Take the Automatic 7

1)  The “Baby Come Back” mop commercials.  I just love that silly mop knocking over the oranges and flying through the parking lot.  I mean, who doesn’t want to be stalked by an old flame, deep down.  Come on, you know you do.  Admit it.  Your secret’s safe with me/us.  And the drama of that [...]

“So I went down to the potter’s house and I saw him working at the wheel.  But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands, so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.”
I’ve been processing the whole potter/clay idea this week.  The wheel [...]

This week 21 years ago, then-future Hubby and a few other friends came home from college with me to TN for the weekend.  It was his birthday and his folks were a 14 hour drive south from Birmingham, AL while mine were a mere 5 to the northeast.  So we road tripped for his 18th [...]

So I’ve been talking smack to my kids about Halloween for several weeks,  threatening to dress up as a Hooter’s Grandma.  Except the shirt would say “Hangers” instead.  And I would stuff it.  And the shorts.  Because I just don’t think I can pull that off au naturale.  Say it ain’t so!
 
But in all my [...]

I canNOT beLIEVE it has taken me THIS LONG to connect these dots.
 
Earlier this summer I posted about my song-slaying family members.  Dot #1
 
Last week I lamented with another Christian Mom about Kid Rock’s WerewolvesofLondon/SweetHomeAlabama song…how catchy it is though the lyrics are horrendously embarrassing.  Dot #2
 
Sadly my kids know EVERY LINE to that song, [...]

I had SUCH good intentions. 
 
We invited the bus stop families over after school for ice cream.  It all started with a Sunday School charge to “walk across the room” and reach out to those around you.  Ice cream sounded like a good way to do that.  And why not ice cream?  I mean, it was [...]

Thursday is my very favorite day of the week.
And not just because of TV, though that is a very good reason in and of itself.
Thursday has been, for a long time my BSF day.  Bible=LOVE.  Study=not so much.  Fellowship=WOO HOO!  Long long ago when I used to take all 4 chitlins to the class, we [...]

Have you ever had one of those days that started out good and just got better?  Me neither…not in a while.  And ESPECIALLY not on a day that began with a trip to a municipal building.  In ANY state.
But Tuesday, October 14, 2008 was QUITE the exception.
I woke up in a timely fashion, put on [...]

I Am Flip Flops

http://www.blogthingsimages.com/whatkindofshoeareyouquiz
You are laid back and very friendly.
Cheery and sunny in disposition, you usually have something to smile about.
Style is important to you, as long as you can stay casual.
It takes a lot to get you to dress up!
You are a loyal and true person, though you can be a bit of a flake.
You [...]

www.caprik.wordpress.com gave me this idea:

FIVE RANDOM/STRANGE THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF

1.  I lived in one house/nieghborhood/city/state for my first 18 years, then 11 houses/apartments in 5 states over the next 22 years.  That’s strange, right?

So…we begin our tour in East TN, then college in AL, (’cause I’m counting the dorms), marriage and first jobs in FL, 4 kids in 5 [...]