Well I have started hearing people say to me this is the last time we will do this, or this is the last time we will be here...kinda strange. This has really come faster then I thought it would! I remember the calls we got last August saying we were being delayed and I thought our time would never come...but it is here.
We have been spending time with family and friends and I have been having lots of "girls night outs"! It has been a great time to just be with the people we love. And see family we don't get to see very often. I am thankful for facebook and skype...we will really be able to stay connected with everyone that way!
We still have a few things to get rid of...anyone need a wedding dress!? The kids have been great about sharing their the things we don't have room for with their friends, it makes it easier when they are not upset about not being able to take everything.
We only have about two weeks left here in Oklahoma before we start our drive to Virginia, and I am really looking forward to that! We are doing a vacation on the way...don't judge, but we are stopping at Loretta Lynns ranch Hurricane Mills so I can fulfill a long time dream! I know that is very sad isn't it!! But I do love the movie A Coal Miners Daughter!!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
blog, blog, blog
So I fixed my blog! It might not be so fancy, but at least its not just plain white anymore! After several failed attempts I was told by a sweet friend (shout out to you Mrs.T) that I didn't need to download anything I was just supposed to copy and paste things! Well that was great news because Ray had just got done taking all the junk off the computer that I put on it when I was trying to download things, and I think he said I did it a total of 30 times!
Oh well, lets leave the past the past and I now know if I want to change things I just copy and paste! So I you don't like my new blog background please don't tell me because it took me several days to get it to look like this! My next step is to learn how to put pictures in my blog!
Oh well, lets leave the past the past and I now know if I want to change things I just copy and paste! So I you don't like my new blog background please don't tell me because it took me several days to get it to look like this! My next step is to learn how to put pictures in my blog!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
packed and ready!
Well we are all packed....kinda! We have packed 8 boxes for our move to Romania, the rest of the things we have left are our summer clothes! For us that is huge deal! Not even a year ago we had a 1800 sq.foot house full of stuff, today we have a few boxes and that is it!
This has been a journey for us, and i am glad we can see an end in sight and by end I mean we have our flight info for Romania! Our next leg in the journey will take us to Virgina for 8 weeks of training, and then we will be back home for 2 weeks before our flight on July 1st.
I will do my best to keep our blog updated so everyone will know all the things we are doing first in Virgina and then in Romania. This is going to be a crazy time of getting everything squared away and saying good-byes, but we are really looking forward to all that is to come!
This has been a journey for us, and i am glad we can see an end in sight and by end I mean we have our flight info for Romania! Our next leg in the journey will take us to Virgina for 8 weeks of training, and then we will be back home for 2 weeks before our flight on July 1st.
I will do my best to keep our blog updated so everyone will know all the things we are doing first in Virgina and then in Romania. This is going to be a crazy time of getting everything squared away and saying good-byes, but we are really looking forward to all that is to come!
Friday, February 12, 2010
My love story
Since Valentines Day is Sunday I thought I would tell the story of Ray and me, and the reasons I love him so much.
Ray I met in 4th grade, and it was love at first sight....right! I don't think we really liked each other very much! In fact I didn't like him, like him until middle school. One day he can up to me during lunch and said..."will you go out with me?" And I thought well I have nothing else to do, so sure and the rest is history...kinda! Of course that didn't last long! We remained friends all through school and after we both graduated from high school.
Ray moved out of state with the Army after graduation so we would talk on the phone every so often, or write letter, and I still have some of those letters! One day he called and said he had moved back, and he wated to come see me. He pulled up in front of my house and that was it for me. We were married 8 monthes later!
I love Ray for lots of reasons, but here a a few:
1: He loves me and loves our kids
2: He can sing...and he can rock amything from Tody Mac to Led Zeppelin
3: He is passionate about things
4: He makes me laugh all the time
5: He wants me to be happy...well expect last week when what would have made me happy were these super cute heels for Dilliards...and he thought I didn't need them!
6: He loves God and wants everyone to know Him
7: He thinks my jokes are funny...even when no one else does...which is alot!
8: He eats whatever I cook...even if it doesn't taste good he will eat it because he doesn't want too hurt my feelings
9: He brings me candy when he thinks I have had a long day...so thoughtful!
And 10: He loves me for me...and wants me to be me, and not anything else
Ray I met in 4th grade, and it was love at first sight....right! I don't think we really liked each other very much! In fact I didn't like him, like him until middle school. One day he can up to me during lunch and said..."will you go out with me?" And I thought well I have nothing else to do, so sure and the rest is history...kinda! Of course that didn't last long! We remained friends all through school and after we both graduated from high school.
Ray moved out of state with the Army after graduation so we would talk on the phone every so often, or write letter, and I still have some of those letters! One day he called and said he had moved back, and he wated to come see me. He pulled up in front of my house and that was it for me. We were married 8 monthes later!
I love Ray for lots of reasons, but here a a few:
1: He loves me and loves our kids
2: He can sing...and he can rock amything from Tody Mac to Led Zeppelin
3: He is passionate about things
4: He makes me laugh all the time
5: He wants me to be happy...well expect last week when what would have made me happy were these super cute heels for Dilliards...and he thought I didn't need them!
6: He loves God and wants everyone to know Him
7: He thinks my jokes are funny...even when no one else does...which is alot!
8: He eats whatever I cook...even if it doesn't taste good he will eat it because he doesn't want too hurt my feelings
9: He brings me candy when he thinks I have had a long day...so thoughtful!
And 10: He loves me for me...and wants me to be me, and not anything else
Thursday, February 11, 2010
stop scratching your butt....
I love that my kids are embarrassed by me, well my older kids! When I sing and dance they just leave the room, or ask me to stop. I wonder if they know that I will do it more because I know they don't like it.
I do not love that my kids embarrass me though! Like my kids who take great joy out of tooting in public, or the ones who will seriously stick their hand down the back of their pants to scratch their butt...no, I am not kidding! Oh how I do love them!
I'm sure my parents were embarrassed by me to many times to say...and mom please don't say! I can promise you of all the things I have done, I have never scratched my butt...in public! There was the time in middle school I shaved the back of my head, because I thought it was cool, as it turns out, it was not very cool! I have seen enough pictures of myself from middle school and younger to know that I dressed like a fool...thanks for that mom.
So I guess what goes around comes around as far as kids go! I hope my kids don't give me as much trouble as I gave my parents, but I think I turned out pretty good, but who am I to say! I sure I will continue to sing to loud,and dance to much and just all around make my kids crazy, and they will continue to scratch their butts and pick their noses in public...they must have learned these things from their Dad!
I do not love that my kids embarrass me though! Like my kids who take great joy out of tooting in public, or the ones who will seriously stick their hand down the back of their pants to scratch their butt...no, I am not kidding! Oh how I do love them!
I'm sure my parents were embarrassed by me to many times to say...and mom please don't say! I can promise you of all the things I have done, I have never scratched my butt...in public! There was the time in middle school I shaved the back of my head, because I thought it was cool, as it turns out, it was not very cool! I have seen enough pictures of myself from middle school and younger to know that I dressed like a fool...thanks for that mom.
So I guess what goes around comes around as far as kids go! I hope my kids don't give me as much trouble as I gave my parents, but I think I turned out pretty good, but who am I to say! I sure I will continue to sing to loud,and dance to much and just all around make my kids crazy, and they will continue to scratch their butts and pick their noses in public...they must have learned these things from their Dad!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
ahhhh life
Some days are harder then others, today is one of those days in the Foreman household! If someone wasn't peeing on the floor then another someone was climbing onto the kitchen table and throwing all the laundry onto the floor. In the middle of all of this I am trying to get us packed and sorted so we can move into the mission house so we can get ready to move to Virgina so we can get ready to move to Romania.... and it goes on and on!
I'm not sure why I thought this would be a good time to once again start potty training Timothy. He has gone to the bathroom everywhere but in the potty today...living room floor, kitchen chair, and probably somewhere else to be found another time!
I know I will get all our stuff packed and someday Timothy will be potty trained, hopefully before he starts school, but today has been a long day!
I'm not sure why I thought this would be a good time to once again start potty training Timothy. He has gone to the bathroom everywhere but in the potty today...living room floor, kitchen chair, and probably somewhere else to be found another time!
I know I will get all our stuff packed and someday Timothy will be potty trained, hopefully before he starts school, but today has been a long day!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Hmmmm, is butt a bad word?
So is butt a bad word? Last night we were all in the car, Ray and I were talking about church growth and church planting, then from the back seat I hear our oldest call out " the only thing I am planting is my butt on the couch." My first reaction was ahhh that's a bad word and not very funny. But then I thought about it and it was kinda funny. So why was I so upset about the word butt?
In my house growing up we were not allowed to say butt, it was a bad word. I never asked why, I never really questioned it. I did say it, and I'm sure I got in trouble for it. But no matter what I knew I was not supposed to say it. Well I carried that over to my family. My kids were not allowed to say butt. This was kind of a problem because Ray says butt (sorry honey, I had to call you out on that!) so my kids thought they can say it too. I felt like i was fighting an up hill battle.
So I did some research this morning, well really I just googled why is butt a bad word! And I found that is really not a bad word, there are a list of 8 words that people really consider bad words, and butt is not one of them. It is short for the word buttocks and that is not a bad word. Along with things like "oh my gosh" or "freakin" or any other slang word. We say these things in my house and most of us are pretty okay. Do people think butt is a "gate-way" word into a life of cussing? I think not....its just a word.
So in my house we will say the word butt, and say it proudly...just not around my mom!
Posted by RAYF at 6:01 AM
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In my house growing up we were not allowed to say butt, it was a bad word. I never asked why, I never really questioned it. I did say it, and I'm sure I got in trouble for it. But no matter what I knew I was not supposed to say it. Well I carried that over to my family. My kids were not allowed to say butt. This was kind of a problem because Ray says butt (sorry honey, I had to call you out on that!) so my kids thought they can say it too. I felt like i was fighting an up hill battle.
So I did some research this morning, well really I just googled why is butt a bad word! And I found that is really not a bad word, there are a list of 8 words that people really consider bad words, and butt is not one of them. It is short for the word buttocks and that is not a bad word. Along with things like "oh my gosh" or "freakin" or any other slang word. We say these things in my house and most of us are pretty okay. Do people think butt is a "gate-way" word into a life of cussing? I think not....its just a word.
So in my house we will say the word butt, and say it proudly...just not around my mom!
Posted by RAYF at 6:01 AM
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