But then, something happens in your life and you find yourself back where you started.  With your mom holding your head as you are sick from the shock, and sleeping in your bed because you just can’t be there alone, and being there every single minute for you.  And you think you get it.  You really do, until one day you are crying on the phone about all the horrible calls and financial straights and then they say it “Just move in with us”.

You are floored because your family is not the “huggy, kissy, say “I love you” all the time” type.  They didn’t profess their undying love every minute of every day of your life through sob stories of this that or the other, but they challenged you to be better.  They never told you “it’s okay” when it wasn’t and if you did something wrong they didn’t fail to chastise you.  At some point in your life you mistook that as them being harsh and maybe, at some points it was harsh, but it was all done in love.  And at that moment you realize it… these are parents, who would give up EVERYTHING for you and for your kids and do it with a JOYFUL heart.

Are you stunned yet?  Soon, we will move back in with my parents, and take over the house that they have worked all their lives to build.  We will invade the space that is inherently theirs and my children will fill their normally quiet walls with laughter, tears, screaming and all kinds of noise and my parents are HAPPY about it.  What kind of people are able to to so freely GIVE of themselves?  They may not have much in the way of monetary possessions but what they do have, they are willing to sacrifice, sell, and share with us.

(sorry… had to take a break to wipe my tears)

But then it gets better.  Your mom babysits your kids while you are gone to the doctor (for the 20th time) and she has to call you because she is SO tickled.  Ross has said something so adorable that she just HAD to tell you that minute and she realizes that she would give up ANYTHING to make sure she got those opportunities.  There is no amount of pride in her possessions or her house that would keep her from these little moments.

And then there is your Dad who seems to have this overwhelming sadness about him for a few days and you cannot figure out why.  Finally he manages to tell your mom that he is sad for YOU.  Not for himself because he is giving up his house but FOR YOU, because you have worked SO hard for this… life… house… studio and watching it all slip away pains him.  Because no matter what he is SO PROUD of you not for what you have done or earned but for WHO you are.  Proud that you are NOT too proud to move back in for the sake of your kids.  Proud that you would trust them (your parents) to be such a huge part of your life.

And you realize… you love these people more than you have word to tell.  You wish you could give them the world but you can’t because at this point you are doing all you can just to keep a roof over your kids’ head.  You realize just how privileged you are to have such loving parents who would sacrifice all this for YOU and you begin to fathom again the love of Christ.  The love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things… and NEVER FAILS.  That’s when you know that everything will be just fine.  You stop worrying and you start to get excited about all the ways in which your life is about to change.  You stop mourning your “stuff” and start rejoicing in the people who make your life what it is and you realize… your priorities are finally right where they should be.  Then you know, that these people who raised you, did a good job.  They instilled this same love in you and you know, without a doubt, that you love your kids to the end of the earth and back and that you would do anything for them.  You remember all the long nights in the hospital rooms and all the bills you had to pay on a credit card.  You remember living out of your car because you didn’t have the money to stay in a hotel while your child was in ICU.  You remember the loads of $900 a month formula and how it changed her life.  You remember all the ways in which this load of debt piled up on you and you realize that it was all worth it.  Selling your house… worth it.  Debt collectors calling… worth it.  Stress beyond measure… worth it.  Because you look over and there she is in her Cinderella dress with her feeding pump backpack on and she is playing with the Spongebob toys from Ross’ cake (which he deemed the best birthday ever) and you know… you did it for her… for them … for US and it wasn’t all that hard.  But you know also that your parents made the SAME sacrifice and you think of how great their love is and you are humbled beyond measure.

I am blessed.  We are blessed.Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• November 11, 2009 -- It can’t end this way….
• February 4, 2010 -- FOR SALE!!! 1804 Hopemont Court
• December 5, 2009 -- Believe….
• November 22, 2009 -- Making Peace…
• November 12, 2009 -- For God has NOT given us a spirit of fear…

Its official!  The house is on the market as of Monday.  Troy Todd, our fabulous Realtor, came and put the sign in the yard and I thought that it would be an emotional time but truthfully I am REALLY excited about the new ventures and possibilities in our life!  I know there will be many questions swirling throughout friends and family and I would just like to clear the air on some things:

So… where are we going once the house sells? We are moving in with my parents.  My parents are converting their garage into a garden home in the spring and for the time being their basement is being finished out into an apartment (we had done this once before but NOT like this time!  This time we are going drywall, recessed lighting, kitchen and all!)  We are hoping that timing coincides to be able to finish their home before we move in but it looks like God may have other plans…..

Why are we moving? Ah that is such a deep question.  For a variety of reasons but mostly because three years of stress on our finances, compounded by a deathly ill child, an affair, and a major remodel of the house has led our finances into a mess that will be hard to dig our way out of.  Every bit of “savings” that we have in the world went into renovating this house (and renovate we did! … pretty much everything from the studs up is new!) so we now find ourselves selling it to get our money back out of it.  We know though, that God is working out a way for us to be DEBT FREE, have a tiny bit of savings, and be rid of this house all at once!  Mostly though, we need help.  Having three kids is not easy for perfectly healthy families and we now have not one but TWO family members who are not well.  (Ky and myself.)  It is not fair to Troy to ask him to run a household, have a full time job, keep up the business (what little of it still exists) and take care of three kids full time.  Without this move, that is what the months after my surgery would entail for him because I will be nearly completely disabled.  I will not even be allowed to sit up straight for several weeks after the surgery.

Which brings us to “the surgery”. My neurosurgeon made it clear that he is going to try one more consult with a rheumatologist but after that I will have to stop putting off the surgery.  He told me to prepare to make peace with it so that at our next appointment (in 2 months) we would be ready to proceed with whatever path may need to happen.  I don’t know that I will ever be ready to decide on this but it will be a lot easier to proceed knowing that my kids are within walking distance of their school, there is someone at the house 24/7 and they will always have full bellies and a bath at night.

What made us decide to move in with my parents? They offered.  When I say offered.  They sincerely wanted to help and have decided to GIVE UP their bedroom, their house, their kitchen and everything so that our family unit can stay in tact and build something new for them.  I find myself in tears to know that my parents would be willing to make that kind of sacrifice.  This house, is the house that I grew up in.  My parents have owned this house for almost 26 years.  They have built everything in it… literally from the upstairs walls, roof, bathroom, to the kitchen cabinets.  Everything is the result of THEIR hard works, blood, sweat and tears.  For them to sacrifice that for ME and for my family… makes me know that I am the luckiest girl in the world!

Isn’t this house the “family” house? It may have been the place where Troy’s grandmother resided but it very much is OUR home.  This is the house we brought Kyleigh home from the hospital to, and the house that she nearly died in one day.  This is the house that we say a vision of, and made it come true with our own money and hard work.  This house was BOUGHT and paid for FROM the family so it truly does belong to us.  It is not something that was wholly “gifted” to us just as it was not “gifted” to Troy’s parents.  It was a part of an estate that was settled nearly 15 years ago now.  I would be more than happy to sell this house to any member of the family willing to buy it but for us… now… we must sell and for as close to asking (or more!  I am still believing for a bidding war!) so that we can pay off debt and move on with our lives. This house also holds a lot of BAD memories for us both and Troy has told me he has no idea how I have had the strength to stay here as long as I have.  Well… its not me, God has given me strength and grace to see this whole process through until now and HE will continue to be the WAY MAKER in all of our paths.

Will we buy a new house some day? Maybe… maybe not.  I have always wanted a family “compound” if you will.  It would be my ultimate dream to have us, the grandparents, my kids, their kids, and hopefully generations to come, all reside on one piece of property.  There is something so beautiful about a family being so close to their roots and having my kids hear stories about my grandfather (my dad’s dad) in the navy and about my grandmother’s “little house in the country”… I truly wish that Troy was able to tell our kids about his family but sadly he doesn’t know a lot about them.  It was something that was evidently never discussed in his family.  (I am sure that statement will piss someone off but I am done with it at this point.)  Maybe some research in the future will take care of that.  I want to sit down with scrapbooks of pictures of the great-grandparents and I want them to eat Sunday dinner with the great-grandparents who are still alive.  I want them to be able to say things like “My Pap would roll over in his grave if he knew…” because then I will KNOW that my kids really KNEW their grandparents and not just some “image” of what a grandparent should be.

Troy and I were working in the garage the other night.  Troy was trying to cut something on his chop saw and he looked at me and said “As Teddy Teater would say… this blade is as dull as my life”… I laughed and cried at the same time because it really hits me in the heart to know that my dad and Troy have the kind of relationship that my dad and my grandfather had (Pappy)…  because having a truly respectful relationship with your in laws is what is BEST for your kids.  That can’t always happen, as I am finding out, but when it CAN… its a beautiful thing.

Because like the Allstate commercial says…. I have realized that the size of my television is LESS important that the number of people gathered around it.  I want my kids to have such a rich sense of heritage that they KNOW and love all of these things.  I want them to crave this for their own families in the future.  I want them to always come home for Christmas because that is JUST WHAT YOU DO in our family.  If you NEVER tell your kids these things, they will never know.  Maybe its the fact that I have had to come to grips with the brevity of life, but I have become a person who wastes not ONE chance to tell my kids how much I love them.  I have and will continue to do EVERYTHING in my power to make their life “rich” and that is more meaningful than any CREDIT SCORE or bank account balance.  Because I know the MEASURE OF A MAN is NOT how tall he stands, how WEALTHY or INTELLIGENT he is..

So if you are still out there and haven’t ditched me after my LONG hiatuses… (lol) please join me in prayer.  God is already working a miracle!  We received an OFFER on our house the first day it was shown!  That offer is contingent and that makes us nervous.  We also, possible have 1-2 MORE offers in the fire that are trying to work out the details!!!!  God is good and He is working MIGHTILY in our lives right now.  I KNOW that after this is done we will stand and look back and KNOW that we are a people the Lord has blessed!  (Isaiah 61:9)!!!  (that also happens to be the scripture painted on my wall at the top of my stairs!)

My song inspiration of the day is: 4Him – Measure of a Man

This world can analize and size you up and throw you on the scales
They can I.Q. you and run you through
Their rigorous details
They can do their best to rate you
And they’ll place you on the charts
And then back it up with scientific smarts
But there’s more to what you’re worth
Than their human eyes can see
Oh, I say the measure of a man
Is not how tall you stand
How wealthy or intelligent you are
‘Cause I’ve found out the measure of a man
God knows and understands
For He looks inside to the bottom of your heart
And what’s in the heart defines
The measure of a man
Well, you can doubt your worth
And search for who you are
And where you stand
But God made you in His image
When He formed you in His hands
And He looks at you with mercy
And He sees you through His love
You’re His child and that will always be enough
For there’s more to what you’re worth
Than you could ever comprehend
Oh I say the measure of a man
Is not how tall you stand
How wealthy or intelligent you are
‘Cause I’ve found out the measure of a man
God knows and understands
For He looks inside
To the bottom of your heart
And what’s in the heart defines
The measure of a man
You can spend your life persuing physical perfection
There is so much more
More than ever meets the eye
For God looks through the surface
And He defines your worth by what is on the inside
I say the measure of a man
Is not how tall you stand
How wealthy or intelligent you are
‘Cause I’ve found out the measure of a man
God knows and understands
For He looks inside
To the bottom of your heart
And what’s in the heart defines
Oh, I say the measure of
The measure of a man
Is not how tall you stand,
How wealthy or intelligent you are
Oh, I’ve found the measure of a man
God knows and understands it
For He looks to the bottom of your heart
And what’s in the heart defines
Yeah, what’s in the heart defines
Yeah, what’s in the heart defines
The measure of a man
I know, I knowRecent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• December 16, 2009 -- What faith has done.
• May 10, 2009 -- Hold Fast – Mercy Me
• February 5, 2010 -- A parent’s love…
• December 14, 2009 -- Hide and Seek
• November 11, 2009 -- It can’t end this way….

Yes, Ky is now sporting a bit of a pixie look.  I was honestly ready to cut her hair anyhow but she hastened the process when she took two huge CHUNKS out of it herself with the surgical scissors from her bedroom drawer…  Why? One might ask, does one keep surgical scissors in a 3 year old’s room.  Well lets see… there was the ostomy and then the broviac and then… you get the point.  The scissors are kept on a LOCKED shelf about 3 feet ABOVE her changing table so she was houdini to even get them in her hands!

I was pretty upset when I first saw the carnage.  I panicked for a minute and then decided we had to find some way to straighten it out!

At any rate I found a little style that I thought I could cut around the damage she did and I think it turned out pretty cute!!!  What do you think???

She was obviously devastated by the hair carnage… or not.

Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• January 12, 2010 -- Coming Home!
• January 6, 2010 -- First SNOW!
• December 15, 2009 -- One Day closer…
• November 11, 2009 -- If only I were martha……..
• November 8, 2009 -- Christmas Card Preview!

This journey has led me to meet so many amazing people… in the blog world I have these “friend” who are truly strangers, yet your heart is drawn to people you have never met.  You don’t know why or how but you find yourself thinking of them, hoping with them, praying FOR them… and they become a blessing to you.  I know many of you have watched our life, in all its ups and downs, and have done the same for us.  I know that there are perfect strangers out there whom I do not even know your names who pray and bless us each day.

I would like to ask each of you to take a moment and pray for a few of our friends.  These are people whom God has really placed on my heart.

Eithene Rose is a darling little girl, who is just a few weeks younger than Kyleigh.  Her mom Jessica and I have been friends since we met online in an IA group.  Eithene and Kyleigh have seemed like soul sisters for so long and recently their family was given the news that Eithene does in fact have Mitochondrial disease.  I cannot imagine what a hard day it was for them because it was a day that downright SUCKED for me.  I sat in front of the computer sobbing.  I am crying right now.  Not that I don’t believe that God has them in His hands always but I look at Eithene and at Kyleigh and my heart hurts in ways I cannot begin to explain with words.

Whitney and her husband have been struggling with infertility.  On January 6 they found out that Whitney had miscarried.  Normally I skim through and its not that I am NOT sympathetic to infertility but its something hard for me to relate to.  But Whitney, it seems that every single post on her blog just rips my heart out.  Or makes my heart sing.  Why I am so attached to her, I don’t know but if you would find it in your heart to pray for her body to heal itself from this miscarriage and for God to dually bless her womb… I would be forever grateful.

The Sullivan Family – Sara (mom of this beautiful little group) was diagnosed with cancer while she was pregnant and went home less than a month after her beautiful baby girl was born on September 22, 2009.  Recently the autopsy concluded that it was NOT the cancer that claimed Sara’s life but a seizure which lead to cerebellar herniation (brainstem compression) which eventually made her body functions impossible.  This tears my heart into a million pieces … for all obvious reasons this scares the living daylights out of me…Now her husband, Brad, is raising their beautiful daughter Chloe by himself.  Please join me in praying for them!

There are so many more but today those are the three that my heart is really heavy for.  Also for the entire Nation of Haiti… I continue seeing news footage and I am glued to the television.. my heart is heavy for them also and praying that our country will be able to be a blessing to these people.  Seeing the PEACE on the streets as these people have NOTHING and nowhere to go yet spontaneous praise and worship services are breaking out.  What a testament to the power of faith.  I know that our Heavenly Father will not forsake that beautiful nation and will allow them to rebuild BETTER than they were before!Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• November 25, 2009 -- Do you believe in Miracles?
• November 7, 2009 -- Please pray for the Owens and Hilliard families.
• June 11, 2009 -- Say a quick prayer…

Get them while they last!

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$0.50/1 Pillsbury Sweet Rolls (doubles to a $1 here!)

$1/1 Cheerios Cereal (these big money ones are hard to find on a single box!)

$1/1 Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Trix, Cocoa Puffs or Lucky Charms

$1/1 Total Cereal (if you like that stuff!  LOL)

$2/2 Nabisco Crackers (this can be used on MANY different kinds of crackers!)

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** all of my links are FIREFOX compatible… if you are using IE… some links may not work**Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• January 3, 2010 -- January 3, 2010- RUN NOW and buy your coupons!
• November 15, 2009 -- Ten Commandments of Couponing!
• October 31, 2009 -- Carving and Couponing…
• October 27, 2009 -- Recession Payback… LOTS of great Coupons here!
• October 26, 2009 -- Do not be anxious about anything…

So by Saturday AM, Kyleigh wakes up puking her guts up, followed in suit by Ross, then Troy then me.  Luckily I really hadn’t eaten anything for a few days so there was not much there for me, but Troy was violently ill.  He said it was the closest he had ever come to calling 911.

By Saturday night it was apparent that Kyleigh was NOT going to make it through without intervention.  Even with pedialyte in her g-tube she was still dry as a bone and puking.  So, I did what I always do… called Joe.  Mom and Dad took Ky to the hospital and met Joe’s resident (whom he had already briefed on the situation) and I took off to Kroger to get the amazing, wonderful, awesome, beautiful ZOFRAN that Dr. Y called in for us!  Can I just tell you how incredibly thankful I am to have Drs on my speed dial?  I mean really God has BLESSED us with these doctors!

While I was gone, praying all the way that I could even MAKE IT, to Kroger and back, Troy was at home and he said good thing he had passed out because he might have had to call 911 otherwise.  Kyleigh was already gone with Mom and Dad, Owen was with me, and Ross was out cold after a day of being as sick as Troy… so we all took Zofran and went to bed!

I was able to get up Sunday morning and head to the hospital and felt much better.  I arrived just in time for rounds and Kyleigh already looked better!  Which, why wouldn’t she… I think Joe said that she had had 6 or 7 boluses of fluid by that time.  She was STILL barely peeing.  I, of course, was worried about the kidneys, and two hours later Kyleigh removed all doubt and FLOODED her bed, about 5 hours in a row!

All was well, Ky got to eat her B.R.A.T diet and Joe let us come home last night after she lost her IV.  Once again, thank God for him, one of his flock told our nurse that she needed to put the IV BACK IN!  I was like… hold the phone… I am calling Joe!  LOL

At any rate, it was another crazy weekend.  We are home now, Owen is back in school, Ky and Ross are downstairs playing, Troy is at work and I am here, doing what I do… blogging!  All is right with the world I guess!Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• August 28, 2009 -- Another few faves from Gulf Shores…
• October 31, 2009 -- Carving and Couponing…
• August 24, 2009 -- What the world needs is people who have come alive…
• January 6, 2010 -- First SNOW!
• November 22, 2009 -- Making Peace…

How do you FIND these deals?

While I like to think that I, in general, divinely inspired, my coupon deals (blessed as they may be) are not!  I most often repeat deals and scenarios that are found elsewhere.  I do, however, very often, recalculate the deals to fit our needs, but I still get the basis from elsewhere!

So… here’s my TOP TEN list of favorite blogs / sites to frequent to FIND THE DEALS!

#1 ) A Full Cup

#2 ) Money Saving Madness

#3 ) Bargain Briana

#4 ) Freebies for Mom

#5 ) Common Sense with Money

#6 ) The Krazy Coupon Lady (from Kansas City!)

#7 ) Cincinnati Cents

#8 ) Deal Seeking Mom

#9 ) Stretching a Buck

#10 ) I heart Wags

Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• November 15, 2009 -- Ten Commandments of Couponing!
• October 31, 2009 -- Carving and Couponing…
• January 5, 2010 -- New Year’s Resolution: ADD Magazines to your list of things NOT to pay for in the new year!
• December 30, 2009 -- Fabulous deal on Carter’s sleepers at Kohl’s
• December 29, 2009 -- Over the hills we go, stockpiling all the way!

Yes…. the first snow of the season!!!  It came EARLY this year!  Normally, its well into January before we see any kind of accumulation.  The kids were, of course, elated and DYING to go outside.  We obliged since it was 30 something (thus their poorly dressed status!)….

Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• January 12, 2010 -- Coming Home!
• November 8, 2009 -- Christmas Card Preview!
• October 31, 2009 -- Carving and Couponing…
• August 28, 2009 -- Another few faves from Gulf Shores…
• August 26, 2009 -- Wordless Wednesday

We, of course, are very proud!  Another achievement (or lack thereof) is the fact that Owen pulled his FIRST ticket in December!  Chloe managed to rat him out on that!  He is a real BOY now!  LOL  Heaven help us.  We were all taking bets on how long it would take… I honestly thought he might make it through the year.  Owen claims he was FRAMED and that what he pulled a ticket for was NOT his fault.  (rollseyes…) I had to laugh!Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• January 5, 2010 -- Santa Claus came to …. school?
• August 31, 2009 -- Sick… great! Here we go.
• August 12, 2009 -- Nine years ago today…
• January 12, 2010 -- Coming Home!
• January 6, 2010 -- First SNOW!

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Recent Comments:

• Danielle says What a wonderfully touching and meaningful post. Thanks for sharing from the depths of your heart! [more]
• Amber says Recia… that laundry shoot is still there!!!! My mom’s porch hasn’t changed much either – there are just MORE [more]
• Resh Rene` says How wonderful for you that you have parents who are so willing to share in your dream of a family [more]
• Heather Allen says That is so great! I am sure the stress off of your shoulders will help healing that much faster. [more]
• Diaper Cake says This is a great site, I love the theme you are using. I Stumbled it for you and bookmarked it [more]

• January 9, 2010 -- Top 10 Deal Finding / Coupon Sites
• December 30, 2009 -- Fabulous deal on Carter’s sleepers at Kohl’s
• December 29, 2009 -- Over the hills we go, stockpiling all the way!
• November 15, 2009 -- Ten Commandments of Couponing!
• November 9, 2009 -- HOT DEAL- FREE photo Christmas cards!!!