the back door

growing up i was spoiled. yes i admit it. i wasn't really forced to eat a lot of things. i love my mom!! i didn't eat fruit - seriously, a few blueberries and that was it! no apples, no applesauce, no strawberries, grapes, oranges, etc.. i would only eat corn and green beans for veggies. meat i liked, potatoes i liked, wild rice i loved, and of course ice cream, cookies, candy, pop-tarts, etc.... so anyways, my adult life has been filled with finding that i really do like a lot of things i never thought i would. i tried a strawberry when i was a junior in college on spring break. i wanted a friend to try grape jelly on her grilled cheese. she thought that sounded gross, i thought her strawberry sounded gross, so we agreed to each try. wow...not bad. then i ate a salad on my missions trip when i was 23. loved it!! imagine my parents, and fiance's, surprise when i returned. i now eat a variety of fruits and veggies - currently passionate about asparagus!!!! im...

this is a few days late, but still worthy of a post! all year princess and her friend poppy seed would have play dates twice a week. dear friend would pick them up one day and i would pick them up the next. as moms, we had a guaranteed 2 day free time, and the girls of course loved it. they had 4 awesome teachers that each day would ask to come have lunch with them. the girls would giggle and say no. well, dear friend and i decided that we would surprise the girls by having the teachers over for lunch this week. i told princess we were going to go play with poppy seed for a little while and maybe have lunch with them. dear friend had a large variety of food on the counter and the girls never asked why there was so much. we did finally tell them some other people might come by for lunch. the doorbell rang and the 2 girls ran to the door. they were running at full speed and then came to an abrupt halt. it was the 4 teachers!!! they turned back, looked at me, and ran away. we ...

it has been a crazy week, but the end is here. it is friday, and for mapboy, it is the last day of 1st grade! we have had field trips, class parties, watched movies, brought backpack after backpack load of stuff home, and finished with treats from the bus driver. he loved his teacher this year and so did i. i liked her so much i may just help her again next year and princess will definitely have her in 2 years! so.....summer begins. i'm not sure what i feel about that yet. part of me is ready to stop the madness of running everywhere. part of me is trying to figure out what i'm going to do to keep the two of them busy this summer. princess plays well, mapboy does not. but i have some ideas that will hopefully keep us sane! so, the fun begins. we have some fun plans and some not so fun plans, but summer is here...now if only they will learn to sleep in!!!!!!

i got quite the chuckle while reading some comments on blogs this morning. there is quite a following of idol and i enjoyed following the comments. one struck me funny. it was by my cousin and said that she liked carrie and might have to become a country fan. her friend commented she loved the song but sent her daughter out of her room b/c while she likes some of those "bad girl" songs she doesn't want her daughter to, yet. he he!!! so why is it we like these bad girl songs? i know my cousin is far from a bad girl. and i assume her friend is too. and of course i'm far from a bad girl as well, but i concede that is one of the draws to country music for me as well. now, i only like the bad girl country songs, not the pop ones, because frankly they seem a little less blunt in the lyrics. i call them sassy songs. and from time to time i get sassy and sing them at the top of my lungs. hubby will sometimes start the car and then give me an odd look when the rad...

last night about about 9:57 our time i couldn't wait to get on and blog. hubby shot me a look of, "it's bedtime!" so here i am after supper the following day doing a blog that has lost a little of it's pizazz, but since i'm still quite buzzed here goes... DAVID COOK!!!!!! he won!! i watched the whole show preparing myself for the end. i just have to say i was so impressed with simon's very sincere and much needed apology to mr. cook. dear friend commented yesterday that it seemed like cook had changed. that he was more contemplative. i can only assume when you are 26 and watching your brother slowly die that you would get that way. but kudos to him!!! i just read like i was saying's blog . she asked if anyone else wondered if cook was trying to throw the competition and i confess i did wonder. i think he would have been happy either way, honestly. i too wonder if he wanted some freedom to spend time with his brother that winning wouldn...

i'm an idol fan. big time idol fan. i was quite pumped for last nights show. we are a house divided, kind of. hubby thinks archie has a great voice; mature and smooth. and i agree on that, but i'm sold on cook. i like that raspy, draw me into your eyes thing. always have. plus i see it as justice for daughtery getting voted off. but last night, while i was impressed with both, i had to turn to hubby and say, "i think archie will win." he grinned and said, "it's killing you isn't it?" i even came up with about 4 reasons that cook was throwing the competition. he just sighed. both will do well, i have no doubt about that. but for me cook is still the winner. he is the performer. i loved watching him change from cocky to humble. i loved that he was true to himself each week and would change things up. and yes, i love the raspy voice. archie, is cute and humble. he has a good voice, but i don't like to watch him. he reminds me of ...

if you have been reading for awhile you may remember a post i had on my great dilema. i was stuck in a place that i couldn't reconcile. well, i had prayed and done the biblical thing and come to the place of peace over the situation - until this weekend. so what do i do again??? this time, i don't know that i can reconcile. a dear friend keeps telling me to read the book total forgivness. i know she means well, but i'm tired of hearing it. this latest event will require forgiveness, but come on - don't we still pay consequences? i am a firm believer in extending grace and forgiveness, but i also believe we are accountable to our sin. once again i have the dilema. the position i am in makes some things complicated. i'm trusting God with this one. i have full confidence that while this is going to get messy, that God actually wants that. hubby and i were stealing a moment on our porch swing last night (well, actually i interupted his bird hunt) and he menti...