MUNDAY, MONDAY ... with photos !

Well, I am full of something today .. although I ain't figured out what just yet. :O) Full of lots of Blabber ! LOL !

I am freezing and I can't seem to get warm. The temp is supposed to be 8 as a high today, yippie ! So how many days till spring again ? I think it it's like 54 now.

I watched "A Very Duggar Wedding" last last night. I just LOVED Josh and Anna's vows. If I had it to do all over again, mine would be VERY similar. I HATED my wedding ! It is on again on the Discovery Health Channel on Wednesday night at 9/8c if anyone is interested. Good news though, "18 KIDS and Counting" is back on Tuesdays now with new shows on TLC (9/8c). Ya' know I am all over that ! ..... and you DIDN'T hear it here, but I SAW Adam's eyes get watery during last night's show .. no joke, so he IS  in there somewhere !!!!! LOL !

I went to the school a little bit ago to talk about the note of Hannah being sent to the office for saying Grace before her lunch that I got on Friday. I figured that today was a great time because the kids are off for teacher day or something, I know everyone would be in the office and no kids would be around. So anyway - they basically said it is something they have to do now, NOT as a punishment, but anytime a student gets sent to the office, a form letter has to go out to the parents. I told them this did not explain WHY she was even sent to the office to begin with and all they said was that it was standard so that no one will take offense to it. WOW --- I had some words that could have been said, but all I said was I will pray for you. Shhhesh, no wonder kids act the way they do anymore. Maybe MORE kids need to say Grace ! I cannot wait for fall to come !

Yeaaa, so moving on. Saturday Jordan went over to Goodwill with Adam for his credit points for school. It seems as they spent alot of time doing few things and listening to things when not doing anything. Thought I would share it, because, I personally find it kind of offensive. I mean isn't or wasn't Goodwill supposed  to be for people who couldn't afford things ????? Yeeeaaa. Riiiiiiiiight.

              a) Did you know that if you give anything of value or it is something that could bring value, (newer things) Goodwill sells it on eBay or at Amazon.com first so that they can make the most money out of it. This does not disclude anything and they are doing it with name brand clothes starting sometime after spring.

              b) Then they have a secondary way to sell things for those things that do not sell, and people willing to pay a higher price get a higher priority.

              c) After that, what is left, is put unto the sales floor in the stores ... at the highest price that it can be assumed it will sell for.

              d) Next level is trash. If it does not sell within a certain amount of time at thier price they trash it. So what you are seeing on the sales floor is one level away from trash, and you are second rate - because unless you went online to pay the higher price for it then it doesn't matter. According to both Adam and Jordan from this conversation, the majority of things (over 50%) of things are trashed. Any thing given that can be recycled will be, FOR MONEY ! They get a higher price for alluminum and some glass recycling it .. rather then selling it !

SOOOO... As of right now You will NOT find me going to Goodwill or giving to Goodwill at any time. Seems as though even they have been bitten by the greed bug. So much for helping the little folk ! I am thinking about writing a little note to somebody, I think this is rediculous !

IN OTHER NEWS:

I got alot of things done yesterday, but we decided to wait to go to OUAC this week or to the pawn shop, I have other things that can go but I didn't have time to get them together yet.

We deleted all the tunes on the kids computer and iPods after a discussion about music and influence during the weekend. Britt was the one I thought would have a problem with it, but it was not that way at all ! She was actually kinda happy that I was taking the iniciative, because I have talked about it for a long time now. Jordan wasn't all too happy though, but he was over it before bed last night.

That conversation brought me to an epihany though. Seriously ! I realized that after Jordan asked me "Why are you doing all this changing of yourself" that for years while he was little, I was soooo consumed of what others would think about me that I did nothing without that thought being in my head ! Ya' know -- the kids had to have the best toys or clothes - listen to and do what everyone else is doing. NOW... it is soooo different and he is not understanding this. It dawned on me NOW, that I care more about what God thinks of me, instead of what others think of me. That for once, I am finally understanding that what others think of me REALLY  DON'T matter !  I don't have to answer to anyone but God. I am HAPPY with my changes and I feel so much better actually being myself and I guess if someone does not like it - then they just don't need to be a part of my life !

While I still have a WHOLE bunch of changing I would like to do, I realize now - That I am soooo much closer to who I really  am than I ever was before. Me now, is more comfortable being how I was raised and feeling at peace with that person ... instead of fighting it. I was comfortable when I was little with being a Christian, instead I got to be more worried about what others thought about me and became what I wasn't for quite along time.

Wow.. that made me cry. Ummm ok.

So anyway ... while not everyone agree's with some of the ways I think or believe - there are others out there that do and even though I was "lost" for a few many years, I feel that, I can now be me.

I feel bad though, MY decisions for those past years came at the price of my kids lives, because they have gone without my belief's and now are having trouble with a few of the things I believe because of what society has told them and because I was worried of what others thought. I wish I knew the best way to go about getting everything on track - but I guess all I can do is pray that it all works out and have faith that it will. I see such a HUGE difference between then and now, I sure wish I could go back.

Well, that is all I have to say for today... as if that wasn't enough .. LOL .. I know. :o)

Hope that you all have a great day !

TAMMIE

(Pictures are of Gracie this morning - Brittany took the photos, I just LUV them .. aren't they cute ! ! )