The Interview!

We went to Dallas this past weekend for Joe's first interview, which by the way went really well! He was just a little nervous but overall I think he was just anxious about starting this whole process of transitioning. I may sound a little partial but his resume is quite impressive! This interview was just a starting point for him and I think God has something incredible for him out there somewhere and the journey getting there is so exciting! Thank you Lord for allowing us to be put through certain situations in our lives in order for us to fully understand and comprehend the wonderful future you have in store for us.

I will keep trying......

Potty training a two year old!! Enough said, my son does not want to be potty trained! I am thinking that it is going to be just like with Jolee but it is not. She was so excited about it and he avoids the subject literally when I ask him if he needs to potty he turns his head and says something about cars or trains or something to that nature. I don't want to put it off anymore because he is soo big everyone thinks that he is older than he is and he is still wearing diapers! I need a manual a sign just something to tell me how to do this! I have even told him that if he goes potty in the potty he will even get m&ms but he just sits on the potty and thinks he will get them anyway. Could someone just take him for about a week and just do this for me!

" I don't know how it happened?"

These words were the first words out of Jolee's teachers mouth when I went to pick her up today!! Her teacher said that she saw it after it happened! They were painting today and somehow Jolee's hair at two perfect blue streaks on each side of her head in the front. Her teacher said that she asked her how it happened and Jolee responded with " I don't know how it happened the paint just splashed up and hit my hair!" After her teacher explained to me what happened I told her that her favorite movie right now is Aquamarine and in the movie there is a mermaid that has blue streaks in her hair and the other two girls in the movie get their hair streaked as well so Jolee thought that it would be a prime opportunity to streak her own hair at school! I guess I shouldn't be surprised but come on she is almost six years old! Another one of Jolee's moments I guess!

Transitioning!!

Well that is what they call it, in the Air Force that is! I looked at the calender and realized that we will only be here for two more months! I am so excited yet scared in a weird sort of way? We have always been in the Air Force we have not had to pay a penny for health insurance, we have been able to shop for groceries at the base commissary which is soooo much cheaper than regular grocery stores and we have been spoiled by always living in a gated community, with no elec. bill or water bill or trash or any other bill for that matter. We have been living off of the government for the past 8 years!! I know that the Lord has the perfect job and the perfect house for us but the journey getting there is what is nerve racking! The Lord has already spoken to me where Joe will be getting his job at so I am just praying over that company right now and asking that the right doors would be open and that he come into contact with the right people there. He has received two phone calls already for job interviews and he will be going to one next week, this is a good thing because Joe has never been on a job interview! But, the Lord has prepared him for the last 8 years in his career field for these positions out in the civilian world which pay triple what he makes in the Air Force. We feel that the Lord has allowed us to experience many different situations in the last 8 years just to prepare us for this transition. Even though we will be moving in two months to a place of which we have no idea and to a job that has not been given yet, I feel such a peace about this transition. God is soooo awesome and I know that His plan is perfect but I would ask that you too would pray with me for my family during this time for a peace and for direction down the right path for Joe's job.

We have another.....

sick child that is!! Well I guess it was only a matter of time when Jolee was going to get this nasty pneumonia! Thur. evening she had a program at school and she had been looking forward to it for weeks, she came home from school with a fever and I just had a feeling it was pneumonia, she had the same symptoms at Jaxon and her wheezing was alot worse! I took her on base to the doctor and told him what had been going on at my house and he did not even want to give her an x-ray because he did not hear anything in her lungs! I get so frustrated with these doctors on base they just don't seem to care, I will be so glad when I can go and shop around for a pediatrician of my choosing! So since she is allergic to penicillin and czefcil he put her on zythromax. I hope this does the trick because I have had it with all of this! On a better note Jaxon is feeling much better and back to his old self, thank you Jesus! I hope that when we move back to Dallas that these allergies will stay here in Wichita Falls.

My Sunday afternoon!

I spent my Sunday afternoon in the e.r. today with my son. He had a fever all day yesterday of 99 so I just gave him the usual Motrin and he seemed fine. Then last night he came and got in bed with me and when I woke up I felt something really hot next to me. When I took his temp. it was 103.6! I took off his clothes and gave him Motrin after a few minutes he cooled off a little but in the morning his temp was still 102. I called the nurse line and she said he needed to be seen since his temp. only fell one degree after giving him medicine. I then proceeded to take him to a clinic here in town but just did not have a good feeling about it, it was the Lord telling me to go to the e.r. Thinking I would have to wait a long time to my surprise I didn't and when we got back to the room we saw a great P.A. who was great with him. She said that she did not hear anything in his lungs but she would have a x-ray done just to make sure. Thank the Lord she did because he had two spots on his lungs of the beginning stages of pneumonia! I just thank the Lord for sending us to that hospital and sending us that doctor, He provides our every need!

She got an orange!

My strong willed daughter received an orange yesterday at school, this is not good! Everyone starts out on green and you can move up to purple then blue which is excellent or you can move down to yellow then orange then red! She has always received good colors mostly green and purple, but today it was orange. It happened the last 10 minutes of class the teacher said a little boy was bothering her and so she went to tell the teacher and she told Jolee to use her words and let the little boy know what he was doing wrong to her. Well, instead of telling him she just hit him in the back with a pointer! When you receive an orange you must sit in time out and by the time I had gotten there she was still crying. She has been telling me that some of the little boys have been bothering her lately so I went and told her teacher a few days ago about what was happening and she said she would watch them to see what was going on. Did I also mention that Jolee did not get alot of sleep that night because she woke up at 4 a.m. throwing up, I told her teacher that she might be a little cranky that day because of lack of sleep. So I guess that was Jolee's breaking point yesterday, I don't think she will ever do it again not only did she get in trouble at school but she also gets in trouble at home too. We have a rule, if she comes home with a yellow or worse she will get a spanking! I was tempted yesterday not to give her one but she must learn that there are no exceptions to punishment when we break the rules. Some of you might think that is a little harsh but for Joe and I we are raising a future adult who needs to learn to abide by the laws of the land and respect authority even though we don't always agree. I guess that is my soap box for the day. I love my children with my whole heart and thank the Lord everyday for them.