A Job Well Done

I'm finally at home. I have spent two and a half weeks cleaning at my moms. She has been having problems with her health and My bro and I decided to take a bottle of bleach and role up our sleves to see if there is anything in her house that's making her ill.
Well, To our surprise we found mold, lots and lots of mold. We cleaned out every room, including her basement and scrubbed till our knuckles were raw. I'm really concerned that what we did is not enough. Mold is so dangerous. I'll be looking into it a little more, but we did what we could.
My mom has kept every school project that us kids have ever made and kept every peace of furniture they have ever owned and now was ruined by this horrible stuff.
We filled two and a half dumpsters of junk.
Warning to all...
Don't be a pack rat, it only depreciates and could even greater your chances of getting sick. These things that you treasure only collect dust, and in this case, collect mold and could kill you.
Now that I've finished my moms house I feel the need to clean out my own house. Just get ride of the useless stuff and then I will prevent the day that Jadden will have to do a cleaning job on my home. I doubt that will happen, seeing I hate to collect, but I still have things. Extra dishes and towels, toys and bedding. Things like that. The less I have in my house, the less I have to clean around.

What's happening to our children?

Jadden just came home from school and told us that one of his friends was beat up by a group of kids during their lunch recess. I hear about it all the time, but I never thought that we would see it happening in our own school.
Four kids from grade five went after a fourth grader. What was up their butt?
I hope that the school put a stop to this real quick, or we will see this happening more often.

All I have running through my mind is prevention. Have I raised Jadden well enough that he would never do this, or even fall into the peer pressure of doing this. What do I need to do to prevent this? We have talked about this many times but I know that this gives me a chance to talk about bulling again, so I'll keep this short.

Fun Game

I found this on Louise's Blog, I love games like this. All you have to do is answer each question, every answer has to start with the same letter as the first letter in your name.
It's pretty cool. Once your done reading mine, copy and paste it to your own page so you can do it too...

What is your name...........................Candy
4 Letter word....................................Cash
Vehicle................................................Cadillac
City.....................................................Calgary
Boy Name...........................................Curt
Girl Name...........................................Chance
Alcoholic Drink...................................Cooler
Occupation..........................................Child care worker
Something you wear..........................Capri pants
Celebrity..............................................Colin Ferrel
Food......................................................Chocolate fondue
Something found in a bathroom........Calcium build up
Reason for being late...........................Couldn't find my key's
Cartoon Character..............................Clifford the big red dog
Something you shout..........................Can't you just clean up behind yourself?
Animal...................................................Cocker Spaniel
Body part..............................................Clitoris
Word to describe you...........................Cute (Sheldons own words)

Eli and Lucy

Aren't they the cutest things you've ever seen? I have fallen in love and out of love with them many times. They are great pups, but when you have five of them, they are a hand full. I only have two puppies left. Lucy and Eli. I am trying to potty train them, but when you have two they seem to influence each other too much. LOL... Well at least their paper trained.
I have them up for sale, but some day's I would love to keep them here at home. I think if I would do that, I would have to choose inbetween them and Sheldon. lol... Oh well.
If you know of anyone who wants a pup, You can send them my way.

Hockey Weekend

This weekend is all about hockey. Jadden had his first play-off game of the year and unfortunaly in over time, they lost their game. Tomorow we have another game and if they loose tomorow, their session will be over. The poor boy along with many other kids came off the ice in tears. It broke my heart.
I love watching him play. He has really found his passion in hockey this year and is really exciets me. He is doing great. I wish I could watch him play all year round.
We went to the Moose game this evening with his team and as always we had a hoot. I love the chance for Jadden to have so many friends and really find a place to connect with his dad. Thoughs two are crazy about hockey.
Love you Jadden, good luck on tomorows game.

Valentines day

Yesturday I got one of the best Valetines gifts in the world. Sheldon and I started a marriage course at our church. It was an amazing start. It's opened up a big can of worms, and I'm looking forward to today and this next week to work on areas of our marriage that we haven't thought to give attention. Sheldon is even exieted about this. Woohoo... I can't wait for next week to see what will be set infront of us then and the all the weeks to follow.
HAPPY VALETINES DAY GIRLS! I hope it's a great one for all of you.

Grow up

When life sucks, isn't it hard to look at the good that will come out of it in the end? And why is it so hard to give it all to God? The best life for me comes from God. Believing that every day is my biggest down fall.

In the month of January we had a seiries at church that really made me think twice about my life. The title was "GROW UP" Sounds brutle, and it was.

They spoke about how God wants submission and obedience before he wants our friendship. John 15:14. When I looked at my life after thoughs messages, I faced the lie and admitted that I didn't obey God in everything. I couldn't even give the friendship to God that I wanted with Him. I knew at that point that I had to quit my bad habits. I needed to be rescued. And there was only one way.

I feel so thankful that I have made time seek God every day. I am making the comitment to quit smoking and to throw all my self pitty away and let God take the pain away.

This brings me back to my situation of dealing with the loss that Sheldon and I can't have any more children. It took me 7 years to finaly give it to God. My marriage went through the wringer and I lost all my sanity. I couldn't beleive that anything good could come out of this. Because of that, I refused to hand it all over. I was waiting for God to give me a child. In my mind that would be the only good that could ever come out of this. I wanted the Blessing and I never looked at the realationship that I could have created with God at that time. I thought it was funny when our pastor said that some of us are more in love with God's Blessing then we are in love with Him. It's not really that funny, because it was so true in my life. It seems so rediculas to look at now, Why couldn't I just give it up. "Grow up"

I am so amazed at how strong God is and how our friendship has grown. He has given me the strenght to face every day. I now know that I need His strenght every moment of every day. I feel so much peace and joy in my fight to quit smoking, and I feel like I have learnt so much more. I have gained self control, I'm learning how to love myself and respect my body. I never feel alone. I am always in the presence of the Lord and He will help me through every moment.

I knew that I had to submit myself to God but I don't think I ever knew to what extent God wanted my comitment.

Ok Louise, This one's for you.
You asked me why I didn't write any more. Well here I go.
No, I haven't said much on my blog in the last couple of months. I ran out of things to say and I found other things to do. I really enjoyed writing on my blog and reading all of your posts. I found many times that I found great incouragment through reading your blogs and I thank you all for your inspiration.
I really didn't run out of things to say, because many things have happened since November. "November? Has it been that long?"
Anyways... Christmas was once again a blessing and a great time with family. I found myself complaining about all the gatherings that I had to attend and then was stoped in my tracks when I was reminded of all thoughs people who would have loved to have a family to share the holidays with. HMMmmmm.... something to ponder.
After the new year passed, "just barley" We took off to Cuba. We found a great couple, who I think I would go with again, and took off for a week. The great couple of course was Louise and her great husband Conrad. We shared many laughs "mostly at Sheldon" and enjoyed each others company in the hot hot sun. Woohoo...
Louise, I want to thank you for your great friendship. You are not only a great friend, but a super teacher. I have learnt so much from you and your honesty has given me insight for my own life as well. I know your a person who love's to get gifts, but you are also very good a giving us gifts. Your gifts are often in words of wisdom. You are a woman who is not afraid of sharing your faith with others. You could make an amazing insperational speeker. "You know if your looking for anything to do." lol
Thank you for your good looks, lol... and your super good "Sponge Coffee". LOL...
Thank you for your honesty and the effort you put into our relationship. (I think more people would give you credit for that) Thank you for your huge heart that never stops loving. You are a person to look up to. Cheers
Love you Leese...