Excitement!..and a little bit of my heart

Well, this weekend went by fast- as usual. Actually, SATURDAY flew by! Yesterday just lingered.... Kent & I cleaned Saturday (Kent cleaned the most.... I dealt with the girls most the day- they were getting back into the grove of things after being gone for over a week) McCoy was DIRTY and his winter coat was shedding like crazy! Kent gave him a quick bath Friday night and brushed him... however, he didn't get all of the hair out. We woke up Saturday to globs of hair all over the house. We knew exactly where he slept during the night... it was disgusting. So Kent had to vacuum every inch of the house. I took McCoy back outside and brushed an entire dog off of him (and could have gotten more!). I then pulled the vacuum out and vacuumed him. I'm sure I looked crazy out there, but it worked! Whitney told me she took her dogs to the car wash to use their vacuum. BRILLIANT! We may have to consider that after the next bath. :) After we cleaned the house, we headed to a nearby town to visit the Apple store and go eat at Uncle Julio's. We really enjoy eating there. We had to forgo the Apple store because the only appointment they had left to look at his iphone was at 8:45pm and it was only 5:30 when we were there! It's amazing how busy that store stays.... and I don't care for the appointment thing. I guess it would have worked in our favor if we would have gone to the website to see if they had any available...eh- whatever.

Sunday kind of drug by. Me and the girls got up and went to church (Kent had to fly out). The sermon was great. I really love this church and the pastor is phenomenal. He spoke about how to reach this generation of kids. It's so scary all the things they face and the choices they have to make these days. There are SO MANY false teachings.... I just pray EVERY night that our girls will receive God's word and become Godly women. I look forward to the day that Jesus returns to take all of His children with Him. Heaven is going to ROCK! No pain- no worries about weight :))).... I could go on and on. Until then, it's our duty as parents to empower our kids..... to give them what they need to go out in life and make a difference. The pastor spoke yesterday on what is wrong with our youth now days. We have parents that are "absent". That hurts these kids. They need their parents the most. They just need you to be there. You then have those parents that us teachers call "helicopter parents". He explained how that also hurts our kids. We give them anything and everything they can imagine. What we need to be giving our kids is "empowerment". Tell them you trust them and let them go. I know my girls aren't teenagers, but they will be one day. I immediately began to think of myself as a helicopter parent right now. I love to be "needed" by my girls. However, I think I need to "let go" a little. I feel like I'm getting better- KK will be in daycare in the fall. She has never stayed away from me for a night.... we will be visiting family soon- I'm hoping to let her stay away from me a night. Someone posted on their facebook the other day and it really hit me-

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The need to be needed is not a healthy motivator for service. Don't make people dependent on you. Connect people to Jesus."

Wow! What a great saying! Parenting can be tough sometimes :) But I find that just praying helps me get through the ruts.

Today we have a big day planned..... I am going to a meetup with my mom's group and am going to learn about a work at home opportunity. Hopefully something will come of it and I can find something. I sell Mary Kay but I just don't have time to do all the parties. Tomorrow my mom and gma will get here! YAY! I am so excited to have them up here.

So I have no pictures to add to this blog.... if you made it to the end, congrats! :-) I was a little long winded today.