Going Going Gone

All week so far I have just been fighting back checking out, but I officially can. I am packing tonight and leave in the morning to go home and then flight out Thursday at 7:00 AM. Yes I know it is early, but it will be worth it. I will arrive in sunny Florida at 9:35. So.....

Florida here I come!!!!

Kids say the darndest things (Post 1)

We had just arrived at church and were(me and some of the kids) hanging up our coats. As we were leaving the coat room the little four year-old (who's first time it was coming to church with us) said "Ms. Kali I just eat a booger." I turned to her and said, "D we need to keep that to ourselfs and not tell everyone, ok." She said "ok." Then you looks up at me and says, "it taste like sugar." What can you say... kids say the darndest things especially when it is not the time or the place.

Florida

So my roommate is returning from Florida tonight, with a nice tan I guess, but I am not jealous because I will be leaving for Florida in....

One week 2 days

for 2 weeks

Hip Hip Hooray!!!!

I AM FINISHED!!!!

It is 1:15 in the morning and I am officially

finished with the semester.

Now I can start the count down until Florida...

2 weeks and 1 day

Pics from the week (post #2)

Even though you can't tell Drew is intentlly watching a Praise Baby DVD.

It often distracts him from beinging crabby.

Isn't he just the coolest dude you have ever seen.Well he found my sunglasses on top of my head and decided to try them on.

He just thought he was all that. Isn't it the best.

Drew loves taking baths, but I am not sure who gets more wet me on the outside or him inside. Listen careful to the voice at the end and look for his reaction (it is not mine).

An email from Jamacia

So tonight I sat down to check my email and one of the emails was from my brother and in the subject it say, "underwear is important!" I open it unsure of what I might read and this is what it said...

Hey Kali I'm down in Jamaica right now. I thought that I would write you and tell you of all the great weather and fun that we are having . IT IS SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, also I need to know mom's email address. I thought that you would know and check your email the most. when you talk to mom tell her to check her email and that once you get this and email me back with her email that I will email her. Love you both talk, to you later.

I think that we are going para sailing!!!!!!!!!!!
NIC

I emailed him back and said this...

Well I am glad you are having a good time, but I am just wondering what you did with my brother. Did you drink that water???...lol Mom's email is cwiseman@edzone.net. She would enjoy hearing from you. Make sure you take lots of pictures.

Love,

Kali

Let me just tell you all it was awesome to hear from my brother, but I never expected to hear this from him. I will keep this email forever as blackmail when he doesn't want to clam me as his favorite sister.

A great evening

So today my mom was in town for a conference for work. After she got out of her conference and I got out of class we meet. We did a little shopping and then went for dinner. We dinned at Olive Garden, it was really good. While enjoying our dinner a hostist brought out this contrapsion, that neither of us knew what it was, but when the family got seated we found out. I couldn't find a picture of it but it basically looked like a mini hammock that held a car seat for a baby. When we figured it out my mom goes I need to visit the big city more often... lol. After dinner we went to Target to get a few things for my brother who is leaving Thursday morning for Jamaica. Yeah I know unfair right. Then we parted ways and headed in opposite directions. It was a great night and I am glad my mom came to GR.

Prayers for a friend of a friend

Please follow this link to see who needs your prayers...

http://hoodmama.blogspot.com/2008/04/prayers-needed-again.html

Girls Night Out

On Saturday night I went out with some friends. Megan in the picture below planned a surprise for her mom. They met another friend of Megan and her mom. I was able to meet them too. We went to dinner and then to a park because it was such a great day. Here are a few pictures from the afternoon.

First of all just to clearify we had sparkling cherry juice. This is only the second picture that Megan and I have together and we have known each other for 2 1/2 years.

From Left to Right: Libby, Megan and Kali.

What a great afternoon/evening!!!!!!

A new look...

Spring is here finally. If it stays around is anyones guess seems we live in Michigan. So I thought I would give my blog a new look.

I also have this weekend off so I think I am going to give my room a new look too. First I have to start with the dirty laundry.

Then I think I am going to risk it and at least bring up the spring/summer clothes. I might even attempt to rearrange my room too. So as you can see even though I have the weekend off I am going to be busy doing things that I don't usually have time for.

Sunday...

Well I spent Saturday evening cooking. In fact I cooked 11 pounds of chicken and diced it up, 7 pounds of noodles, and chopped up some brocolli. I made two large pans of chicken alfredo. Why you ask... for this group of kids...

Her is the gang minus 13.

The really great thing was that all the kids were able to eat as much as they wanted and the adults (who eat last) where able to eat too. Dinner went well and the kids had a great time.

In the picture you will notice to white girls, they are not usually part of our Sunday's, but they came to stay the weekend with their Aunt Noelle and I. After lunch and dropping off most of the kids at their house we brought two of the girls back to play with Noelle's nieces. Their brother was tears because he couldn't come. Noelle at the request of the kids made snicker lattes. Needless to say we found out one of the kids come out in rare form when she has caffinee and she will NEVER have caffinee again at our house :)

Inclosing it was a great weekend and below are other pictures from this weekend, enjoy.

Destiny and her lego creation.

Taylor pulling Kerby around with a raquet.

Lucy, Jessica, Taylor and Destiny all made t-shirts last night and they were in the middle of putting beads on the sleeves. Their are some true artists in this group.

Lesson 1: Mama Ain't Playin'

Mama Ain't Playin'

Looks like Mama is going to make him stand out there for a long time! Ought to be a pretty good lesson, one not easily forgotten! Don't ya think? He doesn't look very happy, like, maybe the lesson is already working, huh? We need more people like her...

If only we had more parents that weren't playin'...

Maybe we won't have so many drop outs.

Maybe we won't have so many preteens in prisons.

Maybe we won't have so many crimes.

Maybe we won't have so many premarital pregnancies.

When living in the hood....

When living in the hood of GR don't mention to your mother that you and your roommate are trying to save money so you are going to turn off your alarm system because it would save you the alarm bill and the phone bill (especially because we don't use the house phone). She might just have a cow (j/k mom). Truely she does cares and doesn't want anything to happen to me, so we will probably find another way to save money.

The end is near...

Well my mom will glad to know that today I found out that the END IS NEAR!! That is college. If all goes as planned I will graduate in 2010, not soon enough. I wish it was today that I was graduating. I learned much today in my advising appointment. I learned that one of my classes that I took MCC will fill the requirements of one of the courses I need to take at GVSU. Well any ways wanted to leave you with this picture that all to soon I will be doing...


Hallelujah Praise the Lord!!!!!!

Sunny and warm somewhere...

Yes it is sunny in MI, but it is far from warm. I wish I was somewhere that I could do this...




The turtles have to have an UVA light to keep their shells hard and the other day they were rubbing it into my face (not really). 62 more days and I will be able to do that in Sunny Florida. I can't wait.

A taste of being a single parent...

This weekend from Friday to Saturday night, 30 hours I became a single parent of 3 kids. Drew 11 months, Leah 3, and Tiesha 12. I had my work cut out for me. Tiesha was a great help this weekend, which does not allows happen, but it was diffently a blessing. Friday night she cooked dinner all by herself. She did later admitt that it was a bit to much. After dinner the kids all took baths and then we all put our pajamas on and had a pajama party. Here is a picture of the 4 of us at the pajama party.

(L to R: Me, Leah, Drew and Tiesha)

By 11:00 pm every one was in bed and so was I... thinking I might have to get up in the night with Drew I knew I need to go to bed early. Lets just say the night was very restless and it was not due to the baby. I was up 5 times with the dog. Drew woke up about 6:45am ready to begin his day. Leah followed by about 8:30am and we had to wake Tiesha up at 9:30am.

After getting dressed I had planned a few surprises for the older kids. More like time kills to get us through the day. We started out going to a clay art studio to glaze some poetry. Two hours later we were head to our next surprise. McDonalds with a play world. After eating the girls went and played for awhile. At about 2:30pm we were home and the two younger kids went straight to bed. Truthfully I was ready for bed at that time too, but I told Tiesha we would do something, just the two of us. So she decide she want acrylic nails and that is just what we did. By the time we finished the other two kids were up and it was time for supper. Once again Tiesha helped with dinner. Once dinner was over and baths were done. Mom and dad walked in the door and I was ready for my bed and as far as Sunday I did almost nothing all day just to get caught back up.

How do single parents do it??? I just don't know. It was a great weekend and if asked to do it again I would.

P.S. Does any one read this or am I just typing to type. Leave me a comment sometime if you read my blog. Thanks!

Summer Possiblities (post 2)

Well I have been accepted to join Grace Adventures staff this summer. I now have to make a decision weather to do it all summer or just for the original 3 weeks. They have asked that I do it the whole summer which is what I would like to do, but I have to speak to my former employers to see if that will work for them. I just ask for prayers that this will all work out for the best.
Have a wonderful day and check back for more post at a later date.

Summer Possiblity...

getting closer to working out. Tomorrow Afternoon I have a meeting with Ben from Grace Adventures We are meeting at 12:30 PM so if you would just pray that all will go well and that I won't be nervous that would be great. I will let you know more as I find out more. God bless!!!

Super Bowl Sunday...

For the Super Bowl Noelle and I went over to a freinds house to watch the game and eat. We had much more food then we really needed, but it was all yummy! My conturbution to the food was this...

If you can't see it the top fruit pizza is a football helmet and the bottom fruit pizza is a football. I was proud of my artistic ability with food, but not everyone apperciated the design. I hope you all enjoyed the event saftly.
Congradulations NYG!!

Surprise...Surprise...

Winter hits Michigan again... Tonight I had to babysit about 30 minutes from my house on a normal day, but tonight it took me 45 minutes to get home. I had to laugh on my way because when I entered the "S" Curve every buddy was just driving where there was an open space. In reality it is kinda a scary thought. Well don't tell the kids but we are all hoping for a Saturday off tomorrow.

Another thing I find ironic is when the news channels warn us in Michigan that it is going to be Michigan. You would think that we would all just be able to figure that from December to April give or take a month winter whether is going to happen.

Noelle and I also took the animals into Campau today so stay tune and I will have pictures for you.