Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for the Church. Yessiree, that there Body of Christ is one wacky bunch. I have been in the church my entire life and I still don’t get how it works. Somehow this collection of losers, sinners, arrogant fools, freaks and weirdos all get lumped together and made into something beautiful. We [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects on Nov 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today I am thankful for clean laundry. It happens so infrequently around here that most of the laundry in the house is cleanish or at least not scattered on anyone’s floor that I get really excited when I think it might happen. It never actually happens, of course, because all of the people in this [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for Flyleaf’s new album Memento Mori. Their first album was excellent, but they have topped themselves with their second. It’s kind of music that makes me want to dance and sing and cry. They understand life and sing about it in song-sized chunks. Pain, fear, glory, Heaven. The lead singer and [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for late night talks with Seth and Crystal. It seems like some of our best conversations have happened at mumble-thirty or later. Most of the time I’m stupid tired the next day, but I’m usually emotionally settled and back on track to do what I’m here for.
Thank you, Seth and [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Nov 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
This weekend didn’t go quite the way I was expecting. We had a busy couple of days scheduled with Night of the Burning Plum and family coming in from out of town. Crystal and I were gearing up for stashing six more people someplace in this house and then feeding them repeatedly. The Lansberrys were [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for family. For my sister and her family coming to visit even through all the changes of plans. And for the Night of the Burning Plum which we are celebrating tonight. Family and friends and flaming plum brandy. What more could you want?
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for white boards where we can write our huge to-do list. Now I gotta run. Lots to do today.
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Heaven on Nov 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today is Veteran’s Day. Today would be a great opportunity to give thanks for the men that have gone to war for our country.
But I don’t want to. I hope that doesn’t sound horrible, I really do. I have nothing against veterans and I do feel they should be honored as those who put [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for new experiences. I had the unique opportunity to be disappointed that there were no crickets in the store I was shopping at. Normally, a lack of bugs and critters in a shopping experience is a good thing, but when one is shopping for a frog a lack of crickets actually [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Today I am thankful for the shade of blue the sky was yesterday. Today there are clouds and I could so easily forget how the color blue feels on my skin, but I can remember yesterday. I can remember yesterday’s sky and keep the memory of how light blue the wind felt and how bright [...]