too busy!

wow....my life is super busy right now!  since i last posted an update, i have:

• went and spent some time with my mom and dad, helped them open the pool!  cannot wait until summer vacation so i can catch some rays and enjoy it!
• worked, worked, worked, worked
• went to the zoo with bluedotprincess
• had an awesome date night with my hubs
• eating out at flip burger, yummo!
• shopping
• seeing a movie in an actual movie theater!  
• we saw something borrowed, total girl movie and i loved it!
• went shopping with bluedotprincess, who declared after 5 stores: 'mom, i am tired of shopping, i never knew girls could be tired of shopping!'
• had lunch with my mom, sister and bluedotprincess to celebrate mother's day
• took bluedotprincess to the movies (gasp, 2 movies in 2 days, what is the world coming too?)
• we saw Prom, it was cute, bluedotprincess really liked it.
• enjoyed fellowshipping and bible study with our small group...love, love, love these people!
• spent a little time with my bluedotkids and opened mother's day gifts
• bluedotdad wrote me a letter for mother's day = priceless gift!
• lunch out with my family at carrabba's for mother's day
• celebrated my son's 17th birthday, where has the time gone?

whew....i am even more tired after i just put it all down!  busy, busy, busy!  counting down the school days until the teachers are gone, then a few more days for me and then SUMMER VACATION!!!

hope you all have had a blessed few weeks,

prayers requested for the people of alabama

the bluedots and our immediate family are safe and sound.  while we suffered no losses, there are very many in our state and in the southern states that have lost everything, some even their lives.  my heart is heavy and i am sadden beyond words.

dear blog world, please pray for us, the people of alabama.  

thursday thunks!

today i am linking up with thursday thunks

The TT questions are brought to you by Berleen, the color of green grass and the number 576

1. Describe yourself, in sentences, using the main word of the sentence with the letters in the word: VANITY

really sentences?!? ok i will start the sentences with the letter and not have the letter be the main word, because that is too hard!

very happy that today is my friday and i have the day off tomorrow!

annoyed easily by stupid people

needs a vacation on the beach soon 

is hoping that the vacation happens soon as i am in serious need!

thank goodness this sentence part is almost over!

yells to get my children's attention sometimes, no judging please...you would too if you were in my shoes!

2. List things you own using the letters in the word:POSSESSION

purses, and to bluedotdad you can never have too many!

oil as in cooking

shoes, also to bluedotdad you can never have too many!

scarf's

earrings

sunglasses

sugar

index cards

orange juice

necklaces

3. List food items that you absolutely will not eat using the letters in the word: DISGUSTING

dog food...smells bad enough fixing my four legged children their food each day!

insects

sardines

ginger ale...drank too much while pregnant, makes me sick at my stomach

unsweetened chocolate

spinach and eggs

tuna fish

innards

nougat, too much dental work to worry with that stuff!

giblet gravy

4. List things you do online using the letters in the word: USB CABLE

upload pictures

shop 

blog

create picture art

announce where i am to annoy others

bank

like status updates on facebook

escape reality to play mindless games like bejeweled or bubble spinner

happy thursday blog world,

it's wednesday and another hodgepodge...

happy wednesday...i am linking up with joyce over at from this side of the pond for wednesday hodgepodge.


1. What are your plans for Easter Day/weekend? good friday will be spent with bluedotprincess as bluedotteen has school and bluedotdad has work...saturday we will get things ready for sunday....sunday is church followed by lunch with my side of the family at our house....of course we will be hunting eggs after lunch and hopefully will get to visit a bunch!

2. Besides Jesus, what one person from The Bible would you most like to meet and why?  i would love to meet mary, jesus' mother...i just look at her as the mother of our savior and think about how difficult it was to let him go about his business.  i would just love to hear her first person accounts of jesus childhood.

3. What is one modern day convenience you didn't have as a child that was easy to live without? my cell phone...i have forgotten it lately, not on purpose, and i lived, the earth didn't end, no one perished because i couldn't reach them or they couldn't reach me for 15-30 minutes...it was actually nice to not have my phone ring when i was grocery shopping, etc...

4. Are you more right brained or left brained? If you don't know what that means there is an interesting little quiz here.  here is my results: 

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being: 

Left Brain	Right Brain
52%	48%

You are more left-brained than right-brained. Your left brain controls the right side of your body. In addition to being known as left-brained, you are also known as a critical thinker who uses logic and sense to collect information. You are able to retain this information through the use of numbers, words, and symbols. You usually only see parts of the "whole" picture, but this is what guides you step-by-step in a logical manner to your conclusion. Concise words, numerical and written formulas and technological systems are often forms of expression for you. Some occupations usually held by a left-brained person include a lab scientist, banker, judge, lawyer, mathematician, librarian, and skating judge.

5. What is something you intended to do today but didn't? Why? so far have finished all my to do's for the day...i know i am boring!

6. Cadbury Creme Eggs or Reeses peanut butter? oh my goodness, how can you ask me to choose?  i like them both, but i suppose my favorite would be the reese's eggs....regular reese cups are not the same!

7. Who was your favorite cartoon character when you were a child? sorry i can't have just one, it was the smurfs...i am beyond excited about the smurf movie...

8. Insert your own random thought here. for all you parents who eat the ears off of those easter bunnies:

happy easter blog friends....i hope you are celebrating christ's resurrection this sunday, 

prom

saturday night my baby boy got dressed up and took a gorgeous girl to the prom.  they looked stunning!

time is flying by too fast...seems like just yesterday i was holding him in my arms. i couldn't be prouder of the man my son is growing into...many happy memories were made this weekend!

blessings,

it's wednesday and that means a hodgepodge!

happy wednesday bloggy friends!  today is wednesday hodgepodge over at from this side of the pond with joyce.  i am linking up and here are my answers:

1. Would you rather talk to everyone at a crowded party for a short time or have a significant conversation with two people? it really depends on my mood...there are times that i am a social butterfly and want to talk to everyone at a party or gathering...while at other times i am really in need of a connection with a few certain people to catch up and go deeper than 'how are you', etc...

2. What objects do you remember from your parent's living room?  from growing up i remember a wall mural that was of a fall stream scene in the mountains.  we lived in a log cabin and it was there when we moved it...it stayed for several years and then was wallpapered over close to when i graduated from high school.  the other thing that i remember from my parent's living room is fun times there hanging out with my sister and our friends...lots of great memories in the living room!  

3. Do you hog the bed? Steal the covers? Snore? i admit it...i steal the covers!  poor bluedotdad wakes up cold all the time because i have all of the covers!

4. Speaking of Easter dinner....what is your favorite way to cook/eat lamb? Or does just the thought of that make you squeamish? If you're not cooking lamb what will be your entree du jour on Easter Sunday?  we don't eat lamb for easter.  we typically have a ham.  i love easter sunday and the excuse to have a wonderful family dinner at my house.

5. Let's throw some politics into this week's mix-oooohhh...Do you know the whereabouts of your birth certificate and when was the last time you had to produce it to prove you're you? yes, i do and i also know the whereabouts of all of the bluedot birth certificates.  i last needed my birth certificate when we moved back to birmingham from durham, nc to get my driver's license changed.

6. As a child, how did people describe you? that curly haired little girl...still curly headed!

7. What do you complain about the most? right now my complaints are mainly about bluedotteen...complaining about his homework, chores, etc being completed.  i am paying for my raising, as my parents BOTH cursed me to have children just like me.  bluedotteen is just like me.  

8. Insert your own random thought here. bluedotprincess quote: 'wouldn't it be cool if we could fly around and our butts would light up like the lightening bugs'  -- i think that would be cool!

y'all have a wonderful wednesday...and if you are so inspired, head on over to from this side of the pond and link up with joyce and wednesday hodgepodge!

listening for god

i am trying to be still and listen to what god says...it is hard.  i have lots of junk in my head, lots of noise, lots of distractions...  i know that i am not alone.  we visited a small group at our church on saturday night and there was a discussion about hearing god.  my husband summed up the night's discussion this way:


'I was meditating this morning on our conversations last night I made a connection.  There appeared to be several threads of conversations taking place.  The first relating to the fact that God is speaking to us all of the time and that we just need to listen to him.  If we could all just take time to be still and listen, we might hear what He is saying to us.  Elise's examples of how God has spoken to her over the past few weeks was quite inspiring.  A second thread concerned parenting and the frustrations many of us are experiencing at the moment allowing our kids to make mistakes.  Several of us said that we continually give our kids advice and that they continually ignore it....anyone getting the connection.  Imagine how frustrated our Father is when we ignore him.  In my current frustrations as the parent of a teen, I have an inkling of an idea.'


as a parent of a teenager i see and understand what is like to be ignored...wow...how many times have i ignored god?  last week i had an instance where i was in the drive thru line at a fast food restaurant, where i had this strong urge to pay for the food of the lady in line behind me...it was a urgent feeling, nagging feeling...i didn't listen to it.  i am ashamed, looking back i feel like god was telling me to do this for this lady and i didn't listen.

i am trying to quiet myself, quiet the noise, spend more time in prayer with god and listen for him and his instructions for me.


many blessings,