I was sitting here reading other bloggers that I follow, and thought that I have blogged in a while, and didn't have anything interesting to blog about. But then I recalled this past Saturday.
There was a dance at the school for dad's and their daughters. (Father/Daughter dance) and Savannah so wanted to go, and was excited that this year she would be able to. Last year she did not because her dad was out of town with the youth of our church. So this year she got to take her dad. She had been thinking about it weeks before the dance. Deon and her would joke around and make up dances they were going to do at the dance. The day comes and they get ready and they head out the door. Which left me and Dalton, we played board games while they were at the dance. They come home about 10 mins till 10:00pm. Laughing and talking, and of course Savannah runs to me and the first thing out of her mouth is " Dad won 2nd place in Hula Hooping!!!" I about feel out into the floor. I said "Your dad hula hooped???" I continued saying" I didn't know you knew how to hula hoop Deon?" He laughed and said "I don't". Apparently that is how bad the other dads were at hula hooping. She won this cheap little trophy and some little girl make up. (lip glosses etc) I was so glad they had a good time. Them two always have a good time where ever they go together. They are so much alike its scary at times. She is Deon made over only of course she is a girl.
Brings me back to when she was born......May 30, 1999. The night before we were at some friends house hanging out, the guys had done some skeet shooting, and grilling out. I was to be induced on May 31st if she didn't come sooner. Later that night before we left I knew I had this funny feeling..a feeling I hadn't had before. With this being my first pregnancy I wasn't sure if I was having contractions or not. So I didn't say anything to anyone, and didn't want to worry Deon. We got home around 11:00pm and went on to bed. Deon feel asleep and I couldn't sleep because of this feeling I kept having that I was timing and was having every 20mins or so. Around a little after midnight I called my mom, and told her the whole situation and what I was feeling. After talking to her for about 30mins or so, she suggested that we go to the hospital because she believes I was having contractions. I then call my mother in law and tell her whats going on, and then I wake up Deon. He wakes up and I inform him that I believe I'm having contractions, at this point I'm about 10 mins apart. We pack our stuff, and head to the hospital. Which by the time I get there, they are closer together, and I would have to stop walking for a min. I get to the room, and about the time they check me I was almost 3 cm. A few hours later they gave me my epidural. (LOVE IT) and then it all came quick. I had Savannah 9:15 that morning.
The minute she came out the nurse looked at me and said "Wow she looks like her daddy". I looked at her and immediately knew she looked like Deon. There was going to be no way he could not say she was his. LOL I remember watching video of the family out in the hallway and Deon went out there to say hi, while they moved me to a room and Savannah was in the nursery. They could see her in the window, and they were all telling Deon how much Savannah looked like him. There aren't not a lot of babies I have seen that I could tell if they looked like their mom or dad that early, but with Savannah you could. Ever since that little girl was born she has her little finger wrapped around her daddy. He loves her very much and she loves him very much. (Not saying he doesn't love his son or Dalton doesn't love his dad) But there is something about a father/daughter bond. I'm blessed to have such a wonderful husband and two beautiful children. :)
February 24, 2010
February 16, 2010
There is a difference..
Well I sit here at home again! Yesterday we were out of school for Presidents Day, today is a different story. We are out of school for SNOW! Yes you heard me, out of school again for snow. You would think I lived in CO or NY but no I live in a small town, Tennessee. We usually get snow maybe twice a year, this year is the most we've gotten that I remember. They are actually calling for rain/snow this weekend, I actually hope its rain. We have cabin fever today. Had it yesterday too. Deon stayed home yesterday because of icy roads. He went in this morning, so its just the kids and I.
The point of me blogging this morning, is I keep thinking of our Sunday school lesson, this past Sunday. We've been talking about God, Marriage and the Family for about a year. Very good lessons. This past lesson was regarding discipline. Deon spoke up about having two children and how different their punishment is from each other. Savannah is more emotion, you just look at her and she'll crumble. Mostly with Deon, she does not like it when he gets onto her. Dalton, well he's another story. (laughing) He is ALL BOY! He is the definition of BOY! (laughing) He is stubborn. He is a mixture of me and his dad.
Well Sunday morning Dalton was sitting on the other side of Deon. Apparently Dalton was dozing off during the service. Deon kept tapping him to wake him up, and he kept going back to sleep, or was drawing. He was not paying attention or at least acting like he was paying attention during the service. So Deon starting writing down TV, DS, Wii, Computer, Radio. Then marking them off every time Dalton didn't do what Deon was quietly trying to get him to do. Finally after the third thing getting scratched out Dalton figured out what was going on.
After church services, we went out to eat with some friends of ours from church. In the truck, Deon starts telling Dalton the things he has lost. Then explains to him he has to Earn them back. I looked over at them two, and said "Oh that's a great idea". After lunch and returning home, Dalton starts thinking of things to do. He was asked to feed the animals, and gladly did it with out whining (which is what he usually does when asked to do something), he then on his own starts straiting up shoes in the utility room, and front of the house too. (without being asked) He took out the trash, without being asked. Then turns around later on during the day and said "Mom, you want me to wash the dishes?" I about feel out into the floor. I know my mouth flew open. I said yes, but lets wait till after supper when we get back from church. He said ok, and went off to play.
I am surprised of how this new punishment whatever you want to call it is working. We've done this type of stuff before by taking things away, but usually for a day, or sometimes a week, depending on what he or she did. This taking away stuff and having them earn it back (which I've heard this before just never tried it) is working a lot better. He's behaving better, so he can get the things back, He got his TV back yesterday morning, but ended up loosing it again yesterday afternoon, and losing his DS.
This morning...he has earned his DS and TV back for not complaining and whining about being bored or asking me when he'll get that stuff back. Which is what he has done in the past. Savannah has been extra good these two days so she doesn't lose this stuff. This house seems to be running smoothly. I have not yelled in two days @ these kids. I know they are happy about that, and makes me happy too. Because you know the saying " If momma isn't happy No One is happy".
"Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to you heart." (Prov. 29:17)
The point of me blogging this morning, is I keep thinking of our Sunday school lesson, this past Sunday. We've been talking about God, Marriage and the Family for about a year. Very good lessons. This past lesson was regarding discipline. Deon spoke up about having two children and how different their punishment is from each other. Savannah is more emotion, you just look at her and she'll crumble. Mostly with Deon, she does not like it when he gets onto her. Dalton, well he's another story. (laughing) He is ALL BOY! He is the definition of BOY! (laughing) He is stubborn. He is a mixture of me and his dad.
Well Sunday morning Dalton was sitting on the other side of Deon. Apparently Dalton was dozing off during the service. Deon kept tapping him to wake him up, and he kept going back to sleep, or was drawing. He was not paying attention or at least acting like he was paying attention during the service. So Deon starting writing down TV, DS, Wii, Computer, Radio. Then marking them off every time Dalton didn't do what Deon was quietly trying to get him to do. Finally after the third thing getting scratched out Dalton figured out what was going on.
After church services, we went out to eat with some friends of ours from church. In the truck, Deon starts telling Dalton the things he has lost. Then explains to him he has to Earn them back. I looked over at them two, and said "Oh that's a great idea". After lunch and returning home, Dalton starts thinking of things to do. He was asked to feed the animals, and gladly did it with out whining (which is what he usually does when asked to do something), he then on his own starts straiting up shoes in the utility room, and front of the house too. (without being asked) He took out the trash, without being asked. Then turns around later on during the day and said "Mom, you want me to wash the dishes?" I about feel out into the floor. I know my mouth flew open. I said yes, but lets wait till after supper when we get back from church. He said ok, and went off to play.
I am surprised of how this new punishment whatever you want to call it is working. We've done this type of stuff before by taking things away, but usually for a day, or sometimes a week, depending on what he or she did. This taking away stuff and having them earn it back (which I've heard this before just never tried it) is working a lot better. He's behaving better, so he can get the things back, He got his TV back yesterday morning, but ended up loosing it again yesterday afternoon, and losing his DS.
This morning...he has earned his DS and TV back for not complaining and whining about being bored or asking me when he'll get that stuff back. Which is what he has done in the past. Savannah has been extra good these two days so she doesn't lose this stuff. This house seems to be running smoothly. I have not yelled in two days @ these kids. I know they are happy about that, and makes me happy too. Because you know the saying " If momma isn't happy No One is happy".
"Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to you heart." (Prov. 29:17)
February 9, 2010
Looks like we'll be home again..
Well today has been a non productive day. Just being lazy. Kids have gone out in the snow a couple times this morning, and then after lunch I took them out for them to go sledding. Second time down the hill Dalton ran into a tree, smacked his leg pretty good, but looks like it is just going to be a good bruise. I was sooo afraid he broke it. The kids had fun sledding as they always do. It was great snow to sled, I went a couple of times. Then we walked back to the house and made some snow cream. I didn't realize that my children have Never had snow cream. But they loved it! We put the rest in the freezer. Don't know how that will be, but wanted to save some for Deon when he got home. Then after all that I get the call from our school's automated calling system, that we Will be out of school TOMORROW! Savannah said she was ready to go back, tired of being stuck at home. I am with her that.
Looks like I'll be going in to work actually. Because the food truck is still coming tomorrow, so some of us is going to go in and clean and unload the truck when he gets there. Hopefully he'll be there early. This is also going to be counted as a make up day, which is good since I don't get paid for snow days. : (
Well now its time to go straiten up the house, and get supper cooking.
Looks like I'll be going in to work actually. Because the food truck is still coming tomorrow, so some of us is going to go in and clean and unload the truck when he gets there. Hopefully he'll be there early. This is also going to be counted as a make up day, which is good since I don't get paid for snow days. : (
Well now its time to go straiten up the house, and get supper cooking.
February 8, 2010
Another snow day
Well, here we ago with snow day. But there isn't any snow on the ground. lol. About a week ago we did get some snow, around 6 to 8 inches. We were out of school for 2 days because of it, so had a long weekend. We had a blast sledding and having snowball fights. Now the snow has finally melted away, we are suppose to get 2 to 4 inches today. They are mostly saying for later this afternoon. I was Very surprised with the phone call from the school (automatic calling system) saying school was closed today because of incoming weather. Which the incoming weather statement cracks me up. The kids got to sleep in some, and were also surprised by waking up and no having to go to school. Husband was also surprised to see us when he woke up because we are already out of the house when he wakes up. Lol Here it is 1:15pm and nothing on the ground. :( Memphis and part of MS has gotten some, and also AK, which our snow is suppose to be coming from AK. The weatherman said our chances got stronger more into the day. I'm guessing the went ahead and called out school b/c didn't want to have to close school early, b/c that is catoic when they do close early. So looks like we'll be sitting here waiting on snow. (Sounds like a country music song lol )
February 7, 2010
Background
Hello readers. I'm new to this blogging, well actually on a real blog site. I have a few friends who use this site, and I enjoy reading their blogs and so I thought I would join the blogging world. : ) The reason I wanted to start blogging is because the change that is happening in my family this year. Actually the change started a few ago, so I guess this is more like the next step in this change. But I will get into that in a little bit, or might hold that out for the next post for another day. First I want to talk about my family.
My name is Ginny Barnes, born in Union City, TN. I am married to Deon Barnes (also born in UC, TN), we have been married for 11 1/2 years. We are blessed with two beautiful children; a daughter, Savannah Rose 10 1/2 years old and a 5th grader at Lake Road Elementary and a son, Dalton Nicholas 9 years old and a 3rd grader at Lake Road. I am employed at the school Lake Road Elementary school where I work in the cafeteria as a cook and help do the cash register and my mother in law is the manager. (Yes, I work for my mother in law, she's a great mil :) ) Deon is a auto tech at a shop located in Troy, TN about a 10 min drive from where we live. He's been a auto tech for over 10 years.
A about 4 years ago Deon was called to become a preacher. At this time we were members of a Methodist church. He started the progress becoming a preacher in Methodist church, was a lay speaker at the church we attended while in this progress. While doing all that we left the Methodist church and became Cumberland Presbyterian church. He then started the progress under the care of the church. Started preaching at a little country church for about a year. Then things started happening in the CP church that we didn't agree with. So we left the CP church. We then moved our membership to a new church in Union City, TN which is called Grace Community Church which is now a PCA (Presbyterian Church of America). We are also the part of the small group that got the church going with the help of God. During all this Deon started college (Bethel University, in McKenzie, TN) where we went to a class once a week at night. This was very stressful on him and this family but again with God's help we got through it. He graduated from college in Dec. 2009.
Now that he is done with college its now the next step. Looking for a seminary school for him to attend so he can become a ordained preacher. There are no PCA seminary's in this area. So we knew the possibly of having to move. I was not happy with this at all at first, and didn't want to talk about it when Deon would bring it up. I guess I thought it would go away if I didn't talk about it. But of course it didn't go away. So I finally started talking to Deon about it. There were three schools he looked at, one was in North Carolina, Mississippi and Missouri. The one in St. Louis, MO was the closet hours from here in Union City. Let me mention that Deon or myself have never lived anywhere but here in Union City. We were born here. We've traveled of course but never actually lived out of UC. So this idea was scary to me and him both. His family are here. We live 1 minute from his parents. (Yes, I live next door to my in laws, like I said they are great ) I then knew we would be taking our kids away from their family and friends. And we were going to be leaving a great bunch of people at our church (GCC). We started going to the church and meeting new people and never felt more like home than any other church I've attended in my life. They are friendly, great listeners, and loves going to worship God more than anyone I've met. I've learned a lot at this church through God putting these people in my life, and now I was going to leave them. We decided on Covenant Theology Seminary in St. Louis, MO. I know God pointed us in this direction. After the choice was made, I then thought how am I going to tell my children, that we were going to move 3 1/2 hours away from the only home they have ever known, and having to tell our family and friends. Which of course they all knew he was going to have to go seminary school, but I'm not sure they knew we were going to move away.
We first told our daughter, Savannah. She of course wasn't happy about it at all. Her first concern was leaving her family (grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousin) then her best friend, Mendi. Her and Mendi have been best friends since kindergarten. After explaining the situation to her, and more she thought about it she became some ok with it. She just doesn't know how to tell Mendi that she would be moving this summer. ( I'm not sure either, I feel for her on this) Then we told some friends that it was possible that we would be moving this summer, and of course told our parents. His parents had a idea, b/c we had talked about it before, but when we told them we for sure that this was happening, they were saddened. Which I understand, we of course told them we would be back for visits etc. But I know it still want be the same for them or us. I also told my parents, which live 10 hours away from us in Ft. Walton, FL. They moved down there around 6 years ago. They to aren't that thrilled about this either. Of course this is a big change for everyone in our lives. But I know this is God's plan for us. This is what Deon is called to do. He has been being called into the ministry for as long as I've known him. (I've known for 13 yrs) He was just trying to ignore the calling, but you cannot ignore the calling from God, He won't let you ignore it.
So this is why I wanted to start a blog. So I can document everything from now on. Of course be able to blog while living in St. Louis. People have asked if we will move back here after he graduates from seminary. Of course we don't know that answer, only God knows and he'll let us know when the time comes.
Now that you are caught up with my family and can now join our journey the progress of moving to a new city and state, and Deon and the kids starting new schools. Everything is going to be New to us.
My name is Ginny Barnes, born in Union City, TN. I am married to Deon Barnes (also born in UC, TN), we have been married for 11 1/2 years. We are blessed with two beautiful children; a daughter, Savannah Rose 10 1/2 years old and a 5th grader at Lake Road Elementary and a son, Dalton Nicholas 9 years old and a 3rd grader at Lake Road. I am employed at the school Lake Road Elementary school where I work in the cafeteria as a cook and help do the cash register and my mother in law is the manager. (Yes, I work for my mother in law, she's a great mil :) ) Deon is a auto tech at a shop located in Troy, TN about a 10 min drive from where we live. He's been a auto tech for over 10 years.
A about 4 years ago Deon was called to become a preacher. At this time we were members of a Methodist church. He started the progress becoming a preacher in Methodist church, was a lay speaker at the church we attended while in this progress. While doing all that we left the Methodist church and became Cumberland Presbyterian church. He then started the progress under the care of the church. Started preaching at a little country church for about a year. Then things started happening in the CP church that we didn't agree with. So we left the CP church. We then moved our membership to a new church in Union City, TN which is called Grace Community Church which is now a PCA (Presbyterian Church of America). We are also the part of the small group that got the church going with the help of God. During all this Deon started college (Bethel University, in McKenzie, TN) where we went to a class once a week at night. This was very stressful on him and this family but again with God's help we got through it. He graduated from college in Dec. 2009.
Now that he is done with college its now the next step. Looking for a seminary school for him to attend so he can become a ordained preacher. There are no PCA seminary's in this area. So we knew the possibly of having to move. I was not happy with this at all at first, and didn't want to talk about it when Deon would bring it up. I guess I thought it would go away if I didn't talk about it. But of course it didn't go away. So I finally started talking to Deon about it. There were three schools he looked at, one was in North Carolina, Mississippi and Missouri. The one in St. Louis, MO was the closet hours from here in Union City. Let me mention that Deon or myself have never lived anywhere but here in Union City. We were born here. We've traveled of course but never actually lived out of UC. So this idea was scary to me and him both. His family are here. We live 1 minute from his parents. (Yes, I live next door to my in laws, like I said they are great ) I then knew we would be taking our kids away from their family and friends. And we were going to be leaving a great bunch of people at our church (GCC). We started going to the church and meeting new people and never felt more like home than any other church I've attended in my life. They are friendly, great listeners, and loves going to worship God more than anyone I've met. I've learned a lot at this church through God putting these people in my life, and now I was going to leave them. We decided on Covenant Theology Seminary in St. Louis, MO. I know God pointed us in this direction. After the choice was made, I then thought how am I going to tell my children, that we were going to move 3 1/2 hours away from the only home they have ever known, and having to tell our family and friends. Which of course they all knew he was going to have to go seminary school, but I'm not sure they knew we were going to move away.
We first told our daughter, Savannah. She of course wasn't happy about it at all. Her first concern was leaving her family (grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousin) then her best friend, Mendi. Her and Mendi have been best friends since kindergarten. After explaining the situation to her, and more she thought about it she became some ok with it. She just doesn't know how to tell Mendi that she would be moving this summer. ( I'm not sure either, I feel for her on this) Then we told some friends that it was possible that we would be moving this summer, and of course told our parents. His parents had a idea, b/c we had talked about it before, but when we told them we for sure that this was happening, they were saddened. Which I understand, we of course told them we would be back for visits etc. But I know it still want be the same for them or us. I also told my parents, which live 10 hours away from us in Ft. Walton, FL. They moved down there around 6 years ago. They to aren't that thrilled about this either. Of course this is a big change for everyone in our lives. But I know this is God's plan for us. This is what Deon is called to do. He has been being called into the ministry for as long as I've known him. (I've known for 13 yrs) He was just trying to ignore the calling, but you cannot ignore the calling from God, He won't let you ignore it.
So this is why I wanted to start a blog. So I can document everything from now on. Of course be able to blog while living in St. Louis. People have asked if we will move back here after he graduates from seminary. Of course we don't know that answer, only God knows and he'll let us know when the time comes.
Now that you are caught up with my family and can now join our journey the progress of moving to a new city and state, and Deon and the kids starting new schools. Everything is going to be New to us.
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