You will be so happy to know that I actually made it through yesterday without a Christmas Heart attack! But I am concerned with the rapid rate at which I'm convinced I'm losing brain cells. I'll give you a glimpse into just a few of situations this week that illustrate my concern-
1. My friend, Marybeth, told me of the passing of Dan Fogelburg. To which I replied, "Oh that is so sad. Wasn't he part of that group Simon and Garfunkle?"
2. I took my two boys shopping yesterday with my sister, Sarah. We went into a store where the music was so loud I could feel the beat thumping in my chest which was not conducive to finishing my conversation with my other sister, Angee, who was in a crisis and needed some encouragement. (At that very moment she was the caboose in the Christmas Parade in her hometown and was having some issues trying to communicate with the head of the parade that they were on a street they should not have been on--- going the wrong way. Now, I'm 7 hours from her town so why she thought I could help is mystery to me. But none the less, I had to get out of that store so I could hear her!) So, I asked Sarah to please watch my boys while I stepped outside. To which she quizzically replied, "Lysa- they are 18 and 19 years old!"
3. I finally did get my roots colored on Thursday but before then I had been reduced to standing in the mirror coloring them with a black sharpie marker--- again!
4. And you know it really is bad when your family's new definition of doing laundry means that mom will hand you a Tide Stick! "Do the best you can with what you have- that is a valuable life lesson children."
5. But the macDaddy of all the situations was that I agreed to have Brooke's Hannah Montana sleepover birthday party in the middle of Christmas! Right now as I type this I have 13 children in my house! You know it was that mommy guilt thing that made me worry that since I had her so close to Christmas that she might have issues about her birthday being overlooked blah blah blah---(like I had any control over the little fact of when she arrived in this world! I'm not organized enough to plan what we are having for dinner tonight much less when my children would be conceived and birthed! I had two children in the first two years of our marriage before I finally figured out what was causing all this craziness! Okay, I'm just kidding about the not knowing part but serious about not planning a single one of my pregnancies!) So, we rocked out the house with Hannah and a house full of screaming, bouncing, sugar-hyped little girls. Now the real insane part was that I love her music as much as my girls and was really getting into it. So, when I went to serve the birthday cake I quipped, "This is so much fun- LIKE TOTALLY!" To which Brooke whispered in my ear, "Mom- don't try to act cool in front of my friends."
Act Cool? ACT cool. I felt like telling her this was no act. Cool just comes out from my 80's upbringing without much effort at all. She just better be glad I did not go get my leg warmers and jelly bracelets, put my bangs in their full and upright position, and MC Hammer my way through the kitchen!
Now what in the world does all this have to do with Jonah?
Well, you see I recently realized something cool about Jonah from the Bible. (Okay this time I checked the coolness factor of what I'm about to share with Holly and she TOTALLY agreed that this is cool- that I am cool- and that my cool barometer is fully in tact! What do 9 year olds know about cool for Heaven's sake!) Anyhow, I always felt bad that Jonah got swallowed by that big fish. But in reality if he had not gotten swallowed by that fish, he would have drowned. What seemed to threaten his life, actually saved it!
That's what I'm thinking about with my lack of a Wii for Christmas as explained in yesterday's post. I have felt bad that there will be no Wii under the tree. But now, I'm thinking God is going to use this to protect me on Christmas morning. You see, if I had gone to GREAT and VERY EXPENSIVE lengths to get that Wii for my children and then I heard them fighting over it, complaining about it, losing the games and breaking the controllers- it just would not have measured up to my family bonding visions (again as explained yesterday.) Then I would get mad and call my caboose riding sister and complain about how ungrateful children can be sometimes. Then to make myself feel better I would have eaten too much chocolate got all hyped up on caffeine and sugar, grabbed up that Wii and it great tribute to MC Hammer proclaimed, "CAN'T TOUCH THIS--- dah nah nah nah- nah nah- nah nah!"
And that my friends is what Jonah, MC Hammer, and a Wii have taught me this Christmas. Very profound. And like I said, I think I'm losing brain cells rapidly!
NOW FOR THE ONE COOL CHRISTMAS GIVE AWAY!
Yesterday's winner---
Oh, my sweet bloggy friends I can't tell you how hard it is to pick a winner each day. So, I can tell you that I pray each one of you who takes the time to ENCOURAGE me so much with your comments gets some kind of cool blessing from God even if you don't win the giveaway. So, with all that said--- we simply can't have a sister who took time to pour out her heart going without a gift and feeling like a dork this Christmas. So, the winner of the Sharon Hoffman Gift Set is-
Godsgurl4evr---- CONGRATS--- Go ahead and show us a little Hammer dance!
Okay if you are too young to know the Hammer dance, please keep that little factoid to yourself or more gray will come and then the black sharpie routine and well it's Christmas and we are keeping it Merry people! Smiles.
NOW for TODAY's GIVEAWAY!
We have two prizes that I am so excited about!!!!
First, Lelia Chealey is sponsoring a $100 gift certificate for BeautiControl products! You can find out more about Lelia's BeautiControl goodies by clicking here: http://www.beautipage.com/leliachealey/ . To visit Leli'a blog click here--- I know she would love to have you visit, leave a comment and make her smile!
Lelia has also written some delightful poems that are sure to bless and de-stress as well. So, she will e-mail the winner a poem as well. And Lelia thank you for your sweet, sweet comments each day! You make me smile girl.
And the Second Give Away item is sponsored by Dena Dyer--- one groovy chick!
Dena Dyer says, "I'm giving a copy of The Groovy Chicks' Road Trip to Love, my latest book, on your blog. I can package it with two other items: a purple and green wooden sign that says "Groovy!" and a craft kit that would be fun to do with kids." How TOTALLY COOL is that! To learn more about Dena, her many Groovy Chick's books and her ministry click here: http://www.denadyer.com/ .
Oh my stars~ I have to go! I just heard Brooke share with her friends that the ONLY thing she wants to Christmas this year is a real live PIG!!!!
So, click on the word comments below, leave a little note and you'll be registered for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
1. My friend, Marybeth, told me of the passing of Dan Fogelburg. To which I replied, "Oh that is so sad. Wasn't he part of that group Simon and Garfunkle?"
2. I took my two boys shopping yesterday with my sister, Sarah. We went into a store where the music was so loud I could feel the beat thumping in my chest which was not conducive to finishing my conversation with my other sister, Angee, who was in a crisis and needed some encouragement. (At that very moment she was the caboose in the Christmas Parade in her hometown and was having some issues trying to communicate with the head of the parade that they were on a street they should not have been on--- going the wrong way. Now, I'm 7 hours from her town so why she thought I could help is mystery to me. But none the less, I had to get out of that store so I could hear her!) So, I asked Sarah to please watch my boys while I stepped outside. To which she quizzically replied, "Lysa- they are 18 and 19 years old!"
3. I finally did get my roots colored on Thursday but before then I had been reduced to standing in the mirror coloring them with a black sharpie marker--- again!
4. And you know it really is bad when your family's new definition of doing laundry means that mom will hand you a Tide Stick! "Do the best you can with what you have- that is a valuable life lesson children."
5. But the macDaddy of all the situations was that I agreed to have Brooke's Hannah Montana sleepover birthday party in the middle of Christmas! Right now as I type this I have 13 children in my house! You know it was that mommy guilt thing that made me worry that since I had her so close to Christmas that she might have issues about her birthday being overlooked blah blah blah---(like I had any control over the little fact of when she arrived in this world! I'm not organized enough to plan what we are having for dinner tonight much less when my children would be conceived and birthed! I had two children in the first two years of our marriage before I finally figured out what was causing all this craziness! Okay, I'm just kidding about the not knowing part but serious about not planning a single one of my pregnancies!) So, we rocked out the house with Hannah and a house full of screaming, bouncing, sugar-hyped little girls. Now the real insane part was that I love her music as much as my girls and was really getting into it. So, when I went to serve the birthday cake I quipped, "This is so much fun- LIKE TOTALLY!" To which Brooke whispered in my ear, "Mom- don't try to act cool in front of my friends."
Act Cool? ACT cool. I felt like telling her this was no act. Cool just comes out from my 80's upbringing without much effort at all. She just better be glad I did not go get my leg warmers and jelly bracelets, put my bangs in their full and upright position, and MC Hammer my way through the kitchen!
Now what in the world does all this have to do with Jonah?
Well, you see I recently realized something cool about Jonah from the Bible. (Okay this time I checked the coolness factor of what I'm about to share with Holly and she TOTALLY agreed that this is cool- that I am cool- and that my cool barometer is fully in tact! What do 9 year olds know about cool for Heaven's sake!) Anyhow, I always felt bad that Jonah got swallowed by that big fish. But in reality if he had not gotten swallowed by that fish, he would have drowned. What seemed to threaten his life, actually saved it!
That's what I'm thinking about with my lack of a Wii for Christmas as explained in yesterday's post. I have felt bad that there will be no Wii under the tree. But now, I'm thinking God is going to use this to protect me on Christmas morning. You see, if I had gone to GREAT and VERY EXPENSIVE lengths to get that Wii for my children and then I heard them fighting over it, complaining about it, losing the games and breaking the controllers- it just would not have measured up to my family bonding visions (again as explained yesterday.) Then I would get mad and call my caboose riding sister and complain about how ungrateful children can be sometimes. Then to make myself feel better I would have eaten too much chocolate got all hyped up on caffeine and sugar, grabbed up that Wii and it great tribute to MC Hammer proclaimed, "CAN'T TOUCH THIS--- dah nah nah nah- nah nah- nah nah!"
And that my friends is what Jonah, MC Hammer, and a Wii have taught me this Christmas. Very profound. And like I said, I think I'm losing brain cells rapidly!
NOW FOR THE ONE COOL CHRISTMAS GIVE AWAY!
Yesterday's winner---
Oh, my sweet bloggy friends I can't tell you how hard it is to pick a winner each day. So, I can tell you that I pray each one of you who takes the time to ENCOURAGE me so much with your comments gets some kind of cool blessing from God even if you don't win the giveaway. So, with all that said--- we simply can't have a sister who took time to pour out her heart going without a gift and feeling like a dork this Christmas. So, the winner of the Sharon Hoffman Gift Set is-
Godsgurl4evr---- CONGRATS--- Go ahead and show us a little Hammer dance!
Okay if you are too young to know the Hammer dance, please keep that little factoid to yourself or more gray will come and then the black sharpie routine and well it's Christmas and we are keeping it Merry people! Smiles.
NOW for TODAY's GIVEAWAY!
We have two prizes that I am so excited about!!!!
First, Lelia Chealey is sponsoring a $100 gift certificate for BeautiControl products! You can find out more about Lelia's BeautiControl goodies by clicking here: http://www.beautipage.com/leliachealey/ . To visit Leli'a blog click here--- I know she would love to have you visit, leave a comment and make her smile!
Lelia has also written some delightful poems that are sure to bless and de-stress as well. So, she will e-mail the winner a poem as well. And Lelia thank you for your sweet, sweet comments each day! You make me smile girl.
And the Second Give Away item is sponsored by Dena Dyer--- one groovy chick!
Dena Dyer says, "I'm giving a copy of The Groovy Chicks' Road Trip to Love, my latest book, on your blog. I can package it with two other items: a purple and green wooden sign that says "Groovy!" and a craft kit that would be fun to do with kids." How TOTALLY COOL is that! To learn more about Dena, her many Groovy Chick's books and her ministry click here: http://www.denadyer.com/ .
Oh my stars~ I have to go! I just heard Brooke share with her friends that the ONLY thing she wants to Christmas this year is a real live PIG!!!!
So, click on the word comments below, leave a little note and you'll be registered for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
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