A Letter to My Son on His Birthday

Dear Ramel,

I praise God for you. I thank Him everyday for sending me such a great son. No other child would have fit me as perfectly as you do. You compliment me in so many ways.

When I put my arms around you, I love you more than I ever thought possible. I promise to always love you and to always pray for you. That's the most important thing I could ever do for you.

As you get older, never forget God. He is always there for you no matter what is happening in your life. Let Him love you and teach you how to be a real man. God can be everything in your life that your life is missing.

I love you Ramel.

Happy Birthday!

Sleepover Weekend

Wow, this has been a long weekend. Mel had his sleepover. Friday night, he had 2 boys sleepover and for the rest of the weekend, it was just one. His friend stayed the entire weekend and is still here! He'll be going to school from here this morning!

I just feel like I didn't get enough sleep.LOL They went to bed about midnight most nights and you know I wasn't going to sleep before them. Overall, it was a good weekend and Mel had a great time.

I bought him a PS2 video game: SmackDown v. Raw 2010 and my sister bought him another video game: Madden 2010 and my other sister in Baltimore sent him $50! So you KNOW he's happy!! They stayed in that room playing those new games ALL WEEKEND! I don't know how they did it!

Mel even treated me and his friend to dinner Saturday night at Taco Bell! I'm glad he was able to enjoy his birthday weekend, eventhough his actually birthday is tomorrow! Thank you Lord for my wonderful son!

Have You Ever Had An Angry Conversation with God?

I want to share a book with you. I had won this book awhile back and never got around to reading it until last week. Angry Conversations with God by Susan E. Isaacs has got to be one of the best books I've ever read.

Susan covers all of the feelings we've EVER had towards God in your lifetime! She says all of the things that we've wanted to say. She's asked all of the questions we've wanted to ask like "When?" and "Why?", but the best part about the book is that God answers the questions! (Hilariously, but honestly)

I can't really explain it, but this book is a must read for every Christian out there struggling to be all that God wants them to be. This book is so funny and you're going to hate to put it down! I didn't want it to end!!

What a Wonderful Boy

Ramel has been outside playing most of the day. A few minutes ago he came in and handed me half of a cupcake. Our neighbor had made Halloween cupcakes and had given them out to the kids. He ate half of it and brought the other half in and said "Here Mom, you want the other half?"

Isn't that sweet? He knows how much I love sweets. He could have just eaten the whole cupcake and I never would have known. I took one bite, thanked him and gave it back. (NO, I couldn't turn it down completely!) It's good to know your kids think about you.

Weird Night...

Something weird happened last night...well really, this morning. I went to bed around 11 or 12pm like I normally do, and took an allergy pill (irrelevant, I know!). At exactly 6:25am I was in the middle of a dream when I suddenly heard a woman yell "Rape!" really loudly! It wasn't a part of my dream because when I woke up startled, I remembered exactly what I had been dreaming when it happened.

I distinctly heard a woman yell "Rape" at the top of her lungs. She yelled it like it was really happening! That really unnerved me. I listened outside. Didn't hear anything. I immediately began to pray for her wherever she was. I prayed strength for her and for God to calm her fear. I prayed for the know how for her to escape her attacker.

I don't know who she was or where in the world she was but I believe God woke me to pray for her.

Oh Well...

Mel didn't make the basketball team.

He wasn't too upset. If he was, he hid it from me pretty well. We're going to go to the local rec center and sign him up there. He's played for them for the last 2 years. He enjoys it there. He said it seemed like the coaches at the school already knew who they wanted. I told him things like that DO go on sometimes, but not to worry about it.

I just want to take a minute and say Thank you Lord for my life. I know it's not everything I want sometimes and I do complain sometimes, but I do thank you. You've been good to me and I love you.