Truth and Lies

Idea from Ashley's blog! So here goes: 8 truths and 2 lies, can you guess which ones are the lies?

1. My first car was a beautiful navy Chrystler Cordova.

2. I have been a Pampered Chef consultant for over six years.

3. I craved tapioca pudding and tuna fish sandwiches when I was pregnant.

4. In college I participated in throwing watermelons in the campus swimming pool.

5. My favorite quiet time activity is reading a good book.

6. My favorite weekend activity is going to the lake and water skiing.

7. I adore Barry Manilow and his music.

8. I have a secret crush on Tom Hanks.


Okay, quess away............

Five things I miss from my childhood!

Jetty Betty has tagged me so here goes:

Five things I miss from my childhood:

1) My best friend Amy! We would run around our neighborhood barefoot with no cares in the world! Building Barbie houses out of the stereo, making grasshopper homes from grass, jumping on the neighbors trampoline, and riding our banana seat bikes!!!!!!

2) Heading off to Camp Ponderosa! Every summer we would pack up the bus and head to Colorado for camp! Mountains, creeks, campfires, cabins, and boys! Oh, the memories!

3) Late night trips to Albertson's or Dunkin Donuts with my dad! He would let us buy whatever we wanted: candy, chips, soda ,cookies, and lot's and lot's of donuts!!!!!

4) Visiting Oma (my grandmother) in Union, New Jersey! The sights and smells of her home are unforgetable. The green shutters on the window. The coo coo clock chiming every hour. Walking up the creeking stairs. Waking up to the smell of fresh bagels and coffee and Mom and Oma talking in the kitchen! Eating off the current bushes in the backyard. Playing ping pong in the basement! Walking to the market and the butcher! Bus trips into New York City. I could go on and on and on.....

5) Cooking dinner for my family with recipes from my Nancy Drew Cookbook! I loved that cookbook - I hope someone kept that!

I am tagging the following people:

Ashley
Saija
Lori

A challenge for you!

Go to my other blog the runner inside of me to see my challenge for all of you! Women of all size, shapes, and ages take part in this every year! Anyone can do it! Trust me! And it is definitely worth it!

What happened to my babies?

Two weeks ago my precious baby boy turned thirteen! I remember just yesterday gazing up at him from the hospital bed. The memory is permanently etched in my brain. The first time our eyes met. His first glance at this strange world and the only voice he knew whispering "Hello, my sweet baby boy." His big brown innocent eyes trying to focus on me. I felt at that instant an overwhelming surge of love, joy , happiness and fear come over me! Yes - FEAR! I was now responsible for loving, protecting, and nurturing this precious child.

Well, thirteen years later and with the priceless help of his father I must say we have done something right! Oh yes, we have made lot's of mistakes in the parenting game. With mistakes comes learning, right? At this moment I feel confident that K will grow to be a God loving, responsible, and successful adult.

I know, he just began the teenage years........ oh, what lies ahead? I have been told that after your child goes through these years you will not be sad to let them go out in the world on their own! I'm not too sure about that!

My other precious son is celebrating his 10th birthday today! Oh what a ten years that has been! Lot's of laughter and tears raising L! Thankfully we have a few years to prepare for those dreaded teenage years with him! I trust God has special plans for his adulthood!

I love my children, as you love yours, with all my heart and soul!

Can we even imagine how much Our Heavenly Father loves us?

I'm Back............

Whew..... the last four weeks have been a blur...... It's a very long story and I hope to share some of the details with you over the next few weeks. I will just say God is definitely working in my family! Whew!

I just returned from Centri-Kid Camp in San Marcos, Texas! My church took 37 third, fourth, and fifth graders for a week! It is incredible! It is my second year to be a counselor. I absolutely love it because I get to spend five days with sweet, loveable, hugable, precious girls!!!! What a treat. I love every minute of it! Well, I hope to tell you more later as well.

I am glad to be blogging again! I hope you are all doing well!

Below I have posted a picture of our house being built! Oooooo - seeing if finally going up is very exciting!

Glad to be back!!!!!!

Do you like our tree?