I've been gone all week with a big group of soon-to-be Freshman and Sophomores from our school. It was an exciting, awesome, tiring week! The kind you wouldn't trade.
Checking out my emails today, I found my cousin Mary had sent me a link to a fun personality-type test. My "Visual DNA" is now on the right.
Try it, it takes little time, it's fun and it's freaky accurate.
Thanks, Mary.
5 Kids 1 Great Journey
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Some Things I've Learned....
Sacrifice Is Highly Underrated
So Is Motherhood
Most Days Are Tough
If You Get
The Chance...
When The Lord Asks
Of You Something Difficult...
Everyone Needs
Cheerleaders Of Their Own
Everybody Poops
Enjoy The Dog Days Of Summer
Run Around In Your Undies As Long As You Can
Live Passionately
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Spa Day
New genre of Spa Treatment:
Sooo...Ada was just sitting around one day, thinking "What could I use just laying around the house that would bring in some extra income to help the fam, hmmm...."
Seriously, how much tension and stress could be relieved by having snakes slithering all over your bare skin. More important, what keeps them from slithering places they don't need to be slithering 'cause you know snakes like dark places. Yep, I don't think so even if I was Oprah Winfrey and couldn't find enough ways to spend all my money. See, now this is how rich people and celebrities get caught up in weird stuff.
However, if you have the money to burn and you REALLY, REALLY like snakes, you can find out more about "snake spa specials" and more "unique" forms of spa treatments found round the world here.
Different strokes for different folks is an understatement.
Snake Massage
While it’s
not the ideal stress reliever for the faint of heart, knotted muscles slither
away following a snake massage performed in Northern Israel by therapist Ada
Barak at her eponymous spa. For about $70, she’ll sic her six non-venomous
serpents on clients’ aching muscles. As the snakes slip and slide down the
spine, tension supposedly slithers away.
Sooo...Ada was just sitting around one day, thinking "What could I use just laying around the house that would bring in some extra income to help the fam, hmmm...."
Seriously, how much tension and stress could be relieved by having snakes slithering all over your bare skin. More important, what keeps them from slithering places they don't need to be slithering 'cause you know snakes like dark places. Yep, I don't think so even if I was Oprah Winfrey and couldn't find enough ways to spend all my money. See, now this is how rich people and celebrities get caught up in weird stuff.
However, if you have the money to burn and you REALLY, REALLY like snakes, you can find out more about "snake spa specials" and more "unique" forms of spa treatments found round the world here.
Different strokes for different folks is an understatement.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Talent
Meet some local talent. I think this is the firehouse right down the street from us. I'm gonna' go check 'em out tomorrow and find out. I'll catch ya' later with an update.
It's been said everyone's good at somethin'...
This is somethin' alright.
Our tax dollars hard at work. :0)
It's been said everyone's good at somethin'...
This is somethin' alright.
Our tax dollars hard at work. :0)
Monday, July 9, 2007
Projects
Summer Projects
Less than a short, quick month left until the kiddos are back in full swing at school. Seeing how I'll be gone from them for one more week come July 23, I'm desperately trying to stuff as much fun into two weeks as I can. Just waiting for hubby's paycheck to deposit and then we're off to spend some of it. Botanical Gardens, IMAX at the Space Center, Children's Museum, painting these humongous rocks we have around our pool, picnicking with music during Concerts in the Park, hiking Monte Sano and maybe checking out the planetarium. I'm also secretly desparate to get us into the geocaching craze. I have a nutty friend here who takes her girls out every weekend for hide and seek geocaching. It's really cool. Of course, I'd probably get us lost whereas, she being a NASA engineer, knows how to use those dang GPS things. Last, I'd especially like for us to go visit Birmingham for the day and see all the Martin Luther King sites, if we can swing it; it's only about 1 1/2 drive. Tomorrow, is FREE kid's movie day--yeah! We'll have to sneak in our own popcorn and dollar candy but they let you bring in your own drinks. Cannot wait!
Home Projects (sorry this is a really long run-on paragraph)
We have been in our house for a wicked-quick year, come October, and we still have our office files laying in semi-stacked piles on the floor. Our "office" is in an extremely wide hallway that connects one side of the house to the other, more to the point, the family room to the "formal" rooms (living and dining). The area used to be an entryway from the former garage, into the house that also included a back porch, storage area and we think, laundry room. Yeah, it's pretty good size. The "office" is visible from about every room but, most importantly, the front door. All the piles of office files on the floor are in view of anyone who happens upon our doorstep-- friends and burglars, the UPS guy, Saturday-morning Jehovah's witnesses, even the curious, little chipmunk that lives right outside the door. Needless to say, the look is getting a little old, makes me itchy to start organizing and puts me in a testy mood most days. We've (I) decided to go for an office area with file cabinets that look more like traditional furniture than cubicle crap. Know what I mean? Why fix up the rest of the house only to leave big, metal cabinets in full view of every room, lookin' like the Fifth Precinct? Problem is, we cannot afford the traditional furniture look. Okay, we could save for awhile to buy something and we have...but, we always seem to find something else more exciting we'd rather do with the money. Like....Atlanta Getaway or 15th Anniversary Honeymoon on the Beach Without Kids, heck, even a quick dash to Chattanooga for Sticky Fingers. You know, memory-maker moments. I don't know, maybe we're foolish; maybe we're immature; maybe we're impulsive. We like to have fun and not take life too seriously. Our kids will only be here so long and, right now, we're trying to make memories for them and probably make up a little since we've moved them from friends and family twice in the last three years. We're in a great place now (knock on wood) that looks like a keeper and we're crossin' our fingers real tight. After all the kids leave home, we can buy some nice furniture, pick all our files up off the floor and start to care what other people think about our office space. LOL. Funny how blogging brings you to your senses. Cabinets...what was I thinking?!?
Project One Buck
One of my far-away coffee buddies who is now also my blogging mentor, Tammi, recently blogged about a group in Michigan that she and her hubby used to hang with in college. Check it out, it's a pure and simple project.
Blogging Project
As is a common occurrence with me, I've been blessed with another "project" on my heart and I'm praying and working through some thoughts so as not to have to eat too big of a shoe. Hopefully, I will quickly work through everything and still feel the need to blog about it, since I've now mentioned it. Sometimes, I work through a burden and then He takes it away. The burdens are questions, really; questions I have about the rightness, wrongness and often presumptuously assinine assumptions we have in our heads about church, believers and Christ. These questions are a result of my past relationships with the church, my current relationship with the church and what I see as the future church, which has alot of purging and growing and changing to do. See, I almost gave it away prematurely and surely would have had to eat a size 11.
I read too much. Then my brain starts buzzing and the buzzing gets on the Lord's nerves I think. So he takes the buzzing and forms it into a burden and then lays it on my heart. At that point, it can remain a burden or become an opportunity, all dependent upon how much prayin' I do and how badly I'm lookin' for His answer, not mine. Sometimes, the burdenous opportunity shouts in my heart to become public on my blog and other times, it quietly becomes knowledge I've gained to be shared from my heart, individually, when the time is right. How do I know when to share? Usually, the subject of the knowledge I've struggled to gain, becomes a common theme, over and over again, in many conversations I'll be privy to--whether written, verbalized or blogged.
Often after this happens, I question myself...did my questions come to mind because I've been reading and hearing the same theme over and over or did I start noticing the theme because I've searched for and was given the knowledge my burden relentlessly tore at me to find? It's the chicken and the egg. I never really know the answer, once all is said and done, but I'm always amazed at how small He can make the world by plucking all our heartstrings at the same time.
Wow, I think I'm bloggin' over my own head! Sometimes, I just type what's being telegraphed in my head and then when I'm done, I realize I don't remember any of what I just blogged. Definitely, the Spirit moving. Always, always gets me excited and makes me smile real big when I know I've been moved by THE Spirit. What an awesome gift. Sorry if I'm gettin' too heavy for some of you more controlled believers...however, might try steppin' out of your comfort zone; might find you like it and it's VERY freeing.
Have movies to watch, of course. We're a movie family!
Blog to ya' in a couple, k?
Less than a short, quick month left until the kiddos are back in full swing at school. Seeing how I'll be gone from them for one more week come July 23, I'm desperately trying to stuff as much fun into two weeks as I can. Just waiting for hubby's paycheck to deposit and then we're off to spend some of it. Botanical Gardens, IMAX at the Space Center, Children's Museum, painting these humongous rocks we have around our pool, picnicking with music during Concerts in the Park, hiking Monte Sano and maybe checking out the planetarium. I'm also secretly desparate to get us into the geocaching craze. I have a nutty friend here who takes her girls out every weekend for hide and seek geocaching. It's really cool. Of course, I'd probably get us lost whereas, she being a NASA engineer, knows how to use those dang GPS things. Last, I'd especially like for us to go visit Birmingham for the day and see all the Martin Luther King sites, if we can swing it; it's only about 1 1/2 drive. Tomorrow, is FREE kid's movie day--yeah! We'll have to sneak in our own popcorn and dollar candy but they let you bring in your own drinks. Cannot wait!
Home Projects (sorry this is a really long run-on paragraph)
We have been in our house for a wicked-quick year, come October, and we still have our office files laying in semi-stacked piles on the floor. Our "office" is in an extremely wide hallway that connects one side of the house to the other, more to the point, the family room to the "formal" rooms (living and dining). The area used to be an entryway from the former garage, into the house that also included a back porch, storage area and we think, laundry room. Yeah, it's pretty good size. The "office" is visible from about every room but, most importantly, the front door. All the piles of office files on the floor are in view of anyone who happens upon our doorstep-- friends and burglars, the UPS guy, Saturday-morning Jehovah's witnesses, even the curious, little chipmunk that lives right outside the door. Needless to say, the look is getting a little old, makes me itchy to start organizing and puts me in a testy mood most days. We've (I) decided to go for an office area with file cabinets that look more like traditional furniture than cubicle crap. Know what I mean? Why fix up the rest of the house only to leave big, metal cabinets in full view of every room, lookin' like the Fifth Precinct? Problem is, we cannot afford the traditional furniture look. Okay, we could save for awhile to buy something and we have...but, we always seem to find something else more exciting we'd rather do with the money. Like....Atlanta Getaway or 15th Anniversary Honeymoon on the Beach Without Kids, heck, even a quick dash to Chattanooga for Sticky Fingers. You know, memory-maker moments. I don't know, maybe we're foolish; maybe we're immature; maybe we're impulsive. We like to have fun and not take life too seriously. Our kids will only be here so long and, right now, we're trying to make memories for them and probably make up a little since we've moved them from friends and family twice in the last three years. We're in a great place now (knock on wood) that looks like a keeper and we're crossin' our fingers real tight. After all the kids leave home, we can buy some nice furniture, pick all our files up off the floor and start to care what other people think about our office space. LOL. Funny how blogging brings you to your senses. Cabinets...what was I thinking?!?
Project One Buck
One of my far-away coffee buddies who is now also my blogging mentor, Tammi, recently blogged about a group in Michigan that she and her hubby used to hang with in college. Check it out, it's a pure and simple project.
Blogging Project
As is a common occurrence with me, I've been blessed with another "project" on my heart and I'm praying and working through some thoughts so as not to have to eat too big of a shoe. Hopefully, I will quickly work through everything and still feel the need to blog about it, since I've now mentioned it. Sometimes, I work through a burden and then He takes it away. The burdens are questions, really; questions I have about the rightness, wrongness and often presumptuously assinine assumptions we have in our heads about church, believers and Christ. These questions are a result of my past relationships with the church, my current relationship with the church and what I see as the future church, which has alot of purging and growing and changing to do. See, I almost gave it away prematurely and surely would have had to eat a size 11.
I read too much. Then my brain starts buzzing and the buzzing gets on the Lord's nerves I think. So he takes the buzzing and forms it into a burden and then lays it on my heart. At that point, it can remain a burden or become an opportunity, all dependent upon how much prayin' I do and how badly I'm lookin' for His answer, not mine. Sometimes, the burdenous opportunity shouts in my heart to become public on my blog and other times, it quietly becomes knowledge I've gained to be shared from my heart, individually, when the time is right. How do I know when to share? Usually, the subject of the knowledge I've struggled to gain, becomes a common theme, over and over again, in many conversations I'll be privy to--whether written, verbalized or blogged.
Often after this happens, I question myself...did my questions come to mind because I've been reading and hearing the same theme over and over or did I start noticing the theme because I've searched for and was given the knowledge my burden relentlessly tore at me to find? It's the chicken and the egg. I never really know the answer, once all is said and done, but I'm always amazed at how small He can make the world by plucking all our heartstrings at the same time.
Wow, I think I'm bloggin' over my own head! Sometimes, I just type what's being telegraphed in my head and then when I'm done, I realize I don't remember any of what I just blogged. Definitely, the Spirit moving. Always, always gets me excited and makes me smile real big when I know I've been moved by THE Spirit. What an awesome gift. Sorry if I'm gettin' too heavy for some of you more controlled believers...however, might try steppin' out of your comfort zone; might find you like it and it's VERY freeing.
Have movies to watch, of course. We're a movie family!
Blog to ya' in a couple, k?
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