Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ...

We have a "new addition" to our family ~ a GARDEN!  :-)  

I'm like a kid in a candy store with this newest venture.  In my almost 47 yrs. I have never planted a garden and I'm sooo excited about it!  This years crop is kind of a test drive ... we planted a few plant sprouts and then we planted a row (seeds) of sweet corn!  Woo Hoo!  The total "investment" in this little endeavor wasn't too much ... about $17.00 for plants and top soil and then we did rent a tiller for $35.00 (that was welllllll worth the investment as Chuck was able to complete in less than two hours what he said would've otherwise taken him 3 weekends).

I'm sooo excited to water and baby our plants ~ I hope to see the "fruits" of our labor soon!

That's it for today - and, as always, I'll keep you ...

Posted.  :-)

Someday ...

I guess, technically speaking, I fall into that "grown-up" category these days but ... details, details.  (I must admit the "grown up" thing sure came 'round quick!)

"Just yesterday" ...

I was in the 7th grade, enrolled in (mandatory for my school) "Charm School".  I was filling out a type of "getting to know you" questionnaire located in the front of my crisp new white manual (the one with the pretty lady in the pink skirt and matching blazer on the front cover - complete with color coordinated pink purse, heels, hat and, of course, that pink strand of pearls ... oh - and let's not forget her pressed white gloves.  By the way - her posture was picture perfect!) ...

Ahh yes, the manual was intended to help me determine what I wanted to be ... "When I grow up."

This past week I was thinking of that charm school course when I decided to rummage through some old boxes of keepsake items in my garage to see if, by chance, I saved my manual.  I would really like to read what I penned in that book back then.  What did I always dream of becoming when I "grew up"?

I know my main dream was to be a wife and a full time stay-at-home mommy. 

But then again - I also remember wanting to aspire to other - more "creative" - careers! 

There was my dream of becoming a writer.  Or was it a stewardess?  Maybe it was the candy striper?   [What can I say? ... I loved their pink pin striped searsucker dresses and polished white shoes!].  There were the dreams of becoming either a ballerina (this dream surfaced each Christmas with the presentation of "The Nutcracker Suite") or, during the winter Olympics, an ice skater gliding gracefully backward upon the diamond-like frozen floor.  But whenever my grandma and I got together I just knew there was a future career for me as a professional jax player.  (Hey, I was reallllly good at throwing that little ball up in the air and scooping up two-zies before it's return back to earth.  I won grandma every time!).

When I sit quietly and think back on the days of being a little girl and dreaming dreams without limits -- some of those dreams come quite vividly back to mind. 

I'd still love to ice skate but my ankles wobble - I'd like to be a ballerina but the tu-tu would be a ... no-no!  ;-) 

I am BLESSED to be a wife and mother ... [okay, okay, it took me more than one time to get the "wife" thing down but ... that one is resolved now!  ;-) ] -- and that dream couldn't be more fulfilling. 

I still love to write and will always dream of writing and publishing a book.  Hold it - let me rephrase that - I will always dream of doing so until it is done.  Then I will dream of writing another!  ;-)  (How's that for positive thinking?)

These days, however, I must admit I'd rather be a passenger than a stewardess and I don't think searsucker would be too figure flattering these days ... not to mention those white nylon stockings I would run in a heartbeat. 

And finally - it's been a while since I've played jax but I think I could still snag up a mean twozies if given half a chance!

That's all for now friends - but, as always - I'll keep you ...

Posted

(P.S.  I'll let you know if I find my Charm School Manual!)  ;-)

here ...

I am in a good place.

I'm not sure I have much more to add than to just simply say that:  I am in a good place.

Life is content.
Life feels so peaceful.
I am at peace.
I am content.

It is a good place to be. 

(I highly recommend it.  Ü)

Oh Mercy!

So tonight we were supposed to venture down to the Arco Arena to see MercyMe, David Crowder, Francesca Battistelli, etc. -- but that didn't pan out. 

There will be a day (oops, that's Jeremy Camp - lol) that we will get to see them ... in the meantime something else great happened today!  My "home office" is now set up ... so exciting! 

I am off on Monday but the switchboard would be fully operational Monday morning if I wanted to log on and answer calls. 

SOOOO cool!  :-) 

This is the reason we are not heading down to Sac ... the tech just left our house a while ago so we couldn't get on the road in time. 

All is okay though and it's been a great day!  :-)

That's all for now but, as always, I'll keep you ...

Posted!  :-)

Faith ...

Firstly today:  I would like to highly recommend a blog entitled, "Under Grace and Over Coffee" - well written and inspirational.

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Okay - moving on to my own blog for the day.  With Easter fast approaching and tomorrow being Good Friday, I have been thinking more about the topic of "faith" ~ faith in general and then my own personal faith. 

That train of thought led me down the tracks to remembering how "tied up" I had gotten trying to figure out ALL of my beliefs about ALL of life's topics earlier in this blog.  This led to a chasm between me and God - I felt the bridge could not be crossed.  And then, as the song says, He became the bridge to the cross.  :-)

You see, I see myself as the type of person who prefers to have the answers to all the questions before coming to a conclusion about something ... tell me all the sides, let me hear varying opinions, let me get a feel for what's going on and a clear idea of the situation ... not just one side of an argument, etc.  (This is what bugs me about some radio talk shows ... at times the conversations are so one-sided that there's not a true representation of the actual issue.)

I guess I'm not a very black and white person.  I'm gray on many things.  [It doesn't fit my color wheel for make-up and/or clothing but hey, so be it!]  ;-)

Okay - back to my point:  When faced with a major decision I am a list maker -- if a decision needs to be made you will find me with a blank sheet of college ruled paper, pen in hand, ready to draw a line with a ruler and make two columns - one which will be labeled "PROS" and the other will be labeled "CONS". 

[Well - hold it.  I guess that's not always the case.  Sometimes I find myself extremely spontaneous -- I will make a decision to go and do on the spur of the moment throwing caution to the wind (I like those times!). ]

But when it comes down to matters of the heart - important matters ... serious decisions - I just can't be so spur of the moment.

I suppose this is why I was having what I would define as a crisis of belief spiritually speaking.  There are so many issues that are considered "black and white" and those "issues" seem to be deal breakers for believers.  I am more of the opinion that yes, there is one right answer BUT ... let God be the One who reveals that to a person in need of Him. 

We seem to take so many matters into our own hands because we don't feel God is big enough to deal with it.  "If 'so and so' becomes part of our religious circle they might give God a bad name ... "
News Flash:  God can handle our issues. 

He is Big Enough. 

He can get to the HEART of the matter and He ... can make a difference. 

And THAT ... is what matters.

That's all for now - but as always I'll keep you -

Posted.  :-)