I'm baackk. We have been sooo busy. Almost every evening has been spent at the ballpark lately. We are off tonight - due to inclement weather, yay! I really couldn't think of a better birthday present than a night off from the ballpark! I love it and so do the boys, but the break is welcomed! Yes, today is my birthday - the big 29. But what I really have heavily on my mind tonight as I write is that my oldest son, Aiden, turned eight yesterday! Eight just sounds so big. I really can not believe how fast time is going by. They say if you think time goes by fast now, just wait until you have kids - they were right!! My two boys are walking time clocks, clicking away at the speed of light. Every year at this time I am reminded of how God placed this perfect child in our lives when we really weren't ready for it. He has been such a blessing to us and the heart beat behind mine and Chad's marriage. He is the reason we are where we are today and let's just say we haven't turned out so bad. It hasn't been an easy eight years, but worth every bit of the ride. Aiden is my sweet, gentle, old soul. I love that as he matures, that doesn't go away. Bringing that child into the world turned out not to be such an easy task. I went into labor at 28 weeks and spent the next 6 weeks in the hospital trying keep him from coming too early. At 34 weeks, we were blessed with a tiny, healthy angel - and a head FULL of black hair! It is so hard for me to believe it has been eight years ago. He still has that head full of hair, however he is not so tiny anymore.
Now that I have sat here and cried writing this (which was not the plan), I am going to finish up and head upstairs. My night in shining armor just walked through the door with my birthday dinner! Until next time...
Monday, April 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Running Crazy...
Well, since I wrote my first blog on Monday everyone has asked "When are you going to blog again?". This my friends, is not an easy task unless it was going to happen sometime in the wee hours of the morning - which just wouldn't be a good idea. You all would be wondering what kind of drugs I am on so I will just try to refrain from that, although it may happen. A quick run down of the week...
Monday: Baseball practice was rained out (thank goodness). Thought it was going to be a nice quiet night at home with the family. Yea right, it never is. About 7:30, after I thought Aiden's homework was completed, I pulled out his agenda from the day only to find out he has a project due the next day on his favorite book character. I ask Aiden about it and of course his reply is, "Oh yea, I forgot." And then he comes up with this brilliant project he wants to do, that would require an engineer and an architect, from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. The only problem is I don't have ANY materials we could possibly begin to use. So off to Wal-Mart I go (and I DO NOT like going to Wal-Mart). From there I proceed to try to put together what this little precious child of mine wanted. By midnight is was quite the little masterpiece. I'm so glad the teacher gave ME homework.
Tuesday: (woke up and couldn't believe it was only Tuesday) Pretty typical day - up late, scrambling like crazy to get the boys dressed, fed, school stuff together, teeth brushed and out the door in time. We have become experts at being out the door in about 30 min. If it was an Olympic event, we would win! And yes, it is typical. And then we scrambled that afternoon to have boys picked up, changed for baseball and at the fields by 5:30 - again, from the outside looking in, we look like a bunch of unorganized psychopaths, but really it is a thought-out plan that most of the time goes off without a hitch. Home by 8. Fed, homework, baths, bedtime prayers and the boys in bed by 9:30. Thank goodness for DVR, Chad and I then sat down and watched American Idol (after I told Connor I would not watch it without him - whoops).
Wednesday: Our crazy typical morning, off to school and work. Meet Chad and the boys at church for church supper. Then our Wednesday night church meetings and activities. Home by 8. Bath, bed...blah, blah, blah you know the rest.
So on this Thursday night, I am home in a quiet house. Yep, Chad is at the ballpark with the boys. I worked late. Chad doesn't know it yet, but I am not cooking. He will call and ask what's for supper and will gladly let him pick out one of the finer fast food establishments on his way home to get supper. Yes, with Chad it's supper. Dinner is lunch. Took me a while to figure out what in world he was talking about it. He'd ask for dinner when we first got married and so I assumed he didn't want to eat until that evening...but after 8 years of marriage, I gave up the battle and supper it is!
I really should be taking advantage of being home and doing some cleaning, laundry, or how about cooking for my family. I'm just not motivated, so I am blogging. Chad will be thrilled. :)
I am very much looking forward to my weekend. Even though it will be filled with baseball and the laundry, cleaning, and cooking that I should be doing right now.
I will not always just give you a run down of my week, because you will just be exhausted from reading it! I just thought you should know why you won't see daily blogs. Hope you all have a wonderful Friday!
Monday: Baseball practice was rained out (thank goodness). Thought it was going to be a nice quiet night at home with the family. Yea right, it never is. About 7:30, after I thought Aiden's homework was completed, I pulled out his agenda from the day only to find out he has a project due the next day on his favorite book character. I ask Aiden about it and of course his reply is, "Oh yea, I forgot." And then he comes up with this brilliant project he wants to do, that would require an engineer and an architect, from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. The only problem is I don't have ANY materials we could possibly begin to use. So off to Wal-Mart I go (and I DO NOT like going to Wal-Mart). From there I proceed to try to put together what this little precious child of mine wanted. By midnight is was quite the little masterpiece. I'm so glad the teacher gave ME homework.
Tuesday: (woke up and couldn't believe it was only Tuesday) Pretty typical day - up late, scrambling like crazy to get the boys dressed, fed, school stuff together, teeth brushed and out the door in time. We have become experts at being out the door in about 30 min. If it was an Olympic event, we would win! And yes, it is typical. And then we scrambled that afternoon to have boys picked up, changed for baseball and at the fields by 5:30 - again, from the outside looking in, we look like a bunch of unorganized psychopaths, but really it is a thought-out plan that most of the time goes off without a hitch. Home by 8. Fed, homework, baths, bedtime prayers and the boys in bed by 9:30. Thank goodness for DVR, Chad and I then sat down and watched American Idol (after I told Connor I would not watch it without him - whoops).
Wednesday: Our crazy typical morning, off to school and work. Meet Chad and the boys at church for church supper. Then our Wednesday night church meetings and activities. Home by 8. Bath, bed...blah, blah, blah you know the rest.
So on this Thursday night, I am home in a quiet house. Yep, Chad is at the ballpark with the boys. I worked late. Chad doesn't know it yet, but I am not cooking. He will call and ask what's for supper and will gladly let him pick out one of the finer fast food establishments on his way home to get supper. Yes, with Chad it's supper. Dinner is lunch. Took me a while to figure out what in world he was talking about it. He'd ask for dinner when we first got married and so I assumed he didn't want to eat until that evening...but after 8 years of marriage, I gave up the battle and supper it is!
I really should be taking advantage of being home and doing some cleaning, laundry, or how about cooking for my family. I'm just not motivated, so I am blogging. Chad will be thrilled. :)
I am very much looking forward to my weekend. Even though it will be filled with baseball and the laundry, cleaning, and cooking that I should be doing right now.
I will not always just give you a run down of my week, because you will just be exhausted from reading it! I just thought you should know why you won't see daily blogs. Hope you all have a wonderful Friday!
Monday, February 28, 2011
And so it begins...
Hello!
I have talked to several people who blog and some that don't who said I should start one. This all started with my facebook posts. I often post random things my boys (Aiden, 7 and Connor, 4) say and do. Actually, that is almost all I post - they are my life and entertainment. But those little posts are just fragments of my daily life in this crazy, beautiful, busy, wonderful, hectic, perfect little world I live in. It never goes as planned, but always turns out right. - This last sentence is actually the story of my life. I have learned that God is in control, not that its always what I want to hear, but He is in control.
I have always been ambitious from a very young age. I wanted to do well in school, play soccer till I was 80, have my own company, travel the world, becoming president wasn't too far fetched of a dream for me either - that's just how I was. By the way, I call it ambitious, my parents would call it stubborn. If you told me I couldn't do something, well I would show you. However, now I find my life's ambitions daily - and I pray them daily. "Lord, just let me make it through the day." And He continues to deliver this daily even though sometimes it is close! These things that cause so much chaos in my life (children, a husband, a job) are also my biggest blessings. We have quite a life, here at the Rhodes' Ranch (it's not a ranch at all, it's a house in a suburb of Birmingham, AL in a typical little subdivision) between work, church, school, ball games, and whatever else may come our way. I'm looking forward to sharing it with whoever cares to listen.
Stay tuned, there is lots to share...
I have talked to several people who blog and some that don't who said I should start one. This all started with my facebook posts. I often post random things my boys (Aiden, 7 and Connor, 4) say and do. Actually, that is almost all I post - they are my life and entertainment. But those little posts are just fragments of my daily life in this crazy, beautiful, busy, wonderful, hectic, perfect little world I live in. It never goes as planned, but always turns out right. - This last sentence is actually the story of my life. I have learned that God is in control, not that its always what I want to hear, but He is in control.
I have always been ambitious from a very young age. I wanted to do well in school, play soccer till I was 80, have my own company, travel the world, becoming president wasn't too far fetched of a dream for me either - that's just how I was. By the way, I call it ambitious, my parents would call it stubborn. If you told me I couldn't do something, well I would show you. However, now I find my life's ambitions daily - and I pray them daily. "Lord, just let me make it through the day." And He continues to deliver this daily even though sometimes it is close! These things that cause so much chaos in my life (children, a husband, a job) are also my biggest blessings. We have quite a life, here at the Rhodes' Ranch (it's not a ranch at all, it's a house in a suburb of Birmingham, AL in a typical little subdivision) between work, church, school, ball games, and whatever else may come our way. I'm looking forward to sharing it with whoever cares to listen.
Stay tuned, there is lots to share...
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