For Davie Boggs amusement....

Since you don't have Facebook ;)

I am a first grade teaching assistant this year. Today while at school, the kids were having trouble focusing on what the teacher was teaching. She got them all on track when a spider made a grand appearance on the "chart paper" hanging from the ceiling ( long paper hanging like a clothes line in the air) We tried to just ignor the spider but it was huge distraction for them...and me as well so I asked if she wanted me to just kill it. We decided that would be best.
With all 25 students sitting there criss cross apple sauce and quiet for the first time that afternoon ,I take off my shoe to hit the spider and I realized, "I can't smash a spider on a free hanging paper". I removed my other shoe thinking "Okay I can just put a shoe behind it and smash the shoes together."....such a blonde moment... next thought, "Omigosh that spider is huge! If I miss it will fall ON TOP OF ME ....and I will become..."indecent & hysterical" so I carefully eased my shoe behind the paper and the spider starts moving I quickly hit the paper and the spider starts falling...as did I.
 I was trying to move back and my feet got tangled in the rocking chair the teacher was sitting in as I grabbed the chair I thought,
"Oh I'm fine" then I fell back with my arms holding my upper body and I honestly don't know what happened with my legs...I thought "Okay I got this"
I landed on my butt and was thinking "Ok, it's over"
NOPE NOT YET next thing I knew, I was flat on my back. The kids are all  laughing so hard as is the teacher.  I jump back to my knees because I don't know where the dumb spider is and there it is in the  containers....I hit those stupid blocks so many time and the spider still lives...
My butt is so sore tonight, but as the teacher said, " Maybe we can write a story about that on Tues.!"
 That wasn't quite what I had in mind for helping them learn how to take everyday life and tell a story...but looks like I was more helpful than I ever thought possible.

A bit of random

For those that like to read about our lil' Dennis, aka Ethan, here's one for you.

He spent the day with a friend Sat. while there, they had a family Bonfire. The friends grandma came to the Bonfire. I guess she has a very strong dislike for the word "poop"...so much so that she doesn't even use it even when the sometimes necessary topic comes up. She refers to it as "out the back" . Of course Ethan was doing something and said " Oh, poop!" Grandma gasped in shock and asked him, " WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!" Ethan apologetically corrects himself with, "Poop Nuggets!"   yeah....I don't know how it happens but somehow my boys have a way of shocking the best of ladies. I remember Cayden and Tre` shocking Sis. Jane a time or two. For the record nobody here says "Poop Nugget" well....that I have heard... besides Ethan.

I was feeling pretty homesick Sat., visiting Dayton and Dryden Road on Friday night, knowing Seth & Sarah and family, mom and dad and Holly & Jeff and family was all in Dayton, trying to squeeze in a years worth of catching up into a few hrs and knowing I could never catch up with everybody.  I miss being at DRPC and "Bev & the girls" just everything (I could go on and on but it would take to long) about Home. The Lord must have heard my heart because Sunday night we had the best service I can remember having at Full Gospel in the almost 3yrs we have been here, I felt spirit and service wise I was back home at Dryden Road church...I guess having one of my BFF's (well kinda like 2 but don't tell Michael I am so fond of him) in service with me didn't hurt any! I am glad that God cares about the small things, the things and feelings nobody else would care about at all.


I don't really have much else for you all so I will just end here!

Broken but I'm Healed

Found this song by chance today, it stirred many emotions and memories. 

How many times have I went to church needing "something", for me that could be different daily! It seems I depend so much on God, for so many areas of my life. Honestly there have been time I have left as broken as when I came. I have wondered how that can be, God is not changed, He has all power, He wants to be my Healer so why am I not healed. Looking back there are many reasons why I didn't get what I needed when I needed it. 

Among them, I didn't want to let go of that hurt, I wasn't in the church (not a building but spiritually speaking) I needed to be in, I let others hinder me, I listened to Satan's lies, I gave up to easy....many other reasons. All of them have to do with the human aspect. Never has it been that God wasn't willing, that God wasn't reaching for me, or that God didn't love me.

Sometime I have hung onto the HURT that had me broken, I have used it as a shield to protect myself from getting hurt again by life or people, makes no difference, really I was afraid to let go of it for fear that

it would leave me vulnerable. or worse still that other would see I was hurt or that they had hurt me...

Sometimes I have doubted God's abilities to heal. Mostly, I didn't want to ask Him for Healing only for Him to say, to me as he did to Paul

2Corinthians 12:8, 9

8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

 

9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I am not sure I can bear to hear those words so there have been time I haven't asked, like a child who wants something but the fear of being told, "No" is greater than the desire. I have always been that child, and even as an adult I would rather not ask, than to ask and be told no...not really sure why! lol!

Once I learn to let go of every hindering thing in my Life, I have found God to be right there with Love like an ointment that heals and covers every hurt, with forgiveness that is the best medicine for a straying heart in pain, with grace and mercy for my starving thirsty soul, and with peace for my troubled and weary mind...and with His gentle spirit ministering to me, I feel myself become whole once again. The memories are there, the scars of past hurts yet, somehow there is renewed strength, there is hope once again and there is ...Healing.

Verse 1:
So you enter into this building,
You brought your burdens, brought your pain.
I have a message for you today,
That when you leave here, you won't be the same.

Verse 2:
So you tell me you've been to your physician,
Look at you there's been no change in your condition.
Reach out and touch the Master's Throne,
There's healing for your mind, your body, and your soul.

Chorus 1:
God can heal, He can deliver.
He can mend your brokenness.
He has a miracle to fit your needs,
Once you trust Him, you will receive.

Verse 3:
God knows about your situation,
But with every test and every trial there is revelation,
That God is able to supply every one of your needs;
He's here to touch you, heal you, He'll set you free.

Two of my favorite things....My kids and my yard!

 I know you thinking "Did she really take more pictures of her yard?!" The answer is , Yes! What else can I take pics of! I would promise this is the last one but I don't know if it keep looking more and more pretty I will have to take another one to share! ;)

In full Bloom! ;)

Porch with Some Yard decor from my mom

Some of my yard decor.....from my mom! ;)

Handsome little stinker!

All 4- the sun was a little bright for them! lol!

Ethan