True love is my husband assisting six children to make cards for their mom for mothers day.

I'm gonna be over here in the quiet living room cackling madly as he tries to remain calm. 

My mom's mothers day gift.  Points up.  I combined two of my lighthouse pictures into one, and added the chorus of Casting Crowns most beautiful song. 

I'm printing it up in a 10x13 size.  I'm getting myself one too.  LOL 

I let the kids have some old spray paint this morning.  They had a blast with it in their garage attic room.   And then Rainee managed to get in her eyes. 

It figures.

Oh well, the trauma was over fairly quickly, and not nearly as bad as last summer when Samuel exploded his in his face.

The grass withers,

The flowers fade

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But the word of our Lord stands forever.

Exhausted tonight.  Awards night for Awana, so that is done.  But baton is back in full swing.  We have a parade that the kids will be in this weekend, as well as Mothers Day.

Next week is Misoula Childrens theater, so the kids will *not* be doing baton.  I felt terrible opting out, but we've been planning on doing it since last year.  So *shrugs*

Kids are doing well remembering the routines, which is good considering how long its been since they worked with the coach.

Samuel has been really struggling with my dad being gone.  Tonight I finally took the time to talk to him a bit.  I told him it was okay to be sad, and mad.  It seemed to release some of the frustration from him.  Hopefully it will make it a bit easier for him to deal.

Rainee had a MAJOR asthma attack tonight (about 30 minutes ago)  Scared the crap out of me.  Coughing, Crying, almost puking.  Unable to talk, or decide what she needed.  I gave her the meds she could have, and was trying to calm her down.  Asthma is one of those crap shoots.  You get asthma because your upset.  Your upset because you have asthma.  You make your asthma worse, you get more upset.

*sigh*

So her and Zeria are now splashing in the tub at 10;15 at night.  It was what she needed to distract her into breathing.  I had two different kids (sam and Kaylin) come and tell me.  "She's calmed down now."  Its a good indication of how much she scared us.

I'd love for them to be asleep, cause I'm using tooth picks to hold my eyes up.  LOL   But first she has to get out of the tub....

My dad *is* in jail.

I'm a bit of a basket case.  Rob asked me what I needed and I said I needed to just get out of here.

So that's what we're going to do.

We don't have a ton of money, and its probably stupid.  But we've both been needing a break.

So we are headed to our favorite place Astoria to stay at the camping cabins.  We will leave as soon as Rob gets off work.

This is my blog tonight.  The font I realize is tiny.  If you click on the image you can read it a wee bit better.

My dad's sentencing is tomorrow unless some weird unforseen thing happens...which I'm coming to realize happens more often then not  in the court system.

I believe God sets up kings, and brings them down.  I believe he has the perfect plan for all of us...