Best Prayer I Have Heard In a long time… September 27, 2007

I got this from a friend of mine in my e-mail, and usually I don’t send them back out
because they are always something like ‘you have to do this or…’ but I thought this
was some good reminders of everyday life.

Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in
traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is
rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few
precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man
who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student,
balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his
student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the
same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to
addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares .

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through
the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this
moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this
will be the last year that they go shopping together

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us,
the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those
we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but
to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience,
empathy and love.

If you send this to 5 people, then you have a chance to touch 5 people.

Working for God on earth doesn’t pay much……but His retirement plan
is out of this world

Barbie Madness September 26, 2007

I loved Barbie when I was a girl. Now I have 2 little girls who also love Barbie, but Lately, my husband has been dominating the computer and the television at the same time and littering them with football. Not that football is litter, it just ranks right up there with moldy cheese pizza. But because of this obsession he has with football, my girls and I have been spending an awful lot of time with Barbie lately.

We brush Barbie’s hair, she doesn’t complain much, just the occasional ‘o.k. you’re gonna pull my head off, oh! oh!…there it goes’ And there’s the undressing and fleshy fashion show (because my 2 year-old won’t leave clothes on her). Barbie either doesn’t mind the cold draft up her rear when she is sat on the air vent or she just grins and bears it for Hannah’s tender-hearted sake. She’s a trooper!

However, I think Barbie has it out for me, because sometimes When I’m not looking I get smacked in the head for no apparent reason. I look behind me and all I see is my sweet baby girl trying to shove Barbie into a drawer or pile her between books like a sandwich. I don’t know where we went wrong I thought that by putting a rather nice 3 bedroom 2 bath pink roof over her head was enough. I gave her a full kitchen and dining room and livingroom set, I even bought her a fancy canopy bed and a nursery for the little ones she wants to have. Quite frankly though, if she ends up prego, Ken is OUT! She shares a room with 2 princesses who don’t need to know about the birds and the bees yet.

So I don’t know where I went wrong, but I shouldn’t be afraid to be around Barbie. Unfortunatly, when you have been hit in the back of the head or tripped or been hit in the nose enough it brings a tear and the occasional drop of blood, you tend to turn the tables on your friend Barbie. I happened to notice that a pile of Barbie’s on the floor kinda looks like a massacre. I think I had it out for Barbie tonight. I really wanted her to dissappear!!!! However bedtime came without a hitch and so for tonight she’s off the hook. But tomorrow…

Smelly fart faces September 20, 2007

Check out the girls on each end. Who dunnit? Never can get a pic with everyone smiling. But I love these kind of pictures, it makes my heart smile.

Recent Sweet 16 pics September 20, 2007

These 2 girls were a great deal of fun to work with. Both of them brought several changes of clothes and we went with the flow that day. The pics were for their 16th Birthdays and they had been friends since they were 5! When I brought the pics to them one had told her mom we have to get them all!! They were super excited about thier pictures.

Life changing events…. September 20, 2007

I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster for a few weeks. Maybe it’s the weather…I hate fall…dread sinks in….  These events have changed my spirit….once bright….once lighter…once favored.

• This is your life…Are you who you want to be? -song I hear on the radio when I really don’t need to hear it.
• My oldest daughter sings Jesus loves all the little children…Green and purple, black and white…..
• Toby Keith and Joe Perry doing Mystery Train on Elvis Tribute show.
• Working to pay the cable bill
• Keeping my youngest young….but pottytrained.
• Spooky shadow person on Ghost Hunters -Lighthouse Edition…What’s next?
• Working 80 bazillion hours a week and getting nowhere…hate this somewhere
• Wanting
• Britney Spears has gone off the deep end!!!
• Wanting
• No best friends, just friends, and I’m really good at alienateing them….friends….people who leave a cheerful grin, but no goodbye….could’ve been a best friend…did’nt realize it untill there was no one there to…..
• On my way to work at 6:30am, saw a little girl friendless on the daycare playground running her fingernails against the fence…..wanted to stop her because I felt a maternal instinct? …..Just kept driving….she’ll learn that metal and brick hurt like HEdoublehockysticks under the fingernails.
• Wanting
• Fear of Satisfaction
• I was beautiful once…modeled a bit…what’s the point in putting on makeup now? The only remarks taken away each day are “G#% D*%# it why don’t you do anything right?”
• And finally last but not at all what hurts the least, Seeing my ex looking and doing very well….My physicality was last seen as a pathetic nobody in his eyes….stings…..a cannon couldn’t have done more damage……………………………………………………lifeless.