A Martin Minute

I just wanted to brag on SuperDaddy. He is awesome! He loves God, me & our 3 sweet rugrats. He is a hard-worker & supports our family so that I might stay home & be with the kiddos. Thanks SuperDaddy for cleaning the dishes that need to be handwashed, b/c you know that is my least favorite thing to do, thank you for taking Bay to school & mostly for letting me be a stay-at-home mommy. I love you!

Congratulations to my baby sister! Maggie is getting married this summer & we are so excited! She is marrying Daniel that we all know & love & I am so excited for them & this exciting journey. (I may have said excited too many times, but I am.) She is going to be a super, terrific, great, stupendous wife. In other words - much better than me. So yes, we are letting another UA fan into the family, but he loves God & loves Maggie so if he has 1 fault we will over look it (well except for maybe 1 Saturday a year.) Daniel, welcome to the family! My kids are super excited to add you to the "uncle counting," as Bay says. Love, Jocelyn

Pictures of Snow & the Mercedes Kid Marathon Thanks Cousin Nate for the snow clothes!

Last night & this morning I have listened to stories about 2 sets of brothers who have gone on to do wonderful things. Last night while watching the Olympics there were 2 brothers racing in speedskating. Can you imagine the pride there Mommy must have felt - 2 kids to make it into the Olympics. Just think I am still working on getting 2 boys to stop picking noses, much less make it into the Olympics. Secondly, I snuck into church a little late today & they began to introduce the guest preacher & he was an amazing Irish preacher who has traveled the world preaching the Gospel. And guess what?? His brother is a wonderful preacher as well who has a worldwide apologetics ministry. God worked through that Mom in beautiful ways. When she gets to the Heaven I know God will look at her & say "Well done my good and faithful servant." So, yes, I have goals of having a clean house & recruiting 34 VBS teachers in the next 3 months; but in reality I need to focus on lo...

A quick story before I forget to write it down: We have been home today (except for a quick trip to the grocery store - not fun) & I have been a cleaning machine! So I was taking some toys to William's room I overheard part of a conversation between the boys: WFM5: "Whitt I am going to need a hooker . . ." That is all I heard before I started laughing & left the room as soon as possible. These are a few words that a Mommy NEVER wants to hear from her children. Thanks for laughing with me, Jocelyn P.S. To clarify I realized he wanted to hook (i.e. attach) something to the see-saw =)

Happy Valentine's Day to all our sweet family & friends! We are so blessed to be so loved & cared for. We are staying low-key today: watching the Olympics, playing upstairs, Mommy & Daddy taking turns with naps (because the kiddos got to skip naps for VDay) & Mommy enjoyed being back at church today. Thank you for your prayers- I am feeling much better & know that is b/c of all of the prayers that were lifted up to the Great Healer on my behalf. I will post snow pics after tomorrow, because it looks like we may get more snow tonight! His Child, Jocelyn

Okay, so we were in the car, or at the church, just about everyday last week. We have a wonderful church that has a fabulous missions conference & where else would you want your kids to be? It is great to see their eyes get excited & treat missionaries as if they were Hollywood celebrities. Anyway we were busy & then we had ballet, school, homework & playdates on top of Missions so what does a Mommy do after a week like that? Why go to the hospital of course=) I got the stomach bug on Friday night that has been taking out households around Bham for a few weeks now - OH no I always have to overdo things. I end up in the ER with MY mommy out of town. After being in the ER for a few hours I think they are going to send me home & tell me to get rest, NOPE I get to stay for 2 nights. Now I know you other mommies are thinking "2 days of bed rest!" It was not fun. They took all my blood & then filled me with fluids. I have IV bruises in my left arm ...