Flashback Friday

I love posed sweet pictures and 

 have lots of those of my sister and I from when we were growing up.  

But I also love those pictures that tell part of a story

or those that make you wonder what was going on as it was taken. 

This picture is one of those pictures and I love it!

Here is what I do know about this picture.

It was taken on our front porch-

 before my sweet mother let my sister and

 I pick out the new color of our house-

 which was a bright turquoise color. 

I'm pretty sure I am two in this picture which means my sister is 5. 

Judging by our matching clothes it was Easter 

because we ALWAYS wore matching clothes on Easter. 

Clothes that my mother

 (a single mother trying to support two little girls all by herself with no support)

sewed for us. 

However, judging by the look on our faces, 

there was obviously something else going on in this picture. 

What it looks like to me is that my sister 

(who is standing there looking all sweet and innocent)

had just done something to me and

 I was pointing at her and running to tell on her. 

It cracks me up every time I look at it. 

So, what do you think was going on? 

Any ideas? 

Hamburger

When I was in the 11th grade

 I vividly remember going to the movies
 to see the Eddie Murphy movie Raw.

My 40 year old self is absolutely SHOCKED to the core that

1. My mother would let me go see that movie. 

(so wish I could ask her- what were you thinking?)

2. That I would even consider going to see that movie. 

3. That I went to that movie on a first date with a boy 
I was absolutely smitten with.

(and had been in love with for a very LONG time)

I remember that neither that sweet boy nor I had even the slightest idea 

what type of movie it really was and 

I was so nervous and excited to be going out with him

 that I would have watched anything.

Absolutely anything. 

Seriously.
Even a bloody horror movie- and I HATE those.

(oh the things we do for love!)

I vividly remember sitting in the theater turning
9 million shades of red as we watched Raw.
I couldn't believe I was watching that movie
and that I was watching it next to J. 

The language in that movie was horrid. Seriously horrid. 

The f word was said what seemed like at least 2,000 times.

I don't remember much about the movie at all other than the terrible language 

and the fact that
 I was so stinkin' excited to be there with J that I could barely sit still!!

But there was one bit in the movie that

 I still remember over 23 years later
  (good night nurse I am old!) 

because it absolutely cracked me up! 

I found that bit on line last night and it had me almost crying watching it. 

There are a few (3 I think) ugly words in it (but not the f word)

so be warned if you watch it. 

But if you need a laugh today, watch it because it is a hoot!
(and if you do watch it, check out the gloves he wears the whole time- talk about an 80's flash back!)

Week 17- Hiding God's Word in Your Heart

1,263,978 Questions

We are in the midst of state testing here in Texas and 

yesterday I had the joy of testing a little boy we will call Matt.

 (not his real name of course)

Matt is a student that REALLY struggles with focus, 

moves and makes noises CONSTANTLY,

and therefore needs to be tested individually. 

Here are just a few of the 1,263,978 questions he asked me 

during our time together yesterday.............

1. Why do we have education?

2. Who came up with education?

3. How could people come up with education when they hadn't had any education?

4. Why do we have to take this test?

5. When does school get hard?

6. Why can't I play on the computer?

7. Why can't I talk?

8. Why can't we play a silent game?

9. Why is there school? 

10. Why do we even need education?

11. When will use all this school stuff we are learning?

12. Why do I have to stay in here when I am done?

13. Why can't I go back to my class?

14. Why aren't they finished in my class?

15. Why do we have to do this? 

16. Who came up with pencils?

17. Why do pencils break all the time?

18. Why do they give us snacks?

19. I didn't eat breakfast.....why do I have to eat something?

20. Why can't I draw on my test book?

And my favorite......................

My mom says all we need is God, family, and love. 

So why do we need to learn all this stuff? 

My response to every single question was the same..........

We can't talk right now Matt, 

you have to focus on taking this test and doing your best. 

It wasn't exhausting, not at all. 

(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

And guess what?

Today, I get to administer the reading test to him. 

Won't that be fun? 

Randomness on a Tuesday Morning

1. I had a sweet friend send me an email that said.........

 You do NOT really have panties in your drawer, do you??

So Karen O., this is for you: 

 

Here they are in the drawer, next to other important things like lotion, a lint roller, 

Advil, a Tide pen, and on top of a Bible. :) 

And here they are on a table in my office. I put the Sonic drink there to show perspective. 

They truly are some BIG girl panties! 

(And if I die anytime soon, will someone please promise to come and delete all the pics off of my work computer? Because if someone saw some of the RANDOM things I take pics of, they would assume I was CRAZY!) 

2. This video that my sweet friend Dayna tweeted about? 

It had me in tears. Tears!

3. Today is a state testing day here.  
For teachers that means a LONG LONG LONG day. 
And today my Sonic's drink machine was BROKEN! 
That is just all kinds of wrong! Seriously wrong. 
(Thankfully I immediately sent a text to my sweet friend Jenny 
who lives near another Sonic and she is coming to my rescue! Praise the Lord!)


4. And this video that my sweet friend Karen P sent me is awesome! 
A motivational Christian rap- love it! 




5. Notes left on my desk by sweet friends
 and their super cute 3 year olds named Lu
ROCK!!!

6. My sweet girl made drill team (YEA Maddie! So proud of her!) and has already started practicing for a Spring Show to be held next weekend. 
I just wrote my first two checks and holy cow- 
I'm thinking I'm gonna need a part time job so that she can do both dance and drill team. 
(Maybe my Sonic is hiring?)




7. At a craft show here in town this past weekend I bought some homemade pasta. 
Some CHOCOLATE dessert pasta. 
Chocolate pasta. 
Isn't that crazy? 
I just couldn't not buy it and 
can't wait to try it out on my book club ladies in two weeks. 




8. Speaking of book club- our September book is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. 
It's 1,200 pages. 
1,200 pages. 
So I went ahead and bought it- and so far.....not so great. 
(Do they still make cliff notes? 
Because I'm thinking I might just need some. Seriously.)

Monday Morning Question of the Day

What is the most random thing

 in or on your desk today? 

I'll go first.....in my right hand desk drawer is a pair of big girl panties. 

BIG big girl panties. 

For those days when I needed to be reminded to 

"put on my big girl panties"!! 

Flashback Friday

This picture was taken on the night of my senior prom

of my sister and I and it absolutely cracks me up! 

I can't help but think of the letter B when looking at this picture. 

B for.........

bangs -sprayed to an inch of their life with rave hair spray

(that hair did not move a single inch all night long- not an inch!)

blue eyeshadow- LOTS of blue eyeshadow

brows-obviously I did not have tweezers back then

baby's breath- in my hair? nice huh?

bubble skirt- you can't see it but it was there

butt- my butt must have looked huge in that short bubble shirt dress 

(why oh why did my mother let me get that dress? seriously?)

A few other things that make me smile......

-the lovely side ponytail hairdo that I am sporting

-the snazzy shirt my sister is wearing and how it almost matches 

the snazzy wallpaper behind us

-remembering that night and how excited I was to be going to prom

 with a sweet boy I was totally in love with

(who did not realize I was totally in love with him at the time

 but whom I ended up dating for several years and am still friends with now) 

Week 16- Hiding God's Word in Your Heart

RAoK

A sweet friend's daughter lost her best friend in

 a tragic accident several weeks ago here in our town. 

Lauren was a beautiful 16 year old girl who would today turn 17. 

My friend was inspired by all of the RAoK done on my birthday,

so she suggested it to Lauren's mother, 

and so today RAoK are being performed

 all over town by Lauren's friends and family. 

Click here to read the news story about it

or here to join the Facebook group. 

What a way to bless the memory of a sweet girl!

Will you join us?

Monday Morning Question of the Day

I was talking with a friend recently about friendship. 

I shared with her somethings that I have always believed about 

having, making, and keeping good friends. 

So my question(s) for you today are.........

1. Do you think you need to be a good friend in order to have good friends? 

(Basically do you think these two are related?)

2. Do you think it's difficult to maintain good friendships?

3. What are three qualities do you most treasure in a friend?

A Work of Fiction

At a certain age, your child goes from wanting you to

 tell funny stories about them to everyone, 

to NOT wanting you to, AT ALL.  

And my Madison, well, she's reached that age. 

So today, since I can't write about her,

 I'm going to write a totally hypothetical story. 

It is in no way related to anyone I know at all. 

Pure fiction. 

NOTE: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. 

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,
 is purely coincidental.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Adison.  

Adison was 13 and loved to dance. 

She danced at LouAnn's School of Dance and

 had been taking lessons there for 8 years. 

She was at that age where she started getting her monthly "friend". 

Her mother Fannon had taught her to always be prepared- 

to have "supplies" with her at all time- 

in her locker at school and in her dance bag. 

Well one night while at dance Adison called her mother 

and said that she was out of "supplies" and urgently needed some. 

Her mother, even though she was a tad 

irritated since she had told Adison 

over and over again to be prepared,

 brought one to Adison right away. 

The "supply" that Adison's mom took to her was the last one in the house,

so when Adison's dad Rony picked her 

and her best friend Matie up from dance

they headed to the store to purchase some more "supplies".

Now Adison did NOT want to purchase these supplies, 

because she was embarassed.

Rony, however did not mind a bit taking her to the store 
and buying them as he's often had to do that for his wife. 

So, as Adison and Matie hid at the end of the asile, 

pretending to look at something else,

Rony looked for the supplies. 

Since the girls wouldn't come closer to him, 

Rony YELLED down the asile 

"Do you need regular or maxi?"

Of course Adison and Matie were MORTIFIED and ran and hid. 

Rony sent his wife Fannon a text message
 to find out what he needed to buy,

picked them up and went off to find the girls. 

As he found them in another part of the store, 
he held the package up and said VERY loudly 

"Are these the right ones Adison?"

Of course, the girls were again horrified and ran away.

As they got their other purchases and were standing in line to pay, 

Rony again held the supplies up and said 

"Gosh, these things sure are expensive Adison!"

So, the moral of this completely HYPOTHETICAL story is two-fold:

1. Listen to your wise Momma and always be prepared.

2. If you are too embarrassed to buy your own "supplies" at the store, 

don't take your dad with you because he will embarrass you for sure! 

The END.

Week 15- Hiding God's Word in Your Heart