Time

I don't honestly know why I picked that title, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. So sometimes I have these moments where I get so scared when I think about the world and my kids growing up. We had an incident that involved Hailey in Elk Ridge that wasn't serious but could have been a bad situation. I was thinking about that and feeling like I let her down, and then I thought about kids being abducted and how you properly prepare your kids for that. Needless to say I laid there in bed and wanted to lock myself in my house and never let my kids go outside again! Finally I prayed so that I would fall asleep, but these fears constantly pop into my head, and it makes me wonder a lot of things. Do I not have enough faith in God? Do I not really believe that He is in everything, and everything that happens was meant to be? I hate when I have those moments, I wish I could believe that if I'm faithful enough nothing like that would ever happen to my kids. I could handle sickness and death, but I don't think I could handle the unknown of abduction. It would drive me crazy!! Anyway, not much for a fun post, so I guess I should turn that around.

Last night I was making cookies for my friends birthday, the girls love to watch me bake (especially when I use the mixer because that means it's something sweet) so they were both on the counter overlooking the bowl. I had just finished mixing and was getting a spatula to scrape around the sides when Katie turned the blender up all the way. All of a sudden there's cookie dough flying everywhere and a loud noise. It took me a couple of seconds to realize what was going on. I had cookie dough up and down my shirt and Katie had a little bit in her hair and on her shirt. It was so funny, I think it scared Katie pretty bad, because I kind of yelled at her because it scared me too. It was funny!!

Then today, I decided to let Hailey do the dishes, for some reason she really likes to. Most the time I tell her no, but I decided if she wants to do them that bad, I'll just help her do them. So I filled the sink with water, cleared the counter off, put an apron on her and let her go at it. We'll see how she does, but if she does a good job and she likes it, this could turn out to be a very good thing!! Here she is in my apron, doesn't she look so cute? My little helper!