Archive for February, 2007:
Sisters M. . .again
I had to take the other photo down because we decided to use it as a surprise for certain people who MAY read this blog. So I’m putting up this photo instead. Same sisters different decade. This is circa 1972. I’m the blond.
Gosh my 7 yr. old dd looks just like me. Poor thing!
Mom, what’s with my hair?? And the dress - LOL - you can’t tell from the picture but where it’s cropped is the bottom of my dress. Yikes!
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Do I make you feel bad?
A recent discussion over at 4 Real got me thinking. I sure hope nothing I write here ever makes anyone else feel bad or inadequate.
Let’s just be clear…for the record. I am not a supermom - baby, I am not even close!
A few years ago I heard Kimberly Hahn give a talk and she held up a camera and said that if you went through her house you would find dinners in the freezer, a clean kitchen, an organized school room, beds that were all made and laundry that was clean and put away. . .but not all on the same day or at the same time.
Hey, that’s me! (OK except maybe for the dinners in the freezer - you can stop laughing now honey.)
What I represent out here in the blog world is just a “snapshot” of our life and home. It’s a small representation of the bigger picture and of course I’m going to put my best foot forward at least most of the time. Trust me you don’t want to hear about my issues…heck I don’t even want to hear about them!
Personally I find it helpful to read some of those lovely blogs in my sidebar. They actually challenge me to do better in areas that need it. My primary vocation is wife and mother and maintaining a lovely home for my family is part of that. That is of course in so far as God has called me to - not everyone has the same resources or abilities and I am as limited in those areas as others might be.
BUT and this is an important point, I am a weak and sinful woman and I can run off in all kinds of directions with alarming regularity. I’d much rather do the things that interest me rather than what needs to be done…and sadly I sometimes do (all too often I’m sure - you can stop nodding your head now honey).
Still, those blogs and the loveliness those women there share DO help me because they remind where my focus should be.
Now don’t get me wrong, I can spend too much time there too and I can spin it to look useful all day long. . . but I know the truth and so does He.
So the next time you are tempted to feel like you don’t measure up - stop it! And if you’re local, stop by. . .just be sure to bring a cafe mocha with you (thanks Amy!) 
It’s cold
Really cold…it’s 6 degrees outside this morning and in this drafty house we feel it. In the den –which unfortunately did not get new windows recently because they have stained glass and are “historical”– it is quite chilly. So chilly that 10 yr. old Mary can barely be seen under her (my!) blanket wrap.
Brrr!!
I need some coffee. . .
