Blog Walk Week 4

Here is the next installment in the TOS Crew Blog Walk.

Enjoy!


1. King Alfred Academy
2. Confessions of An Organized Homeschool Mom
3. Curriculum Reviews from Oak Creek Farmhouse
4. I Can't Decide
5. My Life on A Taffy Pull
6. Losing My Tale
7. Made in His Image
8. Serenades and Solace
9. Our Village is Different
10. SisterTipster's Tell'n It!

Friday Fave Five

Well, it has been quite a week.  Some good, some bad, some just not worth thinking about again.  I so need this today to think about the good things and be thankful.  But frankly, my attitude stinks right now.

but I will try...

1.  The weather.  It has been hot, humid, and sunshiney.  (yes, that's a word!)  It has been beautiful.  I'm not much one for summer and the all-consuming heat, but the Vit. D is amazing. lol  It is gorgeous to see the clear blue sky and hear the sounds of summer all around us.

2.  Books!  I love books.  No, let me rephrase that...I LOVE BOOKS!!  The feel of them, the smell of them, even the idea of them!  I have been surrounded by books this week getting ready for our next school year.  There are piles of these wonderful treasures all over the house just waiting to be explored.  (Yes, honey, I will get them picked up and put away soon!)

3.  My kiddos.  I love being home with them.  They are so much fun and such a joy to me.  This week has bee especially challenging with one of them and she has pushed every button that I have.  But, I still love being with her.  They sharpen me, challenge me to be better than I am and force me to change.  That is not something I do willingly!  I can't imagine sending them away for eight hours a day every day of the week.  I love having them home!

 
4.  The Drive-In theater.  My oldest dd and I went to one this week and they are so much fun!  We try and go as a family on the weekends and nothing beats sitting in a lawn chair watching a movie on a screen the size of a large building. lol  I hope we can go many more times this summer.  btw It is MUCH cheaper than the indoor type of theater.

5.  Blockbuster Online.  I love getting movies in the mail!  It is so exciting to see what we will be watching next.  I also love taking them back to the store that is just down the street and exchanging it for a FREE movie!  Who doesn't love Free?

So, what's your Fave Five?  Want to participate?  Head on over to Susanne's at Living to Tell the Story and link up.  I'll look forward to reading it.  :)

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The last one...

Our youngest is learning to ride her bike WITHOUT training wheels!  She has been asking and Steven finally started teaching her on Sunday.  Each night after work, he comes home and runs beside her for countless trips up and down the block.

She is doing so well.  She is so proud of herself and keeps saying that she is now a big girl just like her sisters!

(pics to come...maybe even a video!)

I really hate that

You know when you are at the store and someone is standing right in the middle of the aisle and won't move to let you by?  How about when they give you a dirty look because you say, "Excuse me?" with a smile?  Maybe they actually run into you or your kid because they are talking on their cell phones and not paying attention?  Best yet, they cut in front of you in the express check-out and they have a semi-full cart.  Your look up just to check the sign, yup 20 items or less.  grrr

Gotta love it.

What makes these scenarios even better?

Wearing this shirt...

Can you read that?  Just in case you can't it says, "Jesus loves you...But, I'm his favorite."

I hate it when my bad attitude gets caught like that!

That hasn't happened in a while

Last week I was asked to run sound for my dh's group, Heart's Journey.  It seems that they had exhausted all their other options and I was the last one they had! lol  You would think that that would upset me, but it didn't.  I don't mind being the very last option in this kind of thing.

I used to run sound for them on occasion about a hundred years ago!  Before kids, or at least so many of them anyway. heehee

So, I give myself an ulcer fretting and stewing about having to do this gig.  My dh and his group are pretty particular about the way that they sound.  (I mean that in the nicest way possible!)  It's very intimidating.  Plus, I am going to have all four kids along for the ride.  Oh yeah, I also have to get them up at 6:15 AM to travel to where we are going.  Good times all the way around!

Yesterday, Sunday, was the day.  It went really well.  There were a few sound problems because it was an in-house sound system that no one really knew how to run.  But we managed.  The guys did a great job!  But, they always do.  I was a nervous wreck and by the time it was over I needed a good long nap.

Hopefully I won't have to do that again anytime soon.  lol Not that I don't enjoy having things my way and bossing people around, I do, I just don't enjoy being the one that has to figure out what the problem is with the sound and how to fix it; 'cause I can't!  I can just make them sound the way I like them, I don't know anything else.

In other words, if you have a gig that needs a sound guy--DON'T CALL ME!