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Good morning girlies. I need help and this is, for sure, the fast way to get it. I am looking for the Bible verse that talks about the, "Lord being pleased with a womans quiet spirit, or a sweet spirit." I cannot remember the exact words, but when I read it years ago, I was convicted. I thought is was in Psalms. Do any of you know what verse I am talking about? If so, please give it to me~Thanks!

Today was voting day for us Floridians. Whaaahoooo! Finally! Hopefully this will put an end to all the telemarketers calling the house wanting our vote or wanting us to do a "quick" survey. Seriously, on Sunday while we were eating lunch, we had at least 5 phone calls right in a row. Not to mention the many phone calls we had all last week.

So here we are, the 5 of us. Danny met us here and he took the boys with him to vote and I took the girls. We were, remarkably, in and out in minutes! We all got stickers! It was a nice little "field trip" for both Maddie and Danny. (FYI, for those who are wondering, no I did not take the above picture, nor did Danny. A nice little elderly lady did.)

Okay, I must also say that.....I was proud.....to be a Florida Cracker and vote in the Presidential primaries. I cannot believe I said that.

Lastly, I will leave you with a little bit of Republican sweetness! Miss Margaux Jeanne.

This weekend at, "Exciting South Biscayne", my love is speaking in place of our pastor, who is out of town. Yes, I said "speaking," not "preaching." (Me no pastors wife. I be a professors wife! Sorry, we like to talk broken English!)

Danny speaks, or teaches, and does well! I really never worry about him before he speaks. This is his gift, his talent, given to him by God. He's a natural. I am so proud of him. You go Dr. Dan!

This morning we had to get out of the house. I am trying to be good and conserve gas and stay home. We had been home for almost 3 straight days. I was starting to go nuts. So this morning we got up, got school over with (yes, I home school--don't laugh, it was not planned it just happened) and were surprisingly out of the house by 10:00.

Maddie had a few gift cards to Claire's so off to the mall we went. Under normal circumstances I hate Claire's. It is always so crowed in there. So much stuff. So much junk. Such a small place to be with 4 children and a stroller. But today was different.

Since we got out of the house so early this morning, the mall was empty. We had Claire's all to our self for about 30 minutes. And, who knew Claire's had things for boys! Not me. Lucky for Harry Jack, they had marked down lots of Diego things. He hit the jack pot with a new umbrella and ball cap.

Here are a few pic's from our morning. And, whoaaa Nelly on the comments girls! On my last post I was FLATTERED to have so many. We bloggers live for comments and you girls made me SHINE! Thanks!

Look at him! My man Dan!

What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good man! Yes he is...

Okay, let me somewhat explain the title first. Back on December 7, 2007, my sister Donna posted a story, "Roy Graham, Come Home!!!!!!,"about her day running errands with Caroline. It was a hilarious story of how Caroline had a few "accidents" in her pants. Mid-story, all of us readers were saying, "poor Donna!" Let me now say, "Donna, Harry has Carry beat."

Today I had a full 2-4 hours of errands to run with my 4 children. First haircuts for the boys, the library to pick up some books Maddie needed for some reports, blockbuster to get a few movies for me and Danny, then the dreaded grocery story...... with my 4 children..... hanging off the shopping cart...... asking for every sugar loaded food they saw.

We got to the hair cut place without a hitch. The boys got their hair cut and we were in and out within about 45 minutes. On to the library....where my story grows, oh so...ripe!

The library is quiet. Maddie and Danny are looking at books in the juvenile section. Harry is playing with the puzzles, and Margaux is playing at my feet, on the floor, with baby wipes she had pulled out of the wipe case. (Wipes! An important part of the story.) I am diligently working on the computer finding Maddie's books. All of a sudden I hear Harry Jack saying, "Mommy, I have poo poo on my shoe." I looked up from the computer and thought, "Lord, please help me to have heard him wrong." Nope! Sure enough, there was poop on his left shoe.

I asked him how that happened---I know, Duh! He said, "I go poo poo." I grabbed Margaux and the wipes, and said, "Where?" And there it lay, in the corner, behind a bookshelf, on the carpet floor, a nice pile of poop. How nice was the pile you say? About 1/2 of a cup full of shmmmushy poop!

I then took another look at Harry Jacks shoe. That's when I saw, the poop RUNNING down the back of his left leg. I pulled up his shorts and they were COVERED in poop.

Remember the wipes? God must have been laughing in heaven. He knew I would quickly need these wipes Margaux was playing with. And, thankfully for some heavenly reason, there was a trash can right beside Harry Jack's poop.

I dropped to my knee's and started scooping up poop with the wipes, and then scrubbing the carpet trying to get the liquidy remains out.

Then, not knowing who had heard Harrison and was watching, I calmly got up and went to the nearest bathroom, only to find a note on the door saying, "Please ask for key at desk." I went to get the key while calling for Maddie and Danny to come help me. They obediently came right away, THANK YOU JESUS! Ding Ding Ding! Score for Maddie and Danny. I handed Margaux to them to play with and took Harry Jack in the bathroom to clean him up.

When we left the bathroom all Harry Jack was wearing was a shirt, Pampers Easy Up (which by the way, he was wearing a clean Easy Up when the accident happened), one sock on the right foot and both shoes.

So back to Maddie's books. I grab the list of books she needed and try to focus on finding them, with my 4 children following behind, still unsure if anyone has heard, seen or smelt my situation.

I find my first few books and then.... again I hear Harry's voice saying, "Mommy, Margaux did a poo poo!" Sure enough, Margaux had pooped. It was up her crack starting to come out the back of her diaper. This is when the thought of my sweet husband came to mind. I wondered what type of day he was having? Or, better yet, where did he go for lunch today?

I grabbed my books, went to the checkout kiosk and checked out as quickly as I could. Then I said, "lets go!" Harry Jack led the way as we walked from the back of the library to the front and out to the truck. He looked HILARIOUS! He could have cared less how he looked. I wish I had my camera!

I am home now. Needless to say, I didn't get to the grocery store or Blockbuster. The house is quiet. Maddie and Danny are reading and Harry and Margaux are sleeping. I am hungry! All I have had to eat today is a cup of hot tea and a Goo-Goo bar that I rewarded myself with on the way home from the library. Thank you Jesus I tossed one in the diaper bag on my way out the door this morning.

So Donna, poop or pee, what will it be? Which one would you rather clean up off the floor of a public building?

Today there is not too much going on at MLISF. Actually, yesterday was a long day and I am proud to say that today at 10:30, I am still in my PJ's, my baby is asleep, my toddler is running around the house in nothing but "Go Diego Go" underwear, and my oldest two are playing a game on the computer.