Good Monday to each of you! This is a Monday after one of those week-ends that is choreographed like a dance in a musical, where if I’m delayed or miss one step the whole thing will collapse like a house of cards.
So to say that I bounded out of bed this morning, okay, so I never bound out of bed. I would do good to have a system of ropes and pulleys above my bed to lift me to a sitting position, then shove me into a standing position until I am fully vertical. As it is I kind of roll myself out of bed and face the morning through squinted eyes. As you may guess, I am NOT a morning person. But once again, I digress, even though I’m not exactly sure what this blog is about.
First it was Friday with K. Got to spend the afternoon with my great nephew and some of the afternoon with my oldest nephew. They are both amazing in their own right. K is crawling, so had to spend time in baby jail as he goes after the dog like a heat seeking missile. I did let him down and Romeo looked at me with glazed over eyes and jumped up on the couch. K does have a temper and it’s evident when you stop playing the I-dropped-it-on-the-floor-you-say-ah-oh-and-pick-it-up-and-hand-it-back-to-me-so-I-can-drop-it-on-the-floor-again game. I explained he got three times and then it was gone. When it was gone, he was not a happy camper. Trying to get him to sleep I sang Barney’s theme song until I thought I would morph into Baby Bop, then to keep sane I sang this old man he played two, he played knick knack on my shoe (which if you hum it is the same tune) then I went into Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which lead into Jesus Loves Me, You Are My Sunshine, Zipadedodah which segues nicely into a Spoonful of Sugar, then ended on Feed the Birds. I started singing My Grandfather’s Clock, tick tock tick tock, but it ends with the guy dying, so decided that wasn’t a wholesome naptime song.
I did learn the words to If all of the Raindrops song, so I don’t have to make them up anymore, which pleases everyone. Hey as long as they rhyme, I’m good to go. But that’s not a naptime song, that’s a eating song. So he finally laid down and slept a good solid hour. Then it was up for more fun and fussiness, but I guess it’s boring being in baby jail with all the toys you own piled in on top of you. He wants to be free to roam the far reaches of the dining room and chase the dog.
Saturday I spent in a simulcast with Beth Moore. I would move to Houston if I could go to work for that woman. If anybody has an “in” with her, I’m a dynamite administrative assistant. She is amazing. Her subject was Insecurity, and I firmly believe, after sitting through the simulcast and reading her book, So Long Insecurity, that 98% of the women in America could benefit by her teachings on this subject. There are 2% of women that I think are secure enough that they probably would waste their time reading it. She is so in tune to women and what we need. It’s so different from ages past when men would stand up and proclaim to an all woman audience what their problems were and how to fix them. I’m so glad we’ve evolved in that respect. Not that I believe in evolution, but I can’t digress twice in one blog. It’s against the blogdom rules. ANYWAY. She is incredibly talented and blessed in her work. And those of us who attended the session were blessed in many ways.
Then nephew C had a baseball game and we celebrated his 14th birthday and his father’s (my brother) 50th birthday. Had a fun time of family and laughter and picture taking, which if I could figure out how to attach photos, you might could see them, but then I do like to protect the privacy of the young ones.
Yesterday was church and went home with the intention of changing clothes and working in the yard, and read the paper and fell asleep instead. For about 3 hours. It was wonderful. Woke up groggy and didn’t want to do anything, so went to my favorite drink place and came home with a medium coke and vegged out in front of the tv watching Pretty Woman. Once again a rom-com with a fairy tale ending. Where are those rose colored glasses of mine?
So that was my week-end. It was fun, it was tiring and I’ve got to find the strength to walk most every night this week and I am enduring, um, participating in my first 5k run, um walk, this weekend. Then going to bowl in the Goat Bowl, which is to raise money for Bread for A Hungry World. If you would like to participate as a sponsor, we are raising money to provide families in third world countries chickens, goats or calves to help them pull themselves out of poverty. You can go to www.givebread.org. Click on Give Now, and my team is Honduras. You can give a flock of chickens for as little as $20. If you are so inclined we would appreciate it.
Well, that’s it for now. Hope I made you smile, as I’m sure I didn’t impart much wisdom, but maybe next time.
Shalom!
Stevie
Copyright 2010 Stevie Stevens, Fort Worth, TX. For information contact faithleap@sbcglobal.net
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