A Little Sweet...

The other day Andrew was going to the store and I asked if he would bring me a bag of peanut M&M's. This is what he brought home...

...The can of DrPepper is there just to show you how huge this bag of M&M's is...

Do you know how many calories this bag has in it? Does he really want to me to be the one ton woman? Thank God I have kiddo's to help me eat them, otherwise they would go bad before they were all eaten.

Was there really such a demand for large amounts of chocolate and peanuts that they decided they needed to create this monstrosity? You could feed a small country with these...

The bag is so huge it required its own grocery sack to bring it home in...

So in spite of my lack of sleep lately due to sick children, I am running around like a five year old all hyped up on sugar and caffeine...

I really need to make several trips a day to Curves instead of one...

Just checking...

Testing 1...2...3... testing....

Is this thing on?

HELLO??

Random thoughts...

You know it is a shame I don't live in Georgia... Since we were talking about it and all...(Huh?)

There are so many great songs written about the place...

Must be some ancient calling from my ancestral past drawing me in...

The story goes like this; my Paw Paw Holaway was carried all the way from Atlanta, Georgia, behind a horse and buggy to Louisiana, (why Louisiana, like it was so much better there.)

He was a new born baby and the wagon was to bumpy for him to ride in...it's a major ordeal to drive from Georgia to Louisiana with a baby, can you imagine having to walk and carry a baby that far? And you know they didn't have disposable diapers back then, or baby wipes for that matter! eeewww!
Who decides to pick up camp and move across the wilderness when their wife just delivered a baby anyway? Just like a man!

...anyway...the reality is I have no desire to live in Georgia. No offense to those of you who do live there, it just isn't a place I care to live. Not saying I won't ever live there because you know how the river of life flows...

In that vein, I have downloaded a couple of my favorites songs about Georgia, because of that ancestral thing and all...

Hope you enjoy this little musical tribute to Georgia...

Singing about Georgia: dreaming about Seattle...

Rainy Day Visitor...

Today during the rain I looked out on the back deck and saw this little squirrel on the top railing chowing down on a piece of dog food! He sat there for the longest...he didn't seem to mind that he was getting wet, he was just enjoying his treat!

Of ER visits and Goodbyes...

Things with which my weekend consisted...

Friday night, actually Saturday morning around 3:00am, Little Man woke with a horrible barking, dry cough. He could hardly talk and got very upset, and was having trouble breathing...

I immediately gave him a dose of benadryl in case he was having an allergic reaction of some sort. After a few minutes and he was still having trouble breathing without a major Darth Vader sound, we took him to the ER...

I want to shout out for the local ER, they have a separate ER for children!! I was so very impressed by that. We didn't have to wait at all to be taken back and treated. Maybe that is a common thing in some places, but it hasn't been my experience in the past when I had to make ER visits with the kids...not that we've done it much, but we have a few times in the past twenty years of parenting...

They gave him two breathing treatments and a dose of steroid--that did the trick, got him very jazzed!!

He has croup and a bronchial thing...so we are doing breathing treatments every four hours and as needed plus five days of steroids...(Read-hyper little hulk boy)!

Lauren left Saturday to go back to Little Rock...twice...

The first time Andrew took her to the airport and they had over booked the flight, so they had to reschedule several people...

They came home for a few hours and I took her back...off she went...

She left on the midnight train to Georgia...actually the 8:00 plane to Little Rock, via Charlotte, but that doesn't make for very good song lyrics now does it?

So we sadly said goodbye and are moping around today adjusting to her being gone, again...

How about something easy to fix and comforting to eat?? I need some soup, maybe Potato and Leek, but I don't feel like doing all the work...

How about some piggies in a blanket...

Quick and easy...cocktail sausage and some crescent roll dough cut into strips, add a little non-stick spray. Put in the oven for twelve minutes or so...voila...add mustard and enjoy...

Digging up Bones, err...roots?

Yesterday the kids and I drove down to a little place called Gibson, North Carolina. This is where one side of my family originated...well, where they settled when they came here from Scotland, anyway.

There is a family cemetery there and a lot of things that have the Gibson name. There was once an old home place where my great, great grandfather was born. His dad lived in the house until his death in 1907. At one time it was turned into a museum, but I was told that it burned down.

After coming home, we spent time on the computer researching the family name and finding out who was who. We especially enjoyed reading the different names of our ancestors.

My Front Porch

Welcome to my humble abode!

Come on up and sit a spell!


This is what I was doing most of yesterday evening.

Just sitting on the porch with my feet propped up on the rail...

Watching the clouds, reading magazines,

...and looking through my basket of treasures...

These are some of the treasures Megan and Noah and I picked up from the shoreline on the Outer Banks...

The colors and textures are amazing...

especially for a colors and textures freak like myself...

God is such an amazing artist! His work is so beautiful! The colors and lines and textures excite the senses and delight the soul!

The weather was perfect for just sitting on the porch, catching the breeze, listening to my chimes sing their song...looking at the cloud formations, and watching two humming birds flutter around drinking from the feeders...God offers such and array of delights and gifts for us if we would just slow down and sit quietly and open our eyes...