My Peacefully Chaotic Life

It's my husband's birthday today. We haven't done anything particularly special to celebrate but it's been a good day nonetheless. We went to church and he preached a great message on being useful and not wasting your life away. When we came home, lunch only took a few minutes. I had already cooked lunch in the crockpot. Have you seen the crockpot girls on facebook? They have some terrific recipes. I cooked the pork chops and gravy one except without pork chops LOL. It was SUPPOSED to use thick cut pork chops. Have you priced those? Good grief! So instead I found a family pack of country style ribs. By the time we got home from church they were perfect. Everyone liked it and the gravy was divine. After we ate we all curled up in the living room and watched some of the Love Comes Softly movies I had taped. My little guy crawled up in my lap and promptly fell asleep. Great excuse to not get up for 2 hours! Now we are all out back enjoying a lovely day. The FisherM...

Around 6:00 AM this morning my little guy trudged into our room and I pulled him up in bed with us. I was greeted by ice cold legs and feet where he had kicked his covers off. As he snuggled down between us, I tried to go back to sleep, hoping to find the dream I had been in the middle of. Which is when the Rat Terrier woke up and jumped down from the bed. Gravity doesn't work well with Pretzel when she stands up after sleeping all night so I jumped out of bed to catch her and run to the living room where I unceremoniously dumped her out the back door. Not having much fur, she wasn't impressed. I didn't care. I went back to bed, grateful to see my son still curled up trying to go back to sleep. I quickly slid under the covers, pulled him close, and tightly shut my eyes hoping to go back to dreamland. I didn't care what dream at this point as long as it was good. Then Pretzel decided to remind me it is cold outside and she started up crying and barking. Sigh. I de...

My oldest son loves it when I make homemade lemonade. I add some extras that are not necessarily needed to make it good but just put it over into the extra special. It's really sweet and gets stronger the longer the ingredients mix. My lemonade is not unlike a marriage. I start out with the basics, lemons and water. In marriage you begin with an ordinary man and an ordinary woman. But it doesn't become lemonade until you add the sugar. In marriage this is the love! To become more than just separate ordinary people, you must mix in love. However, just a romantic love won't be enough sugar to overcome the sourness of the human spirit or the blandness of a self centered person coming into marriage. The love must be grounded in friendship and self sacrifice. The idea that you must fight to not "lose your identity" is one that the enemy has planted in order to destroy. Before you jump to a conclusion I am not drawing, let me explain what I mean by that. :) I a...

Well, I promised to share some fall pictures as well so I thought I would show you some pictures I took when we took a recent trip to the river. Well, trip probably isn't the right word because this is only a few minutes from my door but here goes. :) The water was low but still it was beautiful because you could see all the river rocks. We hiked along the riverbank... ....and found a few blooms hanging on. Little LadyBug spotted the sunlight hitting the tree above us just right to catch this shot. The children observed everything closely.... They even managed to learn something new! Yes, that is indeed a porta potty. They had never seen one (well, that they remembered anyway!) and wanted to peek inside LOL. Chalk it up to life experience LOL It was a beautiful day spent together. What treasures are you passing by that would be a fun time for your family?

Summer has slipped away and here we are right in the middle of fall, my favorite time of year! Over the summer we had birthday parties, gardening, the GuitarMan had a big concert with his band, and there were countless evenings spent outside while the children chased fireflies. Well, here, let me just show you! What is summer without grilling out? Our gas grill is great if there is a crowd or we're in a hurry but the taste can't be beat on this old grill!          The sunsets looking out from our back porch were breathtaking! That's the roof of our church you see. FlowerChild and The GuitarMan had birthdays in June. She wanted a Flying Backwards birthday party. What is this, you ask? That is the name of GuitarMan's band. Their symbol is the hummingbird. We bought a plain ice cream cake and her big brother drew their symbol on it. The things a brother will do for his baby sister!! Lots of time was spen...

Every time I sit down to write a post it seems I get interrupted. Do you ever get that feeling? As though you can't finish anything for having to start another? Well, today is no exception for me. I have laundry going and need to finish organizing our playroom/schoolroom. And I don't even want to think about our master bedroom and bathroom. But for now, it looks like I am about to head out the door to take the kiddos to the splashpad. We promised them we would take them today and since we are going to grill chicken for supper we can't be too late. Oh, it never ends LOL. Sometimes you just have to hang on for the ride. ;)

As tempted as I am by that title to post a picture of raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens I will be strong and show you a little something else from my home. ;) Oh, so much I could tell about this little snapshot. For starters, this was in my foyer. However, in my recent organization spree I did some rearranging. Okay, a LOT of rearranging! While the quilt still hangs here, the table has been moved and replaced by the piano. I told you I did a lot! But let me just tell you what I see here. One, the chocolate wall. Autumn  is my favorite time of year and the color of this accent wall just makes me happy. You can't see the bottom of this table but I think it is so pretty with the dark wooden legs and the marble top. Fresh flowers always lift my spirits. But what I really want to show you is the quilt along with the quilt rack. The rack was handmade by my aunt's uncle. Yes, I am Southern and have that need to explain family ties even if we ar...