Hear that?

Do you hear it? Listen....
Nope, I don't hear it either.
It's the sound of quiet.
Husband is back to work.
Kids are back to school.
I Am Alone!
But, I'm back to work too.
The Christmas decorations are coming down.
I'm doing an early spring cleaning.
A fresh new year, a fresh clean house.
Ahhhhh.

As of Right Now...

I am stuffed from eating thin crust pepperoni/onion pizza

My cat is cleaning her toes

Phoebe is tending to Abby's horse on the DSi and eating pickles

Abby is playing with Barbie, Ken and a large stuffed chipmunk

Perry is working
OK, that's not a sad thing, it's just that he's away from home.

Food Network is on TV

I have happiness because I finished my sisters birthday gift shopping 23 days before her birthday

Phoebe just burped pickle burp in my face

I have a giveaway brewing in my head, although I don't have a gift to give away yet.

That's it. I'm looking forward to later, when the kids are in bed, and I can read in peace.

The Silence is Deafening

Phoebe and Abigail are spending the night at grandmas house. They have been waiting all day to get over there. Phoebe has been packed for two days, and she wasn't even sure it was going to happen. They both packed for a weeks stay, but they will be home tomorrow.

Perry and I were going to have a nice date night, and some nice alone time.

That is until he got a call this afternoon to go to a job 4 hours from here.
He'll be gone overnight and be home sometime tomorrow. sigh.

I had some great plans for my time alone. Take a walk, grab a cup of JO to GO, and sit in my sun room and read my book. HA

You know what I really did?

I made a large pan of lasagna, ate a row of it, and read blogs, and watched Vlog-emos. I'm heading to the strawberry shortcake soon.

Nice huh? (shaking head)

It is so quiet here. It's good for now, but I wouldn't want this all the time.

I think know God wants to talk to me. I'm ignoring Him. He's not buying it. Typical parent/child scenario. Except, He's God! and well... enuf said.

I better go. (trudges off to face my Father)

Just Another Manic Monday

It's not really manic here. Just put an old Bangles song in my title, because it fit with it being Monday.

Nothing really worth writing about over here. Just another day. I guess that's a good thing. Nobody is sick, or hurt. So much for nobody hurt... updated about 5 minutes later, than when I typed this. Just got a call from school that Phoebe hit her head on the slide, but is ok. They checked her pupils out to see if they were dilating, (they are) and she refused an ice pack and wants to go back to class, but they need to call us and let us know what's going on.

Nice and quiet. The T.V. is off, Abby is playing in the basement. Perry is working in his office in the basement. I did some cleaning, then talked to a friend/cousin-in-law for over an hour.

And after stepping on the scale this morning, SHOCKED with what I saw, I will be walking on my treadmill shortly, and I will NEVER eat again. OK, so I will eat again, but I am going to try to eat healthier. Good grief! C'mon how does one gain 4 pounds in a weekend? How can those few pieces of cinnamon bread among other breads and fries, and burgers, and other assorted junk put 4 pounds on me? :o/ Ugh.

Amanda at The House With The Blue Door received my Pay It Forward gifts, and now wants to pay it forward herself. Like me, she doesn't get a lot of blog traffic, so if anyone wants to receive some great little gifts, or knows somebody who does, she wants to Pay It Forward to you/somebody. Swing on over to her house with the blue door, (her blog) and sign up.

I was just staring at a cute little address book that I have next to me, and it has a bible scripture on it that reads...Encourage one another daily...Hebrews 3:13. So here is my encouragement for you today...


Psalm 34:4 - I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.


Wow, that says a lot! We seek, He answers, and delivers. We can pile up a lot of fears in our life. Just knowing that God can deliver us from ALL of them is encouraging.

Seek Him today. May He bless all of you. I know I feel blessed.

Oh sheet!

My dryer buzzes and I go take out the sheets that were in there. As always, all the sheets and pillowcases are wrapped inside one of the fitted sheets. Of course they are still damp in places and wrinkled.

This drives me crazy!

Does anyone have a solution that really works, so the sheets don't get balled up inside of one?

Does the tennis ball in the dryer really work?

Would it be wrong for me to have my small child in the dryer keeping them separated for me while it spins? I'm kidding, folks. Not the child, maybe the cat though? Kidding again. Geesh, must be April Fools Day tomorrow.
Suggestions are welcome. I will try them and report the results.

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I received my winnings from CC at His Heart this morning. A wonderful array goodies to make a recipe that was on her blog. The bag of sweet peppers look too pretty to eat. But I will.

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I just got off the phone with a wonderful sister in Christ. We talk too long, but she is such an inspiration to my walk with Christ, that I don't mind the lengthy talks.

Which means that the morning is gone and my child probably needs lunch. And my sheets need folding, even though they are probably still wet in spots and wrinkled.

It's a cold, rainy miserable day out there. March came in like a lion and it's going out like a lion. That's not right. Where's the lamb in all this? April better be full of lamb weather. Easter is in April, so I will be filled with the Lamb of God. Good enough.

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Lazy Day of Sunday

It's a good day to laze around the house after a great morning at church.

The message at church was something I needed to hear. Our regular pastor was speaking at another church out of town, so we had the youth pastor preach. It's cute how I can tell he's a youth pastor, by the way he speaks to us. Real clear and simple so a kid can understand it. I like that, and I need that sometimes.

He spoke of how we are the invitations of the church. We have our testimony, so we need to speak it out to others, let them know that there is hope for their life. We can hand out real paper, what we call invitations, to a church service or something, but those are just information, WE are the invitations. Never thought about it that way before. It's sounds pretty simple and lame the way I am writing it here, but it was a powerful sermon, that spoke to me.

You too, are an invitation to others to get to know Christ, if you have a personal relationship with God and His Son, Jesus. Be that invitation. Invite them to church, or just to talk. Show them the Christ that lives in you.
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After a wonderful lunch of eggplant parmesan, and spaghetti, I am heading to my room to read. I got 3 new books from the library last week, and I am diving in. No doubt a nap will accompany my reading. :o)

Later tonight, I am heading back to church for a prayer meeting for some who are going on a missions trip to Mexico. One of the team members asked me to be her prayer partner for before, and during the trip. I am more than happy to pray for her and the others going on this trip.

No school for Phoebe tomorrow, so it's going to be a easy night with a get-up-any-time-I-want-to kind of morning. HA, ya right, any time I want to.

The 3 inches of snow we had last night and this morning is pretty much gone already. Love that.

It's been a good day so far. Satan usually gets his rotten face in our Sundays and tries to wreck them. Not today though. He can go to hell, for all I care. Oh yeah, he will be soon enough.

Come Lord Jesus, come.

Happy Sunday to all of you.

Today brings...

Today brings....

Fresh fallen snow. Ugh. Does it not know that it is officially Spring? It will be sunny and in the 50's today, so I'm ready to say goodbye to the fresh fallen snow, and the rest that is still lingering around from winter.

Shopping. Grandma wants to buy the girls their Easter outfits. Who am I to say no? Lunch too? I'll treat her, even though she will argue with me about that. If she argues too much, she's buying.

A visit from my nephew, niece, and their 6 month old daughter. They live 2 hours away, so they don't get to visit often. They tell me their daughter is more social now. She's past the stage where she would cry if you looked at her. So this should be fun. And she is a cutie! Tons of dark hair, and the biggest eyes ever.

Perry working away from home until Friday.
I knew he had to be gone next week, but this weekend job came up at the last minute. So I thought he was going to be home Sunday night, then leave again Monday, but he will just continue on to another 2 jobs until Friday. I am a little sad about that, but I'll survive.

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I'm going back to bed. Have a great weekend.

A New Day Dawns

It's 6:25 a.m. I've been up since 5:50. My cat meowed politely wanting her breakfast. I fell asleep early last night, so having plenty of sleep I obliged in feeding her. Otherwise her meows would have eventually turned into roars. No kidding, that girl can be loud. Sounds like a crying baby.

I checked my e-mails already, read updated blogs. Realized you people have things to talk about, and I do not.

The sun is just starting to rise. My cardinal couple just showed up. I have suet hanging in my tree in the front yard and they are the first to show up at it every morning. The male is singing joyfully, and the female is knocking at my front window. She has been doing this for over 2 years. She hops from the tree branch and gives a couple knocks with her beak. Sometimes it can go on for a long time. She does this throughout the day. It's right under our bedroom, so it's not always a joy to hear this early in the morning. Today it is a joy.

Phoebe doesn't have school today, due to winter recess, so the girls had a "sleepover" in Abby's room. I put them to bed a little after 9 last night, because Abby was zonking out big time. Phoebe wanted to read so I put Abby's eye mask on her (Abby) so the light wouldn't bother her. Phoebe was reading out loud, so I don't think Abby slept much.

I went to bed also, to read, and a little while after I settled in, I hear a bunch of pounding. I'm trying to figure out what it is, and of course my mind thinks someone is breaking in to take my kids. After a few more listens, I get up to attack the intruder. I look in Abby's room, expecting to see them sleeping peacefully, but open the door to Abby tap-dancing on her little stairs that lead up to her bed. Well, that is better than an intruder, but I had to stop their fun. No tap dancing after 9 girls.

All was quiet after that. I read some more then dropped off to sleep myself.

Which brings me back to this morning. The sun is still in it's stages of rising. The sky is pink and orange, and it looks cold out there. One click on Weatherbug tells me it's 2.8 degrees, with a 5 below windchill. Good day to stay in p.j.'s and go nowhere.

It's so quiet in the house when all is asleep. Sometimes I think back to when I was single and this was the norm for me. No noise unless I wanted to make it. Sometimes these days, I long for those quiet days. But I wouldn't want to be without my husband and children permanently, so I just look forward to mornings like this one, and thank God for the quiet He did give me, when the troops start waking up.

Speaking of God, I should be spending this quiet time with Him instead of this computer. I've been snotty to Him all week. Not wanting to pray, or talk to Him. Not wanting to open my bible.
And I'm doing this on purpose. He's knocking and I am not answering. I just didn't want to deal with Him over something, but now I'm ready to. Not that God deals, I'm ready to listen. He should sit me in a corner to think about it. Oh, He already has sat me in a corner. All week I have been thinking about my attitude, and now I'm ready to confess and repent and ask His forgiveness.

So off I go. I leave you with the risen sun, while I go talk to my Father and His risen Son.