Modest Clothing Concerns......SGK post

I got an email recently from Dannah Gresh regarding a petition they have for modest clothing for young girls. I have pasted it below. Please take a minute and sign the petition if you are concerned about the clothing available for your daughters or granddaughters, or even the girls that your sons/grandsons are seeing daily wherever they go.

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What petition? It was featured in USA TODAY yesterday. You can read the article here...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009-03-08-teens-modest-retail-clothes_N.htm

Our Bod Squad Petition is a collection of signatures from moms who say ³no² to sexy clothes for our girls and say ³yes² to retailers who provide age-appropriate adorable fashion. If that sounds like you, keep reading. The American Psychological Association has linked inappropriate fashion to things like eating disorders, depression and early sexual activity. We want the fashion industry to read that report! We need moms who blog to blog, blog, blog about this so we can make some noise and effect change in the fashion industry. Will you help?

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Boy, It's been a while...........

Boy, has it been a while! Last I posted was in November. Of course with November came Thanksgiving then the Christmas holiday. We had the kids choir musical at church, which 2 of the kids were in, RJ ran lights and Rod helped with sound. We had Christmas dinners/parties to attend. We celebrated Christmas with my husband's father, brother & his kids on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning is always spent with just us here at home. Then we went to Rod's Mom's side of the family gathering. That is always loads of fun. New Years Weekend we took off as soon as kids got home from their NYE All-Nighter & went to Tennessee to celebrate with my family. That was a long trip but fun to be with everyone. Everyone but my one brother & his family was there.

January brought a pain that we have never experienced before, and I pray we never experience again. Our nephew (Rod's brothers son) committed suicide on January 15th. When the phone rang at 2:30am on the 16th we knew it was not good, as the police and my BIL were all looking for him. We cried, we comforted each other, then we knew we would have to tell our children that their cousin had died. We have had death in our family but not like this.......It was sad time. We spent hours upon hours at my BIL's house, fixing food, making sure they had what they needed, just being there. The funeral was extremely hard. Continue to keep the family in prayer - my BIL and several other family members are not saved.

February brought waves of sickness through our house. All three of the kids had strep throat and Rod had a nasty case of bronchitis that required shots and breathing treatments and knocked him totally flat on his back for a week. Nothing like any bronchitis I have ever seen before. Thankfully I did not get sick.

In January, right before our nephew died, I started subbing daily for a teacher that was going on maternity leave. I started out with just doing after care and she continued doing her afternoon class. Then the first of February I started doing her class in addition to after-care. That was a good experience and I had fun - tons of prep work though! HA! She came back to work this week so I am back to subbing on an as needed basis (which is 3 days this week already LOL). Subbing is great and I enjoy it but working every day is not for me! HA! I enjoy being home doing what God has called me to do.

Well, that is a 4 month update from us! This weekend is Fine Arts Festival so I am sure I will have pictures and updates to share!

It was time..........

After 25 years (give/take) our alarm clock died! We have been using one I had gotten in high school and it finally stopped working to the point I couldn’t handle messing with it anymore. I could only change the time and alarm by the ‘slow’ button – the fast button would not work anymore, and well you can imagine how long it was taking to change the alarm from a 7am alarm back to the normal 6 am alarm! So I gave in and went and bought a new one. This one you can move the time forward and backward (so a 7am wake up to a 6 am will be a short back ward move of an hour) and it has 2 alarms AND it is one that sets itself when power goes out or it is unplugged, etc. I think I will like it! But I was sad when I tossed my old one from high school!

A Good Week

We had a good week and got back into routine fairly quickly after the kids had been gone 2 weeks! They gladly did school and did it in a timely manner, they helped around the house and I was SO glad to have them home!!
Outside of normal things we did not do much else. On Wednesday at church, our youth pastor is doing a series on Siblings and each week he is having 2 sets of siblings (in the youth group) play a game - to see how well they know their sibling(s) they are playing with. Last week RJ & B played. They each had to answer 3 questions about the other that the Youth Pastor picked and they each got 2 of the 3 right. Brandi got what RJ's nick name was on his summer ball team right as well as what his favorite song is to play on his guitar. She missed what number or name was on his Carolina Panthers jersey. The questions RJ got right were what number Brandi's fall ball jersey had on it and what boy signed her arm (instead of shirt like they do) at summer camp. He missed what song her small ensemble is doing for FAF. They won the game "Whoonu". We will be playing it soon.
Rod was sick at the end of the week, started out somewhere around Wednesday and just got worse. I believe he had the upper respitory flu. He had to work over both Wednesday and Thursday. Friday he woke up and couldn't hardly stand up so he stayed home from work and I gave him nyquil/dayquil as well as some vitamin C, zinc and echinacea. He sounded a whole lot better last night and went to work this morning. I hope he doesn't have a set back.
Tonight we have some Master's Commission students staying with us after they do a drama workshop for our youth group, so I need to get busy. I have a few things to finish up at the house as well as my normal Monday running (picking B up from her babysitting job, and she has flute lesson today). Have a great week!!

Redoing the girls room!

I redid the girls room while they were gone. They were quite surprised when they got home. I didn't want to post pictures prior to them coming home just in case my mom was reading the blog with them close by :)

We cleared out the room, painted, rearranged furniture and cleaned it all up for them! We will be putting new curtains up as soon as they are done but the pictures don't have the windows covered yet!

They have been instructed that it must stay this way! HAHA!

YAY!!!!

YAY!!! Tonight after Rod got off work, we left to go to Lexington to pick up the kids!!
We were all SO excited to see each other again! Two weeks is a long time to be away from the kids!
Rod & I had some time to go out and do some different things together while they were gone but we are both very glad to be all together again.
We will be spending the weekend at my brothers with his family, my sister & her family and my parents. We will be leaving to come home early Sunday morning so we can be at the church in time for FAF practices.

Guitar Fun!!

Today the kids went to Nashville with Grandma & Grandpa. This morning while at the Opryland Mall, they visited a Gibson Music Store (for those of you who may not know both RJ & Rod play guitar and both have guitars that Gibson makes).

So while they are there at the music store, Dad sends me the following picture:

RJ is playing a Gibson Epiphone Zach Wylde version guitar. I think he was having fun playing it but the price tag was startling him a bit! HA!

Later this afternoon, Rod & I decided to use a gift certificate we had gotten last Christmas and go out to dinner. So we headed to Montrose and ate dinner. When we were done, Rod said 'Hey I want to run by guitar center and see if they have any guitars like my acoustic" so we went. While he was looking at the acoustic guitars, I had a brillant idea! So I said I'll be right back. Next thing Rod knows, he is playing the guitar below:

I took a picture on my cell phone and sent it to my dad! HA! Now they can both say they played the same guitar on the same day but hundreds of miles apart! LOL I just couldn't resist!

I'll post more on what the kids have been up later this weekend!!