Living Life Beautifully

Today was a good day. I'm not quite sure why. It was a day like every other, but I felt better emotionaly. I slept much better than usual, without the need of medication or getting up at 3 a.m. to walk around and wonder why I'm up. I slept. Is it possible that sleeping can make that much of a difference? I paid some bills this morning and looked at what I still need to pay for the month. Not the most relaxing job, I must say. But I'm grateful that we are able to manage the most important bills when so many are losing their homes and having a hard time paying for the most basic expenses like food and electricity. I hope and pray that our government will soon find a way out of this mess. There are so many who live within their means and have always done so, who take care of their bills and have always done so, who do not take advantage of the system if they can possibly help it. I think there are many good people who are suffering for something that is not their faul...

The weather was beautiful today. I woke up to birds singing outside my window in the garden. We haven't had a lot of birds out here for some reason. I hung a bunch of birdhouses in a tree and now we have a family of doves and a bunch of little birds. They've probably eaten all my larkspur seeds that fell last fall. Oh well. We have 9 deer that we feed every day. It's pretty cool to watch them. Especially when the babies are little and start to play with each other. Our place feels a bit like a farm with 4 cats plus a couple of neighbor cats, two dogs, 9 deer, birds, a fish and a rabbit that recently got out of his cage and is probably running around under the crawlspace. Hope we find him soon. I remember, when I was little, I wanted to live on a farm. I think I would have ended up becoming a vegetarian just looking at those sweet faces. Recently we lost a very large three year old buck we had been feeding regularly. He ended up tangled in the fencing and wore himself out tr...

Wow!!! It's been a while since I've been on this thing. I've been avoiding the computer. Not because I don't enjoy it, just cause I haven't had the mental energy to deal with it. Does that make any sense? We've had 5 stressful months and it hasn't let up yet. I'm hopeful that things will calm down after january. I didn't send out Christmas cards this year. I had all the stuff, but ran out of energy. I still have my Christmas trees and a few other decorations up. :( Oh how I wish I had a magic nose to wiggle and make everything jump into the boxes and put themselves in storage. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Our oldest son is all set up at the house in town. I think he's lovin it there. Taylor moved his things into Bruce Landon's room and the house is calm and peaceful...for now. For the next few months we have, what we call, our down season. It's always stressful, but we seem to pull through every year with God's help. I never know h...

It's been a while since I've posted. The last couple of weeks have been mentally stressful, but I'm doing better this week. I even cleaned my floors this week. Not a fun task since I didn't get to them last week. I think I could have made another cat out of the hair I vacuumed up. Blah I am amazed that it's November already. Where did the year go? In a few short weeks we'll be hearing Christmas music on the radio and decorations will start showing up in windows and yards. I love Christmas. I know I've said that before. I'm looking forward to eggnog and ice cream. I hope it cools down. I don't like when it's 80 degrees in December. I have a little of my shopping done. I'm not sure what all I should spend with the economy the way it is. It's hard to buy for my kids at their age. Everything they want is expensive. Justin and Taylor each want a laptop. Yeah...that's not gonna happen. I'd be happy with children that help around the hou...

I never knew raising kids would be so hard. I didn't know that as soon as you have a child, you worry. You worry about everything. As they go through school you want them to make good grades, get along with other children and their teachers. When they start to date, you have all these questions about who they are dating, how that person was raised, what their family is like. You wonder if they will end up married to that person. When they get a job you worry about whether they can do the job well, what they will end up doing for a living, will they be able to support a family. When they start to drive.....OH MY....don't even get me started. You worry them through college, relationships, finances, health. Are they depressed, do they have anger management issues, are they healthy, are they happy, do they really believe in God or are they just trying to shut me up? Placing a child in God's hands and leaving the worry behind is hard to do. Sometimes you can do it for a moment, ...

I was going through some photos today and came across some pictures from a craft show I had, at the house in town, several years ago. I try to take pictures of everything I make. It makes it easier to part with each thing. I keep wanting to do something fun with the things I make, and use, to decorate my own home. I've been brain storming. :) Last night I was up till after 3am, in the morning, thinking of all kinds of things I want to do. I came up with an idea page with doodles of crafts and ideas. I have a passion for making things, which is good, but I don't have the storage space to keep everything I make, or the ability to use everything. So Bruce and I are thinking of trying to get into Gruene Market days, or something like it. That way I can keep making things and maybe they will eventually bless someone else...or at least that's the idea. Anyway....I thought it would be fun to post some of the pictures of the crafts I made back in 2003. It has been years since...

I keep thinking today is Monday. My weeks are flying by and these allergies are crazy. I was so hopeful I would have energy today. I have so much to do. So I got up this morning, took a shower, did the dishes, watched "The View", ate my breakfast, took all my medications and vitamins, Made the bed, put a load in the wash, folded a load from the dryer........etc.....etc..... I can't imagine having a full time job, running a house, managing kids, and taking care of anything else you might have to do. It takes me every bit of my time to manage home, kids, animals, and church stuff...and I don't even do that great of a job at any of those things. I have lots of tricks to make it look like I'm doing a good job. :) I have three of my four cats indoors at the moment. I tell ya, it's a trip. Maggie likes to distress all my furniture. I should rent her out. Mr Gretta likes to crawl up on things he shouldn't crawl up on. (no wonder he broke his leg this last year), ...