I know I mentioned my summer plans/goals in a previous post. Those still stand. I have been thinking though and am elaborating a bit.
Photographs...lots of them (not of me...bwhahahahaha!) I want to make it a daily goal to take photos, to capture the day...still thinking this one through...
journal...family style...I want to record, probably weekly where we are and what we are doing...
weekly field trip...and that may mean, not leaving the house--like one night I want to do a picnic under the stars...finding constallations and shooting stars. :) (but making a point to once a week, do something not screen related...memory making)
read aloud...did I put this on my other list? I think I did. I think we are rereading The Chronicles of Narnia...maybe...
Latin word of the week...heh, yes, I do think so...we have "Latin From The Roots Up'' we are going to introduce it next year...but I'm thinking maybe we do a word of the week for the summer too...maybe?
I'll probably tweak this a bit more as I work/think on it this week--next week is kick off. :)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
What they became {memorial day}
They didn't set out to be remembered...
they didn't want to stand as the symbol of the cost of war...
they were young kids
idealistic
with a love for their country
that drove them
...
into deserts
and jungles
edges of oceans
and into countries so far from the one they loved...
they didn't want to be remembered
they wanted
to come home,
they wanted football on Saturdays,
to tool around town with their buddies,
to kiss their girl
and Momma's pie on Sunday...
they didn't want to be thousands of miles away...
with cramped quarters
sticky and hot
foreign smells
little comforts...
they didn't want to watch their youthful ideas disappear
as they watched the life ebb from the bodies of their friends
there with them
in this place so far away from what they did want...
they didn't set out to be remembered
they set out to be soldiers...
and in strapping on their boots
ones that ultimately stood empty accompanied by their gun
they will forever be remembered
for what they became...
HEROES
thank you to every man and woman that has bravely worn a uniform, deployed and didn't come home...my heart is forever thankful for you ...
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~John Stuart Mill
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.--Clarence Darrow
they didn't want to stand as the symbol of the cost of war...
they were young kids
idealistic
with a love for their country
that drove them
...
into deserts
and jungles
edges of oceans
and into countries so far from the one they loved...
they didn't want to be remembered
they wanted
to come home,
they wanted football on Saturdays,
to tool around town with their buddies,
to kiss their girl
and Momma's pie on Sunday...
they didn't want to be thousands of miles away...
with cramped quarters
sticky and hot
foreign smells
little comforts...
they didn't want to watch their youthful ideas disappear
as they watched the life ebb from the bodies of their friends
there with them
in this place so far away from what they did want...
they didn't set out to be remembered
they set out to be soldiers...
and in strapping on their boots
ones that ultimately stood empty accompanied by their gun
they will forever be remembered
for what they became...
HEROES
thank you to every man and woman that has bravely worn a uniform, deployed and didn't come home...my heart is forever thankful for you ...
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made so and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~John Stuart Mill
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.--Clarence Darrow
Thursday, May 27, 2010
skimming the surface
Do you remember the story of the setting up of the pool last year?
(i'll give you a minute to read it)
Last year...the pool nightmare...
that whole thing
was replaced, this year...
with ease.
(oh you know this has a BUT)
We got a new pool this year. Same style...but we already had the platform and all that was needed was ten bags of sand to balance out one side. The sand went down, the pool went up LITERALLY like magic.
Only, I've noticed ''stuff'' in the pool...you know, stuff, bugs and grass and general typical pool stuff. I checked the filter and replaced it Sunday night-only to go out there today before we had friends coming over to see, um, stuff.
I checked the pump, fiddled, reloaded with cholorine and then checked the filter.
The pump was working...the water was cycling...the cholorine was balanced...
the fliter
YUCK.
So I'm skimming off ''stuff''
and God kinda peeled a layer off of me.
I'm a lot like our pool.
I have a good foundation, pretty leveled up, after a lot of work in the last year.
But my heart...
my fliter...
sometimes is YUCK.
Even if every other system is working
if your heart is off...
if effects the whole deal.
Our pool...everything was running...
but there was still stuff on the surface of the pool...
and guess what
there was more ''stuff''
but it has settled on the bottom.
I got AE to get in and walk around to 'stir it up'
so I could skim it off.
Our hearts are our filters...
we have to guard them
tenderly
we have to take care of our hearts
we have to surround ourselves with people who want the best for us
who love us
who with fight for us and with us
who will hold our hearts
for us.
When we neglect to care for our hearts
our fliters
it's going to show...
there's going to be stuff
on the surface
and you'll have to skim it all off...
but you know what,
there's also going to be stuff on the bottom, things you've ''stuffed'' and tucked away and pushed aside...
and it needs to be stirred up...
it needs to be brought to the surface too...
and skimmed off...
clean
a pure heart
tend it well
out of your heart springs EVERY(thought,action, belief) thing in life
guard it
(i'll give you a minute to read it)
Last year...the pool nightmare...
that whole thing
was replaced, this year...
with ease.
(oh you know this has a BUT)
We got a new pool this year. Same style...but we already had the platform and all that was needed was ten bags of sand to balance out one side. The sand went down, the pool went up LITERALLY like magic.
Only, I've noticed ''stuff'' in the pool...you know, stuff, bugs and grass and general typical pool stuff. I checked the filter and replaced it Sunday night-only to go out there today before we had friends coming over to see, um, stuff.
I checked the pump, fiddled, reloaded with cholorine and then checked the filter.
The pump was working...the water was cycling...the cholorine was balanced...
the fliter
YUCK.
So I'm skimming off ''stuff''
and God kinda peeled a layer off of me.
I'm a lot like our pool.
I have a good foundation, pretty leveled up, after a lot of work in the last year.
But my heart...
my fliter...
sometimes is YUCK.
Even if every other system is working
if your heart is off...
if effects the whole deal.
Our pool...everything was running...
but there was still stuff on the surface of the pool...
and guess what
there was more ''stuff''
but it has settled on the bottom.
I got AE to get in and walk around to 'stir it up'
so I could skim it off.
Our hearts are our filters...
we have to guard them
tenderly
we have to take care of our hearts
we have to surround ourselves with people who want the best for us
who love us
who with fight for us and with us
who will hold our hearts
for us.
When we neglect to care for our hearts
our fliters
it's going to show...
there's going to be stuff
on the surface
and you'll have to skim it all off...
but you know what,
there's also going to be stuff on the bottom, things you've ''stuffed'' and tucked away and pushed aside...
and it needs to be stirred up...
it needs to be brought to the surface too...
and skimmed off...
clean
a pure heart
tend it well
out of your heart springs EVERY(thought,action, belief) thing in life
guard it
Friday, May 21, 2010
things making me happy...
*sleeping in...in the rain
*crocheting
*coffee with french vanilla creamer
*friends that make me laugh, when laughter is hard to come by
*text that make me smile
*summer almost being here
*my kids-my amazing kids
What's making you happy today? Find some happy, roll around in it. :)
I miss you, still, Nattie!
*crocheting
*coffee with french vanilla creamer
*friends that make me laugh, when laughter is hard to come by
*text that make me smile
*summer almost being here
*my kids-my amazing kids
What's making you happy today? Find some happy, roll around in it. :)
I miss you, still, Nattie!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
anyway...
last night the sermon at church was on...mercy, forgivness and grace...
in the last few days I'd read the following over at Janet's blog ...
God always has perfect timing--speaking to my heart and what I need to be reminded of...
He's good like that. :)
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith
Today is Thursday...
day one
(what do you mean by day one, cheri???)
well I've been walking, still
but my eating
well
yeah
the last three days
not so good...
so today is day one
restart
recommit
so day one it is...
it is also grass cutting day
(i love cutting the grass!)
it is also pool playing day
and sun soaking day...
and going to the farm day
so my daddy can sight in his riffle...
(although we may not do the farm, if we stay and make like fishes in the pool)
today also will hold some picture taking
I want to deliberately take pics...i've gotten woefully out of the habit when I was without a camera...
and it's crochet day
again
I haven't crocheted in a couple of months
!!!!
crazy
I know
and I have several unfinished objects that NEED TO BE DONE
and I want them to be done...
I need to seem something completed. :)
So basically, you know how people always ''restart'' on Monday? They lay out goals and plans and MONDAY is the day...
Well today is Thursday...Thursday is the new Monday! :)
Here's to day one! :)
in the last few days I'd read the following over at Janet's blog ...
God always has perfect timing--speaking to my heart and what I need to be reminded of...
He's good like that. :)
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith
Today is Thursday...
day one
(what do you mean by day one, cheri???)
well I've been walking, still
but my eating
well
yeah
the last three days
not so good...
so today is day one
restart
recommit
so day one it is...
it is also grass cutting day
(i love cutting the grass!)
it is also pool playing day
and sun soaking day...
and going to the farm day
so my daddy can sight in his riffle...
(although we may not do the farm, if we stay and make like fishes in the pool)
today also will hold some picture taking
I want to deliberately take pics...i've gotten woefully out of the habit when I was without a camera...
and it's crochet day
again
I haven't crocheted in a couple of months
!!!!
crazy
I know
and I have several unfinished objects that NEED TO BE DONE
and I want them to be done...
I need to seem something completed. :)
So basically, you know how people always ''restart'' on Monday? They lay out goals and plans and MONDAY is the day...
Well today is Thursday...Thursday is the new Monday! :)
Here's to day one! :)
Friday, May 14, 2010
finding the happy
*friends (I have the best ones-true)
*surprises (cashews...diet coke...)
*laughing over something completely silly for 10 mins with Mer on the phone--that if I tried to explain it to you, you would not think it was funny..but OH MY STARS---i love to laugh like that...
*sunshine
*text
*thinking about yarn projects...i have several UFO's (unfinished objects )that need to be finished..dude...and I am thinking of new projects. :)
summer is on its way--wooooooooooooot
happy weekend!
*surprises (cashews...diet coke...)
*laughing over something completely silly for 10 mins with Mer on the phone--that if I tried to explain it to you, you would not think it was funny..but OH MY STARS---i love to laugh like that...
*sunshine
*text
*thinking about yarn projects...i have several UFO's (unfinished objects )that need to be finished..dude...and I am thinking of new projects. :)
summer is on its way--wooooooooooooot
happy weekend!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
stronger
don't tell
but I really like that song by Kanye.
I sang it a lot today.
a lot.
The kids PC has a virus/spyware/junk
that then of course made it automatically open up
awful, terrible JUNK
makes me sick to my stomach
junk
argh and blah
and well
see I didn't know what to do.
I mean YES in the broad general sense I did.
but when I was married
it just defaulted as his job
kwim
he kept all that stuff up to date and the like...
and it felt a little overwhelming
or a lot overwhelming
because
I semi figured out what to do
(thank you google and friends)
but their computer is so eaten up it won't let you DO anything
before it throws up a splash screen with an infected error message...
but I will fix it
I will
because
i can
and that, that don't kill me
is makin' me stronger :)
I also ran stairs today.
and I will be the first to tell you that i don't love to exercise...
but I love the way I feel when I do...
I love to feel my body--feel strong
or like it is getting, stronger
and I love the way it helps me think...
and maybe everyone has that effect?
but even if I just walk my five miles...
something about pushing my body-frees my mind
clarity
stronger
I came in and Daddy wanted cookies...his favorite is peanut butter. So I made up a batch of cookies...well two batches....one cooked a bit longer so they were crunchy (the way my Daddy likes them) the other batch soft and chewy (like my kids like them).
I talked to a friend today and had one of those moments of clarity. The discussion was money and its effect on our lives and it was said, ''there have been times I would have burned all of mine if it would have made me happy.'' We are all looking for the same thing, you know. The wise know that it's not found in money or fame or comforts. I will be the FIRST to tell you money makes things easier to deal with and anyone that would deny that is just foolish. But money does not equal happy. You know what equals happy?
Strength.
Strength of character.
Strength of heart.
Strength of purpose.
Stronger.
That Kanye.
:)
but I really like that song by Kanye.
I sang it a lot today.
a lot.
The kids PC has a virus/spyware/junk
that then of course made it automatically open up
awful, terrible JUNK
makes me sick to my stomach
junk
argh and blah
and well
see I didn't know what to do.
I mean YES in the broad general sense I did.
but when I was married
it just defaulted as his job
kwim
he kept all that stuff up to date and the like...
and it felt a little overwhelming
or a lot overwhelming
because
I semi figured out what to do
(thank you google and friends)
but their computer is so eaten up it won't let you DO anything
before it throws up a splash screen with an infected error message...
but I will fix it
I will
because
i can
and that, that don't kill me
is makin' me stronger :)
I also ran stairs today.
and I will be the first to tell you that i don't love to exercise...
but I love the way I feel when I do...
I love to feel my body--feel strong
or like it is getting, stronger
and I love the way it helps me think...
and maybe everyone has that effect?
but even if I just walk my five miles...
something about pushing my body-frees my mind
clarity
stronger
I came in and Daddy wanted cookies...his favorite is peanut butter. So I made up a batch of cookies...well two batches....one cooked a bit longer so they were crunchy (the way my Daddy likes them) the other batch soft and chewy (like my kids like them).
I talked to a friend today and had one of those moments of clarity. The discussion was money and its effect on our lives and it was said, ''there have been times I would have burned all of mine if it would have made me happy.'' We are all looking for the same thing, you know. The wise know that it's not found in money or fame or comforts. I will be the FIRST to tell you money makes things easier to deal with and anyone that would deny that is just foolish. But money does not equal happy. You know what equals happy?
Strength.
Strength of character.
Strength of heart.
Strength of purpose.
Stronger.
That Kanye.
:)
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