8 inch locker??

Who ever heard of such a thing? I have spent the day going from store to store to store to find shelving to fit a 8 inch wide locker. Do you have any idea how hard that is? The majority of lockers are 10-12 inches. I finally found a neat organizer at stacksandstacks.com that will fit. I had to order it overnight but I hope its worth it!

Teaching Compassion...

I got reminded today how important it is to teach your children compassion. The kids and I were coming home from a birthday party today and saw a homeless man with a sign that said "Just Plain Hungry". Once the kids read the sign, they immediately said "can we get that man some food?". My heart was warmed! We went to Taco Bell and get him a meal and soda. We drove back around the corner and gave the food to this man. As soon as he saw me with a bag of food, he stood up and mustered the most grateful smile and said "Oh my gosh, thank you so much!". I told him that God loved him and I gave him an invite card to come to our church. Remember that what you teach your children today will live with them forever and they will teach their kids the same and so on and so forth. Remind you kids today how important compassion is.

T minus one week and 5 days

Yup, it's almost time for the kids to be going back to school. WOW!! Summer is flying by, it feels like it just started. We love summertime and I can't believe it's almost over. Soon enough, the leaves will be changing and the smell of burning firewood will fill the evening air. My favorite season is definetly Fall and I look forward to it coming but I still will miss flipflops and swimming in the lake. Another thing I can't beleive is that I am the Mom of a middle schooler-AGH!! Am I really capible of being that old? I can I guess, as long as I am the cool Mom.

What Copper Does...

Yep, he's still a baby. He plays 20 minutes and sleeps 60. What a life huh? Someone to hold you, feed you, pet you and play with you. Not so bad. He enjoys these dog days of puppyhood :O)

Coppers first doctors appointment

Today Copper got his first check up. He is growing well and the vet said he's between 6-8 weeks old. He got his first shots. OUCH!! He also had an ear infection and had to be put on medication to heal that up. He's sleeping on our bed right now, culled up in a baby blankie :0)

Happy Birthday Sis!

Sunday is my older sister Tinas birthday. She and her family live in Bluemont so we don't get to see them as much as we'd like. She reads my blog so I wanted to make sure she got my well wishes.

It's a boy!!

Here is our newest child. His name is Copper because of the movie The Fox and the Hound. He is a mixed beagle breed. The puppy we looked at last night was picked up by his owner this morning so went to the SPCA in Fredericksburg to see if they had any puppies and they did'nt have any. On our way home we went back to the Spotsy shelter and there was a lady and her mom surrendering a puppy that they had found. It was our lucky day because they hadnt given him to the shelter yet and so we got him for free :o) How neat is that? He hopes you'll come see him soon!