Fruit Inspection

How is it possible that I have gone a whole week without posting? Not like I haven’t had anything to say. Goodness knows I always have something to say. Maybe the problem is, I have too much to say. Yes, that must be it. Too much floating around in this head of mine with no direction. That sounds more like it.

Let’s see if I can wrap up the last week in the York home:

1. Jeremy was out of town last week working on a project with his dad. I’d like to say I spent my time wisely but I’m a terrible liar.

2. One of the days he was gone, I fasted. It was a really difficult day. I was looking for some clarity on a few issues. This sort of goes along with the bunch of gunk I can’t sort out in my head. Bottom line turned out to be…prayer.

Seems obvious, right? Not really. I was reminded that I need to pray for ALL things. So much of what we are dealing with in our homebuilding company is out of our hands. Sometimes I don’t pray about it simply because “it doesn’t matter, we can’t do anything about it, the banks do whatever they want, etc.” Other times I justify not praying because “God will take care of it in His timing.” I could take a long shot here and call that “faith”, but the reality is that God wants to hear from me. He wants me to share with Him my thoughts and desires. Every part of my life, not just the ones I think are within my ability to control.

3. We’ve been dealing with a toilet training problem with Emery for a couple of weeks. And yes, he has been officially trained for almost one year, so it took us by quite a surprise. Thinking it was a behavioral thing, we have been dishing out consequences on (almost) a daily basis.

After 2 incidents yesterday and completely wracking my already overloaded head to figure out why he would continue the behavior, I called his doctor. Turns out there may be a medical explanation for what’s been going on. We will see her Thursday to find out for sure.

Kinda reminds me of the time Savannah practically spent 2 whole weeks in time out for not listening before I realized she had a raging double ear infection and couldn’t hear a dad-burn word I said. Yeah, that was a proud moment. Pass me the Mother of the Year award.

4. On a happier note, we are traveling to the happiest place on earth this coming Sunday, courtesy of my fantabulous mother! She is taking my sister, me and the kids to Disney World. The best part? She has never been there! I absolutely can’t wait to see her face. This is just like taking my kids for the first time! It’s going to be so FUN!!!

Oh and someting else that’s cool about this Disney trip? We found out that some friends of ours from Illinois will be there, in the same resort, at the same time. Ya know the girl that gave me the great Monkey Bread recipe and her mom that I wrote about not too long ago? Yeah, her. And her mom. They are all going to be there! Whoop Whoop!!!!

So this week is mainly about laundry and packing. The kids are earning Disney Dollars for chores, being extra helpful, and showing kindness to one another. I am hoping that by having their own money it will cut down on the gimmies. Of course, the flip side to that is standing in a crowded souvenier store for what seems like an eternity with a child who has $3, looking for something besides a giant lollipop that they can actually afford to buy. “Can I buy this super charged Buzz Lightyear?”

“No. It costs $29.99.”

“But you said I have $3 and that sign says it’s only two nine dollars. Two is less than 3.”

And I will wonder why I ever thought it was a good idea to teach my children math.