Picture taken summer 2008It's been a while, I guess I haven't had much to write about. Yeah, right! Probably too much to write about, not enough words to describe it all!
The kids are growing sooo fast,
Taylor (6 1/2) is enjoying first grade, loves her teacher, can read at a third grade level, AND got a blue slip once (detention!) for a silly reason, but she sure learned her lesson! She has lost 2 teeth and is about to lose another one, but we're sure she'll learn to like the dentist since she has a tooth growing in crooked behind her other teeth on the bottom.
Jordan (4 1/2) has become quite the big helper! He loves to give compliments and get compliments, well let's just say he likes to put on Taylor's dresses and be told that he is pretty! He has become more bold towards his sister and brother, not much of a pushover anymore. He is eager to learn how to read so he can catch up with Taylor!
Riley (2 1/2) Is a typical 2 year old stubborn, "I can do it" Lightening McQueen FANATIC! He is all boy, in fact he just got caught today playing with the poop in his diaper, YUCK! He loves Taylor and Jordan dearly and has learned to stick up for himself real well! His vocabulary is growing by the minute, in fact his most common sentence when you ask him to do something is "Just one second" haha he's so smart!
I started watching my good friend Angela's baby, we have a long history, we once were neighbors when we were 2 and have always kept in touch and now we live in the same town! Angela had to go back to work 3 months after he was born, so, I am now the auntie that gets her baby fix 4 days a week! It is even more amusing that he was born 2 years after my Riley within the month that my kids were all born, so technically he's the 4th baby I will never have!!
Hunter (8 Months) Is crawling all over the place, he is great at sweeping the floors! He loves playing with all the big kid toys. And of course he gets so much attention here with the kids all in his face, he cries when "huntermomma" tries to put him in the car seat to take him home! He even sleeps through all the playing up and down the hall!
Terry started a new job 3 months ago. He absolutely loves it! the first full week of work he came home on friday and said that he was sure glad that he has a family to come home to because if he didn't he would never come home! lol
I have been busy being mom, wife, friend, student, etc. I am primariy a stay at home mom, OF COURSE I am still a Mary Kay consultant (www.marykay.com/hughest) I will never quit!! But I feel that I need to be with my kids and husband any chance I get. I am going to hold appointments 2 or 3 times a month for FUN money and to take care of my customers!
For the past 2 1/2 years I have been studying the bible with Jehovah's witnesses. I loved the mommy and little boy that would knock on my door every couple of weeks and invited them into my home for a bible study every friday morning. Honestly, I was VERY VERY skeptical about their beliefs and so I was making a list of all the differences between my beliefs as a baptist and what they were teaching. I read the bible on my own and was so skeptical of their version of the bible I always used my NIV version and I prayed like crazy for the truth to be revealed in my studying.
It was so enlightening when I had a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, when I was educated about a loving kind and powerful Jehovah God that would return to make this an earthly paradise...I also had all my questions answered about the Trinity doctrine that was always so fuzzy and hard to understand.
So I am continuing to study and I TRULY believe that I have found the truth and I have made a lot of changes in order to please Jehovah. I will be baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses as soon as the opportunity is available.
As a witness we do not celebrate any holidays, including birthdays, christnas, easter, etc. So it would have been very awkward to call and wish you a happy birthday, but please know that I was thinking of you on that day and I hope you had a fabulous day.
If you have any questions about my beliefs or about the changes I have made please call me or email me! I am open to discussion and questions and concerns that you as my friends and family may have.
Please know that I am still Tracy the friend or family member I have been previously, but I have changed my beliefs which in turn has inspired me to make a lot of changes in my life.
Of course I am also still a mom, wife and business owner too :)
I will get back to this blogging thing as often as possible. I figured that was only fair since I read other people's blogs that I should start posting again!
