Cute stuff my kid says. Part 1.

12-22-10: I was attempting to figure out what my child wanted for lunch. I suggested several of her favorites: pasta, noodles (she thinks they are different), fruit, cheese. Some part of me finally said, "Hamburgers?" My adorable two year old responded with, "Hamburgers are awesome." I love this kid!

12-23-10: Michaela picked up a book that had a drawing of Jesus with some children on the front. She got super excited, and shouted out, "Daddy!" Yes baby girl, that's our Daddy in heaven who loves us so much. You're absolutely right.

Flu Shot

So my baby had to go to the doctor last Friday because she's had a cold for a few weeks. He checked her out, gave her a prescription, and asked if I wanted her to get a flu shot. Sure, why not? She'll need one anyway, and this way I avoid a second co-pay, I say. So the nurse comes in, does her thing, gives Michaela her shot. Michaela doesn't cry, but after the nurse pulls the needle out and lays it on the tray, she looked up at the nurse with a scowl and said, "OW!" I couldn't help myself - I had to giggle at her, it was so cute!

Now I lay you down to sleep - what about ME?

Wow. What a long day. Before I ramble about my failures and triumphs, let me just say it is half-nice, half-annoying that I am the only creature awake in my household right now. Toby is snoring away on the floor (thanks to a cold + Nyquil), my child is happily ensconced in blankets in the middle of MY bed thanks to her dislike for her own, the cats ... well, they're cats, so they're asleep on the conveniently placed blankets on the floor. And I, I am awake and in the mood to post a little.

How is it that I only have six days left of student teaching? It's seemed an almost impossible ride sometimes. I've adored my time at Tierra Vista (been there, done that, bought the T-shirt - literally) and I'm going to hate seeing it come to an end. Except, of course, for the fact that I need to get $PAID$ for a change. Kim's let me sub for her a couple of days which has been G-R-E-A-T, but I just need regular, steady, paying work if we're going to make it much further down this road God has for us.

Did a great math lesson today though! Fourth grade is working on the concept of multiplying 3 digit numbers times a 1 digit number. So we hauled out the base-1o blocks and settled ourselves on the floor. It was fun - I made a math problem on a paper + clipboard like "461 X 6", and the kids had to help me solve it using only the base-10 blocks. Even my autistic kiddo got into it! It was pretty awesome. I promised them I'd leave the materials out for them to use in upcoming lessons (especially once we get to 4 digits x 1 digit) and I hope now that they've had a few days' exposure to how fun it can be, they'll make use of the materials!

Alright, time for beddy-bye for me. (Coming soon: "Weird stuff my kid did / said")

Bethel Brought It!

I started to title this post "Bethel's Bringin' It!" and then I realized ... Bethel already brought it! Or more to the point, Parkview already HAD it, and Bethel (with the amazing Chris Overstreet) intensified it.

For those of you looking at this post like Wow, Melissa, you've really lost it, let me explain. The Church @ Parkview has been going through some pretty radical stuff these last few years. Our leaders get to go to Bethel Church up in Redding, CA, a few times a year for life changing stuff that they bring back to us (thanks guys!). Today, we had the amazing pleasure of hearing Chris Overstreet come to our little bitty church and bring God's word. He also brought a dozen students from Bethel's Supernatural School of Ministry, who brought testimonies, words of knowledge, prayer, listening ears, loving hearts, and loads of compassion, and leaked out that love to all who got close. It was an amazing, awesome experience, and if it weren't for the fact that my poor little monkey needed to sleep (she was trying to fall asleep on me in church), I could have stayed all afternoon. I LOVE getting drunk in God's spirit - especially with there are such amazing people around to get drunk with!

Be back later,
Melissa

FINALLY! I remembered!

So I'd lost my password for my blog site, and in between ... well, being a mommy, a full-time student and substitute teaching, and now full-time student teaching, I'd basically forgotten about this thing. But a friend said something today that reminded me of something I posted when Michaela was 5 months old, and I decided to seek out said-post. In so doing, I realized how easy it was to have my password reset (duh!) and so ... here I am again! Random thoughts on the Douglas family, student teaching, my frustrating and adorable daughter, and musings on life and living. Yay blog world - I'm baaack!