NOT ME...AGAIN!

How is it that every week I seem to have things for not me Monday that I would normally never tell?

Let's see...Thanks to my sister (Shannon) pointing it out this morning I came through again with a last minute not me Monday. I did not stand there and see my precious little man fall down and hit his head on the coffee table only to pick him up and comfort him with food when he wouldn't stop crying. Actually, had this have happened he would have ate and entire bowl of grits and a whole bunch of dry cheerios just to make him happy again. Nope not me.

I must certainly did not stand outside the church nursery door for a good 10 minutes and listen to Tegan screaming before finally just leaving and going out in to church anyways...while he was still screaming. I couldn't do that!

I'll do one for just me. I did not drop my "pill" in the bathroom sink full of draining soapy water only to stop it from draining and frantically search for it. If I would have found it, it would have been covered with soap and half dissolved but I would have took it anyway! Good thing that didn't happen to me.

Don't forget to enter the GIVEAWAY this week. You have nothing to lose!

Did you enter to WIN?

I have noticed that most people that have entered the giveaway are pregnant or have a new baby (minus a few). This bib and burp cloth set makes a great baby shower gift too. Just stick it with another small gift and it looks like you really splurged! Read the previous post to see how to enter to win. Time is running out!

GIVE-A-WAY AT MY ETSY STORE

O.k. so for all my faithful blog readers (and lurkers) I am doing a small give-a-way. You don't have to have a baby to want this item. All of us constantly get invited to baby showers or at least you know someone whom you could give this to as a gift if you can't use it yourself.
Here are the Rules:
1. Go to my etsy store....button is the picture of the pretty bag on the top right hand side of your screen.
2. Looking (or shop) some of my items. Then go to my profile. Somewhere on the right hand side of the screen it says profile.
3. While under my profile just look for the key words for the blog.
4. Come back here and leave a comment. If you are not a registered user then make sure to leave a way for me to contact you. Your comment must tell me what the key words are. All comments will not be published until the contest is over so that no one cheats.
5. I would love to ship international but since I can't (unless you want to pay shipping) then I can only do this for people in the United States. You have until next Tuesday night at 9:00 pm eastern time. Then I will put the names in a hat and have my hubby draw a name!
Boy that seemed like a lot of instructions. But hey....it's free if you win!
Now for the pictures of what you are playing for....





Let the games begin!

Time to Play!

Tegan has gotten really good lately at just playing and entertaining himself without me having to sit in the floor beside him so much. Rylee also helps out with this alot b/c she can keep him distracted for long periods of time. They actually play chase. No...he can't walk yet but they both crawl and chase eachother all over the house. She can also go and hide from him and he almost always finds her. It is so cute. He will push around this little truck in the video for a long time!

Not me Monday!

It's that time again. Let's see....

I did not use Rylee having an ear infection as a way of getting out of Cheerleading practice just b/c I didn't feel like driving her 20 minutes away even though she wanted to go and felt totally fine. Not me!

I did not get in the shower Thursday night while Paul was at home and refuse to come out of the bathroom until I could tell that both kids were in the bed. Not me! At least my toe nails would have gotten cut.

The worst of all....I did not forget to shave my legs before going for a check-up at the "Girl" doctor! That is totally gross and did not happen to me!

Click on the picture above to go to MckMama's site and see other peoples not me Mondays!

Missed Opportunities

I seem to have missed many opportunities that I have prayed for. It's almost like I am praying for them but I forget to pray for the wisdom to have the right reaction. After losing Cohen I heard about a girl I went to school with that lost a baby even further in her pregnancy than mine. Her little girl went to the same preschool as Rylee but wasn't in the same class. I prayed for God to let us cross paths so that maybe I could offer a shoulder for her b/c I knew what she was going through. God didn't let us cross paths just once but 3 times. I saw her three different times in the parking lot and nothing! I couldn't even say hello, just a friendly throwing up of my hand.
Almost 6 months later yet another girl I went to school with lost one of her twin boys 2 or 3 days after birth. Once again I prayed to cross paths with her. Well I did at Rylee's swimming lessons. Her son was in the class right before Rylee. The first day we actually spoke I was awkward and said all the wrong things. I said all of those things I hated to hear after losing Cohen. So the next day I stole my chance and really stood there and talked to her and apologized for my words the day before. Finally I got my chance to relate to someone else going through something sort of similar to me.
Then there was today. A few months back I heard about and wrote on here about a girl a little younger than me in school and her daughter. Me and this girls sister were good friends in school so I got to know her pretty well. When the Tegan Mania first started and we were told something could be wrong with him, I heard about this girl and her daughter who is only a month older than Tegan. They too were going through all of this stuff and being told their child may never be normal. I had prayed to God for several weeks to let me and her cross paths, the only problem is that I was imagining us to cross paths in a dr.'s office or in the physical therapy waiting room, not in the middle of a crowded isle at Wal-mart. Yes I went to wal-mart today now that I have no kidney stone....sorry, I got sidetracked. I didn't recognize her but she said my name. Just before that I had noticed this lady was pushing a little girl laid back in a stroller and pulling her buggy behind her. She asked if I remembered her and I was like a deer in the headlights. I knew exactly who she was but all I could say was "Yes and how are you?" I did go on to ask how her daughter was doing these days and she said the same thing I always said when I wanted someone to ask that question and then really listen to the answer, "Better but we still take it one day at a time." Her little girl was beautiful! So I said what everyone who is scared to ask more questions does and I said "well good, I'm glad to hear that. It was nice to see you." Then walked away while kicking myself and wanting to turn around and go back and talk to her.
The lesson learned here.....Make sure that if you pray for something that you also pray for how you will handle it or respond to it if/when it does happen.

God cares about kidney stones...

It's starting to look like I only post on Not Me Monday....sorry about that. By the way, if you click on the big "Not Me Monday" sign in those post, it will take you to a website worth reading. The outcome to her roller coaster story will be coming very soon.

Anyways, I know you are wondering what my topic means so here you go. A few weeks ago I posted and said that I had to have a CT scan for some pain in my left side. Well the scan showed that all was well from what they could see except one small little thing, a kidney stone in my left kidney! Great! So the nurse continues to tell me about how painful passing a kidney stone is and that I may not be dieing (which I disagree with b/c everyone is dieing on any given day) but I am going to think I am when that stone tries to come out. Now I should disclose that I am a very anxious person so immediately after finding out this information my pain became worse from my head to my kidney. I didn't want to go anywhere for fear that this thing was going to try to kill me while standing in the check-out line at Wal-mart. Let's face it, we all stand in those long lines for countless minutes while wondering why all these registers are sitting empty and if we should go back and trade in our milk but that's another post. Anyways, I decided to throw it out there to God that I was pretty sure that he could get rid of this kidney stone without causing me any pain or even knowing about it. I asked for it either to happen quick or for him just to decide to remove it without the whole process. Apparently he thought I didn't need to go through anymore pain these days and just decided to remove it. I had one or two really short and smalls pains on Sunday but then never anything else. I went to have an x-ray at a urologist on Monday and like an answered prayer, it was gone!!!! Never did I go through the process or even know that it came out....if it did come out....maybe God just said *poof* your prayer is answered. Sorry, I was really hoping to share pictures with you of my kidney stone and I know you are so disappointed by this but what can I say, I'm blessed! Now if the original pain in my side that I had went to the Dr. for would just go away. I'm think I will wait that out before jumping in to more test.
The point is that God cares about all our struggles even if it is just a kidney stone!