Mcgilla’s Weblog

of my search engine terms being filled with things like green snot, thick mucus, nasty sinus infection, blood in your snot, brownish mucus, treatments for sinus infections, neon green stuff coming out my nose….. and the like.  So from now on, i will not be sharing the details of my sicknesses on my blog.  I don’t care how many complaints i get…. bc i know y’all are going to miss my mucus…. but it doesn’t matter, you won’t persuade me.  Snot talk is over.

And migranes aren’t fun either….. but medicine is good.

After the release of orwell the striped bunny…. my birthday buddy has begged for a “manly bunny”….. well Ron…. I was going to make you a manly bunny….. but decided instead that you needed a frog.  So here ya go Mr. Woods….. meet your new little buddy.

you probably don’t want them…. but i got 2 new ones today. and i really like them…. WAIT. i’m NOT going to share…. last time i put jokes on here, i forgot about it, and then i went to tell them to my brother and got made fun of because i already blogged them….. you can ask me about them…. they’re better in voice than in type anyway.

Started the day by broadcasting the fact that he forgot to take a shower last night…… and the day before that.  At the end of the day (right after my cooperating teacher douced the room with air spray) i found jackson laying face down on the floor sniffing really loud.  What are you doing??? i asked….. and jackson jumped up to say SMELLING!! THIS ROOM SMELLS GOOD! he then went straight back to the floor to sniff……. sometimes you just don’t ask questions.

• I was told that my lunch was “yankee food” I had chili mac for lunch.
• One of my boys asked if he could stop calling me Miss McGill and start calling me Pretty Lady.  (i said of course)
• My boy who is constantly talking about fire and venom all of the sudden started talking about kissing and romance today.
• You never ever want to hear the old ladies eating behind you talk about what color bras they buy
• I’m getting ready for opening day….. i switched to my cardinal bag today
• I got to be in our class picture. =)
• I woke up late and didn’t wash my hair this morning. =(
• someone found my blog today by searching, “my friend’s hot wife”
• MC Hammer is currently on Ellen
• Oprah and Dr. Oz are introducing viewers to joe who might be the “first person to reach 150 years old”….. I think Oprah and Dr. Oz need to read Genesis.

I was kinda worried about coming back today…. I assumed that with a whole week off the kids would have forgotten what it means to be in school and it would be a rough day….. quite the opposite happened…. We did have a few talkers and some noisy moments… but all in all i was really proud of their behaivior…. the whole class stayed on green, and that means lunch with he kiddos tomorrow. =)  Maybe this time i won’t get stuck next to butt digger and ringworm. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

the mcgill’s came over on the boat…. and we’re irish…. but we came over as protestants….. not the majority from ireland….. I think for that’s the reason i didn’t get the drinking gene… so i didn’t spend st. patty’s day gettin shloshed…. however, i’m still an irish girl.  Corned Beef and Cabbage.  ’nuff said.

yesterday i took advantage of early bird voting and voted for local elections.  My brother in law, Jeremy Plank, is running for office.  you should vote for him. he’s awesome.

excuse my hair….. it was 78 degrees and i cruised all over town with the top down. Life is rough.

There are sometimes in life when it seems like no matter how long you work, or how hard you try… there is a wall that is keeping you from getting past a certain point.  And the same has been true for me for quite sometime…. But i have good news.  Today i turned the corner and over came a huge obstacle in my life that i have been trying to push through for a few years.  I would like to thank all of you that have been praying that i would overcome, as you know it has been a struggle.   yes, it’s true, you can believe the rumors….. I beat Reda today in racquetball.  I was down 10-4 and i came back all the way to winning 14-11…. and i knew it would still be struggle as i tend to tighten up at the end of games….. and let me tell you, it was epic…. Reda tied it up at 14 and we exchanged serves back and forth back and forth before i finally became the victor at 16-14.  Whew does it ever feel good!

I’ve been casually reading this book called the red sea rules….. it’s pretty good…. and there is a thought in it that i’ve been mulling over a lot lately….. It talked about when the hebrew people were finally delivered out of Egypt, they were totally stoked…. but then they camped at the Red Sea and the most powerful army in the world was fast approaching…… it seemed hopeless….. It seemed that God had just led them out of captivity to be slaughtered down the road…… but then, something amazing happened.  God made a road right in the middle of the sea and the hebrews just walked right through…..

God knew way before he allowed his people to be put into captivity that he would get them out…. and that he would do some pretty fantastic things to get them out. He wasn’t just flying by the seat of his pants going…. oh stink, the egyptians are coming and there’s that stinkin’ sea in the way, what to do? what to do? GOT IT!….. this’ll be neat.  God had this planned the whole time….

Sometimes it may seem like i’m stuck between a rock and hard place, and i get frustrated and think, how did i get here? Why did i do that if this is where i was gonna end up???? But i have to remember that God knows right where i am.  He allows me to be in the place i am, even if it makes me uncomfortable…. If i have some patience, and remember that i have blinders on and can’t see the whole picture, and just wait….. I might find out that God has plans that will get me past that rock…. or the hard place…. and He’ll do it for His glory.  So instead of getting mad, and frustrated, and yelling at God for forgetting…. maybe i should be still and know, and maybe just maybe, he could use this clay pot to give him the all the praise.