well, here i am again girls. i always wonder exactly what it is that i have to blog about, but it has become very apparent to me this week.....my little family. my little family consists of my husband, my oldest son, and my two little hellion children. and my what a week!!

i was reminded this week as i sat back and watched my little family at work how good the Lord has been to me. growing up all i wanted was to be a wife and mom, and i am still very amazed by it all, even after 15 years. almost daily there was some "happening" that either required me to be the disciplinarian or kept me in absolute stitches, and as i watched all this unfold it became apparent to me that i should be blogging all these incidents, so i will never forget them, and so in years to come i can amuse my children by saying, "i remember a time.....". so, that is my new goal, to blog each day about what has happened in my little world!!

so, here is a glimpse into my world this week, back tracking to tuesday evening.......on tuesday's i pick up all the kids from their various places after i get off work, andrew is my first stop at basketball practice, and then i go to get my little ones, lovingly dubbed, "the hellions". so by the time i get home its 6:00. on tuesdays my husband does not get home from class until 7:30, so in this hour and a half of time we finish any homework, do lessons, and i start dinner. on this particular day, the only one with homework was andrew, my oldest. so he sits down to do homework and i visit with him a little while i am preparing dinner. the other two are in the living playing a nice little game of school. now, the thing about the two little ones playing nicely together is that it is a rare thing, and always amazes me that they CAN get along when they want too.

so everyone is in their spots doing what their doing, life is good for a moment. while preparing dinner i decide to make lunches for the next day, and accidentally made andrew's, even though he had just said to me that he wanted to eat chicken chili at school tomorrow. he assures me its not a big deal he will catch it thursday, so i got on the phone to my friend who works in the cafeteria to see if they will serve that on thursday. yes, they will, so its all good, i redeemed myself, life can go on. well, in the meantime, i had noticed that in the living room we had gone from playing school to playing recess, this being demonstrated by the fact that my two little ones are wrestling on the floor, but its all good, its all in good fun. so, i continue with my phone call, get ready to hang up, when in from "recess" walks my two little school children, avery holding his hand over his face, and in obvious pain, and esther walking in behind him with her hand over her head. i quickly say goodbye, and get ready to assess the damage when avery pulls his hand away from his face to reveal a very red cheek, and a nice black bump as well. during "recess" esther had hit his face with the back of her head. so for a few minutes chaos ensued. we got ice for avery, a pat on the head for esther, and my oldest andrew just offered a shake of the head and his every so timely comment of, "hey avery, hows it feel to get beat up my your little sister?". thank you, big brother, that really helped!!!

but the good in all of this was, andrew still got his chicken chili on thursday, the two little fighting hellions were actually being nice to one another, and left "recess" with no hard feelings, i got dinner made (although i did burn my lima beans), and even in the middle managed to have a 10 minute conversation with my sister, sheri. and when dad came in the door at 7:30, things were in place, the table set, all was calm! and he says...."hey, what's happenin'"

"oh, nothing dear!!" i thought, "just another day at recess!!!!"