Friday Fill-ins

Ok, by now I figure my blog friends figure I have "left the building".  Not so -- we have just been unbelievably busy trying to sell an extra house, get all the financial dealing involved with retirement settled and trying to adjust to a new normal.  I will say that retirement is not for the impatient!!! Or inflexible! So, in an effort to get back to MY usual routine, I am going to do a Friday Fill-in!

1.  How in the world did I get this old?

2.  I couldn't find the magazine that was right in front of me.

3.  Life's great!

4.  Let's pack a picnic  lunch and head for the park.

5.  HEB Grocery Store -- that was where we met.

6.  There isn't one place that I think of as "our place".

7.  And as for the weekend, tonight I am looking forward to nothing, tomorrow my plans include housecleaning and on Sunday I want to go to church and just relax.

So, there it is -- this week is going to be a more consistent blog week -- I am not going to play Farmville or Cityville.  I am beginning to realize that I need a course in time management.  Have a wonderful weekend.


 

Friday Fill-ins and Heaven is for Real:  A Little Boy's Astounding Story of his Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo.


First -- Friday Fill-ins

1.  Hey! You, get off my cloud!
2.  That statement doesn't contain one kernel of truth.
3.  eat healthy
4.  the oldest, the youngest and the one in the middle
5.  First thing to note:  list making is a virtue
6.  Facebook is an unnecessary distraction
7And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to pizza and a movie, tomorrow my plans include nothing special and Sunday, I want to celebrate the Hubs b/d with the family.


Book Review

First off -- I don't make a habit of reading stuff about sick/dying/hurt/murdered/kidnapped/ or in any way harmed children -- I just don't find it entertaining and, unless I am reading for knowledge, reading is sheer entertainment for me.  So, I held on to the book  about Colton Burpo for a long time.  It wanted to read it because it discussed his near death experience but for him to have had a NDE, he  would have had to be in harms way and I just wasn't ready for that sort of reading.  However, because I am part of a reading challenge and because I wanted to chisel away at my ever growing Nook library, I decided to give it a go knowing I could stop if it became too much for me to handle. 

I was hooked from the first page.  It is a lovely story of the faith of a child, which we should all have, the faith of his parents in the midst of all their human frailities and the love of God.  It is a story of modern day miracles.  I was particularly interested in this book because of my own mother's NDE.  She told us that something "happened" to her during one of her hospitalizations and she didn't want to talk about it but she just knew that she would never be afraid of dying.  I was reading this book to get a glimpse of what she  might have experienced.  If this is what happened then it was a glorious experience for her to have.

I would recommend this book to anyone -- anybody who has had any involvement with a near death experience would enjoy reading of a little boy who took his experience into stride and explained it in the simpliest, most beautiful words. A believer will just shake his/her head saying "yes, that is what I believe" and a non-believer might start questioning his stand on things.  Wherever you are, it is definitely a beautiful story.

The Whole Week in One Fell Swoop

I have been trying to post more regularly but I have a problem in that some days I just simply have nothing of any interest to say.  So, in order to keep me on an even keel, I like to employ several "meme's" so to speak. This week, I have gotten completely off track and have done none of them so I am going to combine them all into one and try again next week.  so, here goes.

Blue Monday

Learning to catagorize by color

Teaser Tuesdays

This weeks Teaser is from "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane" by Katherine
 Howe.

"After a few more minutes spent yanking on the last stubborn vines, Connie sat back on her heels and regarded the revealed gate.  Its iron was so pitted with rust and age that she feared it might dissolve at her touch."



Wordless Wednesday

Booking Through Thursday -- Multi-tasking

I do not multi-task.  I am not good at it.  With anything.  If I am reading, most likely the television is on because the Hubs is sitting in the next chair.  If the book is good, I can tune out the tv but if the book  is just so-so, I end up watching the tv but I don't do both at the same time.  I have never brushed my teeth while reading a book but I have actually ridden in the car and read but not while I was driving -- little joke there.

Friday Fill-Ins

1.  Oh gross! I thought it was chicken!

2.  Ah, well, THAT'S off my bucket list.

3.  No, thank you.

4.  One thing I can play on the piano is Heart and Soul.

5.  and then, I would like to buy a lottery ticket and win a boatload of money.

6.  I can't forget all the lies they told us.

7.  And as for the weekend, tonight I am looking forward to reading, tomorrow my plans include yard work and Sunday I want to go to church and relax.

Friday fill-ins #130



1. She had a great handbag!

2. Rollie is my by my side always! And sometimes under my feet!

3. I know this: If it gets any hotter Texas is going to turn into one great big tortilla chip!

4. Be still, Rollie. It isn't dinner time yet!

5. These words apply to me: Uh, I don't have a clue!

6. Outside the sun was shining.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I am looking forward to a few more episodes of "Sex and the City", tomorrow I might attend the great big fabric/notion sale at Berry Patch Fabrics, and Sunday I want to go to church and either read or quilt or cross stitch -- so many choices!

#127

1. Lucy, I'm home!.

2My favorite thing for dinner lately has been something somebody else cooked -- especially if that somebody else cooked salmon.

3. When Toto saw the flying monkeys, he went bark, bark, bark!

4. A nice long walk would be a really nice thing.

5. Tell me some good news.

6. When all is said and done, who said it, who did it, define all.

7. And as for the weekend tonight I am looking forward to a Netflix movie and watching AW make kolaches, tomorrow my plans include Family Fiesta at my MIL retirement community and Sunday I want to just hibernate and wake up on Thursday -- I said hibernation, not coma.