My Peacefully Chaotic Life

Not much time this week for contemplating life and its ins and outs. Henceforth not a lot of blogging either. I'm learning about this Facebook thing. It's been neat to find old friends and chat. Tuesday The GuitarMan and the crew of regulars from the college came to the game. Afterwards we all headed over to Taco Bell. They surprised The FisherMan with a birthday cake loaded with 68 candles followed by a silly string attack in the parking lot. And, no, he isn't 68 years old. :) The GuitarMan had therapy again today and it's going well. They hope to start strength therapy next week using putty. Just tellin ya' what they said. :) All joking aside, I think he will be able to start putting some pressure on it next week. Which means he may be able to start playing guitar with it, instead of just the other 3 fingers. FlowerChild had her last soccer game of the season tonight. I think she might be a little sad. She so enjoys it. She is such a little sprite out there on the...

Well, we have reached a few milestones around here and I thought I would catch everyone up. First.....The GuitarMan got the pins out today! Yes! Still in the custom brace, still healing, but no pins to contend with now. Therapy still for a while. However the therapist mentioned if his range of motion continues to improve, he may be able to cut it back to once a week. He and Z had a concert Sunday night at a church over in the next county. It was pretty freaky to see him play with the pins. But the thing that took the cake was on the last song when he went all out and put the electric guitar behind his head and played it! There were some pictures made at the concert. His doctor is hoping there might be a good shot of him playing that shows his pins. He wants to use it when he does seminars and presentations! Second.....In other news, I am officially hip now. Well, probably not since I just used the term hip but anyway...up to date....cool....whatever. I'm on Facebook now. The only t...

Elisabeth Elliot said, "Sometimes obedience means the willingness to do the useless thing in order that God may do the great thing." I read this quote this morning and even though I really should be dressing for church I felt an urge to share my thoughts with you in the hopes that it might encourage someone today. Sometimes the things God calls us to do seem useless or small. Sometimes it feels as though we are endlessly banging our heads against a wall and only getting a headache for our reward. It is only when we acknowledge our Creator and His work in us and through us that we realize He has purpose in everything! But when we get too full of ourselves we usually start to whine because there may be no instant results. There may not be the level of appreciation we hope for. It is at this point that we shift our focus from others to ourselves. From God's will to our wishes. We begin to perceive the smallest slight or disappointment as major cause for our feelings. We may ...

Lots going on today but Cornbread wanted a little rock-rock time so I thought I would pop on here for a quick post. Another late night but it was worth it. The GuitarMan is in the Male Chorale at his college and they had a concert last night. What a privilege to attend! We took the girls and my mom was sweet enough to keep the little guy. There's no way he could have gone to something like this. So without her help there would have been no way for us to attend. Wow, they did a beautiful job of leading worship in song. We were able to tape some of it but loading videos on Blogger crashes my computer so I can't share. :( It hit me again that The GuitarMan was the same age as LadyBug the first time we took him to see the chorale. Now here he is singing in it. Pretty cool to see it come full circle. What you expose your children to matters! It makes me sad to think how many people take those opportunities for worship for granted and miss out. They don't look at it as a privile...

I sit here tonight soaking in the quiet for a few minutes before heading to bed. Today was a busy, rowdy sort of day. The morning started out with a bit of drizzly rain. We've been on the go so much lately that I opted to let the children sleep in and enjoy the rest. Honestly, I don't wake them up normally anyway. However I tiptoed a bit more this morning in hopes that a few extra minutes of sleep would help with any grouchies that threatened. Usually their built-in radar goes off within a few minutes of me getting up. That radar is not to be confused with the other models they have that alarm when Mama and Daddy are having a conversation or horrors, touching! I decided to get in the kitchen today and putter. Now that I am off crutches I figure I will take it one day at a time, one room at a time and get things restored to normal. Today was kitchen day and it felt great to clean up and do a bit of rearranging of the countertops. I didn't push too hard, just did a little at ...

Well, the pins are still in. The doctor was all set to take the pins out but when he found out how bad things got last week following therapy he said no way. The pins must stay for another week. He is afraid the bone will give way again if the pins are taken out. It is actually better for them to be in right now as the bone is stronger with them in. Hey, it's healing so we can't complain!

......there's still time for people watching and pondering. More about that later. I have been just awful lately about blogging regularly. Well, not blogging, I guess is more like it. My brain has just been so full of everything to the point of having nothing to say. Does that make sense? Do you ever get that way? I think maybe it comes with being an only child. You grow up with more alone time and you get used to keeping your thoughts inside. When blogging, it can be easy to let the days slip by until you realize, oops, I haven't blogged in a few days! Our days around here have been so full lately, too. The GuitarMan has had many doctor appointments lately. We are really hoping that he will be able to get the pins out tomorrow. He still will have therapy for a while. It will be good to get the healing process over and done. I feel so behind on the homekeeping front. First I was out of commission with the crutches. Then we have been on the go so much that I haven't been a...