeste is working on Spanish I and Algebra II. Jamie will do a FLVS assignment and Dan is doing 2 math worksheets. Still it's a lazy day. No Boy Scouts tonight. I need to go to the grocery store and I'd like to work out today. I'm still not feeling that great, but it's been almost a week since I exercised. Not going to lose weight that way! Kids are bickering, so I need to go.... yes, this goes on in my house, unfortunately.

Welcome baby Karson!!

Karson Thomas was born to our friends Josh & Kristy this morning. He weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and joins his big brother, Kaleb, and big sister, Emma. I went to see him and he is SO CUTE!! What a wonderful blessing!

Even though yesterday was Valentine's, I really like this!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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I made this little movie for my hubby for Valentine's. Enjoy!

Jamie had Court of Honor at Boy Scouts last night. He earned two merit badges. He received dentistry and athletics. He is currently almost finished with 1st class rank. Also, here is a cute pic of Eden smiling! She is 4 1/2 months old now. I love her right now and wish she'd stay this way for awhile!

Where are my socks?

This question was posed to me recently by my husband. He was getting ready to go to an open house and didn't have what he needed--namely socks. We have done so much laundry around here and his didn't get done. He needed jeans, too. This made me realize that I should really be watching out for his needs. He is supposed to be my first priority. After all, he was here before the kids. (At least 4 of them!) It is so hard as a mother of 6 children to fit it all in. I am just praying that God will lead me to remember what Stu needs and supply it. I am praying for His grace because right now running everything is quite overwhelming. God gave me my husband as the perfect companion. Do something thoughtful. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day!

Hop on over to this blog and read Amy's post about Choices. Maybe all this pursuit of the world for "something" is not where most of us should be headed. I need to keep this in mind when I want things "just so" around here. God only made 24 hours in a day for a reason. On that note, it's my 6 hours to sleep...wink!

Encouragement

I received this encouragement from one of the momys today and I thought it was too good not to share it:

Psalm 1
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

As you can see the words in boldfaced above, whatsoever God's people do, if they are meditating on His law they prosper. But we are human and we look at things with human eyes. Thus we must live by faith and not by sight as our forefather Abraham did. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin" says Romans 14:23. If we don't have the faith we must ask God to give it to us by His grace.

Blessings,
Karen

Thank you, Karen! I will be praying over these verses this week. I am praying that as I raise my children I will do it in a righteous manner and it will prosper. May you have a prosperous home, too!

In which we see a few butterflies...

Wow, we've been busy bees this week. First of all, I got a large portion of my hair cut off on Wednesday! I wanted to have "fun" hair, so one of the sweet young ladies from church (who's a hair stylist) cut my hair. Above should be a picture of me with baby Eden. Second, Max's 6th birthday was on the 1st, so we took him to the butterfly garden at UF (again). We got some wonderful pictures and enjoyed ourselves. Third, on Friday I got to work-out with a friend and go to a scrapbook crop. I joined a local place that is similar to a Curves and even though I hate to exercise it's not too bad. I'm more interested in the results! Today we visited with Stu's parents while he had an open house. (He has another one tomorrow.) Also, I finally opened my Nutrimill. WOOT! That thing is awesome. My old Ktec grinder can't hold a candle to it. I LOVE IT! I made banana bread tonight. I am making homemade pancakes in the morning again...with fresh ground flour. Have a super Sunday!