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Hey Everyone please click and read the comment left by a nice fellow overseas from my last post about Darfur. It gives a good link for rallies in the States for Darfur.

Today was a really nice day. The temperature was perfect with just the right breeze. It was weather wise the perfect day I'd have to say. Took my daughter to the park and invited Auntie Sunshine and Cousin Smiles to come along (ha ha you know who you are). They did and we chatted while the wee little ones played.

Then I went to my mommies house and dropped off my daughter and doggy and went to pick my son up from school. Since we were by ourselves we had a little mama son time and went to A&W and went in and had a sit down lunner (lunch/dinner). It was nice. He was a hungry boy and ate a lot. I had my self a diet root beer float and some cheese curds...makes me laugh when I say it. They were good though.

Then headed back out to my mommies where I hung out for a bit, then later we had Bible Study and then..........oh yes........talked Grandma into having both the chillins stay the night since my hubby will be down that way early tomorrow and can pick them up. And she agreed.

So I came home late. Which allowed my hubby to get lots of studying in. He hit the hay already because he's a tired dood. And this is wonderful I tell ya....I get to sleep in. Oh yes!! Ha ha...and then when I get up and around I get to go out on a girls day. My SIL is watching my kiddo's tomorrow BLESS HER HEART!! And it was HER idea. Which was so awesome because I was going to have to find a sitter for the kids tomorrow anyway since me and hubby are busy and mostly he has to study. So that is very generous of her.

Speaking of studying....please pray if you will for my hubby and his test on Monday. That would be very nice and I know he would appreciate it soo much.

Well in other news...my mom and dad both recently started suffering from bouts of dizziness and the docs said it has to do with their inner ear...and as I'm typing this the rooms is spinning...no kidding. It feels kind of cool but I'm thinking they got weird fumes at their house or we all have bad ears?

I'm outta here Auf Wiedersehen!!
xoxo

Raising Awareness for Darfur

Please go so www.savedarfur.org Sign the petition/card that will be sent to President Bush.

As I sit warm and toasty in my bed, men, women, and children are dying bye the minute. If it's not murder it's disease and famine as a result of the atrocities. I can't for one moment imagine the fear the women and moms are going through. Knowing at any moment yourself or your babies will be raped or murdered.

I will leave it at that because the website is a much better source of information.

Tonight as I opened my email I got a request from one of my friends to sign a petition for Darfur. I at that moment had no idea what was going on in Darfur. I thought "oh i'll have to do that soon." Closed out my email and started to watch TV. On my favorite show ER tonight I knew one of the characters was going to help a colleage over in Africa...then as the show progressed I heard the name of the country...Darfur. I thought hmm I'm really going to look this up. So as the show was on I went to the site and signed the petition and began to read. I was reminded of the movie "Hotel Rwanda" that my husband and I watch last summer. I remembered how moved we were. I remember how we couldn't believe such horrible events went on in our world and we never knew it. We both never wanted to stand by and let something like that happen again. We're just two people but here's a site telling us what we can do as individuals. So thanks to my friend kandjmom and even the show ER I'm ignorant no longer. As Christians we can also pray. We can give money and we can contact elected officials.

There's always a million things our government can and needs to do...we're always getting involved in other countries business and some don't neccisarily agree with it all the time...but this is genocide...think Holocaust, think Rwanda...innocent civilians being murdered, raper, tortured, and driven from their homes. The whole world needs to be involved not just the U.S.

Anyways just felt the need to do something so I'm putting it on my blog--among other things.

In other news...my daughter got her finger slammed in the trunk door today. She's okay but it did tear some skin and bled. She screamed and cried pretty hard but then got over it really quick. My husband doctored her up and she was out the door catching bubbles that her brother was blowing.

Well got to go to bed. TGIF tomorrow!!!! Girls day Saturday...fun. And two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun...

The baby egg that never was...

We have birds building nests on our RV so today Hubby took a nest down and their was a baby egg in it. I was so sad. So it was on the picnic table and the kids noticed it...they thought it was cool. They would hold the nest and try and follow birds yelling "here's your baby egg." So cute yet so sad. We didn't tell them that the baby egg will never come to be now. They asked after dinner, "can we go see if it is hatched now?" So we let them out side. A few moments later my daughter screams. Yep, she broke it. She was bawling and my boy was about to. The baby egg is gone now. :( They were over it though in about 2 minutes...but I'm still a little sad.

Until next time.

It was a nice idea in theory....

My son had a little program at school tonight. It was cute. He found me and sis in the audience and waved. So sweet. He sang and did all the motions. OH and then.

So being the nice mama that I am I thought we'd go to Mickey D's and get an ice cream cone. So we do. Now I'm holding on to two cones and the steering wheel trying to maneuver the corner out of the drive through. Not a good idea. Almost through the corner one of the cones top swirley plops onto the middle console right onto the 4 wheel drive shifter. As I pass a car parked by the drive though ( a witness ) I laugh like I find it funny...I didn't...but had to be in control in one way or the other. Soooo. I find a safe spot to park, grab some of the fallen icecream with my bare hand and plop it back on the cone and give it to sissy. She was satisfied. I then wipe what ice cream i can off with a napkin and take off (have to find a better spot to park) so then get down the road, ice cream on steering wheel, melting ice cream starting to drip down in between the seat and console. I pull over and get almost angry...I get my son his cookie and start cleaning up the mess. I do a pretty good job actually using only dry McDonald's napkins. I then drive home with a sticky steering wheel. Shortly into the rest of the ride home I begin to laugh at what that had to have looked like to the witness...I laugh now thinking about it...my face at the time was like "whoa.. whoa" not actually believing it would plop...then it did and I was perturbed over the wasted ice cream...mortified someone saw...embarrassed as they must have thought I was a dork for even trying it in the first place... Life Lesson...buy the 3 cookies for a buck instead.

In other news...I was snuggling on my couch this morning half in half out of reality with my doggy next to me. He gets up and makes a weird noise. In my daze I know it can't be a good noise. My eyes are drawn to a pile of mustard on the floor...oh but that is not mustard...it's doggy spit up. I quickly make him get into his crate where he proceeds to puke some more and step in it. So I start to clean up the carpet...we do have a small handheld steam cleaner and that works well although that yellow was pretty YELLOW and I could still see a hint of it. I then move to the cage and clean up what I can but his paw will have to wait. We have limited hot water and I still need a shower. So in the crate he stays. We did eventually get paw crate and all clean...My SIL says it's from eating grass...which he has been doing like it's going out of style lately so it makes sense.

The rest of the day went off without a hitch. BREAKING NEWS... This just in...heavy filtered coffee drinking found not on heart. Yeah!!! Keep them studies coming. How could something so good be bad? It can't. That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

I really did just hear that on the news. Along with Oregon has the most breweries per capita than any other state. Our mountain water makes it so good...so they say. I also heard that my alma mater, among a couple others in Oregon, (high school) got some award from Sports Illustated having to do with steroid education...I'll have to check that out.

Well all I guess that is it for now. Have a wonderful Wed-nes-day!! Oh you know I will.
xoxo

Blankety Blank Blank Blank....

Is my mind as I stare at this screen...

Rhinestone Cowboy flutters through my mind. Not the whole song just that lonely part. Why? Who knows?

Today was a GOOD day. And that is because I was in a good mood and got some things done. What makes a day good and a day bad in my life? Well it's when I get control of my attitude and make it submit to God then it's good. If I don't do that then a phone will probably get broken or toys thrown into the swamp lands (don't ask.)

But today I did. I got perturbed a I think 2 times but took a breath and talked to God...more like it's me having to submit to God than me submitting my attitude to him. Well probably both.

(just deleted a whole bunch I typed. Had you known what I typed you would think me deleting it was very ironic.)


One fun thing tonight is that my son helped me with dishes. He dried. He did very good and it was a real help. It was really cute too. He also wanted to take out the trash but he couldn't because it was too dark and too far away. Today we also played in the park with a new friend here at the RV park. He's only 2 but they all had fun. He has the same birthday as my daughter. The mom is nice and we chatted for a bit.

RV acres in the place to be...RV livin is the life for me.

And And And And That's all folks.
xoxo

Free time...that's what I have at the moment!

So the kids are in bed...hubby is chatting on phone....oh free time interupted with child crying in bed...ok fixed that...what a crisis my son dropped his bunny on the side of the bed and he couldn't reach it. It was the end of the world but mommy saved the day (like normal).

My husband is diligently trying to study for his upcoming test. He's getting very nervous. The day is creeping up on him. I say trying because it's hard to study in a house (did I say house?) with 2 small children. And I tell him OVER and OVER...GET OUT OF THE HOUSE GO SOMEWHERE AND STUDY GO TO A COFFEESHOP OR SOMETHING AND GET SOME GOOD HOURS IN...but does he listen? No. So tomorrow me, the kids, and dog are getting out of here and spending the day at my moms and he is going to study...he's suppose to anyway.

So what else is new. Well my mom has a lifelong friend who suffered a stroke as a result of a surgery on an aneurism (sp?). She's up at OHSU but doing better. It was and still is quite serious but she is making progress. She is squeezing hands and trying to talk...so that is really good. We're praying for healing obviously but also no infections nor pneumonia...please pray with us for her to get well.

Yah so I've had nothing to write about lately. My mind is constipated. Ha ha. I think it's due to our transition. It's been a little chaotic in my own mind the past week or two so maybe that has effected my blogging. I have been journaling though in my personal journal. That is what I normally do especially when I need to work through emotional issues. So that has been more of my outlet lately.

As the move day approaches I get more nervous. I just keep praying for God's will to be done and if it's not His will then change things. It's easier for me to accept things when I'm confidant it's God's will. Sometimes I'm not so confidant and I'm nervous. This is something I'm just letting happen and trusting God will work through my husband and guide us.

To this point I have actually been excited about it and we even practically begged to go...but it's starting to materialize and it's weird. I keep tellin my hubby to expect me to "go through something" when we do get there. It will take a bit for me to adjust. I don't plan on being a pain but I know I will have some sort of reaction. Probably in the form of FREAKING OUT from time to time. Ha ha. My poor husband oh the things he's gone through with me. He's a champ.

Well I'm looking forward to the nice day tomorrow. Going to play play play. Just found out I don't have to take the dog tomorrow so that will actually be kind of nice because out of my moms he likes to wander and I can't relax as much because I have to make sure he doesn't go where he's not suppose to.

Have a great Sunday people.
xoxo

Hi!

Not much to post. Just been doing life. Life in the RV is fine. Dishes are annoying but other than that it's OK.

My little niece that had the seizure...the first test, an MRI, is fine and they are doing another one, I think an EEG?, is on Monday. So please continue to pray. They have to stay up till midnight and then get up at 4am for the test...not fun stuff.

It's the weekend and I'm looking forward to it. I have a birthday party to attend tomorrow and then not much for the rest.

Also the last 2 day since we live at a campground we've had campfires and rosted marshmallows. The kids have loved it!!!

Sorry not much to report on this end but life is just going as normal.

xoxo

Just Doing Some Laundry...

Yes I'm in the laundry room right now. I just put in my 5th load. I have 3 dryers going. There is one dude who just filled the 3 remaining washers so he'll need the dryers soon. Hope I get done fast. Just chatted with an older lady who's traveling. She is from Canada. Was going to head down so some places in California but the weather was too bad. Tomorrow they are making their way to Silver Creek Falls then the gorge. How fun for them.

And so I am slavin away doing laundry but I'm actually using it as kind of a break. Which will be coming to end here shortly. I have been in the whole time just checking email and such.

I have one friend who is in Thailand right now and she sent tons of pics. Super cool. I love to travel like that. The two times I have went overseas I was very excited. I always get a bit nervous...but I love coming home with the experience of getting a taste of another culture. I think that is why I'm open to moving to California...a bit anxious but excited for the taking home the experience.

Well my hubby and kids came to visit me so off I go. Until next time.
xoxo

And Life Goes On

So let us see.?.? What has been going on in my life lately. Hmm it seems like something has gone on. Well our propane went out again in the middle of the night again. That was fun. My poor hubbie went to four places in the middle of the night to fill the tanks to no avail.

So then we were both really grumpy the next night because we had no sleep. But we both went to bed early and feel much better today.

My auntie Wanda has come to visit with my mom (where I am at right now) while my dad and one of his employees are off on their motorcycles off to Phoenix Az...

So...I see something on the horizon but not quite sure of what it's forming...will keep you updated.

~xoxo

Chasing The Wind

Went to the play tonight with just my husband. What a treat. I was beginning to forget what is was like to just be with him and noone else. It was a Christian play put on by a ministry called His Acts. They are a group of very talented people and this is the third one I've been to but the first without my kids. So this year we actually could watch it.

It was moving. It was about priorities. It was about the important things in life like family. When we go after money, power, things...it's like chasing after the wind. It's based on Ecclesiates in the Bible. If anyone is in the Corvallis Oregon area it's playing one more time tomorrow night at 7pm at the LaSalles Stewart Center and it's free. It has good acting and a very inspirational message.

I was challenged in a few areas. For one I left there with a sense that God wants to do more with my life but I hold myself back. Another is that I am a Christian but so much, especially lately, I feel defeated and oppressed. It shouldn't be that way. Jesus came that we may have life and have it to the full and if I'm not experiencing the abundant life than I'm getting ripped off. This would be my own fault but also the enemy himself. He only comes to steel, kill, and destroy and I've let him lately. After leaving there I felt that I need to stop living for my selfish desires that leave me feeling empty and live for God. Sounds so basic but how easy it is as a Christian to get off track. But we know we are when we feel like crud and have lost that joy that we get only from HIM!!

I have got myself in a miry pit lately. A battle in my mind has gotten me quite down. But tonight was very encouraging and helped. I thanked God that I got to go. Tonight also renewed my strength somewhat.

So tomorrow nothing during the day is planned except hubby is working (fulfilling his end of the bargain on a trading work thing). Tomorrow night are babysitting neice and nephew so brother in law and wife can go watch play. Should be exciting.

Also one of my little neices had a seizure today. At this moment she is fine. She's going in for some testing tomorrow morning. Be praying for her. Hopefully we'll know soon what is going on and hopefully it's nuthin big.

~ xoxo

What in the world???

So I'm just wondering what has gotten into me since I entered RV world? I'm gettinerdun!! I have been doing this and that running here and there and AND at the same time staying in a decent mood and staying positive. I'm dotting the i's and crossing the t's!!

Well there is this one thing I haven't done yet...just one!! It's hangin over my head like a big black cloud. Ugh...yet again I shove it back in the dark dusty closet spot in my brain. I'll do it tomorrow. Sure.

What's everyone doing this Resurrection Sunday? I don't know what we're doing yet. We'll go to church and then I don't know.

So my man just got home. He has just a half a month left of school left. May 2nd I think is when he takes his test. After 4 long years of two nights a week after work, homework and finals he'll finally be a journeyman electrician. I'm very proud of him. He works very hard to support his family. Because of him I can stay home and be my kids' mom!! He has put a lot of his own hopes and dreams to the side to be a man and provide for us. And I'll just add that before this apprenticeship program he went 3 years to Community college right after highschool and then three years to OSU. Out of those 6 years he wrestled five of them for both the colleges. After he graduated he needed a decent paying job so back to school he went.

Funny about college. Four year state colleges aren't all that in ways that I used to think they were. Just because you graduate from one doesn't mean you'll bring home the big bucks. But they DO mean 4 or 5 (or more) years of some pretty fun memories and experiences that neither of us would trade for the world. Neither of us really use our degrees directly now but I cherish my 5 years at OSU. I met Jesus, many special friends, and grew as a person in knowledge of life and myself, and so many things.

Anyways...I can still remember my first day of college. My dad and my now husband then boyfriend moved me into my dorm that I roomed with a good friend from highschool. (I miss her..haven't seen her in long time) My daddy was so sad when he left. And then I had my man walk me around campus so I could figure out where everything was...I like remembering those days.

I should blog about that some more someday. As for now...I'm outta here.
Peace out!

~~~

Oh Gosh I have to hurry...

It's so stinking late. Anyway I just had to post though...Why? It's an obsession really. Ha. Anyways...

So signed up at myspace tonight just to check on people that I went to highschool with. Very interesting to say the least.

You know off topic but I was thinking about the reactions I get from people when I say I'm living in a RV...

There's the eyeballs-pop-out-of-the-head look and the following "wow really?"
Then there's the glad-it's-you-and-not-me look followed by "have fun"
There's the what-in-the-world-are-you-thinking-you're-going-to-be-miserable-i-would-never-oh-my-gosh-with-two-kids???-and-a-dog???-are-you-crazy not just look but thoughts vocalized, brought out in the open and spewed all over me..
There's the slight chuckle followed by nothing then the i-feel-so-sorry-for-you look

But then on the more positive side usally after we've explained why we're doing what we're doing (if I even bother...dh usually does but i don't always)
it usually changes to something along the lines of...

"well what an adventure for you guys and the kids are young it's the perfect time to do such a thing...wow it'll be tough but so worth it"

But my fave was from Great Grandma Whis...and this was her first reaction!!

"I'm so proud of you guys!!"

A day to myself...& Palm Sunday

So today we headed to church this a.m. It was nice. We saw a nice production from a Calvary Chapel from another town.

Today we remember the day Jesus was recognized and glorified as King while on earth. This whole week is a special week. As Christians we can celebrate Passover as Jesus was our Passover Lamb. His blood keeps us from the wrath to come. Then we have Good Friday as we remember Jesus's death...and then Resurrection Sunday (I refuse to call it Easter)...It's my hope that I focus on the life of Christ in a special way this week. It's good to remember all that he has done for us.

Then after church my super duper hubby went and did some stuff for his parents and offered to take the kids so I could have a day to myself. I thought that was very nice of him and so a day to myself I had.

What did I do with my day? Well I did wash, dishes, cleaned up the RV, grocery shopped (got myself some Nike flip flops)and stopped by Dutch Bros for a mocha...then I spent some time reading the Bible (specifically about Palm Sunday) and surfed the net a tad...then they were back.

It actually was nice to have some time to clean up around here. And Sunday is our wash day so that really had to be done. Doing laundry in the laundry facilities isn't really that bad. For 4 loads wash and dry it's about $6.25 and it's all done in one hour and 15 minutes. So I do that twice a week. ... Normally I do laundry all day everyday. It was actually quite pleasant. And then also I have to fold it or hang it up right away so it doesn't wrinkle...so I get it folded and put away a lot faster than I used to. It used to sit on the couch for a bit either folded or unfolded..

I really think I miss the dishwasher more than the laundry machine and dryer. It takes me a long time to hand wash dishes. And it hurts my back standing there for so long.

So I wasn't totally alone. My dog was with me. He went to the store with me. So it was a nice quiet day. A good recharge of the batteries I felt.

So off to start a new week. Hope you have a good one.
~~

Another Day Down...

It's about 10 minutes to Sunday. (yawn)

I am tired so this will probably be quick. Maybe even quicker than I thought because I don't have much to say today. Narnia was pretty good. Cute is more like it...in my opinion.

There is this song running through my head to the tune of Green Acres...

RV acres is the place to be RV livin is the life for me...

:) So I saw kandjmom's dad today. Chatted with him for a bit. Sounds like they have some moving to do as well here pretty soon. They live in my home town...which I wonder if I'll move back there someday. Who knows? God does...

Well all sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

I'm already there...take a look around...I'm the sunshine in your hair..

Something about this laptop that makes me feel really cool. I'm kickin back in my bed typing away, clickin like I'm all that. I feel like I should be in a movie or be some kind of spy woman or something. I'm on some covert mission while my honey is snoozing away next to me.

So this RV is so stinkin cool!! I really like the stereo in the bedroom. Well it goes through the whole thing but we have it in our bedroom as well. I'm listenin to country music right now. Something about Pina Colada's...

Anyways today was just fabulous...Just a normal day. We got up, got ready drove to school. Came back, napped while daughter watched cartoons. Got up, ate lunch...then headed back to school. Went to park and played. Then went to Grandma's. Had a bible study. Left and headed to "home". Put kids to bed and kicked back with honey.

Now here I am laid back with the ol laptop. Yah mayn. Again...country music is sooo...hick. Billy's got his beer goggles on...NICE. So USA. Oh well. That's us I suppose.

Well that is all for tonight. Tomorrow night I'm watching the Narnia movie. During the day I'm hanging out relaxing while my man goes on a field trip to the Bonneville Dam with his class. Right on.

So over and out!! Peace out!!!
Me.

Long Days...

Since we've moved it seems we're going and going and going and there is always something to do. We're going from the moment we wake up until we go to bed and then when we go to bed there is more we can do...but we just save if for the next day. It's not big stuff either it's just the small little things.

Also my son's school is now 30 miles away. So we're driving a lot. It's not too bad but since it's half day I leave go home...stay for a bit and then head back. Gotta love it. I say that with a smile on my face.

Moving is always a bit stressful and I think you can tell we're all a bit stressed. My kids have been going to bed too late and waking up early. Therefore my son is very cranky and cries easily at night. My daughter has been sleeping a lot on our drives so she is catching up with her sleep a bit. Since they share a room going to sleep takes them longer with all their giggling back and forth and then in the morning my daughter wakes up crying really loud and usually wakes my son up. I'm sure we'll get back in the swing of things eventually.

My sleep and wake cycle is normal as always up late and up with the kids. My husband has been going to bed a little bit later than normal.

I just finished doctoring my dog. Put drops in his ears and cleaned his wrinkles...he no like it at all...He's resting now. Snoring away. Now that we live in the RV he no longer sleeps in his crate but at the foot of our bed. I like it that way. It's pretty cute. Now the crate just stays in our car for rides. He's our little buddy.

One thing that is fun about the RV park is we always have new neighbors. I haven't met any yet but my husband has. One family with four daughters were on their way to Disneyland. Then today he met a guy who knows a friend of ours and he travels a lot with his job and stays in an RV. Small world. It's really interesting.

So tomorrow is another busy day...I'm hoping to get laundry put away tomorrow...ha ha.

Have a good night to all.
Moi

Finally...I'm Back!

Well that didn't take too long. Right this moment I am typing from my bed on my oh so comfy mattress in the bedroom of my RV. My super duper husband brought my new little laptop home to me today. This blog is the first thing I did...well I checked my email and then came here.

Now I'm going to get myself caught up on things like reading some other blogs and some financial stuff.

But first before I'll that I'll update the world on RV life. So far it isn't too bad. It will definately take some adjustment. We're trying to get into a routine. We're trying to get used to this RV. The whole world of an RV is new to us. We've had no experience with one but we're learning. Nothing like jumping in the deep end and teaching yourself to swim.

We thought the heat to this thing was either/or gas or electric and it would use whatever it was hooked up to. We found out the hard way the other night that it's just gas. It ran out in the middle of the night. I was sooo cold and couldn't figure out what was going on. I got up and it was Off so I thought my dh had turned it off so I turned it back on...well then it never came on. So got up again and checked and it was off...I thought I must've turned it off in my tiredness. I turned it back on and cranked it up to 90. I jumped back in bed, curled up in my covers, and waited. It turned on and I waited to heat up. Then about a minute later it shut off...ARGH...so eventually we got it figured out.

So the 50 pound dog can't get up and down stairs so we have to lift him...and he just got an ear infection that we're treating. Also taking him out is a bit more of a chore now because when it's just me I have to take the kids with me and walk out to the dog area.

Wash will be in laundry facilities from here on out. Fun. Oh and dishes are by hand. Yipee!! But really it's all not that bad. I think it'll be fine once we get used to it and adjust.

Our kids really like it. They have a cute little room. And this RV park has a tiny playground. It'll have the pool open in May ... and ... yah. So. So that is really all for now. I'll write more later on it all.

Ciao,
Moi