Cracker Barrel

Ok, so yesterday was my crazy red headed neighbor's (and very good friend of mine) birthday! I was obnoxious and wrote on her car windows with a white and blue window marker. Well I actually wrote on both of her cars in case she wanted to get out of driving the one with writing.. Well we had a MOPS meeting in the morning yesterday and we went to lunch at Cracker Barrel (one of my husband's favorite restaurants) afterwards. It was a yummy lunch! I tried calling my husband to let him know where I was. He doesn't get good signal in his office, and he didn't answer his work number. So I left a message on his cell phone. Good enough I thought.

Well we decided to go to Michael's (the craft store) afterwards to look at some crafty stuff and my friend gets a phone call... its my hubby calling from his work number. He asked to speak to me. The conversation went like this:

Me "Hello"

Him "Hi, where's your phone?"

Me "In the diaper bag in the car, why?"

Him "No it's not"

Me (thinking, how in the world do you know) "well then, where is it?"

Him "Cracker Barrel" (he hadn't listened to his voice mail yet)

Me "Oh, oops. How did you find that out."

Him "Well I was calling to say hello and see how your day is going, and some guy answered your phone. Then this guy continues to explain to me that my wife must have left her phone at the table while she was eating lunch (at my favorite restaurant without me)"

Me (laughing histerically in the middle of the store) "I'm sorry honey, I guess you didn't hear the voice mail I left you then?....."

Maybe you had to be there.. It must have been funny to see his face when he was more upset to hear that I ate at Cracker Barrel without him than he was that some strange man answered my cell phone. I picked up my phone today and the manager who spoke to my husband on the phone said, "oh YOU"RE the woman who left her pink phone here yesterday.." and brought me my cell phone with a funny expression on his face. I wonder if he could sense my husband's disappointment over the phone line.

Without further ado...

I guess I will finally sit down and write in my blog! I have been so crazy busy that it hasn't been at the top of my list of things to do.. But I am extremely tired today and I am trying to be lazy for a little while. I have less than 30 minutes before my oldest gets off the bus and the dinner rush begins and all sorts of craziness with homework and such. I am on my final load of laundry right now out of what seems to have been 80 loads. But who is going to come put it all away? My dear husband is away on some special officer field trip for the next few days.. Would it be wrong to leave it on the couch til then.. LOL! So much has happened since I last wrote 2 months ago.. I made a small list...

* WE MOVED to a beautiful new house on post! We love it! I do have a crazy red headed neighbor though... (hee hee, I love you Kristen)

* We got a dog! Her name is Chai.. She is one of the illegitamate puppy of the crazy red headed neighbor! She is a very sweet puppy, but not the brightest at the potty training thing.

* My 13 year old sister came up for a visit! It was very nice..

* Our church has Vacation Bible School. I was a teacher for 5th and 6th graders! It was a blast! ALOHA!

* MOPS started! I am the coordinator of our local MOPS group and we have been planning this year and it started last week.

* School started *PRAISE GOD!* Taylor entered 2nd grade and Shane goes to part-day Pre-K

* AWANA started a couple weeks ago and I am one of the T&T leaders for 3rd-6th grade girls (what am I thinking, there is a reason GOD gave me boys)

*My baby turned 6 months old and is doing very well. You would never know he was a preemie! He was 17 pounds and 27 1/2 inches long!

That is all I can think of off the top of my head right now. Like I said its been busy and I'm too tired to think of what else..

All I know is that I have learned that you really do squeeze in as much as possible in the summer months here because soon it will be winter and life will pretty much slow down to a rolling stop..

I feel absolutely blessed to be a part of the magnificient things going on in our church! God is so good and for the first time in my life, I feel like I am somewhere where I belong!

Thats all I got for now.. I will try to write again before 2 months goes by!