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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Nervous and Excited...That's me

As of late I have been drawing a blank about writing anything.  I have been super busy with ....well, life.  I mean between, my family and my friends and my church activities and my job....I'm busy!!  Oh, if only that pesky job were not in the picture I could get way more stuff done!!  Ever feel like that??  I do have several things that are in the works though.  I am photographing my first wedding at the end of March.  I am a little nervous but excited.  It is a very small country wedding of some friends so they realize that I am an amateur.  Hope they don't expect super-fantastical shots!  It is cold and very not spring looking at an outdoor wedding in March!  The ladies group at my church is hosting another all day "Ladies Event" for our community.  We have awesome speakers and breakout sessions and plenty of worship music, food and fellowship planned.  It looks to be a great day.  I am leading one of the breakout sessions on Your Spiritual Gifts.  What are they, what do they mean and how can I use them for the Glory of God.  I am nervous but excited about this too.  I have also, with a very heavy heart, resigned as a teacher for my Sunday School class.  I love teaching and I love these ladies.  It is just time for me to move on and to be obedient to what the Lord has for me.  I truly have prayed about this and what the Lord would have me do.  I am nervous and excited about this new avenue for me too!  Not much else is going on but that is really plenty.  I am looking forward to spring time and warmer weather and longer days for sure.  I am excited about the future in a whole new way...and yes, I am excited but nervous about that too.  I just know and trust that God has got good things for me coming.  His plans are always good and He alone knows what they are.....and about that I am very nervous and very excited.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Current Faves!!

Currently I have about a bazillion new favorite things.  So I though I would gift you with a list!  See how generous I can be!!!  Evidently, I just love exclamation points!!  See??!!

First up.  My favorite movie as of today.  Disney's "Frozen".  I took Piper to see it and we loved it.  We sing the songs all the time and we played Frozen in the snow we had last week.  It is such a cute and good little movie.

I think Piper asks me 20 times a day if I want to build a snowman!!


Second up.  Favorite cooking show.  Hands down it has got to be "Chopped" on the food network.  I have a super crush on Geoffrey Zakarien.



Third up.  Favorite current read.  The book of Hosea in the Bible.  We have been doing a Bible study at church by Reba Bowman on the book Hosea called "Return To Me."  Outstanding.
I don't have a video clip to insert but trust me people.  Outstanding.




This is the cover of the study book.  I just cannot say enough about this study.  So good!


Fourth up.  Favorite hobby.  Hands down.  Pinteresting.  I love looking at it.  Pinning on it.  Looking at other peoples boards.  The lists go on and on and on and on.  Forever!!!  I have found the best recipes.  The best photo poses.  The best quotes. The best hairstyle ideas.  Just the best of everything, everywhere!


And last but certainly not the least....Fifth up.  My current favorite song.  Now all my friends know when I hear a song on the radio that I love I say the exact same thing every time...."Oh, that is my favorite!!!"  According to Janet at work all songs are my favorite.  She thinks she is so funny....ha-ha-he-he Jan-et!  As of today my favorite song is this:


Is that not just beautiful??!!!  I love this song and every time it comes on and I am by myself, I sing and sing and let the tears just fall.  It is just that beautiful.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Snow, Love it or Not??


The big snow storm is over and I was so glad to see the sun today.  I have seen lots and lots of snow storms but never one that the snow fell so fast and so thick.  It was truly beautiful though.  Beautiful.  The falling of big fat wet flakes.  The silence all around.  The glitter of all the snow when the sun hit it this morning.  I filmed the snow falling some and I took some pictures.  My son in law had to work because he is a corporal for the sheriffs department so he brought Erica and the babies over for a old fashioned sleep-over.  We had a ball.  Erica and I took the girls outside to play in the snow.  Piper loved it and never wanted to come inside.  Savannah....not so much.  Let's just say we changed her name to Randy from "A Christmas Story".  If she could have said, "I can't put my arms down!!" she would have screamed it over and over.  She just likes the warmth and comfort of the house.  Poor baby.  So her Mimi brought her inside and watched the others outside the window.  Freezing.  Wet and snowy.  Savannah is smarter than most others!


A short video of the snow falling.


Piper making a "snow angel"

Savannah pulling back towards the house!



Savannah!  Don't you want to bundle up and play outside in the cold, cold snow with me???  Please!



No way Piper!  I can wear all of Mimi's jewelry and wear nuthin but my diaper.....y'all so crazy!


Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Winter 2014...The Big One

Well here we go.  Forecast for this week.  Snow.  At first 2 - 4 inches.  then 4 - 8 inches.  then 8 - 12 inches.  Now 18 inches or more.  The big one is upon us.  Our local weather forecaster is practically drooling with giddiness.  I went to the store and bought milk and bread.  I guess I will make milk sandwiches with it??  I also bought ice cream because....well just because.  I have plenty of firewood and plenty of food.  So Penny and I are all set for the "The Big One."  I went by to see Piper and Savannah and I told them that it just might snow as high as their little waists.  Savannah just grinned and Piper said, "Oh Mimi, it can't do that!" I promise this time I will take some pictures of this snow storm that's a'comin'.  It should be epic from what everyone is saying.  I for one though, am very, very, very tired of this rainy and dreary and cold weather.  I want summer and I want it now.  I love the heat and the sun.  I promise that I will not say, "It is just too hot outside!"  I adore the heat and it is truly never too hot for me.  But since this winter has been very cold and very wet I will welcome summer with great big open arms.  Snow is incredibly beautiful when it is falling and the quiet that it brings is soul stirring. The solitude that comes with big storms like this for us southerners is also something that stirs us deep within our inner resources.  It forces us to spend big amounts of time with ourselves.  For me, I do like that kind of time to really seek God and pray and dwell over His word.  It makes me realize how much I need Him and how much I depend on Him.  So while I wait out this "Big One of 2014" I will sit back quietly.  Observe the snow falling softly.  Listen to the sound of silence.  Breathe in the cold and pure air and look within myself and seek the Lord and try to find the treasures He has for me during this forced solitude.  Funny, how at times it takes a snow storm to slow us down to see what is really there for us all the time.  So stock up on the bread and the milk and let's wait out this "Big One!!"

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Starting my day off just right!

Every morning I leave my house the exact same time for work.  6:46 a.m.  I cannot leave at any other time....I'm ocd like that.  Pray for me.  I always get to school before my friend Janet and I wait on her so we can walk inside together.  We're weird like that.  Pray for us.  Now she does not suffer from any symptoms of ocd-ness at all.  None,  She might pull in school at 6:51 or 6:58 or 6:44...no set time whatsoever.  aaaagggghhhh!!!!  that is me ... gasping for air.  I cannot live like that.  I need and crave and demand a set routine.  I am boring like that.  Pray for me.  So to kill the time every morning I change the channel on my radio.  Yes, I still listen to the actual radio!!!  Not Pandora or an i-phone or a playlist of some sort but the radio with live people on it that play songs of their choice.  Imagine that!  On the radio I mostly listen to K-LOVE or our local Christian station -WBFJ.  If Piper and Savannah are in my car we listen to this great kids Sunday School songs on a cd.  But in the morning while I am waiting on my friend I search around for some catchy song that I can sing and dance to while I am sitting in the car in the school parking lot.  Needless to say, many school employees see and (at times) hear me singing.  Because most mornings I roll down the windows and crank up the volume and serenade Janet as she is parking her car.  She has been greeted by "Burning Down The House", "Brick House", "Boogie Fever",  "Stayin' Alive", and "Midnight Train To Georgia" the past week or so.  But this morning when I started my search I picked up an old Doobie Brothers song but it was almost over and then   ppppppprrrrrrrr  drumroll please...  The best song ever to sing as loud as I can......"Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.  I sang my heart out I tell you.  And of course....Janet was late and missed the whole concert I was performing.  wwwwaaaahhhhh  I cried I tell you.  Cried!  She was of course very sad and sorrowful that she missed out so I sang it for her without the accompaniment of Rick.  I might not have started Janet's day off right but I sure did mine!   Ssssshhhhhh...don't tell "Journey" but I think Janet may have stopped believin''.  Pray for her!