Lost apples

Today Mac has "lost his apples"!!! After four days of eating and playing at school, he has now lost his apples. This is a disciplinary procedure, and this is what happened. He was running, talking, and throwing things (I am not sure what), and he would not obey. So his apples were taken away. Which means that he had to sit down during outdoor play time. So I drive up to pick him up and he is practically crying with his bottom lip stuck out so far, so I say what is wrong and he says "I lost my apples" and he is SSSOOOOO sad, and the lady buckling him in the car says "Oh he lost his apples, thats not good" And I do not even know what this is, although I have figured out, not good. So I asked him what he did and he told me and then I say, well you will need to apologize to Miss Margaret, and he says I did, but she told me to sit down!! And I said well, you cannot disobey, she is your teacher and you need to listen. He says "well, I just wanted to have fun!" But he is still upset, and very sensitive about the whole issue. Then he tells me "the boy in the black shirt and the one with brown hair lost their apples too" Funny? I don't know. I do know that he was very upset about being disciplined, and this is his first time! I told him he would have to tell his dad what happened today and that he was sorry etc... and he said "daddy will be mad at me" and I said "No, he will love you anyway!"
I will say that out of my three children, he is the least expected to act out of line, so I am curious to see where this may lead.

Why I think living in the South is so funny...

1. I met a lady today who had three sons: Jacoby, Jacorey and Jacody. (I know Kelly beats me at this, she had some strange names from where she worked)
2. The weatherman actaully says things like "we will be having abundant sunshine today" or even this "we have southern fried sunshine today!" I mean what is that? I am still trying to figure out this southern dish: chicken fried steak! Say what you mean!!!!(is it chicken or steak?)
3. Speaking of saying what you mean, I actually heard the Governor of Mississippi say "It might could be that ..."
4. I coach a VERY wealthy private school here in Jackson and these are Three of my best excuses of "why I wasn't at cheerleading practice"... "my parents took me to Germany for a long weekend" "I was at surf school in San Diego"(going to be real helpful in MS) "I had to get my nail tips done, because if I don't then I bite my nails and then I get an infection, my mom says I have to have them"
5. I am helping to open a cheer gym and we are setting up tumbling classes, and I have a beginner, intermediate, advanced, and elite class. Well, someone suggested I should call beginner intermediate because "the North Jackson moms don't think their children are beginners at anything" And literally I changed the name of the class, and now it is full!!
Funny times!
Again my son continues to give the highlight of his day as "I play and eat cheese crackers" Although today he had goldfish, and this was even better!!! He actually learned a bible verse, probably the first he has memorized, and it is Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray" and he says "all sheep gone astray" Interesting!

The Reservoir

So strange, I remember visiting here and some guy (his name eludes me) was actually driving around my whole family, and he was showing us different ares where we could live. And when he drove across the reservoir, I remember thinking "I am not living out this far, what a long drive with 3 children, and so far away from the college" Well, you can guess what happened. The reason I thought of this today was because I was driving to my home which IS across the reservoir! I am so quick to make decisions and I want them to be firm, yet I didn't even ask the One controlling the world what He wants!!!!

Sooooo cute!!!

I have the cutest, sweetest boy!!
His first day of pre-school was today, and he was very excited! Neither of my 2 pre-schoolers were scared/sad to go to school, they both just went in and began to play! So at 11:30, I picked Mac up and I said"So, how was it??? What did you do?" and my 4 year old said, "we played and had cheese crackers!!" So, I am thinking great, I pay 120.00 monthly so my child can play and eat!!! Then I said, what else did you do? and he said we had to sit down, and then well, we had to sit down again etc... I will not bore you with the details, but he was so funny trying to put his day back together and tell me what was going on. Anyway, I asked him if he wanted to go back again and he said "mom, I have to!" So, he is very funny.
WOW! Middle school is probably the worst age!!! I coached a MS team today, and I really had to pray for love. It was not coming out very well. The girls are crazy and they do not agree on anything and they are ALWAYS ALWAYS talking!!!!! Arg! My pastor said if there was a person who was "on your last nerve" that you should put a positive buffer between you. Like, instead of thinking "she's on my last nerve" think, "well she does a great job breathing, she has got that one down, does it everyday and every night, she really does a good job at that." So I am thinking this and then when the girls are conditioning, I am thinking, "wow, they are breathing and much too heavily, they are out of shape, they do not care, they are in MS, they are on my last nerve!!!!!!!!" So I have a hard time not connecting thoughts and then making them back into negative ones!!! I need to work on that.
so, all for now, Emy needs a bath!!