My Peacefully Chaotic Life

Well, my brain is running like a little hamster on a wheel. Do you know what I mean? It's so full of thoughts that I don't know what I even want to post about! So how about we just pretend you are here at the house and we'll sit down with a glass of sweet tea and just visit! We had a lovely Easter with church family and friends. We got to see our 'daughter' for a good long while. She and I had a great visit and enjoyed eating our strawberry cupcakes and chatting at the kitchen table. :) This was the first Easter that The GuitarMan did not worship with us. He is playing lead guitar in a praise band at a church in another town. I am so proud of him and happy for him. He loves music so much and to see his talent blossoming and being used to glorify the Lord is awesome for me as a mom! Incidentally, the pastor and my husband went to college together and I taught his son in Pre-K. Oh, let me brag for a minute! We asked The GuitarMan if his guitar professor had anything t...

It was a beautiful spring day here yesterday with just enough breeze to consider it windy. The children finished their schooling, albeit with a small amount of complaining, and hit the outdoors with gusto. Their daddy came home from work and started on some prep work in the garden so I came in and did a bit of straightening up before joining them outside. It's good to train your children to help out but there are those times when they just need the chance to run! On those days I so appreciate my husband gladly keeping an eye on them outside. We don't allow them out without us. They just aren't quite old enough and with no fence, well...Mama can think of all sorts of mishaps! When they got out of the shower last night I had supper ready. Much of it came from the freezer. We are cleaning out what little bit is left from last year's bounty. We had fresh peas, fried okra, corn on the cob, cornbread, and potato salad. After bath and supper Cornbread went down for sleep. Then...

Ok this post is really irritating me! The GuitarMan had a guitar recital/concert last night and he nailed it! He was awesome!! I have it on tape!! It's on my computer!! I can't get it to upload to my blog!! Either blog!! And I have no idea what to do about it!!! Arghhh! I wondered about adding it to youtube and linking it. But we have dialup so I'm never on youtube so I don't know how to do that. Sigh! Maybe son can help me. In the meantime, if anyone knows what I can do please let me know. I REALLY want to share it with you!

Please check out the comment section on this post . It just shares some nice memories from some readers and it will make you look back on your own life. As I said in the comments the ordinary happenings of today are the memories of tomorrow! You may be living in "the good ole days!" And have you noticed that the best memories from childhood are usually the simplest little things? Outside cooking in the mud or playing with roly polies and frogs. Playing with your cousins. Eating watermelon outside. Special trips to stay with family. Shopping together. Slumber parties. Jumping in the leaves. Exploring in the woods. Macaroni and cheese. Simple life! I am sitting here thinking back to some of my family and the memories I have. Some make me laugh out loud! I remember staying one time with my Granddaddy and his wife Bessie. I had taken my stereo with me. One morning as I was sleeping the bedroom door was suddenly flung open! The stereo was turned way up to the Oak Ridge Boys singi...

Have you met with the Lord today? What a privilege! I am so thankful for my church family. As it was approaching time for service I just looked at my sweet children. One was snoozing away on a friend's shoulder. FlowerChild was happily playing and talking with another friend's precious baby. The baby was gazing up at her and clutching her finger in such a trusting way. What a gift to have so many people who love the Savior, also love our children and want to help point their lives to Him. In my last post I mentioned we had a visit from my aunt and uncle. I really enjoyed seeing them but I found out today what my little ones thought of it. Our Children's Director opens Children's Church time with a bit of conversation and prayer requests followed by prayer. When she asked if anyone had done anything special this week FlowerChild's hand shot up. I wondered what she would say as you never can tell with her! She said we had a special visit from someone and went on to te...

Well, the day is winding down and a lovely day it has been! The weather was beautiful. especially after all this rain. I opened the windows so we could air out the house. The children enjoyed being outside again although, surprise, surprise they needed a bath when we were ready to come in! The FisherMan got out to do some visiting. Our little nursing home folks were not doing well. We have one man that fell and broke his hip. Two days later his wife fell and broke her hip and her shoulder! They are in very bad shape now. We need to all remember to be thankful for our health! Tonight was so nice! We had a visit from my aunt and uncle. We haven't seen them in....well, I just do not remember when....way too long! I grew up going to their house and spending time there when I was out of school. This is the uncle that little Cornbread is named after. It's actually a duo my son is named for in that my cousin also shares the name. He is off at college so he could not be here. He's ...

Well, it has rained....and rained....and rained....you get the picture! It did stop long enough this afternoon to take advantage of the soft, wet ground to get some weeding done in the herb garden and the flower beds. The rain makes everything so clean at first but then here comes the mud! Then here comes the mud all in the house! My girls always promise they won't get wet and muddy but then when they get outside they just can't resist. Yesterday they went out in their cute, little rain boots and just had a blast. I told them no getting wet and muddy. "Yes, ma'am" they both exclaimed. Well, I don't even have to tell you how that turned out! But the funniest thing happened. We had corrected them about jumping and stomping in the puddles in the grass because it makes holes and we explained someone could get hurt. Well, it continued anyway. Hmmmm. Mama was not impressed. So I brought them to timeout and we had a life discussion. Now, honestly, I think it would ha...