Church Signs

Life just got better

and so did my ride.

Do you remember my bumper sticker post?

Well, Sheila did.

Check out the two newest additions to my minivan.

“Mom’s taxi”

and my favorite:

“Warning! Blogger known to photograph while driving.”

I just love when people find words of perfection, especially in magnet material.

These most definitely belong on the back of my minivan.

THANK YOU SHEILA. I will love you forever.

Elegance

Define it. Any way you want,
but no matter how hard I have tried,
elegant and junk just don’t go together.

Just like LG and my camera at times.

And, yes, my yard is more elegant than my house.
And I am proud of it.

There is nothing like looking outdoors for some of God’s beauty.
You know I didn’t find it IN the house during this photo shoot.

And, if you can’t make your yard as elegant as you would like.

Buy your first piece of art, ever.

It will give you your dream scenery, and your hubby will love it,

especially if it was $20 at Big Lots.

No title needed.

No caption needed.

I am so proud that I have blog-trained LG.

He came home last week with this snapped photo just for me.

A letter to my man

Dear LeGrand,

There is no one on this earth that is happier for you than me.

I am smiling HUGE thinking about you over at your new office,

being your own boss.

You are sitting at that big nice desk,

knowing that you are living the dream.

You must feel so fulfilled and so blessed.

I think that they were all right when

they told us it would be worth it.

God has been good to us and has sustained us.

I know he will continue to bless us.

I know that you are happy to live your dream.

Look at that smile.

I am happy because you are happy.

Even though our lives have been crazy for two weeks straight,

I got used to working by your side.

I want you to know that I am missing you very much.

I think that you are right when you said it’s finally all coming together.

Now that you are working at your own office, I am just wondering one thing.

When will you take me out to lunch?

We could try the quaint BBQ place across the street.

But only if you want to lose weight.

( I thought that this was a sign with a misspelling until I realized their creative play on words.)

I think that this will be a perfect place for us to eat.

We can call ahead and lose wait time.

And since you are such a totally busy lawyer, I know that you need to save time.

And I will patiently wait for you to finish out your work week,

so that I can have some of your coveted free time.

And, then all your girls will go to church and look at you sitting up on the stand.

And we will improve our family, so that we can all love and miss you even more.

And, we will wish that you were sitting by us.

Just like I do right now.

Love,

Alice

Cars speak volumes.

All my friends had personalized plates growing up.

I had a plan for what mine would be one day.

IBMEUBU

What does your car tell people about you?

Here is mine.

I am too cheap for personalized plates.

I don’ think I will ever get the cute plate I pondered about for so long.

Because my life is in my minivan,
I thought that the back of my van should start
sporting all the magnets that I could get my hands on.

I want everyone to know what I love when they look at my car.

Don’t you think that Sam’s Club pizza magnet is a nice addition?

The kids are excited to start placing magnets all over our car.

They were bummed when the pizza magnet went missing after two days.

Do you think somebody really needed that take out pizza reference number that bad?

I don’t want to believe that regular size magnets aren’t hefty enough

to withstand the travails of my minivan.

I have plans.

Love Thy Cell Phone

Like me, do you hate it when a cell phone rings during church?

Do you love my church sign posts?

If you answered “yes” to the above questions, then go here. And, um, thank Sheila for the link.

Spring Fever

Here are some signs of Spring that I’ve seen around town lately.

I will be sad to see this beautiful season go, even if I’m not single and don’t have Spring Fever.

Here are the promised dogwoods.

And, look at the tones of the jay and sky, they are almost the same exact blue.

Around town

What exactly does “We have the keys” mean?

Maybe the keeper of the keys should find the keys to this school bus and beautify Knoxville by exposing it to a little soap and water? What do you think? I have never seen a black school bus before.

Prom Night

Look at what I spotted downtown on Saturday night.

A baseball playing kid who thinks he belonged at prom back in 1979.

Wow! I wonder if his date approved of his “statement”.

Maybe she should have called in Taylor Swift to pick her boyfriend as her publicity stunt.

It is so nice to be 32 and comfortable in plain old clothes that are comfortable. (oh and I just re-read this and I am 34, not 32 – wishful thinking, I guess)

Thou Shalt Not Murmur

When no matter what, I can’t force myself to write, I shall post church signs.
(And when you people out West have bad blogging days,

I would really like to see what you come up with for interesting church signs)

So, my life is out of control.
Living the gospel consumed every waking moment and

even many of the sleeping ones last week.
After the weekend, I thought I would be rested….

And, I admit that I was mad that my husband and I didn’t get (nor still haven’t gotten) 2 minutes to ourselves to celebrate the good bar news.
(I mean you think after 10 years of married college life and still succeeding at having three children , we would have figured out how to steal away 2 darn minutes?)

So, what did I do in response to our craziness?

I had a weak moment and murmured to a friend this morning.

So, what did God do in response to my murmuring?

He took away those protective “your car is 10 years old angels” and he let my minivan die!

Man, I should have read these church signs more carefully last week

and been happy with our lives of service and not angry and resentful.

So, yes, I am going to learn from my mistake.

Instead of saying, “Holy CRAP what am I going to do this week without my car?”

I am going to choose to say, “Wow, God is so good to me. I am so grateful to have one car that both my husband and I can share this week. What would I do without that one car to carpool my kiddies, my hubby, and myself to ALL the places I need to go in preparation for the Ward Picnic I am in charge of on Friday?…Oh, I am so blessed to have that one little car.”