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!!!

It SNOWED!!!!

I love snow!!! I would love to have a blizzard!!! Because I like to sleigh ride...I like the serenity of going outside and hearing the quietness...seeing the purity of the snow...Heck, I even like snow cream...So, there's nothing much about snow that I don't like...

It snowed on Thursday...I slept late..but the kids went on outside and started playing. Thier Aunt Lacey saw them and came over and joined them...they sleigh rode for about 3-4 hours!!! Here is a few pictures when they were getting out of thier wet clothes.



Can you believe how red her feet are!!!! She has just taken off wet socks and was fixing to step into the house when I took this picture...

Me...A Princess??? Sure...always....of course...

Which Disney Princess Are You?
	You are Pocahontas. You defy convention and sometimes do what is considered taboo. Unfortunately, others do not always appreciate your differences, so it's good that you are so strong-willed. You are loyal and you believe in fate. Your true love will find you one day.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

Touched/In Memory of H.H.

Ok, so I started a new nursing job...I still have my school job, cause I love it so much...but I started prn at the nursing home...on a 4 hour shift....7p-11p. Usually will be just 2 shifts a week.
I was afraid I was gonna loose my nursing skills and knowledge...I mean, if you don't use it, you loose it, right...and the extra money can't never hurt :D
So, I went to work the other night for the first time...since I had worked there before, I felt like I had been in a coma for awhile and had woke up...It was like everything was so familiar and that I was supposed to know it, but couldn't bring it to the front of my memory...wierd...but I had fun and loved it...
I went into the last room on my medicine round...There was this little debilitated man in the bed...unable to talk, or barely move. I immediately fell in love with him. I checked his chart later and found out he was just on comfort measures...soon to die...anytime...he wasn't even getting any medications...too close to death...
His eyes were open...I held his hand and talked softly to him. He knew I was there...
I frequently went into the room as his room was next door to the nursing station. I talked to him, fixed his cover, and noted how dry his tongue was,so I did mouth care...with lemon glycerin swabs...and cold water..he liked it...his mouth responded to it...Iheld his hand, rubbed his head...I was just touched by this gentleman. There were no family there...I later found out he didn't have any. No children, wife dead...so sad!
Upon reading the chart, I noted that he had had a terrible life...His father had beaten his mother and made him and his brother work in the fields by the time they were 5 years old. If they didn't work, he didn't feed them...He got in a fight with his dad for taking up for his mother when his dad was beating her in his teen years and he left home...he went to Japan in the war...and stated how he had to do some really terrible things there that he could not forget....he described himself as a bitter, angry man. That was not the man I saw lying in the bed. The skinny debilitated frame had a gentle face. I would like to know what kind of relationship he and his wife had had. Why did they not have children? Was he afraid of how he would treat them? How did he treat his wife...was he a great loving husband because of the way he had seen his father treat his mother? His wife died in the 80's and he had no one to take care of him since then. He obviously was still in good health at that time, because the record stated he had taken care of her when she had cancer. Was it after she died that he became a bitter angry man?? Tom said I would have really liked him, cause he had been at the nursing home for a couple of years. He had to come there because he had no one to take care of him.
Okay, so to get along with my story...as I was sitting on the couch with Tom the next afternoon,I mentioned him to Tom and how I was concerned about his care...Tom reponded with:
It doesn't matter now...
What do you mean?
He's dead...
Well, I know he is going to die anytime...but...
No, I mean..he died last night...
WHAT!!!!!!!!??????????
This totally floored me...I was looking forward to going back in there and babying him some...something he probably hadn't ever had...you know...
I dreamed about him last night...that I was feeding him corn flakes with big red stawberries in it...and you know what else...who even cares that he died...
so I guess by blogging here...he will never be forgotten...remebered by me...

Another Funny...

I remember going to a Kindergarten class to teach about germs, safety, etc. One little boy raised his hand and said..." When you die, yor brains fall out" !
It was just too cute not to share...whatever gave the child this idea...?

My two scanned scrapping layouts..

I know I need to post more layouts...I don't have a scanner that is easily accessible to me, so therefore, I don't take the time to actually take a picture of them...maybe I will start...anyway, here is two layouts I done at least a year ago....



This is Lukas one day that Tom and I took him and Morgan to the park to play. This is one of my favorite pictures...



This one was taken outside of Morgan's school one day while we were waiting on her...