Where Does God Live?

I was reading a few of the books tonight that  I checked out from the library the other day.  One of the books is called "Where Does God Live?" written by Holly Bea  and Illustrated by Kim Howard.  I LOVE IT!

It is a very beautiful book and I highly recommend all my friends checking it out if you can.  (the library will eventually have it back when I return it...I really like it so i may keep it as long as I can :-)  It's about a little girl who asks a lot of questions and she asks her mom one day where God lives and her mom says that "he lives in heaven, way up in the sky."  So the little girl tries to figure out where heaven is because she has never seen it in the sky.  So she goes and asks her animal friends and each animal friend believes that because everything around them is so beautiful that God must live right there with them where they live.  So the girl ends up asking her Grandma and her Grandma tells her how God lives in everything, and everyone. 

Here's my favorite part of Grandma's answer:

"God lives in the frogs and the birds and in you.

When you're looking for God, it's easy to do.

God lives in all things that you see, hear, or touch.

God lives in all people. God's in each one of us.

And when you meet people who are loving and good,

They're letting God out, just as everyone could.

And if you meet people who seem hateful or bad,

They've forgotten God's here, and that makes God sad."

I am definitely putting this book on my Books-To-Buy list. I highly recommend it to all my mommy friends and if you read it please let me know what you think of it.  God definitely knew I needed this book right now though and I am so thankful I read it with the boys tonight.  So heart warming and filling.

Feelin Good....

Okay so first off......Baby Madison got to go home late yesterday.  So that is a huge praise!!!!

Ok so on to me....so far this week I have lost 2lbs.....I think mostly water weight since I started flushing my system with water and tea and not drinking coffee daily, but none the less I have seen a loss on the scale and am feeling good.  I went to boxercise tonight again.  I love it!  I dread going just cuz I don't have the energy but once I get there and start going I enjoy it so much and especially the feeling afterwards. 


I tried a new recipe today for lunch and it was pretty good.  It was a La Tortilla Factory Tortilla, FF Cream Cheese, Turkey lunch meat, cucumber, tomato, lettuce and onion (3pts total).  It was really good.  Next time I will probably leave out the onion because it was kinda overpowering.  Brad had turkey, lettuce, tomato and onion on a sandwich thin (2pts total) and said it was delicious.  We so far really like the sandwich thins and even if you aren't on a diet they are tasty and make great sandwiches and burgers because there isn't a ton of bun/bread that overpowers the food. 


Anyway enough babbling.  That's all I have for tonight.  Hope you all find yourselves and your families happy and healthy.  

Sports

So excited!!!!  We signed Cameron up for TBall for this spring. 

We were gonna do soccer but then my mom reminded me about tball so we looked into the registration and it is still open and the same cost as soccer so we gave Cameron the choice and he decided to give TBall a try.  I am actually really excited.  I think he will like it and he still plans on playing soccer just not till fall so now he has a spring sport and a fall sport.  Plus I can't wait to see him in those cute baseball uniforms. LOL 

So anyway, I will post a game schedule as soon as I get one but the season doesn't start till April 5th so it will probably be late March before I know what team he is on and when his games are. Hopefully some of our friends and family will attend his games and cheer his team on.

 We got him a mitt and ball yesterday and are going shopping for a bat and some more balls so that we can take him down to Morris park (it's only a couple blocks from our house which is really nice) and start working on him so he knows a little bit once he starts practices.  I figure there will most likely be quite a few kids on his team that have played already so I want Cameron to know something so he doesn't get frustrated.  I researched drills that coaches do with the kids and the skills they work on so we plan to go down to the park on the weekends and work on some of the skills and start running the bases so he can learn the bases and start getting used to running since it sounds like they run at every practice. 

Anyway, just wanted to share my enthusiasm.  Makes me want spring to get here that much sooner. Bring on the sunshine!!!!!

Melt my heart.....

So the writing station at Cameron's class today was to write about Bad/Sad News......

In case you can't read it...." I had a bad dream and it was scary it was with my gramma and with my grampa was in it."

He's doing really good at phonetically sounding out words other than his slang pronunciations...lol. and he's doing really good on his spacing so that you can tell there are separate words.

So i thought that was cute.  Didn't really ask him what the dream was about because the next page made me choke back the tears.  Amazing what kids remember and think about.  For those of you who read this regularly you will remember that my Uncle Hal passed away in September.  Cameron has mentioned him a couple times and more so in the last week or so then he has since September.  So here's the picture that made me cry.....

I didn't include the writing part because it is partially erased and very hard to read and scanned in even worse but I am pretty sure you can tell that this is a grave with a headstone for Uncle Hal.

Oh my goodness!  I left his room after he confirmed what i thought it was and just sat in a chair and cried.  Out of all the sad things that have happened to him in the past year or so (getting rid of our pets, moving away from nene, etc.)  he chooses to write about Uncle Hal.  It warmed my heart to know that he remembers him and misses him but then it melts it knowing that he is sad because he knows that Uncle Hal died and went to heaven.  The other day he told me he saw a rainbow and wished on it that Uncle Hal could come back alive.  Where does he come up with these things?????  I love him to death but it breaks my heart to know that he thinks of such sad things.  But I know he is old enough now to understand what happened and it makes me smile to know that Uncle Hal will not be forgotten.

And just to clarify, this is the first time I have seen a Bad/Sad News writing come home so this not an often thing thank goodness.  It varies in subjects such as sports, Happy/Exciting news, animals, school, etc.  Last Thursday he wrote about how it was baby Kayleigh's birthday and that she was gonna be one and that uncle Brandon and Aunt Jessica were gonna be there.  So it's not all sad but this one struck me and I needed to share it with my closest friends who have kids and can understand why it pulled at my heart strings.

coupon trip

Ok so i don't have time for details but lets just say I did a coupon trip from krazy lady and wow definately understand the coupon high now.  Spent $30 and saved $57 plus got 8.50 in coupons to use on my next trip.  WOOT WOOT!  Photos and details will be posted soon i promise.  LOL

Begging for coupons

So if anyone has any extra of these coupons i would love to take them off your hands....LOL

They are some of the sales at albertsons and things I would really like to stock up on along with if you have any genral mills coupons for the cereals.  The boys go through cereal pretty quickly so if I could get coupons and stock up on cereal i would be very happy.  So let me know...i know it's short notice but we no longer have johnny's income so now money is gonna be even tighter and i need all the savings I can get.  Although i did order ink for my printer so hopefully soon I won't have to beg like this it just won't be here in time for these sales. :-)
$0.50/2 – Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot, Gushers – (coupons.com)

$1.00/2 – Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot, Gushers – (bettycrocker.com)
$0.50/1 from GM 1/3

$1.00/1 – Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters – (coupons.com)

$1.00/1 – Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters – (bettycrocker.com)

$0.50/1 from GM 1/3

Zumba

So we signed up at the YMCA so that we can workout but also go swimming as a family.  Sunday we went swimming and that was really fun.  Then Tuesday I did a tai chi class which was nice but not sure my focus is there.  Wednesday i did a Pilate's/yoga class and that was really nice and I am definitely feeling my abs from it.  Then tonight I did Zumba and oh my goodness it was so fun and a really good workout and I am sure I will be feeling it tomorrow.  I love how good I feel and it was such a blast. 

I need to get some different workout gear though.  I got really hot for one in what i was wearing but it also allows a little too much jiggle of the belly and boobies. LOL  So my plan is to get a workout tank that will help hold in my belly a bit and then wear a sports bra under that and then a tank over the top of both to hide the bulge. LOL  I also will eventually have to get a new pair of shoes as I need something with better arch support so my foot doesn't hurt so bad and my toes don't go numb. I know I need alot and have no money to get it but I have a list and will work at getting one thing at a time as the budget allows. 

Anyway the point of my post is that if you get a chance to try Zumba I think you would get hooked.  I know I want Tuesday to get here soon so I can go again. :-)  Alright well that's all i have so goodnight.

P.S. Is there no spellcheck on this new version???