The Threat--Is it really over?

Well, we survived the week. 

It was a tough week. On Monday when the kids got home we got a letter and a phone call saying there had been a threat recieved against an unspecified school in San Antonio. (read about that here...http://nisd.net/news/articles/53841) 

Well there are a lot of schools in San Antonio. The email was specific. Mass violence on Thursday. (read clips from the email in this article...http://www.ksat.com/news/school-threat-has-parents-worried/25604692)

It's unclear if it was just to Northside School District (this is the one we are in) or another one but all the the districts and schools were on high alert. But now it's Thursday and nothing happened. But did nothing happen? Is it really over?

One thing that happened is that the school lost money. I do feel guilty about that. But I just couldn't live with the regret of sending them and them having to live through something horrible. 
The police did say they didn't think it was "credible" and it was okay and safe to send your kids to school. So I trusted them all week, but I just couldn't do it today. 

But is that what he wanted (whoever sent this) the schools to loose money? Or now that it's "over" is he planning another attack now that the high security is not there? 
I am really scared to send them on Monday again now. But I have found some verses that I am going to be praying over myself, and our schools and the kids...

Philippians 4:6 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your request to God.

Psalms 55:22
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Psalms 46:1 
God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.

And I'm going to trust God to ease my fear...But I really do believe it's not over!!
Please keep us in your prayers.

Exciting things!!

Here are some updates about our family!

Taylor got A-B honor roll her first 9 nine weeks! There are parts she likes about middle school but mostly she hates it :( middle school is hard.
But she did get picked to sing in a children's choir for The Story Tour!! She gets to hang out backstage and meet the artist and she's super excited!!  Jeremy and I get to go to so I need a babysitter for the boys and Daphne if any one is interested...

Will got A honor roll and he's reading on a third grade level! Drake is doing awesome in school too and has completed his goals in speech so I have to go on Friday to find out what happens next.

Will and Drake are busy practicing for Kid's Praise. It's on Dec 2nd at 6 pm! Come hear them! It's a Christmas program this year. :)

So that's all our exciting news for now...more later...;)

Going Back

The holidays are coming fast. Normally, I love the holidays, but this year I'm a little sad for them to come. I haven't even gone to see my grandma since the funeral. I feel like such a bad granddaughter, but the truth is she's not there anymore anyway. And I miss her. And I miss grandpa. And that's why I'm not looking forward to the holidays this year.

Pray!!

I love my little house. I don't really care for my neighborhood, but do you really know an area before you move to it?? (okay yes sometimes, we would be moving to an area that we have lived before).
Our neighborhood is newish so it is still learning. We are in the beginning stages of thinking about maybe it's time to move to a bigger house. We have and still do discuss how to fit everyone here. Luckily everyone is still little enough that being so close and on top of each other isn't that big of a deal. But Taylor is getting older.... So that being said, these opportunities keep just kinda "falling' in our lap. Coincidence??? Or is God telling us something....
So please pray. We are going to "try" this recent one that has come to our attention. We are going to look and then we will decide if we should move forward. So we will have to figure out what to do with this small house, and I know that if it is fated to happen then with prayer and trust in God it will all be figured out.

Lost!!

I lost Will in Walmart the other day. It was terrible. I lost Drake at Sea World, but that was only for like 1 min, and I found him going to the life guard to say he was lost as I was going to the life guard to say I lost him. That was a terrifing moment too, but losing Will was the longest 10 mins of my life....Here's the story, so Will sees a friend and wants to go say hi. I say no, stay with us. So we walk a little further, I turn a corner to look at something and turn around and Will is gone. He went to find his friend, and when he came back to where we were he started wondering in the opposite direction because he didn't know where we went. So I'm running up and down the aisle we turned off of (one of the main aisles) and calling him, and freaking out....I see a Walmart employee and tell them what has happened and they call Code Adam. I'm still freaking and running up and down the aisle. Then Taylor says mom, they're cancelling the Code Adam, and I'm freaking still... up and down pacing, when they come find me, and take me to Will (he was in the jewelry department) I can't say Thank you enough, I want to just hug all the Walmart people! But instead I'm bawling holding my bawling boy...He kept saying I thought you were going to leave without me. As we are finally walking/shopping again, he kept saying this. I stopped in the store and looked him in the eye and told him, I would camp out there before I ever left that store without you to make him understand. He got it.

I've been feeling lost lately. Lonely really. I don't get it. I guess it's the weather? I always wondered how someone could feel so lonely when so many people surround them. But now it happens to me more than it used to and well I really still don't get how I can feel so lonely/down when I have so many people surrounding me. I think it has to do with being liked and I feel really unliked right now. And left out. I know it's not true...But Max's sermons have really helped lately...I will get through this, it won't be easy, it won't be painless....and he brings me through these times for a reason...

Countdown

So Will lost his first tooth!! He's so excited. The tooth fairy left him a dollar and a dollar gold coin. He remembered that is 200 pennies so he keeps saying I have $200 dollars!!! Instead of cents. It's too cute.
So as fast as this year has started, I am already realizing Daphne is almost a year old!!!
In 7 weeks she will turn one.
In about 15 weeks I will have an first grader, second grader, and a SIXTH grader....oh my!!!
Life has started going at race car speed! I remember being 15 and wondering what it all would be like at this age. Then it felt like the years never ended. Now I wish they would slow down!! =)

Super Bowl Fun!!

We weren't planning on watching the Super Bowl. I had set the TIVO and we were just going to maybe start it late so we could fast forward though the game and just watch the commercials.  We aren't a big football family. Well, any sport really, but we do enjoy a good game. So Jeremy started cooking the chili and I was just going to watch a little bit and pause it, let some time run so I could click through the game to the next commercial set. Then Taylor started talking about how she was going to rout for the Patriots because PawPaw said they were favored to win. I wanted the Giants to win. Soo... Then we started betting, Jeremy joined in and that was that...we had to watch the game!! We started out with a $10 bet. Which turned into a clean the kitchen bet!! I'm so glad the Giants pulled back up there at the end!!! ;)
The halftime show was pretty awesome too!! Madonna's still got it!! A little slower and she lost her footing at one point, but she played it off very well. It was a fun halftime.
The commercials were great too. My favorites were M&M's, the yogurt one with John Stamos, Ferris Buller (Matthew Broderick playing hokey), the vampire party, Elton John Pepsi and The Voice with Betty White!
What were your favorites??