Reflections and things to be thankfull for

This morning I realized that I have several things to celebrate:
1. I have had custody of my kids just over 3 years
2. I have been separated from my ex wife for just over 4 years
3.Out of my parents' house for just under 2 years.
4. In 25 days I will have been married to my wonderful wife, Julie for 2 years
5.In spite of the severe testing of her kindness, patience, and sanity, my wife hasn't gone crazy after living with me for just under 2 years.

For all of the above. I am truly grateful and feel exceptionally blessed.

Also, I am still employed at the same place I was at when my first marriage died..... I am grateful for the employment... but can anyone help me get a job that pays a bit better without so many important memories associated with it????


LOL , but serious as well..

The tree is finally out of my front yard and an update on my life in general.

I may never do things the easy way, but I can honestly say that after digging at and chopping out the roots, pushing it over with a little help from my neighbors down the street, and choping the trunk off the roots.... my dead tree is now in my backyard and done by my own hands minus the actual pushing it down because my neighbor did come by to help.

For the most part I believe my life could be summed up as work, sleep, and see my family occasionally and spend entirely too much time looking for a better job that may or may not be closer to home.

While the wife and kids are away, I play???

Sadly enough, I will be playing more than I work, but only if you consider the invigorating efforts of working inthe yard, play. I'm hoping to get a tree down today and by the end of tomorrow the gravel dug out from under the fence on my west side. I may even blog more today since.

Question for a paper I'm writing for school. I need an answer

Do children of divorced parents preserve the ties between their parents that were disolved in the divorce?


Please comment on this, especially those who have experience in this. I believe that in some ways they do and would like to have other perspectives.

I think I officially have a music download addiction problem

Hello,

I can honestly say that I look forward to when my free trial of zune to end because I can go back to buying my music and possibly cut back on my music consumption..... I think I've downloaded at least 1 GB of music per day with everything from soundtracks of movies that I like to artists that I normally am content to hearing on the radio. My wife, who loves her iTunes and downloading music that way, has gotten tired of me escaping every so often to download another 5 albums or more when she isn't watching. I'm actually afraid to look at my list of music that I've acquired to check and see what I'll find. I know that I like all of it. I've heard about half of it, and have developped a craving for music of a large variety.... but at the rate I'm going I'll have almost as much as my wife does on her 30 gb Ipod or more........

Okay, so maybe I'm over reacting a little bit, but I can't swear that I'm that far off.... after all, I have it on two systems and all the time I'm on one system, I'm downloading constantly, or it feels like it......

ANyways, I figured that this post could provide a laugh to those that know me.

Merry Christmas and a testimony on a Sunday

Christmas isn't quite over for me yet, so I won't go too far into detail about it. I'm still looking forward to having it on the 30th with the kids. Check Julie's blog for details about it.


Jacob is getting baptized in a week and so I want to write a bit of my testimony.


I testify that God is our Father. He loves us and sent his son, Jesus Christ, to make it possible for us to return to him again. I know that our enemy is the Adversary, and he will fight all that is good. I have seen his power in my life as Jacob and I prepare for the baptism. I am excited about it, and scared at the same time. I know that Heavenly Father is also fighting for me and my family as well.

I write this Testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, (my redeemer and only hope), Amen.

Today my kids were raring to go for thier first day of school. As you can see from the picture, Mary must think she is a model or something, because I couldn't get a picture of her standing normally, she posed at all of her pictures. We got to school just in time, but tomorrow we will be earlier and better. Nathan goes in for an assessment on Monday and is ready to go to school now.

I took today and tomorrow off so that I could make sure my kids got to school and to take care of them because Julie is on her way back home on Sunday.......


The kids are doing great....... it is really going to be a great year!

I have good kids

I just felt inspired to say that in spite of my own parenting skills, my kids are turning out all right. They clean up when asked, they are great eaters, and are turning out to be pretty good people. . . That being said, they are also still works in progress, and eventually Julie will have us all up to snuff...... She's doing pretty darn good for what she married into, and with patience and hard work, she may end up with the family she always dreamed of having.