PROJECT 365-week nine

 Week 9.

WATERING DAY FOR MY INDOOR TRANSPLANTS...love seeing what they're up to in their west-facing window.  Another hibiscus bloom, new leaves on my prayer plant and an unexpected gift from my cholea...it passed a seed to my hibiscus and grew and new little cholea

TUESDAY, 2.22.11

WEDNESDAY, 2.23.11

GRABBING MY KNITTING PROJECT AFTER WRITING HUBS A NOTE ABOUT HIS DINNER, I HEAD OUT TO WORK ON MY PRAYER SHAWL WITH SOME OTHER WONDERFUL PRAYER WARRIORS...

THURSDAY, 2.24.11

SOME LEFTOVERS WERE IN ORDER...USING THE JAMBALAYA WITH PORK/SHRIMP/RICE, I ADDED EXTRA SPICES AND CHEES AND IT BECAME ENCHILADAS.

FRIDAY, 2.25.11

BABYGIRL CALLED; HER VOICE WAS TENDER AND A LITTLE HOMESICK.  (WELL, IT DOESN'T TAKE A 2 BY 4 HITTING ME IN THE HEAD TO RESPOND TO MY DAUGHTER'S REQUEST.  

HUBS AND I DROVE THE EXPLORER HER WAY...WE SPENT THE DAY SHOPPING AT A MALL ABOUT 45 MINUTES FROM HER CAMPUS...

WE ATE AND LINGERED AT A RUBY TUESDAY

THERE WAS A NEAT LITTLE LAKE HOUSE (RESTROOMS, PICNIC TABLES) LOOKING OUT OVER THE LAKE FROM THE TWO-STORY DECK...

 WE SAT A TALKED FOR A WHILE THEN WALKED AROUND THE LAKE...

MY HEART FILLED THROUGHOUT THE DAY..I'M SO PROUD OF HER. HOPEFULLY OUR TRIP REKINDLED HER TO MAKE IT THE NEXT FEW WEEKS THEN IT WILL BE  TIME FORE SPRING BREAK!

ON THE WAY HOME WE STOPPED TO LOOK AT A HOUSE THAT WAS FOR SALE ON ONE OF THE LOCAL LAKES....BUT IT WAS A LITTLE TOO DARK TO SEE MUCH, EXCEPT A GORGEOUS SUNSET FROM THEIR DECK.

HOPE YOU'VE HAD A GOOD WEEK 

COME JOIN US AND SHOW US WHAT YOU WERE UP TO....
Blessings,

POST-IT NOTE TUESDAY (PINT)...president's holiday recap

JOINING ONLY PARENT CHRONICLES WITH MY LITTLE STICKIES...To make your own stickies,click HERE...then link up to ONLY PARENT CHRONICLES and link up...

Blessings,

CELEBRATION GIVEAWAY...& the winner is:

THANKS FOR LEAVING COMMENTS while celebrating my 100th follower.  I decided the giveaway would be the last 'SHAWL' I made this past week.

FOURTEEN DIFFERENT COMMENTS WERE KINDLY LEFT AT MY SITE.

I LOADED the range onto a random number generator and pressed 'generate'.  

True Random Number Generator

Min:

Max:

Result: 9 


NUMBER 9 on my list of commenters:  SARA (FROM 'MAKE MUSIC FROM YOUR HEART TO THE LORD")!  I'll email you a message for your 'snail mail' address and it will be soon on it's way to you.  Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Sunday!

Blessings, 

PROJECT 365

JOINING SARA FOR PROJECT 365...CLICK EACH PIC FOR A LARGER VIEW

DAY 44, SUNDAY NO PICS
DAY 45, MONDAY    ALWAYS WATER MY 'TRANSPLANTS' FROM THE YARD ON MONDAYS.  THEY LOOKED LONELY SO I ADDED MY WHITE ANGEL WITH HIS GOLDEN SASH HOLDING THE LITTLE RABBIT.  HE WAS A THRIFT FIND.  THE LITTLE PIG-TAILED TODDLER WAS ALSO A FIND.
YOU CAN'T SEE HER LITTLE WINGS IN THIS PICTURE BUT SHE DOES HAVE TWO LITTLE DAINTY ONES ON HER BACK. (I STILL NEED TO CHECK THIS ONE ON LINE...SHE HAS MARKINGS, AND I BELIEVE SHE MAY HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE 40'S)
THEY ARE NOW ENJOYING SITTING WITH THE PLANTS.  THIS MAKES THE 4TH TIME MY HIBISCUS HAS BLOOMED SINCE I BROUGHT IT IN FROM THE COLD..THEY'RE SURELY LIKING THE SUN COMING IN FROM THE WEST
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DAY 46, TUESDAY

NOT MY NORMAL DAY FOR THRIFTING BUT I FOUND MYSELF ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN AND IT WAS TOO HARD TO RESIST.  
THE SHOES WERE TOO WELL PRICED TO PASS UP, ONE PAIR ITALIAN LEATHER THE OTHER PAIR ETIENNE AIGNER'S.  
I ALSO FOUND BLOUSES, ENOUGH TO HAVE TO DO ANOTHER LOAD OF LAUNDRY WHEN I GOT HOME...IT WAS WORTH IT...I GOT EACH OF THEM FOR $2 

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DAY 47, WEDNESDAY

STARTED CROCHETING A NEW SHAWL FROM MY 'REMNANTS' BAG.     FINISHED IT ON SATURDAY...JUST A FEW ENDS TO TUCK HERE AND THERE.  IT WAS QUICK USING DOUBLE STRANDS OF YARN AND A SIZE 'Q' NEEDLE.

DAY 48, THURSDAY

DAY 49, FRIDAY NO PICS

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DAY 50, SATURDAY   WOKE AT 6:30AM THIS MORNING HAVING FALLEN ASLEEP ON THE COUCH.  I WAS NOT ABOUT TO GET UP FOR THE DAY, SO I STARTED UPSTAIRS TO THE BEDROOM. HAD TO CAPTURE A QUICK PIC OF MR. MOON STILL HANGING AROUND AS THE SUN WAS COMING UP...CLICK EACH PIC FOR A LARGER VIEW

COME JOIN US; I'D LOVE TO SEE YOUR PICS, TOO...JUST LEAVE ME A MESSAGE.  P.S. YOU'VE STILL GOT TIME TO SIGN UP FOR MY GIVEAWAY...I'LL BE DRAWING AFTER CHURCH.  Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance @ my giveaway here...

Blessings,

FLASHBACK FRI...A TOTAL WRECK

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance @ my giveaway here... 

                           
TODAY WE'RE thinking

 primarily of our growing-up years of DRIVING:  Around the age of 24, a driver in front of me had stopped.. then started again when merging onto an expressway.  Suddenly she STOPPED AGAIN!  No one was coming from the left but my foot had already gassed it before seeing her tail lights. Crunch!  There were no cell phones to call the police.  

The first traffic ticket?  Oh, it was about 50 feet passed a stop sign in front of my boyfriend's church, hahahah!  Truly.  Being sixteen and having my Mother in my passenger seat actually made it easier.  She agreed I had stopped, but the 'new recruit' policeman said,

'Young lady, Did you realize that was a real stop sign you just ran?  You did not make a 3-second, 4-wheel stop?'

He made that statement just after tapping on my window with his 'billy stick'...yep, to get me to roll down my window.

"guess I looked back a 'gang banger' in my silver-blue Beetle with my Mother."     (he didn't show in court; the judge gave me a warning and $25 court costs.)   So there, Mr. Rooky, sir.  

One of our youth was killed a few years back in an fiery highway accident with a transfer truck.  This changed many lives in many ways, and we will never forget him...

(He was so sweet and helpful...always my 'strong arm' helping with boxes of pizza or other food.)

Before babygirl was born, we witnessed a motorcyclist t-bone a car (who ran out in front of him), flying over two cars and landing in front of us.  Thankfully, Hubs was a 'Red Cross' first responder and knew exactly what to do...holding the cyclist down until the ambulance got there.

(The really scary part:  He had just dropped off their 5yo daughter at grandpa's house before getting hit). 

Seat belts weren't involved in riding in a car until my teen years.  I would roll myself up in a ball in the backseat floor board, listening to the tires on the myriad of pavements as we would traveled to Florida for family vacations. 

(Maybe I need to do that on hormonal nights when I can't sleep; maybe hubs would be willing to drive me around while I lie in the backseat floor board!)

Come join in at MOCHA WITH LINDA...I want to hear your adventures.

DRAWING IN THANKS

Yesterday this blog hit a milestone I never thought would happen...
my 100th follower joined into this blogdom....YIPPEE!


A celebration for sharing, you with me and me with you...
a GIVEAWAY


Short and sweet


Leave me a comment between now and Sunday, 2/20


so I can draw for the GIVEAWAY...


I'm thinking it will be one of my 'creations':
could it be a 'prayer cloth'
or a 'shawl'
or 'some fingerless gloves'
or a 'thrifty' find?  
Not sure yet, but I'll know when I post the winner.

Jer. 33:3

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."     Blessings,

POST-IT-NOTE TUESDAY

BEFORE I post my notes, just had to share this: 

On a recent trip...happened to have my camera.   What would you think if you saw this plate?...hahahahah, 'jes sayin'

So....On to my POSTIES...

 

Blessings!

CELEBRATING BeStill&Know

Three years ago today, 2/14/2008, she started sharing with the world-wide web of readers (those close by and most from around the world).  

She jumped into this new medium as a ‘need to escape’…but I believe it more came from her love of journaling.  A journaling helping focus His ‘looking glass’ of self realization through His Scriptures.  Today, she posted a GIVEAWAY to celebrate her blogging adventure...I love giveaways, don't you?  

(A picture of BS&K @ our women’s retreat in 2008)

(Psalm 62:9 “Common people…a puff of wind….lighter than a breath of air.)  I’m blessed because our puffs of breath are intertwined as friends and as blogging buddies…blessed in sharing the unfolding of God’s plan.  Her 'blogging' intrigued ‘the writer’ in me to ‘jump’ down that same rabbit hole to see what existed in the ‘land of blogging’.  Go read what insight she’s sharing today, you might decide to 'jump' down the blogging rabbit hole…and you can put your name in the pot to WIN her GIVEWAY! Just click it!

FINDING THEIR ADULT...mommy moments

When they're babies, it's hard to believe they'll one day be an ‘adult’.  They each want to grow quickly...to make personal choices and be on their own (even before knowing about paying the bills and earning money).
 
Dear Christian Daughters/Sons:
Throughout the years, limits and consequences SEEM like punishment, but it's really protection and teaching, deciding consequences, and struggling when guiding tightly or loosely.  


Your daily decisions can be like looking down into the ocean, seeing a blur of activity and not seeing the dolphin until it’s close to the surface...out of the depths and suddenly in your face. 


Youth obliviousness will transform into adult awareness gradually through little and big choices.  Each choice chisels away unveiling you, striking deeper into your reality:  moment by moment choosing grace and truth 
or 
choosing evil's temptations, accepting his guise of fun or “it’s just one time”

Praying God protects through any poor choices while sending GREATER blessings through good and right choices.  He and His Words, His Sacrifice, His Resurrection and Eternal Relationship is our gift through His Grace.  

Desiring God’s BEST is what I desire for ALL new adults...God’s guidance in every decision.  

LOVE you ALL,

Psalm 22:30 

”As the word is passed along from parent to child. Babies not yet conceived will hear the good news— that God does what he says.”

Psalm 103:6 “As parents feel for their children, God feels for those who fear him. He knows us inside and out”