Puddle Jumping And Playing In The Rain

Mom At Home

It's easy to wonder if staying at home with your kids is truly important. Today I am reminded that it is. I am (as far as I know) the only stay at home mom in my neighborhood and where do you think the kids come to hang out? Yep, our house. Don't get me wrong, my son is a cool guy, and I know they like him, but I think it's more than that. I think it's the feeling of a "home" where people are actually living life together. The four teen boys that spend a substantial amount of time here, do not avoid me or the little ones. They seek out the kids to play with them and ask them how they are. They sit at the table and chat with me about their camping trips and school projects. They stay for lunch and wash up their dishes. They sit in the living room and just want to be a part of things. I enjoy their company but I feel a twinge of sadness for them. It's sad to know that their house is empty, sometimes late into the night, and they have no one looking out for them. It's sad that they can be here for 8 hours without anyone worrying. It's sad when a parent finally does come and ask me if I know where they are, at 11 at night.
 Society tells you that young people hate adults and want left alone but I can see the truth. Kids, even teens, want to be watched over and listened to; they want rules and hot food. Kids need someone at home to make it "home".

The Fourth Of July

My Beautiful Girl

My Babies

Favorite Recent Quotes and Questions From My Munchkins

Emma : " Mommy, when God says that you have to be born again to go to Heaven what does that mean? what does it mean to be born again?"

Emma: " If they (wildkrats and scientists) know so much about the worms and animals how can they not know about God making them? I just don't understand, how can they not know?"

Emma, after telling me that she argues with Isaiah "so much" and me asking her why." Because he's wrong so much."

Noah, I can't do it Mommy, I'm just a little guy."

Emma, while helping ,e make tea, "Isn't it amazing mom, that you can put the leaves of plants into water and it can make it taste so good? Aren't plants just amazing? Isn't God amazing for making us such wonderful plants? Isn't God so amazing?"

Noah, after I offered him cheese and crackers, " and chips mommy? Chips love cheese!"

Titus 2

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/opinion/the-whole-system-failed.html
"This case is not about an extraordinary death of an extraordinary person. Unfortunately, in America, people are lost to gun violence every day. Many of them look like Martin and have parents who presumably grieve for them. This case is about extraordinary inequality in the presumption of innocence and the application of justice: ..."

Facebook

Facebook is much more than it's name. On the surface it is a place where people show you the face that they want you to see, true or false.
In reality, it is a place to see the true face often hidden.
It is a place to see that the nice "Christian" guy down the street is a drunkard and having sex with various women.
It's the place where you find out that the Christian choir director is actually a homosexual.
It's where you find out that your nice relatives and friends are racist.
Facebook is where people,who would not say anything in person,can insult and slam anyone that uses food-stamps or needs help to get by in today's economy.
 It's a place where Christian women can pose in bikini's, or other scant attire, and have thousands of people looking at their nakedness, without feeling self conscious or shamed.
 Facebook is the place where the people that normally smile and hug you will cut you off and block you for speaking out against sin and compromise.
 It's a place where you can actually see who people actually do and do not like by the amount of interaction they have with each person.
 Facebook is a place where people literally mock and scorn people that they would be afraid to confront face to face.
 It's the place where you are "friends" with people that you know would not like you at all if they actually knew you.
 It's a place where broken hearted women can post so many smiling pictures and happy posts that no-one would ever know that they are hurting but still not feel like they're lying.
It's a place where young people use foul language and post pornographic pictures right in front of their own Grandmothers without shame.
 It's where you can see how absolutely shallow a persons heart and relationships really are when they keep photos of themselves kissing various people right on their wall.
 Facebook is the place where you can see that your neighbor is a witch, atheist or liar.
It's the place where "relationship status" can change over and over again but very few will point out how sick that really is.
 There are good things on Facebook too, like recipe exchanges, scriptures and good news. I often enjoy it because of the good things, as do many others. Unfortunately, as is true everywhere in this world, the bad often outweighs the good.