Kristin's Memories

Friday, August 31, 2007

Tip to Save Money

I read this in Woman's World, July Issue and thought I would share it with you.

Cut your water bill by 40%

Amazing but true: $4 out of every $10 of your water bill goes toward toilet flushing! Conserve water and save money by filling a plastic bottle with water and placing it inside thae tank. The extra space it takes saves up to two gallons per flush! A 16 oz. bottle is too small, so try to find something alittle larger! We found the Propel water bottle to work well.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Pray More

Charles Spurgeon wrote: "Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom. Ask, and ye shall receive. It is a rule that never will be altered in anybody's case. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the elder brother of the family, but God has not relaxed the rule for Him."

"If the Royal and Divine Son of God cannot be exempted from the rule of asking that he may have, you and I cannot expect the rule to be relaxed in our favor. Why should it be? What reason can be pleaded why we should be exempted from prayer? What argument can there be why we should be deprived of the privilege and delivered from the necessity of supplication? I can see none: can you?"

"If you may have everything by asking, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is, and I beseech you to abound in it."

Our provision comes from asking God. Our wisdom, strength, understanding, and perseverance comes from asking God! His continued hand on our lives comes from asking! The welfare of our families and the needs of our friends comes from asking! James 4:2 says: "You do not have because you do not ask God."

Hope this encourages you to Pray More!!!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Homework Fun

Last night Nathaniel's homework assignment was to find items around the house to sort and classify into different groups. I was thinking for a while of what items to choose, then I remembered saving all my buttons from clothes, dresses, and even saving some from my mom's clothing. I had a ton of buttons in my little sowing box. I got those out and one little boys homework assignment turned into an entire family project that lasted about 45 min. We had different groups going on, buttons with out holes, buttons with 4 holes, 2 holes, buttons made with material, and so on... It was so much fun! Start saving your buttons now!!! I lie not, while I am typing this my daughter Kayla just walked in this room and asked, "Mommy, where's the buttons, please mommy I want to play the button game with you again." I can not believe it!!! She read my mind. Too bad I loaned the buttons to Nathaniel's teacher to use as a class sorting game.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Another Reason

Reason # 2 for starting my new adventure out into the blogging world. Lately, I have been reading some things that have been so encouraging. I sat and prayed "Lord thank you for sending these people my way, you sure know how to speak through others." Then I thought Why Not Join??? So here I am a "blogger" (lol)

Thank you for your wonderful ideas and encouraging words. I loved the cleaning tips! Thanks Mary, I am going to come up with a weekly calendar for myself. I loved the one about Praying for your Children!!!!! Somthing I have started to do more of since reading that blog!! Thank You!!!

Hello

I don't know who will be reading this, but I wanted to take my first blog and introduce myself.
I am 27 years old. I am happily married to my handsome husband Roy. We have been married since June 4th, 1999. (you do the math...lol...) I have two children, Nathaniel age 6 and Kayla age 5. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, then moved to South Florida, where I lived with my family for 23 years. Just about one month ago, we moved to Tennessee. I have been a Christian since I was 5, but am still growing in the Lord everyday. I think the reason I am starting to "blog" is so that I can journal things that have happened in our lives as a family. I want to leave something for my children to read later on in life. I want them to know all the cool things God has done. I may send daily clips of what we've done that day, like a photo album of memories, or I might go back to past things in my life. For example, how did I come to know the Lord at the age of 5. It is a cute story, I can't believe I still remember it...lol...But it is a story I think my kids would enjoy reading about. So there may be no date order to my blogs and at times it may be something that doesn't even interest you. That's ok, skip it and maybe the next blog will be right up your alley.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

My letter to Nathaniel - November 18, 2006

Nathaniel,

I really don't know where to begin. Here I am at Broward General Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, looking at you, my sweet baby boy, lying so still, so lifeless. My heart is so sad to see you this way. This is not my "Bounce Back Nat-E-Boy." One day I know you will ask what happened so I want to write this all down for you.

Thursday night we left school (GraceLand Christian Academy) around 5:00pm. You had a great day at school and you had on one great big smile! We were so proud of you that day. Even Courtney had a good day. For both of you to have a good day on the same day was a miracle in itself. In the car on the way home you were begging me to take you and Courtney to Chuck-E-Cheese as a reward. We couldn't go that day because we had frozen cookies in the trunk that we needed to deliver from our school fundraiser. So, we dropped off the first 2 boxes to Miss Renee's house. Then we loaded in the van and went to the next house. You were so cute when you got to the door. You and Kayla both said, "Enjoy your cookies!" We continued to drive them to houses on our block. At one house you asked if you could sit on the floor of the van to the next house. Unfortunately, I said Yes. We had done it before when we drove across the church parking lot to Mom-Mom's house, so why not. You and Kayla each held a box and sat on the floor of the open mini-van. Baby, seconds later you fell out of mommy's van. I thought I heard a thump. I stopped the van immediately and ran to see you on the ground. You were lying there lifeless. No response to my voice. No Breath! I started CPR and I dialed 911 screaming, "Yes! It's an emergency!" She asked me for an address but I couldn't respond. You were in need of a breath and I was the one that was going to give it to you. Thank God a neighbor, Nathan, and his girlfriend ran out to help. I threw the phone to Nathan and told him to tell them where we were, and tell them to get here NOW!" I continued CPR from the time I saw you until the medical help arrived. It felt so good to feel like I was able to help you survive by giving you breath. You may not remember this, but just a few weeks before, I came home from a CPR class and you and Kayla wanted to know what I learned. So, you and your sister layed on the bed and I showed you what I learned. You both laughed and laughed - It was so much fun! I never thought I would really need to perform CPR on you, but I did. And I am grateful to the Lord for providing me with the knowledge and peace to do what I needed to do that night to help save your life. Approximatly 4 minutes later the paramedics showed up and they told me to continue CPR. About a minute later you began choking on my air, wanting to breath on your own. That is when the paramedics took over. Daddy arrived naturally upset and crying. He loves you more than anything else in this world. They loaded you in the abulance and drove 1 block away to the Catholic Church to load you in the helicopter. You were air lifted to Broward General Trama Center only about 9 miles away from home...but you were in such critical condition...every second counted. I wanted so bad to go with you, but they said no one is ever allowed in the chopper. I know that was best, they just needed to focus on you with no distractions.

Well so far God has been so good. These are the miracles that HE did for us.
Miracle #1 I knew CPR
Miracle #2 Neighbors Helped
Miracle #3 Someone waved down the paramedics from Sunset Strip. They said the fact that someone waved them down saved them 3 crucial minutes.

I was left on the street. Neighbors all pitched in to clean me of your blood, give me water, kleenex. They even prayed and encouraged me with kind words.

Shortly after Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop arrived along with a special crisis police woman named Kerry. She came to drive us to the hospital safely and to by-pass any "red flag areas" and get us in as soon as possible to be with you. When we got to the hospital, one red flag already went up. The security officer wasn't going to let Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop come in to the trauma unit with us. But Kerry said, "Yes, they can all go in. We really don't care what you suggest right now."

An amazing sweet nurse was taking care of you when I got there. She had already given you a TY monkey. How did she know you loved Monkies....Hmmm....Maybe that was #4 God -Thing! Not maybe...FOR SURE!

Oh, I think I missed a part. #5 God thing was that the paramedic that greeted you on the roof of the hospital was a long time friend of our family, Chris Cash. He was so nice to all of us and we thank God that he was there. It really helped to see a familiar face.

Later that night you were transfered to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. The physicians could not give us any hope that you would be alright. You had suffered a massive brain injury and all they would say is that we needed to wait. We entrusted you to Jesus, and prayed for a miracle.