From the previous list we have now found:
1.One set of Van keys
2. Elizabeth's Coat
3. Reagan's Wallet
4. Gypsy tickets - boy I was pleasantly surprised - that is a great play if you ever get the chance
to go see it!
Today Lizzie and Jake are auditioning for a play, Robinson Crusoe. It is a theater group that comes into town, works with the kids for a week, then put on the play friday night and saturday morning. It is usually fun. Jake is really excited, mostly because it means no math this week! :)!! This will be Lizzie's first time, bet she ends up loving it. She is a bit of a drama queen. I almost said, just like her brother, but queen wouldn't be appropriate. What is the correct term for a male drama queen???
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
The Borrowers
I have seen the movie, "The Borrowers" a couple of times. I now know that those little people are living in the walls of our house. Yes, that must be it because it could not possibly be a matter of disorganization on my part, right?
Items we are urgently searching for presently in our house:
1. BOTH sets of keys to my van
2. Reagan's wallet
3. One set of key's to Reagan's truck
4. Jake's Book of Common Prayer
5. Tickets to Gypsy dated Feb 10 (buying them 2 months early, then loosing them defeats the purpose!!)
6. Elizabeth's Coat
So, I hope the borrower's enjoy driving one of the vehicles, while reading Prayers together, staying warm in Lizzie's coat on their way to watch the Broadway edition to Gypsy at the Field house this sunday!!
Items we are urgently searching for presently in our house:
1. BOTH sets of keys to my van
2. Reagan's wallet
3. One set of key's to Reagan's truck
4. Jake's Book of Common Prayer
5. Tickets to Gypsy dated Feb 10 (buying them 2 months early, then loosing them defeats the purpose!!)
6. Elizabeth's Coat
So, I hope the borrower's enjoy driving one of the vehicles, while reading Prayers together, staying warm in Lizzie's coat on their way to watch the Broadway edition to Gypsy at the Field house this sunday!!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Quotes
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
Charles F. Kettering
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole France
"The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of." Charles H. Parkhurst
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills
"Life is for most of us a continuous process of getting used to things we didn't expect."
Martha Lupton
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
Charles F. Kettering
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole France
"The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of." Charles H. Parkhurst
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills
"Life is for most of us a continuous process of getting used to things we didn't expect."
Martha Lupton
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Lent.
Well, tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, then it is Ash Wednesday. So, it is time to figure out what I will sacrifice for Lent. Sometimes I give up something like People magazine, sometimes I add something, like pray for something specific everyday. I am not sure what to do this year. I do not believe across the board everyone should sacrifice for Lent, but I do know for me it brings so much more meaning to Easter. It isn't like a huge, dramatic thing, but during those weeks prior when I am doing a token sacrifice it brings closer to my heart the large sacrifice my Saviour has made for me. I am not crazy about Lent, but Holy Week is the highlight of my year.
I grew up southern baptist and I knew Easter meant that Christ was risen, but it seemed more about the new dress and hat than anything spiritual. There is something amazing of going thru the entire week of services that brings Easter morning an entirely different meaning. It truly feels like a spiritual celebration! I love that.
Whatever I choose to do for Lent will not even come close to what Christ has done for me, well Duh...how could it!! I just hope during the next few weeks I grow a little more grateful, a little less selfish and a little more into the woman Christ wants me to be.
I grew up southern baptist and I knew Easter meant that Christ was risen, but it seemed more about the new dress and hat than anything spiritual. There is something amazing of going thru the entire week of services that brings Easter morning an entirely different meaning. It truly feels like a spiritual celebration! I love that.
Whatever I choose to do for Lent will not even come close to what Christ has done for me, well Duh...how could it!! I just hope during the next few weeks I grow a little more grateful, a little less selfish and a little more into the woman Christ wants me to be.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Saturday
It is saturday at 2:30 and I am sitting here in my PJs with NO intention of getting out of them today!! WOO HOO!!! Later I may actally soak in the tub for a bit, then get out and put on clean PJs. I LOVE days like this. I have finished a good book, watched a decent movie, done laundry, made some money, cuddled with Lizzie and Chica! What could be better? I do not really know when I started loving PJs? Maybe I was always this way, but they are my favorite attire. When in a store, some people gravitate to shoes, or clothes, I always end up in the Pajama section.
So, here's to a great PJ day!!
So, here's to a great PJ day!!
Friday, February 1, 2008
Believe
" ' Be encouraged, dear woman, You are made well because you believed.' And the woman was healed from that moment on." Mathew 9:22
I wish I could pass hope on to all those suffering today. Our world is full of dispair. I think sometimes we look around and see those around us with worse problems and feel like we shouldn't be sad or angry or upset because our lives could be so much worse. And that is true...we can always find someone with more problems than us, but that doesn't mean our hurts are not really hurts. Our pain is still real, no matter if it is about relationships, money, health, careers, whatever. I know one thing, that God can and does deliver His children.
If you are feeling dispair today, for whatever reason, have hope! God doesn't want us to stay in that dark place any more than we want to be there. I do think God uses these times to teach us and grow us, if we choose to learn. I know thru my horrible years it was terrible and I wouldn't really choose to go thru it again. At the same time, I am so glad God has brought me to be the person I am today VS. the one I was before. God makes lemonaide out of lemons...and He is really good at it!
How can I extend hope to you? What would I have wanted to hear all those years that I was living in a dark, dark place? "This too shall pass" is a good one, and usually true. I guess more than anything, even though I felt helpless and hopeless, I felt so weak and yet, now from the other side I look back and see that I was filled with strength. Strength and courage to get up each day and face it, whatever it held. God gave me that. Also, NEVER GIVE UP!! Do not buy into that crap that God wants you sick, or fat, or poor, etc... that is NOT what God wants. He wants us to be humble, which does not require any of the above situations! God wants us to live in abundance!! Keep your eyes open and your heart softened, thru lots of prayer and seeking of God. I didn't expect my miracle to be powder in a can... so, don't assume you know how God will choose to deliver you. He is a God of miracles, and sometimes life changing surprises!!
To quote my wise son, Jake - "Jesus - He rolls cool and I am one of His Posse!"
I wish I could pass hope on to all those suffering today. Our world is full of dispair. I think sometimes we look around and see those around us with worse problems and feel like we shouldn't be sad or angry or upset because our lives could be so much worse. And that is true...we can always find someone with more problems than us, but that doesn't mean our hurts are not really hurts. Our pain is still real, no matter if it is about relationships, money, health, careers, whatever. I know one thing, that God can and does deliver His children.
If you are feeling dispair today, for whatever reason, have hope! God doesn't want us to stay in that dark place any more than we want to be there. I do think God uses these times to teach us and grow us, if we choose to learn. I know thru my horrible years it was terrible and I wouldn't really choose to go thru it again. At the same time, I am so glad God has brought me to be the person I am today VS. the one I was before. God makes lemonaide out of lemons...and He is really good at it!
How can I extend hope to you? What would I have wanted to hear all those years that I was living in a dark, dark place? "This too shall pass" is a good one, and usually true. I guess more than anything, even though I felt helpless and hopeless, I felt so weak and yet, now from the other side I look back and see that I was filled with strength. Strength and courage to get up each day and face it, whatever it held. God gave me that. Also, NEVER GIVE UP!! Do not buy into that crap that God wants you sick, or fat, or poor, etc... that is NOT what God wants. He wants us to be humble, which does not require any of the above situations! God wants us to live in abundance!! Keep your eyes open and your heart softened, thru lots of prayer and seeking of God. I didn't expect my miracle to be powder in a can... so, don't assume you know how God will choose to deliver you. He is a God of miracles, and sometimes life changing surprises!!
To quote my wise son, Jake - "Jesus - He rolls cool and I am one of His Posse!"
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