Johnson Family Dish

Going to Women Conference this year!

Trip to SLC for Womens Conference, Whoopie!!

It may as well be public knowledge.

We have this plan to move to Queen Creek this fall. The best part of this plan was that we would be living next door to my cousin Sandi and her family. We love the community that they are building up out there. We love that the school is close and that we are within walking distance to shopping, the YMCA, and much more.

Well, early this week I woke up in the middle of the night with a troubling thought. I couldn’t get it out of my head! It was one of those that just won’t let you go until you pay attention to it. So, after some research, online, talking to 2 accountants, our R.E. agent, and the final nail in the coffin of our dream, the IRS! Because of the delayed sale of our previous home we will be heavily taxed, should we sell our current home before Feb. 2007.

So our dream will have to change a bit. We would still like to move there, it just has to wait a year : (. Bill and Sandi are mulling it over in their minds, trying to decide what action they will take. All I know is that NOTHING happens for NOTHING! I have faith that whatever is going to happen will be for our both our families best intrest.

I love the quote at the top of the page, I read it and it comforted me, I had to add it to this page. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~Jimmy Dean

What is up with the Johnson men?!

At 1:30am Randon got up to go to the bathroom, urinate, and the next thing I know I am woke out of a deep sleep to a huge bang and a wretching sound! Randon fainted! What is up?!!! He was very pale and weak. He is fine this morning and at work, but this is getting a bit frightening!

Valentines & Our Fainting Boy

Scott slammed his hand in the door of the chicken coop yesterday. His hand sustained a minor wound. The skin on his finger was peeled back just a little bit but it was not deep enough that he was bleeding, AT ALL! He was very upset and hurting from this and he came in to the house crying and screaming, he is loud. So I looked at it and sent him in to wash it while I finished what I was doing and then I was going to go dress it. Kelcie volunteered for the job and so she did it. She came in a few minutes later saying that Scott had passed out. Sure enough I go in there and he is lying on the floor white as a sheet. He did this to me one other time when I was doctoring his thumb, which had a large puss pocket from an ingrown nail. He kept complaining about how much it hurt until he just passed out on me. I guess that he has an EXTREMLY low threshold for pain. He never would have survived in the house I grew up in.

Addison had a great Valentines day. She told me when it was bedtime that ‘Valentines should be 2 or 3 days long’ because there was not enough time in just one day to celebrate it. Halloween she says ‘has lots of time in the morning and the night to celebrate’. She had a very hard time going to sleep last night. I guess that she did not want Valentines Day to end.

Charis’ Super Powers!

Charis woke up one morning last week and told her daddy that she had SUPER POWERS! Her super power was taping, yes, as in scotch tape. She is going to use her super taping powers to tape the moon back together because there was only part of a moon. So imagine her delight last night when she looked out side and saw that the moon was full! She did it! She fixed the moon, she said! She has a wonderful imagination. I love to hear her dreams and imaginations.

Lately though I am convinced that her super power involves her super duper tantrum throwing powers! Several nights we have been woke up out of a dead sleep to her screaming and having a fit about something! I try to let it pass. Then she comes into my room and brings the loud screaming temper tantrum in DOLBY stereo into our bedroom! No, I am not kidding you! It has been exhausting! I have to then get up and try to make sense of the demands and usually end up putting her in time out and giving her a lecture. I know, probably ridiculous, but what do I do?! Then she goes back to bed and sleeps and I stay up for hours trying to go back to sleep! Then Scott came in after that with an earache that needed attention. I do not do well without sleep, I am a creature that requires 8-10 hours a night, I always have. So, needless to say this is turning the house upside down because if Mom is not happy, nobody is!

So what works for your kids’ tantrum fits? Can you recomend a good book on the subject that I can read during those sleepless hours? I would love any suggestions on the matter.

My Valentines Music Picks

So I made Randon this C.D. for Valentines, honestly, I think that I like it more than he does. I gave it to him early so that he could enjoy it all month long, inspire loving thoughts etc. So, here it is, my picks for valentines day, along with why I chose each song. This is a country music themed C.D. since we both really enjoy this music.

1. Your Man – Josh Turner (a perfect opening line for inspiring loving thoughts!)
2. Must be doin’ something right – Billy Curington (obviously)
3. Miss me baby – Chris Cagel (think of me when you hear this C.D.)
4. Many a Mile – Collin Raye (our wedding song, ahhh)
5. Come a little closer – Dierks Bently (Steamy! need any more inspiration?)
6. I fell in love again last night – The Forester Sisters (a classic)
7. Forever Together – Randy Travis (well, we will be!)
8. She’s EVERY woman – Garth Brooks (for this man, I am)
9. I’ll Still love you more – Trisha Yearwood (I’d like to think so anyway)
10. Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flats (yep, that applies!)
11. I’ll still be lovin you – Restless Heart (A PERFECT LOVE SONG!)
12. (I’d choose) you again – The Forester Sisters ( I would!)
13. Moon over Georgia – Shennendoah (Charming little ballad)
14. One More Day – Diamond Rio (Tears)
15. I would’ve loved you anyway – Trisha Yearwood (what ever happens, I would)
16. Nobody but me – Blake Shelton (Just remember that)
17. Valentine – Jim Brickman/Martina McBride (it’s a Valentines C.D.)
Bonus track
18. Where your Road Leads – Trisha Y.wood/Garth Brooks (So Perfect for us!)

Tell me what your favorite love songs are! Sharing why is optional.

‘Because of you’

by Kelly Clarkson stopped me dead in my tracks yesterday. Music has always given me permission to feel and as I listened to the lyrics of this song, I felt very sad. This song hits close to home. My older girls were singing along, and I was just dumbfounded! Kelcie asked me why I looked so sad and I told her. She kindly said to me “Mom, I am sorry that you had a sad song life.” I assured her that my life is a very happy song now, and not to worry. I was taken aback by the song and by the compassion of my girls, who both hugged me.

Having said that I make no appologies for the way that I feel. They are my feelings, this is my blog and if this is offensive to you, too bad. I am learning that the more I try to pretend like my past wasn’t my past the sadder I feel. When I have moments like the one I described in the above paragraph, I feel them and then let them go (best that I can). And that makes my life a happy song life. In fact after pondering what song I would say fits my life now “Sowin Love” by Paul Overstreet came to my mind.

It’s been so LONG!

This is the last Johnson Family Dish that you will recieve on a monthly basis. I have decided that it is high time that I use my blogging site as a real blog! I will be posting several times a month, maybe even several times a week. The posts will then be a little bit shorter and less time consuming to read. It will be a bit like reading our family diary. You will find this and all other posts at our web site link below. Go ahead, put it on your favorites list! We welcome all comments that you may have there. We will be adding a picture gallery in the future and hopefully jazz up the monochromatic blue and grey a bit. We also hope to add a section for Kelcie to record her thoughts, and the other children to follow. We know that you can hardly wait, ha ha!

As you can see I haven’t posted an entry for some time now. So to sum up November thru January (as if I really could in any sizable post that you wouldn’t get bored to tears reading!), we made it through the holidays and even managed to enjoy ourselves immensely!

Our Kelcie has had her 11th birthday! She is becoming a young lady so fast. I am begining to see just what our parental predacessors were saying when they say that it happens so fast! Let’s face it, when you have a two year old, that is a hard statement to swallow. But our baby girl is becoming a lovely young woman whom we are unceasingly proud of!

Last night when Morgan was saying her prayers (I am still allowed to listen to her prayers, Kelcie is too old for that) she told her Father in Heaven that she wanted to grow up and be like her mother. You can imagine how this touched me and just what it means to me as her mother! WOW! Now that is some pressure to be a good example to her and my other girls! I could not understand why the Lord gave me so many girls, for a long time, I thought that I would naturally be better with sons. I am honored that he would entrust me to raise these beautiful daughters of His. I hope that I can share with them my passion for womanhood and life!

Now where does that leave my boy? I absolutely adore him, of course. And I have to say that I am naturally good with him (and none of that is really to my credit, he is just naturally easy going)! He is my valiant young man. Dare I say that he has been less challenging for me than his sisters, thus far. He wants to be just like his daddy, nothing would please me more!