Lonley
Aggravated
Inconsolable
Dumbfounded
Out of sorts
Frustrated
Forlorn
all of those are feelings i have felt since last thursday
it was the day that my precious flake
was laid off after the company was no longer financially able to continue existing.
:/
what does this mean for us now?
good question!
where do we go from here?
good question!
will he move home from texas?
good question!
at this point, we don't know
we do know that god is good,
and we will remain faithful
we are praying a lot
and need you to pray with us!
thanks!!
Showing posts with label texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label texas. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
traveler.....
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
LF is a good traveler through and through
he loves to go
and he could care less where he goes
that is....
as long as he gets his picture taken!!
so.....
as you know
LF and i have been traveling
we stopped to see the bfarrs
and LF was almost as excited to see them as they were to see him....
and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
LF is a good traveler through and through
he loves to go
and he could care less where he goes
that is....
as long as he gets his picture taken!!
so.....
as you know
LF and i have been traveling
we stopped to see the bfarrs
and LF was almost as excited to see them as they were to see him....
but probably not as excited as i was to see them!
and then we headed to see mason and the other m's
to help mason celebrate his first birthday!
mason and uncle LF had a blast together.
mason showed uncle LF how to open a birthday present....
mason showed uncle LF how to dance....
mason showed uncle LF who gives
some of the best hugs and kisses....
and mason showed uncle LF that getting
your hands icky sticky isn't that bad.....
after mason's birthday party, LF stayed for a short visit
while i headed to texas to see the real FLAKE!!!
:)
it was so good to see him,
but as you can imagine,
it was super hard to leave!
(but atleast i had a nice new necklace to make it a little easier!)
but,
now i'm home,
hanging out with
the most precious puppy around
and catching up on lots of blog reading!!
Monday, July 6, 2009
strange
who would have thought....
that the airport could make me so happy one day
and only a few days later,
make me feel so sad and empty.....
strange, huh?
my flake left again today
to go back to texas
it broke my heart to watch him walk away from me
not that i would have expected any different
but still
it made my heart hurt so much more
when this song started as soon as i started to drive away
boo for feeling sad!
so by the time i got home
i decided i was done with being sad
(as you can imagine it didn't work all that well)
i spent time finding things to keep me busy, occupied, and happy
i looking at pictures from the time we had together over the weekend
i enjoyed thinking about all the fun we had
with each other, friends, and family
but when i was done....
it was still the same....
i miss him, a lot!
:/
i guess i should be thankful that
i have this
to keep me company....
umm...
well,
i said i should be!
that the airport could make me so happy one day
and only a few days later,
make me feel so sad and empty.....
strange, huh?
my flake left again today
to go back to texas
it broke my heart to watch him walk away from me
not that i would have expected any different
but still
it made my heart hurt so much more
when this song started as soon as i started to drive away
boo for feeling sad!
so by the time i got home
i decided i was done with being sad
(as you can imagine it didn't work all that well)
i spent time finding things to keep me busy, occupied, and happy
i looking at pictures from the time we had together over the weekend
i enjoyed thinking about all the fun we had
with each other, friends, and family
but when i was done....
it was still the same....
i miss him, a lot!
:/
i guess i should be thankful that
i have this
to keep me company....
umm...
well,
i said i should be!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
bigger in texas
i'm sure you have heard the saying
everything is bigger in texas
i'm not so sure i believe that statement
after seeing the trees and deer while i was in texas
but i can say, without a doubt
that somethings are bigger in texas
i'm quite sure this is the biggest leprechaun that texas has ever seen
:)
everything is bigger in texas
i'm not so sure i believe that statement
after seeing the trees and deer while i was in texas
but i can say, without a doubt
that somethings are bigger in texas
i'm quite sure this is the biggest leprechaun that texas has ever seen
:)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
and days go by
And days go by
I can feel 'em flyin'
Like a hand out the window in the wind.
The cars go by...
Yeah it's all we've been given,
So you better start livin' right now
'Cause days go by...
*Days go by--Keith Urban
and the days certainly have gone by
since the last time i posted...
on wednesday
my little friends and i went to a play
in a big kid class (aka second grade)
the big kids had worked really hard
on learning their lines
making costumes
and props
and background for their own production of
jack and the beanstalk
my little friends had the most fun watching the big kids
act out the story of jack and those magic beans.
after school, i went and got my hair cut
not a big deal to most people...but for some strange reason i just don't like getting my hair cut
but when i got home and little flake approved....
i was excited about my new cut!
on thursday....
my little friends had field day...
i was totally excited
i love field day
we all had matching shirts....
and we were ready to go
we talked about our expectations for the day
and we talked about all the fun we were going to have
the day was so very nice
overcast and cool
which made for being outside so very nice....
16 stations full of fun and enjoyment
we started at station 12
and made our way around
when we got to station 14
one of my little friends made a not so nice choice...
he decided to choke a friend
leaving me to think
really?!?! did i just see that with my eyes?!?!
sad...but true...
i asked him what his punishment should be...
he said
"be done with fun"
and that is exactly what he did
so there he sat...being done with the fun.....sitting beside me (also having no fun), and watching the rest of our friends enjoy field day
that was....until we got around to station 9
and all my little friends lost it
seriously....
for some reason my entire class got in a fight over a ball...
and that is when i decided my little friends were done
my assistant and i marched all our friends around the track and back inside.
and we rested our bodies until we could make good choices again
oh choices
after school....i got to go out to dinner with some great friends and celebrate the end of the school year! yay!!
on friday
some school friends and i met for breakfast at ihop before our last day. one of our friends was moving....so we needed one more time out with her before she left :(
then we had the joy of going to school
one more time
and my little friends had the joy of being kindergartners .... one more time...
this day was exciting in so many ways
but most of all
because mr. caterpillar
the one who my little friends have watched grow and learn each and every school day
went from simply a caterpillar
to a big beautiful butterfly
each day we have added a number to mr. caterpillar
and watched him make his way around our room
we used mr. caterpillar for so many things when it came to learning
he helped us learn our numbers
he helped us learn about patterns
he helped us learn to skip count (by 2's and 5's and 10's)
he helped us learn about how living creatures change and grow
we just love mr. caterpillar....
but my little friends loved his new form just as much!
we were all so excited to see mr. caterpillar become mr. butterfly
that we had to show our friends from next door too
they were super excited too!!
after mr. caterpillar became mr. butterfly
my little friends helped to take all the tape off of mr. caterpillar
and then we put his numbers in order from 1 to 180
fun for them
help for me
....all of us benefited from the activity!
after all our fun with mr. caterpillar,
we had a lot of fun playing outside
and eating ice cream
and just taking in our last moments as kindergartners
and as soon as the bell rang....
the kids
and their teacher
were OUT THE DOOR!!!
after school, i met one of my bestest friends for dinner, who also is a teacher, and we had a blast talking all about how our year had gone, and how thankful we were that the year was over :)
yay for dinner and friends!
on saturday morning
i headed to the airpot (at 4:05 am)
to fly to texas to see flake
it was so exciting to see his precious face!!
we had lot of fun on saturday driving around his new home town
looking at new things
and just talking
and being together
:) i sure had missed him!
on sunday we got up....looking for something to do
a little too late to find a church
so we decided to rent a jetski and head out on the lake
we had so much fun
the best part for me was seeing the cows by and in the water
i have never seen a cow even close to water....
so i just couldn't get enough of how cute they were in the water
flake couldn't get enough of the real estate on the lake
neither of us could get enough of being together
and just having a blast!
i also got the joy of meeting his landlord
all i can say is that he is an interesting man
and by interesting i mean
annoying and weird
but .... to each their own
on the way home from dinner.....
we saw an armadillo
flake had been told that he would never see one alive in texas....
and i made it my mission to find one alive....
and was so super excited that we found one only days after he moved down!
:)
sadly....i didn't have my camera with me
and have no proof....other than we both saw it
on monday
flake had to go to work
which didn't make me all to happy
being that i was left to find something to do
i did have a job of finding him a cleaners
and meeting him for lunch
i did both of those things
as well as explored around his new town
i didn't find very much that was exciting to tell him about
not for lack of trying
but for lack of exciting things to show him
it makes me a little sad
that he has moved to a place that has no target or radio stations....
but i too will adapt
(right?!?!)
after he got off work, we had another great night of being together....
we went out to eat and went and looked at the cutest little house
and when we got back to his new home
i got my stuff together to leave the next day
:/
on tuesday
i took flake to work
and went back to his new home
and got ready very slowly (aka i texted with a few friends for about two hours, before i got ready)
after getting ready, i headed to the store and printed a picture for flake
to keep on his desk
and then i went to his work.
i met all the great people that he is working with,
and then hung out with him until it was time to leave for the airport
my heart broke a little when he dropped me off, and then headed to a meeting he had scheduled in austin
but
i had plenty of time (while waiting for my delayed flight) to think about how lucky i was to have spent such a great weekend with him
and that i will again see him in only two weeks
and that these days are flying by
like a hand out the window in the wind
:)
I can feel 'em flyin'
Like a hand out the window in the wind.
The cars go by...
Yeah it's all we've been given,
So you better start livin' right now
'Cause days go by...
*Days go by--Keith Urban
and the days certainly have gone by
since the last time i posted...
on wednesday
my little friends and i went to a play
in a big kid class (aka second grade)
the big kids had worked really hard
on learning their lines
making costumes
and props
and background for their own production of
jack and the beanstalk
my little friends had the most fun watching the big kids
act out the story of jack and those magic beans.
after school, i went and got my hair cut
not a big deal to most people...but for some strange reason i just don't like getting my hair cut
but when i got home and little flake approved....
i was excited about my new cut!
on thursday....
my little friends had field day...
i was totally excited
i love field day
we all had matching shirts....
and we were ready to go
we talked about our expectations for the day
and we talked about all the fun we were going to have
the day was so very nice
overcast and cool
which made for being outside so very nice....
16 stations full of fun and enjoyment
we started at station 12
and made our way around
when we got to station 14
one of my little friends made a not so nice choice...
he decided to choke a friend
leaving me to think
really?!?! did i just see that with my eyes?!?!
sad...but true...
i asked him what his punishment should be...
he said
"be done with fun"
and that is exactly what he did
so there he sat...being done with the fun.....sitting beside me (also having no fun), and watching the rest of our friends enjoy field day
that was....until we got around to station 9
and all my little friends lost it
seriously....
for some reason my entire class got in a fight over a ball...
and that is when i decided my little friends were done
my assistant and i marched all our friends around the track and back inside.
and we rested our bodies until we could make good choices again
oh choices
after school....i got to go out to dinner with some great friends and celebrate the end of the school year! yay!!
on friday
some school friends and i met for breakfast at ihop before our last day. one of our friends was moving....so we needed one more time out with her before she left :(
then we had the joy of going to school
one more time
and my little friends had the joy of being kindergartners .... one more time...
this day was exciting in so many ways
but most of all
because mr. caterpillar
the one who my little friends have watched grow and learn each and every school day
went from simply a caterpillar
to a big beautiful butterfly
each day we have added a number to mr. caterpillar
and watched him make his way around our room
we used mr. caterpillar for so many things when it came to learning
he helped us learn our numbers
he helped us learn about patterns
he helped us learn to skip count (by 2's and 5's and 10's)
he helped us learn about how living creatures change and grow
we just love mr. caterpillar....
but my little friends loved his new form just as much!
we were all so excited to see mr. caterpillar become mr. butterfly
that we had to show our friends from next door too
they were super excited too!!
after mr. caterpillar became mr. butterfly
my little friends helped to take all the tape off of mr. caterpillar
and then we put his numbers in order from 1 to 180
fun for them
help for me
....all of us benefited from the activity!
after all our fun with mr. caterpillar,
we had a lot of fun playing outside
and eating ice cream
and just taking in our last moments as kindergartners
and as soon as the bell rang....
the kids
and their teacher
were OUT THE DOOR!!!
after school, i met one of my bestest friends for dinner, who also is a teacher, and we had a blast talking all about how our year had gone, and how thankful we were that the year was over :)
yay for dinner and friends!
on saturday morning
i headed to the airpot (at 4:05 am)
to fly to texas to see flake
it was so exciting to see his precious face!!
we had lot of fun on saturday driving around his new home town
looking at new things
and just talking
and being together
:) i sure had missed him!
on sunday we got up....looking for something to do
a little too late to find a church
so we decided to rent a jetski and head out on the lake
we had so much fun
the best part for me was seeing the cows by and in the water
i have never seen a cow even close to water....
so i just couldn't get enough of how cute they were in the water
flake couldn't get enough of the real estate on the lake
neither of us could get enough of being together
and just having a blast!
i also got the joy of meeting his landlord
all i can say is that he is an interesting man
and by interesting i mean
annoying and weird
but .... to each their own
on the way home from dinner.....
we saw an armadillo
flake had been told that he would never see one alive in texas....
and i made it my mission to find one alive....
and was so super excited that we found one only days after he moved down!
:)
sadly....i didn't have my camera with me
and have no proof....other than we both saw it
on monday
flake had to go to work
which didn't make me all to happy
being that i was left to find something to do
i did have a job of finding him a cleaners
and meeting him for lunch
i did both of those things
as well as explored around his new town
i didn't find very much that was exciting to tell him about
not for lack of trying
but for lack of exciting things to show him
it makes me a little sad
that he has moved to a place that has no target or radio stations....
but i too will adapt
(right?!?!)
after he got off work, we had another great night of being together....
we went out to eat and went and looked at the cutest little house
and when we got back to his new home
i got my stuff together to leave the next day
:/
on tuesday
i took flake to work
and went back to his new home
and got ready very slowly (aka i texted with a few friends for about two hours, before i got ready)
after getting ready, i headed to the store and printed a picture for flake
to keep on his desk
and then i went to his work.
i met all the great people that he is working with,
and then hung out with him until it was time to leave for the airport
my heart broke a little when he dropped me off, and then headed to a meeting he had scheduled in austin
but
i had plenty of time (while waiting for my delayed flight) to think about how lucky i was to have spent such a great weekend with him
and that i will again see him in only two weeks
and that these days are flying by
like a hand out the window in the wind
:)
Monday, June 1, 2009
bad and good
the bad news
so....
its official
my flake left this morning
he got a call on friday afternoon that changed his plans
which allowed him to stay here until this morning
which i am ever so grateful for
but it sure was hard to let him go
and you can imagine
my breakfast wasn't as sweet
without my cornflake!
:/
he is heading to pittsburgh
and then after some work there
he will officially head to texas....
so for the next week or so,
his life will continue to be up in the air
god bless his heart
(and mine too)
the good news
so these are the things making me smile today....
i got to see flake for two days more than i was supposed to!!
i got to kiss flake good morning one more time before he left!!!
only 9 more school days
diesel is spending time with her grandparents (flake's parents)
and enjoying herself and all her outside time
going to see church at my daddy's church yesterday, and getting to see my parents
then...dinner with flake's parents and grandmother
:) it was a great day!!
my little friends at school are ecstatic about mr. caterpillar becoming a butterfly
(i've got pictures coming of mr. caterpillar, and his cocoon.....)
my bulletin boards at school look SOOOOO good, thanks to flake's mom....
and yes mrs. g, they noticed!!! :)
my new laptop (from my sweet flake) is super duper exciting!!!
i found (and bought)crocs....in my size, and color.....even though the croc company has stopped making the kind i like :) yay!!
and....if all goes well, i get to see flake in 11 more days!! :)
(and how could i forget....spell check....without it, this post would be really sad!!!)
so....
its official
my flake left this morning
he got a call on friday afternoon that changed his plans
which allowed him to stay here until this morning
which i am ever so grateful for
but it sure was hard to let him go
and you can imagine
my breakfast wasn't as sweet
without my cornflake!
:/
he is heading to pittsburgh
and then after some work there
he will officially head to texas....
so for the next week or so,
his life will continue to be up in the air
god bless his heart
(and mine too)
the good news
so these are the things making me smile today....
i got to see flake for two days more than i was supposed to!!
i got to kiss flake good morning one more time before he left!!!
only 9 more school days
diesel is spending time with her grandparents (flake's parents)
and enjoying herself and all her outside time
going to see church at my daddy's church yesterday, and getting to see my parents
then...dinner with flake's parents and grandmother
:) it was a great day!!
my little friends at school are ecstatic about mr. caterpillar becoming a butterfly
(i've got pictures coming of mr. caterpillar, and his cocoon.....)
my bulletin boards at school look SOOOOO good, thanks to flake's mom....
and yes mrs. g, they noticed!!! :)
my new laptop (from my sweet flake) is super duper exciting!!!
i found (and bought)crocs....in my size, and color.....even though the croc company has stopped making the kind i like :) yay!!
and....if all goes well, i get to see flake in 11 more days!! :)
(and how could i forget....spell check....without it, this post would be really sad!!!)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
flaws in a picture
so, the other day, i posted that i'm struggling
flake and i have been struggling
waiting to hear the news....
about how our lives would change....
so here is the picture
i've spent a lot of time looking at this picture...
do you see what is wrong with it?
no,
well,
take a closer look....
to the untrained eye...
it might be hard to see
but there is a flaw
a major flaw
here take a closer look
do you see it now?!?!
well, if not, maybe this will help....
now do you see the flaw?
i'm sure you do...
yep ...
something is in north carolina
and something is in texas....
but what?!?!
there, that picture is even more clear
do you see the flaw?!?!
i'm sure you do....but do you understand the flaw?
if you do, then maybe you can explain to me how it happened...
:/
so for the next year or so....
this will be my view of the world
flake got a job down in texas...
and i'm staying here in nc...
we have our responsible reasons why being apart is gonna be the right choice for us...
the company flake will be working for is going through restructuring....we want to make sure that the job is a sure thing before packing our lives up...and both heading down....
i already committed to being at my school through the end of next year....and i need to finish up my third year of teaching, in order to be fully licensed in nc...and hopefully making it easier to get a teaching job down in texas (however that is seeming quite hard...apparently they don't have a birth-kindergarten certification down in texas....but i have a year to figure this out!?!?!)
but i still have the right to feel sad about his being away from me...
you know, i kind of like him
and having him around isn't all that bad either :)
we've prayed about this
we know this is going to be hard
but we know HE would not give us something we could not handle...
either way....we (i) have come up with a few ways to make this next year go by a little quicker...
*flake will come back home once a month,
and i'll head down once a month (i've already told my principal i'll be taking a few days without pay each month...she didn't seem to mind too much)
*i've already picked out lots of jewlery that i feel like will make up for the fact that i don't get to see him, and his leaving will not be as hard with a nice new piece of jewlery to keep my mind off of things...
*to make up for a lack of pictures with my sweet cornflake....
i'll be taking this with me on all my adventures
and diesel might come too, since she can't be left out of adventures
flake and i have been struggling
waiting to hear the news....
about how our lives would change....
so here is the picture
i've spent a lot of time looking at this picture...
do you see what is wrong with it?
no,
well,
take a closer look....
to the untrained eye...
it might be hard to see
but there is a flaw
a major flaw
here take a closer look
do you see it now?!?!
well, if not, maybe this will help....
now do you see the flaw?
i'm sure you do...
yep ...
something is in north carolina
and something is in texas....
but what?!?!
there, that picture is even more clear
do you see the flaw?!?!
i'm sure you do....but do you understand the flaw?
if you do, then maybe you can explain to me how it happened...
:/
so for the next year or so....
this will be my view of the world
flake got a job down in texas...
and i'm staying here in nc...
we have our responsible reasons why being apart is gonna be the right choice for us...
the company flake will be working for is going through restructuring....we want to make sure that the job is a sure thing before packing our lives up...and both heading down....
i already committed to being at my school through the end of next year....and i need to finish up my third year of teaching, in order to be fully licensed in nc...and hopefully making it easier to get a teaching job down in texas (however that is seeming quite hard...apparently they don't have a birth-kindergarten certification down in texas....but i have a year to figure this out!?!?!)
but i still have the right to feel sad about his being away from me...
you know, i kind of like him
and having him around isn't all that bad either :)
we've prayed about this
we know this is going to be hard
but we know HE would not give us something we could not handle...
either way....we (i) have come up with a few ways to make this next year go by a little quicker...
*flake will come back home once a month,
and i'll head down once a month (i've already told my principal i'll be taking a few days without pay each month...she didn't seem to mind too much)
*i've already picked out lots of jewlery that i feel like will make up for the fact that i don't get to see him, and his leaving will not be as hard with a nice new piece of jewlery to keep my mind off of things...
*to make up for a lack of pictures with my sweet cornflake....
i'll be taking this with me on all my adventures
and diesel might come too, since she can't be left out of adventures
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