Did you know it's Christmas!

Yeah Christmas has come to Kohl's ....Already, I've been looking at the fall/halloween stuff as I walk by for weeks now so I feel like that is already over, Our schedules are holiday-like, the stress level etc. Too funny how retail works at it's own pace. Speaking of work some of the girls are taking me to dinner for my birthday, what a nice gesture that is!
Hmmm.... what to say , what to say, I'm speaking at a conference on the 11th and 12th so pray for me, I always get nervous until God gives me the entire word, all organized and ready to go! It's still a very odd season for us, Bill is working over night 4 times a week which means I sleep alone, which I haven't done more than a month combined in our entire marriage, now it's most of the time, I miss him a lot, we use to get away every six months too , so we will have to start doing that again, since we also have a teenager living with us, like most of the time. LOL
I really pray for a house where we can offer them a bedroom not just a couch, but most of them are quite thankful for that!
Not sure what else to say except Merry Christmas!

And I have the certificate to prove it!

So yesterday was the awards ceremony at the kids school. They give out monthly awards to the students who excel in certain areas. Well Selah came home as thrilled as she could be and said, "I'm the best speller in 2nd grade! And I have the certificate to prove it!" I'm so proud of my little girl. Now she is determined to get student of the month, which it took me til 5th grade to get that, but then I got student of the year so maybe she will follow in those footsteps. We framed her certificate and she said, "NOw when I get student of the month it can go over this" Not if but "when" , I like that faith, I like that determination, and Selah is the type that will not stop until she attains it I guarentee you that!
Aslan on the other hand, keeps getting these "Caught ya " cards, which means he gets caught doing something good, you turn them in to a drawing and they pick names weekly for it, he's already won once. He picks up trash and helps people out a lot so I'm told him, he is "Helper of the month" in the mommy awards.
Ok bye for now!

Warning on Mercury.....

So Aslan is still learning so much about planets and the solar system. Every dinner he talks about how much he has learned, So tonight he told us to be warned, because on Mercury, you will "Fry like a chicken" It was so funny how he said it and so cute. Then we asked why it was and he said, " Because its closest to the sun duh" It's just amazing to me how much he has learned and how much he enjoys it! Thank God for great teachers!
There is an awards ceremony tomorrow at school and Selah thinks she is going to get student of the month, I know she is an amazing student, but there are a lot of students in the school so I told her not be disappointed if she didn't get it this month there are lots of months left! Also her girl scout troop is selling magazines and nuts so please let us know if you need some chocolate covered nuts or a magazine, (she has a catalog with every magazine imaginable in it) and we have to make a good first impression with fundraisers lol jk.
Alrighty then good night all and have a great day!!

Ad Set...grrrr

So I just got home, I had to stay for adset, at work it always takes place after store close, it's not a bad process but it keeps you up late, I actually got a lot of work done at my desk, since my only job was to supervise the team, (even though they have an ad set supervisor) so actually I supervise him supervising them, (hmmmm ) anyway it wasn't so bad, but the air conditioning goes off right at close and the office is like a heater box, and the drive home was tough , but oh well I'm home safe. Thank you Jesus!
Selah started Girl Scouts today, a lot of girls from her school were in it, and she had oh so so much fun! She went on and on, and you know what's interesting. Girl scouts have not taken, "serve God" out of their motto, I was quite pleased to hear that. She also came home with her first fundraising, and of course she is like the best salesman ever, on the phone to me she described on of the chocolates, as "smooth chocolate with a touch of mint" she is too funny, I bet she will make a killing (sales wise) with the girl scout cookies when they come up!
I was glad I got to drop her off even though I couldn't pick her up since I had to go to work, a girl walked straight up to her and talked to her , so mommy was comforted!
Aslan is in Royal Rangers and he is doing amazing in it, he has expressed interest in wresting when it comes available, Bill and I both think it's a great idea, and that he would be good at it!
OH yeah and when I was picking up the kids, there was a nice lady standing next to me, and she turned to me and said, "My daughter loves reading your blog", I literally stood there mouth open trying to comprehend what she said, lots of thoughts racing like am I a blog celebrity???!???! LOL
Anyway then she said she was Mandy's mom, (Mandy being a very sweet young woman who used to go to our youth quite often) Love ya Mandy! Anyway that was the funniest sweetest thing!
So I better go to bed now its 2:35 am and I have to be back at work at 2pm tomorrow!

Not much to say.....

Not much to say today. Church this morning was good, after a few technical difficulties, then it was off to work. We had a guy stalking a woman in our store today pretending that he worked there, (that was weird), so we walked her out to her car, then he flipped back around to follow her and we stood in his way, and I pretending to be looking at his license number and grabbing my cell phone, so he flipped around and went the other way! Victory, I'm so tough! The guy was creepy though I will give him that, and I don't think he will be back! So that happened and an associate fainted, she has been going through some major health issues, and they can't quite narrow it down, she's been off for months (since the last 2 times she worked she left in an ambulance, due to seizures and incoherence,) so I found out today she is going to a psychatrist and a psychologist, and trust me this girl is so far from being a drama queen it's ridiculous, she is the type that likes to work hard and not cause a seen, so it makes me think that , there may be something that happened to her long ago or something, poor poor girl, so if you think about it say a prayer for her , lets just say A.
So then came home just in time to tuck some kids in and kiss a husband before he ran off to work 5th night in a row at 10 hours a shift, I felt so bad for him this morning, we were missing most of the band, including the guitarist, so he had to play, and there was a mike unplugged, and he was sweating like a madman, my poor baby I can't imagine being up all night then all that. He's working so hard!
Well not much to say turned into quite a bit, so I'm off now!

The Amazing Crawdad Hunters Part 2

Crawdad

Graveyard

Far right

RIP

So family walk time again and of course we had to visit the crawdads, So as they stop at the creek thing I keep walking so i can get some good walk time in , Sam and I circle up to the stop sign and back then follow the levy. Well this time I decided to go a diffrent direction and I hit the jackpot, I found a virtual crawdad graveyard not to mention some huge crawdads in the water next to the bank. So I went and got the fam to check this out , sticks and all. Well of course Aslan had to collect every little shell and claw he could find , but hey what would you expect? We had a blast , and got selah to take some more pictures, I can't show you any pictures of actual crawdads on this blog because well, Selah "called " all of those pics. So I must abide by the "I called it rule, in blog etiquette lol! So to see the crawdads and all the pictures she took tonight, I will post them after this, go to sissysasa7.blogspot.com
So not much else to report on this end, just spending every bit of family time we can get, cause after all that is what life is about!

Crawdads hunters!

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So tonight we went for a walk as a family, ( as we tend to do quite often) and the kids love to go to the little creek and look for crawdads So that's what we did, we found a few got a few pics but as soon as we got our stick even close to them they ran off. Man those things are so fast! It was so funny cause the kids were talking about how big and bad of crawdad hunters they were! Also they both got sticks and then daddy said they could keep them, so Selah says, "This will be passes down for generations! It was too funny! In the pics you will see Selah covering her eyes and looking scared and thats because daddy stradled the little creek thing and she was afraid he would fall in. So enjoy the pics and our fun story. Not much else to report except God is good all the time, and I have so many many blessings in the family that I have and my husband and my children. We absolutley love spending time togther and it's the highlight of any day! They are my favorite people in the whole wide world!