Fridays are for Fun Stories ~Satan painted it BLUE!

On Friday every week, I will TRY to post a fun story worth reading! Most likely about my dog, Rebel that we have nicknamed Satan, more accurate a name I think, or about my kids, Ethan's pretty funny too. Come every Friday for a new award winning (well it should be anyway) story for your Friday enjoyment.

Satan painted it BLUE!
Rebel (our dog) has done so many things to our house, property, and himself, it's hard to know where to start. He's our Marley really. I was determined to get rid of him. In fact I had found some wonderful friends to lovingly take him. They have lots of yard and another Boxer for him to play with. I thought it was a great idea. Troy loves Rebel, he'll not admit it out loud, but he does. The kids were broken hearted at the thought of getting rid of him, so I lost this battle, but I'm still in the war. HA! For now, however, Rebel is still part of the Comer Farm.
Yesterday, Thursday, Troy got up, put Rebel out, then headed to film something with our youth ministers. He took the van and said he'd bring it back after he was finished. Well, a little while later when he came home, I went outside and in my carport, was blue paint everywhere. Troy yelled, "Don't let the dog in or get near you. He got paint everywhere including on himself." It was then that Rebel ran up the steps where I was standing. He did indeed have paint ALL OVER HIM! All up his paws, on his face and tongue I might add, and all in my carport. I should take this time to point out he didn't become ill from licking the paint, we should be so lucky. HAHA! Just kidding, sort of! I then looked around the corner to see blue paw prints smudging my nice black driveway, my grass, and the carport, clear up to the steps. I looked at Rebel, growled, and said, "UGH Satan!!!" Andrew, our youth minister at church, and friend, just laughed and started helping Troy clean it up. He declared that their boxer never did this kind of thing, ha! No, I'm sure he doesn't, only our dog can be so smart while being so dumb!!
You know, my life wouldn't be the same I don't think if we didn't have Rebel. He adds more "color" to our lives that we wouldn't have otherwise. So I have a little paint in my carport. I like blue, it is one of my favorite colors. He is part of the family, and you can't chunk them out when they annoy you, and he does severely annoy me, but I like the big stinker, if not love him. Happy Friday friends. Come back often!

New blog, and the simplier life.

I have changed the look and layout of my blog, making it more pleasing to the eye. I have decided also to change the content of my blog somewhat. I will be adding stories of my childhood, the childhood of my children, and also some "thought provoking" blogs from time to time. A special thanks to my friend Sarah Marlin for being my inspiration without her even knowing it! She reminds me to focus on what's important; my husband, my children, & my blessings. Thanks Sarah and Happy Anniversary! Follow her blog, jumping jax, and I know you'll be inspired. She's in my list of whom I'm following.

I had a tea party with my girls on Tuesday. We made little round sandwiches, hot tea, cookies, the works, and other than a little spilled tea, a cranky two year old, and some BROWN cookies, it was fantastic, all ten minutes.!Then Madeline(the 7 year old) and I, sat down and watched my favorite movie based, off my favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. I like the simplicity of that time. There wasn't a lot of STUFF to complicate life. Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone and I wouldn't be blogging without my computer, however, I think we(me) tend to complicate life with all the STUFF we put in it. The time of Jane Austin was very different from now in that, women were basically only allowed to marry and have children, they weren't allowed to make money and money and houses weren't passed to them. But, the home lives were very simple. They did things like, make quilts, have knitting circles, and make house calls for tea with friends and spend time talking on porches and verandas. You know talking, that's when you put down the twitter, Facebook, texting, and phone, to talk ONE ON ONE with a PERSON. Sometimes, I think we have forgotten to turn down the noise and refocus on people. You don't have to live in Jane Austin's time to appreciate that. Happy Thursday friends. Come back often.

My Mondays

This was a busy summer at the Comer house. I am in recovery mode. I don't know about you all, but I don't feel like I really was able to enjoy summer. It was so crazy busy that I barely remember moving from May to July. I'm glad we don't start school till September, maybe we can grasp at a little peace before school starts. How are your Mondays? I personally, used to hate Mondays with a passion. Troy has all his meetings at church on Mondays. He has like four or five meetings on Monday and he doesn't get home till around 8:30 or 9. I hated it, because I was on burnt out mode by the time he got home and inevitably after a whole day by myself with kids I was ready to scream and some catastrophe had taken place. Not now though. Mind you, I have my weeks when Mondays are such a dread, but not very often. I came to realize that it's like anything else, I can get used to it and get over it, or make every one's life miserable. I choose to get over it. Now, I enjoy Mondays. I'm giving away some of my secrets here, but on Mondays, I don't clean other than laundry and feeding and playing with the kids till Mollie's afternoon nap. I enjoy the morning time and relax. This sets a great precedence for the week for me. I don't feel like it has to be spotless before lunch this way and I can recover from our crazy weekend schedules. I put more into Tuesdays and so on. I want it clean by Friday when Troy is off, so we can relax a little or do other small jobs and not focus on clutter. Today, I have fed the kids, made them clean their rooms, and made our lists for school supply shopping tonight. I'm gonna lay Mollie down and clean up, then tonight we're going to buy school supplies. Sounds exciting to me and the kids! This will be our first year to home school and we are all very excited. Crayons, pencils, and paper, have never been more exciting to buy. I can't wait to get started. I pray it's always this way, however I know we will have days when we don't want to do school, we all have those days, but we will plow through. God is good and has given us many blessings, this being one of them. God bless and happy Monday friends!