the 2 princes and the princess
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Blessings along the way
Lately I have been really thinking about blessings. Caleb got a book from the book fair at school called "Will you bless me?"
How has God bless me? I am married to a wonderful man who supports me in everything I do no matter what it is. He doesn't judge me unfairly, he doesn't talk bad about me to others. He tries his hardest to keep me second in his life (even when work has got him working 60-70 hrs a wk lately). This is a man I never thought I would be marrying. As a matter of fact I truly felt God leading me down a path of servitude when Richard pretty much barged into my life. Thank you God for such a wonderful blessing!!!
Yes, sometimes I need God to hit me with a 2x4 before I see/hear him talking to me. We will be married 7 years Nov 10th. The years for the most part have been good in all honesty I don't remember any time when there was trouble. I will always love him. Like Ruth in the Bible my wedding vows came out of the book of Ruth.
Ruth 1: 16-17
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
Another blessing is my in-laws. I have never been accepted so completely and without judgement as from my in-laws. Here I came into their life out of the blue so to speak. I met them in May of 2001 and was married to their oldest son in November 2001. My sister-in-law is a joy. I just love Rhonda I pray daily that God will provide a husband as wonderful as Richard for her. My brother-in-law and his wife, Gary and Cynthia. They have 4 kids my neices and nephews. One big happy family. I always look forward to seeing them and spending time with them.
Another blessing are my kids. I prayed for years that God would provide me with children. After my 4th miscarriage I started feeling like it was not God's will for me to be a mother but once I stopped obsessing about it He not only blessed me with one child but 3 in 1 1/2 years. How about that for answered prayer huh? Be careful what you pray for God just might give it to you.....................and give it to you..............................and give it to you. Some days when the challenges of being a mother get so bad I just tell me self over and over and over "I prayed for this kids....."
Another blessing is my mother! Sometimes you don't realize a blessing in front of you until it is to late, I am thankful my eyes have been opened before it was too late. It has been brought to my attention that my mother and I are alot alike. I am told that is why for a long time our relationship was not really that great. But my mother has become my best friend. She is someone I can turn to in any circumstance. I talk to her almost every day. She has been such a source of information on motherhood and marriage. I look to my parent's marriage alot when it comes to my marriage. I don't know what I would do without my mother!!! MOM YOU ARE THE BEST. I know I don't tell you often enough.
My greatest blessing though is being a daughter to the King of Kings. My life would not be what it is without the love of God, His saving graces, His dying so I could live forever in His kingdom. My Savior who no matter what I am, who I am, where I am loves me with an unconditional love, an agape love that is beyond my understanding. A love so complete it's indescribable.
I am sure there are many many many many other blessings in my life I am omitting but I am grateful and thankful to God my creator my King for giving me every blessing in my life. Not because I deserve then but just because He loves me.
Blessings to you all
Cassie
How has God bless me? I am married to a wonderful man who supports me in everything I do no matter what it is. He doesn't judge me unfairly, he doesn't talk bad about me to others. He tries his hardest to keep me second in his life (even when work has got him working 60-70 hrs a wk lately). This is a man I never thought I would be marrying. As a matter of fact I truly felt God leading me down a path of servitude when Richard pretty much barged into my life. Thank you God for such a wonderful blessing!!!
Yes, sometimes I need God to hit me with a 2x4 before I see/hear him talking to me. We will be married 7 years Nov 10th. The years for the most part have been good in all honesty I don't remember any time when there was trouble. I will always love him. Like Ruth in the Bible my wedding vows came out of the book of Ruth.
Ruth 1: 16-17
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
Another blessing is my in-laws. I have never been accepted so completely and without judgement as from my in-laws. Here I came into their life out of the blue so to speak. I met them in May of 2001 and was married to their oldest son in November 2001. My sister-in-law is a joy. I just love Rhonda I pray daily that God will provide a husband as wonderful as Richard for her. My brother-in-law and his wife, Gary and Cynthia. They have 4 kids my neices and nephews. One big happy family. I always look forward to seeing them and spending time with them.
Another blessing are my kids. I prayed for years that God would provide me with children. After my 4th miscarriage I started feeling like it was not God's will for me to be a mother but once I stopped obsessing about it He not only blessed me with one child but 3 in 1 1/2 years. How about that for answered prayer huh? Be careful what you pray for God just might give it to you.....................and give it to you..............................and give it to you. Some days when the challenges of being a mother get so bad I just tell me self over and over and over "I prayed for this kids....."
Another blessing is my mother! Sometimes you don't realize a blessing in front of you until it is to late, I am thankful my eyes have been opened before it was too late. It has been brought to my attention that my mother and I are alot alike. I am told that is why for a long time our relationship was not really that great. But my mother has become my best friend. She is someone I can turn to in any circumstance. I talk to her almost every day. She has been such a source of information on motherhood and marriage. I look to my parent's marriage alot when it comes to my marriage. I don't know what I would do without my mother!!! MOM YOU ARE THE BEST. I know I don't tell you often enough.
My greatest blessing though is being a daughter to the King of Kings. My life would not be what it is without the love of God, His saving graces, His dying so I could live forever in His kingdom. My Savior who no matter what I am, who I am, where I am loves me with an unconditional love, an agape love that is beyond my understanding. A love so complete it's indescribable.
I am sure there are many many many many other blessings in my life I am omitting but I am grateful and thankful to God my creator my King for giving me every blessing in my life. Not because I deserve then but just because He loves me.
Blessings to you all
Cassie
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Hurricane Ike
Just a quick posting on Hurricane Ike. We made it through just fine. We decided to stay here instead of going to Richard's parents house. At 2am when the floor was shaking and quaking I was not sure that was the best decision.
Anyway the only damage we had was about 45 feet of our fence at the old house was blown down and the cover to our water heater vent on the roof at the new house. We are truly blessed. We were without power for 24hours.
Compared to others around us we don't have any problems from Ike at all.
Blessings
Anyway the only damage we had was about 45 feet of our fence at the old house was blown down and the cover to our water heater vent on the roof at the new house. We are truly blessed. We were without power for 24hours.
Compared to others around us we don't have any problems from Ike at all.
Blessings
the famous question "how do you....."
Well I have seen many times over the past sevearl months postings on my yahoo adoption communities that start with the question of "how do you....." you can add any thing to the end and I am sure it has been covered. All except what we dealt with this past week. (I am going to have to post this situation though with the solution)
When you have a baby in the house with 2 toddler boys who are ALL boy you are bound to have some interesting things going on. The boys were put to bed last Friday and like always they never go to bed they play around, run around, carry on or anything to bring daddy/mommy to the brink of destruction. Well after 3 times of get back in bed it was finally quiet. Almost toooo quiet ya know what I mean. The quiet you know in your gut that something isn't right????? Well Richard went up to check on the boys and they were in the guest bedroom (where mommy/daddy are still sleeping upstairs with them) and had taken the jar of bottom cream (yup diaper rash cream) and had decided they needed a new hair style. Both heads were white and their hair spiked into a mohawk. Richard tells me Caleb's was a perfect mohawk and he did a great job. Well 3 washings later and both boys heads were still white and their hair stiff and coated with the cream. So I asked around here at church and even at the school if anyone ever experienced this and no one had.....is it just my kids????? Anyway I was looking for some help on getting out especially with school pictures coming up.
Well I called Babchie (my mother)...she hadn't had this experience but did tell me to try lemon juice. Now that was thought....citric acid hmmmmmm. Well I didn't have lemon juice but did have a bottle of lime juice. We laid Caleb (whose hair was the worst) on the counter with his head over the sink and I poured the lime juice on his hair then added right away the shampoo and guess what??????? that's right it came out... so
3 SHOUTS OUT TO BABCHIE!!!!!!!!! Now the boys will have pictures done with their normal hair not hair from who knows where.
Blessings
When you have a baby in the house with 2 toddler boys who are ALL boy you are bound to have some interesting things going on. The boys were put to bed last Friday and like always they never go to bed they play around, run around, carry on or anything to bring daddy/mommy to the brink of destruction. Well after 3 times of get back in bed it was finally quiet. Almost toooo quiet ya know what I mean. The quiet you know in your gut that something isn't right????? Well Richard went up to check on the boys and they were in the guest bedroom (where mommy/daddy are still sleeping upstairs with them) and had taken the jar of bottom cream (yup diaper rash cream) and had decided they needed a new hair style. Both heads were white and their hair spiked into a mohawk. Richard tells me Caleb's was a perfect mohawk and he did a great job. Well 3 washings later and both boys heads were still white and their hair stiff and coated with the cream. So I asked around here at church and even at the school if anyone ever experienced this and no one had.....is it just my kids????? Anyway I was looking for some help on getting out especially with school pictures coming up.
Well I called Babchie (my mother)...she hadn't had this experience but did tell me to try lemon juice. Now that was thought....citric acid hmmmmmm. Well I didn't have lemon juice but did have a bottle of lime juice. We laid Caleb (whose hair was the worst) on the counter with his head over the sink and I poured the lime juice on his hair then added right away the shampoo and guess what??????? that's right it came out... so
3 SHOUTS OUT TO BABCHIE!!!!!!!!! Now the boys will have pictures done with their normal hair not hair from who knows where.
Blessings
Wow Has it been so long???
Wow has it really been almost 3 full months since I posted anything?
The only thing I can contribute to is a very busy house and a 4yr, 2yr and a 11mo.
Things are going well. The readoption went great. We went to San Antonion back in July and met with attorney Jana Olsen Baker. Let me tell you she is just great with kids and surely has her calling working with families of adopted children. I do have pictures of everything that happened and will post them as soon as I get the camera developed.... yup that's right I haven't even done that. Then we spent the rest of the weekend in San Antonio as a family. Richard's sister, Aunt Rhonda as she is affectionaly know, was there too. We went to the San Antonio Zoo on Saturday. Let me tell you who needs a gym when you can push a double stroller loaded down with a baby and a toddler or two and a filled diaper bag. Just walk around the zoo pushing it up hill a lot of the time..LOL Everyone was pooped when we got back to the hotel. Rhonda and I took the kids swimming in the hotel pool. They had a great time. Caleb even put his head under the water what a major deal for him. This kid has been afraid of water for a long time. Robert just wanted to hold on to his Aunt Rhonda. Then Rhonda and Richard took the kids to the playground the hotel had as well. It was a late night we didn't even eat supper until almost 9pm and it was pizza hut pizza.
August was pretty much uneventful just busy around the house trying to keep kids entertained. We did empty a little more of the old house. We still have a ways to go. Richard has been living in that house since 1987 so he has ALOT of stuff to go through. Some will go into storage (because he just can't part with it) and some stuff will be sent to the dump.....
Both boys started preschool on Sept 5th. What an ordeal that was!!!! Richard took the morning off so he could go with us. Each child's class has a special blanket they sit in when we first arrive, then devotions is done, announcements are done, birthdays are sung and then off they go for the day. The school is really pushing this year the "kiss and bye bye" at the blanket. They school has a waiting list for this year with enough kids to really open up another school. So that is alot of kids and parents. The 'kiss and bye bye" will decrease the amount of traffic in the back when they kids go back. Helps with the safety of the kids too. Anyway....Robert sat with daddy and the plan was for Caleb to sit with mommy. Well mommy sat by herself at Caleb's blanket and they men sat at Robert's blanket. I kissed and hugged Robert and he just took his Jay Jay the Jet plan lunch box grabbed a ring on the rope and off he went without a look back or tear. This kid has been waiting since he was born to go to school and there was no holding him back. NOW, my been there done that kid of 2 yrs pitched the biggest fit. Screamed and cried. Shocked me I'll tell you. This behavior went on for several weeks but I am glad to say he has finally settled into a routine. Both boys stay the whole day 8:45am to 2:30pm. Robert's class does a what they call 'nibble & nap" they eat lunch together in the classroom and take a nap. They get up after their nap and play until mommy comes to get them. Caleb is in 3 different afteroon activities. On Monday's he is in yoga and tumbling, Wednesday is art, and Friday is Busy Being 3. I know he is 4 but developementally he is really at about 3.5 so he is just great in the 3yr old class.
School pictures will be done this week and I will post some those pics when they get in. I guess I will have to learn to use the scanner.LOL
Well this is long enough so I will post this and start a new message with other things that have been going on in our lives of the Princes and the Princess
Blessings
Cassie
The only thing I can contribute to is a very busy house and a 4yr, 2yr and a 11mo.
Things are going well. The readoption went great. We went to San Antonion back in July and met with attorney Jana Olsen Baker. Let me tell you she is just great with kids and surely has her calling working with families of adopted children. I do have pictures of everything that happened and will post them as soon as I get the camera developed.... yup that's right I haven't even done that. Then we spent the rest of the weekend in San Antonio as a family. Richard's sister, Aunt Rhonda as she is affectionaly know, was there too. We went to the San Antonio Zoo on Saturday. Let me tell you who needs a gym when you can push a double stroller loaded down with a baby and a toddler or two and a filled diaper bag. Just walk around the zoo pushing it up hill a lot of the time..LOL Everyone was pooped when we got back to the hotel. Rhonda and I took the kids swimming in the hotel pool. They had a great time. Caleb even put his head under the water what a major deal for him. This kid has been afraid of water for a long time. Robert just wanted to hold on to his Aunt Rhonda. Then Rhonda and Richard took the kids to the playground the hotel had as well. It was a late night we didn't even eat supper until almost 9pm and it was pizza hut pizza.
August was pretty much uneventful just busy around the house trying to keep kids entertained. We did empty a little more of the old house. We still have a ways to go. Richard has been living in that house since 1987 so he has ALOT of stuff to go through. Some will go into storage (because he just can't part with it) and some stuff will be sent to the dump.....
Both boys started preschool on Sept 5th. What an ordeal that was!!!! Richard took the morning off so he could go with us. Each child's class has a special blanket they sit in when we first arrive, then devotions is done, announcements are done, birthdays are sung and then off they go for the day. The school is really pushing this year the "kiss and bye bye" at the blanket. They school has a waiting list for this year with enough kids to really open up another school. So that is alot of kids and parents. The 'kiss and bye bye" will decrease the amount of traffic in the back when they kids go back. Helps with the safety of the kids too. Anyway....Robert sat with daddy and the plan was for Caleb to sit with mommy. Well mommy sat by herself at Caleb's blanket and they men sat at Robert's blanket. I kissed and hugged Robert and he just took his Jay Jay the Jet plan lunch box grabbed a ring on the rope and off he went without a look back or tear. This kid has been waiting since he was born to go to school and there was no holding him back. NOW, my been there done that kid of 2 yrs pitched the biggest fit. Screamed and cried. Shocked me I'll tell you. This behavior went on for several weeks but I am glad to say he has finally settled into a routine. Both boys stay the whole day 8:45am to 2:30pm. Robert's class does a what they call 'nibble & nap" they eat lunch together in the classroom and take a nap. They get up after their nap and play until mommy comes to get them. Caleb is in 3 different afteroon activities. On Monday's he is in yoga and tumbling, Wednesday is art, and Friday is Busy Being 3. I know he is 4 but developementally he is really at about 3.5 so he is just great in the 3yr old class.
School pictures will be done this week and I will post some those pics when they get in. I guess I will have to learn to use the scanner.LOL
Well this is long enough so I will post this and start a new message with other things that have been going on in our lives of the Princes and the Princess
Blessings
Cassie
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