Rend Collective...

I'm  having a hard time finding some of these videos that I want to share. There are so many! So, I'm posting this here so I can find it later. I'm trying to encourage my kids to listen to these. They're probably getting tired of me. :)

I may just keep adding videos to this page so when I click Rend Collective in my labels they'll all pop up. Smart, eh? Have a great day!

Finished April Bizarre Holiday cards...

Here they are!

 

I didn't get much sleep last night. It seems like it's very difficult to unwind after closing at the deli. I think I get overtired and the adrenaline has been pumping all day, so it's hard to switch it off. I then stay up too late and wake up early and can't go back to sleep! (Whine, whine...)

 

I babysat Audrey and Hazel today. At one point Audrey planted herself in front of me, looked down her nose at me in a grandiose fashion and announced, "I am King Audrey!" I had to ask her to repeat herself, which she did while still in character...then she giggled like the little 2-1/2 year old she is. She is such a card! Hazel is delightful as well and is learning lots of words. Of course, a lack of vocabulary doesn't keep her from TALKING. She's called Adam "Mommy" for ages. Today when she looked out the window and saw him walking toward the house she started yelling, "Nonny! Nonny!"  Poor Adam. ;)  Oh well, at least she was excited to see him! Even when she doesn't know the right word, I can tell exactly what she wants. That's the point, right? The cutest and smartest little girls in the world. And I'm not prejudiced.

 

Sporting their new diapers...

 

 

 Hazel in piggy tails.

 

King Audrey

 

It's going to be another late night. Micah's van got stuck in her driveway (dumb winter) so she drove my car to work. When Adam got home he got the van unstuck and I drove it home. SO, Micah will drop by here after work (probably between 11:30 and midnight) and exchange vehicles. My purse is in my car, so I'll be staying up to be sure I bring that inside. Oh well, I'll try to sleep in tomorrow morning before my afternoon babysitting engagement.

 

Peace and sleep to all!

Lovin' Rend!

Thanks, Fraise, for introducing me to this band. I'm having such a great time listening to them. I'll have to spring for a CD soon! I love this song. What's the name of the instrument that he pounds on the ground? I call it the one-man-band instrument. :) (After reading their bio I found that the instrument in question is homemade and they call it a Jingling Johnny?)





Thanks also to Sandra at Thistle Cove Farm for the link on Facebook to this blog where we can watch the restoration of a beautiful French chateau!

Now I'm going to get some supper and perhaps mess around with my guitar. It won't know who I am! :) (P.S.-I discovered that Rend Collective has generously supplied the chords for their songs, so I'm working on My Lighthouse. I can feel the precursors of calloused fingertips!)

Blessings and peace!

Glad to be home!

The weather outside is frightful! I got off work at 8 tonight and drove home in a blizzard. My car was covered with a coating of ice so I could hardly get the doors open and the layer of ice on my windows was so hard I could hardly chip through it. Driving home the road was a solid blanket of snow and I could hardly tell where I was. Angelic guides must have brought me home, that's all I can say! Then I find out that daughter Micah and her family are still in town grocery shopping. But she just texted and said they were safely home. Whew! It was almost funny when I tried to unlock my door at home. There was a layer of ice on it and I had to chip it away with my key and breathe on it to melt the ice. But I finally got in.

Here's another ATC for the April Bizarre Holiday swap!

Bizarre! Hey, maybe I'll get a snow day tomorrow! Hah!

Shalom and stay warm!

Mama memories...

I'm trying to work on my photo albums in small bits so it isn't totally overwhelming. There's also the "mustiness factor" which seems to effect my sinuses a bit. I'm not one of those who spends lots of money on scrapbooking supplies. (That's an understatement.) I think I'll be doing well to get everything IN the albums, one way or another. I, actually, want to put just a sampling of pictures from each year and then I'll have a large tote containing the rest. Anyway, somewhere in my squirreling things away days I lost track of a big manila envelope with pictures of my mom. I just came across it again and am incorporating her pictures into the albums. Thus, the memories!

Ain't she cute? This is about age nine. I see where my little brother got his eyes.

Me and my little brother, Mark. Hmmm...I guess I got some of her eyes as well.

This is my grandpa Charles Moseman. Once again, I see my little brother's face.

 

 

That's my mom (Mary Jane) on the right. She's still about 9 or 10. I think she loved having her picture taken!

Here she is as a perky 14 year old. She grew up in a very poor family, but I think she learned the art of making the best of things and she seemed to be very happy and upbeat in her photos. I think she enjoyed life a lot.

Mom is the drum major on the left. Notice "major". The other two gals are majorettes. So Mom was the head honcho! The caption says that she's leading the Angleton High School band, one of 33 bands participating in the biggest football parade Houston has ever seen (as of 1950). Mom lived (and once again lives) in Angleton, TX, which is about 40 miles south of Houston. I consider Angleton to be my hometown, though I was born in a suburb of Houston.

 

Mom wrote a family history. I'll have to re-read it this afternoon with a cup of tea. :)

 

 

This is another little bit of family history that Mom sent in 2010. My brother, James, was evidently helping her to look up information on her mom's side of the family. Glenn, when I saw the date on this I was amazed! So much has happened with Mom's mental faculties in the last 3-1/2 years. She was such a sharp, intellectual person. Always organized and in charge. I've saved many of her emails and greeting cards to remember what a great mom and wise woman she was, and will be again! I look forward to seeing this wonderful lady when all is restored. And thank you, Glenn, for standing by her through all that's happening in her life right now. Bless your heart! Take care of yourself. (I obviously never got around to sending this copy and other photos back to Mom. Yikes...)

 

On the other side of the family...

How many can claim to be related to Ulysses Grant AND George Washington? LOL.

I was noticing the birth date of Ulysses and see he was born in 1865. Hmmm...any connection to his name? Oh, and he has the same birthday as my daughter! Just noticed that!

 

Family history can be fascinating. I tend to take it in small doses because I'd rather look forward than backwards. The best is yet to come! But, I'll probably do a little more photo sorting today and putz around with the continuing project of deciding what can be given to charity. I spend so much time reading and drawing that I don't get much done sometimes. The second bedroom is filling up with things to get rid of. Maybe a garage sale, if spring ever arrives! :)

 

Here's my latest ATC for the April Bizarre Holidays swap. I do apologize to Winston Churchill. It doesn't look much like him. I had seen this quote somewhere before, but didn't realize it was one of his. I like ol' Winston...

 

 

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! It's my weekend off, so I plan to do the same.
Shalom, my friends.

Finished him!

Well, I finished this ATC pretty simply, but I had been so afraid of messing it up that I finally just said, "Oh well. If I mess it up, I'll make another one. Not the end of the world!" I'm not totally sold on the way I drew his back legs, but it'll do. ;)

Next up for swaps is April Bizarre Holidays! These are fun because you have to really think up something to represent the holiday in question. I'm leaning toward Winston Churchill Day, National Eggs Benedict Day, International Jugglers Day and National Pigs in a Blanket Day. Also in the running is Tell a Story Day and World Laboratory Animal Day.

But for now I'm going to do a little reading and get to bed at a decent hour. I'm babysitting from 9:30 a.m. until probably 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. Dear daughter Micah has volunteered to drive a van full of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) to Minneapolis (a 4 hour drive) for a leadership seminar. They will spend the night Friday and the seminar is early Saturday. None of the other ladies has ever driven in the cities, so Micah is the old pro. Prayers appreciated! (The seminar is for the ladies to learn to be discussion leaders in the MOPS meetings. Micah loves this group because she enjoys the socializing aspect and the baby girls enjoy playing with other preschoolers.) They also plan to go to the Mall of America on Friday afternoon (hence the early start Friday).

Good-night and shalom!

New Bible!

I'm SO excited! I just ordered a new Bible! Well, actually, it's a used one in very good condition. :)
I've had the same NIV Bible since 1978, and it's really showing its age.

I was going to order a brand new one but then I became aware of something that hadn't even occurred to me. The NIV was revised in 2011. I read a few reader reviews and found they had changed some of the text to make it more politically correct. You know, I just don't need that. God can create "man" in His own image and that's fine with me.  (Man has been replaced with "man-kind". Could be worse, but I decided to just buy the 1999 edition and bypass this progressive version.)

And it's GIANT PRINT! Something I've wanted for a while now. I had thought of going all out and buying a nice soft, black, leather Bible, but didn't want to break the bank. This Bible is hardback like my old NIV, so I figure it will last me until I don't need it any more. (And only $19!)

 

So, I'm excited about my new Bible and I hope to do some illustrating in the margins as Pom-Pom has inspired me to do!

 

Y'all have a great evening. Shalom!