The Life and Times of the Wagoners

I have a new challenge for myself.... I challenge myself not to get too upset with my one and only child. I now know why God has only blessed me with one child. I believe that this is only the beginning of what is soon approaching, puberty! So this is my challenge: I will make it through the next several years without harming a hair on my precious son's head, I HOPE! I will continue to say to myself, "I LOVE him....I LOVE him..... I LOVE him", and then when that doesn't work I will say " 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10; then walk away!!!! If anyone feels my pain, PLEASE let me know!

We hope that everyone had a very blessed Christmas. My favorite time of year when we get to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, I hope that we all remember to celebrate the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ everyday of the year. Families come together at Christmas and I may be prejudice but our extended family is the BEST! Through thick or thin they are always there for us when we need them. This year my granddad gave me a touching, but scary present. My grandad will be 84 years old this February. This year all of us were able to be together at the same time, first time in a few years, my grandad took this time to give us a special speech. He started by telling us how proud he was of his family, tears, then went on to tell us that he had hardships and that he never imagined having a family as great as his. Next, he went on to say that he didn't know if he would be with us next Christmas, tears and more tears, but that he wanted us to know that he was ready to go and that he had been praying and made peace with his life and was ready to meet God. This was difficult to listen to. I thought that he was saying goodbye to us, I had to go outside after this speech. My family is everything to me, my cousins (Dusty and Erin) are like my brothers, but I felt that in the last several years we had grown apart. Outside my cousin, Erin, my cousin Michelle, Dusty's wife, and my Aunt Penni told me that my grandad wasn't saying goodbye but saying that he had strengthened his relationship with God. I explained to them how I thought that our family had grown apart especially since my Aunt Linda had died, and that I was afraid of losing grandad but also afraid of what it would to do our family. That night my grandad gave us the BEST Christmas present ever, he gave us our family back. I believe that God helped my grandad pull his family back together, but also preparing us for the time that grandad has to leave us. I know that my grandad has made things right with God and that is the most precious gift of the Christmas season. I also had the opportunity to really express my fears with the rest of the family, and this has brought our family closer to the way it use to be. You may be wondering why I shared this very personal story. I have decided to challenge myself and my extended family (friends included) to strength our relationships in the upcoming 2009 year. I know that relationships take work and trust, and my challenge is to be honest with yourself and then take that honesty into all your relationships, this is my New Year's Resolution!

God Bless and Happy New Year!

Yippee! I am free from school for about a month!!!! Tuesday my friend Mandi and I went over to Sherman to a classmates house for a celebration lunch. We had a great time and ate WAY to much! I had a terrible headache that afternoon, but I don't think the over eating had anything to do with it. It could however have a lot to do with my increasing waist line, ha ha! I will be posting some new post that I am behind on, so stay tuned!!!

Last month my friend Mandi and I went to Tulsa to take our OGET, it's our first test for our Elem. Education major, you have to take and pass this test to get into the program. The results take 4-6 weeks to get back, and last night I got my results. I PASSED!!!!! My friend Mandi passed also... I am so proud of us. When I left from taking the test I did not have a great feeling about it, I'm glad I was wrong... Thanks for the prayers that I requested from some of you....

Ok guys!!!

I don't know what happened to this post. The job that I am referring to is, teaching.
The day that I originally posted this, I had a sub job at one of the schools. I was in a kindergarten class, and I introduced myself to the students as Mrs. Wagoner. After about 2 hours I start to hear "Mrs. Wagon, can you help me?". I know I am probably the only one that finds that cute and funny, but I just had to share....

Hello guys and gals

I come to you with a heavy heart. Two days ago my dad got laid off and my mom is very upset, it is not the best time for this to happen (no time is good) but this comes at the holidays and they were just getting everything back on track financially. Then this morning my grandma told me that yesterday my brother (whose family lives with my parents) got laid off too. My brother and his fiance' are about to sign papers on a house next week (not sure what will happen now) and so as you can tell my parents are having a very tough time. Please say lots of prayers for my parents and my brother. Thank you for all your friendships....
Jen

Nothing like a parade and pumpkin patch to get you in the Fall Spirit! Today was the SOSU Homecoming parade and our SOEA advisor asked that we bring our kids to ride their bikes in the parade. We ordered the shirts and Ty, Dakota (my nephew) and myself were in the parade. Ty rode his bike and Dakota drove his gator (Aunt Jen ran beside him for 13 blocks!) and there were lots of kids that came to walk or ride in the parade. Everyone had a GREAT time! After leaving the parade we drove over to the pumpkin patch in Denison. They had a hayride that takes you to the pumpkin patch where you pick out your pumpkins. For $8 you get the hayride and any pumpkin (big or small) in the patch, and if the adults are only along for the ride then its even cheaper. They even had face painting, Ty and I got bats and Dakota got a pumpkin. We all had a great time and we took some great pictures to remember our fall day out!