I know, I know....

Yes, it's been, like, forever, since I posted. I honestly didn't intend to take my last post so literally in the blog sense! ;-) In my defense, Tom refers to February as "the month of sickness" starting with me getting a whopping case of food poisoning and ending with the baby cutting two teeth, getting a cold and getting shots all in a 5 day period! With lots of yuck in between. Let me just say, taking your husband to the doctor praying the entire way that it isn't pneumonia (praise God it wasn't) is incredibly stressful.

We also made a sobering impromptu trip to Tennessee to pay a final good-bye to Tom's wonderful Granddaddy. He passed away last weekend and will be greatly missed. It was snowing here when we left and all but snowing there when we headed home. Weird for a Southern March, but hey, snow is cool no matter when! (If only we could have snow, but it be warm too....)

So, we are still around. And I will hopefully be a better blogger!

Rest.

On a tip from my Mom who was driving all day yesterday upon leaving our house, I listened to Insight for Living (Chuck Swindoll). The sermon for yesterday was very helpful for me at this time. I must admit that the cares of life have about pulled me under. Call it postpartum depression, call it too many new things at once, or call it sheer spiritual low point I have become obsessed with things. Things like keeping the house absolutely perfect, freaking out about not being the perfect mother, etc., etc. This has led to me finding it very difficult to find the good purpose in anything. So, back to the sermon.

It was based upon Matthew 11:28-30, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." This verse is so comforting in itself, and the point that stuck out to me in the sermon was that we think rest is going on a relaxing vacation, or snoozing through Sunday afternoon football, when Jesus is telling us here that true rest comes from Him alone. All the sleep in the world won't help, but that if we come to Him with our troubles He will take them and give us true rest. I also read the entire passage and was struck by the verses above it: "At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father for this was Your good pleasure." (Matt. 11:25-26) This just reminded me how God views earthly accomplishments. All these things that I deem so important ~ important enough to ruin my days and time with my family over ~ are of no importance, faith like a little child, simple and unassuming is what brings Him pleasure. So, I am going to try to let Jesus take my burdens. Remember I am as a little child, and to keep the things of this world in perspective. To do my work for Him and remember what is truly important, to enjoy resting in Him...

A little giggle...

I just plunked my weary self into this chair to, well, I don't know what I was going to do, but I somehow wound up reading Yahoo news. Click this link and read just the first sentence of this article. It cracked me up! ;-) Dr. Dobson has been telling us about strong-willed children for years. And from personal experience I will tell you they are a handful! But, I thought the article throwing their hands in the air was funny. You don't have to bother with the rest of the article if you don't want to, it was just the world trying to deal, yet again, with a spiritual/God needing issue with money and programs....

Have a great day! I am off to continue raising my kids with no help from Big Brother! Yeah!!!!

This is for you, Bonnie....

Just so my poor sister won't have a boring morning, I am posting a new blog post. I haven't felt especially bloggy lately. Maybe it is the ever-present piles of laundry. Maybe I have been too obsessed with watching weatherunderground change the entire week's forecast based on the current outside temperature (note: today's high this morning was supposed to be 48. When it only reached 34 out there they said tomorrow would only be 55 and that we now have a 50% chance of snow Thursday.) Exciting.

I did make soup, bake bread and make baby food, did 3 loads of laundry and let the dog out, let the dog in, let the other dog out, went out into the cold and drug the dog back in so the other dog could go out feel the cold and howl at the back door until I let him back in.

At least the baby food made for great dinner entertainment, Tom was cracking up at the gagging motions the baby made upon trying the said baby food...sigh...I try.


Weell, that's it. I guess I'll keep thinking about interesting life notes. If the baby ever gets a tooth in that will be blogworthy!!!! We are on our 3rd month of teething.

Have a great morning Bon. I gotta go let the dog out....

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Check this out! I just found out about this from one of the other blogs I read. We live way out in the middle of nowhere so I figure many have heard about this movie, but if you haven't check out this trailer!!!

Getting bigger and bigger!

Thought I would post a picture of our "little pup" we acquired this October. Since he weighed about 31 pounds when we got him at a mere 3 months old, he is now six months old and weighs 62 pounds! Double the dog and he isn't finished growing yet!!! ....I must point out it took far more than 30 pounds of food to get him here though ;-}

A Pause....

Just a pause to reflect...Why do they call it fast food if they make you pull forward and wait? When we were on our Christmas trip East, we pulled up to a Dairy Queen and the conversation went something like this:
Tom, "...and one fried chicken basket." Speaker dealy, "Fried chicken basket?" Tom, "Uh-huh." Speaker dealy, "It will be about 10 minutes on the gravy...." Tom, turns to me, "We don't need gravy do we?" I gave him an emphatic, "No!" Tom (to speaker dealy) "NO GRAVY!!!" Speaker Dealy, "No Gravy?" Tom, "No, just the chicken." So we drive up to the window, paid, they give us drinks and no food and tell us to pull forward. Ok.... We notice several other cars are waiting. Eventually an employee comes out brandishing a massive Blizzard at our window, we shake our heads, not ours. 10 minutes later they bring us our entire meal, including a chicken basket with gravy so hot it would scald you! ;-)

And then tonight Mickey D's did the same trick. Made me pull forward to wait -- I still don't know what for -- nothing I ordered was hot! So, my question is, why call it fast food? Why don't you actually listen to the customers? And why would anyone wait 10 minutes for hot powdered gravy?

I'll just send these answerless questions out into the void....