Silliness

Feeling silly today ... so here is one of my favorite Veggie Tales Silly Songs!

Merry Christmas!

I just keep thinking ... this time next week, it'll all be over! I hope you are all ready for Christmas. I am 99.9% there... but I'll feel much better after my family and I are on the road to enjoy Christmas with ALL my family in Nashville! Whew! Still gotta pack!

Anyway, Merry Christmas from the Groves family, including Puff! (Puff is excited ... he loves a good road trip!) And YES, Justin... you can live without Courtney for a few days! I promise!

p.s. This is my favorite Christmas card ... from Kelly, Buster & Lyla :)

Aliens Among Us!

Hope for those with teenagers, especially high school seniors!

I believe I have received a revelation! Ladies, remember when you were pregnant with your child? When you first found out ... how excited you were? How you couldn't wait for that sweet bundle of joy to get here? THEN ... about the last six week of the pregnancy ... you were SO miserable, you thought you'd be prepared to do anything to get this alien out of your body! When you gave birth you finally had your sweet bundle of joy ... but ... in about 16 months to 2 years , you saw a glimpse of the alien reappearing!

Well, now that I have a senior in high school, "It's 'deja vu' all over again"! I believe God prepares us for birth by making us miserable, then we get a few good years with our sweet children . But THEN ... the last years before our teens leave us, He allows "invasion of the body snatchers" into our homes! (I've had this confirmed by many fellow parents of seniors). I believe this happens so we are prepared to let them go! If God did not turn them into aliens, we'd want to hang to them forever ... but our job is about over as parents ... we did the best we could, and must be prepared to let these aliens go ... gladly!

I hear from parents of older children, they do eventually return from the aliens and become fine young adults! I'm waiting!

And ... until then ... please pray for all the parents of seniors!

Get your Tissues Out!

Logan, The Sky Angel Cowboy

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!

Let's not forget what it's all about!

Note to Self

This picture reminded me ...

... Don't leave your Burt's Bees Rhubarb Lip Shimmer for your dog to eat, or you'll regret it for at least 3 days! (Don't ask).

This is actually not Puff, but could have been!

Hmmm ... Sometimes My Mind Wanders

Yesterday in Sunday school, my teacher was making a great point on how we are sheep and need a Shepherd. How sheep are never organized without their shepherd ... then it happened...

I was getting visions of Journey through Bethlehem (the live drive through Nativity we used to have here at BCBC) ... and how Steve Aaron had told me about the sheep that kept getting out and how that they were chasing them through the scenes, even when the cars were coming through and how he jumped spread eagle over a sheep to tackle him to get him back in his pen (because these were "rent a sheep")... and ... where were we?

... Hmmm ... Maybe I need to be tested for A.D.D. :)

I'll blog later ... my mind is wandering again!