Kisses for mommy

Rich and I were saying the other day that Cheyanne should have been born a baby kangaroo so that she could have lived in my pouch for the first 9 months of life. Surely that would have made EVERYONE'S life a bit more manageable.
Love,
Mama Kangaroo

Grapes Galore!

Food Lion has purple grapes on sale this week. I am sure my kids have eaten 4 pounds in the past 24 hours.

Lovely girls

Cheyanne and Isabella enjoying some play time while I got lunch ready.

DADDY TIME

Rich doesn't have a home bound student right now and it has been AWESOME!!! WE know it won't be awesome next month when that extra, much needed pay check isn't there, but right now...WE LOVE IT! He is home at about 5:00 and he is not wiped out. He plays games with us and reads to us and eats dinner with us and has tummy time with us (Cheyanne) and wrestles with us and WE LOVE IT!
Professional Goal #1: Find the job where God wants daddy and he will be happy...CHECK!
Professional Goal #2: Find ONE job where God wants daddy and he will be happy and there will be enough money to provide for a continually growing family and he can be home for dinner all of the time...PRAY and PRAY and PRAY!
I love watching my husband love our children and I love watching our children adore my husband.
Love,
Amy

Flowers, footballs, and FUN

We celebrated my 34th birthday yesterday. What a nice day. My dad sent me some beautiful flowers, a wonderful friend (who didn't even know it was my birthday) stopped by and dropped off a bouquet of tulips because I was on your heart, and my hubby made sure we ate yummy yummy ice cream cake and sang (CHA! CHA! CHA!). I won't say anything about the cake except...HERE WE GO, STEELERS, HERE WE GO!
Love,
Amy

Total, but quick rant

As I was filing pay stubs yesterday, a little slip of yellow paper fell out of one of the envelope's. This is what the paper reads. "Please note a new deduction on your pay statement for "Non-Participating Wellness." On the enrollment From, you selected "No, I elect not to participate in the Health Risk Appraisal Event." As a result, $60 will be deducted from your November pay for the months of September, October, and November. Starting with your December pay, the amount deducted will be $20 per month through August 2009." WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? HOW CAN YOU DO THAT? Breath, breath, breath.
Let me set the scene. At the beginning of the school year, Piedmont Comm. Health Care approached all of their paying health insurance clients informing them that there was going to be a Health Fair, where they would access how healthy you were. Bring your wife, bring you kids. This is the best thing you can do for your family. Blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol, immunization scheduling, or whatever test they could run that would tell you how healthy you are. And if you are not what they consider "healthy" you betcha your rates will go up next year. Rich and I decided that it was NOT the best thing for our family. Considering that our health insurance premiums run us $500 a month, you would think it would be OUR CHOICE not to participate. Well, yes, it was our choice... but we will pay. We will pay hundreds of extra dollars for making our CHOICE.
UGH! UGH! UGH!

Rich's Barber Shop

Rich has been our family's barber since the beginning. He cuts all of our children's hair and even mine. I love not having to pay $20 for a haircut that I do not like and avoiding the Beauty Shop gossip is always a plus, too. He does a fantastic job and the kids are so tickled with their new do's. Well, most of the kids. Dante's goal is to grow a pony tail as fast as he can. He does NOT want a trim, but he is starting to look like an orphan. Snip, snip, poor Dante.
We are blessed to have a daddy with a haircutting gift and it is a money saver, for sure.
Love,
Amy