Sweet Life in the City

Looks like Sunday night will be my night to blog. We had another busy week at the Riggs' house (are you picking up on this theme lately?). I got a text Sunday night asking if I could cover after school on Monday until 5;30. Samuel has play practice almost every night so I would have to go back and get him at 5:30, so I agreed to fill in for the regular teacher who does after school every day. We got home close to 6:00, I made supper, homework, bedtime, and Monday was over. Tuesday was the Open House for the high school. I didn't need to go, but I felt like I needed to go and just give some moral support for Jeremy. It was a great turnout and we are continuing to pray that the families that came Tuesday night will chose to register their children. It was after 9:00 before we got home. Wednesday I had a staff meeting until 5:30, we rushed home and got ready for our real community group. I may have mentioned this, but we are meeting at the church until we break for summer instead ...

I know it has been three weeks since my last post. Life got really crazy and then I felt like to much time had gone by so I knew that if I didn't post tonight it would probably be another 6 months before I picked up writing again. The first weekend of April we had a Riggs' invasion going on in my house. ALL of Jeremy's family came in for the weekend so the siblings could run a half marathon with their dad. We had 18 people staying in our house from Thursday-Monday. It was so much work to get ready fro everyone, but it was a great weekend all being together. We only are all together around Thanksgiving or Christmas time. Jeremy and his brothers led worship at our church Sunday and it was just a sweet time for them and our church. Everyone left on Monday and our Spring break started on Monday so I had plenty of time to get my house back together, or so I thought. I took it easy on Monday because I was just too tired to do anything on Monday. I slept in a little on Tuesday. I ...

April 2nd. The day that changed everything. 14 years have gone by since April 2nd became more than just another day on the calendar. I had gone in a few days before this date to have some outpatient surgery. I was expecting to go to my doctor's appointment for a quick follow-up and was prepared to be told that the surgery had fixed the problems I was having. We had been married for three years and we were ready to start our family. We knew we were going to get good news and be able to start planning for our future family. We sat in the waiting room surrounded by expecting mothers. Other women would smile at us, probably thinking that I was expecting. We sat in that waiting room dreaming of how wonderful that day would be. I remember everything about this day 14 years ago. I remember what I was wearing, what I had had for breakfast, conversations I had at work, the songs that played on my car radio on the way to my appointment, and the thing that will forever be burned in my mind wa...

I teach the Bible lesson every day to my preschool kids. I love that I get to share with them my favorite stories and get to tell them how much Jesus loves them and has big plans for them. I know they are little, but each time I know that God is planting seeds of His love into their hearts and I pray that one day these Truths would come back to remembrance. I don't always know what the lesson is going to be that day. Usually the other teacher I work with hands me the Bible story card and I teach. Today she hands me the card and I notice that the lesson comes from John 11. The story of Lazarus. The story where a message is sent to Jesus that His dear, beloved friend is sick and needs immediate help. The story that Jesus makes the statement that this sickness everyone is talking about will not end in death, this story is unfolding according to God's plan and in the end God will be getting so much glory. He waits two more days before heading to see Lazarus. Before He heads to see ...

The year was probably 1992. Beauty and the Beast was a new Disney animation that came out in 1991. I say 1992 because we were watching it on VHS because you see it was considered wrong to actually go to the movie to see it (I am going to leave that right there). It was my sister's favorite movie. We watched it probably 100 times. She had Beauty and the Beast posters and other items to do with the movie. It continued to be one of my favorite movies and loved sharing the animation version with my girls a few years ago. So it is natural that when it was announced that a real life version of the movie was going to be released I was so excited! When I found out that Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley from Downton) was going to play the Beast I was completely sold. A few weeks before the movie was to premier I got on FB one morning and my news feed was blowing up about the changes the creators of this movie had added and with pitchforks raised we as Christians were to boycott this movie and ...

My husband wondered from my post yesterday why I put the thermometer in Samuel's mouth in the first place. He noted that he was big enough to put it in his mouth by himself 😆. He obviously missed the point of my post 😏. Today was parent teacher conference for the kids so we were able to sleep in a little bit and then headed to school for a short while. Samuel and Emma are doing amazing. All "A's"  for the semester and just doing well all around. Chloe had a little bit harder quarter and had mostly "B's" and a "C". We are going to have a more detailed conference with her teacher when Jeremy and I can both attend. I am so proud of all three of them and it's hard to believe that we only have one quarter left to go before school is out for summer. In between the girls and Samuel's conference, there was a preschool conference that needed to be done with one of our students that has had some struggles. We met with the mom and just shared ...

After I posted my blog on Tuesday I came downstairs and did another check on Samuel. He is a pretty easy patient. He brought the PS3 upstairs to the big TV and basically laid on the couch playing games and watching movies. Of course I would ask him every hour or so if he needed anything. It was usually a "no" or "mom, I can get it". He got up to get a Gatorade, so I decided I needed to check his temperature before he drank something cold. I put the thermometer in his mouth and I had a terrible squeeze in my heart as I realized that I had to raise my arm to put the thermometer in his mouth! Last night he was sitting down, all the other times he was laying down, this time we were both standing and I had to look up to fully see his face. It was in those brief seconds that 12 years came rushing back to me. My tiny baby boy that would only fall asleep laying on my chest for so many months. That sweet boy in my arms and in my lap was now standing in front of me becoming a...