Froth & Bubble

"Life is mostly froth & bubble; Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another's trouble & courage in your own"

Nothing Great

" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"

Go Confidnently

" Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined!"

what you achieve

" What you achieve through the Journey of life is not as important as who you become"

most beautiful thing

" the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious"

Change

Change it comes in all shapes and forms from physical to emotional.
you can change just about anything in this world that you want
some changes can just be for the moment others can last for a life time
sometimes change is difficult for a person.

In my own life experiences I sometimes
have had a difficult time with change
but as I have gotten older it has become easier to accept and the change always turns out for the better.

that is one reason I like this quote

regret or rejoice

For everything you have missed
you have gained something else
and for everything you gain, you
lose something else.

It is about your outlook towards life.
you can either regret or rejoice.

I think I would rather rejoice!!

Remain Inspired

Just a thought for today.

Remain inspired for all that you desire to do
Remain focused in your inspiration to achieve your desires.

BE WHO YOU ARE

"BE WHO YOU ARE AND
SAY WHAT YOU FEEL
BECAUSE THOSE WHO MIND
DON'T MATTER AND THOSE WHO
MATTER DON'T MIND"
Dr. Seuss

As I said before I love quotes of many different
venues I have a great many of them that I love
from Dr. Seuss his words are magical to me
and make sense

In my younger years I guess I was a bit
shy and scared to speak my mind so to speak
for fear my family and friends would be upset
with me and I being the youngest would not
want to rock the boat

I watched my brothers and a few of my sisters
do it and I would always think to myself if I
only had the courage to speak my mind
well as I have gotten older I have done just that
sometimes I put my foot in my mouth but at least
I say what I feel

Sunday my daughter and I were doing something on the computer and
she went to her homepage and had this quote on it yesterday I did not really pay attention and as I was going through my books of quotes today
I came across this one it was the exact same one my daughter had on her homepage!


my children pointed out that I along with my husband have
told them this. not the exact quote but to say (what they feel to be truthful to
who they are) I was astonished that they have taken it to heart.

I sat there in a daze I have never showed my quote books
to them or anyone because they are private to me in the sense that I enjoy and escape in their meaning and yet some how they seem to come up in my children's thoughts. The Lord works in such great ways.!!!

week in review

This week as been full of emotions for me it has been
Happy, Tired,Angered,Stressed, Fearsome,Worried,
Caring and Saddened.


Monday my anger started with a telephone in our home
that we thought had an issue that was also messing up our
home computer, we found out the issue was not our phone
it was located in what is known as CO ( central office) this is
my hubby's lingo as he works for AT&T (however him being
an employee did not help it still took him being angered and
a week to get the situation fixed!

On Tuesday the emotions of fear really seeped inside me
as I learned a resource teacher that works closely with me and
my co-workers had contracted the MRSA Staff infections that
it developed into a pneumonia which can spread airborne. I have always
been a preventive person ( I admit I do have a thing about germs)
but I do not consider myself to be a germ a phobic person. however I have
been extremely cautious and probably over zealous in cleaning my home and
at work my anger came out because upper management was and is keeping
this Hush Hush!
my co-workers and I are not even supposed to know about this!

Wednesday things are getting a little better but I had trouble sleeping
because of the situation at work.

Thursday my daughter had a routine dentist appointment to get her teeth
cleaned however ended up having two baby teeth extracted and she was in pain
and the trooper that she is went to school in pain ( this was her first full week
and all seems to be going ok since she made her decision to return) I gave her
lots of ice cream and a shake she had to eat with a spoon what is a caring mommy for!

Friday remember the old saying TGIF!!! I love Fridays because it is my early
day I am off at 1 today was looking good because it is the start of a three day
weekend for me but then I got this call this morning from a friend regarding
another friend of ours from our breakfast club our dear friend lost both of her
elderly parents and their two dogs due to a fire in the house this past Wed
evening there is a criminal investigation going on till the autopsy is completed
I know first hand how it feels when you lose a loved one especially your parents
but to lose both of them at the same time and the way they passed well my
heart is heartbroken for my friend I did not know what to say except she and
her family are in my prayers . our little breakfast club is ready to do what ever
needs to be done when she is ready for us to do so.

I am planning on making this three day weekend kind of an escape from all the
emotions so to speak
I am either going to go see a funny movie or rent one or do something fun and
light hearted.

Don't Blink

(just a song I have on my I pod)


I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what's the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said "All I can say is."

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I was glued to my tv and it looked like he looked at me and said
"Best start putting first things first."
Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't Blink
Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps and you


Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I've been try'n slow it down
I've been try'n take it in
In this here today gone tomorrow world we're livi'n in

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster you think
Don't blink

Naw, don't blink
Life goes faster than you think

Amelia Earhart

"The most difficult thing is the
decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity
The fears are paper tigers
you can do anything you decide to do
you can act to change and control life
and the procedure, the process is it's own
reward"

Excused

I served my jury duty and
the lord answered my prayers
I was with a lucky bunch and
after waiting all day long
we were excused!!!

did not even get called into the court room
I did learn a lot from two women who sat next to me
there were about 100 of us and we were told to be there
before 10:00 am. no one looked like they really wanted to
be there.
upon entering many of us brought bottled water because
it said beverages in plastic bottles were allowed what it failed
to say is that the seal must not be broken on the plastic beverage
bottle! so just like the airlines they dump open bottles into the trash!
scan your handbags and cell phones must be off.

where you check into the waiting room they scan your
summons and you sit and wait. we waited for an hour and half
and then were told we had to return at 1:30. we all learned lesson
brought back a unopened bottle of water!!!

we all returned and waited another hour then 50 names were
called they left then we got the good news we were EXCUSED!!
and had to form a line to get a paper for work.
what I learned watching and talking to these two ladies
was everyone that was there did not want to be there!
had to miss a day of work, some of them were just down right
mad about doing their civic duty!
and one lady next to me kept pointing this out.
it is our civic duty yet if you don't show they fine you up to $1,500.00
and arrest you. it is your civic duty yet they confiscate your bottled beverage
and so on!
I hope that once in the court room the judge finally excused her.
the other interesting thing I learned is that they use your driver's license
to summon you for jury duty because selecting the old way through your voting
well people stopped voting for that reason.

regardless of it all it was an interesting day of observation
and I am thankful for all that kept me in their thoughts and prayers

living

Living requires us to step off the edge of the world each day
daring to greet the sun , life is a leap of faith!

I love to collect many things but one of my favorites is
to write down sayings, quotes, etc. I have many books
with such things that I add to daily and sometimes read
over and over.

I feel eternally grateful to step off the edge and greet the sun
and take that beautiful leap of faith that the Lord gives us
everyday no matter what it may bring. For if I don't then I
know I would not be living!!!

Jury Duty

I have been called for Jury Duty
I have been called once in my life but
got excused and that was many years ago!
I have never done this before!

they finally caught up with me I suppose
I am not sure how I feel about it I have mixed
emotions. I am nervous about it for what if it
is a case where a child or woman got hurt ( yes I know that
can happen to a man) but I am an emotional person I tear up
at the drop of a hat !( sad movies, T.V. songs ) I will do my best
I guess, there is also the chance that they won't even need me and
I will be excused! ( I am saying my prayers)

well just keep me in your thoughts!

on the road again

well since my holiday break is
officially over today ( the two weeks went
by slow & fast at the same time) I am preparing
to get back on the road I commute to my job
which is about 40 mi from my home
it's not a bad commute. my gal used to go with me
I would drop her off at school then pick her up
so I had someone with me well tomorrow that is going to
change for both of us she will be starting her new thing
at the public school ( she is scared ) and I will be commuting
by my lonesome ( ok I will be listening to the radio)
so I won't be quite a lone. I would not do this If I did not
love my job so much!

I did enjoy my break but there are things that I also
wanted to do that I ran out of time to do them. well I
get a week off in march so maybe then.

until then it's off to work I go
everyone have a safe return to work and where ever
you have to drive to.

calamity Jane

Since it was raining and pouring and
my old man was definitely snoring!
and when the weather is like this
I like to stay in and bake and watch old movies
so today I decided that is what I would do
I made my mother's sweet bread and then I
had some left over choc kisses so I made my son
his favorite peanut blossoms because I had made
my daughter her favorite Oreo truffles.

getting back to the movie I chose for my first movie
one of my all time favorites ( and I have plenty in fact
my list seems to grow!) Calamity Jane. I remember this
movie from my childhood and I still laugh and sing along
with the songs. Doris Day happens to be one of my favorites and
this particular movie is my favorite of hers.

I love all kinds of movies ( OK I don't like scary horror movies)
I like love stories, mysteries, musicals, comedies, drama. Disney movies

the bread and cookies came out fine, the movie was fun
and then I listened to the pouring rain it does at times
make a beautiful sound. I thought I would
get away from not going out in it but wouldn't you know
I had to pick my gal up from a birthday party!

well that's a mom for you.

SEND FORTH

Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me,
let them bring me to your holy mountain to the place where
you dwell.
psalm 43:3


I felt this appropriate as my daughter made the decision
to leave her Christian school and return to the public high school
why did she decide this? well, she said for the past few months she
has been feeling a calling in her heart from the Lord that she needed to evangelise
to teenagers her age, she felt that she could not make a difference
at her Christian school because her fellow students get it and she
wants to make a difference so she put her trust in the Lord and
asked for his Guidance and over the holiday break the good Lord
gave her the answer. she is answering his calling and returning
this semester(actually this Monday) back to the public high school and hoping to make a difference even if only in one students life.

I am so proud of her for many reasons, she worked hard to get into the
Christian school she was attending, it is 40 miles from where we live and we made the
sacrifice, and she made some good friends there. I know that this decision
was not made lightly but my gal never does anything with out seeing it through
granted she has friends here at the public high school and hopefully she will have a few
classes or lunch with some of them. but she is going back to a big campus

for the past year she has been used to small classes and even having a religion
class everyday, now she will be in bigger classes, crowded and not having religion
class on a daily basis, though she is nervous she is determined to answer the lord's calling
and see this through like she told me " she has to give it a try cause she does not want to
go through her life wondering what if" she also told me God has "her back" and if she is meant to return to another Christian school he will help her get there again.

I am in awe because she is so mature at her age when I was 15 I was not strong in my
convictions of faith the way she is. so watching my gal grow with this is just so breath taking
sometimes I cannot even express I just get all teary eyed with pride.

please keep my gal in your prayers while she makes this transition and
that she will make a difference in someone's life by teaching them to trust & believe in the Lord.

gadgets

Music boxes do you remember them?
how you bought one and it played an old
song or had a ballerina dancing in it.
I believe you can still by them somewhere

I have not been in the blog sphere lately because
I have been in the sphere of gadgets
actually extremely en thralled in this technology
of a music box called an IPOD!!!

I had one before it was known as a mini
and my children had put all the music in it
for me. it had a short battery life.(that is apple
for you!) I received a new and improved one
as a gift for Christmas and though my kids have been my tutor
they tell me I must learn how to work these gadgets

was I up for the challenge? not really but the competitive side in me
now had something to prove especially to my children that I am capable
of putting my favorite music into this music box!

so for the past few days I have been sorting through our cd's
(boy, do we have a lot!!!) and using an " I tunes card" that allows
you to buy songs from the i tunes library. this new box of mine
i am told can hold up to 20,000 songs ( which I will never reach!)
I can put videos, photos, download pod casts etc.

I have searched through and complied lists of my favorites
from days of old like Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, old Blue eyes,
to Jazz/ Blues/ Country/Christian / Pop/ Rock/ Folk/ instrumental
and everything in between!!

In doing this I have felt like a zombie of sorts, loafing around
in baggy comfy sweats, no make-up, no brushing hair
It consumed me, I did get my songs in the music box !!
( it is really not that hard at all)

I decided I desperately needed some pampering a trip to
my hair dresser. she always makes me feel good when she
shampoos and cuts and puts highlights in my hair!

I am still learning this music box it just like learning the computer
(many things I still do not know) sometimes it's such a challenge to keep
up with! I ask you what ever happened to the days of a transistor radio.
or 8 track tape player, or better yet playing your old lp's on your stereo?
before CD'S and satellite radio? my teenagers have informed me the correct term
for Lp's is "vinyl"

I contemplated, if all this new technology is supposed to be less difficult then why
oh why does it seem more difficult, and sometimes scary? we lived without these
conveniences (cell phones, computers, Ipods) could we manage again with out them
now? Probably, but then we would not be able to blog without the computer,
call where ever we are without a cell phone,and yes even put your favorite music
in one little gadget of a music box called an IPOD!

for those of you who have one
what's in your Ipod?