Unfortunate Events

Recently, we have experienced some racism directed at our family. Most recent has been a negative comment made on this blog. It is unfortunate to me that there are still such small minded and ignorant people out there. In a way, I appreciate the attacks now, as I'm sure they will give me insight in the future of how my kids feel after such words or actions are directed towards them.

To the person who commented on my blog:

I pray that you will one day understand how truly wrong you were to think and say what you did... I also pray that you will one day understand God's love and forgiveness. We forgive you, because we are sure that you do not understand what you are doing.

2 TIMES 2

Well, my babies are now officially two years old. It's hard to believe that they're getting so big! Today (at 2 years and 1 day old) they slept for the first time ever in a "big kid" bed. Although it took a lot of patience from mom, they really seemed to like the beds (toddler sized) and eventually fell asleep. It took 1 hour for Kayla to drift off, and 20 mins more for Matt. They didn't get up a million times like I thought they would, but they did have a good time jumping, and talking to each other (they couldn't really see each other when they were in their cribs).

I was always the kind of person that said I'd keep my kids in cribs as long as possible, but Kayla broke her arm about 6 months ago by jumping out of the crib and she has since learned how to unzip the crib tent which was preventing future jump attempts. So... it seemed like the time was right. Also Grandpa and Grandma W just bought them new toddler bed comforter sets for their birthday. I'll keep ya all posted about how this works out.

Well, that's about all that's going on here...

Do YOU understand?

"For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" Romans 7:18b

I received a great wake up call on Friday, and I've been dying to blog about it... but due to internet issues, and then Matt and Kayla's birthday party I couldn't. It's not much, deep or extremely theological, but I love the moments when I hear God clearly in my life... so I thought it was blogworthy.

On Friday, Matt was taking clothes out of the dresser while I was trying to get Kayla dressed. Not an extremely unusual event, but HIGHLY frustrating. With a resolution to attempt to actually yell at the kids much less, and discuss issues (at their level) more often, I sat him down to have a talk.

"Matt" I explained. "Mommy doesn't want you to take out the clothes, because it makes a mess, and takes a lot of time to put them away". At the time it was as basic as I could get. Really I wanted to dive into the fact that I have a bizillion (that two zillion, cause I have twins) things to do and the last thing I need is more...

I ended the conversation with a "Do you understand?” Matt looked at me with his big brown eyes and a very confused look and said "nope". I tried again, trying to show him the mess, and again asked "now do you understand" (he's quite smart, I was sure he had it)... Again, Matt said "no".

I was just about to get frustrated, and then God reminded me how many times He has done the same thing with me. Tried to tell me, and tried to show me my mess. My Heavenly Father has often needed to teach me the same lessons... again, and again, and again. And the thing is that with God talking to me, not only do I not understand sometimes, I often pretend to 'get it' only to do the same thing again- skipping the hard work of praying, reading the bible and being with God to figure it out. I know its part of human nature, to make repeated mistakes, but as Christians we're supposed to do our best to research, listen and obey God's commands and directions in our lives, so that we know and God knows that we truly understand. It is my prayer that I'll hear more of God's lessons, and try to apply them to my life, instead of shaking my head to understand, and then going about my business.

For now, I'm going to try to parent the best I can, and you'll probably find me from time to time explaining why clean clothes shouldn't be on the floor... now if I can just get the divine patience needed...

Posting so soon...

It is amazing, I'm actually getting to blog within a week of my last blog.

Well, the party arrangements for Matt and Kayla's birthday are coming along. I'm trying to work on menu's so I can pick up the stuff tonight or tomorrow. I also have a ton to clean-- I'm somewhat obsessive compulsive about people seeing my house in any order except perfect... however, being married and having kids is helping me to get over that need.

Hum, today is a Jacob day and Anna brought Keely over for a few hours so she could attend a work conference. My mom stopped by to help me with the kiddos, and Jacob ended up leaving early due to a possible allergic reaction (poor little guy-- he was so cute though!). All in all, the day's gone fairly well. Matt and Kayla are napping late (they were having far too much fun to nap earlier) and I'm trying to figure out if I should work out, clean up or take a nap... tough choice huh.

Well, since I don't have much more to say, I guess I'll be off.

"I see London..."

Well, as expected it’s taken me awhile to post again...

The new happenings around here are that Kayla is now wearing "big girl panty's" while at home. In fact, she likes her new panty's so much (she has Elmo, Dora, Sesame Street and Wiggles) that it’s difficult to keep her 'outerwear' on. Very cute though... we're working on the modesty, but extremely happy with the decrease in diaper expenses.

Other news, I've officially been a mom for over a year!... Crazy feeling, because it feels like Matt and Kayla have been with us forever, but at the same time this year has flown by. 1/11/05 will probably forever be one of my favorite days, and certainly we will always enjoy celebrating our "gotchya day". Now we're looking forward to celebrating our favorite twin's 2nd birthday. Scary fact, they could be applying for their permit in 12 years and 9 months...

Well, I've got a ton to do, so I'd best be off...

Later.