Grrrrrrr!

I just get my post all finished and ready for publishing I have done a superb job of updating about the last several days I click publish post and up pops the stupid page
"Website not responding" and guess what? Yup you guessed it I lose my whole post. I am so frusterated. I will update later.

Low Down!

I thought that I would talk about the things that have been happening sense Easter, we had a wonderful Easter we got up got dressed and headed to church, we had a great time and after the service there was an Easter egg hunt for all of the children with special eggs with money in them. (Who doesn't love money right?) Joshua was in the church and there is a slope that goea to the next level well he was wearing his cowboy boots and the floor was wet... down he went. I took him to the Dr. the next day and he had stretched the ligaments under his growth plate and now he has about 3 or 4 different colors of bruising on his ankle. In Joshuas words "Lovely"
he says it in a funny voice. LOL
We came home and Charles put our leg of lamb on the bbq to rotisserie then Mom and Bill came for a visit and to eat dinner. The dinner came out wonderful and the time spent was awesome, I just wish we had more times like it.
Monday was the day I took Joshua to the Dr.'s I took a friend to the Dr.'s for an upper GI (she is having stomach problems) I came home for a little while made a quick snack for biblestudy because it was our last meeting for this book, A women's call to prayer if you haven't read it I recommend it. It answers a lot of questions concerning prayer.
Tuesday was prayer meeting and this day it was at my house, it is usually at the pastors house but our pastors wife is also a teacher and some days she has to work (she co-teaches with another woman and it was her turn to be on vacation) I am centrally located so then everything comes to my house. It was a wonderful morning of prayer, Charles was supposed to have the day off but he was called to work (one of the other guys got into a car accident and needed the day [ he is fine]) I took one of the senior ladies home and came back home and stayed with Joshua who was home until today.
Wednesday- today was Charles day off, Joshua went back to school and Nicholas is home now for spring break, Joseph went to school to have spring break start for him tomorrow whew, sometimes I feel like I am on a Merry-go-Round.

LOL Clark!

You are Clark Griswold (from National Lampoon's
Vacation)! You're full of optimism and
boundless energy, and no one loves a good
family trip more. No one else can swear a blue
streak like you either, Sparky!

Which John Hughes Character Are You?
brought to you by

Charles Childhood

Wednesday, November 11, 1964

Top News Headlines This Week:
Nov 11 - Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in NYC
Nov 11 - Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3543
Nov 12 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
Nov 12 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Nov 12 - Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2215 Sichuan
Nov 13 - Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
Top Songs for 1964
The House of the Rising Sun by Animals
Can't Buy Me Love by Beatles
Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
I Feel Fine by Beatles
There! I've Said It Again by Bobby Vinton
I Want to Hold Your Hand by Beatles
She Loves You by Beatles
Baby Love by Supremes
Chapel of Love by Dixie Cups
I Get Around by Beach Boys
1964 Prices
Bread:
$0.21/loaf
Milk:
$1.06/gal
Eggs:
$0.98/doz
Car:
$2,350
Gas:
$0.30/gal
House:
$20,500
Stamp:
$0.05/ea
Avg Income:
$7,336/yr
Min Wage:
$1.25/hr
DOW Avg: 874
US President
Lyndon B. Johnson
US Vice President
No Vice President
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture:
My Fair Lady
Directed By George Cukor
Best Actor:
Rex Harrison
in My Fair Lady
Best Actress:
Julie Andrews
in Mary Poppins
People born on November 11
1962 - Demi Moore [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (7th Sign, Blame it on Rio)
1914 - Howard Fast screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1915 - William Proxmire (Sen-D-WI) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1925 - Jonathan Winters Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy)
On TV in 1964
Combat
Branded
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Gilligan's Island
The Lawrence Welk Show
Bewitched
Peyton Place
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Flipper
Hot New Toys in 1964
Nutty Mads
Gun That Shoots Around The Corner
Bobbing Head Beatles Dolls
Foto-Electric Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
Addams Family "Thing" Bank
Easy Bake Oven
Agent Zero-M Invisible Ink Set
Creepy Crawlers
Mad Magazine Straight Jacket
Top Books in 1964
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King by Jr.
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison

Mmmmm

I just love left-over cold pizza the next day, It tastes so good. Thanks Sheri for the idea last night it was a good one! You can also eat and type at the same time.

A Blast From The Past

In Sheri's blog she mentioned #1 songs from everyone in her family and it got me thinking a little more.
Here is my list of #1 things from just the year I was born, other family members coming soon.

Wednesday, September 05, 1962

Top News Headlines This Week:
Sep 5 - Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
Sep 5 - Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games
Sep 5 - at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
Top Songs for 1962
Telstar by Tornadoes
Big Girls Don't Cry by Four Seasons
Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee & the Starliters
Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel
Sherry by Four Seasons
Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler
I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles
Roses Are Red by Bobby Vinton
Soldier Boy by Shirelles
The Twist by Chubby Checker
US President
John F. Kennedy
US Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture:
Lawrence Of Arabia
Directed By David Lean
Best Actor:
Gregory Peck
in To Kill A Mockingbird
Best Actress:
Anne Bancroft
in The Miracle Worker
1962 Prices:
House:
$19,000
Stamp:
$0.04/ea
Avg Income:
$6,670/yr
Min Wage:
$1.15/hr
DOW Avg: 652
People born on September 5
1964 - Kristian Alfonso actress (Days of our Lives, Falcon Crest)
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
1937 - William Devane Albany NY, actor (Family Plot, Missles of October)
1940 - Raquel Welch Chic Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)
1946 - Freddie Mercury rock vocalist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1969 - Dweezil Zappa rocker/son of Frank Zappa/MTV VJ
On TV in 1962
The Andy Griffith Show
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
The Lucy Show
Candid Camera
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Red Skelton Show
My Three Sons
Dragnet
The Rifleman
Bonanza
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Virginian
Hot New Toys in 1962
The Great Garloo
Deluxe Aggravation
The Exciting Game Of The Kennedies
Colorforms - Miss Weather
King Zor Dinosaur
Mille Bornes
Astro Ray Gun
Mystery Space Ship
Sea Monkeys
Odd Ogg
Little Audrey Breakfast Time
Operation Moon Base Playset
Singing Chatty Cathy
King Zor
Tammy Doll
Top Books in 1962
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

DMarie Time capsule

Window News

Ok, Ok I will let you in on what the answer is, due to an overwhelming request to know who it was that broke the window. The winner is: Joseph.
My wonderful baby! My slave for the day! My last little bundle of joy! My, My.....
Well I think you get the picture window, LOL well bedroom window that is.
The reason that he has had all of his privledges taken away is because it was done out of anger I sent him to his room to clean it and he had a hanger on his floor it caught on his sock and he kicked his foot causing the hanger to become a projectile.

Broken....

Oooh lets see what could it be? Broken dreams, broken toys, broken nose, broken toes....?
Nah! Well after 15 tears with my first son and 11 and 10 years consecutively with my two other boys we have our first broken... Window! Ok now for the $10,000 question, which is it going to be Bob? Door #1 -Joshua, door #2- Nicholas or door #3 Joseph?
Any guesses?
Tune in tomorrow for the exciting answer to today's riddle, and find out which son has lost all of their savings, lost all of their privileges for a week and during spring break will be my slave for a day cleaning baseboards, cabinets and any other nasty thing I can come up with ( I would put toilet in there but they don't mind it, darn it!)

My Tic-Tac color is...

You are Orange.You are outgoing and optomistic. You always try to
find the bright spot in everything. You are
energetic and people are naturally attracted to
you. However, you are not always sure of what
your purpose or goals are.Most Compatible With: Fresh Mint

Which Tic-Tac Flavor Are You?
brought to you by

My Three Sons, Joshua, Nicholas and Joseph. 

The Fork

There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live.
So, as she was getting her things in order, she contacted her preacher and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes.She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, whatscriptures she would like read, and what outfit she wanted to be buried in. Everything was in order and the preacher was preparing to leave when the young woman suddenly remembered something very important to her.

"There's one more thing she said excitedly.
"What's that?" came the preacher's reply.
"This is very important," the young woman continued.

"I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand."
The preacher stood looking at the young woman not knowing quite what to say.
That surprises you, doesn't it?" the young woman asked.
"Well, to be honest, I'm puzzled by the request," said the preacher.
The young woman explained. "My grandmother once told me this story, and from that time on I have always tried to pass along its message to those I love and those who are in need of encouragement.
In all my years of attending socials and dinners, I always remember that when the dishes of the main course were being cleared, someone would inevitably lean over and say,

'Keep your fork.'
It was my favorite part because I knew that something better was coming...like velvety chocolate cake or deep-dish apple pie. Something wonderful, and with substance!'
So, I just want people to see me there in that casket with a forkin my hand and, I want them to wonder "What's with the fork?"

Then I want you to tell them:

"Keep your fork ..the best is yet to come."
The preacher's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged theyoung woman good-bye. He knew this would be one of the last times he would see her before her death.
But he also knew that the young woman had a better grasp of heaven than he did. She had a better grasp of what heaven wouldbe like than many people twice her age, with twice as much experience and knowledge. She knew that something better was coming.
At the funeral people were walking by the young woman's casket and they saw the cloak she was wearing and the fork placed in her right hand.Over and over, the preacher heard the question, "What's with the fork?" And over and over he smiled. During his message, the preacher told the people of the conversation he had with the young woman shortly before she died.He also told them about the fork and about what it symbolized to her. He told the people how he could not stop thinking about the fork and told them that they probably would not be able to stop thinking about it either. He was right.

Happy St. Patricks Day

For all of you who are of Irish descent this is the day for you to? a) Party till you puke, b) join a parade, c) spend it with family celebrating, d) spending the day making a special dinner of cornbeef and cabbage, e) Wishing you were Irish

Today is a wonderful day I got my letter in the mail saying Nicholas was accepted at my school of choice, Yea! My dilemma was do I want to send him to the new school around the corner that is in the process of being built and will be finished by this fall and hope he gets a good Teacher or send him back to the run down school with a known Teacher that is so fabulous he deserves to have an award. Yup, he is going back to the run down school with the awesome teacher. Ok, the new school is just that "new" but there will be so many bugs to work out it is crazy the first year. Now my next dilemma is do I want Joseph who has a awful teacher this year and my person who I wanted for a teacher next year for Joe is going to the new school to teach math so that leaves not so wonderful prospects for Joes 5th grade. Do I want him in 6th grade to go to the same school as Nicholas and request this wonderful teacher or just hope and pray he gets a good teacher in the next several years.

Super Saturday

Well what a wonderful day I took Charles to work and I am so enjoying the morning, it is sunny and about 50 out at 7:30 in the morning. I love getting up early before the rest of my family just to be able to enjoy the day have a cup of coffee and read a book, oh the days before I had Joseph. I love my not so little boy but I just wish that he could stay in bed a little bit longer so I can enjoy the days of old. I should have known that when I was pregnant with him and he would always wake up at about 5:30 that it would be the end of that season of my life, only to recapture the love I have always had for reading at some later point in my life when the children are gone.

Yesterday I got to have a brief few moments with one of my dearests friends in the whole world, she came to Seattle for a conference for Mary Kay and we got to spend about 3 hours in Seattle on one of the most gorgeous days to have, the sun was shining you could see out over the Puget Sound watch the waves just crest one another as there was just the slightest amount of breeze blowing.
For those people who have never been to Seattle they got one of the most wonderful weekends to be here. We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner it is such a wonderful place to visit with moderate pricing and your choice from about 50 different cheesecakes, "Heaven, I'm in Heaven...!" Gail I had a wonderful time even though it was not long enough I will always treasure the time we spent together and I loved meeting your wonderful friends.

Wonderful Wednesday

Wednesday started out wonderful with rain not much but enough to say hey there is still the prospect of more. We have had such a drought this winter that I am afraid of what this summer will hold for us. Nothing from what others deal with but for us it is major, our ski resorts didn't open this year but for maybe 2 weeks. Now Mt. St. Helens is acting up again we get to see some awesome pictures daily over the news I just wish she would hurry and blow her top for real and not these little steam bursts and such, I cant wait to see it. I was part of it back in 1980 when she first erupted I was part of a choir that traveled to Washington just after it blew the first time I used to have a jar with ash it it, but alas over the years it has disappeared. Tonight was bible study and an interesting thought came up. "If the bible is written and inspired by God how come his name isn't on it as authored by"? It was a fun discussion.

Strength

What does it take to be strong?

Most of all a sharing of strength with strength

knowing that real strength

comes from the joining of hearts and hands.

Commonly Confused English Words

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Whew!

Well I am so glad to be finally back at my computer after 3 days with the flu I am finally starting to feel normal again. It all started Saturday with kind of a scratchy throat but I thought hey I will get over this I had Joey scheduled to have a friend come over to play but by noon when I new something else was going on I called and cancelled. By 3:00 the chills hit and my body hurt so bad my clothes hurt to touch my skin. Charles came home and new instantly "What do you want me to do"? "Please go to the store... more TheraFlu"he went to the store got medicine and took care of me for the next 2 days finally yesterday I could start moving slowly it is amazing how much energy you loose when you are sick. Well that about sums up my last three and a half days. Anybody want the Flu?

The Car

What a great name it is rather intriguing, I finally got my car back last night I am so excited! We took it to the shop and it was what Charles thought it was, being the fuel pump that is or rather the ground wire that leads to the fuel pump that went out. Now $300 dollars later we are "Lookin' for Adventure" it has been a long 6 weeks waiting to get the money to get it fixed.

The boys have been having fun with this new game they have been playing "Jack and Daxter" Charles bought it "for himself" and started playing it and then here come the boys wanting to play this cool game LOL Charles is saying "no way" I am going to beat it first then you can play it, the whole time he is thinking I am not going to get started playing this game than have them beat the game in like 2 hours when I am still on the first level. It is pure torture for the boys.

I was just reading my sisters blog and she was talking about my other sister getting ready to have her 4th child and first girl to boot! She is planning on naming the baby with a middle name of a song title and it was fun reminiscing about the song but I also have a name with a very popular song attached to it and every where I go I have had people singing to me the song, it is kind of fun but rather annoying as well. Good luck Kris!

A Poem About Prayer

The Prayer of Cyrus Brown

"The proper way for men to pray."
said Deacon Lemuel Keys,
"the only proper attitude
is down on his knees."

"Nay, I should say, the proper way to pray,"
said Reverend Dr. Wise,
"is standing straight with outstretched arms,
with rapt and upturned eyes."

"Oh, no, no, no!" said Elder Snow.
"such posture is too proud.
A man should pray with eyes fast closed
and head contritely bowed."

"It seems to me his hands should be
austerely clasped in front,
with both thumbs pointing to the ground,"
said Reverend Dr. Blunt.

"Last year I fell in Hodgkins' well,

head first," said Cyril brown,

"with both my heels a stickin' up,

my head a pointin' down.

"And I done prayed right then and there,

the best prayer I ever said,

the prayin'est prayer I ever prayed,

a standin' on my head!"