I Never Would Have Imagined......

When my friend, Melissa (from Another Day in Paradise) turned me onto blogging, I never would have imagined where it would lead me. I really am not a technically able person, but I thought that I would give it a try.

To say that this "blogging" thing has enriched my life is such an understatement.

I have met other people, like me, staying at home with children, or maybe working out of their homes.

I have been intrigued by things I have read.
I have been challenged by things I have read.
I have been maddened by things I have read.
I have been stunned by things I have read.
I have been enlightened by things I have read.

I have spent hours with people that I have never seen face to face and my life is so much the better for it.

I have cried reading blogs.
I have ranted reading blogs.
I have laughed so hard that I peed a little and woke up DH from his beauty rest. (OOps, my bad).
I have come to love a great many people in my heart that I have never seen face to face. I have come to care deeply for all of you.

Today, I really wanted to ask everyone to pray for Kori at lifeasacferswife.blogspot.com
She is really needing to be lifted up today.

Thanks to each of you for the special place that you all hold in my heart. Keep on bloggin' girls and boys, I'll keep on peeing. (This would be the point that I would strike through the word peeing and type in reading if I knew how, but I don't so I didn't.)

Here I Am at the Library again.....

Hey everybody, and I can tell by all the comment love that I am getting, that I am one popular gal. It is no fun when no one loves you on the blog..... (huge sigh).

I am at the library today soaking up their internet resources, since it won't work at my house for whatever reason. I'm just glad there is somewhere I can go to keep caught up.

Nothing particularly clever to say today, just wanted to say hi and wish everyone a wonderful weekend, I hope this fantastic weather holds out.

Choir Practice

I have recently joined the choir at church and I am absolutely loving me some choir practice.
It is so amazing to me that you can take 40 some odd people and every one of them different in their own amazing way, and yet when the choir director begins to show us how and have us sing our parts together, it absolutely breathtaking. I'm not bragging on our abilities. It is just amazing to watch the hand of God bring all those individuals together and for that song or songs, they are singing in one accord to glorify Him. It is one of the most chill bump raising things.

Cute story: My father has had back problems for as long as I can remember. And of course, he periodically sees a chiropractor. One day, my mama was keeping my little girl and my dad had to go to the chiropractor. When I got there to pick her up, I asked where my daddy was and my little girl says, "He had to go to the choir practice". How is that for cute as a bug?

I hope you all have a fabulous day and keep on smilin'.

Scourge of the Universe

Good morning to everyone. I hope that everyone's Labor Day holiday was pleasant and fulfilling.

I have to tell you all that my DH has moved me to a land where the scourge of the earth lives in A B U N D A N C E...!!!!!!!

Yesterday, I decided that it was cool enough and shady enough for my medicated skin to take a trip outside and mow the lawn. Yippee!! Really!!! I love to mow the grass. It's simple, doesn't require much thought and no one is yelling MOM in your ear at 100 decibels all the time.

However.......and that word is key to this story......little did I know that my usually pleasant task was going to turn into H E double hockey sticks.

I despise, loath, hate, just every negative word you can think of.... spiders. I consider them to be the scourge of the earth. Our property is beautifully wooded and just gorgeous. Yeah, and full of banana spiders.''

How much fun would it be to sit back and watch me mow grass under the trees constantly shrieking at the top of my lungs because I'm afraid that the spider web I have just ran into has a banana spider in it and that the aforementioned creature is on me somewhere crawling. Just waiting to get it's fangs into my flesh and cause me all kinds of untold misery. It's not a pretty sight. It's hilarious, but not pretty.

I called my pest control people and asked them if the spider was poisonous and they said No, but they can bite and they will make you hurt yourself trying to get away from them. Yeah, hallalujer on that one, good buddy.

So today, my throat is sore from all the hollering I did and my kids are convinced that mom has something really wrong with her mind.

Another Day In Paradise

I just wanted to share someone with you. If you have not already done so, stop by www. melissabotley.blogspot.com or better known as Another Day in Paradise. She is playful and funny and will certainly make you think deep thoughts (some days). She is a mother of three beautiful children making her way one day at a time and has some pretty good insights along the way. I've posted one of my favorites below, stop on by and see her, she'd love to hear from you.


Bunny Hugger
Most of you don't know my husband from anyone, but a bunny hugger he is not. He can hunt deer with the best of 'em. He must be getting soft in his old age. He runs in the morning and made a furry discovery on his travels today. I took the kids to school this morning and went grocery shopping. I arrived home to find this on top of my REFRIGERATOR!

Can I just tell you how disturbing this is on so many levels? Notice the purple bin that was formerly used for toys and now has the carcass of a bunny. On top of the refrigerator. Where I am going to unload our food. That we eat. Anyone coming for dinner tonight?
***Update on the bunny for the inquiring minds. The bunny has perished. My husband, in his best efforts, tried to rescue Thumper (that's what we'll call him). He fed it water through a syringe in an attempt to hydrate the little guy, but to no avail. He now rests in peace in our backyard. Thank you for your concern and no, my husband did not just put a dead bunny on top of our refrigerator. He thought it may have a chance to survive. He was well intentioned.


To read the rest of this funny story and more just go on over and check her out.

Addicted, what a shame!

Do not go out and play a game called "JEWEL QUEST". This is the most addictive game I have ever played. I even forget to blog because I'm seriously stuck in this game. It's like reading the Twilight books kind of addicting. YIKES!!!
My housework is suffering (I've only done ten loads of laundry instead of twenty). That kind of lose track of time and go to bed after 1 am addicting.
But, after having said all that, it's also a very fun, make me nervous wreck kind of game. And I love it.

Hey everybody,

First, let me get some business out of the way.....go on over to www.therfamilydiaries.blogspot.com she is having a giveaway contest.
And not only do you get a chance at a $100 gift card, but you get to read some hilarious blogs too.

Now, that being said. I hope I win. Not that I'm destitute, but my three children just started back to school and for some reason, there are tons of people standing around with their hands held out just waiting for me to drop some cash in it......like the little one started gymnastics..cha ching that will be 65 dollars for the first month and 45 dollars a month until you run out of money. Plus the 200 dollars for the clothes that little one MUST wear.

Then middle one wants to play middle school football. Got to go out and buy a pair of cleats cha ching that will be 40 dollars please. Then he decides that he isn't big enough and the middle school coach will make him be a benchwarmer. And now he wants to play midget football. That will be 40 dollars for the enrollment fee.

The oldest one hasn't found his niche yet, but I'll bet it's going to be expensive.

And that's not including all the clothes and supplies that we had to buy just so they would take them at the school. Did I say take? I didn't mean that in a bad way. It's a public school, they would have had to take them anyway, I just didn't want them not to have paper and pencils.

Does anyone else have this kind of problem? Don't get me wrong, we are extremely blessed to have the opportunities that we do, but sometimes I feel like we're bleeding cash and it won't stop.

Yep, I'm done. Have a great afternoon