Please tell me it is ONLY my family

I truly want the response to my question to be, "Yes, Juli it is only your family." "My children and husband are extremely helpful and I NEVER have to ask!" I want this to be sooooo very true for you, because I know how frustrating it is!!! So here is the question....

What do these two things have in common?

If you know the answer, please someone call and tell my family, they don't seem to get it...

PS~For those of you thinking I am not staying true to my blog mission, the part about wanting your families to be perfect is the positive part! :)

B&B Pics

It was a wonderful night. We were welcomed with fruit smoothies, had a fantastic dinner, the jacuzzi tub was awesome, the alone time with my hubby was special, the breakfast was scrumptious and we even made it back to Kennewick in time for church! The mansion is only about 30 minutes from the Tri-Cities.

This was the beautiful view from our gorgeous room.

And then it was back to life...

Kevin slipped on the ice on the way out to the car and fell flat on his back. Thankfully, he just has a very deep bruise. When I went to pick Jessa up from her Grandma's she had been vomiting all night! Thank you so much Marcia for not calling and taking care of it yourself! That is a great Grandma who will clean your daughter's puke up while you go have alone time with your hubby!!!

I highly recommend this wonderful respite. It was worth the slurge!

Bed & Breakfast

My husband and I, along with my parents are going to Walla Walla tonight to stay at the Cameo Heights Bed and Breakfast. Can I just say how excited I am! This place is not cheap, but soooo nice. Each room has a "country" theme. There is the English Tudor suite, German, Greek, etc. We are staying in the Italian Suite, shown on the left.

Breakfast is included and for an additional fee you can have dinner on site, which is what we are doing. I am very much looking forward to a wonderful night of relaxing, food and great company. This was a long week at school for me (finals week), so I am happy it is over and ready for a great night! I will post some pictures tomorrow.

Inaguration Thoughts

I did not watch much of the inauguration events today. I turned CSpan web on the computer in my classroom for awhile, though and caught a little. Since this is only my second post and I promised this blog would be POSITIVE I am going to go with the motherly saying about Michelle's Inauguration Green Dress which is "If you don't have anything nice to say, than don't say anything at all."

OK, onto "prettier" thoughts. Anyone who knows me knows I did not vote for our new president. Him and I are not on the same page with regards to many issues. But, the thing that really stood out for me today was the HOPE I saw on so many faces today, particularly African Americans. To see the tears of joy on many older, darker faces was really heart wrenching for me. So many of these people have lived such impoverish, prejudice lives and I was sincerely touched to see their emotion. At one point I saw some film of people in Kenya watching and I realized there are entire nations being touched. The color of these people skin has been a negative experience their entire lives and finally they see a positive in black. I can be thankful to God for that.

My prayer is people who have lived those kinds of lives can rise up during President Obama's tenure and live better more prosperous lives. Anyone who has lived in the South and has tried to look at people the way God looks at people should know the difficult up-bringing so many African Americans have endured.

So, I am going to look at our President as a Placebo effect. I don't think he is the prescription to solve what ails our country, but if him being elected brings a group of Americans out of their long cold season, then I say bring on the sugar water! And maybe more people will come to know Jesus as their savior and we can use the water to baptize them!!

Finally, Sasha's thumbs-up to her daddy made me smile. That was precious!

I have succumbed!

Okay, so I have made the leap from lerker to blogger! Why the change? Well, I have been blessed to be teaching a web design and graphics communication class at our local High School Skills Center (TriTech) for the next three months and I decided I need some practice. What is that you ask, "Am I an expert web designer?" "Nope! I don't even know the first thing." But, I am staying a couple steps ahead of the class.

My goal for this blog is to share positive thoughts and happenings in my life! For way too long my life was spent in the negative. I find myself stepping back into that world sometimes, then I am humbled by goodness. My life has changed dramatically in the last 4 years and I am reminded time after time of how blessed I am. Every time I say, "Thank You Jesus" Maybe sometime I will share some of that...

May God be blessed by what is said and read here.

Welcome!