Joy of LOVE: Day 8 The Greatest Gift

Lamar has given me some amazing gifts over the years.  Many that he put quite a bit of thought into and many that I made easy for him by letting him know exactly what I wanted.

The gift that means the most to me is our home.  Not our physical house itself, but the home we have made it into.  It is where we are raising our children, where two of them were born.  Where we laugh, eat and enjoy each other.  It symbolizes our family.  I have lived here longer than any other home in my life.  This is where my family is.  That is the greatest gift ever.

Joy of LOVE: Day 7 Generations

The goal of today"s post is to show Lamar and generations of his family.  This poses a problem...his family is in Iowa and just not a snapshot away.  I can show him with our kiddos...my easily accessible two generations.

I ran

I ran the Zena Road 6 mile run this morning.  I really did not think much of the run before hand.  Zena Road is a long, flat, straight road near my house.  I thought to myself that this would be an easy, fast run and not much of a challenge.  I should have read the course description a little closer.  It may be called the Zena Road Run, but it is actually not run on Zena Road.  Crap!!  It was on Spring Valley Road...all HILLS!  Maybe ignorance is bliss?  I came upon the turn around point for the three mile runners and so wanted to turn around, but I plowed forward and made it.  All I can say is that there were some great downhill parts of the course!

I felt like I was running a snails pace but realized when I crossed the finish line that I was right on track for my normal turtle pace.  So even with the hills I kept my pace and finished the race strong running!

I spoke with my running partner tonight and we are going to do this course together next week to help with our half marathon training.  Saturdays mornings are now going to become our long run day.  The half marathon will be here before we know it.

Joy of LOVE: Day 6 Who He Loves

Outside of me our three children make his heart melt.  He is so proud of our children.  It makes my heart melt to see him interact and play with them.

Joy of LOVE: Day 5 Love to Hate

There is one thing that has bothered me since I met Lamar.  He has a nervous habit/stress release mechanism of picking at his fingernails.  I have tried everything to try to break this habit.  Moisturizers, manicures, distraction...nothing has worked.  I am sure that he is tired of me nagging him by now.  I will stop nagging when he stops picking!

Joy of LOVE: Day 4 What He Wears

For as long as I have known Lamar he has been very meticulous in the way he dresses.  There seems to be three sides to his wardrobe choices  1.  Work wear of collared shirts and slacks,  2.  Sports wear that is primarily purple and gold or orange and black and finally  3. lounge wear.  The third option does not necessarily fit the meticulous category since I am constantly trying to throw these clothes out for their poor quality.  I should mention the fourth category of "going out wear."  He will often spend more time choosing clothes than me and try three or four things on before he makes his final decision.

All About Teeth

The past few weeks have been all about teeth in the Lindsay house.  After all kinds of insurance hassles and dentist visits, Shianne finally had three teeth pulled.  Her baby teeth were just not releasing and causing all kinds of problems with her permanent teeth that are coming through.  She was not happy to have this done.  She was still traumatized by our first attempt to have her teeth pulled at our regular dentist office.  We all learned the lesson that she does not respond to Novocaine.  It is the equivalent of saline in her mouth.  NO PAIN RELIEF!!  This second attempt went much smoother and she felt nothing this time with anesthesia.  She is even less happy about the braces that will be coming, but one battle at a time.

Nora Beth lost her first tooth!  I looked in her mouth and noticed that she had a permanent tooth that had popped through.  She had not even noticed this herself.  Three days later the baby tooth came out.  Lamar and I gave it a bit of assistance without to much of a fight from Nora Beth.  Of course the anticipation of it coming out was much worse than the actual event!  Of course the Tooth Fairy visited Nora Beth and left her $1 and a lollipop.

Not to be left out of the tooth drama, Calum has four molars that are trying to make an appearance all at once.  It has been many months since he has gotten a new tooth.  I am happy for him to finally be getting these teeth...it opens up all kinds of food options for him now that he will actually be able to chew his food.