tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59065442643818312822024-02-06T22:17:32.073-08:00Ramblings of a real housewifeThe ramblings on of a real housewife, dealing with normal housewife things, family, kids, and life in general.Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-27771022279867899762012-08-27T11:43:00.003-07:002012-08-27T11:43:34.801-07:00I'm baaaaackI know I know, I said I would update better this time, but you know how it goes, time gets away from you, kids grow, vacation time starts and ends, school starts again, holidays come and go and still time keeps on going, how does that happen? In the blink of an eye your little babies are starting kindergarten, one is graduating this year and all you can do is look back and sigh at how fast Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-35140110456156737782012-02-01T22:18:00.000-08:002012-02-01T22:18:55.800-08:00RejectionHave you ever been rejected? Have you ever walked into a room and felt every single eye turn on you and feel your skin crawl? Ever felt that when people came up to you and shook your hand and you saw the glazed look in their eye and knew that they would rather be anywhere than where they are at that moment.
Rejection comes in many forms, a guy you have a crush on in high school, a Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-44682972142523926282011-12-09T20:09:00.001-08:002011-12-09T20:29:08.057-08:00Something missing...There is something missing, I just don't fully know what it is yet. I have a great life, a wonderful husband, 6 beautiful kids (who I love dearly but want to strangle on a daily basis), I do all of the background work for our electrical business, and I help with our ministry. My days are full and sometimes don't end until way after a normal bedtime, and sometimes begin before the sun Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-60026760451943084762011-11-27T15:23:00.001-08:002011-11-27T20:58:55.153-08:00It's been a while...quick updateWow, it has been a while since I posted on here, things have been a bit crazy, we have had so much going on. It might be a while between posts until after Christmas and things settle down in my house. I guess it is time to catch everyone up on what has been going on.
Our ladies in our ministry have really been stepping up and helping me with everything I have had going on, they have Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-54032516306175342922011-11-17T20:05:00.001-08:002011-11-17T20:38:09.451-08:00My friend Dan DuganWe just got a call today about a good friend of ours who had suddenly passed away. We are still in shock, not quite sure about anything because all we know is that he passed away on Monday at his daughters house. I am just glad he was at his daughters house, he loved his daughter so much. I have never met her, but I feel like I know her. My girls are going to miss him, Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-20401424927847648722011-11-15T21:18:00.001-08:002011-11-15T21:43:20.299-08:00Christ For the NationsTonight we took our youth group to Christ For the Nations. It was awesome!! For those of you who don't know, Christ For the Nations is a bible college in Dallas. They offer something called Tuesday Night Experience, they open the college for anyone who wants to come and listen to amazing worship music (a lot of the music graduates end up with awesome music careers in the Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-69904398129626068002011-11-13T20:35:00.001-08:002011-11-13T21:00:47.367-08:00What a beautiful day!!!Today was just an absolutely beautiful day! It was georgeous outside, the sun was shining, the pancakes were flowing and the bees were buzzing. Let me back up and explain.
This morning, we took the family to Spiral Diner in Ft. Worth.
For those of you who don't know, it is a vegan restaurant, the food is pricy, but it is worth it because it is GOOD. Everything Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-45425482113126451382011-11-07T21:14:00.000-08:002011-11-07T21:14:12.003-08:00When I grow up I wanna be...This question has haunted me my whole life. What do I want to be when I grow up? I am 30 years old and I still haven't figured it out yet.
Since I was old enough to talk I said I wanted to be a singer. I still do, but I am to afraid to really go anywhere with it because I desperatly want to be good and I am horribly afraid that someone is going to tell me that I am not Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-71669384325970773472011-11-05T23:10:00.000-07:002011-11-05T23:10:27.543-07:00FriendshipsToday's blog started out being about what we did today, but I think I am going to post about that tomorrow when I have all the pics uploaded, because it just won't be the same without all the awesome pics. Instead this post is going to be about friendships. The reason I changed it last minute is because something just came to me (one of those moments I talked about yesterday that Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-49420624838717461992011-11-03T21:29:00.000-07:002011-11-03T21:30:33.244-07:00Creative process...or notI don't know what the deal is, all day long I can come up with the most amazing things that I want to write about when I get home, I finally get everything at home done and sit down at the computer, and immediately draw the biggest blank. Sometimes I just stare at the blinking curser and imagine it is laughing at me and slowly sucking the imagination, interestingness (is that even a word?&Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-44535066780394537752011-11-02T21:52:00.000-07:002011-11-03T21:29:44.854-07:00Sister wives???
So for a while I have heard people talk about this show online on their facebook pages and things like that, but I don't have cable and TLC doesn't do full episodes online, besides I am to busy catching up on the good shows like Modern Family, Hoarders, Body of Proof and when it is on Beyond Scared Straight on abc.com and a&e.com so I hadn't had a chance to watch it. Lo and behold, Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-27197074514524275302011-11-01T21:48:00.000-07:002011-11-03T21:30:20.946-07:00I have arrived...Ok at least in my opinion I have. Today when I logged into my blog for the first time since I posted last week I think it was (sorry guys I went to San Antonio for a week to spend some quality time with my family, my grandpa who is on hospice, my grandma who isn't doing very well, my mom who does way to much and my brother who is developing himself into someone I am quickly becoming so veryBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-20387619659294336962011-10-23T13:50:00.000-07:002011-10-23T13:50:22.447-07:00Whatever happened to...What ever happened to being a kid? I ask this because when I think back to when I was between the ages of 12 and 18, I had fun. Yeah I had my share of boyfriends, homework, grounding (don't even get me started on that one I have more than enough experience with that to last me 6 lifetimes), chores, babysitting, and not doing good in school...but I had so much fun, school dances, trickBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-12671628643130677052011-10-16T23:38:00.000-07:002011-10-16T23:38:35.458-07:00San Antonio...and grandpaSo this weekend we went to San Antonio, I love going to San Antonio! I was born there, raised there until I was 11 and my family lives there. If I had it my way, I would go visit like every single weekend. We stayed at the Menger Hotel by the riverwalk (do a search, it is supposedly haunted, but I don't think so), I got to see my uncle who I haven't seen since I was like 13 or Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-919635144693546912011-10-09T22:35:00.000-07:002011-10-09T22:35:29.868-07:00WeekendsWeekends are for a normal family, a time to relax, time to sit back and really do nothing. Notice I said a normal family. If I have ever given the impression that we are a normal family, I assure you, we are not. Our weekends are hectic, they are crazy, they are loud, there is a lot of running around screaming like crazy people, there is a lot of kids screaming "she touched me, Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-71398951188172936602011-10-05T22:05:00.000-07:002011-10-05T22:07:02.805-07:00Grandpa...tell me 'bout the good old days...Yes that is a Judd's song, my favorite of all time. Not because it is catchy, not because they sing it really really good, not because of anything other than it is my grandpa and my song. As far back as I can remember, I would always say "Grandpa" in that way when he would say something really silly like carrots (caruts is how he would say it, you see my grandpa is from England and Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-53953831753894321652011-10-02T21:58:00.000-07:002011-10-02T21:59:25.716-07:00Church and bedtime...Well today was the first time in a while that we went to church. Jimmy and I got up early, got ready and rode the bike to visit a local church. We don't have a church home which will shock a lot of you, our church home is the prison, and our support group. We have church wherever God leads us to have church at the time, if it is at our kitchen table, so be it, if it is a group Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-2216266076086054302011-09-30T21:56:00.000-07:002011-09-30T21:56:58.979-07:00Remember what is importantTonight I had the scare of my life. There are moments where you think the worst, and then there are moments where you fear the worst in the pit of your stomach so strongly that you could throw up just to make it go away. I had one of the latter tonight.
Jimmy goes to the prison every Friday night to do our bible study with the guys at the unit. Normally he is done between 9:15 Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-20537598867841836222011-09-29T22:37:00.000-07:002011-09-29T22:38:01.917-07:00Rain, glorious rainWho knew that when I posted about how awful and hot, and dry and just yucky it is, that the very next night we would get rain?! How exciting it is, and how desperately needed. Of course it didn't rain enough to get us out of the extreme drought conditions we are in, but it was enough to get everyone excited about it.
I have been working at putting Sierra and Ella to bed at a decent Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-53393091226032642542011-09-28T22:48:00.000-07:002011-09-29T22:38:33.723-07:00Yard WorkYes, you read it right. Yard work, I have decided that yard work and I have a love/hate relationship. I love doing yard work, it is fun and tiring and rewarding to see your beautiful yard when you have slaved in the heat and been scratched and dirt is so thick under your nails that you would think you have things growing under them (your own walking personal garden). But boy is Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5906544264381831282.post-56266579698465663762011-09-26T12:44:00.000-07:002011-09-26T12:44:33.314-07:00IntroductionsHello! I have decided to start this over again, a new start and since no one read the previous posts, I deleted them, my blog and I can do what I want ;)
So here are my introductions to my life with a few pics so that as I go further along, you will know who I am talking about.
This is me and the love of my life, my wonderful husband of 6 years (as of 5 days ago). He is the most Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16722271213887722966noreply@blogger.com0