All Day, Every Day March 31, 2009

I love my God, but with no love of mine. For I have none to give; I love thee, Lord, but all that love is thine, for by thy life I live. I am as nothing, and rejoice to be, emptied and lost and swallowed up in thee.

Madame Guyon   (1647-1717)

Love the Lord God with all your heart and soul and strength.  Deut. 6:4-9

Jesus talks about this again in Matthew 22 as the most important commandment in scripture. Moses gives the Israelites some great instruction: Write this commandment on your hands and forehead, post it on your front door and all your interior doors, and talk about it at breakfast, at work, and when you are getting ready for bed.

We want to love God and we get sidetracked too easily. All day is a time to worship. From the time we get up, on the way to school and work, on the way home, at home, at rest. There is always a time to worship and teach your children about the Creator of the universe who knows them far better than we are capable. Don’t get caught up in the craziness of life and forget God.

Be encouraged that there is One who longs for you and loves you with a passionate intensity. Protect that treasured relationship and seek God in everything, every day. Not just one hour a week. He deserves more than that.

A Messy House January 29, 2009

   My house is a mess. I feel I can never catch up. I need more time!!!! I guess I should be happy my house is full of life and busyness. One day it will be clean and empty. They grow so fast.

   The laundry is never done. I clean a room and move to the next and go back minutes later and the clean room is a mess again. I should have a recycling center in my back yard, for all the paper and plastic littering each room.

    God has blessed me with 3 beautiful healthy children who can mess up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   So why does it get on my nerves? Why do I sometimes feel like a slave?

I guess being a mother has it’s ups and downs. But mostly ups. I guess I will trade the clean house for laughter and love. I definitely think that’s a better trade.

i am starting to feel like snow white December 12, 2008

   After the mouse problem you would think i was done with the critters for a little while. But NO!!!

   Last night I went out to see a movie and left the kids with their brother and nick and hunter. The movie was awesome, Robin had to hold me while I cried on her shoulder like a baby. I always cry at movies. Anyway when I got home Alex had sent me a text with a picture of something strange. I could not tell what it was. I asked him to explain. Apparently someone opened the door and a bird flow in the house. It was a heavy down pore and I guess the poor thing needed somewhere dry.

   Now picture this, the boys shut molly, Rachel, And Oscar in the bath room. The bird flies upstairs and they corner it in Alex’s room. They shut Hunter up in Alex’s room with the bird and he catches it and puts it back outside. Needless to say, Alex’s room was then covered in bird feathers when I got home.

    What is going on? Why are all these little creatures coming around? I don’t know, but I hope it doesn’t continue>

Mighty Mouse caught alive!!!!!! December 12, 2008

here is the little critter. he was successfully caught and given another home in a field to live. As you can see he is not the cute little thing my husband claimed him to be.

it’s time for a laugh December 6, 2008

    i just have to share what happened to me yesterday. for some reason I always have the most bizarre things happen to me.

   Let me first start by saying that I am really into this new saga of books i am reading. total fiction. Just something for the imagination ( fiction is good for me because my head can relax for a little while). But I have been reading this book on my 15 minute breaks at work ( any free minute to read a few pages and sometimes not so free). 

     Well for a time now I have been freaking out when I sit in my car because I hear something in there. Something moving. Something scratching. I had actually started to get use to it. Well, yesterday I was sitting quietly on my 15 minute brake reading my book and I SAW IT!!!!

    It was a huge mouse!!!! I can kill a spider and hold a snake but for some reason a mouse scares me to death! I jumped out of my van and called my boss crying ” Michelle, are you busy. Please come help me. There’s a mouse in my van!!!!”

    After she finished laughing she came out with a broom. We searched and searched. Had all the doors open. took everything out. opened the hood. Mr. Price came out and laughed at us.

    Then I decided it was time to call Michael. I told him what happened and as I explained how quiet it was Michael interrupted and said, ” Quiet as a mouse?” (I will get him for that). I had to tell him that I was not getting back in that van until a mouse was found. I was hysterical( crying). Michelle had to talk to him.

   He came and got my van and took it back to the dealership and I think it was the oil change guys trying to find the mouse. They didn’t find the mouse but they found a bed he had made under my radio in a compartment and in the back of the van he had made another bed in another compartment and he was filling my ac thing with acorns. That mouse had moved in.

    I still am not driving my van. Robin did offer to bring Oscar over to help in the hunt. Might as well he is better then any cat. He”s a mole hound. His natural instinct is to hunt small creatures.

it is not all about me! November 21, 2008

   Michael’s birthday was monday and I was really trying to make it special. I cleaned the house and had his favorite meal and UNC was playing basketball at 9. It was perfect for him. He had some cards to open and when he got to the one from my dad it got me thinking. It said ” son-in-law, Today it’s all about you! Tomorrow. It’s back to you- know- who!”. That was saying it was all about me!!! No it’s not!!! We got into a discussion about it and I was uncomfortable. Then Michael’s game came on and he sat to watch it. I walked by the kitchen and looked at the mess of dishes from dinner. Michael, I guess, saw me looking at the kitchen and said ” I will get it at half time, baby. you just sit down.”(wasn’t that sweet). well, that got me thinking, is it all about me? then there was some great play in the game and michael texted his friend Lonnie at work and said ” How about that so and so( can’t remember his name)” and the guy texted him back and said ” I missed it. I was doing the dishes.” hahahahahahahah!!!!!! I thought that was so funny. Now I know that it is not all about me. It’s about Angela too. hahahahahaha!!!!!!

let it snow! let it snow! let it snow! November 21, 2008

 this morning was a wonderful sight. how long has it been since we had snow? it was so beautiful. I hope we have more this year. the kids were so excited. it has never been that easy to get them out of bed and dressed on a school day. they were actually early to school this morning. Alex was in and out, in and out. Molly was throwing snow and Rachel was dancing around the yard with her mouth hanging open. I don’t know about you but snow always makes this family happy.

  It was funny too because Beth saw us outside and she said that now I have something nice to say. funny!!! and she is right!!!!

mamma always said… November 20, 2008

   my mamma always said if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all. well, i can’t think of anything nice to say so that is why i am not saying anything at all. just in case anyone was wondering why i haven’t posted and why i don’t really have anything to post about now.

   maybe i will have something nice to say soon.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FRIEND!!!! November 17, 2008

 

 

   HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!!!  I love you and I hope you have the best birthday. I know with meetings and work we will not get to see each other much today. Sometime life gets in the way, but I will be thinking about you all day. I hope alot of people wish you a happy birthday today. love you!!!!!!!

just a piece of advice November 4, 2008

     Just a piece of advice. when going to vote, don’t take your 8 year old and your 5 year old. I went to vote this afternoon after I picked the girls up from school. I figured I would wait until I got them and let them have the experience. NEVER AGAIN will I make that mistake. I get up to the booth and all the other booths are taken. It is very quiet and Molly my 8 yr old) says really loud, ” There is John McCain, mommy!” as she points to the ballot. Well then my 5 yr old starts in. It is raining and she discovers that when her shoes are wet on a tile floor they make this really cool squeaking noise. So, needless to say they were probably ready to see us leave.

   I do hope everyone got a chance to get out and vote today. You still have a little time left if you didn’t. Share your story if you had an event at the polls.