An Amazing Day in Kidzone today and at Celebration Church

a full house- I love it-

Before the pie in my face - Anthony brought the most visitors and the boys won over the girls with visitors so he chose me- I feel the love - I really do-

and the after the pie in my face, up my nose, down my back, in my hair.

we had 56 kids in service today- we had a bounce house- a water slide- lots of food- lots of new friends- an amazing time during praise and worship- marcus told me his favorite thing of the day was not the slide or the bounce house but leading praise and worship- HOW AWESOME is THAT?!

Catch Up

Ok so lets see what have we been up too- well we went to Lakeland Thursday til Saturday-and Experienced God- from the awesome BGMC banquet- our kids in Pen Florida are amazing with their giving to reach other kids in other areas of the world for Jesus. Then Friday went to some breakthrough sessions from kids stuff to mentoring to serving, then had a wonderful time with our Pastors at dinner and went back for an amazing time a life altering service with Robert Morris preaching- God needs you

Saturday we trucked back to Lakeland for another awesome service with Robert Morris- read Luke 6:38 what does that mean to you? Revelation knowledge for me - I was like WOW! then we had some more awesome breakthrough sessions- had lunch with Aunt Bekah - and headed back this way

It was nice to see so many friends there- i love seeing people and catching up-
Marcus was ok until the evenings when he was overtired and turned into a grumble bear- oh not fun- but he was able to get to bed early and have a decent day on Sunday-

So this weekend was worth the trip over can not wait to implement somethings I learned to help reach our kids more effectively

An awesome day yesterday

Marcus once again has made me proud- he woke up great yesterday- he did all he needed to do yesterday- did all his homework- he was able to work through some anger or what he calls being so furious. we talked on the way home from when I picked him up and he was like ok mommy time to let it all go - let it go into the universe where it will be gone- here it goes 1, 2, 3 gone past jupiter gone past neptune and now past the planet no longer pluto- yes this is what he said - my anger is gone- and then he laughed. I was like amazed and so proud of him - high-fived him gave him kudos and was like wow we are making so much headway

then it happened last night after church we had a moment- a shortlived anger moment- i am so tired i could fall over moment- and you thought it was the end of his world that he could not make the right choices all day - he thought he failed- he failed to keep his promise he said-
so the kind mom i am said do not allow this one brief moment of anger allow you to be defeated- you had an awesome day and you should be so proud of yourself- remember we are going to make mistakes - get up brush yourself off and try tomorrow again- but do not allow this moment to lose sight of the fantastic day you had. I am so very proud of you

he got up got ready for bed and said mommy please pray for me- and thank you- i said but of course and you are so welcome-
I love that young man and all the craziness he has caused in my life- why cause i see who he is becoming-

A for Marcus

Marcus had his first math test this week and he got an A - yeah for him- He is settling into the school year- had a few bumps with the beginning and still emotionally working on things-
Mornings are improving and in fact right now he is doing his relaxation techniques while playing bop it-
The other day he was like I want to see grannie and I can't- I am like hmm- I need wisdom on this one- so I said close your eyes- think of grannie and get a picture of her in your mind - do u see it? he was like YES i see her- I was like awesome- now anytime you want to see grannie close your eyes and there she is. Something so little was something so big

Morning

Ok I know I have fallen behind in my writing- just have not really felt like writing that much
mornings have been a little rough with Marcus being hyper and not focused- I guess we will give it time-
Changes in his therapist and such I am sure do not help with his anxiety levels-
Work is going well- I have an awesome floor supervisor in which I work with and she is helping me stay focused- what would I do without her.

Busy weekends ahead- see dad this weekend- we have an awesome service for our church in remembering 9-11 we are honoring the first responders in our area

next weekend I am going to a conference- the following weekend we are having a friends connection for church.

busy month of drs appts too for Marcus-

oh and to top it all i seem not to be able to sleep all night- hopefully that will get in check soon

The week in review

Well- busy week at work- better behavior in the am and pm- not stellar but better- he sure is cranky when he is tired and hyper- which turns into or can turn into ugly-
but it is the weekend and I have to work Saturday then life coaching then pick up a couch- yes got rid of mine- the one I am getting is smaller and I think will do much better in our house-
so I was cleaning yesterday and got a good cleaning done.
I am so looking forward to sleeping in on Monday for a bit just need to chill out for a couple of days I am worn out from not sleeping all through the night - as you can see this was written early Saturday Morning

Working with Marcus on the death of mom - he has brought so many questions with it and I think I will post about it more in detail- they are awesome questions one's in which I need to look into- he has his days with making sure she is ok and being angry with the Drs and me about the whole thing. He misses her as we all do- there is one picture of the 4 of us that every time I look at it brings tears to my eyes why just that one picture I am not sure.

so this is a process and will continue to be my heart hurts but I am working through it and taking one day at a time