Because it is a shame that I have not let my readers know...

I can't believe that I have not updated my readers (both of them) on things of importance in our home. I know your finger must be blistered and tired from hitting the refresh button all those times in hopes of a news flash on the Salyards Blaaugh. So I aim to entertain you at this point with a list of things that have happened around here lately.

1. My parents came to visit at a time when I needed them both so much and didn't even know it. LittleMan had a pretty bad few days and it all seemed to have come to a head when the 6 of us ventured out for some flap jacks and chicks in a basket at Cracker Barrel. Who gets angry at Cracker Barrel? There's the fire place, those golf tee games, the pancakes, seasonal sweaters and rocking chairs, how could anyone get angry. But he did! Boy, did he! (This is such a big deal that I think it might even make my dad leave a comment.)
   
2. I had another wreck, this time the victim was a parked car. I'm thinking of putting a cow catcher on the front of the minivan. That wouldn't be ugly, would it? My parents were going to go home but I met them at HobbyLobby and shed a few tears and asked them to stay one more night because I was having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. And they said yes and my dad mixed me a drink in the back of his truck and my mom bought me something really nice! Those two, they are people that know what I need, when I need it! I do love them both so!
   
3. We painted our bedroom (last room of the house to get a change from "builder beige" which the house came with) and put our pretty bedding on our bed and hung our new drapes and I feel like a princess when I crawl into bed now - amazingly beautiful. (Thanks mom and dad for the bedding you gave us for Christmas and mirror - see above where my mom bought me something really nice).
4. Our floors are still not done, but we feel we are making great progress with the insurance company and the builder/tile/thin set people. Meanwhile, both children know that if a toy goes too far into the kitchen, they must stop and go put on shoes before venturing onto the broken up tiles that shift beneath their feet to retrieve said stray toy.
5. PrincessGirl has luck almost as good as her mom's if you call 2 wrecks in 6 weeks and getting the Chicken Pox twice after having the vaccine good luck.
6. Our pastor at our new church just started a series called "Dare to Love" and the kick off was the movie Fireproof. If you haven't seen it call me and I'll loan you our DVD (we bought it because we could not go to the church to watch it with everyone else because they frown on bringing your child to church child care with the Chicken Pox) because if you are married or know someone who is married, you oughta watch it.
7. PrincessGirl lost her first tooth. The tooth fairy brought her two "golden dollars" for the first tooth. I think the Tooth Fairy better take it easy cause I did some counting in PrincessGirl's mouth the other day and at that rate, the Tooth Fairy could drop $40 under PrincessGirl's pillow in the coming years. And to me, a worn out, bloody, tiny, little ol' tooth just doesn't seem like it is worth two golden dollars. But I shouldn't judge. I've been known to drop five golden dollars on a cup of coffee.
   
8. LittleMan is learning to be sweeter every day and we are reading about and praying about shaping his will without crushing it. Next time you see him, ask him to give you a "kiss so nice". It will warm your heart and make you smile.
   
9. I feel like God has put it on my heart to read the Bible all the way through. I am reading The NIV Chronological Bible. I intend to compose an entire post about this subject and want to keep you all (and by all, again, I mean both) updated on my progress.

That is all for now because sometimes I like to leave a list of 9 things just because you might be expecting 10 and guess what people? Every once in a while, we need to shake things up, that's what!

*Disclaimer for those of you that think it is fun to edit my posts: The run-on sentences in this post are there to incorporate the writing trait of voice. I believe it is clever and gets my rambling point across clearly when the run-on is used intentionally. Thank you and good night.