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Happy Sunday!

i was on Facebook this morning and my friend, Tami Gullum, had posted this video by Michael Gungor. the lyrics are just what i needed to hear this morning. i love how God always knows. when my heart is sad like today, He always reminds me He is here and He is in charge.

i had never heard this group so i went on YouTube to see what else they had out. i LOvE their music. 
here is another video that i hope you'll enjoy.

i'm glad He put the Gullums in our lives and i am able to keep in touch with them. they are a blessing!

i hope you are having a wonderful Sunday afternoon. 

Yawn

sleepless night.
:(

 

art journaling and an attitude of gratitude

happy November everyone!  i hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween.  October is always such a busy month for my us and it just flew by. i started a gratitude journal for November but i couldn't get my photos to load. i'll post it tomorrow.

i started another on-line art journaling class with Marit again. the class is called Mixed Emotions. if you've never been to her website you should do yourself a favor and take a peek. she is an awesome artist and teacher. i am having the time of my life with the class. and Michelle is tag teaming with her on this one. she is very creative too and i've already learned a ton from her.  here are the pages i've done so far.

the emotion was courage. i met a seamstress recently who is impressively talented. the only problem was that she did not have an ounce of self-confidence. when we left the shop i commented about it to my hubby and he just sort of laughed. he said that he noticed. he also said that lack of self-confidence in a man or a woman is such a turn off. it was a real eye opener for me. so my journaling today is about learning to have the courage to believe in my ideas, my art, and myself. i need to dig deep and find the courage to bring my ideas to life. i need the courage to just do it...go for it. as i find things that remind me, inspire me and encourage me i will put them inside the file folder.

the emotion was Loneliness. i got a good chuckle out of one of the quotes Marit gave us. if you are afaid of loneliness do not marry. -Anton Chekhov

i totally don't agree with this, but i couldn't get the darn song out of my head.
because of the nature of our business, Jake is gone away often and for good periods of time. when i don't go with him,i miss him like crazy. i'm never really lonely though ( we tallk on the phone and he does come home for short spurts). i use that time alone as "my time"...to go to movies he wouldn't want to see, scrap, and take short trips to see friends and family.

this lesson was on weaving papers together and the emotion was joy.i hadn't sewn in so long. it took me longer to thread the sewing machine than it did to make the journaling page. LOL.
my simple joys:
hot cocoa, beginning of each new season, color yellow riding in the rain, gardening, fresh flowers, long walks, traveling, long walks, color turquoise, frozen grapes, worship, family, faded jeans, desses with boots, kisses, phones with friends, fire in the fireplace, hats, hugs, celebrating birthdays...and so many more.

we get a new lesson today and i can't wait.
if any of you are a doing a gratitude journal for this month, i'd love to see your pages. send me a link.
peace and love

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Today is a Happy Burgandi Day!

Happy Birthday Burgandi! my wish for you is to have the most fabulous year. i hope you know what a blessing you are to me and your Dad. you are such a fantastic Momma to Harrison. he is such the luckiest little guy.

here is a picture of you last year when we where celebrating your birthday in New England when you fell...almost into the ocean.  you are so beautiful, inside and out.


Happy Happy Burgandi's Day to you. we love you!!

i just dont like it

Scoliosis

One definition of scoliosis is a spinal deformity in a skeletally mature person with a Cobb angle of more than 10° in the coronal plane. Another definition of scoliosis is curvature of the spine. Most cases of scoliosis are degenerative, idiopathic, or without a known cause. Contrary to old wives tales, scoliosis is not caused by playing sports, having poor posture, or carrying heavy things.
and yes, i am a mature (as in age) person, but skeletally mature refers to someone whose bones have stopped growing.  LOL

nice, huh?
i'm tired of having this. i don't like the back pain. i don't like the way my clothes hang on me. i don't like my posture.  i don't like that i'm shorter than i would actually be if i didn't have this. i just don't like this!

i would love to have this corrected at Baylor Scoliosis Center.  but, i'm too chicken. i am terrified of the screws that they would have to use. i know. silly me.

but i am happy that i am healthy enough to enjoy my family,  and enjoy my life. so i'll try to remember to stand up straighter, quit complaining and work on my courage.

oh, and smile more often!
:)

happy Thursday everyone!

Remember When

Remember when...this title has nothing to do with this post. this is the song playing on my Playlist. Remember When by Alan Jackson. i love that song.

just a few things i want to blog so that i don't ever forget them. today was such an incredible day. Nothing spectacular happened.  Jake and i took Harrison to Iowa Park to the swimming pool. Jake had never been with us and he had such a fun, relaxing time.

after being there for 3 hours he got out of the pool and sat on one of the lounge chairs. i told him we were going to get ready to leave. he asked why and i told him that it was time to go because he was getting tired.  he informed me he was NOT tired and he ran back into the pool. when i caught up with him i heard him ask a little girl if she was tired. she said she wasn't. i laughed when he told her that he was tired and he started back for the lounge chair. 

a few nights ago Harrison asked Jake for a bean burrito from Taco Bell. Jake told him he thought Taco Bell was closed. he says to Jake, 'your kidding me, right'. Jake says, 'boy, you sound just like your Honey'. hehe i LOvE it!

he's a ham. he's stinking adorable.  he's brilliant and he still won't go on the potty. WTH!
i don't mind that he has a security blanket. i only mind that he doesn't want it washed. i called him the other day and told him to tell his mom to wash his blanket because i could smell it all the way to my house. he just screamed, 'no! i don't want to tell her!'.
we were driving home from Wichita Falls the other day and i asked him something. he screams and says,'don't talk to me'. then a bit later he asks me a question. i ask him if he is talking to me. he says yes. i say, 'oh, can i talk to you now?'. he replies with a yell, NO. Don't talk to me. well. okay then.
if i looked at him in the review mirror he would scream, 'no! don't look at me!'.

oh! Rascal Flatts! i love anything by them. i haven't been on my own blog in so long that i forgot how much i love my Playlist! i'm secretly jealous of my friend Jen that is going to see them (again) and has backstage passes (again). i guess it's not a secret anymore. i'm jealous Jen.

oops. i got side tracked. i was talking about Harrison. yes. he is a toot. but then he just melts my heart. like today. when we were at the water park i went to the concession stand to get us all something to drink. he runs up and hugs my legs and says, i love you honey. when we were leaving he tells us thank you for bringing him.

did i mention that he is only 2 1/2 and he is brilliant. he is my heart!

a few months back i had to get rid of my couch in the family room because apparently Harrison and i were allergic to it. i still haven't replaced it. i thought buying furniture was supposed to be fun. i'm getting tired of coming into the house into an empty room. i feel like i don't even live here. yuck.  i can't find anything i like. Jake finally said to get on-line, take a road trip or do whatever it takes. just find a some furniture.

today as i typed this up i also listened to Foreigner, Kiss, and Corinne Bailey Rae, Sugarland, and Chris Tomlin. oh, and Micheal Jackson.

i hope everyone has a great Monday.

ok. so i learned something new today. if you Quick Compose you can only post one picture at a time.
so here's the Texas highway.
have a good weekend.
:)

i have never used the Quick Compose button on my TypePad blog so i wanted to see how it works.
i really can't believe that we are now into the 5th month of this year. my life is busy and i'm loving it, but the day just fly by. i'm trying to soak up the joy out of every minute.
merry Friday everyone!
here's a couple of pictures of the Texas highway i took last weekend.
and of course of Little Man too.

hey, grab your camera! Picture Spring!https://www.typepad.com/secure/account/profile/accounts

Picture Spring! i am definitely signing up for this class given by Tracy Clark, founder of Shutter Sisters.  i've heard that it takes 30 days to create a habit and i am more than willing to make it a habit to carry my camera with me everywhere i go and take at least 1 picture everyday.  
 
i am so excited that spring is here...even if it was cold, wet, sleeting and snowing on the first day of spring. hey, it's Texas. what do you expect? sunny and balmy one day, and sleeting and snowing the next. nice! that didn't stop us from enjoying the day. we took one excited little man to see Thomas and Friends: Hero of the Rails. he loved it. as we were getting ready to leave the theater he was talking all about it and he said, 'It was pretty good'.

i also finished putting out almost all of my spring and Easter decorations and cleaned up the house a little bit. i'm ready to roll up my sleeves and do some spring cleaning around here and get all these container pots that we had already planted back outside.

i hope you are enjoying the new spring season too.

seed hearts and blooms

this is Thursdays prompt for the art journaling class that i'm taking.   i had  a little trouble with this one, but i do like the way the page turned out.  it should have a more surreal feel to it.  i think i'm gonna use another image and try this again.
this image is from La Vie Claire, and the cool thing is that the quote came with it. it describes how i've felt lately creating these pages.  i'm not sure that my art journal pages are so beautiful, but i have been very pleased with them and i can't tell you how much fun this class is.   i told the instructor, Marit,   that i was afraid that i was not going to enjoy this class because i didn't think i would be able to keep up with the other girls.i thought it was going to add move stress to my already stressed out days.  but no. nope, no no.  our class is made up of the nicest ladies.  i feel so comfortable and safe.  we are all learning from each other. we give each other constructive criticism,  and Marit is on the spot, ready to answer any questions we have.  thanks Jocelyn for inviting me to take this class with you.

the quote says:  "find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth beautiful flowers."
 

 

i had fun playing with these collage makers from Smilebox andPicnik.
there will be more to come for sure.

well, todays prompt is posted,  so i'm off to see what i can get my hands dirty with.