Two days into Lent
and I'm still doing what I said I'd do!! Instead of giving up something this year I decided to add a daily 20 minute walk as I've been awfully sedentary during the past few months. On this daily walk I do my best to meditate on Jesus and what He gave up for me....Of course we've been in one of our warm up's weather-wise. I'm hoping to be able to maintain when the next snow comes through, supposedly this weekend.
Kyler, my darling almost 11 year old and her friends started a girl band. I think their called the Rock Chicks or something like that. It's quite a hoot--they have a couple of guitarists, a girl who plays keyboard, all do vocals and I think periodically switch to their band instruments which include 2 trumpets, a flute and a clarinet. Slipknot's from here and I'm tellin ya, the Rock Chicks just may surpass their fame. The Rock Chicks write their own music too.
Payten started track and also was asked to play on a AAU basketball team so she is at practice from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. everyday now. I miss her.
The little girls are being little girls. Ryann had a 102 degree temp yesterday but seems to be feeling better today and Jaden is just trying to grow some teeth. She has a total of 5 out right now, all in the front of her mouth. The tooth fairy is flat broke and she looks like she got the bad end of a fist fight. A couple of weeks ago, Jaden was being my naughty one---sassing the teacher and arguing with one other little girl in her class (whose mom is a friend of mine). I had to be the mean mama and beat that outta her right away---just kidding---all I did was keep her in her room on the nights she was on a yellow card at school (green = good, yellow = not so good) and eliminated treats after dinner. She has since turned it around and been on green every day so far this week. Jaden's biggest problem is that she was the 'baby' for soo long and doted upon for soo long by everyone that she just can't understand that she isn't quite the center of everyone's universe anymore. She's getting there though.
None of the kids have school tomorrow so I don't know if I'll get much of chance to stop in. I'm taking the day off and we're gonna go bowling or something like that. Everyone is much happier when we stay busy. So, have a good Friday everybody!
