Sunday, December 30, 2007

Raindrops on roses...





Ok so it isn't roses, but I thought this was so pretty, raindrops on the trees... It reminded me of one of my favorite songs on one of my favorite movies... Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Crisp apple strudel and warm woollen mittens, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things... I like God's art work. He's my Fave.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

You and Me...

" When I'm with you everything and everyone else just fades away..."

I love my husband. He is so precious. Here is a picture of us at Christmas 2001. We were youth pastors, in Vincent Al. We had four kids, 5, 4, 1, and 5 mos. Yeah, you read right. We were living in a little 800 sq ft house, a parsonage. No we weren't rich, but we had love... and lots of fights over money, or lack there of. We fought because I didn't keep the house clean enough... (duh with 4 little ones, anything I did was undone in record time. Not to mention the fact that I was breastfeeding the littlest, and I was sleep deprived. )

My point is Love is a choice. We choose to love someone or choose to hate someone by the choice thoughts we choose to think about someone. Tonight as my husband was leaving to take the boys to wrestling practice, I asked him to put his bowl in the sink. Did he? No. Is the bowl even at this moment sitting where it was when I asked him? Yes. Will I forgive him? I already have. I forgave him before he forgot to do it. Why? How? When I asked him to do it, I choose that even if he forgot I would not be mad. Why? It makes my life easier. Why waste my time being mad at him. Just put the stupid bowl in the sink, and go on with life.


I Choose to love my husband.




Wednesday, December 26, 2007

What on earth is a Meme?

Me and My sis Shannon, Naughty, it fits her... lol



So what is a Meme? Pronounced in a way to rime with Dream, it is when some one finds a set of questions made by someone else, and answers them with their own information. My spacers call em polls. So here is a interesting one. I am supposed to just use one word answers, but... sometimes it is hard. I am a lady of many words... Oh and Thanks to Deanna Shrodes, I swiped this meme from her.

Yourself: Quirky

Your Partner: Precious

Your hair: thick

Your favorite item: Milly!

Your favorite drink: Mountain Dew! (Hey that is one word)

Your dream car: SeatSeven (that is a new word, don't worry it isn't in YOUR dictionary)

Dream home: Larger

Room you are in: bedroom

Your ex: GONE!

Your fear: unsure

Where you want to be in 10 years: healthy

Who you hung out with last night:Kids

What you're not: Red Supremest...(ask Shannon)

Muffins: Yum!

Something on your wish list: Manicure

Time: slipping

Last thing you did: Blog

What are you wearing: PJ's

Favorite weather: FOG!!!

Favorite book: Bible

Last thing you ate: Smarties

Your Life: Improving

Your Friends: Heroes

What are you thinking about right now? Sleep

Your Car: Stretch

What are you doing at the moment? Blogging

Your summer: hot

Relationship status: forever

What's on your TV?Leno

What's the weather like? crisp

When's the last time you laughed? tonight

Guess What I Got!




Have you ever heard that old song "I wanna hippopotamus for Christmas"? Guess what, I got a Hippopotamus for Christmas! I have always loved that song. While we were living in Cape Coral Florida, we "adopted" a older child... How old were you when we got you Sam? 16? All I know for sure is she almost Killed me trying to teach her to drive... Anyway, She sent us a care package for Christmas, and among other things she sent me my hippo... I named her Milly after Samantha Miller.
I love you Sam!


Hey It's better than what my sister got... (13 mo twins...)


Pictured here with my Dad (at the top of the stairs) and my brother in law.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas Shoes





If you have read any of my blogs yet, you know that my husband and I are... well, let's just say mischievous. We enjoy life, each other, and our kids, and we like to smile a lot, so that means a lot of jokes...
Our most recent feat, is the picture you see here. In case you can't tell, it is a present, um... hanging... on the tree. LOL it is a pair of shoes, and I tied the shoe strings together, and wrapped each shoe individually. There were enough presents I felt I could play with this one. LOL

Friday, December 21, 2007

Siblings...





Now don't get me wrong, I am not endorsing this kind of behavior... As a parent, you realize that as long as the kids are loud and can be heard they are probably ok. When you don't hear them, that is when you worry... When I could no longer hear any noise coming from the living room, I began to wonder what Tym and Anny were doing. But, foolishly I didn't go to look... When I did this is what I found. I learned long a go not to cry over spilt milk, take a picture...!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Kids...





Pray for my mom, she went to the Doctor, and they said she has a tumor in her abdomen. Right now we don't know a lot, there is an 80-85% chance it is non-cancerous. Right now I am not concerned, Just pray.
She had a non-cancerous tumor on her foot, that she just had removed, and minor complications from that revealed this one. That one was caused by years (10-12) of wearing high heels everyday in the corporate world. Price to be paid for beauty huh?
So, anyway, I sat Matt and Nana down and told them all of this, and that we don't know a lot, but we need to pray for Grammy. When I finished, Matt silently got up and went straight to my closet and said "That has to go, that has to go, and that..." I said "Matt, what are you doing?" He was throwing away all of my high heels... LOL

Monday, December 17, 2007

Christmas presents


We aren't mean parents, I promise... We just take advantage of an opportunity when given one. Today I was blessed. A local church asked if they could help us with Christmas this year. Being that we are VERY tight this year I readily agreed. I got to go pick up their presents today. I almost cried. Mineral Springs Baptist Church in Jemison were wonderful to my family this year. They even gave me and my husband some stuff. One thing that I can write about... (my oldest daughter reads my blog pretty regularly) is we got Clue. The funny thing is we just bought Clue, and gave it to the kids. So all night long, we were holed up in our room, and one at a time wrapped presents were being handed out the door, to be put under the tree. At the end of the night, the kids were begging us to let them open just one present. With a glint in his eye, Q said, "I know a present they could open..." I knew exactly what he was thinking, so I said "What ever Daddy thinks." So Q directed them to one certain present. They tore into it, only to shout "Daddy! Yall are mean!", when they saw the Clue box! It was funny.
About that time Matt came home from his drama team Christmas party. As they were going off to bed I heard Nana ask him about his party. The conversation went something like this...
Nana said "Was there anything dirty there?"
"Like what?" Matt said."Dirty underwear of something?"
" Yeah," Nana said, "Why is it called 'Dirty Santa'?"
LOL

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Green Couch Night

On the left there is my late Granny Jones... She had a large green couch that had a hide-a-bed in it. When I was little, anytime, like Christmas, or for whatever reason we would spend the night there, often our Aunt Teannie, and cousin Terry were there too. She lived in a little three bedroom 12 wide trailer. There was one bedroom built on, so who ever slept on the couch, in the front room, and in the built on, were all about 10 ft from each other. We would lay there at night when we were supposed to be going to sleep, and talk. It is one of my fondest memories of Granny Jones, and her house. Now that she is gone, I cherish it.

Last year my sister and I decided for our mom's birthday, we would have a spend the night party. So, we each got sitters (husbands... grin) and went back "home" for the night. It is the house I grew up in, and Shannon lived there from the time she was four. It was the first time in 18 years we had both been home for a night. It was so much fun we decided to make it a tradition. This year, we were about to go to sleep, and we were laying in the living room talking, and it reminded me of Granny Jones house, so I started calling it Green Couch Night, in Granny Jones' memory.

DaNella



Friday, December 14, 2007

Haircut

Before...
After...
My husband is still not happy with me... But Oh well. He will get used to me... I wanted something different.
The really cool thing is how I got the hair cut. After my final final, I sold my text books. Since I had some business to do in Clanton, I was gonna see if I could get a haircut. I had heard that a friend of mine from a long time ago worked at this certain salon. So I went there.
The name of the salon was Miracles it is in Clanton, on Highway 31. The name of my friend is Christy Wilson Woods.
She and I became friends when we were 4 or 5. We were best friends up until we were 11 or 12, then we went our separate ways. I even named my first daughter, Christeonnah after her, and all the other Christies in my life. Her favorite thing to do was convince me fallacies were true... LOL I remember her telling me that being mature meant acting silly and irresponsible. I remember thinking that was not right, but Christy said it, so it must be true. lol I hung on her every word, and she knew it... Too funny. Now they are happy memories. We were like sisters.
Long story short, when she finished cutting my hair, I said "What do I owe you?" and she said "Nothing. Merry Christmas!"
Thank you Christy!


Thursday, December 13, 2007

Rudloph


Look this is my beautiful Deck/ front porch my Darling Hubby built... He is so good.


Lol, LOL!!! Tonight at the Celebrate recovery Christmas party, during praise and worship, Michael called all the children up to sing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Yeah well not exactly praise and worship...

When they started singing it, I started cringing... Why? My children have developed this awful habit. Where you are supposed to say Ho Ho Ho ( u know, the fill in's "Santa Came to say...Ho Ho Ho") they say "In his underwear!" I was silently praying, "God please don't let them say it !!!! When we got to that part, Matt was good, and Nana was good, and Anny Yelled, YELLED... "IN HIS UNDERWEAR!!!" lol the whole place died laughing... It was funny. I had to laugh.



Yeah, I got a hair cut... you aren't seeing things. Let me know what you think, I like it...

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

My husband.

14 years ago this may...
Have I mentioned lately how much I love my husband? He is so totally awesome! He knew I had a hard day today, I had an Art History final at 10:30 am, and then an Algebra final tonight from 4-6. When I got home, he took me by the hand, swept me past 4 loud rambunctious kids, all yelling " Mommy's home!," straight to our bedroom, where there were candles lit a around the tub. The water was running, and all that was left to do was for me to climb in... I love my Hubby!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Lead Poisoning... yeah.


Just a quick funny note, I am in the middle of finals at college... I am knee deep in Art History.... Yeash...

Anyway, we have a digital thermometer. Since I worked in a daycare for so long, I got used to using it under the arm. It was just easier. So I still take temps under the arm... unless I am using my ear thermometer... but that is a whole nother blog. So my story was, with all of the recalls on toys lately, Tymothie (7)came to me the other day and said..."If we put the thermometer in our mouth will we get lead poisoning?" I thought he meant because it has a metal tip on it... No, he had just realized it was made in China... lol

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