high anxiety

no, not the mel brooks classic.
real high anxiety.
you may have heard about the 2 girls, Lyric cook, age10 and Elizabeth collins age 8, who were abducted from  a small town park/lake area. Those girls lived down the street and around the corner from my mom and dad.
it has caused my anxiety level to go sky high, not just about child abduction, about a lot of other terrible things that COULD happen (but most likely wont)
especially as i prepared on wednesday night to visit my parents.
we could get a flat tire on the side of the highway.
we could get robbed while stopping at a gas station. the car could get stolen with the kids in it. the baby could choke in his sleep. dominic could fall off the swings, hit his head just right and die on impact.

well. you get the picture, im NOT that person, i dont prepare for the worst! i dont think of all the calamities that could befall me and my family.

the only solution is prayer, praying for God to protect us and also prayer that The Enemy will have no foot hold in my mind, he is really, really good at getting in and telling me all of the worst things that could happen. the more time i spend worrying, the less im depending on God, the less faith im having that he will protect me, that he has good plans for me and that he will give me rest.

also, i vow to NOT watch the news or read peoples FB links to news stories that are about crime and the decline of the human condition. the news is like food for my anxieties, was reminded of that last night, it meant tossing and turning all night contemplating how humans could be so disgusting and broken.

but lets conclude this with God is Good and will make all things new in his time. i cant wait

wood floors and the olympics.

busy day yesterday!! my friend Lori and her two teens helped me pull up our old ratty, dirty, juice stained, cat hair ridden carpet. this is what had been covered up for the last 25 years or so.

we pulled out carpet, padding, staples and tack strips from 9am until 6pm, swept up, dust mopped, and applied orange cleaner.

i wont go into the details of the dirt, dust and allergens we discovered under the carpet, suffice to say, i will not be someone who advocates carpeting anything, i would say for the rest of my life, but ...ya never know what the future will bring.

the less one makes declarative statements, the less one looks like a fool in the long run.

also big news. Ken bought me a digital antenna to hook up to my vintage 1990's tv so that i can watch the olympics and the world series.....i never knew i was a sports fan.

whatcha doin?

oh, not much just making pulled chicken and watching my sweet baby boy try to get his legs up underneath himself so he can learn to crawl.

she's alive (sub title, a few things i thought about while looking at pinterest)

quilts- i like them, but i know i dont have the patience to make a big nice on like the ones i see one pinterest with nice herring bone patchwork patterns and if i did make one, i would keep it all to myself and not let anyone else, especially not the cat, use it.  since it isnt Christlike to be that selfish, i think i will just save myself the whole forgiveness and repentance thing and not make a quilt.

fonts-im a font geek...there i said it, are you happy now?

home organization- i love the idea of home organization, i impliment and idea here and there but lets face it, that looks like a lot of work, i would rather just search all around the kitchen for the scissors, open the junk drawer only to have it explode its contents all over the floor and then end up using a knife to cut whatever it was that i needed the scissors for because the scissors never surfaced.

knee length skirts- they work on everyone. look classy and protect your modesty at the same time!

back yard bowling alley- do i even have to comment on why this would be awesome?

Chic fil a- yes i pinned a recipe of how to make chic fil a chicky nuggets, theyre Dominic's favorite fast food nuggets, he loves going to Clarksville to the dentist because we get to stop at Chic Fil A.

hula hoop tent- now heres one i might actually do!! i have a hula hoop and i have a lightly used king size sheet, i may do this today...seriously.

on another note, im hoping to pick up a more regular blogging schedule when school starts the baby will sleep and i can get some blogging time in...heres hoping.

change the world tour

These are our friends in AllBecameNew

let me tell you about these guys.
theyre pretty rad.
they are a hard core punk/metal band.
they love Jesus.
they love Jesus so much that they live it.

Right now they are on tour, they all quit their regular jobs as carpenters, roofers, cooks, employees at the video store, Etc. and took off in a van to go as far as the Dakotas (that is about a 2 day drive from here) to play shows and infiltrate the bars and punk rock shows for the glory of God. theyre eating with the sinners and the tax collectors.

they all have comfortable beds here at home, some have wives, at home they eat well.
on tour, they have no steady income, they crash on couches or in the van, they probably eat a lot of Taco Bell, if i had to guess i would say they probably have friendly competition on whose gas is the most eye-wateringly smelly.

I personally know 2 members of this band, we support them financially as well as  with our prayers.


 they remind me of the early church, people who will drop anything and everything when the opportunity to serve God and spread the Gospel arises, who will give all they have for His glory.
yesterday they showed Gospel centered love to a group of homeless, last week they helped a fellow rocker to come to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

im not saying this because i want you to think Sam and Danny and the rest of the guys are super cool (although i think they are), im telling you because it is encouraging to me, to see that in this pseudo-christian society, there are people who will do whatever they have to to further the Kingdom of The One True God.
it is encouraging to see people loving other people, people who are lost, people who are hopeless, people who know pain and suffering, people that a lot of  "church people" wont go near.

you can find All Became New on Facebook if you want to see what theyre up to day by day.
i would encourage you to pray for them.

you can also support them by buying their album from ITunes.

free fun!

what you need:

a water bottle with the bottom cut off

a piece of a terry cloth rag

a rubber band

dish soap

water

a stick

attatch the rag to the bottom of the bottle with the rubber band

 dip the bottle in the dish soap solution

 blow the bubbles

hit the bubbles with a stick

repeat

whats in a name? (fat baby in a little diaper, part 2)

we call him Pudge, Paunch, Chancho, Chubaroo, Chunk, Butterball Turkey, This Little Piggy, Ham Thighs, Big Boy, Strong Boy, Biggie Smalls, and any number of spur of the moment pet names that convey his growing girth.

the point im trying to make is this a big boy!
 he is 4 and a half months old, he weighs 18 lbs, he is 27 inches tall!

he has grown out of size 2 diapers and is on to size 3, he has grown out of many of his size 6 month summer clothes.

looking back at Dominic's charts he was this size at 9 months!!

let me just say, i did not expect this, i thought he would be about the same size as Dominic. boy was i wrong.

but who doesnt love a roly poly baby? i know i love him.