Our neighborhood on cops...

Apparently this afternoon two men broke into a home on Franklin and the homeowner came home and they took off on foot. The police found them by my house soon after. We need to move!!!! I keep praying we can move closer to church and this only solidifies my thoughts!!

Happy Mother's Day!

To all moms...Happy Mother's Day! What a blessing it is.

Stitches

It was time to take them out so I took a suture removal kit home from work. Thursday evening Jamie sat on Hope and held her down and I removed the stitches. It was awful. She screamed "Mommy help me!" over and over. It killed me. She was mad at Jamie for holding her down and wouldn't have anything to do with him the rest of the night. But they are out and it's healing and looks pretty good.

Grace House

The ladies from Grace House came to our last ladies meeting Thursday night. We had a huge meal and we presented them with stationary and puzzles all the women from the church had brought in. They gave a couple of amazing testimonies and signed 2 songs for us. It was such a blessing!! I REALLY want to volunteer there and take them on outings and especially on Friday nights. They have chapel time and then movie nights and they need women to go give testimony or speak whatever God lays on their heart or to just hang out with them. Thank you God for bringing these women into my life again. I visited there a little over a year ago and they were on my heart then but life got in the way but God brought them back again. We raised $800 to give them to start a scholarship fund. It costs them $500 a month to be there. I can't imagine that. It's totally faith based and these women are wonderful!

Stitches

Our first time for stitches...Hope fell and hit a wooden end table at the sitters and cut open right above her eye by her eyebrow. She was actually walking and just tripped over her feet but hit it pretty hard (of course I think dark forces were behind it). She had a small gash but it was pretty deep so 2 hours at the ER and 3 stitches. They had to put her little arms in a pillow case behind her back and me, Jamie and 2 nurses had to hold her down. It was terrible. But she's fine now. Praise God.

Grace House

Last night a few of the ladies from church went to the Grace House to meet the ladies and take a tour and hear what Grace House is really about. Our ladies group broke into smaller groups and were given $100 to do something in the community. Our group chose to take the money and buy some Krispy Kreme donut cards and sell them and give the money to the Grace House. The program there is awesome! The ladies there were so sweet and open with us. The program is totally faith based. The cost for the ladies to be in the program is $500 a month. They are coming to our ladies meeting in May to give some testimony and sign a song (they do sign language to songs) and we will present them with their check. They are such an awesome group. They need volunteers to help take them to appointments and to outings once they are eligible to go out to shop and eat if you want something to volunteer for. I had a great time meeting the ladies and hearing about the Grace House.

Bye Penny :(

I work with a wonderful lady named Penny. She is smart, funny, beautiful inside and out and a woman of God. She's also leaving. She's moving back home to Alabama. Tomorrow is her last day. I am so glad I got to know her. I'll miss you Penny!