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You know you are getting old when you go for your annual check up and you get a requistion for your FIRST mammogram...wow, that was a weird feeling! 

Molly has been paci free for 3 weeks now and is doing just fine...she sleeps through the night and only cries going to bed, which I'm not thinking is really missing the paci...it is just the fact of her not wanting to be put to bed.  She screams for like 5-10 minutes and then falls asleep.  She was anti-bed before we took the paci away though...going through a phase I guess. 

VBS was awesome but SOOOO  exhausting...I'm playing catch up now with laundry and house stuff...and school.  We have NO other plans for the rest of the summer so I plan to do spontaneous play dates and work on serving others...intentional acts of service (notice I didn't say random)...because truly it is the fact that Jesus is in my heart and in an intentional way I want us to act like he would and serve others...this week, I'm building up the nerve and gumption to go across the street and speak to my neighbor...she is different than me, a little strange, single mom, older kids, kind of unkept, just different...and I KNOW in my heart of hearts that Jesus wants me to reach out to her..I think we will make a lasagna and take it to them and see where it goes.  I say intentional too because this is hard for me, it is a struggle within, it is awkward...just being honest. 

Father's Day was a little anti-climatic...John worked, we went to church as usual, worked in the nursery, and my Dad took us to Outback...yep, I'm lame...Daddy paid for it!  I was thinking about this and I think the card I gave him said this.  He always takes care of us!  He wouldn't even think of having me and the kids pay for his and my mom's lunch...I just don't think he thinks about things like that...I'm still his girl and he wants to do for me and it means a lot considering that I wouldn't most likely go to Outback on a Sunday for lunch to eat steak...we would have gone home and eaten sandwiches.  I did make him and John cookies and I did buy him dessert the night before at Fuzions and introduce him to the world of natural frozen yogurt...and we got him a book by the General that I heard speak at the homeschool conference and a $25 gift certificate to Shulas (it was my Dad's bday too)...that I bought for $3 on restaurant.com...hopefully after taking Dave Ramsey's course at church, he can appreciate my cheapness....

I decided that for John's Father's Day present we would try our best to serve him...his love language is acts of service and I know a few things have been on his mind but with him helping so much with VBS, he hasn't gotten around to much yard stuff.  He had cut down a bunch of limbs a couple of weekends ago and they were all still laying on the groud in the yard.  So the kids and I cut up the limbs so that we could make stacks out by the rode.  It took about 2 hours in the hot sun in the middle of the afternoon but we did it!  We made 7 huge stacks of tree limbs, sticks, and such and cleaned up the yard.  The cold water in the hose felt so good!  We also cleaned out the van and vacuumed it and wiped the interior down.  We made him his favorite cookies and a nice dinner.  He ended up coming out in the yard and helping but said that it was a treasure having us out there helping...because he new it was a service and not something we were doing out of pleasure but just pleasure in serving him! 

I've had on more than one occasion the past week, someone tell me how wonderful my kids are..even Molly!  It really makes my heart happy!

The greatest fear that my mom has against computers and why she will NOT do any kind of automated bill pay or online banking came true for us this last week...there was a computer GLITCH within our bank...nationwide (we have a rather large bank that has branches across the US)....we got paid and John Paid all our monthly bills on Friday...and EVERY single banking customer that uses bill pay with the bank that paid bills on Friday had every single bill doubled...so for instance our mortgage went out TWICE and the utilities went out TWICE and so on...it was a nightmare and John freaked when he saw the balance and went to get donuts and the card was frozen, etc.  He waited on hold Saturday morning for 45 minutes and finally reached someone that said it as Bank Wide!  They had charged all kind of fees and frozen cards...it was crazy and the computer/banking people were going crazy trying to get it all fixed!  Wouldn't you have loved to be the one at that bank that got the CALL that morning...YIKES!  By Saturday night they had returned all money and fees but it was a mess...So to say the least, my mother will never use bill pay!