In Her Own Words

We have been remodeling at Keely's and Rhea's home. Little Miss Haskell has been right there with us throughout most of it! Yes, she has gotten into the paint and various other things along with having to steal back some tools from her! But for the most part she has been pretty good considering we are keeping her up late and disrupting her life.

For the past few nights, she has gotten her cars and trucks and played in the window sills. It is hysterical to hear her play. She just talks and talks, but no one except for Haskell can understand a thing she says! Jabber, jabber, jabber!

The one thing we can understand is "COEY." I think that she just loves to say Corey's name! But she does talk about him all the time.

One evening Keely, Keisha, Haskell, Hudson and I were at our house. The adults were sitting at the table and the two tykes were playing at the toy box. We heard Haskell singing. We could make out what we thought was "Keish" loves Me. Then it hit us it was Jesus loves Me!

Adult Protective Services

Let me put a warning label on here, I have A Sick, Sick Sense of Humor!

Over the weekend we cooked burgers out on the grill. Slick called his mother and asked her to come over, which she seldom will, and, she said, no. Slick told her would bring her one then. She agreed.

He goes over and discovers her Air Condition is not working. She doesn't tell him how long it has been out or any details. It is HOT here like much of the rest of the country. Anyway, he comes back to the house and takes SIL over to see if they can get it fixed. [Called repair man first, out of town!] Slick and SIL get it fixed! YAY! (Monday repair man said probably a fried ant! Said those [I call them piss ants] like to get in electrical places... so take this tip beat on the electrical before you call for repairs).

Monday morning, phone rings at work....

Voice on the phone... "This is xxxxxx with the Adult Protective Services ..."

I know I gasped!

Voice on the phone.... "WE have had a complaint filed of abuse on an Adult...."

I think I peed my pants! My stomach rolled over and I am thinking 'Oh my Gosh, someone has filed a complaint against us over her Air Conditioner!'

Well it turns out that it wasn't but you can't imagine all of the things we have been accused of lately by the fam, that is all I am going to say about that.

Then voice goes on to explain the person or persons who filed the complaint gave a tag number and it came back that we had sold the vehicle. Voice on the phone is saying a strange model.... I am thinking "I would not sell one of those to my worst enemy!" After some research we determined the tag number was not reported correctly, cause I still had physical possession of that tag number, front and back plates! Any way I laughed about my warped imagination the entire rest of the week!

Just goes to show you how I should remain calm and not jump to hasty conclusions... my pants would stay dryer!

Did you hear that?

I read in the paper that kids are now downloading and using 'mosquito tones' on their cell phones. They do this in order to use cell phones in the classroom and the teacher be completely unaware. Of course you know the first thing I did; tell my daughter the High School English teacher about the article!

We went online and played the tones. Since she is 30 she was able to hear all but the highest two tones. Me, well let's just say I am over 50 and during the 70's I was real close to the stage at a lot of rock concerts! In other words I only heard the first 3.

One interesting article we found is that it works both ways. It seems that a business in England did not want teenagers hanging out by their building, loitering as we say. So they broadcast the mosquito tones over a speaker system ridding themselves of the teenagers without effecting the adults customers!

During our testing, it never occurred to me that my precious little Captain (pure bred mutt) was on the back of the couch. The tones drove him crazy! He got very upset with Keely, as she was clearly the instigator in his books; his master would never do anything like that! It took Captain an hour or more to settle down after we shut it off. The site said to not test in the presence of babies, also!

So, all this talk, (and trust me, we talked and talked about it and was still talking about it yesterday!) got me to thinking about listening to God. With the children of Israel he used fire in the sky and clouds. Now we have the Holy Spirit to help us to hear. But sometimes we just flat don't listen. And by 'we' I mean Me!

I am going to shut up now and see if I hear anything!

Have a safe Holiday and thank God for all He has done and our Service Men and Women for defending us in places we don't like to think about.

What a day! Good thing I got up early! Yes, Leonda, I do get up early on Saturdays, lol!

We had lunch with most of the family, worked on VBS, baked and decorated Hudson's birthday cake, and finished organizing crafts for VBS! I have a full day for tomorrow with things that must be done.

The Lord knows my deadlines, it will get done.

I told Howard and a friend that I was too old to be doing VBS.

Strangely enough neither disagreed! Maybe it was because of all the moaning and groaning I was doing after crawling around on the floor working on a backdrop. Anyway, my friend said that once she was ranting about how no one would help do something or the other in Church, and the pastor at that time reminded her that there is a season for everything.

So is the season for VBS passed?

Talking to Keely this afternoon about VBS, she brought up some good points: 1) VBS is the same material as when she went, 2)the kids these days have changed, they are not as intrigued by the simple projects consisting of paper and glue, etc.

Surely this small town churches, are not the only churches struggling to find workers and attendees.

Mothers work, getting kids to VBS is hard. Then there is competition from baseball and other summer activites that are alot more inviting than VBS.

Do we give up?

A child hearing about Christ is the ultimate goal but.... where do we go from here?

forgive me for not posting in such a long while. I have been going thru some difficult times. I avoided posting for things were so heavy on my heart. Actually not posting was the way out for not thinking about the situation 'aloud.' Once I heard that when your heart became so heavy that you should pray that the Holy Spirit would pray to God that which you could not bear. All the things that are going on that I can not bear, today, I give to the Spirit to petition the Lord. I stand firm in my faith that God knows all and He is greater than the things of this world.

One thing that has been 'bugging' me is that everyone thinks that the world has a need to hear their opinion. I am starting to think the down fall of the USA has been 24 hour news service whether TV or on the net (don't make me mention MSN). When they can't find a story that 'bleeds' they bring on someone to voice some gloom and doom. Please, haven't they heard "Shut-Up?" So, what to do about it? As Keely told me, turn it off and don't read it. DONE!

In praise, the little boy (www.claydavidfite.blogspot.com) that was badly burned on Valentines Day, is going home this weekend! Praise God!

God is good and He cares and He is bigger than any of our problems or concerns!

I can't believe how time flies! It is Friday again, and I have not had time to post to my blog. It just seems that time rolls on by and leaves me wondering!

This morning we were reading in Proverbs about 'Wisdom.' Wisdom is always referred to as 'her.' I asked Howard and Eddie if they thought that meant anything about women? Howard replied that both are hard to understand! He was way too quick witted for 6 am in my opinion!

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My Friday list...

#2 and #1 are the same... What I like about Friday the best is Friday at 6:oo o'clock pm! Yay!

Saturday! I love Saturdays! Most Saturdays I spend the morning watching TV with Captain at my side. We sit peacefully and enjoy the quite. I consider this time as time spent de-stressing from the week. When husbands and wives work together every day, we need a few hours apart and Howard and I both realise that. He has his Saturdays saturated with males where on that morning, women aren't wanted. They have been known to tell tall tales over their coffee! Sorry guys, had to get in that jab!

Speaking of spending time; during my prayer time (since the end of February), I have been praying for this little boy from Olney. Here is his blog www.claydavidfite.blogspot.com. (I hope his family does not mind me posting this). Clay was badly burned in an accident. His two brothers were burned too but not as severe according to the blog. Clay has had a lot of surgeries and probably more to come along with some difficult healing. But I know God and I know out of this will come a great triumph! Please add Clay and his family to your prayer list. I don't know what else to do for them but pray and we all know prayer works! Also on my prayer list is Mika, Zelda, Darla, Ken S, and David L. Most who know me, know I always have a list for everything, (lest I forget!)

I am off to Little Miss Haskell's birthday party! Have a great day!

Leaving a mark....

I decided that relationships in life are like a revolving door. People come and go but one thing remains the same; they leave a mark on my life.

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Some leave good marks while others leave not so good ones. The marks left by others are things like teaching me to be more tolerant and less judgemental of others, to be more accepting of others values and views and to think before I speak. Those are just some examples. One friend has been showing me a love of our Church. She always wants what is best for our church is service and giving. I have another friend that travels alot, sometimes bringing back such interesting gifts but more than the gift it is always interesting to hear of her travels since I really don't like to travel. And lately blogs have become 'a sort of friend' leaving marks on my heart and my mind.

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The mark I would like to leave on others is to be a positive influence. One such person comes to mind; she was a very sweet young girl who did not have much self confidence. Outwardly you would think she did but any kind of remark would cause her to retreat her stance and withdraw. We were friends for about 2 years and I witnessed her grow and become confident. She was able to take a stance and not back down. We drifted apart as our lives grew in different directions. I was always hopeful that she considered my mark a positive one. Another friend has told me that the influence I have had on her is that she now has black accessories in her home! (I am still working on you L!)

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Leave a good mark on the lives you touch today!

"It is expensive to get old" exclaimed Corey. He is talking to a lady about the rates for the local nursing home. It is so ironic to be sitting here listening to my son having this conversation about nursing home rates! Well, I guess at some point we all have to consider the possibility that we might be a resident of a nursing home. Be warned it is expensive!

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Again, I start wondering about me at the home. Ummmm! I had a friend that had a grandmother out there. She would constantly take her clothes off! Don't think I will be doing that but I can see me with my 'spots' tooling down the hall, probably with a walker, cause you know how clumsy I am! I will probably have to have my HGTV or the Foodnetwork too! I am visioning me without teeth! Since I already have this grey hair, I am thinking medium length straight hair that looks like no one has brushed it in a month! Moody, yeah I bet one minute I am crying and the next minute I wet my pants laughing! I need to stop there this could get ugly!

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Have a good week and age slowly, it is expensive to get old!

Another busy day in our crazy life.

Keisha sent me these pictures of Hudson leaving a path of destruction behind! Reminded me of my little boy (who hasn't changed his patterns at all - LOL Love ya Corey). One day when he was about 2 years old and the girls had finally let him walk! He made a path of destruction! At some point my temper blew! I went running thru the house chasing after him with every intention of beatin' his little backside. I stopped when I realised that I had just run by the glass front door! I had to sit and laugh thinking how hysterical it would have been for someone about to knock on the door!

It is a blustery day but I can remember feeding the ducks this past summer!

Are you ready Haskell?