WWW Wednesdays

This weekly meme is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


My answers:

What are you currently reading? I am reading The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab. It's a very good book but  I've been a little burned out on reading and I've been incredibly busy so it's taking me longer than normal. If I hadn't been so busy would have had this book read in about 2-3 days. But I'm now coming up on the 2nd week of the book. Should be done soon.

What did you recently finish reading?   It's been so long, I had to check my goodreads profile. It was Sweetly by Jackson Pearce. That book I zipped right through. It is the companion book to Sisters Red and is a very nice twist to Hansel & Gretel. I would definitely recommend to anyone.

What do you think you’ll read next? I'm putting aside my YA.. well fiction altogether (Gasp!) and reading "The Spark" by Chris Downie.


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Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers:

“Cole slips a fraction closer, but the darkness against the wall is so thick I can just make out his outline and his eyes. It must be because his skin is so fair that his eyes seem haloed and bright, the way did that first night on the moor.”

                           ~ p.95, “The Near Witch" by Victoria Schwab




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Where were you?

Where were you ten years today? I was a senior in high school and I can still remember to this day what I was wearing and how I fixed my hair that day. It's crazy how something like that day could make you remember something so insignificant like how I fixed my hair on what I thought was going to be a normal day at school.  We were in 1st period band when the first airplane struck and knew nothing of what was going on. When I walked in to my 2nd period accounting class the t.v. was on and the 2nd airplane was just about to hit. I remember walking around in a some what of a daze that day. The teachers left the tv's on all day and there were a lot of people crying but I didn't. I don't think what had happened really registered with me until a few days later or maybe I was just naive and didn't really understand what was happening.

Of course now, the weight of what those horrible men did to our country is a full weight on me. I know what they did to us and what they took away from us. Shaye and I had a talk this morning about what happened those short 10 years ago and decided to watch a video. She and I both started crying but soon she dried her tears and came gave me a big hug. She told me, "Don't cry Mom, they are in Heaven and God can protect them now." He sure can baby, He sure can. The innocence of  child. I love it.




I'm not going to make this a long post, so just please remember all the people who died in those planes, twin towers & pentagon. The people, firefighters and civilians, who worked to get the people out of the world trade centers. And of course all the service men and women who have died fighting, have fought & cam home to us and the ones who are still fighting for freedom to this day.

Us

Little Man being silly

My girls

Us

Bane.. Bane I tell you!

Laundry, like almost every other mom out there, it's the bane of my existence. 

It doesn't matter how often I do it, there is ALWAYS more to do! I spent 3 hours cleaning out our dining room/ living room this weekend. For the longest time it became the spot for everything that wasn't wanted. Our table has been covered since Little Man’s birthday. (not going to count how many months that has been) Also, there was a huge, ginormous Rubbermaid storage… thing that has been in there since Babe switched jobs in March, making it to where I couldn’t put my treadmill down.

BTW, that’s my excuse for not exercising. But now that I got it out of the way I guess it means I have to actually start walking again.

Anyway, after throwing out all the junk that was in the bucket thingymajig, I then started filling it with clothes that were all on the floor beside it. It is now completely full and I still have more clothes on the floor in Little Man’s and my bedroom. Where all these clothes came from, I have no idea but I know we don’t use them.

I started a few months ago buying the Rubbermaid storages and every time I got done with a wash, would throw the clothes that were too small in there. I have 5 of them filled up (and out of my house in storage) and still I am nowhere near getting this house cleaned up. This is the point I’m usually trying to remind myself that Flylady motto: “The mess wasn’t made in a day (kind of like Rome) and it won’t be fixed in a day either.” But, damn, it sure takes long.

I think it would help a lot more if my lovely 7 year old Drama Queen wouldn’t try on clothes and then throw them in the floor but I don’t see myself fixing that anytime soon. That girl loves her clothes.

What kind of things do you do with your laundry to keep it more manageable? I’m up for any ideas! 

"This Time I Will Praise The Lord"

                         Genesis 29: 25 - 35  (NASB)

²⁵ So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?” ²⁶But Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.” ²⁸ Jacob did so and completed her week, and he gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife. ²⁹ Laban also gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid. ³⁰So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

 ³¹ Now the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. ³²Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.” ³³ Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon. ³⁴ She conceived again and bore a son and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again and bore a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Don't try to please others only try to please God.

Don't live in complaint and misery. It will only

make us depressed and sick. A lingering illness.

To have our desires or dreams met, we get so carried

away and lose track of God. we were created to be worshipers.

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. he will fulfill the desires

of our heart when our hearts belong to Him first.

We all have character flaws, When we discover Gods love

Those flaws will fall away. The more we love the more will

fall away. We are incomplete until God dwells within us.

This was the topic of our sermon today at church. How many times are you finding yourself trying to find ways to please people to maybe get ahead in life. Or you try to please your husband so he will like you more or will pay more attention to you. I find myself every once in awhile trying to do the best at work so I can get more recognition from the boss. I try to keep up with the house, cook the 'right' supper or not pipe up as much when I don't agree with something so my husband will give me compliments or won't look down at me. 

These are all to make me feel better and it hit me today in church that I really need to stop. The only person I should try to please is God because he is (or should be) the most important thing in my life. 

Kids and the things they say

The kids were eating out with my parents when a little boy comes in the restaurant while not wearing any shoes. Drama Queen could not get over the fact that his parents would let him in there without shoes because in our family it is unheard of. After pointing it out a few times, my mom told her to be quiet and keep eating. Drama Queen listened to her but after a few minutes asked, “Grams, why do they call it barefoot?” And my mom answers, “thats just what people say when people don’t wear anything on their feet”. Drama Queen nods her head and goes back to her food for a few minutes then pipes up again. “Well, you know they could call it ‘dogfoot’ too because dogs are like bears and don’t wear shoes either.”


I burst out laughing when mom told me this. My little cutie says the funniest things sometimes.