Bitter Monday becomes something SWEETER!

I'm a little bummed, and not wanting to get motivated today! What I told you all last week about my typical Mondays is not typical for today. See, this is my set design week at the church to make the new set design for our children's worship with my team. It's also my work week at the new building on Tuesday night, Thursday night, and Saturday morning. It's also my anniversary on Wednesday and Troy's birthday on Sunday. You see why I might be a little bummed huh? Yeah, we're grown ups and it has been nine years, but I wanted SO badly to get away with my sweetheart. However, duty calls and that's life right? So what, I'm still a little bummed anyway.

SO, to perk me up a bit and keep you all from having to listen to me whine, over the next few days, I'm going to tell you some of my favorite little memories from being with my best friend for twelve years. (nine of those being in marriage) So to begin for today, I'll share way back when BEFORE we were mister and misses, when we were young college kids, not even dating yet. I first saw Troy on my first day of classes, when he walked into my English class. He walked into class in his typical "uniform"; khaki shorts, Hawaiian shirt, Berks, and that tattered, ratty black hat. His eyes were blue, his smile was genuine, and he had the cutest red cheeks and baby face I'd ever seen. Not exactly what Troy wanted to hear, but he was so cute none the less. He sat down and I looked over at him and smiled. I didn't even think he noticed me that first day. We did talk and he asked me where I was from all that stuff, but I had a boyfriend at the time anyway. We met again a day later (Blue Mountain is very small) in the student building. He was playing his guitar with some friends, and he could sing!! Whelp, I was smitten. Troy looked up at me and my friends and smiled. We all sat, talked, laughed, and then can you guess what happened? He turned to my friend and talked to her. Ha ha! That's right, he went for the pretty one, remember, I did have a boyfriend. When he went to leave that night, he asked about my friend and I said, I'd talk to her and see what she thought of him. It was then that we became friends. This was a friendship that would be lasting, a friendship that will never end. Stay tuned for the next memory of our change from friendship to dating tomorrow!! Happy Monday friends! Come back often!

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.