Really Amy?

Ok, so recognize I have been MIA for about a month...no updates on the fam and such....shame on me.  What have we been up to?  Hmmmm.  Ok, well, Spring has arived at the Joneses, or at least I hope it has.  Can we use my working in the yard as an excuse?  No, fraid not.  I have not touched the first weed.  I have been hard at work in the house?  No, sorry alas that is not the case either.  I have been working myself to the bone at work...well a little yes.  Still no excuse I know. 

Let me give an update on my people and y'all can yell at me later.

• Hunter is plugging away at sixth grade.  We have T Minus One month before the big day...sigh.  My teenager will be arriving. 
• Perry is being Perry...in a big way as always.  We just filled out Middle School information...This causes me to want to cry ALL.THE.TIME.
• Jesse has been working a lot.  Bless his heart.  On that note we continue to be very, very thankful for the work.
• Chicken update....holding my breath and crossing my fingers, they should be gone this weekend!!!!!  YAY!!!!
• Me, I have been lazy.  I have developed migraines {I know, all the stress, weather changes and no real suprise here}and that has been quite the ordeal the past month.  Hopefully they will ease up.  On a positive note for me I have perfected homemade whole wheat muffins this month!!!....woohoo! 

Keep us all in your prayers as we dive into spring with all the busyness that follows. 

~amy

In Honor Of...

I feel it...love is in the air.  Valentines Day is tomorrow and I thought in celebration....let's learn a little more about the people I love the most...with some tidbits of me and my little dog thrown in. 



Drama Island

Whew.  I would like the person who says raising an infant is hard to step forward please....ok, ok, I know it is hard...but someone forgot to tell me that it does not get any easier.  Without going through all the gory details, I learned a hard lesson from an incident at Church this week (yes, it involved my lovely pre-teen)....people will break your heart in a second...even if they are your Church friend.  Am I the only one that does that?  Puts my Church friends on a higher level than the general population?  They are going to fall.  I fall all the time.  How you deal with the falling is the key.  I chose to take the higher road. 
I am learning a lesson in forgiveness, as well as, a lesson in trust.  I have Cried. Screamed. Cursed. Oh and have been a generally unpleasant person to be around.  Why?  Because someone was human.  Someone continues to be human.  I am asking for prayers.  Prayers for me.  Prayers for my family.  Prayers for the others involved.


BTW:  I would also like to request my handbook {AGAIN} for raising these boys. Please?....I am still waiting for it.  Anyone?  Anyone?


Forgiving and forgetting with the Joneses....


~amy

Baking with Amy...

Sunday afternoon....the lovely time.  Napping.  Sweat pants.  Quiet house...yea right that never happens.  Still, love Sunday afternoons.  This Sunday, I was ready to tackle bread.  I have made homemade bread before.  For a while I had become quite regular with it.  However, my attempt at whole wheat bread a couple of weeks ago was not pretty.  My little dog Lou Lou wouldn't even eat it y'all.  OK, so now to today's baking experience.  First:  Armed myself with a handy little blog recipe.  Thanks Gina over at http://homejoys.blogspot.com/2011/01/country-white-bread.html...and away we go.  I took her suggestion and split the whole wheat flower and white flower.  Second:  I bought old fashioned whole wheat flower of the stone ground variety.  Third:  I followed the directions explicitly.  The result?

Before...

After

AWWW  Big loaf fail...tis ok, still tasted good!

....yummy.

~amy

These are the moments...

We are home today...it is a "snow day" for the boys and a service call from the HVAC people for me....that is a WHOLE other story.  So I am trying to work a little and this is what I hear from the kitchen:
Perry:  "Mom look under there" 
Me:  "under where?" 
Perry:  "ha ha you said underwear"
 I tried not to laugh.  Thought that might encourage him


Boy humor with the Joneses...

~amy

It's a New Year!!!

2011.  Doesn't seem right does it?  What do we have scheduled for the year?  HMMMM. 


OK.


1.  Get healthy...Jesse and I both.
2.  At the end of April we will have a teenager in the house (oh the horror)!
3.  My baby will start Middle School...
4.  Chickens will be gone.


I can live with that...pretty respectable list.  Two items I have no choice in the matter and the other two...I need help...anyone want any chickens???


Ahhh, a New Year with the Joneses...




~amy