The long awaited Post

So this time I do have a lot to blog about...I know that you are all dying to hear what is going on in the Cummins house...HA HA HA HA

Where to start...well I had blogged in the last one that we had decided that I would apply for school and I did at IPFW and got my acceptance letter last week. I was totally stoked. I just finished filling out my FAFSA so I will wait to hear from the school about the financial aid. So, I am pretty excited about that. Rich also got accepted into Liberty University which he would do online to get his Masters in Theology or Divinity. He was excited about that as well. I have felt since Hunter was born that I need to go to nursing school, and I believe this is why God has been shutting all the doors on me getting a job. I did have an interview last week and will find out this week whether or not I got the job. Here is my fear though...I will get the job and is it God telling me to take it or a distraction from what I am actually supposed to be doing? Being a wife, a mother, a home care taker...I will have alot to take care of this summer anyway...the girls, the house, the yard, the flowers, help with the pool, laundry. I am just afraid that if I get this job it is a distraction from my calling right now. Plus, if I get it, I will have to be gone for training for a little over a week in Indy, so I wouldn't get to be home and that adds alot of pressure to everyone else in the family...I DON'T KNOW! I don't even know if I am going to get the job or not...

Hunter is doing well. We have been having some issues with the actual bag, but we don't have to do it very much longer. I am not sure if I talked about what would happen in May or not, so I am going to do it again. The surgery that he had a couple of weeks before the wedding...Dr. Smith took out 10 inches of his colon that was slow anyways and gave him a colostomy bag which he has had ever since. We go in on May 5th to schedule the surgery to reverse his colostomy and allow him to try and poop like normal. Dr. Smith is very confident that since he took out the part that was causing the blockages before, that this time it will work. I am praying to God that it will. We have never gotten to change an actual poopy diaper, so in a very weird way, I am looking forward to that. Other than that, he is a typical almost 4 year old boy. He has his moments when he can be so sweat and just wants to cuddle and tells me that he loves me sooooooooo much, but then he turns into Mr. Hyde and acts like a crazy person. His speech is much more developed than it was even a month ago and he is understanding bigger words. At times he can make me laugh, angry, cry, and be lividly furious all in one day. I guess that is the way that God feels about us sometime huh? He so desperately wants our attention, but we say to him what I say to Hunter at times...Hunter, mommy is busy. I can't be with you right now. When I am done, I will give you some time. How often do we do that to God...me included!

The girls are good. Claire is getting so big and has an almost insatiable appetite. She eats as much if not more than Rich does. She is 11 going on 27 I'll tell you what. She is smarter than me in certain area. I love her to death though. Chloe is also good. They both go to a Catholic school in Fort Wayne and she had her first Reconciliation a couple of weeks ago and she was so excited. She has her first communion on May 22nd and she is even more excited about that. They are both doing very well.

6 days ago, Rich and I started a new diet from Isagenix. All the women at his work have done it so we thought that we would try it...ummmmmm...yeah it's kind of like a concentration camp diet. The first day was a pre-cleanse day which consisted on a protein shake, a 300-600 calorie meal, followed by another protein shake. Every hour and a have you can have 2 dry roasted unsalted almonds and a chocolate tablet that tastes like crap. Then you have 2 cleanse days which is not eating at all and drinking this disgusting drink all day for two days and eating the almond and chocolate crap every 2 hours. Then it is make to the shake meal shake stuff for the rest of the time. The last day of the diet is a cleanse day. Now, this diet isn't for everyone, so I wouldn't recommend it to any of the skinny people. I have lost about 9 pounds and Rich has lost about the same. So, we are happy with that, but are ready to eat actual food again.

I can't think of anything else to tell you all about right now, so I hope this is enough for you to read...let me know if there is anything that I am missing.

OMGosh...I'm so excited

So, Rich and I have been talking about alot of stuff lately...I can't seem to get a job...I feel like I do nothing, but take care of the house...not getting any of these jobs has really hurt my self-esteem and I shouldn't let it do that to me, but it has. So, we have decided that I am going to start the process to go to nursing school at IPFW. I just finished filling out the application and have to wait on some forms to do the financial aid stuff, but I am pretty stoked. Hunter is going to be having another surgery hopefully, late May to close the colostomy and try and let him poop naturally since all of the dead colon has been removed. Dr. Smith seems pretty excited that it is going to work this time. I want to make sure that everything is good with him before I start in at school. I am really excited about this. I have wanted to go back to school for a long time, but have made excuses why I couldn't for a few years, but now I have the backing of my wonderful parents and the love of my life.

Also, I found a free Pre-K in Butler...HOLY COW!! It will be at Butler Elementary Monday though Thursday from 9:15-12:45 and they give them breakfast and lunch. I talked to Hunter about it yesterday and he said that he can't wait to go to school. If they are able to get him on the route, he will get picked up by the bus and brought home on the bus. I am so excited for him. I called the lady this morning...Rich and I would like to meet with her Monday evening to fill out the application and talk about the program some more. YEAH HUNTER!!!

I don't really have anything more to talk about. I am pretty excited for the Super Bowl...we are going to Rich's buddy Tim's house with his fiance Julie and there son Zidon. They are a blast and Hunter really likes Zidon.


So, is anyone going to join Rich and I for the Mandisa concert on Valentines Day???

Fine, Whatever!

Since it appears that I am being "hated on" by everyone that I know. I am just going to come out and be the first to say it..."I AM RETARD AT THIS STUFF!" I know that is very shocking for all of you to hear, but I am! I don't know what happened to my camera cord, but something happened to it and I don't know how to just go to Walmart and put everything on a disc. I have taken some very good pics and have stuff on there from our honeymoon (good pics of Gettysburg), but can't dump them off my camera, cuz I'm and ID!!! I'm sorry for not being as well versed in these things as the rest of you...Please acctept my humble apologies. I will try and find the cord. We really don't do much though...


So, today I got a Wii Fit and I am totally STOKED!!! It has Yoga, strength excersies, balance training, and a couple of other things. I LOVE IT!! We decided that it is something that I could do at home while Hunter is napping and don't have to waste gas money driving to DuPont where we have our family gym membership unless I am already in Fort Wayne. The only thing that I don't like about it is that it tells you your weight...BMI and a couple of other things and I wish that I didn't know those things. I thought I had gained some weight, but I didn't know that it was as much as this is telling me. It takes your weight, BMI and your actual age and tells you what age you are weighting at. Want to know what I am...(drumroll please) 32!!!! I am 2 1/2 years heaver than I should be!! WHAT THE CRAP!!! I am not eating anymore junk...EVER!!! If any of you would like to come check what you are, by all means come stop over and check it!! Other than that, I am loving the excerises!! It really is cool!!

So my girlfriend Karla tagged me with a challenge today. Go to the folder where I keep all of my pics, go to the 4th one, and pick the 4th pic in that folder and explain it, so here it goes...

This picture was taken at my Aunt Jo's house after my grandm Yarger passed away June 1st of 2007. The guy in the white shirt is my dad's counsin Sam and that is his wife Diana and their son whom I don't remember his name.

I challenge Beth, Mandy H., Manda, and Tara to this tag...

I don't really know...

So, I don't post very often any more because I don't really have anything to blog about. I stay at home and clean and take care of the boy...which really is nice. I have applied and been interviewed at 3 different banks, but to no avail. I have been denied by all three places, which for me is very hard. I have never had a hard time getting a job. We are beginning to think that God wants me to stay at home and worry about taking care of my family, but who am I to tell God what is right and what is wrong.

So, I was reading on a girlfriends blog the other day that her daughter, Delancey waits for her brother Bennett to get off the bus from school everyday and it reminded me of something funny. Every since Rich and I have been married and Hunter has realized that daddy will be coming to our house everynite, I started telling him when Rich pulled in the drive way and he runs to the kitchen window to make sure that I am telling him the truth and then runs to the front door, slams open the door and presses his face against the glass door and yells at the top of his lungs, (like Rich can hear it in the garage) "Welcome home Daddy" or "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Rich". There have been a couple of times that I have been working on dinner or something and didn't tell him that daddy was home until after Rich was in the house and Hunter got so mad at me. He looks at me and says, "MOMMY!! You are supposed to tell me when daddy is home!" Dang, didn't know that it was that big of a deal, but to both of them it is...so now I do it everyday!! As soon as I see Rich's car come over hill at my parents house, I tell Hunter that his daddy is almost here and in he comes running...now, I don't mean that he trots into the kitchen...I mean rips though like the house is on fire running!! It is so cute and as he gets older, we both know that that will stop, but Rich loves it and Hunter loves greeting his daddy when he walks in the door.

The girls are doing good. No big complaints. We have great children...now, they are getting older and with getting older comes a little bit more attitude which is something that we are having to deal with right now, but I will take the attitude over..."YOU'RE NOT MY MOM!" anyday. Claire did just get glasses and looks awesome! She is nearsighted, so she is supposed to wear them all the time at school, but we are trying to get her in the habit of wearing them all the time even out of school. Chloe is doing well...no problems with her. Hunter is an almost 4 year old boy with a ton of energy...you know how that goes.

Rich and I are doing good. We are on day 27 of "The Love Dare" and we are loving it. We can tell when we haven't done it for a couple of days...we get crabby with each other and don't really click or get along. It is a wonderful thing for us and would recommend it to anyone even if you aren't having problems in your marriage.

I guess that is all for now.

On with the search

Well, I received an email sometime last week that I didn't get the job at chase and I was very upset. I don't understand why I didn't get the job, but God has His reasons. I have an interview today at 4 with Tower bank for a full time position downtown...we will see. Maybe there is a reason I can't seem to get a job...I don't know. I am trying not to give up hope and I know that the economy sucks and nobody is really hiring right now...I am truly leaving it in God's hands.

Please pray for something... we have a couple in our small group that is struggling very badly right now and have asked Rich and I to be their accountability partners. They are going through the same crap that we went through in our relationship and we both feel that God put us in their lives over a year ago for such a time as this...just please pray!! It is hard, but we know that God is bigger than this!

I know...I know

I feel like all I am ever asking for is for you guys to pray for me, but if you can't ask your friends for prayer, who can you ask?

I have an interview on Wednesday at 3 at Chase bank. It is a full time position and I am really wanting this job.

Please pray!!