What are you Thinking.

I never know what I am going to write about until I sit down and my fingers start hitting the keys.  Much like my ever day life.  I never know what I am thinking until I hear the words coming out of my mouth.  Many times Sheila will say to me what are you thinking about. And like many men I say oh nothing.  If only she knew how true that is.  Ok there may be a rare occasion where I actually have a thought running through my brain but that’s not very often.  The wheels are spinning but the hamster’s dead.  LOL.    But seriously, many times I don’t have anything on my mind.  I come from a long line of what I call speak thinkers.  My Mother suffers from this much worse than I.  Many times after I have said something, even I say to myself “wow that made no sense”.  But I guess that is just what makes me who I am.  I wish I were a lot more like my Dad. He runs a thought carefully through his brain, really giving it as much thought as any one person can.  Once he speaks his thoughts they actually make sense (most of the time). One thing I do get from my Dad is being quiet.  I love to listen to what people are saying.  Often times I say to myself what the heck?  Did that person just say that?  Did they mean it?  Do they have any idea what they are saying?  But then it occurs to me that maybe they are just speak thinking and right now they are saying to themselves, What the heck did I Just say?

 

But I guess I do possess another quality that the other speak thinkers out there may or may not do.  I go sailing down memory lane.  I think I do that when there is nothing good playing on my brain so my body goes into autopilot and plays and oldie but goodie memory.  Sure it may not be Lucy and Ethyl stuffing Chocolates in their mouth, Or Andy and Barney trying to catch someone running an illegal still. But memories are far more valuable than silver or gold.  They are not something you can buy or sell but they are priceless.

Grateful

I woke up this morning with an attitude of just being grateful.  Yes I woke up with a headache and a runny nose, But thank God I am alive.  Many times I forget to be grateful for all the blessings in my life.  And then you wake up feeling miserable and that’s when you sit down, get quiet and reflect on the more important things in life.  If I had woke up feeling fine this morning I would have just went about my normal morning routines and not given another thought about being grateful.  So I’m thankful this morning that I woke up feeling yucky.  I probably am the last person you would expect to be thankful to be feeling miserable. But I know that God sometimes has to hit me on the back of the head and say SIT DOWN, BE STILL and let me take the wheel.   See we all know that we have to have God in our life and we know that we can’t do anything without him.  But sometimes we get to comfortable and set in our ways that we slowly start doing it on our own and before you know it we are in over our head.  But the good news is that when we get in to deep and we know we can’t dig our way out.  God is standing on the side line with his arm stretched out towards us.  And he does not scold us for messing up.  He just wraps us in his arms and smothers us with his love.  So lord, I thank you this morning for my headache and stuffy nose.  We had a good morning.

 

Blessings till I post again.

much to do about nothing

Well it has been a while since I have posted.  Sheila and I have been busy doing a facelift to our office.  I am back at my work office for a month and we thought it would be a great time to get new carpet and paint the room while we were at it.  Other than that I have been going through stuff that we don’t need any longer and trying to get some more organized.  The next project I need to tackle is covering the strawberries before they come in.  The birds are already trying to steak a claim at them.

 

Blessings till I post again.

Enter Spring

I am so excited that Spring has arrived.  I am so ready to be out side working in the yard once again.  My mind is so full of ideas that I know will not come to pass because I will either forget or something else will come along.  but that’s just the way I am.  So full of intentions, hopes, dreams.  But so little time to act on them.   Now I am not saying I am a slacker and never accomplish anything.  I think my life is pretty well balanced for the most part.  I have many flaws just like the next guy. I just hope that at the end of the day I did my part to bring happiness to at least one life. Helped to put a smile on one face.  Just make a difference.  I’m 35 years old now but one thing that has never changed in my life is that I want to make a difference. 

 

Blessings till I post again.

Seems Like Yesterday.

Wow, It seems like only yesterday that we moved into our house we live in now.  We have been here 7 years now and so much has changed.  The picture above was taken shortly after we moved in.  We had 5 blowers working the yard that year.  Sheila’s Dad pushed the issue for us to get a riding lawn mower with a bagger on it.  It has made our life so much easier.  What took 5 people to do now takes 1 person to do.  Sheila and I will take turns riding the mower while the other person handles the task of removing the bags to empty.  So I guess it is a 2 person job, if you want to make the task go faster.  I look back now and wonder how we were so blessed to have a family that cared so much about us to jump in and lend a hand.  They sure did not have to and we did not ask for the help.  But the help was so much appreciated.  I know that a lot of families would not have helped the kido’s out as much as our’s has. That just gives us so much more to be thankful for.   The life lessons that it taught us will not go by the wayside.  When we are blessed to have children of our own I will step up to the plate and make sure they have every chance to have long lasting memories just like the photo above.

 

Blessings till I post again.

Nice Weather

I’m so thankful for the nice weather that we have had for the past few days.  I’ve felt kind of crummy with sinus junk going on, but regardless it has been so beautiful.  

I was going through some of our pictures and found this one of me and Sheila from about 5 years ago.

 

Blessings till I post again.

Semi Lazy Day

I got up at 3:40 this morning and could not fall back to sleep. I got up and surfed the web for a while and then took a hot bath. I find it helps me to take a hot bath before I lay down and it usually does the trick. So at 6:58am I got back to bed and I slept until 9:40. I have not slept that late in I can not tell you how long. So I talked Sheila into going to Waffle House. The last time I had waffle house was on Sept 18th 2009. So I am past due for my waffle fix. After that we ran a few places and got back home. Before I knew it the time was after 2:00. Man where did the day go? They say time flys when you are having fun. Well sometimes it does when you are not too. Sometimes you get so busy doing a bunch of nothing that your whole day just slips right by you. I did get a chance today to lay down and take a much needed afternoon nap. Ginger never missing a chance to curl up with someone, nearly beat me to the bed. Olivia came in and saw that Ginger had beat her, so she left. After some time had passed Olivia came back to see if Ginger was still on her turf. Well she was, but she was fast asleep in her bed by now. So Olivia snuck in bed with me and laid next to me and fell asleep. They crack me up, They are just like 2 kids who both want our attention at ALL TIMES. But we love them. I can't wait till we do have children of our own. I plan on spoiling them rotten.

Blessings till I post again.