Dad at Comedy Barn

Dad at Comedy Barn

What did we do before YouTube? Well, if you are from my neck of the woods, we have my sister C:)

I've saw this video numerous times and I love to watch it over and over.

Today is one of those days.....when you need a good laugh:)....and sis is not around to cheer me...so she sent me this!

Love you Sis:) ROFF:) lol!!!!

Carrie

The Chia Pet and Me...

Do you ever get in a mood and just want to change everything? Happens to me quite often. I rearrange everything. The boys have learned to look for the couch before they just decide to throw themselves on it:) A little situation we have at home...where you don't just sit calmly down....no siree...you take a run and go and move the couch a few feet when landing on it:) Anyone relate? ;)

Anyway....I've been in one of those switch-er-roo moods where I'm mixing things up a bit. Watch out guys:)

I had a haircut appointment last night and I took along a pic of a haircut I liked. I sprang it on K. She was shocked. It was going to be really short. Yes, I'm ready. It's only hair...it will grow back. And seeing my hair is kin to the chia pet, I'll I have to do is water it a little and bang it's back out there. Catch it when I say "out there". My hair grows out, not down:) Vertically challenged it is. I could not count on all my little piggies how many times my Mom and I just sat and cried over my hair:) I had a fro people, but mine was a bird nest version:), 'cause that was the only thing Mom knew to do with it....perm it:) lol!!!!!

Yesterday was the point...you know where you think you just can't stand your hair one more day. Can I get an Amen sisters?

So, she did...cut it short. Thank you!!!!

I feel better now.

I got a few looks from Hubby and son #2. ;)

Son #1, said, and I quote, "Mom, what were you thinking?" ;)

Do I care? No ma'am:) lol!!!! And sirs:) lol!!!! BTW...which leads me to why men like for their ladies to have long hair? Or do you? Is that a pre-conceived notion we've just conjured up?

Why do we want what we know our God given hair is not capable of performing? For me....I've longed for the long flowing, when you shake your head it actually moves, kind of hair. But that's not what I got. Nope, I got "horses hair." Coarse, straight/bent, never moves, grows straight out, thick head of hair.

Did I mention I feel better?

Carrie

Orator.....ton em:)

This should be no surprise to anyone who knows me. I have trouble with a capital T, in finding the right words to say. Heavens to Betsy, you add an audience in front of me....all you are going to get is.....blaaah, blubber, stammering, jumbling mess of words.



For example:



I'm calling Hubby at work, where he is the boss, and I ask the lady, "Hello, may I speak to Carrie:)"



Hello! Knock, knock, brain, or whatever is supposed to be occupying space in my head......where were you on that?



Thank goodness she is a nice lady who understands me:). Therefore, she and I had us a good laugh:)



Then there are times when I say waaaaay too much. To which I beat myself up for days over such ramblings. I need a muzzle! Seriously!



I would never intentionally want to say something to hurt or destroy. I pray daily for God to bridle my tongue and for me to let Him.



Back on a funnier note. The bunch of girls I'm blessed to sing with at church had a good laugh last night. Believe it or not, it wasn't at my expense this time. Dear friend S, has a touch of my wordiness. "Yelping" about John the Revelator. Who knew? All this time we should have been yelping about John's vision of the New Jerusalem. She really wasn't that far off. As young pups in Christ, shouldn't we cry out with a loud shrill, the wonderous works of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Amen!!



Then there are times I switch the letters of couples first names. IE....Muddy and Byra. Sorry Auntie M...I figured you wouldn't mind:) lol!!!



I've posted below the best of the best! Enjoy!!

Carrie

Tribute to Archie Campbell

37 and Counting!

It's my Birthday, I can cry if I want to:) Booo Whoo!! Naaay, not doing that...yet...saving it for the big 40!

I'm celebrating today! Notice the new "du" above. That's the singing birthday card sister P gave me for my birthday. Inside it said, "Remember: what happens at the dessert cart stays at the dessert cart. Indulge a little on your birthday." Oh so true for me. When we go out to eat, dessert is the first menu I look at:) So this card is my new motto! I've been looking for a new "du" for the blog and this was it. I wanted a style that was me. And this is so it! Family, friends and sweets! Can't get any better than that! It sang the song, "Awww Sugar, Aww Honey, Honey...." Love it!! Thanks Sister P!

I've had a long weekend. Yes, my work observes Columbus Day!! Hubby, son #2, BT, KT and HT met us for dinner at Abuelos on Sat. night. Loved it!! Had a great time! Icing on the cake.....snickers blizzard at DQ!! OMG!!! Good!! Fun, Food and Shopping!! KT gave me a book "Wednesday Letters" complete with a box of kleenex. She knows me all too well! Love you girl!!

Nothing could compare to what yesterday was. We have a new song. Goes like this...sing with me...."1 thousand hick-o-ry nuts on the ground, 1 thousand hick-o-ry nuts, pick one up, dump in bucket, 999 hick-o-ry nuts....."

I have been known to hug a tree or three, but I'm seeing 4 hickory trees going down;-)

Today I have received phone calls, e-mails and text messages wishing me a Happy Birthday! Thanks ya'll..I love you so much!!!

Guess what Hubby got for my birthday.....a yard sweeper:) I've dreamt of one for so long! And my dream came true:)

I love 37!!!!!

Carrie

God Is So Good

I just finished listening to a CD with "Marriage" written across it. Hubby suggested I listen to it first:) One minute I was crying with them, for them, for us, for newlyweds, for Mom and Dad, and the next, laughing with them. He is in for a big surprise!

Thanks JW for taking the time to make copies of this CD and sharing with us. I have been truly blessed by the story of John and Donna Bishop. This is a must to listen to. The epitome of what marriage is.

Go here and let God speak to you through this husband and wife team. You will surely be blessed!

Carrie

Strange Love Facts......

Don't ask me why.....but.....some love facts I read by Laura Schaefer caught my eye:)



Laura: Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.

Me: Whaaat? Do men know this?



Laura: People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!)

Me: Whaaat? Yeah, eyes closed, your tilting your head as you are reading this:)


Laura: Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover's memory.

Me: Whaaat memory:)


Laura: The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth.

Me: Why do we need to know this?


Laura: The "Love Detector" service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker.

Me: What's that # again? JK!!!

Laura: Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.

Me: We do look alike!


Laura: The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Me: Why not just say the Garden of Eden? The way God intended love to be...between a man and a woman.


Larua: The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.

Me: Move over St. Valentine.



Larua: Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign "love" to a card unless they are ready for commitment.

Me: Amen!


Laura: According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you'll make a love match.

Me: False. Living proof here.


Laura: Bleep on this one.

Me: ???????????????


Laura: Every Valentine's Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet. 21. When we get dumped, for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more, says Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active.

Me: Whaaat? & Why?


For the record.....why did I just post this?



Love is a strange thing......




Carrie

All Over The Place....

You'll understand why, by the end of this post:)



More on Mom.



Tentatively on Oct. 13th- pic line to be relocated. Unless, after the round table discussion by the transplant team, they decide "not" to change it after all. As Dr. Raymond put it yesterday, why mess with something if it ain't broke. (The previous problem with it seems to have subsided.) That language I can understand. He commended her on a job well done of taking care of the pic line. No infections, red streaks or numbness has occurred thus far. A first for them, after 6 months of it being in the same place. Way to go Mom!! The next date is Nov. 3rd., for another heart cath.



U-turn.



I'm tossing to and fro about some stuff. You know when you get burdened down, and nothing seems right. That's the state I'm in. I'm praying and asking God to reveal Himself to me in such a way, that I will know His way and not mine.



Do you ever try and avoid a conversation if you know that something you might say will hurt the other person? Guilty here. I am so not a confrontational person. Peace. The scriptures say in Ephesians 4:15 NIV, "speaking the truth in love, we will....grow up." No name calling, no attack, no judging, no demands, just plain truth spoken with love. Remember the old saying, "sticks and stones will break bones, but words cannot hurt." I beg to differ. The tongue can destroy in a split second, what would takes years to rebuild. Only God's love can build a bridge strong enough to mend the dam.

Agreeing to disagree.

Everybody wins.

Easy said. Hard to do. But can be done through love and by the grace of God.

Left or right?

I want to see/hear things with an open mind. Where do you draw the line with openness? When it compromises God's teaching, that's where. As Christians we should exemplify Christ, by the way we live. Not that we could ever come close, but at least be on the same wave length. Sure it's okay to have fun and enjoy our Christian walk. But isn't there a time for seriousness and allowing the Holy Spirit to touch our heart, mind and souls?

Just some places I've been lately:)

Back home from that trip! Aren't you glad?

Carrie

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence...

....so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:16 NIV

Please pray.......

Mom is in B'ham, as I'm typing this, trying...again....to get the pic line moved to another location. Where exactly? Not sure. Hopefully, today will prove to be a successful day! One thing is for sure.....we will praise God through it all!!

Check back later for an update.....

2:55 PM.......

She's home:) Nothing...except a flu shot and a talk with a Dr. Raymond. He wasn't the doc she was supposed to see. The doc who requested she come to see him today, was in emergency surgery with a 2 week old baby.

Can you imagine? I have so much to be thankful for!

Dr. Raymond said she was doing okay and scheduled her heart cath appt. Keep in mind he didn't mention when/if they were going to change this thing out. Too many doctors with too many opinions:)

Singing...One day at a time, sweet Jesus. That's all I'm asking of you. Help me to stay. Show me the way........

Dr. Kirkland is the doc who tried to change out her pic line and he wanted to see her today. That didn't happen. Dr. Kirkland will be the one performing the transplant. She was so hoping to get to see him. God knows all about it. I know that He will supply her need...in His time. Today, a baby needed Dr. Kirkland. This family needs our prayers.


"If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us." I John 5:14 NKJV

Feel free to leave Mom a comment. I'll pass them on to her.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support!

Love,
Carrie