Two old men were sitting on the edge of a pond when a frog jumped out of the water and sat between them. She said, "If you give me a kiss I'll turn into a beautiful princess." One old man grabbed her up and then put her in his pocket. The other old man said, "Aren't you gonna kiss her?" His friend replied, "No, at this point in my life a think a talkin' frog might be more fun than a princess."

About that kitchen remodel

It's been a while since my last post. When I first noticed this I was baffled about why. Then I re-read my post about being stuck in the kitchen. I suddenly remembered all the stuff that happened during that project.

In April of this year we, as in Rob & I, started the kitchen remodeling project by taking all the cabinet doors off. We were about halfway finished stripping them when Rob had to hospitalized due to a bad case of pnemonia. He spent one night in intensive care. That sorta set us back in more ways than one. About a week after he got home from the hospital we called in a friend or two to help us with electrical work, wood work, and countertops. Rob and I tiled the floor and backsplash and painted. The project included the ajoining family room as well. The whole thing was finally finished by July 1st & we had about 30 guests for Fourth of July festivities.

A few weeks after Rob's hospitalization, our daughter had some extensive oral surgery that required and over-night stay in the hospital. She was on a liquid diet for about 6 weeks. That was good because we couldn't do much cooking during that time anyway. The rest of us just ate a lot of McDonald's and Subway.

We are enjoying our remodel and will never take good health for granted!

Good-bye Mrs. David

Today I attended a memorial service for a 90 year old woman. Her life was well spent - she loved her Lord and allowed him to love others through her. Her life brought glory to God. Her legacy will live on in the lives of her children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren. It took her 90 years to accomplish that. Is there anything more important than that? It is enough.

I know this is not funny. I'm considering a new name for my blog.

Stuck in the Kitchen

I'm getting ready to do some updating in my kitchen. This is the weirdest thing. I can't wait to get it done, but I keep dragging my feet on getting it started. All I have to do is make a few phone calls to get the process started. I can't make myself make the calls. I think my problem is, while I want desparately to have the project finished, I can't stand the thought of living with all the mess in the process. Also, I'm almost paralyzed by the looming decisions that go with the project - you know, colors, materials, etc. ; not to mention spending the money. I keep telling myself that I must get unstuck and move on! HGTV makes it all seem so simple - they're in, out and done in 30 mins., and everyone oohs & ahhs and they all live happily everafter. If only Ty Pennington would ride in on his white horse and rescue me from this design delimma!!!

O Christmas Tree

It has always been our family tradition to go to a nearby tree farm and cut our own Christmas tree. As the kids have gotten older it has become harder to get them together for this event. We all love the smell and beauty of a real tree; but there are certain negatives that, for me anyway, outweigh all that.
While we were cutting our tree last year (minus oldest child due to schedule conflict) I began the argument for an artificial tree. I used all the obvious reasons and even Mother Nature helped me out because that day the wind was blowing about 25MPH - miserable. The long and short of it; my family finally agreed that yes, next year, mom can buy a fake tree.
Fast forward to today. I got our new tree out of the box! Now, here's what struck me funny. We used to spend a fair amount of time finding our "perfect" tree; only to bring it home and find it's hidden flaws. Those flaws usually called for herculean effort in getting the thing to stand up straight and in turning the ugly side to face the wall. Now that I have this perfect fake tree, I spent a fair amount of time trying to make it look "natural"; you know, like a real tree. Oh, yea, I even bought pine scented room fragrance.
Here's the irony that is just so human: We strive for Perfect to look real and Real to look perfect, but Real is never perfect and Perfect is never real.

Just Thinking

Traveling down I-40 the other day I began playing the alphabet game in my mind. I made up my own rules and didn't use any billboards. I decided to think of ways to describe God/Jesus alphabetically.
A - Almighty
B - Beloved
C - Creator
D - Deliverer
E - Exalted
F - Forgiver
G - Grace
H - Holy
I - Incarnate
J - Jehovah
K - King of Kings
L - Life/Love
M - Majesty
N - Noble
O - Omega
P - Powerful
Q -
R - Redeemer
S - Saviour/Shepherd
T - Teacher
U - Unchanging
V - Victorious
W - Warrior
X - eXample
Y - Yahweh
Z -
Q & Z have me stumped. Any suggestions?

Coincidence?

This is funny and sorta gross, but here goes. . .

Rob accidentally stepped on a mouse. Let me just say the mouse was smashed beyond repair; that's the gross part. Anyway, it was funny because Rob was totally unaware of the mouse until the moment he realized what he'd done. And that moment was in the nano second between feeling the squish and hearing the "pop". But, really, what are the chances of a mouse being under one's heel at the very moment one steps down with full force?! I maintain there are no coincidences in life. It was just that mouse's time to go and Rob was the man for the job even if he was an unknowing participant. Now, I must tell you this did not happen at our house. That would not have been funny in any way.