http://jenniferlamphear.com My blog about ... well, everything! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:31:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week has been very emotional with Riley starting Kindergarten.  She doesn't know if she is coming or going....she loves it, but misses me, but is having fun and tired at the same time.  New routines...new bed times.... it is an adjustment.  Of course, I have a huge light bulb ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=212 Here goes....First THANKS 91.9 for having stream....I am listening to your music, the sounds of wind, waves and birds....  Makes me wonder why in the world we all don't move to the coast of somewhere. Set up: Check into the HOTEL...change and hit the waves.  We have built this trip up for the ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=211 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTLGWYskQlc  A must listen!  Last night we went to have ice cream for dinner at Brusters.  91.9 was sponsoring free ice cream..so it was a total no-brainer.  Just as we left the thunder started....as we pulled in the rain began... it was the most perfect night for family time.  We all ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=210 Well, Jonny is the teacher of today's blog.  This weekend we had been discussing something and I decided to let him mull over it for a while before diving in to do my "this is the right thing...so do it" mommy mode.  Turns out it was a good choice and ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=207 If you know us....you know that one real nights sleep out of a month is something treasured.  After these many years....you adjust... and it feels "normal"....so it is not that bad....some people look at me strangely when I say, "Oh I got up at 3 today"  I am a "once ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=206 I am using this opportunity to talk to you about something that you might find a little uncomfy...but I have to say it....take it for what it is worth and apply as necessary where necessary! I was shocked a couple of months ago when something that I kept hidden in my heart flew ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=205 I am going to explain how our maximum "love level" is different within each of us....and I will of course us my fabulous kids as an example! As a bedtime routine we do cuddles and loves.  There is a total routine to it and it goes like this.  Jonny is first ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=204 Well, my time in the garden this morning was very interesting.  I have always liked John chapter 15 about the vine and branches.... I really never understood the "cut off the branches that don't bear fruit"  I have always looked at it  as a failure of some kind...like you go ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=203 Well, here is the topic... from Matthew 5:13.... I grew up hearing this...you are the salt of the earth...all I could picture in my head was a salt lick.... I know...why?  I am not sure...because I grew up in the desert.... and I always just thought....ewww, gross! I like the way the ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=202 I have been trying to process that comment made to me yesterday.... the sounds of sympathy that were hanging in the air, the immense sense that I must somehow be suffering....want to know the circumstances surrounding that statement? I was on carpool pickup for school.  I had planned to stop by ... http://jenniferlamphear.com/?p=200