Our willful child

With a house full of kids, you're bound to have one willful child. Cute, funny, smart - but a button pusher to her core.

SHY doesn't even cover it.

We can count the number of words he uses in a day. One day, the dam is going to break, all those saved up words will come flooding out and we're not going to know what to do with him

Mr. Daring

He will try ANYTHING once. He may not do it again after that, but he'll do it the first time on whim or a dare.

Killer smile

She's already arguing with her sisters on the English usage! And she still thinks she's the boss of the boys.

Too cute for words

We get a tickle out of teasing him about his take on life. He comes up with the neatest perspectives at times.

All smiles

He's the bravest at the skateboard park and will try rolling down (or should I say sliding down) the ramps.

Home Again, Home Again!

It's finally over - four weeks of training, sitting in a classroom 8 hours a day, trying to pay attention and retain so much information, and tests upon tests. Eating out 3 meals a day for fours weeks is not all what it's cracked up to be. I missed Pam's cooking, with a passion. Thankfully I was able to come home on the weekends; some of the students came from too far away to go home on the weekends.

Richmond VA (Virginia's capital - for the geography challenged among us) is an interesting phenomenon of beautiful buildings and old south charm, but it's downtown area is so many desolate empty buildings lining the streets. There are some whole city blocks of vacant buildings. Thankfully there are a few buildings being remodeled for re-use, but the city doesn't look like what one would imagine a capital city would look like.

I've got a long "honey-do" list to get into. I'm going to have to dig deep to make it up to Pam for being the great lone soldier while I was gone. I was as frugal as I could be in saving my travel per diem up to we could afford to take the kids to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg next month.

School starts a week from Tuesday. The kids are getting anxious to meet new friends and teachers. With 7 kids in 4 different schools, it's going to be a hard and long process to get into a comfortable rhythm.

YEA, Dad!!!!!

We have had a really busy last 2 weeks, and it is Friday again! YEA DADDY is coming home tonight!

This is hard on Daddy, being gone from his beautiful family!, not getting wonderful home cooked meals, and being lonely-- but, it is really harder on mommy!-- (7 little darlings!!!)
The Home front is a BUSY one!!

We went back to the beach for 2 days this week-- I work out there one day a week- than we play on the beach one day! We have had such beautiful weather for it each week and so much fun with our friends!

Well, I hope that today goes fast and my hubby gets home safe and sound!!

Only one more week of this single parenthood--Praise the Lord!!

Blessings, Pamela Dawn

SUNDAYS

Sometimes it is just so hard to know what and where the Lord really wants you-



Last Monday, a lady that works in my neighborhood, stopped by and invited the kids to attend VBS. So, at lunch, we voted on attending or not-- and the vote was 6 to 1 to go-- So we did- and we had a ball! That was great that she stopped by-- we never would have known about the VBS otherwise. Each of the kids met some kids their age and so going into new schools will not be as threatening as it might have been. The VBS had some adult classes for the week, and I met some nice people.

Life is good!
Blessings, Pamela Dawn

You know you have a big family when...

You know you have a big family when the ice cream truck slowed down at our yard and I could swear the volume of his music went up! Pam and the kids told me the other day, he not only slowed down but pulled into the drive way!

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