Just took the dog and the kids on a morning walk and bike ride. It says its 81…weather.com says it feels like 88.
Tara says it feels like 100.
I got S signed up for dance classes this year. Ballet/tap combo is on the schedule! Saying she is excited is an understatement.
Our 3-going-on-13-year-old also has a major dose of attitude and drama going on right now. Whew.
Teen drama doesn’t start at 3 years old, right? Oh. My. Word. I feel my hair turning gray already.
I wish we lived in a neighborhood with a community pool. I am beginning to see the benefits of having such a feature in this unending summer as a parent of fish-children.
We were blessed to be able to go swim at a friends’ community pool today. I’m having a ball watching my kids get stronger and stronger at swimming. Even G finally got the hang of underwater swimming today! Yea!!!
My favorite book of the Bible is currently Ephesians. Wow. Yup, that is pretty much it. Wow. WOW. Love it intensely.
I have favorite movie soundtracks I like to listen to: Last of the Mohicans, Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Those are faves, with Pirates probably being my all-time fave right now.
(Ask me next week, I’ll probably change my mind again.)
I really want to redo my blog header up there, but I dread the thought of re-learning how I actually did it. Maybe if I did a header every few months, the steps wouldn’t leave my head so quickly.
I have a secret desire to a fabulous photographer. I LOVE photo blogs and am hopelessly addicted to them. I’m a photo-blog-stalker. Maybe some day I’ll be able to get a fancy-shmancy camera and try it for myself.
S loves to dance and sing for us.
And she’s really loud, too.
Huntley is still my shadow. He never leaves my side and in fact often steps on my feet as he follows me around the house. That’s pretty annoying when you wear flip-flops. Crazy-lovable-huggable dog.
After the kids are in bed, Huntley jumps on the couch and owns it. Completely and totally. Last night, he even stretched himself out with his head on a pillow.
This past weekend, Chris took the kiddos and went up north a bit to visit his parents. I love the quiet weekends of relaxation. Sometimes a mom just needs a few days of quiet.
And the kids got to see snow for the first time!!! I hate that missed it but we’ve got some great videos of them playing in it. So fun.
A G funny story for you: He got some Spiderman stickers from the treasure box at school and they were the kind that if you moved them back and forth, you would see a different picture. I opened the package and moved it back and forth to show him and he loved it. He took the stickers and stuck them all over his short and wore them like that all day. When Chris got him, G ran up to him and said, “Look, Daddy! My stickers! And they move!” With that, he moved his upper-body back and forth to make the stickers change pictures for his daddy the same way I moved the stickers themselves back and forth earlier in the day. But since the stickers were stuck to his chest, his solution was to move his chest, too. I laughed so hard.
One of my favorite Christmas CD’s growing up (or was it a cassette? I think it was a cassette actually…wow.) was A Very Special Christmas. It included songs from artists including U2, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Madonna among others. Stevie Nix performed Silent Night for this collection and I must say that it is one of my favorite (if not THE favorite) version of Silent Night I have ever heard.
Lukewarm food. Lukewarm coffee. Lukewarm “hot” chocolate. I mean, they don’t it HOT chocolate for nothing, right?
Lukewarm. The entire point of Francis Chan’s Crazy Love. Here we are at Chapter Four. My favorite thoughts, convictions, hit-you-between-the-eyes lines:
My caution to you is this: Do not assume you are good soil. (Referring to Jesus’ parable of the sower)
Has your relationship with God actually changed the way you live? Do you see evidence of God’s kingdom in your life? Or are you choking it out slowly by spending too much time, energy, money, and thought on the things of this world?
Would you describe yourself as totally in love with Jesus Christ? Or do the words “half-hearted”, “lukewarm”, and “partially committed” fit better?
Luke warm people say they love Jesus, and He is, indeed, a part of their lives. But only a part. They give him a section of their time, their money, and their thoughts, but He isn’t allowed to control their lives.
Luke warm people ask…”How far can I go before it’s considered a sin?” instead of “How can I keep myself pure as a temple of the Holy Spirit?”
The truth is, their lives wouldn’t look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.
Jesus didn’t say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, “Take up your cross and follow me.”
Last night we were at my Aunt Markie’s having a big family dinner. Markie picked up my Grandma from the nursing home to come spend time with us. So fun! Just to illustrate how firey my grandma is…
Terry (my cousin’s husband): …I do want to get a Harley-Davidson some day. Grandma, if you want a ride, I’ll come down and take you for a ride!
One of my favorite Christmas CD’s growing up (or was it a cassette? I think it was a cassette actually…wow.) was A Very Special Christmas. It included songs from artists including U2, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Madonna among others. Stevie Nix performed Silent Night for this collection and I must say that it is one of my favorite (if not THE favorite) version of Silent Night I have ever heard.