I have uncovered the secret to the universe.....

A True Hero

IRENA SENDLER The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving!!! Read on and you'll see why: Irena Sendler A 98 year-old lady named Irena recently died. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... being German, she KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, for larger kids. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms, and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunite the families. Most of course had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming. LET'S SEND THIS ONE AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS HER ~ May she rest in Peace
This is a true female HERO story per http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp

and finally, Tomorrow.

yay! Tomorrow is finally here, and we are enjoying it with Nathan and Mercy. :D :D




(ok...so yeah, i was too lazy to come up with anything else to blog...)

Remembering Trash Girl

I made a visit to our M&M blog for the first time in forever, just to check things out, and I found...Trash Girl. :>

I realized it's been two years to the day since trash girl made her appearance helping others.

March 26, 2007

Thanks for your service trash girl!

Ever After-- Since her start helping others with their garbage duties, Trash Girl has gone on to become an icon of trash, nation-wide. Most cities have devoted a holiday to trash, weekly, in honor of Trash Girl, and to show her their deep appreciation.

Thank you, Trash Girl.

Today.

So, A.B. over at Sentencing You to Death has inspired me to post on a daily basis. However, i am only going to try this until next week... (NOT going to set myself up for failure.)

I hereby promise to post Today, Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and finally next Tuesday.

Maybe after that, i'll be so obsessed with blogging i won't be able to stand missing a day! HA!

Oh, and speaking of Sentencing You to Death, I really have to brag on it.

genius.

I am incredibly impressed, and totally in awe of the sheer ingenuity of the basic idea of this blog.

No, I am not sucking up, mind you.

But seriously, how awesome is a blog with a title like "Sentencing You to Death" when the basic purpose of the blog is to add a sentence daily for a month... no matter how ridiculously long...

i love it.

So. Now that I am through promoting, I'll continue to try and give you something worthy of your time.

( I did say try.)

.Today.

I went to the Dentist.
(Best dental experience ever, except for the daunting news for the Wisdom teeth. Yep, the poor little dears have got to go.)

I proved to more of the general public that rain and humidity does not indeed have positive effects on curly hair.

My mother and I shared nearly and hour of conversation devoted to the word "scallywag" and it's synonyms.

Does anyone ever use Webdings?

Mama and I read Eclipse (the third of the Twilight saga) back and forth to each other all day depending on who was driving, and also at Starbucks over coffee. (ok, ok, I know what you may or may not be thinking...I'll touch the "Twilight" subject one day, eventually.)

We went all anti-interstate on the way home from Birmingham. (Not nearly as appealing and spontaneous as it sounds.)

I should be finishing school right now.

I miss all the "college kids."

That pretty much covers today...

I feel like yesterday pretty much got jipped, since I spent yesterday blogging about the yesterday that belonged to yesterday. Tuesday was fine. (It just felt left out.)

Now, since we just got home, I'm off to remove my soaked keds (not a good shoe for the rain) and assemble a tacky purple task chair that i love...
I can do this.

As for you, dear reader, see you tomorrow!

I miss you sisters, come home soon.
♥


♫ Stuck in my head: "Vegetable Car" by Joshua Radin

Yesterday.

For any of you that had the privilege of being in Alabama yesterday, can you not agree with me that there was something about yesterday that made it possibly the best Monday ever. Nothing spectacular happened. But it was just one of those days. A happy day. Everyone i saw yesterday agreed. ....maybe it was just all the vitamin D and sunflowers... combined with a day of healthy eating. I was in love with yesterday.

We had the most glorious weather.

How could the day not have been spent outside?

.......................

So March is almost over, but it has brought birthdays, anniversaries, trips and work and play. lots of play.

We've been to San Diego:

Elvis and Daddy shared their birthday again. I don't have a picture.

(my sister is 22....................??)

My parents have been married now for 28 years.

love. :)

28 roses,

and this card.

(pun intended)

(My father's rare cheesiness is adorable.

...er...appreciated?)

She turned 16:

what???

loveayums.

Spring Breaks are usually pretty grand. The trip to Atalanta to see the Terracotta soldiers and 3rd Louvre exhibit at the High Museum was wonderful:

...whitney and i did the punk thing on purpose.

...meanwhile my father is on a motorcycle trip....
shhhh....

...And in case you're still reading, (bless you)

then there was yesterday:

So happy beginning to a great week!

...and so, Margaret and Johnnie are off to Greece and Turkey...

Proverbs 21:1

You might be an Art Student if.....

• your professor misses a day because of bronchitis and comes back with a blue streak in her hair


• you spend an entire class cutting up card board boxes


• tape becomes very important


• tacking up assignments to the classroom wall is required


• it is common to walk into the classroom and find the professor standing on the desks adjusting the lights


• you frequently have to move the furniture around in the classroom


• sooner or later you are always instructed to not eat your school supplies


• you start a project by scribbling all over a piece of paper


• music is frequently played during class


• homework is commonly collecting "pretty pictures"


• you are made to stretch in the middle of class


• you have to wash your hands multiple times during class


• you come home dirty


• you learn about common shapes, squares, circles...


• "cleanup" is a ritual and has to be taught and enforced


• your professors tend to be a little....shall we say "spacey"


• your professors frequently use words like, harmony, beautiful, flowing, etc.


• your professor can get by with wearing a huge rounded snow globe ring with glitter that floats around in it


• you are asked to place assignments on the floor to look at them

................Or you might just be a kindergartner...............

Happy Stewardship

"Laying up an inheritance for future generations." :)

The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford.

Pray for him.Pray for us.

"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth is whitherosever he will. -Proverbs 21:1

crap....(oh shh....not supposed to say that word)

I'm so sick crap.
GO AWAY CRAP.
crap. crap. crap. crap.
please do not ground me for this post.

I am SICK of people being so full of bull that they cannot clearly see everyone around them.
People, using their friends as a means to make themselves seem better. More like-able. The world has enough wicked people in it, those of us who share a christian faith should band together not drive a wedge between us by fake cheesy smiles or insincere kind words. We should truly love one another. I was thinking about love this morning, when i woke up. Love. Real. True. Unswerving, Love. Why do we not love more? Doesn't it sicken you how God asks so little of us, and we ask so much of Him. We do so little for Him, yet, he does everything for us. He loves us so much. And how many times do we turn our backs on Him? I would that we could all love him more.
Last night while visiting some very close friends' church, The pastor was reading Psalms 71, and it really struck me. Such beauty in that chapter. Such a need for God. " Be thou my strong habitation..." "O God, be not far from me..." If we only felt that way at all times. Funny, we don't want God near when we know we're doing wrong. Yet we always want him when we need his help. "O God, be not far from me..." At all times.
Because I have oodles of experience in marriage, i was thinking, when a husband leaves a wife for a while, doesn't she yearn for him? And is there not a more sad sight than to see a couple in which one spouse so attentively aids her ...(did i say "her" this is supposed to be generic :D ) husband , (tehe) and he basically ignores her. He doesn't seem to miss her, he doesn't seem to care.
hmm....so it sickens me all the more, when we ignore our husband. "Be not far from me"
Shouldn't we have a burning desire for him to be close to us?
hahahaha...i crack myself up....we should have a burnin' yearnin' HAHA. laugh. you know you want to.
So...back to the whole "lovin' one another" thing... Another thing i've been thinking about alot lately, in Matthew it tells us to go to our brother when he offends us. But go to him, and him alone. We hardly EVER go to our friend when they offend us! why??? The bible tells us to! And if we do, we've almost ALWAYS gone and talked to someone about it first. "oh girl, did you SEE her!" "Did you hear wha she ha said to me??? "Instead, we have a "better" alternative. Gossip. We gossip continually! Even in our hearts. We tell ourselves terrible things about our friends in hopes that our pathetic selves will seem better. ugh. We are all so full of CRAP.

So God, please be near us always, help us to love each other truly, even just a breath, of that with which you love us, and help us to not be full of crap.

Florida Court Sets Atheist Holy Day \

FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAYI
In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter andPassover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case againstChristians, Jews and observances of their holy days.
The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognizeddays. The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionatepresentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring,"Casedismissed!"
The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, "Your honor,how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas,Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet myclient and all other atheists have no such holidays."
The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, "But you d o. Your client,counsel, is woefully ignorant." The lawyer said, "Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists."
The judge said, "The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day.Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.'Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that if your client says there is noGod, then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court isadjourned.
You gotta love a Judge that knows his scripture!This is too good not to forward.

Thoughts To Ponder

Auntie Lynn has been posting quotes from "Seeking the Face of God" By Gary Thomas.
It would behoove you to visit her blog daily and spend some time studying these quotes. Here are three that particularly apply to the Christian walk and self-discipline:

"Setting goals, but being unwilling to train toward them leaves us worse off than ignoring goals altogether, for we have done nothing but add an element of insincerity to our lives."

"Spiritual training assumes we can change--that the lazy can, in cooperation with the Spirit's work, become more diligent, the selfish can learn to love, and the cruel can learn to be kind. We needn't see ourselves as slaves to the darker sides of our personalities."

" That's just the way I am" is a confession of sloth, not humility."



After reading these I always feel convicted, edified, and encouraged--ready to begin a new day in pursuit of those character traits not easily exercised by my weak flesh. I hope you will give these some thought and share with me your comments. - Love, Pritchett

Of Apples and Wine

Woman are like apples on trees. The best are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

Now men, men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the sh*t out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

Please forgive, just couldn't resist-- Pritchett

Going to sea

To Pritchett and the girls

Look east unto the sea until she returns me to arms again.

Love Daddy

Be Happy, Don't Worry!

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice!
Psalm 97:1


As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let us prepare our hearts and minds to be thankful for all our many blessings. Let us bring to remembrance each blessing in our life be it good health, food and warmth, or family. Let the list be long!

Our "Baby" Done Good!

Parenting is all about the balancing of the desire to keep your little chicks right under your wing and the instinct to prepare them to "fly from the nest". Elvis fluffed her wings a bit tonight when she walked into a room full of strangers in order to follow her dreams and achieve her goals. And though a knot forms in my stomach as those wings begin to stretch, I know I can't hold her back forever. It would be against nature and the natural order of things. Much time in prayer has been invested for Elvis' future--that she will fulfill her dreams, hopefully, as she follows God's will for her life. Elvis, we're proud of you.

Apologetics 101

Someone once said, “It takes a little knowledge to believe something, still more knowledge to explain something, and even more knowledge to defend something.” The ability to clearly articulate and adequately defend the faith is an ability that cannot be overemphasized. Believers must know not only what they believe but why they believe it.
In every age bracket, Christian people must know that the Christian faith is credible. It is founded upon an impressive collection of historically documented evidence. Our faith is not blind and our defense of it does not have to be uninformed. Albert Barnes expresses the issue with accuracy:

“Christianity is founded on evidence; and though it cannot be supposed that every Christian will be able to understand all that is involved in what are called the evidences of Christianity, or to meet all the objections of the enemies of the gospel; yet every man who becomes a Christian should have such intelligent views of religion, and of the evidences of the truth of the Bible, that he can show to others that the religion which he has embraced has claims to their attention, or that it is not a mere matter of education, of tradition, or of feeling. It should also be an object with every Christian to increase his acquaintance with the evidences of the truth of religion, not only for his own stability and comfort in the faith, but that he may be able to defend religion if attacked, or to guide others if they are desirous of knowing what is truth.”
- taken from “Be Ready to Answer”, Michael Gowens

ATTENTION ALL

In two weeks I have to give a 3 to 5 min. Informative Speech.

I am now open for topic suggetions.





ooh and Mine and Morgan's tueday night classes were both canceled next week so we will be home earlier afternoon...YAY!