Happy Anniversary

Tony & I celebrated our 7th anniversary on January 8. We had a nice quiet dinner at The Warehouse here in town (Marion, OH). My parents came down to watch the kids so we could go out to eat. After we took the kids to gymnastics when went out to eat. I had pizza & Tony had ravioli. Then we went home to tuck the kids into bed and watch the Buckeye's play in the National Championship Game (the reason we stayed in town was to watch the game). Well we should have gone out of town since the game was a disaster for the Buckeye's.

Word of the Year con't

I asked Tony to select his word for the year and he choose PRESENT. He plans to start living in the present and not worry about the past or what will or won't happen in the future. I think that this is a great word for him. He does focus way to much time and energy on worrying about things outside of today and his relm.

GOOD LUCK Tony

Word for the year challange

My favorite blog is Ali Edwards. I read so many times a day it is not funny. I love to see what other people have to say and what she has to say on life. What she says hits home so much of the time.

This week she is challanging people to choose a word to define their outlook for 2007... I have been thinking about this alot and I think my word will be PATIENCE --- I need patience with myself (need to realize things are not always perfect and I need to allow myself to not be). Patience with my kids (don't we all) and understand or realize that they are just that KIDS. They like to make messes (I need to patiently teach them to clean it up at the end of the day); run around like crazy people; jump on one another in fun; stay up past bedtime; and so many other things that just drive me nuts but they are things that can be looked over if you just let yourself.
PATIENCE - I will think about this daily and pray about it!

Thanks Ali!

Start of 2007

Well 2007 started out with a bang..... we did nothing in our household yesterday except drive one another crazy. We have been couped up for 2 days because of sheer laziness on the parents part to get the kiddos out of the house. we did get out of the house to run to the "mall" to buy the kids calendars for 2007. We were able to buy Colleen a Dora calendar (but she will not out it up on the wall). They did not have anything for the boys. Daniel did get a Bob the Builder ornament from Hallmark for 50% off! Patrick picked out some ornaments for Tony & I.

This photo is from August 2006