Flashback Friday

This picture of my sister and I makes me laugh.

It was taken in my parents bedroom. 

Look at that carpet. Snazzy huh?

 It was pukey green- was in all the bedrooms in our house

 and was about as thick as a piece of paper. 

Look at the snazzy 70's vacuum cleaner sitting behind us. 

How funny is it that my mom took a pic with the vacuum cleaner in it? 

My sister's shoes? COOL huh?

They look like they are tri-colored bowling shoes. 

Super cool!

Behind us was the sewing machine cabinet 

and a lovely shelf full of colored cardboard file boxes. 

So funny and so random. 

The expression on my face is great. 

I love my sister but that face says 

"I'm only smiling because I have to and 

the second you snap that pictures I am getting the heck away from her!" 

Week 19- Hiding God's Word in Your Heart

Randomness on a Tuesday Morning

1. There are only 14 more days of school.  

14? How the heck did that happen?

 This year seems like it's gone by at warp speed. Seriously. 
At this rate I will blink and be 65. 
Crazy how fast time goes as you get older. 

2. Madison performed in her first event at the
 high school for the drill team this past weekend.  

As I looked at the pictures I took of her before the Sat. night performance I was absolutely stunned by how grown up she looked.  How did my baby turn into a high school girl? 

3. This video cracks me UP! 





4.  Totally planning to make these Peanut Butter Brownies for my hubby very soon. 

Don't they look YUMMY? 

5. I'm totally addicted to the iPhone game Words with Friends. 
(It's like Scrabble) 
Seriously addicted. 
So addicted I have to make myself turn off the 
notifications at night and while I am at work or I'd play 24/7.  
(If you want to play with me, my name is Swtblessshan)


6. This post by Kristen on (In)Courage called When Her Life is Better Than Mine truly spoke to my heart. If you ever struggle with comparing yourself to others, go read it NOW! 


7. I am obviously a horrible judge of how old people are. 
The Sonic boy who I figured was about 17 or 18?
I found out he's married and has a baby and is in college. 
YIKES! Must mean I'm getting OLD. 


8. I'm hosting book club this Thursday at my house and we are discussing the Jodi Picoult book The Pact.  I big puffy heart LOVE her books and her most recent book, House Rules, is my absolute favorite. It's about a boy with high functioning autism and is amazing.  The thing I love most about her books is that she makes you see both sides of an issue.  As someone who usually sees things very black and white, with little gray- I love that.  If you haven't read anything by her I highly suggest you do! 


Enough randomness for now.............y'all have a fabulous day! 

Monday Morning Question of the Day

As his Mother's Day gift to me,

 my husband painted our front door. 

It was something I really wanted done and 

I've been asking him for a long time (forever)  to do. 

I absolutely LOVE it! 

That act of service was better than any fancy gift 

he could have purchased for me. 

Seriously. 

Don't get me wrong- I love gifts,

but someone doing something for me

means even more to me. 

(obviously one of my love languages is acts of service) 

So what about you? 

Would you rather be given a gift 

or 

would you rather have an act of service done for you? 

Flashback Friday

I love this picture of my sweet mother. 

I love the cute card on the bookcase that you can read if you enlarge the pic.

I love the handmade felt ornaments that are on the tree that my sweet mother made. 

I love that my sisters head is partially in this pic on the left side 

and that my head is partially in this pic at the bottom. 

I love that we were wearing matching dresses. 

I love the snazzy 70's outfit my mother is wearing.

I love her sweet smile. 

I love her. 

And oh how I miss her.

Week 18- Hiding God's Word in Your Heart

Monday Morning Question of the Day

Using the first letter of your name, 

what word describes you best today?

I'll start.........

sickly.

(I hate being sick.)

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.)