Just think by this time next week Mom, Dad and the family will be home!!!!!! I am more than glad about that.
By the way for some reason I want to spell glad, like this gald today. I don’t for the life of me know why but there you have it for what ever it is worth.
I hope you have as good a day as I am haveing. You might want to stop and just smile about something just for the fun of it. It could help relax you. You will never know untill you try.
Only 9 days left till Mom, Dad and family are coming home. I just wish that there were more hours in the day to get everything done that needs to be done before they get home. OK, I will say it so no one else has to, it’s my own fault that my day is so full. I was the one that took on three jobs. I know, but I still wish that there were more hours in the day!
Did you ever catch lighting bugs as a kid? I did and loved it until I got older and realized that I was catching BUGS! Then I stopped. Tonight my little nephews called me outside and asked ME to help them catch lighting bugs. I didn’t get any for them but I gave it my best effort just for them. I think that it is a gift to be around children. I love to help and care for them especially when they trust you, asking for your help and it isn’t a forced thing.
No, I’m not some sick person that messes with kids. I just treasure having them around and seeing how they live. They are so trusting and loving to every one. You might stink or not look good. They don’t care they just think you are cool for some reason all there own. Yes, they might say something to you about how you smell or what you are wearing, but they love you any way. Have you ever watched a child launch themselves at someone expecting that person to catch them? That is trust complete and untarnished by the harsh world what we live in. I think that this is why Jesus said that if we are to be saved we have to come to him as a little child. Totally trusting Him and taking our hands off by letting God have the complete control (yes, I’m on the hands off kick again. I will be there for a while.) Then there is the innocence that each child has that is taken away by the world as they grow older. Yet still, there is nothing in the world like having a child come up to you, through their arms around your neck and tell you that they love you. I treasure that every time it happens.
OK, just 10 days left till Mom, Dad and the gang come home!!!!!! I can’t wait
I am soooo tired!!!! I think that it might be because I haven’t been sleeping much since my family left on vacation Sunday. I can’t wait for them to come home and they have only been gone for 5 days. Yes, I am counting the days till they get home. They have 13 days left.
Until they get home I will be working myself to the bone at my three jobs. Yes, I said three! I was planning on taking the summer off after a long hard year of teaching and what do I do? I take on three jobs and give myself more to do then I had to do before. I think I am trying to work myself into an early grave. OK the first job was just the first 7 weeks of the summer. I was helping at a summer camp. Then I was asked to tutor 4 kids this summer two days a week. I know the kids and love to be around them and thought that this would be fun. Then this week I was asked to help take care of an older lady that my sister cares for. I think I lost my brain some were along the way. I do hope to find it again. Actually I think I need to learn that very small word that is very rare in my vocabulary. What is this wonderful word that would take care of me over booking of myself? Simply this, NO. Maybe some day I will learn it and I will get more sleep. Until that day I will just live on Dr. Pepper.
I was thinking the other night as I was reading my Bible that the Christian life is kind of like learning to sing. You have to learn how to get out of the way for the right thing to happen. In singing you have to learn how to let your vocal cords do what they were made to do instead of making them do what you think they should do. In the Christian life you have to learn how to get out of the way for God to do the things that He needs to do. I most of the time I like to try and do God’s job like finding out what I am suppose to do with my life and may other things that I can’t think of right now. I think that I like to do it this way because I think that God’s job is so much easier to do then mine. You see I am a person that has to be DOING something all the time. I don’t sit much and I love to help people as much as I can. The thing I love must in life is to be needed and when I am helping others I am needed. When it comes to my walk with God though I need to do what He has said in His word and that is to just trust Him, take my hands off and let Him have the control of what goes on. Every time I let Him have the controls I am blessed above what I could ever hope for. Yet I get to a cross rode in my life and what do I want to do? Take control of what is happening so, “Nothing goes wrong and gets messed up.” Boy is that all confused! The whole point is this, I want God’s blessing more then I want my way. To get that blessing I have to take my hands off my life, give Him control of everything and trust Him that He DOES know best for me and my life. He has to be the one that DOES the controlling for me to be blessed and truly happy.
I hate good byes!!!! This week is full of them too. My best friend is leaving to go back to her home for the summer. Then on Sunday we have a going away party for another good friend David. He is going into the Air Force. I will mess both of them. They are the ones that make me laugh all the time. David knows that I talk myself out of going out with my friends so he never takes no for an answer from me. I know that I wouldn’t do half of the things that I do with my friends if it wasn’t for him. He is my little big brother. Little because he is younger then me and bigger because be is like 6’ 4” or something like that. I think though that I will miss my best friend the most. Joy and I have done everything together for the last two years. She and I can read each others thoughts. I know what she is thinking most of the time and she knows what I am thinking most of the time. We have gone through some very heard things together these last two years. I am just glad that as of right now she will be coming back at the end of the summer.
Joy, I love you and will miss you so much. I will be praying for you that God will lead you each step of the way this summer.
David, I will also be praying for you as you inter this new stage of your life. Remember that I will always be here for you if ever you need anything. I love you think you are great.
Q Why do some manikins not have heads?
A I don’t know.
I got to listen to a kid wonder, around a pacifier, to his father about that tonight at the mall. Now I am wondering myself.
I watched the Narna movie the other day and thought Lucy was so cute. I was so glad because on the other movie Lucy was NOT CUTE at all she couldn’t act and had the corniest facial expressions. This girl was so cut and just what she should be by the book
I know that is has been a while since I wrote. I have had a lot on my plate. I will write again when I have more time. Please don’t be a stranger in checking to see if I have blogged because you never know when I will start up again.
Ok for the show we went to. We weren’t going to go to a show while we were in Branson because we had on goal while we were there as I said before SLEEP!!!!! To go to a show you have to do your hair, put on makeup (when you are me), put nice cloths on and everything that goes with going out for the evening. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go through the hassle of all that. Dad wanted us to go though because it was one that He and Mom had gone to before and really enjoyed. We just couldn’t say no. I’m so glad we didn’t!
The show was a variety show. It had this great ventriloquist. He came out onto the stage and no joke it looked like his head was the dummy and the dummy’s head was his. He also had his baby dummy that was so funny. He (the ventriloquist) picked this lady on the front row that he had the baby call grandma through the whole program. She just played it up just as big as the ventriloquist guy. Then the other main act was a magician. He actually called himself an illusionist. He did some great acts as well. Like this one were birds were coming out of all there things. Then the birds would fly over the heads of the crowd. That made me nerves. I was always afraid that the birds would to us what they do to my car. He also had this act that he was put in this cage that shrunk and had spike things on it; his wife was on a trap door that was tripped open by a string that was being pulled by the walls of the cage as they closed and hanging over spikes as well. I will pause and tell you that no one died of course but the only thing that I didn’t like was that they covered up everything that they did with curtains. You couldn’t see what was going on at all. I think that we figured out what he did but we weren’t sure and that is for sure.
The ventriloquist at one point had these two guys get up on the stage and help him sing this song. While one of them was a teacher and so Joy and I cheered. We were the only ones that did that and the ventriloquist looked our way and said “Ok, I’m not sure what that was all about.” Talk about being a little embarrassed!!!
I think that the cool part is that they remembered Dad from when he and Mom went to the show. Most people remember my Dad because of him being the only survivor of a plane crash. He wrote a tract about it and gives it out every were we go. They both at least acted like they remembered him. The magician who is also a pastor and holds services every Sunday at the theater that they have their show in told Dad that he wanted him to come sometime and preach for him. Who knows weather or not that will ever happen, but it is cool to think about it happening.
We also had our picture taken with both of them.
On Thursday we shopped and went out to lunch. We met someone while we were out that worked for my great grandpa on my Mom’s side of the family. Then while we were getting ice cream we met another family that was born or had family that lived in the small town where Dad lived as a kid. Talk about small world!!!
On Friday we stopped at Lamberts. It is a great restaurant with such a fun atmosphere. We had the best waitress in the whole place. I asked for a diet Dr. Pepper hoping that they would have it and because they didn’t she gave me one of her own diet Dr. Peppers. I was so surprised! She talked listen to all the kids tell their stories, Dad tell his jokes and in general just had fun with us. I think that the best thing she did was this, Jonathan my brother needed a refill on his drink so she took the 42 oz mug to refill it. As she was coming back to the table she tripped, the mug tipped and all of the contents went onto Jonathans lap. We all just about had a heart attack on the spot. Then we looked at Jonathans face and it wasn’t on of shock and horror but one of shock and confusion. He kept feeling his pants to see where they were wet and they weren’t wet anywhere. She had “spilled” and empty mug onto his lap. We laughed so hard! I think that every one in our area of the restaurant was looking at us. Jonathan was laughing just as hard as the rest of us.
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