Thanks Felix!

This past weekend I went to Lifeway with money to spend. My mom was kind enough to give me some shopping money for my birthday present.

Normally, I would have spent it much sooner but in all my matureness (is that a word?) I was waiting to see what the hubby and the kids were getting me.

So after receiving my gift from them, I went shopping in search of a new bible. Not really one to replace my old bible because I am still using it but I wanted something different.

Specifically, I wanted my same exact current bible but not in hard back. You know, "DIFFERENT".

Ummmm there are A LOT of different bibles. Even different ones of my same Bible. I was overwhelmed.

I had to walk away from the shelves and shelves of boxes of Bibles. I decided to think about it and head to the back and check out the clearance shelves in an effort to calm my mind and think through all my options. Options that cost more than the money I had available to me.

While looking through the clearance shelf, there it was! My same but different bible in the price range that my birthday money paid for.

You are probably asking the same question I did.... why is this on the clearance shelf? Missing pages? A page upside down?

No. And No.

Let me tell you. It was there because of Felix. I do not know Felix but apparently after having his named printed on the Bible he no longer needed it.

So thanks Felix. Also, thanks Mom for still sending Birthday Money!

Love, Cara

Hot Now!!!

This afternoon we had to go to Sam's Club. I love going to Sam's Club. There is just something exciting about buying in large quantity. Never mind that had you gone to the regular store you never would have bought 400 rolls of paper towels. The point is that at Sam's you can buy 400 rolls and get a great deal on them, so you do.

After checking every aisle, just in case I see something I must have but never knew I needed ,we paid and left. I was pleasantly surprised with my total. Hopefully the hubby won't be too upset that our grocery fund has been spent. We have tons of Cheerios's to eat at every meal but I still need milk and eggs.

As we were pulling out of the parking lot I saw a sight, I had never noticed before.

It was the Red Neon Sign saying, "Hot NOW". I made a command decision and I turned around and went through the Krispy Kreme donut drive-thru and ordered a dozen HOT NOW glazed donuts.

Once I had them in the car Miss Thang asked if she could have one. I explained that we have co-op in the morning and the donuts were for breakfast.

Co-op starts WAAAAAAAAY too early for this non-morning person Mommy to really plan for breakfast.

Miss Thang didn't say anything for several moments then said words that have never been more true.

"What is that point of buying HOT NOW donuts if we can't eat them until the morning? They are HOT NOW not Hot in the morning."

We each might have eaten one or two on the way home.

Now I am off to figure out what to pack for our lunches for co-op tomorrow. You would think that as a parent I would have out grown the pressure of having a "cool lunch for school" but no. I have not. I felt so ridiculous last week with our PB&J sandwiches. I just wanted to stand up and shout but it isn't real peanut butter- it's soy butter. That makes me cool. Right?

Packing the perfect cool lunch is too much pressure on this Mommy. Too.Much.Pressure.


Love, Cara

Two Years!

This post was meant for Friday September 5th.

My little man turned two years old on Friday. After all the celebration it still boggles my mind how in the world two years has passed us by since he was born.

I thought about how to do this post. I couldn't possible make a list of only two things that I want to say about my little guy (who is quickly becoming my BIG BOY). So instead I will just say all the things on my mind.


You absolutely amaze me every day. You are full of life and energy. You are just sweet and loving. You are everything I imagined a little boy to be like. You are always seeing how high you can jump and climb. You adore your older sister. You love to read books with Daddy and me. You love love love music.

We have really struggled with your speech delays. You have come so far since we started speech therapy this past June. Hearing you sweet voice is just precious. You can now say Momma, Dadda, Milk, Juice, Me, Emmy, Off, Down, Doggy, Peese(please), More, Ball, One...Two...EEEE, Eat.

You love to figure out how things work. You keep me on my toes everyday. You have successfully mastered all of the child proof locks throughout the house. This is something you were incredibly proud of yourself for!!

You have a sensitive soul. Your feelings are easily hurt.

You are currently into TRAINS. You generally have a train or a car you pretend is a train in your hand to push around the house. You say, "KUG, KUG, KUG!" Which is your version of chug, chug, chug.

Although I absolutely miss the baby days with you, I am loving this age. Seeing how much you are learning thrills me. I treasure this time and look forward to the years to come. No doubt they will go just as fast as the past two years.

For your birthday party your Nana and Papa Jay came to visit. They took you to Toys R Us to pick out your birthday present. When we went past all of the train tables you screamed until we let you out of the buggy. You played and played and played with those trains the whole two hours we were in the store. Needless to say their gift to you was a train table and a train set. After shopping we took you to Chuck E Cheese - where a kid can be a kid. You quickly understood the purpose of tokens. It was a bit overwhelming for you though. We had pizza, played some more games and headed home for presents and cake.

You ate every last crumb of cake off your plate and licked your plate to get the last of the ice cream off! From sister you got a Mr. Potato head pirate. From Mom and Dad you got play dough, puzzles, colors, books, and drawing paper. After you went to bed Daddy and Papa Jay put together your train table and train set. The next morning you JUMPED off the stairs to get to the train set as soon as you saw it.

Little Man, you are an awesome little guy! I am blessed beyond measure that God chose me to be your Mommy.