Month: April 2008

Jackpot
Cally brought over mom’s prize today.
It’s cute and it’s great to have it, but I want to share it with Abigail and Sophia.


Mom: Bella, what do you want to say about these people?
Bella: I want to call them John, Jake….Mom, I can’t think of any good names!
Mom: It’s o.k. (waiting, waiting, waiting)
Bella: Dillia, Wanda, Speranza. A boy named Sean and one named Jack.
Mom: Do you have a name for the last girl?
Bella: I can name it whatever I want, but I don’t have any idea.
Mom: Maybe blogging isn’t so bad now, huh?
Bella: (can’t hear me the first three times because she has dad’s headphones hooked up to Sesame Street) “Yeah”, distracted and uninterested.

After she dies.

The girls and I have a little game that we always play. The girls grab silk flowers from the flower tower and pretend they have picked them for me. I always act surprised and say a huge thank you, and from my prior instructions, they always go and put them right back. They don’t know it, but I always think about how gracious my mom was whenever I did the same thing with her real geraniums. I often will also think of the little church song that I sang to my mom:

“I often go walking in meadows of clover, And I gather armfuls of blossoms of blue. I gather the blossoms the whole meadow over; Dear mother, all flowers remind me of you. “

So, on with the funny story. We were at Wal-Mart yesterday. As I approached the craft section, I was trying to herd the girls in and said to Bella and Sophia that they needed to help me find a Mother’s Day gift for Grammy. (I already got something for my mom.)

Bella and Sophia are very obedient children and they love their Grammy and so they immediately began to look around for something to give her. Right as I said this we just happened to pass by the flower arrangements for Memorial Day. In answer to my plea for help with Grammy’s mother’s day gift. Sophia grabbed the one below and said: “Here mom, Grammy will love this.”

You should have seen the innocent bystanders face when she heard me reply, “Oh wow, Sophia, Grammy would love that, let’s wait and give it to her after she dies.”

Sophia got shy when I pulled the camera out. Here is Bella showing the flowers to me.

Words are powerful

I also got this one word tag idea from roses are red. I love a one word challenge. It is so stimulating. Feel free to play along.

Just one word
1. Where is your cell phone?
charging
2. Your significant other?
amazing
3. Your hair?
sad
4. Your mother?
loving
5. Your father?
superman
6. Your favorite thing?
undefinable
7. Your dream last night?
nonexistent
8. Your favorite drink?
Dr.
9. Your dream/goal?
approaching
10. The room you’re in?
playroom
11. Your hobby?
blogging
12. Your fear?
abandonment
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years?
embraces
14. Where were you last night?
here
15. What you’re not?
skinny
16. Muffins?
occasionally
17. The last thing you did?
typed
18. What are you wearing?
pajamas
19. Something you’re not wearing?
shoes
20. Your mood?
happy
21. Your summer?
coveted

"God is in the wind"

I loved this faith promoting post about roses are red’s visit to the Columbine High School memorial.

I found this scripture to add to the post: Mark 4: 39 & 41

And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And
the wind ceased, and there was a great calm …. And they feared exceedingly,
and said one to another, “What manner of man is this,
that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

I tried to capture the wind in photograph. Here is the best I could do for now.

Just Freeze

Mindi at wordtoyourmother turned me on to a website called improve everywhere. (um, yeah, I just came back because I didn’t spell check and noticed my mistake of calling this improve everywhere instead of IMPROV everywhere, but I like, and so I am going to keep it this way.) Their whole purpose is to showcase “staged” scene making….it’s all the rave. Go figure. The food court musical was the first I heard of this modern form of entertainment.

Mindi recently posted about the best game ever.

Here is a video from their webpage that I really liked, it helped me think about how we move way too fast in this world.

Now, if I stepped into this staged “freeze” it may freak me out a little, like I stepped into a Twilight Zone version of elementary school freeze tag. But because I realized what was going on while watching the video , I liked it. I liked it a lot. I wonder what would happen if we staged a “freeze” on an American interstate? Yeah, no brainer…..don’t want to do that, unless you really have a desire to kill your already dead car!!

Busy Bees
I have so many things to post about, but I have been a busy bee.
This morning I read 20 pages of my Book of Mormon and I caught up in my journal. (I use my blog for most of my record keeping. I just keep a separate small journal for spiritual matters)
I am now 5 loads into my 12 loads of clothes to fold.
And, if you can find the bees in these pictures, I am sure you will be a better photographer than me. I’m such an amateur.
Watch out though, the next time you are in the shower, you may find yourself peeking out the window and you may be so excited by what you see that you’ll be calling to your husband to bring you the camera. There’s nothing like interrupting a great warm shower to capture nature in movement.