T is for........

Time

Does anyone have enough of it? I am serious. I think I need at least five more hours in my day. Every day seems to be such a rush, including Sundays. Sundays are supposed to be a day of worship and relaxation, but not in the Russell household. It seems like we get up to rush to church, rush to eat lunch, rush home to do what needs to be done, get ready for Awana, eat supper, prepare for Monday, get the kids bathed and go to bed. Where is the family time in that? Where is the relaxation day in that? There is none! Is anyone else feeling like this?

Weekdays are no better! We get up, get dressed, drop the kids off at school, go to work, pick up the kids, complete tasks at home, complete any small homework items Anna has, bathe kids, and go to bed. Where is family time? Is it in the rush of eating? Is it in the middle of bath time? Is it quality time in the car with the dvd player going and the phone ringing? Help! I do not know.

I am on my soap box, because I feel like I need more hours in the day. More hours in the day to be a valuable wife and mother. I spend eight hours a day teaching other children and then feel like I have slighted mine at home. Please tell me, does anyone else feel like this?

Do you ever think that Gilligan had it easy? I mean, he had nothing but time on his hands.

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So many things like.....

Snow in Mississippi in March! Sliding on the snow at Bubba's house.
Sneaking behind Anna to make a snowball.

Sister

My sister Angie with Brian (her husband to be) and her sweet baby (my nephew) Connor!

Sleeping Soundly

My dad sleeping with his grandson, Connor! Connor is the youngest of Papaw & MiMi's six grandchildren. Anna is the oldest and there are four more in the middle!

Anna & Collin sleeping snug as a bug in Mommy & Daddy's bed!

R is for....

RUSSELL

(which just happens to be my last name!)

English, Scottish, and Irish: from Rousel, a common Anglo-Norman French nickname for someone with red hair, a diminutive of Rouse with the hypocoristic suffix -el.

Americanized spelling of German Rüssel, from a pet form of any of the various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrod ‘renown’.

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Odd pictures taken at the zoo! So, by now you are asking yourself, "Why in the world did Tiffanie take a picture of an elephant urinating?" Well, I did not mean to! No really, I didn't! Collin wanted a picture of an elephant for his room. In a hurry, I just snapped what I thought would be a good picture. Needless to say, I was not paying much attention. It was not until I got home and loaded them to the computer that I saw actually what the elephant was doing. It goes without saying that the elephant pic is not in Collin's room!
Ok, does this gorilla have the life or what? I mean all he has to do is lay around in the sun with his feet propped up wondering what everyone is looking at! I believe I could handle his "hard" life! This is certainly one laid back gorilla!

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