Keeper of the Cheerios

Wasn't how I expected things to be... this life of mine.  Isn't it funny how we dream so many dreams as wee lil girls playing m.a.s.h. games with oh so many well laid out plans for pur future.  I even planned the tile colors for my future kitchen...so you can only imagine how off that was lol!
I wanted my children to be born two years apart ... and God said NO... lol they need to be five years apart.  5 years? ? Well lets just say *God def. Has a since of humor...if u only knew...lol *!! So yes my daughter is 15...and my sons are 10 & 5... the last one starts kindergarten this fall. 
What am I supposed to so??? I am the cheerio keeper... noone needs cheerios now!!! The Bible says there is a time for everything...and even in my upcomming cheerio-free (at least for the kids snack while on the go )...life... I shall learn a new thing in this season.  Even now...everything will be beautiful ...I will keep ya posted!!

Rewards...coupons...free stuff...oh my!

I <3 reading blog titles on google readers widget for my phone.  It is an amazing way to see if I want to invest more time into a blog or skip it.  ;)  I would love to read them all but who has time for that ...besides I already must rob the proverbial peter to pay paul in order to sqeeze any blog reading time @all.  Lol. I <3 bargains and time savers and thrifty ways to accomplish beautiful things.  I appreciate when women take the time to remember the places they have come from... things they learned...and share it freely.  Amazing and I <3that most of all :0)!

Extraordinary circumstances

Desperate times call for desperate measures.  There are times in life when things happen that throw a kink in the chain of things... if you know what I mean.  Like snow in Mobile during Spring Break. 1992.  Like the twister on March 1, 2006 that appeared as my son and I cleaned my bffs trailer.  Like the illness that struck my 36yr old husband and disabled him.  Like the times groceries were few yet never gone.  Love abounds.  Lessons learned.  Timeless treasures remembered and moments forever etched in my heart.  Of course there are battle wounds...scars from this life...but I wear them proudly because I earnes them and there is a degree of comfort in them for I know where they were received and for what purpose.  There are those who chose to ridicule the fallen because of the difference in the walk on the journey.  Not so...beware...touch not GODS ANNOINTED and do HIS PROPHETS NO HARM.  Therefore be evermore careful what vain report proceeds from your lips.  The tongue is not tame after all. 

And then there were none...

Been there ....heard that...and probably will hear it again ... yet it strikes immediate nerves that I must endure.  It's not easy to hear or see painful things...it never will be.  It wears on the nerves and I wonder and loosing my entire mind @times...seriously....and yet when I refocus on Jesus and His mercy and grace...I know He'll make a way when there is no way.  That is when I know my Redeemer lives. 

When I feel I cannot go another step I have a Father who can. Praise God!

Twister outta the blue

I've always been a Huge Wizard of Oz fan...but something about the twister has ALWAYS scared me to no end!  I've been in twisters before....the last one was actually while I was cleaning my friends trailer.  Not the place of choice during a tornado!  ;o) But then that's another blog......
Today the weather radio went off for Lee co abt severe thunder storms so I began to prepare my mind for rain and wind!  I even called a friend and was told its only a 20%chance for rain.  See we are in Alabama and in a humongous drought!  At about 515...we had severe rain and wind ....then it abruptly stopped.  I received word that a chicken house was twisted up by a twister that remained undetected by weather radar.  WOW! !!! I had just spotted double rainbows above the trees...a sight to behold for sure. 
I'm glad I know the Master of the wind!

Here i go again

Its a beautiful day in our neighborhood! God has been so good 2me!
Ths kids had a gr8 time four wheelin the other day! I planted our flowers yesterday and hurt my back moving and arranging the garden cement pathway squares! Ouch! Lol! Now I need to figure out how 2keep Cow, our cat, away from them! She is feasting on my new plantlings..and I do not like it sam I am!!!

I'm Baaacccckkk!

Well...its been a while. I finally have a way to access my blog again...yay! Life is moving right along like a fast moving train.....as usual. the kids are growing up way too fast. Dd is in ninth gr...ds is in fourth and the sm ds is in prsch. He is ready for kindergarden nxt yr...oh but am I? My baby?? Not sure...but as usual...I dont have much choice. lol. Nehoo....I am bck @ home...the wrkin wrld wasnt for me....it seems babystting is the way for me in this season of my life. Thank u Lord! ;) He knows xactly wht I need whn I need it...u know?? Btw...chk out my othr blog...nvr2l8t4god2move.blogspot.com I like it! It truly is never too late for God to move. It may SEEM that way...but it never IS that way. Until nxt time...just keep swimming....lol!