Friday, June 26, 2009

What I needed today!

Have you ever had a day when you feel like a hamster running and not even making it anywhere? I needed this reminder today. Enjoy!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Van Accident and New Van

Two weeks ago I dropped the boys off at the start of their race and was driving to the end with the little ones and got in an accident. I tried to change lanes and a little black car was right in my blindspot. We were only going about 10-15 mph, and nobody was hurt, but the van didn't survive so well.Luckily we had comprehension and collision insurance on it.


Then, because it wasn't worth a whole lot anyway, the insurance company decided to total it out. And because our family will hopefully be too large for a mini-van anyway, we are now the proud owners of a monster van! It is a 15 passenger full-size van with lots of room inside. It rides really high, like a truck, and really does feel like I'm driving a bus! This is a picture of it parked out front. My roses are deceiving, it is taller than I am.

We got a dog!


As if things haven't been crazy enough around here with our house falling through, again (water coming up in the basement after a rain storm is a BAD thing), looking for the right child to adopt, and wrecking the van, we decided to get a dog. The kids have been asking for one for quite awhile and we had finally figured out what we were looking for.

This is Bella. She is a 2 year old beagle. Very overweight, very obedient, and very loved. We got her from a lady who had started traveling a lot for work and didn't have time to play with and exercise her. She hasn't lacked for company or exercise since. She is a super sweet dog and is learning to get along with Lucy the cat. She will even obey Adam's commands, which he thinks is great.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Giveaways

Just wanted to put a note here that I have some novel giveaways on my review blog right now. I enjoyed doing the homeschool reviews and as that ended I've been able to start reviewing for book companies like Thomas Nelson, Random House, NavPress, Zondervan, and others. Several of them also give me free books to use as giveaways for my readers. So if you are interested, the link is at the top right or you can click here.