The Child God has blessed me with

Well, yesterday was Isaac's first time at cubscouts. ?I am the mother of a lion scout. I was very proud of this little gift from God. He had such a great time with other boys. He actually behaved himself. I prayed extra hard for that one. He was answering questions. He was not shy in the least bit. Although , I didn't realize that when we do our lessons I have never had him raise his hand.

Until last night ugh....so that is now part of our lessons..
Speaking of which, our lessons went so well. We learned about lions. Being as though we
are watching Madagascar 2 (aka the move it move it movie) like every single night
I mean EVERY SINGLE night. So, me being the awesome homeschooling momma....
ok, i was tired of fighting with him and his math and writing. So , we just watched some videos on lions and read about them. Kind of a shock for them after watching alex and the zebra marty
being best friends on the movie....yeah..well....they learnned today that not all cartoon
disney movies are real.....but in same sentence they are boys so the loved watching the
feeding habits of lions...haha...ok, so moving right along here...

I am going to attempt to redo my blog to fit my personality better, HEY who knows
if someone sees my blog with a new background and a bunch of cool things on it..I might just might get another reader. oops, on a sidenote...MOM, i love that you are my fan..and actually read this completly disorganized blog of mine..
another feature I really want to do is homeschooling something or another, maybe something that will help others...oooo...and a memory verse that my church gives out every sunday.
I might be the next big blogger and even bring in .20 cents from my adsense...ok, i best be going ...i don't feel healthy right now, just picturing myself talking to myself haha..
God Bless you all

Thank you Jesus for the day you are giving me, God bless those poor people in Haiti
They need you , and after hearing them singing your praises at night , when they are scared
they love you sweet Lord..
Amen

Life, Praising, Cooking and best of all cleaning.....

I just finished watching the movie Julie, Julia. ..... I absolutely loved the movie. I love all the cooking I loved watching a woman that I want to find out more about (Julia Child's). My interest is peaked. Before I delve into my witty , cunning and smart comments on the movie I must share a little tidbit of news...I have quit my job. Yes, my loyal readers (ok, just my mom prob) I am now a stay at home mom with a twist. ?I am helping my father with his business. I get the fun jobs of doing the books...fun right...But, my children get to come with me and it is only 12 hours a week to help with the bills. Anyways now that's all cleared up and in the open. Back to my extremely cute and funny thoughts about my life after watching this movie. Needless to say , my interest was peaked. I love to cook ( I am currently on my 3rd consecutive year of finishing my cookbook). I love baking (really I do), But, it seems that I can never find the time that others do for my hobbies. I have a home, a husband, children My sweet God that needs worshiped all the time, I have a house that needs so much work ....did you know to keep a house looking good you HAVE to clean it EVERY DAY!!...Thank goodness I knew this from watching my grammother clean everyday..If I had to learn this from TV I would have been in shock that my house didn't clean itself everyday. I home school every day 2 little boys that fight me tooth and nail. I have a father in law and a husband , that's right girls , think you mother in laws are bad,,, live with them and then turn them in to men...hahahaha...I would love to spend my days in the kitchen cooking wonderful meals with all kinds of ingredients , but refer to previous statement I live with 2 men and 2 boys...all we like to eat are meat and potatoes...ugh....there are only so many ways to cook potatoes....Tonight we had a delectable meal of toasted cheese (smothered in lovely Aldis's butta....with creamy Borden's cheese inside, with the most soft pantry bread. see that sounds yummy right....ugh..I really want all of that fancy food...although judging by the size of pants I wear you would think I eat the good stuff right...nope ,,, just eat a bunch of the crummy stuff...I want to find the time to make wonderful meals that bring my family to the table. I would love to have a party at my house with tons of people drooling over the smells of my house..wondering how I did all of this AND have perfect little boys that are genius's PLUS have a happy husband and a spotless house and get to volunteer for the Church all the time...I would love to have my church call me up for duty to God to make my peanut butter creme pie with homemade chocolate Oreo crust..or to make something amazing.....

Well, my children are revolting against momma writing her wonderful , life changing blogs....

I guess for now i must be happy with my toasted cheese and tomato soup..

God Bless all of you

and please before I go

pray for the people in Haiti, these people are suffering while I am writing this blog about all of the selfish things that I want in life like superb food and what not..and they would be happy with the can of beans i hat in my cabinet....

Please dear Jesus touch these people and their loved ones, give them comfort, give them nourishment, help them sweet merciful Savior....hold them in your arms..show them your love

amen

Well, folks welcome to 2010....a new year full of new chances. We brought in the new year as a family plus Jake's friend Matt. Who with jimmy seems that I now have 4 husbands. My children were excited to not have a bedtime for one time a year. I how ever was ready to tell them at 9pm was the new year. I did not. I am ready for a New Year. I am a person who thinks magically for example it is my thought that my sons will quit picking their noses, that they will quit talking about poop, poopy heads, and boob will no longer be their favorite words to throw out in conversations with adults that I run into at the store who also happen to go to church with....aaaa magical thinking. I will be more disciplined in this new year to sitting down and finishing a project if only one gets done this year , hmm like balancing my check book. I will do things realistically like knowing I will only balance it one time that is my goal . I will think that my husband and I after being parents for 5 years now will have a bed to ourselves with no feet in our faces, no bodies laying between us...just me and my man.....I believe that there will be no wwe wrestling in our living room EVERY night of the week. One day my children will look at me and say "momma, it is 8 pm may we please go to bed now..no ..we don't want to watch a movie tonight just shut off the lights so that we may go to sleep"....my husband thinks that i have too much of an imagination....(i have faith that God will smile on a couple of these things and make them happen hehe)....I do have alot I want to get done this year ..same as last year but see like most popular cell phone plans..mine roll over into the new year..so that if i don't get them all done they will be here for the new year...like roll over minutes..
well my husband has just gotten back from braving the big bad and scary grocery store on his own i must go make sure he needs no first aide
again
God Bless
BriAnna

Wow, God has blessed me with another year with my amazing husband and wild but wonderful sons. We have had some lows , we have had some highs. You truly cannot hit rock bottom when God is holding you in his arms. I have decide that i want to blog more . Then put together all my blogs and write a book haha. That would be great the entire family would then be kissing butt. But this blog is going to be about my past year. We have had a couple losses this year. First, Gramma Orr she has went to be with the Lord in March. We were expecting this. She had been in the hospital since before Thanksgiving with congestive heart failure. The weird thing is every year it seemed that she was in there. Now, about gramma Orr she was a strong woman who loved children. there were times that she drove me up a wall, but when she was in the hospital we had told here we had to move out of our house, because the lovely landlord sold it. She just looked at me and asked me if we were coming back home (my father in laws house). She was a loving and caring woman who i did admire and love very much. The other death we have had is Jacob's brother Toby who was only 25...he had gotten out of jail on a Thursday and passed away on Saturday night Sunday morning. Toby was one of those guys that could out talk a woman...haha..i truly loved him...he had his flaws but he did have good qualities she was funny, caring he had a 2 year old lil girl...it was so hard on everyone here, of course his father who is still muddling through but doing better each day thanks only to an amazing God. There have been positive and joyful times this year. Jacob and I have become members to the most amazing church. Harvest community church we absolutely love this church and our amazing church family. Please visit their sit at www.harvestpa.org and listen to our great preacher(s) preach the amazing word of our savior. We had the children dedicated this year. Which in itself was wonderful. I cannot talk enough about the amazing love of our Savior who gave his life for me and you so that we may be washed clean. I started a job in may in a personal care home where I have met people that are so wiling to share about their past. God has blessed me with this job. O and after a year and 1 month my husband has found a wonderful job and I was blessed enough to be able to cut my hours at work. The boys are doing great in school (at home) Isaac is now working at a 1st grade math level and has passed his addition test and now working on subtraction and putting his letters together and making words..Lucas is such a goofball he does anything for a laugh, which has made him a little difficult to teach haha. God has blessed my family with his love and adoration. Our savior never ceases to amaze me with his love and works. I am looking into doing alot this year for the new years resolution, i have decided to do it opposite . every year i make the same resolutions.
1. be a more Godly woman and mother and wife
2. read my bible more
3. lose weight
4. quit smoking a biggie with me
5. be more appreciative of what God has given me
so this year i am doing things different
1. not putting God first, be a horrible mother and wife
2. never read my bible
3. gain so much weight i cannot fit into the car
4. smoke 2 packs a day
5. never be greatful to God
I figure if i made it like this then i can accomplish the first set lol....
so all in all goodbye 2009 it has been a year of sorrow and joy
hello and welcome 2010 can't wait what is in store for the Orr clan
and last but not least
THANK YOU TO MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST FOR MAKING THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE JUST FOR ME. YOUR DAUGHTER WHO IS A SINNER...BUT BECAUSE OF YOU I AM CLEAN..I RAISE MY HANDS TO PRAISE YOU O LORD.

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY YOUR YEAR BE FULL OF BLESSINGS FROM OUR SAVIOR.

The craziness of the unperfect homeschooler

wow ... that describes me to a T. We have been homeschooling for around 1.2 years. We started when Isaac was 4. He is now kindergarten and Lucas is 3 year preschool. I had things scheduled how things would flow, details are my friend and my enemy! Well we are in our 3rd week of homeschooling and have missed a total of 3 days. He is still ahead of public school kindergarten. But like today I had bible study took the boys with me and let my hubby sleep. My sister in law and 3 kids and hubby have to be out of their house by the end of the month, so i was ready to head over there for a couple hours to help pack. Well , we didn't have to. But , i had to clean the bathroom , bedroom, kitchen, and liviing room , i didn't even get to my room yet. There is so much to do on a day off.. they def. should never call them days off. Espically if you are a homeschooling mother wife and every other role we as women have in our lives. My sister in law will be moving in with us. The house is busting at the seems... I love her , her husband and her wonderful 3 children. I do , I still need some prayers. So back to the homeschooling imperfection. I had this WHOLE plan on how everything would work out. I got the worksheets , art supplies, science things that look great....We say our pledges to the flag, the bible and the christian flag...we got our letters and their sounds, we got our addition and subtraction....yeah it looks great in my mind and on paper calanders. Now when you get to the nitty gritty of it I have an overactive 5 year old and a monkey for a 3 year old. We go to the school room and work for o ,15 minutes and then they want break, can we have cookies, hey momma are we done yet...can we just do math. I pray for my sanity every day. I my friends am reluctant to admit. I am an unperfect homeschooler, but i will continue to teach my children at home. I never have to worry what they are learning , i never have to find out they are learning something at school that disagrees with our all mighty savior God. I will be there for them they are right where they belong at home with their momma. I will be posting pictures of a day in the life of an unperfect homeschooler.
God bless til next time

The school year shall begin!!!!

Well, it has been such a long time since my last post.

It has been crazy and hectic in the Orr household. I have had to return to the

workforce...hence the fact this will be a short blog. I have to be up in about 6 hours....

I have been getting Isaac's school year ready along with preschool items for lucas 3 yr preschool.

It is hard , my baby Isaac is starting kindergarten, I have been working hard on the curriculum.

I am doing a more 1st grade instead of Kindergarten because he is above on most and on target with the reading and writing. He is still being insane but we are starting our school on September 8 , 2009. it has been pushed back many times, due to well, anything and everything.

i will post more tomorrow and let you know what we have been up to and what we have planned.

God bless all of you

love in God

BriAnna

Another bundle of boy and then we have four

Wow, it is hard to believe it has been almost 3 years since we brought this little man home...

Well , here is his story. After having Isaac, Jacob and I talked about the risks of having another baby. I am talking about alot of TALKING. We had reached our decision of having my tubes tied..Jacob didn't want to watch me go through another miscarriage or have to raise little Isaac without a momma. So, I agreed . Ihad my gall bladder out beginning of October 2005, and made an appointment with the wonderful Dr. England. I go in before my surgery and sign the papers for the tubule. You have to wait a month between signing the papers and making the appointment for the surgery. So, I have my surgery, and November 10th I believe, I go in for my dr. appointment to find out THAT I AM PREGNANT...I AM PREGNANT.. lol..that is how it was too.. the thing is I already kind of knew that. Jacob, to say the least was shocked, well as shocked as he can get.

So, we were pregnant. We were not getting our tubes tied at this moment. I of course, was scared to death. I mean we just spent 2 years talking about miscarriages, death, stillbirths,and raising Isaac with no momma. To say the least i was a little freaked out. Then, a thought came into my head. If God wanted me to have this baby , I'm so not fighting with that man. Then I was wandering maybe , just maybe Iwould have my little girl. In my eyes a little girl should have an older brother ..right? So , nooone in Jacob's family was happy to say the least. I mean his mom and his dad were ok. his step dad was NOT happy..ugh another story another blog.

My family of course was scared. Lucas had no name the entire pregnancy. We just kind of called him baby. We did find out that he would be a boy. My mother in law and father in law and jacob couldn't understand why I would want to know what I was having ...I just had to laugh..I can't wait for Christmas to come..what would make anyone in their right mind think I could wait to find out what I was going to be giving birth to .. ok, back to my story,

Isaac had his name picked out pretty much as soon as we find out what he was. Poor Luke duke...I had at least 30 name books..we couldn't agree. (on a side note God didn't give us a girl because we couldn't agree on a girls name to save our lives lol..he just wanted to save our marriage).

Luke , was a harder pregnancy. As with Isaac I will not go into the gory details of the pregnancy and labor. I took my shots in the stomach, of course I fell, I had many visits to the hospital....

I will tell you that we did almost lose Lucas and myself in the delivery room. Thank God above that I went to Magee's womens hospital. Those doctors and nurses flooded my room when me and lukes vitals dropped and we crashed. God , was with my family that night.

Fast forward to when I held this 9 pound 13 ounce little man in my arms...my mother in law and I were desperatley trying to find this perfect little guy a perfect little name...She found Lucas with the meaning of "root of all light" and I thought I had the perfect middle name..to name him after Jacob.. lucas Douglas (his dad is Robert Douglas, he is Jacob Douglas ..so you get the picture right?)

My mother in law (God Rest Her Soul) asked me if I could name him completley after his daddy Lucas Jacob Orr..so there yougo folks...that is Luke's story...and we are again talking about the tubule..we have two wild and crazy boys....I want to be here when they will give me grandchildren...

Thank you God for everything you have given me...for my husband who has been my rock, my baby Isaac for being the child he is and for Lucas for being the baby he is....We love you Christ. We could never thank you enough for this family made by your hands.

Amen