Kate's Tooth

Liz called the other night to say that Kate had lost her top front tooth and that it took 44 minutes to pull it. I doubt that they were tugging at the tooth that entire time. Maybe a few tears, a few "no's" during those 44!
She is 7 now and I suppose her looks will change a little with the new permanent teeth coming in! She is growing up!

Switching Services

For some crazy reason..(saving $50 a month) we decided to switch our phone, TV, and internet service from Charter to AT&T. How many times in the past 2 weeks have a regretted this decision? Just about every day.
The first day, Friday, January 16, the telephone/ internet technician was supposed to come between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. I called and asked if there was ANY possible way that they could give me a narrower time frame...
"No, sorry."
He showed up at 3:30 pm. AND, he failed to test the phone jack in the room where the computer is located ...which did not work.... Thankfully, our charter service was still connected.
Donovan called to schedule another technician to come BACK out to fix the phone jack. Well, that was going to cost us $57.00 because we had not opted for the inside wiring repair. After an hour of talking to various customer service reps and trying to plead our case...The technician messed it up in the first place....he gave up and accepted the fee.
To add fuel to the fire, he was going to come on Sunday...no hour given.
Now, I have 2 days that I can be home during the week but the only time within a 2 week period that they could come to install the satellite for the TV was on Inauguration day which is a day that I normally can NOT be home. Luckily, my boss wanted to watch the inauguration at school with his daughter, so D and I worked it out to "share" the time between 8-12 to be here so Mr Technician could come to install our satellite. Guess what? 12:00 came and went and No Technician!
Reschedule, again!
It is Monday morning and I am now home with the technician who is installing our satellite. My friend, Debora told me (after we had rescheduled ) that they were at her home for 8 hours doing the installation. Please, no!
In the meantime, on Saturday, Donovan decided to take matters into his own hands and bought a new telephone box to put in the basement which FIXED our phone line so we were able to cancel the Sunday appointment. It only cost $10.00 instead of the $57 and we didn't have to miss church!
He actually spent several hours the previous Saturday trying to fix it and to no avail so this was a great victory!
I called to cancel the Sunday appointment ( By this time we have memorized the customer service phone #)
First, I emphasized that we had 2 pending appointments...We only wanted to cancel 1 of them.
They got it and repeated it back to me.
As we were riding to church, Donovan said, " What do you bet that AT&T calls to say that they are on their way today, even though we canceled?"
Well, sure enough, about 2:00 our friendly AT&T technician called to say that he say on his way.
The satellite tech has been here for almost 2 hours and I don't see any indication that the installation is near completion.
Hopefully we won't be changing services again any time soon!

More Peej During Christmas

Peej was in a sink at Lowe's right before we went to Fuddruckers for the machine incident. I should have known that he was in a climbing in to things mood!
The 2nd picture was when Donny and I took Peej to the park after our breakfast at Kirby Lane.
Christmas Eve with short sleeves! We had a great time with him. He ran all over the park and expended some energy!

It's been one of those days.....worry, conflict, emotional, a little fear, hard work, laughs, but even through the negatives, a sense of peace that everything is going to be OK....for ONE reason...
Because God, in His Infinite Mercy, His loving kindness, His forgiveness, His grace, loves us and deeply cares about every little thing that we care about.
"Cast your cares on Me" , "Come to me all you who are burdened and I will give you rest" , "My yoke is easy and my burden is light", "Worry for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication make your requests known to the Lord."
I could go on and on with many more scriptures similar to these but the point is: God loves us and He wants to help us carry our worries. Not only does He give us Eternal Life, He give us the abundant life in spite of our sins. He WANTS us to give our cares to Him..He WANTS to HELP us figure things out.
He is truly our ALL in ALL. I love HIM.

Gotta love those Boots

I'm not sure if these are Daddy's boots or Uncle Matt's but they sure do look good on the two year old, don't you think?

In Case You Were Wondering

Leah pointed out after the zoo blog that Peej's sandals looked a little small. Indeed, as you can tell by this picture they were MUCH too small.

Here's the story: It was very hot that day and Peej spotted his sandals on the "things he had outgrown shelf " in his closet. I told him that he was a big boy and that those were too small now AND that Mommy was saving his shoes so that one of these days his little brother could wear them.

Well, silly me. That statement was NOT what he wanted to hear. He said, "No. Those are MY
sandals. No little brother wear them. Peter wear them."

So, even though his toes were hanging off the front of the sandals he wore them all over the zoo for 3 hours while he ran around, brushed the goats, etc. He also exclaimed several times on the way to the zoo that those sandals were HIS, not his brother's.

Hopefully, he won't try to squeeze into the newborn clothes that were his!