Nothing to Say

I really have nothing to blog about. My brain is tired. It is Monday evening. Shelly and I had a rough start again this morning. Always on Monday's. Not even Starbucks helps. I am so sleepy but I know that I will not fall right to sleep. My light weight self needs to at least wait until 9:00 pm before I start "tossing and turning" for the evening.

I'm not trying to be the "glass half empty" kind of person tonight. I guess I am not showing my "Joy in the Journey".

I am blessed:

• to be in great health
• to have a great ministry job where I can bless others and be blessed daily
• to have a "healthy" family
• to be The King's Daughter (that should have been first)
• for my feet
• that I know that all of my needs are being provided for (Praise God)
• For my Mom who is my hero
• For my best friend, my husband
• for great friends at work and church

Ok, I'm done with the glass half empty attitude. Thank you Lord~Amen

Another bike ride

I know I seem to be blogging about the same things over and over but seriously, I'm trying all so bear with me...

Ok, Greg and I went out again tonight on a ride together and I am happy to report that I kept up with him. Right with him, on his tail with him! Now in saying this, I am so sore that I can hardly walk, but it's the weekend. I'll be fine....

"Never"

I did it again today! I was in a meeting today and caught myself twice saying "never". I am so afraid of this word anymore. It seems as though it always comes back to haunt me! I have become "Never" phobic. Is that is even a word?

Eating Crow

I give credit when credit is due and it saddens me to admit that my husband kicked my behind while biking yesterday. I have no excuses. He is good. he has been practicing and has been riding with a professional biker and it shows. i am so proud of him!

Well done honey!! The challenge is on!

Trying to get "Hip" with the times take 2

I am really enjoying Facebook! I have now been able to link my blog up to my face page. Love it!!

I admit to be the big fat church skipper this weekend. Was not an intentional thing though. Our vehicle lease was up and we thought we were going to just "look". Well you all know how that goes when you go to just look. 5 1/2 hours later..... we walk out with a new car that we did not expect to leave with.

Then we headed off to see the Dark Knight at the new theater at Coconut Point. Not new to all, but new to us. That theater is beautiful! They have couch chairs! I'm sure that is not the official name for them, but I make up my own names as I go!!

We liked the movie, definitely not for Shelly (unfortunately she was with us though). She covered her ears and eyes for most of the movie.

The reason for blogging about this movie is that as we watched Heath Ledger, my heart ached for him. Such a young life. How sad and depressed he must have been to be so doped up on pills that eventually took his life. He had a bright future. But you all know his future was not in our bright future. His hope was not in our Christ Savior. Heath had talent, but his talent wasn't in Christ did ot include God's talent for him.

I feel for our future young leaders. Look at who they have as role models. I see and hear this everyday in school. Not to mention some of the sights I have seen on Facebook. Way too many of our young kids are being sucked into this dark circle the evil one makes it look so good and alluring. It is our job as educators and parents to stand against this. I know I may be overly opinionated and sometimes very judgemental as I have blogged about earlier but I will not sit quietly about this. Our children are screaming for attention and they will take it from anyone who will listen. Well I'm listening!

Trying to get "hip" with the times

I have just created a Facebook account and was shocked to find lots of my old classmate. Some of them I would like to reconnect with, some not so much. I am amazed at some of the pictures I found. I can see why this is the new cool thing. I feel young again......

If any of my blogging buddies are on Facebook, please add me as a friend so I am not the only loser on with no friends.....

Never say Never

Do you ever feel like God is playing a funny joke on you? Whenever I say never, I can picture my heavenly Father up above smiling down at me, hands nicely folded over and Him shaking His head at me. "Oh dear daughter, why do you say such things?"

Never was my daughter going to sleep in the same bed as me.......she's 9 and she still sleeps with me!

Never would I get my daughter a cell phone at such a young age.....she's 9 and is on her phone all of the time.

The list goes on....

Well tonight, I am at the tanning bed, yes, I fake bake. Most of you know it, so no making fun! There is a mother there in front of me signing her 14 year old daughter up for sessions. This 14 year old girl was stunning. Beautiful skin color. She is too young and far to beautiful to start doing such damage to her skin!!

Here is the deal....I can be very over-opinionated. I think that is really when God teaches me lessons. I am trying real hard not to make a comment here. Please Lord help me, help me not to judge and PLEASE help me not to say the fateful word of _________!!!!!

Being a Mom

Sometimes I forget the reason why I started blogging. I wanted an outlet. A place to write things for my daughter. Over the past few months, I have fallen short of this goal, this task that I created for myself.

I am reminded of this because 2 of my blogging buddies finally became Mom's. I think my favorite title in the world is being called "Mom." Even when I hear my name being called repeatedly, over and over. I still love this name.

Now that you ladies now hold this wonderful title, I say cherish this new name of yours. Lavish in it. Not that I want your little girls to grow up, but the first time you are called "Mommy" by that sweet little voice, you will never forget it.

This is probably one of the hardest job titles that us women will ever hold and yet at the same time it is the most rewarding.

Got the coupon clippin bug

Ok Teri, I'm officially on board with this coupon thing. What became an interest has now possibly become an obsession to the point of pulling out coupons out of my neighbors mailbox. Yes, I will admit it. My neighbors live in St. Louis and we must have a substitute mail person who put weekly coupons in their box. I saw them and yes I took them.

Now that is pretty sad. Can anyone top that?

How Well Do I know my Husband

No comments needed for this recent shot!

1. They are watching TV..... What are they watching? SportsCenter, Jim Krammer, football. Did I mention it is football season????

2. You're out to eat.what kind of dressing do they get on their salad? Usually he asks for Caesar salad which has Caesar dressing already on it. otherwise, he typically orders whatever dressing I order which is anything that is a light dressing on the menu.

3.What's one food this person doesn't like? Meatloaf

4. You go out for a drink. He/she orders... Currently he orders water with lemon.

5 Where did he/she go to high school? East Moline Christian School

6.What size shoe do they wear? 11

7. If this person were to collect anything, it would be? He collects baseball cards. Old drawing he drew in middle and high school. Anything that has Minnesota Vikings on it is a collector's item in our house.

8.What is their favorite type of car? Ferrari

9. This person could eat __________ everyday? Salmon

10.Favorite cereal? Not a big cereal eater

11. This person wouldn't be caught dead wearing... Anything with Bears on it

12.Favorite sports team? Da Cubs, Minnesota Vikings

13.Who will he/she vote for? McCain/Palin

14.What is their sign? We don't do "astrology signs" around here.

15.What is something you do that he wishes you didn't? Spend so much money

16.How many states has this person lived in?3 Illinois, Iowa, and Florida

17.What is his heritage? He's a Swede in every sense of the way!

18.You bake them a cake for their birthday....What kind do they want? Vanilla cake...usually we make him a cake just so we can just eat it. He's not into eating the cake.

19. Does he/she play sports in high school? Basketball Number #42

20. This person could spend hours.... working in the computer

"Keeping an eye on the Tropics"

How many times have we heard this statement this summer? Living here for as long as we have, this statement never gets old to me. I love the thrill of hurricane season. I am sometimes memorized to watching The Weather Channel. Jim Cantore has become a very good friend of mine. As I type this, I am watching TWC. I can't get enough. Even after our summer experience with "The Tornado".

I think I just am addicted to the thrill, the anxiousness of wondering, "what is going to happen next?"As of the latest 2:00 pm advisory (9/6/08) the storm path has moved farther west, taken us on the very right edge of the storm path. I certainly do not want anything bad to happen to our town, but at the same time, I'm a little bummed. In all honesty, I was looking forward to another mini vacation!! We definitely wouldn't stick around for this storm so our plan was to head back to Orlando.

Other than the storm, I managed to read one more chapter in my book! Yeah. I am determined to finish that book by the end of this month. The challenge is on.

The other day a couple of you blogged about how well we know our spouses. Stay tuned!! I know Greg like the back of my hand. I'm excited about his one!!

Reading books

I am officially declaring that I am no longer a book reader. How can I be? I never allow myself the time. I work in education and I cannot finish a book in an appropriate amount of time. I have been reading the same book, Satisfy My Thirsty Soul by Linda Dillow since May 24, 2008. I should be done with this book by now.

It is a very good book and I highly recommend it. For all of you who are readers, check it out.

3 day weekend

I love 3 day weekends during the school year. The thought of 3 days of no work and all play which doesn't happen in our family very often.

We decided to take the opportunity to enjoy our great state of Florida and go to Disney for this long weekend. I wish I was as "blogger" smart as the rest of you to post awesome sights, but my words will have to be enough for now.

What was especially exciting about our trip is that we were meeting up with family members from New Orleans that we haven't seen in 5 years. They left on Thursday morning before the storm under no evacuations and really wasn't sure what the storm was going to do to them. Once we arrived with them on Saturday morning, their area was under the mandatory evacuations. Not to mention while waiting in line for the Peter Pan line, Southwest Airlines called them to cancel their for home for Tuesday. Besides being bummed by the storm, what a great place to be stuck at!! They bought the Disney insurance so Disney will pay them money to stay after Tuesday. Basically, until New Orleans opens back up, they are living off of Disney right now.

All said, besides the minor distraction of constant hurricane updates from our phones, we had a wonderful weekend. All of our Disney dreams came true. I'm not sure who had more fun, the kids, or us adults. Hum???