God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Mother's Day 2010:  Grandy, me, Cousin A, Gwendolyn, Maggie, Auntie, sister L, Mom


This isn't the picture I wanted to share this week for Embrace the Camera.  I had my hopes up that I could get another generations picture this week when we checked Grandy out of the hospital for the afternoon.  My aunt, cousin and Grandy all planned to get their hair done, and I thought Mom, the girls and I could go along and maybe grab some dinner and I could take some pictures.

Things didn't work out to do that though.  So here is a picture from last year's Mothers Day.  A picture of four generations of women in my family.  A picture and women for which I am thankful for.

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, M*A*S*H, "Identity Crisis,"


Also linking up to Thankful Thursday and Sunday Citar.

Wordlessish Wednesday: iphone pictures

If the shoes fits, wear it.




It is a little hard to see what Maggie is doing in this picture.  She thinks Waylon is so cool, he ought to wear shades.





It rained so much this past week, but the girls still wanted to go outside.  So whenever there was a break in the rain, we put on our rainboots and went outside.  Lately I'm trying to keep in mind that without rain, there wouldn't be rainbows.

Linked to Black and White Wednesday, Live and Love Outloud, Angry Julie Monday and Project Alicia

9/ 52 weeks of happiness: plant a garden

We finally went and got plants for my raised vegetable garden bed on Saturday.  We weren't sure where to go buy plants because I haven't had much luck growing anything in past years.  By chance we went to Lowe's, and they were having their 50% off all living things sale. YAY!  

I got two strawberry plants, two tomato plants, a blueberry bush, some marigolds, and let the girls each pick out a flowering plant.  I was actually proud of the amount of restraint I showed, I wanted one of everything but decided to start small(ish).  I still want to get a zucchini plant or maybe a bell pepper plant.  

I got all my plants planted Saturday, even though I had to plant in the rain.  It has been raining since Saturday and rained for multiple days last week too.  It is supposed to stop raining sometime Tuesday afternoon and then stay dry the rest of the week.  I'm hoping to finish up planting then.  

Linked to Happy Monday, 52 weeks of happiness, Sweet Shot Tuesday, and Communal Global

Fruitcake Reads: Heaven is for Real

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There tends to be very little rhyme or reason to the books I pick up to read.  I like Young Adult, Children's, Adult, fiction, non-fiction.  I like to read and chances are, if a book is recommended to me, I will eventually read it.  A month or so ago, I saw/ heard no less than five people recommend Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo in one week.  I immediately put it on reserve at the library and waited.

Basic premise of the book is that Burpo's son had a near-death experience when he was three or four years old and slowly reveals details to his parents about who and what he saw in heaven.  Hey, you know what?  I like reading about near-death experiences, I like reading things kids say, I'm curious about heaven.  All that should make for a definite "I recommend this book.  Run, buy, and read this! I'm buying 20 copies and giving it as a gift to everyone I know."  But it didn't.

The meat of the story had a lot of potential, but I felt like I was listening to the longest sermon/ homily in the world.  Burpo is a preacher though and not an author, so I understand why it sounded like that.  I just think having someone else help them tell their story and make it more of a story, with details and feeling, would have made for a better book.  The book got 4.5 stars on Amazon right now though so I may be the only one thinking that.  

The breakdown, I wouldn't not recommend Heaven is for Real, but I won't be purchasing my own copy.  I think I had just set too high of expectations for it.