Bucket Filler

Count your many blessings name them one by one...

Today realize how blessed you are.
(We have internet for Google's Sake!)
Take the time to write down your blessings--
either in your fancy-schmancy notebook or on your blog.

Open Letter

Dear Library Mother:

I think its awesome that your sweet five year old knows how to spell. Really I do. I'm a mother after all and I'm also Pro Education. Not only can he spell, but he can spell really hard words. Like M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E. Over and over and over again, he spells it. At the top of his lungs.

I know you think this is cute because I heard you say it nine-hundred times. Nine-hundred times! I heard you say "Aww that's so cute! You can spell Mickey Mouse".

Rinse and repeat. Over and over again.

I never thought I would say this, but seriously? If I have to hear your kid spell M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E one more time, in the library that is supposed to be quiet, I'm going to m-i-c-k-e-y-m-o-u-s-e your kid. For reals. This is a library after all. Not a spelling bee.

kthx,
~motherboard

Tuesday Trailer

I want to see this!



I know it's totally nerdy, but I want to see this movie and dance in the aisles. It's the closest I'll ever get now to seeing MJ live. Nerdy? Umm, yeah. Do I care? Nope. Not one little bit.

Note To Self:

Dear Self:

Are you sick of all the sick-O's at your house? Yeah. I thought so. It's been a long 8 weeks. I know you must be sick of the sick-O's because of the mad disinfecting you were doing this weekend.

Totally killer, by the way.

The only problem I would like to point out is the dishwasher. And, really? It's not the dishwasher's fault, it's the Dish Washer's fault. That's you, Motherboard.

You probably should have stopped when you were ahead-- the 9 loads of laundry, 3 clean bathrooms, all the banisters and railings bleached, sheets changed and the entire house Lysoled - kind of ahead. But, you didn't. You decided you should wash all the dishes and glasses. Just to be sure.

Only problem? You ran out of dishwasher soap.

You figured that it would be no big deal to use Dawn Liquid Dish soap in the dishwasher, because hey! They both do the same thing, right?

Basically, yes that is true. Both soaps do clean dishes, but you should have listened to that inner crazylady. Remember that nagging feeling you had? Yeah. It was reminding you about that email forward you got with the photo of bubbles coming out of the dishwasher. But, you didn't listen. You shrugged it off as an urban legend.

It's so totally not an urban legend.

Filling up the entire dishwasher-soap-holder-do-hicky-thing-a-ma-bobber with dish soap was a bad idea. A very bad idea. Every thing you have ever seen or heard about bubbles exploding out of your dishwasher when you use Dawn Liquid Dish soap is true. Oh so very true.

Next time, for the love all things holy, do not put the Dawn Liquid Dish soap in the dishwasher. There will in fact be bubbles everywhere and you will be really mad when you have to run the dishes through three more cycles-- sans soap-- just to get them bubble free.

Please, Motherboard, the next time you realize you are out of dishwasher soap, but want to finish your weird cleaning frenzy just go to the store. Step away from the Dawn Liquid Dish soap and go to the store.

You will be glad you did.

kthx,

~motherboard

Bucket Filler

Today you are going to stop, sit and just BE. Take 1 hour today and find a peaceful spot to just meditate. Get a good book, or that magazine you have been wanting to read and do it. For 1 hour. No blogging. No telephone (turn the ringers off). Just you and your thoughts. See what your true self is trying to speak to you.

Bucket Filler

My Mom has a Gratitude journal that she pulls out every November. Everyone that comes to her home, she has them write 1 thing that they are grateful for inside this book. She has done this for years! It is always fun to read back when my sisters were little, and see their handwriting evolve and read the simple things they are grateful for. Like getting a blizzard and eating it for breakfast.

It's also fun to see all of our friends handwriting in that journal and read the things our friends are grateful for as well.

Today, pull out a notebook, and have everyone that comes to the house, especially
the kids friends, write one thing they are grateful for.

I promise you, this book will become a treasure for you as the years go by!

Sunday Devotional

Bucket Filler

Today, our challenge is to pray only in gratitude. How many times do we pray for "stuff"? Meaning stuff we need, or stuff we want, or stuff we want to happen? I would venture to say we all do it. A lot.

I wrote a post about this several years ago. The part I want you read is the 2nd Red Paragraph. (aren't I nice to color coordinate your reading material?)

Then today, let us pray only in gratitude and not for things.

Well Hello There.

*pulled from the archives*

Recently I was stopped at a stoplight waiting for it to change. It was an eternal stoplight meant it seemed to make my life just a titch more miserable. My heart was heavy with what seemed to be the weight of the world.

As I sat there at the eternal stoplight I wondered what master mind was conspiring against me, and why it seemed that God had forgotten all about me.

Then I looked out my window.

Pressed right up next to my window was the biggest dragon fly I have ever seen. It was so large I could see it's eyes blinking. It sat there buzzing next to the window looking right at me.

I looked at it, and it looked at me when I finally said "Well, Hello there friend." He landed on my mirror, and while he watched me he scratched his nose.

That dragon fly? He saw me. He noticed me.

We chatted for a moment, that dragon fly and I. He flew up closer to the window when I bore my soul to it during those few short minutes we had together. When I was done he landed back on my mirror, watching me again. And you know what? I know he heard me.

When the light changed I wondered if my friend was going to ride along with me on my mirror, but when I looked down he was gone.

My new friend reminded me of Him. Perhaps it was a tender mercy from The Lord, reminding me that He see's me. He hears my pleas and further He notices that I'm having a hard time.

Such a silly thing to have a dragon fly meet your needs. But on that day? He did.

Bucket Filler

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all have that "Secret Dream"...
Today write yours down.
That is the first step to making your dream a reality.