My Dad has cancer and this is just a beautiful and honest song about how we all just want it to be okay when cancer rears its ugly head.
Ingrid Michaelson – “Be OK” Stand Up To Cancer
Marriage Monday: Why Wives Need Loving Conversation First
(My Garnet and I, taken weeks before our marriage and nowwe are only weeks away from 10 married years together.)
ROMANCE~Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love:
I think women need the extra attention and effort of loving conversation before intimacy because everything in our minds is connected and if are going to switch from multitasking to only him tasking we need some leading down that one lane road.
Talking helped me the most when I was fatigued in the midst of four pregnancies and babies. Talking about it helped me remember it… it was my needed moment to reach the ‘HELLO HUSBAND!” moment.
Call to me sweetly,
whisper sweet nothings to me…
if for no other reason then simple to shut the rest of my mind off;)
whisper sweet nothings to me…
if for no other reason then simple to shut the rest of my mind off;)
That is my little bit!
TTFN
Favorite Verse From April’s Hymn
Lower and lower; yet higher we rise
Lifted in Christ, freed from all the earth ties:
Humbly we follow the way of the cross.
Then, crowns of glory, and gain for all loss.
Lifted in Christ, freed from all the earth ties:
Humbly we follow the way of the cross.
Then, crowns of glory, and gain for all loss.
So pretty… I guess I let my attraction to this song get the better of me… truth is it is the first one I feel like I didn’t get a handle on before the end of the month… I guess no more messing around, time to pick ones I have notes to follow with as I learn, thus ones in my old hymnal that I have at home. I decided this project would never become a source of stress and discouragement for me so my rule is that I can always come back to older ones and keep working on them as time goes by so I guess I will be revisiting this piece.
P.S. May’s hymn coming soon!
TTFN
Learning From You
Oh Baby Boy, I learn so much from you as I do from all my kids. Lately I have been learning to find the good rhythm in life. Your rhythm is always JOY. You take great joy in everything and we affectionately call you ‘our personal musical’ for a reason. Life is a musical to you, a singing and dancing show! If you see a car you make a ‘rrrrmmmm‘ noise and then proceed to break into a ‘rrrum da da da dum‘ song and so with anything else that your eyes devour you turn your excitement into song and dance. If you find your own song, or someone elses, right on then you can’t help but kick your legs out in your very manly little dance. You are a ‘funk’ music lover and it suits you.
A person must slow down to work on their personal sound track all the time. I remember as a child picking songs that would be perfect played over my life at such and such a moment and then I would sing them and you remind me of me in this way. Thank you for reminding Mommy of a good piece of herself and thank you for being you!
TTFN
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
Time and time again Christ reminds me that he is my reputations protector and that I can’t control how people feel about me. There comes a point where obedience to Christ must come before pleasing men.
It is hard for me to swallow this… I hate to fail people or to have them feel I failed them, especially when I love them so much… I have learned pleasing people often becomes dangerously close to an idol in my life… and I need to put Christ ahead of that too! I also know this will be a process for me but if I really love others I will never again put their relationship with me ahead of my Lord, for their sake and for mine…
Even today the above verse came to mind as a wound threatened to burst.
I used to see it as a further reminder that I must be doing something wrong because there are some who just aren’t happy with me but then my man reminded me about the ‘as much as in you lieth.’ I see that if I find peace with people that is what lies with me…to find the peace and hold onto it. Even if their anger remains I can’t control it but instead must love that person enough to take it all to the feet of Christ for I can trust my friend in his care… May my sorrow at the remaining anger not affect my response to them when they in turn find Jesus Christ’s healing. Love hopes.TTFN
Dad’s Cancer
Just to update, for those of you praying for our family in this area, my dad’s surgery went really well but we found out recently that the cancer has spread. He will be coming down in a couple weeks for a scan to see how much and where it has spread. Radiation is now on the table as a possible treatment but we don’t know anything else for now.
TTFN
The Cozy
(The blue hat like item next to me is our new tea cozy! Simple but effective, it just needs a pom-pom to spice it up.)Celebration and sunshine for a snowy April day. We broke out Big Girls precious tea party set and had munchies for lunch this past Sunday afternoon. The newest edition to our set was a tea cozy from Auntie Mirelle. Thanks to our cozy the tea stayed lovely and hot.
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.~Billy Connolly
Big Girls tea set is a collection of love. It is mixed matched smallish dishes that where patiently collected by her Nanny. We keep these treasures wrapped in pretty tissue paper and packaged in a pink velvet box. Big Girl takes great care to unwrap them for each party and wrap them back up when it is time to put them away.
Not all the cups are actual tea cups and rarely do they find their matching saucer but we all enjoy them this whimsy way.
Near the bottom of the pink velvet box we found custard cups this time and decided they needed to be used. We had no custard but frozen vanilla yogurt made a good stand in and the kids didn’t seem to mind at all.
TTFN
(The tea party table cloth is my favorite piece of this collection. It is hand embroidered with sweet tea cups and flowers.)
We followed up the tea party with a dance party to this new cd I had been given. My crew just loves it, Baby Boy included. It is funk and they get so happy and bouncy when I put it on, a great way to shake the hyper right out of them on such a day.
“This was for sure an adventure day Mama.” my Big Boy said as we sipped tea. I had to chuckle. How sweet that my kids, the boys and the girls, can get so much pleasure out of something so easy for me to do… something so simple and un-flashy…
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~C.S.Lewis
Vows All Over Again
Wow, it is so much harder to write your own vows. The first time we just read the traditional ones out and this time (for our vow renewal ceremony) we decided, naively, to write our own. I was smart enough to start taking notes, you know, when I am spontaneously inspired and filled with feelings about my man and trying to put this love into words right away.
I think it is harder now because we have been through so much together, changed so much, know so much more about the good and bad parts… it is a crazy and beautiful love because of this too. He knows my faults and I know his and we love one another too… crazy…
If you think of me pray for the words to come so I can do my love for this man justice. The ceremony is only about seven weeks away!
TTFN
Nothing Profound
They aren’t profound, just adorable. They where smiling at me from the sales section of a grocer I stopped in at and I had to say hello. Once we said hello I knew they needed to come home, especially since these tiny nesting bowls where on for more then 50% off. Not only are they cheery colors but are a lovely sturdy weight and as you can see they are measuring cups too. Sweet!
TTFN
