Wednesday, November 28, 2007

God Paints


That is the title of this picture.....God Paints. Who can look at pictures like this and think that it all came about because of an explosion in space? This wonderfully created masterpiece was done by inspired knowledge!! The beauty of our great home just amazes me and makes me stand in awe....just look around you....that one blade of green grass in a water starved yard....the wild flower that blooms over and over again....those beautiful fall trees in orange, red and gold! Those were intentionally put there by a great designer. I am grateful that God chose to allow me to see his canvas of paints!!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Is It Insanity?

Well those with children can hopefully understand this....I think I am going to just string my 16 year old up by his toes!!! Or I might just run into the night in my pajamas and babbling like an idiot! It is the same battle with him every school year. "Son, where is your homework?"..."it is in my notebook"....."where is your notebook?"......(shrug)"I don't know....probably in my locker."...."so how do you plan to do your homework when it is in your locker?"...."(shrug....again)I don't know"..."So it doesn't bother you that have an F in English?"..."(shrug....AGAIN)well, yeah...but...(sigh...then shrug....that bugger did it again!!)" I think that no court would convict me!!!!!! Same talk at least once a week.....every 9 weeks for 4 grading periods a school year! So, they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results....that settles it.....I must be insane!! Could someone just give me a Valium and a padded room now!?!

Monday, November 26, 2007

It's Just a Scratch

Well, another Thanksgiving has come and gone. I don't know whether to be thankful or sad or both. I had wonderful Turkey Day with some friends and then went to Montgomery to see family. Wow, we are a roudy crew! There was my Mom and Dad, Me, Dallas, Corey, Kelsey and Mitchell. Then my brother, Matt, his girlfriend Sherrie and their 3 children Shaylee, Kaylee and Maddison. And while we stayed in a hotel, we converged on my poor sisterApril's house with her husband Kelvin and their children Kj and Kellan. Bless her heart, I don't think her house will ever be the same!! We played cards, watched games and ate food. Who could ask for more than that!! We watched my cousin Cathy get married to a wonderful man on Saturday and got back on the road home. Let me just say, life is not necessarily pleasant when your huge Okie husband wants to see his game(and he can't) and you are getting caught in all of the Iron Bowl traffic so he can get home in time to watch the last 5 minutes. Thank heavans for Blackberry Web Browser. But we made it back safely and he wasn't too terribly grouchy. Now to why my blog is titled thusly....I fell earlier...slipped on a pile of wet leaves while getting the mail. I now have some bruised knees and a nice little scrape on my elbow. But that is just it, it is just a scratch. And so are our days on earth....just a minor scratch on the surface. Another scratch in the ripple of time.....another holiday come and gone.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving

I am thankful for:

1. My husband of 18 years that finally figured out he was married to a crazy woman in the throws of roller coaster emotions, hot flashes and night sweats.

2. My 16, 14 & 10 year olds who have just managed to live while rolling their eyes at me and sucking air through their teeth.

3. My parents who thought it was a wonderful adventure to adopt a 15 year old who rolled her eyes and pouted beautifully.

4. That I had some wonderful years with my grandmother who thought that there would be a future use for her green metal canisters, used mason jars, her 1950s mangy fake fur, 40 cans of corn from 1972, and a patchwork suit case. So she kept them in the attic....just in case.

5. My grandfather who loved to cackle at the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote and felt that we had slept our life away if we were in bed past 6am.

6. My MawMaw and PawPaw who showed me a biker man and his woman were quite lovely people.

7. My Uncle Ben who knew me before anyone else and still didn't think Mom and Dad were crazy to adopt me.

8. My brother and sister...who knew that they would outgrow that annoying need to pester me so they could have children of their own to pay them back?

9. My friends who know I am cracked...and love me for it.

10. Sarah Lee, who has allowed me to claim her concoctions of joy over the years. Cheesecake...mmmmm.

11. And seriously, I am truly thankful for all the wonderful quirky things that have happened in my life. God has blessed me abundantly with more joy and love than any one person deserves!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND MAY YOU BE AS ABUNDANTLY BLESSED!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Contemplating a Revolt

Ever just wanted to throw your hands up and just hollar "enough already"!!! I think that officially, that is where I am now. There is soooo much to do and definitely not enough time to do it. Corey had drs appointments today and I had to work. I still have to go home and clean my bathrooms and finish that "L" word. Yuck! Then you just know that there will be little birdies in my house just chirping for food that I will need to miracously produce since I didn't thaw anything out. And, I have a luncheon at work tomorrow, dinner for Thursday, and a family dinner on Friday, all of which require my cooking. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to cook! That is one of my passions, I may just be the next Rachel Ray or Giada. Look out Food Network, rising star on the move! But, sometimes I just want someone to cook for me and me sit back and do nothing but burp, unzip my pants and settle in for some football through the back of my eyelids. HA! Dream on!! Actually, I am quite fortunate to have a very wonderful husband that takes direction well and will do as asked when prompted. This time of year just makes me a little crazy with all the self imposed requirements such as:

1. No one must be put out to bring anything to my house and therefore I will make a meal fit for a king and all his men.

2. The house must meet proper military/hospital cleanliness standards! Everyone in my house must stand by at1700 hours for instruction of duties.

3. I must supervise everyone like General McArthur and make everyone toe the line. Dress right.....Dress!

4. All holiday decor must be removed from it's proper box and hung just so....The president and his wife may stop by tomorrow for tea.

5. And if even one my military evolutions should go wrong....stand by to stand by.

Why do I do that to myself? Or bless their hearts, my family? Would it really be so bad if I just bought some ready made food from the deli for the luncheon? Will anyone truly notice if I just gave my bathroom a hit and a lick. I could always just close off the laundry room door and forget about it for a few days! And does each thing have to be put out just so? And lets not even discuss Christmas yet....Forward March!!

Monday, November 19, 2007

Mondays

As I sit here and look out my window, it is a dreary, foggy/rainy and somewhat miserable Monday. And, I am tired. Bone tired. I have always been affected by the weather to some degree and I guess today is no different. Maybe it was just that it was a long weekend...I don't know. Corey, my oldest, has this illness that none of the doctors can definitively diagnose and he had a bad weekend. It just seems you make two steps forward and life pushes you one step back. Then, we have company coming Wednesday and of course, I have to work. So I spent my weekend trying to get my house ready. I will get to spend Wed and Thurs with them and then we will go to Montgomery on Friday for a huge family Thanksgiving (Mom's side). Then, my favorite cousin, Cathy, is getting married on Saturday. It is just going to be a long week and it has already made tired thinking of all I have to do. I think I need a vacation....somewhere warm, somewhere the white sand has palm trees nestled throughout, somewhere I can just lay on a beach and do a mental dump for a few days. ....Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. And yes, I know, that song will be stuck in my head all day now.

Friday, November 16, 2007

It's Friday!!


I think that one can never truly appreciate Fridays without Mondays. I would further venture to say that is the case in many areas of our life. One can not appreciate the joys without the sadness, the wealth without the poverty, the good without the bad. I have learned so many things from my "Mondays" that have made my "Fridays" so much more pleasurable. But I wax poetic or philosophical or something.....whatever the case....I am thankful for Friday!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

A New Day

Well an new day has dawned and I am unsure of what to do next. I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head and I have so many things I would like to do. I have this unbridled desire to create and craft something. I start off well and then fizzle out halfway through though. I run out of minutes in my hours and hours in my days. I have half constructed knit blankets, cross stitches, decorative trays and sewing projects. I have oodles and oodles of fabric squares just waiting to become quilts. I can see their beautiful mosaic patterns but can't seem to put needle to thread. I want so badly to be this wonderful creative genius but I don't think I got that gene. I want to paint but I don't know how and I can hear that artist screaming to be let out. I want to make all those neat crafts you see at bizarres but don't know where to begin. That is my dream, to one day own a shop(a little one) where I create and sale crafts all day. That is what I want to do when I grow up. My walls are bare at home because I can't decide what I want or how to go about starting. I have so many ideas and none seem to materialize. What to do? What to do? How can I be so decisive with everything else in my life and not be able to command this secret passion?

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Tricia Speaks

Well, one learns something new everyday! I am learning to blog. And, I am learning it from a friend that I haven't seen or spoken to in years, Kim. I heard from my best friend and sister from high school/young adulthood today and am in a state of anxiety. What do you say to the person that was your right arm for so many years and tears that you suddenly didn't talk to anymore? Did we just grow up and grow apart? Did I do something to cause so great a rift? Did life just get in the way? I have missed her in so many ways for so long. I have not had a best friend/sister since and have felt the biggest hole in my heart. Who to share my soul with? She knew ME. The REAL ME. The bad hair days, pimples, prejudices, faults, loves and all. God has a funny way of putting people in your path that are needed most and she has always been a part of my life when I needed someone/something the most. That makes me wonder, does God have a new plan for us? Has he heard my pleas for compassion and understanding and a cornerstone for my aching heart? Maybe I read too much in to things but I have prayed so long for God to give me a balm for the ache of the loss of our friendship. I have spent my whole adulthood to this point trying to find that same camaraderie and have always judged all those in my path by her yardstick and they always came up lacking. Only Kim knows of our forays into the nights in Leeds(the people eater has tape on his mouth....ask her). Only Kim knows of how much my heart wanted for something more in life and understood my need to find it when I joined the Navy. She congratulated me when I eloped with my husband when no one had ever met him, she allowed me to be a part of her own wedding(I introduced them), and cried on the phone with me at the birth of my first child. She listened to the endless complaints from me during my second pregnancy and nursed me through the recuperation after my third child. What do you say to that person? I missed you seems so inadequate somehow. What I do know, I am glad that God saw that I missed her and having decided that our ineptness was useless to him, put her back in my life. Thank you Lord for allowing us this opportunity and let us not waste it!