Today Was Different

I read the news today, on my laptop like I do sometimes between patients. Today was different. Today as I laughed about goofy stuff with the girls I worked with, a gunman, 20 years old, walked into a school in Conn. and opened fire in a classroom full of 5 year old children.  CHILDREN! BABIES! Children that at 5 years old, knows NO evil.  Children that at 5 years old believes in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus.

Today was different. 

 Today 26 people lost their lives, 20 that were children. 

I cant begin to understand.  How can one person be so evil. I know there are people that say he was sick, and you know maybe he was but to me and my beliefs, it was PURE EVIL. 
I pray for the families, for the children that had to step over their classmates as they rush for safety. I pray for the teachers that held those students close, as if they were their own and guarded them against so much evil and thank God that those children had someone to hold them. For the police officers that rushed into that building, that had no idea what was on the other side.

Today was different.

Today I thank God for my crazy, wild, roller coaster of a ride life with my children. I thank God! Today I am thankful as I read facebook, as I watch the news, that I constantly read or hear Jesus' name and the millions that are praying. Today I am thankful for that.   Today, as mad as one of my daughters made me, I hugged her tighter! I hugged them all! I kissed them all! I told them I loved them. And inside I cried because I thought of the parents that couldn't do that. 

Today was different.

March 5th

Tomorrow is a very special day! 59 years ago tomorrow God created an amaing woman.  Rickie Philpott was born and 17 years ago he brought her into my life! He knew exactly what I needed, a mother.  She has been my saving grace for 17 years now and I thank God for her all the time.  She has been there from the beginning and has never left my side.  She is the best mother I could ask for and the best Nana my children will ever know.  She didnt have to be my mother but she wanted to be and she is. 

Momma, thank you so much for all that you have ever done for me and my girls! You are an amazing woman! I hope I can be just like you one day! I know our lives are busy and we go 100 miles per hour all the time but never forget that you are very special to me and my girls and we wouldnt be where we are without you!! I love you so much!!

"New Years" New Resolutions!

So New Year means new resolutions for most! I am sure that you will agree that a few of yours are much like mine, the same as last years and the year before that and the year before that! I could go on and on. 

This year I started by saying I am going to loose weight, quit cussing so much, be a better parent, be more loving to husband, so many things I thought I was going to do, I failed before midnight New Years night, lol.

So I decided that since I haven't blogged in a while I would let you know that I am not getting off to a rocky start!
I did start my weight watchers plan yesterday and knock on wood so far I am doing great! I cussed a few today but better than yesterday! I fussed with Savannah but I knew I was right and she needed to hear what I had to say, not a great parent but a better parent! My husband, well thats a lost cause, lol, bless his heart, someone has to catch it for all the other stuff!! Maybe tomorrow I will be nicer to him. 

I am going to try and blog more maybe more than every 6 months! Who knows! We will see.

Peace Out and God Bless