When I was in college, one of our sorority sisters announced one morning at breakfast that her mother had always told her, “One is not considered a grown up until she learns to drink coffee.” Well, I made it through college and a good part of my early adult life without drinking or liking coffee. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
It’s Official
Posted in All around the house, Pawsing Around, life lessons, tagged dressing, Lily, what makes a grown up on November 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Smooth Moves
Posted in upside down, tagged Audrey Hepburn, fashion trends, girdle, SPANX, stylists on November 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Don’t you just love it when the trendsetters and stylists of our times deem some piece of clothing or shoe or scarf or purse or jewelry the “it” thing?! It’s as if they themselves invented the style and by any stretch of the imagination, persuaded the rest of the worldly culture to “buy in” to [...]
…and the chaos was ordered
Posted in All around the house, life lessons, tagged Bible, Cabela's, clutter, Container Store, Glorietta, organization, Sunday School on November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For quite some time I have been agonizing because I lost my Bible sometime in the Spring. I don’t know what day it happened because I had been using a smaller Bible for referencing some things and study. I don’t know why I was using that one at that time other than the fact that [...]
Simple Abundance
Posted in hope, life lessons on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 2:45 a.m. and I’m awake – so very awake. This happens frequently when SB is out of town and let’s just say I’ll be glad when he gets home so I can go back to nights of peaceful, easy feelings. You know the kind of feelings like resting your head on a cool pillow. [...]
I have been wrung out
Posted in hope, life lessons, tagged dryer, normal setting, Psalm 126, washing machine on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Psalm 126 (The Message)
A Pilgrim Song
1-3 It seemed like a dream, too good to be true, when God returned Zion’s exiles.
We laughed, we sang,
we couldn’t believe our good fortune.
We were the talk of the nations—
”God was wonderful to them!”
God was wonderful to us;
we are one happy people.
4-6 And now, God, do it again—
bring rains to [...]
Mighty Mole
Posted in All around the house on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago my neighbor and good friend D (whose kids we adore) mentioned to me they were having problems with a mole or moles in their yard. I don’t remember much more of the conversation because it was approximately 5:54 in the morning on our walk, and I’m sure I was thinking [...]
When it RAINS, it POURS
Posted in All around the house, tagged leak, pours, rains, roof, unanswered prayers on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I started this blog on Saturday but has taken me a few days to find the charger to my camera so I can post these pictures!!! So pretend you read this Saturday!
OK. Let me just preface this blog with the fact that I’m not a natural cynic. I pretty much can find the bright side [...]
When He Reigns, He Pours
Posted in hope, life lessons, tagged cancer, changing careers, infertility, surviving cancer on November 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever…” Psalm 138:8
I am waiting in anticipation of God this morning. No, I’m not wanting to take over his job of orchestrating my life. Been there. Done that.
What I mean is simply that I’m navigating the waters of waiting on Him for [...]
“Pirates of the Pinzance”
Posted in Memories Light the Corners of my Mind, tagged hibachi, movie lines, Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias on November 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
There’s an unspoken joy about people who share in the gifts of 1) remembering lines from a favorite movie or two or three and 2) reciting those lines in any given moment of life’s bounty, and 3) it’s even better when you’re together and you both just bust out with the same line and the same [...]
The first time ever I saw your face
Posted in Pawsing Around, Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, I’m cleaning out some computer files and of course, I got side-tracked by pictures of my 4-legged babies. They’ve grown up to be the best dogs in the whole world – except of course when they run off from me and when they eat things in the woods they’re not supposed to. But those [...]
