From the mouth of Babes...

Had a Kindergartener tell me today that I had long fingernails...another one spoke up, and said...you need to cut them!!!!!

A New ME...

Okay, so I have to admit it...I am crazy...well, this goes deeper than what you know...I Do have to take Effexor, which is an antidepressant...I don't mind the fact that I need it...I take it and don't deny that if I didn't take it, I would KILL people...no, really, with hatchets...I can't name names on here, because it would be premeditated when I decide to stop my medication...LOL
So, anyway, I got this job at the school, (which I love) back in August...I decided that I didn't need to take as high a dose as I am taking...I mean, no stress, you know...so I dropped back to a lower milligram...I am sailing right along...thru winter, proud that I have made it and actually think I don't need the higher dose...or should I say right here-- highest dose...but then after about January, I start using make up less and less...I realize by the end of Feb. that I haven't bothered to "shape" my fingernails in months...they look awful...can't tell you the last time I painted them. Nothing interests me, so yes, I find that I am downright depressed. I fight it for several weeks, not mentioning it to anyone, but knowing that deep down, I am gonna have to go back on the higher dosage...I want to sleep alot, don't mind if I do stay in bed, you know, those kind of things...oh, I still went to work, to church, etc. because I knew those were places that I had to go...I know, you would think a nurse would have more sense...well, I don't like to take medication just like the next person! and this is ME we are talking about...I mean, aren't mothers supposed to be perfect...handle everything...be cool in hot situations...no stress...Well, for whatever reason, this is not me and it usually takes me some getting used to the facts about my craziness...
So, I increased my medication and now I feel so much better...yeah, laugh and say, "I told you so"...that's okay... I am just so stubborn, that I have to learn things for myself...I can't take others words for it...I have to have "Proof" that I can't decrease my dosage...and needless to say, I got it...My Doc friend said, "Why you do such things I will never know!!" Well, that is why! I must try all other methods or interventions...I mean, I feel like no one knows me better than myself...right? So, how would anyone else know what dosage I need, except me...

I used a gift certificate from Christmas that I hadn't used to get my nails done, I have re-joined the gym, I am wearing make up again everyday and actually feel good about myself...Tom is even happier...:) Isn't it amazing what a little pill will do for ya!!!! So, I'm better for the time being... and just for keeping record...here are pictures of my nails...I love them...think I will keep them done all the time...

Crafty Gals!!!

It has become a tradition that Me and Lacey do unique things with the eggs at Easter...you know, a kinda crafty thing...this year, we used masking tape and acrylic paint...here is a speckled egg that Lacey made that was very pretty.

The Dog...

Yes, the dog has gotten bigger...WAY BIGGER... I have been promising to post pictures of her for a long time...I did finally talk Tom into putting her outside...she is just too big to be in the house..I mean, last night, Tom was over at the stove and Sheba just politely put her paws up on the stove and stood up!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I bought had heart failure!!!! So, anyway, here she is...

Easter 08

I guess it is time for an update, right?? Easter has come and gone and Morgan had a hard day. I think she wanted the hunt to be as exciting as it always was, and it wasn't...cause she is growing up...okay, so she had a fun time coloring eggs, was in a good mood...Tim, Helen and Anthony went to hide Eggs, she was excited...she goes out to hunt...here she is hunting...



Then, I went to take more pictures of her, after taking some pictures of Jaida and Lukas...and here is what I find...


She is lying on the porch swing...mad...at what? Who knows? I really don't think she knows.
I kept asking her and so did everyone else...but all we got was "I'm TIRED!!!" or "I'm MAD!"
She didn't know I took the pictures...so one day, when she gets about 34 with a daughter that acts just like me and her, I will have to show her!!! LOL Mamaw Chris asked her why she poured out her basket and she replied...."cause I like busting them like this!" and proceeded to bust an egg in her fist. Bless its heart, she is going thru puberty and doesn't feel she has a place in this world right now...NO, BLESS my HEart!!!! I am the one who is gonna be crazy by the time she is grown! I can't help but laugh sometimes, cause it is all so dramatic...of course, Mom keeps telling me it is all coming home to me...!!! ARG!

my pictures of my Hometown Courthouse...

Morgan's Homeroom picture...

Here is a scrapped page I had done recently...

READ VIOLATED FIRST!!!!

Okay, so I wake up on Saturday morning to Tom talking on the phone to my brother...and Tim says "I did it..." Yeah, right, I thought, I mean, he is always kidding...But then he is giving the details...I am FURIOUS!!!! but relieved at the same time! How dare he!!!

So then I get the story...He and Helen were driving home from Kpt and decided to do something to my car, not realizing I wasn't in the Honda...they actually used Helen's key to unlock it, and then since it was straight shift, was able to move it..He said he actually got the car halfway moved and a car pulled into the parking lot and he had to actually turn on the headlights, put his hand up on the steering wheel, like he was pulling out...

so that's the story...Oh, and Tim came up to the house later and said..."now, don't tell anyone, cause that would be filing a false police report..."...WELL< Let me tell you something HONEY, I DIDN"T file a false POLICE report!!!!!!!!! I was FREAKED!!! not to mention felt so nasty and violated thinking someone had been touching my stuff!!!!!!

Violated!!!

I got robbed!!!!!!! My car was broken into!!!!Okay, so I went out of work at Nursing home at about 10:00pm to get in my car...Tom was coming out of front entrance, I was coming out of the side entrance...I noted my car wasn't where I put it...now, even though I thought I had the only set of keys, I hollered at him and ask him if he had been in my car...no...I then noted my billfold and change purse lying on the dash of the car...What??? Then when I looked in the window....My purse was poured out in the driver seat!!!!!!!!!!!!! So...my car was moved from one parking place, directly across the lane to another parking space...my car IS locked...but someone has been in it!!!! I am freaked out!!! Tom has then made his way to me..."I did not park here!!!!! My car has been moved....Someone's been in my car!!!" I felt like Baby Bear after Goldilocks had been in thier house...Tom immediately goes to tell the boss we have been broken in to... After talking to more employees, I realize that this has happened several times here and I need to call the law...I DO check my stuff...my bank card is there...my checkbook is there...my 'crazy medication" is there... so from what I can tell, nothing is missing....but I still decide to call...I mean, the floor board is wet from where they had gotten IN MY CAR!!!!!! I felt so violated!!!! I had heard people use this term and never knew how they felt!!! I felt like my own stuff was Nasty!!!! Who had been touching it?? Who had sit in my seat?? I even picked up my billfold and smelled of it...

A laundry employee comes out and says she just came to work about 30 minutes ago and she saw a little silver Toyota parked beside it... so we figured that was our culprit..they saw her pull up, they got "spooked" and left everything. The cop was truly puzzled as to why someone would want to move the car??? How did they do it??? Why??? The opposite parking place was still dry where my car had sit!!! My clutch was still wet....

So a police report was filed... I wouldn't drive it home though....I didn't want to touch nothing in there...I got home before Tom...I was hesitant about going in the house...They knew where I lived!!!! I mean, my drivers license has my address, so does my checks!!! Should I go on in...It was dark on the steps...But I did and of course, everything was fine!!! Tom came in later and brought my purse and bag in...I didn't want to to even touch it!!!!!!

Proof of my craziness!!!!

Okay, before you laugh, let me tell you just like my banner says, sometimes, there are crazy stuff that goes on in my head...no one else probably can't understand it...sometimes, even I don't!!! LOL!
So, the other morning, I was drying my hair, kinda leaning over in the bathroom, and for some reason I glanced at the commode, the plunger had fell over so I saw it too..then I got this HILARIOUS cartoon in my mind and started cracking up! so here goes...

The cartoon has three frames...in the first one, you see a person at the store buying the "new ultra super" toilet plunger..."greater suction power than any plunger ever..."

The next frame shows the person at home using it... the last frame will show the septic tank busting up thru the floor...yeah, one powerful plunger....ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!

no wonder FarSide and Close to Home are my favorite cartoons...

I know...whatever!!!!

I love my Daddy, Passy and Piggies...

Another Layout I done..this is the new size that I LOVE!!! 6x12! Cool...This is actually a challenge that I put to myself, because I just picked up these two pictures, and used old stuff I had had forever in my big stash of scrapping stuff...so just a quickie layout to get these pictures scrapped...you scrappers will know exactly what I mean, right!!!!!!
I couldn't help but notice how young Tom looks here...hee hee...he is about 21 here...
You can't realy tell it,but in the last picture, she is chewing on her toes...so cute!!! This is Morgan, BTW...

The Lily of the Valley

I have wanted to post some of my scrapbook pages here and didn't have brain enough to figure out how to do it without a scanner...DUH!!! Take a picture of it!!!! So, that is what I done...and here is my recent layout...The picture is taken in the deep mountains of NC.

Contentment, Psalms 23

I actually found this journal entry that I wanted to post here...It is from my Bible Study Journal that I had back in 1992... Pretty cool to go back and read about it...

Friday Nov. 21st, 1992 9:43am

Psalms 23 is gradually becoming my favorite verse in the Bible after I heard Phil Kidd preach and a lady in NC at Sally's church speak on it...

The first verse: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. That is being content with being a Christian, content with what you are. Not wanting anything else in the world or from another "bad shepherd" We shouldn't lust after Satan's playthings. but be satisfied and happy with who we are.

2nd Verse: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures... Jesus gives us food so that we CAN "lie down in peace. Sheep must be 1) not afraid of anything before they can lie down. 2) they must be content 3) they must trust thier Master. We must trust Jesus that he will take care of us when trouble comes.

...He leadeth me beside the still waters. Sheep are very timid creatures. They must have still waters to drink from though it must not be stale. We must be able to trust that our Shepherd will guide us where we belong.

The lady said it was a book written by a sheperd. I'm gonna try to find that book...
{I did find the book and it became one of my favorite...It is entitled "A Shepherd's Look at Psalms 23" It is pretty old...I think the Author is Phillip Kelley...very good book!}

Valentine Picture

Valentine Banquet

Our church had the yearly Valentine Banquet this past Saturday...they always play the newly wed game and since everyone wants to know everything about the Pastor and his wife's relationship :) we had to play...and we won, believe it or not!!!! I don't think we have ever won, even though we have been playing for 6 years!!!! LOL
Some of the questions Tom was asked were...What does your wife do after a stressfull situation... 1. get mad 2. get depressed 3. blame someone else and I don't remember the 4th one...well of course Tom picked get depressed....I knew that is what he would pick, so I picked it to win..I think that I get mad, THEN get depressed...I usually get so furious at situations that are beyond my control, but I want to change them, then I get so down, cause I feel so helpless... yeah, whatever....
If your wife could do one of the following things for $10,000, what would she do??/ 1. Go streaking thru the neighborhood 2. shave her head for a year 3. give up TV for a month 4. tell husband he was right for one whole month. Well, I picked give up TV for a month..I hardly watch any TV anyway...No, I don't want to shave my head, cause my pride would get me...not even for $10,000!!! Heck, my hair is the only thing that looks half decent, well, if you don't count my chest as an assent...LOL No, I would not spend a month telling Tom he was right!!! He would get the $10,000 AND the satisfaction of being right...nope, can't do it...do you know that I was wrong...TOM PICKED GO STREAKING THRU THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!! WHAT!!!! I mean, come on!!! How many fat women would just run thru the neighborhood naked??? And you know what his excuse was? That was the quickest way to get the money!!! MEN!!!!!
We had a good time, though..I will try to get pictures posted soon...

3  things about Me

3 jobs I've had in my life:  Sunday Morning DJ (WRGS), cashier (Food Lion) Substitue Teacher (all grades) Nurse (LPN) 

3 movies I'd watch over and over: Pretty Woman, Sweet Home Alabama,

3 places I've lived:  Kite Rd, Woodland Estates, Chuck Rd

3 shows I watch:  Survivor, CSI, American Idol

3places I've been:   Niagra Falls, St. Louis MO, New Orleans

3 People who Email Me: Ana, Kim, Kristi, Amyla

3 Favorite Foods: Pizza, Chocolate, Turkey & Dressing 

3 places I'd rather be right now: in my warm bed, Disney World, at the beach 

3 Things I am looking FW to: Summer, cause if everything works out, me, Tom and the kids will be off ALOT together!, I usually just like to live Day to Day...cause God holds the future and I have to wait till I get there to see where he wants me to go/be.

 

The View...

Right now, what do I see?? I am at school, sitting at my desk...I share the office with the technology Teacher at school...we have a rectangle shaped office. It has counter tops all around the edge...she is on one side and I am on the other. It also has cabinets above the counter space on two walls...then there are the windows...Big huge 5 or 6 foot windows...where I can see outside...They stretch about 8 foot long across one of the sides of the rectangle...granted, the view is not that pretty, since I am on the upper level of the school, and all I can see is the roof of the building below me and also some heating units on the roof...But I can see the sky...right now, it is gray and kinda "plumpy" (I know, that is not a word) but it has been raining and there are water droplets on the window... but my eyes always go back to the sky...I am facing north, so I can't usually see the sun, only the shine from it. Oh, and then there is the mountain range...in the far off background there is a mountain range that stretches from one window to the next...So this brings me peace, cause it is always there...stable, no change... Gosh, I am too funny...analyzing what my view is...

Happy February!!!

I am sorry, I have not been in the mood to blog..and been too busy!!! I am actually helping to work on the yearbook here at school and that is taking quite a bit of my "blogging" time...LOL...I also designed the web page for the Greene Co. School System and as soon as it is posted, I will post a link here....my first web page ever..LOL
AND, all the links work...hee hee...(PET PEEVE: a link that doesn't work!!!)
Been a busy day at school...several kids have the pink eye, one kid has something irritating his eye and I had to take his contact out, cause he couldn't' get it...yeah, imagine that with my long fingernails! One kid had a nose bleed all over his clothes...one kid can't find her glucometer to check her sugar..I am trying to teach the 4th graders about the 5 food groups, a teacher is calling to come to her class to check two kids who she thinks might have fever...the nose bleed child comes back with more blood, but fingerprints...he obviously has been picking his nose and wiping the blood on his shirt!!! ARG!!!! Stop TOUCHING YOUR NOSE!!!!!! LOL Oh, and the hypochondriac teacher just called again and wants me to come to her classroom again!!!! 3rd time today!!! Called a mother about a child using her Albuterol inhaler about 9 times today...as if she needs to be anymore hyper!!!!So, that is my day in a nutshell!!! But usually I don't do much of nothing...must be a full moon. LOL

It is Well...

This is my favorite story behind a hymn...This became one of my favorite songs after hearing the story...


The song had its beginnings in Chicago. Horatio G. Spafford was a successful attorney making his way in the rough-and-tumble world of a growing Chicago economy. He was a Christian who had no idea how soon his faith would be tested. In the late 1860's, tragedy struck Mr. Spafford with the death of his son. Then he was devastated by the great Chicago fire of 1871. He had invested heavily in real estate along the shores of Lake Michigan, and his holdings were wiped out by this disaster.

In 1873 Spafford was advised by doctors that his wife needed a change of location due to health problems. At the same time, he had become involved with the evangelistic work of Dwight L. Moody and his partner Ira Sankey. Moody was preaching in England, and Spafford decided to sail over the Atlantic with his family to be of assistance.

A last-minute business emergency arose, and Spafford was forced to send his wife and daughters ahead on schedule. His plan was to join them on another ocean crossing later. But on the fateful day of November 22nd, 1873, the ship his family had boarded was struck by an English ship and sank in 12 minutes. Mrs. Spafford survived, but all four daughters -- Tanetta, Maggie, Annie, and Bessie -- were among the 226 who drowned in the icy waters of the Atlantic. From Cardiff, Wales, his wife Anna sent him the now famous telegram, “Saved alone.”

Who among us can imagine the grief that filled Horatio Spafford's soul when word of the disaster reached him? Perhaps even fewer of us can imagine what it was like for Spafford to board another ship to cross the swirling waters alone, knowing that he would pass right over the watery graves of his four daughters on the way to meet his grieving wife.

But on that ship, the light of faith illuminated the darkness of Spafford's life. Out of the depths of his despair arose the certainty that God was in control, and that he would see his daughters again.

As Spafford's ship passed near the spot where his daughters died, the Holy Spirit inspired him to write the words to this beautiful hymn. They speak to the eternal hope that all believers have, no matter what pain and grief may befall them on earth.

Philip P. Bliss was so impressed with Spafford's text that he very shortly afterward wrote the music for it. The hymn tune is named Villa du Havre after the ship on which Spafford's children perished. Ironically, Bliss himself died in a tragic train wreck shortly after writing this music. He survived the initial impact, but died when he went back into the flames in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue his wife. So this beloved song, which has helped so many, was born in unspeakable pain and grief.

For everyone who has lost a loved one, especially a child, there is no song that has brought more hope than the one Spafford penned while looking out over that endless ocean: “It is Well With My Soul.”

When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll,
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control:
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And has shed His own blood for my soul.

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Those Manning boys...

WEll, I am happy for those boys... Now Archie has two sons that will have been to the Superbowl...yeah, I like Brett Favre too, but I always think Eli feels inferior to Peyton...now, don't get me wrong..I love Peyton...he is my favorite... But I will be pulling for the Giants...Go Eli!!!