Living Life Beautifully

Ah....the beauty of the mind. So.... The other day I was working on altering a dress from a single one piece item to a skirt and top. It turned out really cute. I wore it to church on sunday . As I was working on it I had to keep trying it on, walk in front of a mirror and try to figure out what needed to be done with it while it was on my body. No easy task. I mentioned to my husband that it would be so cool if I had one of those dress forms, you know, kinda like a headless body that you can pin into. Bruce decided that would be a great thing for me to have and proceeded to look online and see what was available. After some frustrating moments of searching, we found them, and they were out of our price range, of course. So..... I asked him to google "make your own dress form" and wahlah .....duct tape. Ok , so I didn't actually take a picture of my husbands handy work (my upper half wrapped in duct tape) but I have to admit, it turned out rather well. Basically, you put ...

I'm watching "Julie & Julia" while working in the kitchen. I get such a kick out of that movie. When Meryl Streep is in her kitchen cutting a pile of onions the size of a watermelon and her husband walks in only to have the smell of the onions his him in the face. The look on his face...... LOL !! I love it. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. I wish I were better at blogging each day like in the movie. I don't know how many people read my blog, I just enjoy writing. I feel like I'm on a journey in the last several years. I guess we're all on a journey, but how many of us see it? I can see the changes in me. Not sure they're all good. :) I'm doing laundry and cleaning up the house today. It's just too hot to be outside. I worked outside for several days last week to the point that I'm swollen from drinking so much. It's hot out there, and yet not even close to how hot it was last year. I don't think I can put an...

I've started a new book called "Women Food And God". I saw the woman who wrote it on the Oprah show and thought it might be an interesting read. Of course Oprah claims it is the magic pill to weight loss, so that made it much more interesting. I just had to see what was so great about a book of approx 200 pages that claims to be "An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything". I am a little less than half way through and I have to say, it is a thinker. I can just see my husband starting the book and giving up within the first few chapters claiming his brain hurts. I think only a woman would take the time to think out every sentence and try to decipher it's meaning. I'm not a psychology major so it takes me a bit more time than, I'm sure, some people. I had been doing the weight watchers point system for several months and have come to a stopping point on the plan....meaning, I'm at a plateau. I think my body, in it's pre -menopausal stage...

Tuesday May 25th 2010 Going through Alex's school papers this morning I found a story he wrote that was just too funny not to share. I'm going to add his spelling errors just for fun. Alex is 11. Fortion cookies On the way home from school. I passed an old woman selling something. I looked up on a sign that said, "fortion cookies 25 cents." I had chage from lunch money so why not. I bought the cookie ate it, the fortion said, "shape-shift." Once I got to my bathroom, I found a green area on my back, but it was only guacamole, so I went to my dog Brinkley to lick it off. Once he was finished I said, "good boy Brink..." Then absolute siolence filled the room. My brother Taylor walked passed us and said, "Hi Brinks." My brother wasn't smart, so he mostly told me I turned into a dog. For one thing I could have turned into something like a bald eagle, a fishman, big foot, or a frog. After that, I had to get used to fur, fleas, and extream ...

On occasion, it seems God wakes me up in the middle of the night to have a little conversation. Probably because it's the only time of the day that I'm quiet and still enough to listen. Usually it's at about 3 in the morning. Well, it's 3:20 and I'm wide awake. It's funny how things fit together when he's trying to tell me something. I can have an eye opening thought and that is usually followed by several other things I come in contact with to verify it's not just a coincidence. Yesterday I went to get groceries and afterwards I typed out a text to a Friend saying, "I hate getting groceries". As I looked at it I deleted some of it and typed out, "I hate having to bring home and put away groceries by myself". Even that felt kinda odd, but I sent it. About an hour later, as I was waiting in line to pick up Alex from school, I read a chapter in a book I was reading from Joyce Meyer, were she said she had prayed for God to give her...

When I was 5 years old, I used to crawl through the hedge around our back yard and run across the street to visit the neighbor lady. I did it so often that I created a hole in the hedge. I remember after a while there was a metal something or another trying to block my way through. Ha! Like that was going to keep me from getting through that hedge. I had lost my cousin and best friend, just before, to a heart condition that the doctors were unable to correct. Something that is very repairable now. I headed over to Ms Betty's house almost every day I'm sure. When I think about it I can only imagine how frustrating that must have been to have a 5 year old walking into your house almost every day. I remember I used to play with these little animals made of glass or plastic that you could hang on the side of a glass and it looked like they were climbing up. So funny what you remember. Ms Betty taught me how to crochet when I was 7. As you can see by my age, my mother was u...

Today was beautiful outside. Unfortunately I had indoor chores to do that were important. I did, however, take the rabbit out and put him in his large outdoor cage with some paper to play with. He's a happy camper. The garden needs cleaning and probably some planting. I have lots of larkspur that seeding in just about everything. I love larkspur. I still haven't cleaned up all the white powder from the fire extinguisher. I think that will be a forever chore. It seems to have made it's way all the way out of the room I used it in and covers my piano and every light shelf and trinket I own. No fun. The other day, Bruce and I were having a talk about how so many people that I enjoyed getting to see on a regular basis are no longer available to me. It's been really hard. I remember a time when I would spend several days a week getting to see my friends, friends who I knew through school, through my husband, through my children, friends at church. Now it seems my...