Olivia's New Hair Cut....brought tears to her eyes

We have to go back in time for this one.....I didn't take the time to blog the story when it happened back in November.....so here we go.
I took Olivia to get a haircut or should we say get her hair trimmed....she was in the process of letting it grow out and the ends where way to straggly for momma. So I told her she needed to get the ends evened up. So in we go to SuperCuts....I know not the best place to go but anyway.... I told the guy we were just getting it trimmed she was trying to grow it out. I also mentioned that I know she didn't have any style to her hair but that was okay. He talked about putting a few layers in and I thought okay why not, maybe it will have a little style.....well I don't know what he was thinking but he went to town. I wasn't giving him my full attention because I had the other two with me so I was trying to keep them entertained. I looked over to Olivia and I see him pulling up the top layer of hair and cutting it pretty darn short. I start paying more attention to him and I realize oh my this isn't looking good. Then I see Olivia's eyes and she is looking at me with eyes that are saying "WHAT IS HE DOING TO MY HAIR". I start to get a bit worried and before she is even out of the chair the tears are flowing. I feel awful. She steps down and the guy shows me her hair which is now cut into some sort of shoulder length shag!
As we go to the check out counter Olivia is out the door and sitting on the steps outside crying.They guy asks,what do you think mom.....I replied well it is a bit short, I thought you were just going to trim it! He could see she was terribly upset and told me I didn't have to pay for the haircut since she was not happy. I was thankful for that but felt a bit bad for him.
As soon as we got in the car I told Olivia we would go home and find a cute way to fix her hair and it would look great.
We got home and I checked it out more closely. She really had a cute hair cut. For SuperCuts he did an awesome job, so then I really felt bad that I hadn't paid. We put a headband in her hair and she liked the way it looked. I told her I would take her to Justice, her favorite store, and buy her all the headbands she wanted. That made her feel better.
Later that evening she came to me and said, "Momma, it doesn't matter what my hair looks like, all that matters is what is in my heart, right momma?"

Olivia is Thankful......

Olivia brought this paper home from school the other day and I had to post it. She had to write a composition on what she was thankful for. It was a graded paper....I don't even remember what the grade was.....just thought the words were so sweet I had to save them and share them with you. It blessed my heart to read her words the day she brought this home. I treasure things like this and don't ever want to forget them!

Abby's First Spelling Test!.....

Abby had her first spelling test today. It was words in the at family. We have been practicing for days. She has been so excited to take it since her sister takes spelling tests every week and talks about getting 100's. Abby's teacher doesn't grade with 100's but that is all Abby could talk about. " I am going to get a 100 on my spelling test" When she got in the car after school she wanted to show me her spelling test of course. As I was looking a show she had a bonus word and she got that right as well. I said yea Abby you got your bonus word right too. Abby replies, " Does that mean I got 2 100's?" Abby is a very proud girl today and so is her mommy!

Olivia is Baptised on Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve has come and gone......and I never found time to blog the story of Olivia being baptised by her PawPaw from Louisiana. Christmas Eve what a special day for all, now made even more special with Olivia's baptism.
It was a special blessing that our church let her grandfather do the baptism. A precious memory for us all.
Olivia was very excited as she has been asking for over year to be baptised, she took her class and patiently waited on her parent's.
It was a special evening as Olivia let it be know to all in attendance that Jesus Christ is her Lord and Saviour!

6 days since my last post!!!!

Well let me just say....there is been nothing exciting going on at the Simpson house to blog about!!! We did have a looonnnngggg lunch at home with our friends the Cross' who were home for the holidays from France and I told myself to take a picture of both families together so I could put it on my blog and then I forgot!! Missed opportunity and who knows when we will all be together again! Oh well. Emily and Thomas their 3 year old played beautifully together while the older girls all sat around and watch TV for 3 hours Emily and Thomas played kitchen and all sorts of fun things!
The Cross' are headed back to France today and Emily and Thomas got to play one more round of hide and seek before they left. I hope they remember each other the next time they see one another!

Today Emily is playing with her buddy Chloe....actually Abby would say it is her buddy and she will not be happy to hear Chloe was here today while she was at school. Oh well, the bonuses of being 3!

We are preparing for a big freeze here in the Lone Star State! I am so excited about the cold. I was telling Abby yesterday freezing temperatures are coming our way. We can thank Jesus that we have a nice warm house to stay in. Abby immediately responded, what about the people that don't have houses?" After I did a little explaining I told her she needed to pray for those people, that they would be kept warm and that somehow they would know that it was the Lord providing for them. This morning she asked me again about the homeless people and I asked her .....did you pray for them last night? She got big eyes and said oh no I forgot......I will pray for them right now and as she sat at the table eating her breakfast she prayed for them. Sweet Abby!

Happy New Year with Resolutions.........

I told my self this year I was going to be more diligent about chronicling lives of my little girls a bit better in this blog. So here we are at the start of the new year and I am making an entry before I go off to bed. I have lots to catch up on.....like Olivia's new hair cut and the drama in came along with it, her Thanksgiving paper she wrote at school, her baptism on Christmas eve and of course all the Christmas festivities the girls love, but I will save that for another day.

We stayed out late last night popping fireworks and hanging out at the bonfire at Nana's and Poppy's. We were so engrossed in our evening we forgot to ring in the new year. Can you believe everyone was still up and running past midnight. We got home at 1:00 and went right to bed of course everyone fell asleep as soon as the car took off. Except poor Olivia who said she was trying to stay awake so she could put her tooth underneath her pillow when she got home. Daddy and I assured her we would take care of that for her so she could fall asleep!

For now let us remember our first day on 2010. A lazy day until we went bike riding at Mercer Park, had yummy chocolate fondue after dinner. Bananas seemed to be the favorite dipping item of the night. It was a good day and of course the question asked from Emme to daddy almost every night, are you staying home tomorrow? Daddy has enjoyed be able to stay yes a lot more than usually because of the holiday season! Two more days of daddy staying home in the morning Emily will be happy.