Funny Moments of Motherhood

Dear Friends,

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Angel Mama ():)

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Christian Family Life~ Humor ~ Thankful Thursday

Dear Friends,

I am so thankful for the Lords unconditional love, and grace, my family and wonderful friends. I am so thankful for pools, smoothies and ice machines in the heat and the sound of laughter. Ok speaking heart to heart on laughter this is serious folks... my friend Lee asked why I haven't blogged about her?

Like she pointed out I did blab as she put it about my other friends but not her. Well I hope you don't mind.. but had to tell you I am so grateful for friends that are different then us, that stand up for us , make us proud and well put smiles on our faces. About my friend Lee .Once upon a time.. is anyone there ? Well dear friends one day Lee had a beautiful birthday party for her daughter at the park . You know the kind with all the balloons , games , prizes the works. I am here to tell you it was quite lovely. But....she went the extra mile and had everyone under the sun invited. I was assigned head chauffeur and picked up some of the kids and brought some home. After a hectic day and well quite frankly a headache . I loaded up the charges in my van, so did Sue, Jen and well you get the picture. So I drop off all the kids I knew , had little chats with moms and dads as we pulled in their driveways ,and set to go home with my children. When I realize I have one child left. "Um who are you and where do you live?" I found myself asking trying not to panic and quite proud of myself.

"For 25.00 I will tell you" comes the reply ..

Whatttt.... Well I drive as fast as a van will drive at the time and make it back to the park where Lee is cleaning up. I present her with my problem and she says "well where did you get her"?

Well Mary Sunshine where do you think? The dollar store? So we both turn to this little pleasant child and she tells us its now 30.00. Well Lee tells her she is not going to stand for this, gets a real mean mom face when all I could do was want to cry and bemoan my situation to anyone at the park who would listen and tells the girl she is marching her to the police . Well the girl gave the info Lee marched her to the door without my 30.00 I might add and has been my hero ever since. By the way if there is anyone left forgot to tell you she was a little girl who lived near the park ( was not invited to the party) and is probably a negotiator today.

Thank goodness this happened years ago or you know where I would be .

May the Lord bless you with laughter and love this week. Thank you for visiting.

Thank you Iris for hosting.

In his endless love,
Angel Mama():)

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Thankful Thursday~ Christian Family Life and Humor~

Dear Friends,

As another week passes and I look over the moments in the week, I am so grateful for the Power to choose. The power to choose happiness in all circumstances and all things. Life , marriage, children and friendships are all so precious to each of us. Choosing to make our own happiness , plant our own gardens of love. I thank the Lord for having given me the gift of my wonderful children. He has so blessed me indeed .I know it is up to me to do a good job raising them and looking to the joy of it.

I am thankful for the Lord being in my life.

I am so thankful for my wonderful husband and his sense of ethics and humor.

I am thankful for my wonderful family and friends.

Ok and speaking of humor. I am so thankful for the gift of laughter and a sense of humor. With my friend Mary's permission I am going to tell you what my day was like the other day. We were getting ready for the children's art park and lessons we are hosting here. Mary has 4yr. twins ,as well as a 2 yr. and was babysitting 3... She graciously offered to go with me to help get the rest of my supplies and everything I needed, for my friendship tea, I am hosting next month. I was crying grateful that she went. Having the twins, my son and the other 4 kids should be enough said right there....LOL Are you with me still ?

10:00 am bathroom break the one 7yr Sarah jumps up and tries to flip like in "gymnastics" over the top of the door frame...while all eyes and lectures on safety were on her, the twins started fighting . I was in charge of Gracie the two year old , when I turned around she had stripped ...yes you heard me ...yes almost completely .I found myself stuttering and repeating " Oh my " over and over and other phrases randomly, intelligent things such as: no " we don't touch anything" until other people started staring and saying ok.... I grabbed her shoes yes those were off too and put them as well as her clothes back on. I then had to wash her and the 7 yr olds hands about oh...100 times . By then I felt like I had run a NY marathon and actually well ..won first place...ahem If you were in a mall and witnessed this I am sincerely apologize for traumatizing you. As for all the cute chocolates I bought to fill the tea cups, well they hopefully calorie free and still in stock ,as I ate every last one when I got home.

I am grateful for all you, your wonderful blogs and inspiration.

May the Lord bless you this week and always. Thank you for stopping in for a visit it means so much to me.

Thank you to Iris for hosting Thankful Thursday.

In his endless love,


Angel Mama ():)

Christian Humor

Dear Friends,

For In Other Words Tuesday please scroll down. Thanks loves...

Thought you might enjoy. I know these have been around for awhile . Live ,Love and Laugh! Oh and smell the roses and eat chocolate...LOL

Noah and The Flood

And the Lord spoke to Noah and said: "In six months I'm going to make it rain until the whole earth is covered with water and all the evil people are destroyed. But I want to save a few good people, and two of every kind of living thing on the planet. I am ordering you to build Me an Ark," said the Lord.

And in a flash of lightning He delivered the specifications for an Ark.

"OK," said Noah, trembling in fear and fumbling with the blueprints.

"Six months, and it starts to rain" thundered the Lord. "You'd better have my Ark completed, or learn how to swim for a very long time."

And six months passed.

The skies began to cloud up and rain began to fall. The Lord saw that Noah was sitting in his front yard, weeping. And there was no Ark.

"Noah," shouted the Lord, "where is my Ark?" A lightning bolt crashed into the ground next to Noah, for emphasis.

"Lord, please forgive me," begged Noah. "I did my best. But there were big problems.

First I had to get a building permit for the Ark construction project, and your plans didn't meet Code. So I had to hire an engineer to redraw the plans.

Then I got into a big fight over whether or not the Ark needed a fire sprinkler system.

My neighbors objected claiming I was violating zoning by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.

"Then I had a big problem getting enough wood for the Ark because there was a ban on cutting trees to save the Spotted Owl. I had to convince U.S. Fish & Wildlife that I needed the wood to save the Owls. But they wouldn't let me catch any owls. So no owls.

Then the carpenters formed a union and went out on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone would pick up a saw or a hammer. Now we got 16 carpenters going on the boat, and still no owls.

"Then I started gathering up the animals, and got sued by an animal rights group. They objected to me taking only two of each kind.

Just when I got the suit dismissed, EPA notified me that I couldn't complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed Flood. They didn't take kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of a Supreme Being.

Then the Army Corps of Engineers wanted a map of the proposed new flood plain. I sent them a globe.

"Right now I'm still trying to resolve a complaint from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over how many minorities I'm supposed to hire, the IRS has seized all my assets claiming I'm trying to avoid paying taxes by leaving the country, and I just got a notice from the state about owing some kind of use tax.

"I really don't think I can finish your Ark for at least another five years," Noah wailed.

The sky began to clear. The sun began to shine. A rainbow arched across the sky. Noah looked up and smiled. "You mean you're not going to destroy the earth?" Noah asked, hopefully.

"Wrong!" thundered the Lord. "But being Lord of the Universe has its advantages. I fully intend to smite the Earth, but with something far worse than a Flood. Something Man invented himself."

"What's that?" asked Noah.

There was a long pause, and then the Lord spaketh:

"G*o*v*e*r*n*m*e*n*t."

Anonymous

What I Learned From Noah

Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark...

ONE: Don't miss the boat.

TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat.

THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

FIVE: Don't listen to critics; or naysayers just get on with the job that needs to be done.

SIX: Build your future on high ground, or the top of a hill :)

SEVEN: For goodness sake, travel in pairs.

EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

NINE: When you're stressed, relax float awhile.

TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs,the Titanic by professionals.

Anonymous

Thankful Thursday ~ Humorous Angel Cake

" In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" ( 1 Thess. 5:18)


Dear Friends,

There is a legend about two angels- Angel Requests and Angel Thanks. Each morning they come from heaven and go on errands. By the end of the lovely day Angel Requests has his basket overflowing, but Angel Thanks has only a few. I am so grateful to read everyones posts and see that you are all thanking God for everything in your lives.

I am thankful for all in my life. I am thankful to God for the assurance that he can turn every circumstance into blessings and lift us above any circumstance.

I am thankful for my friends , family and sense of humor to be able to laugh when needed. When I first started driving in the mountains of California years ago with the fog etc. I almost went off the cliff and realized that God never let me and my family never let me forget...LOL

Speaking of sense of humor my dear friend Millie sent this to me and thought you all might like a laugh for today:
Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa, but forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, and helping her son pack up for Scout camp. When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. she said, "Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake."

This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church, and in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake. Alice found it in the bathroom-a roll of Toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect. Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.

When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her cell phone and called her mom. Alice was horrified-she was beside herself. Everyone would know! What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her back. The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. Alice did not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose the fact Alice was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP'd , she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and to Alice 's horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert!

Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake! She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "what a beautiful cake!"

Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, "Thank you, I baked it myself."

Alice smiled and thought to herself, "God is good."

Thank you Iris for hosting.


In his endless love,

Angel Mama ():)

Angel Mama's Vintage Bedroom Retreat~

Dear Friends,


"Marriage is a sweet state, I can affirm it by my own experience, In very truth, I who have a good and wise husband Whom God helped me find."

Christine De Pisan

I have had a secret plan I have been working on and I am just about done. Well you know that as Angel Mama I am in charge of the plans in the house for example social, safety etc. Which in itself a pretty extensive job and you can never be too cautious, as every planner has I have my advisory committee . Not that I don't take to heart all your wonderful suggestions as my friends so if you have any please leave them for me.
Well I try to be cautious about my family as every good mama is but well my darling husband commutes a lot and was away for training and I have wanted to surprise him. Now that he is on his way home, h*o*m*e*l*a*n*d security let me disclose..LOL This year has been tough as all of our weekends are filled with getting things ready for the week ahead I make all his meals when he commutes, snacks etc for the week and we try to spend time with the kids making our own Angel Mama's Chuckie Nights etc. and we haven't had very much of relaxing time. So... I have decided to build a retreat. No for you inquiring minds not out of cardboard though I have made a time machine, bear machine , and a pretty mean play house. Sorry back on track...
A retreat for Angel Daddy and me. I have wanted my bedroom to look like a bed and breakfast. I did get a wonderful cameo antique bed at an auction last year ( yes when I won I danced and screamed as all the dealers stared, and laughed...oh who cares I got the bed and thats all that matters..when will I ever see those people again..um ok every auction since but they always wink and ask how I like the bed ), a fireplace in the room etc. But at times my room became the catch all. Well no more I have organized , put a sweet couch, marble table and chairs, and even made chocolate. I am trying to get it all finished before he comes home so we can have breakfast there in the morning. So I am really excited.
I am going to put some of our barbecue recipes , cake and a quiche up today hope you enjoy.


Love,
Angel Mama ():)

Housekkeeping and Gardening At The House of Love On Cloud Nine

Dear Friends,

This morning I got up real early, crawled out of bed and had a wonderful walk around the track with a dear friend. It was so quiet and the day was just beginning for so many. I saw the regular walkers, joggers, bike riders and we secretly smiled and waved as we passed. Each knowing the pleasure of time for ourselves.
As I walked in the door an overwhelming sense of peace filled me. For the past few weeks I have been sorting through things no longer needed, organizing , spring cleaning and well making a mess. You know the kind, the mess you need to do before everything is organized. In order to do the closets right, the office, etc. I needed to take everything out. Wipe down the closet shelves , floors, wash comforters, pack up the rest of the winter clothes put things in a pile I didn't want go back drag them out you know the process.
Now I can honestly say how wonderful. The flowers are growing , the herbs are in the herb garden and pots, the winter clothes packed away, floors scrubbed and everything is organized. Yes I have a daily to do list, weekly organizing for the family, and we do semi OAMC, but this work was the major tasks that needed done.
The Yard well that is a whole other story. When I moved here I wanted no pesticides at all ( yes we were from California why are you asking), still don't but we had fleas our first year here. Oh bother , I gave the dogs garlic,planted penny royal well frankly nothing worked and I was beside my self . I found myself running into rural king asking anyone who would listen what to do. Well pesticides and chemicals kept coming up... so I gave my usual lecture why I didn't want those as people stared with that blank look.
Finally after weeks of dealing with this, I ran like I was in a shopping contest scooping up pellets, chemical shampoos the works..100.00 later , sweating I began flinging the stuff in the yard like I was dancing. One two three fling as the neighbors all stared. Especially the ones who told me to get these lovely products 3 weeks ago. Smiling, waving and flinging I was singing I am going to get you. The church gardener called over to see if I was ok... "yes Herb thanks for asking do you need any pellets"? I yelled over still flinging. Now fast forward to this year, still against pesticides I planted penny royal , have given garlic and ran to the store and got my pellets to fling. This time Angel Daddy suggested to buy a spreader oh well sure lets spread the love. Then I went to the front yard and started pulling out the weeds ( dandelion) with a little shovel and asked the boys and my husband to help. As they stared I explained I didn't want to use the spray like everyone else as it is not good for us.

I know I have recipes , pictures of the house to post and well maybe as a bonus package to the first hundred customers ..oops sorry that is the phone companies lingo...post the wonderful recipe my friend Traci told me about using dandelions . Oh I do hope the dogs didn't pee on them. Oh joy never mind ..I am off to get my poster that says" deadly chemicals sprayed here" and maybe the neighbor dogs will be walked on the other side of the street.

Hope you all have a good day !

In his endless love,

Angel Mama ():)