Top 2 Things

TOP 2 THINGS I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT MONEY

1.  You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have peace in your heart, peace with your 

      family, and a relationship with the Lord, it will come to mean nothing in the end.

2.  When someone wants to borrow money, if I can not afford to give it to them, then I have no business

      in loaning it to them. The reason I feel this is because, when you loan money and the borrower gets in

      a bind and can not pay it back, it puts them in a spot.  They will begin to avoid you and if that person

      is a family member of better yet a friend.  Is money worth losing that family or friend?    So this said,

      If I can't just give the money, then I don't loan it.  I don't want anyone to feel in debt to me. 

A Fun Day With My Husband

Normally on Tuesday, My Tommy and I spend the day with each other.  This is his designated day to be off.  A  benefit for owning your own company.

So today, we started off at Ryan's and had lunch.  After a nice lunch, we headed off in search of a oven for one of our trailers that we rent.  After searching at least four places, we ended up at Home Depot.  I also found a great toilet seat that is guaranteed not to loosen up.  We will see.  My Tommy completely redid my bathroom and for the past 3 years the toilet seat has moved every time you sat on it.  Now with mother-in-law in the house and this being the main one for her, I realized that I needed to replace it.  All I need is for her to go flying off the toilet due to a revolving seat.  I can just see myself trying to explain this to my sister-in-laws, not to mention the doctor.  So I came home with a very nice toilet seat.

Then on we went to Lowe's.  Now my Tommy found nothing, but I found some treasures.  Eight wonderful little succulents that were just screaming as I walked by,"Take me home, take me home."

And you know, that is just what I did.  So here they are, some have more pics than others.

Kalanchoe Dalaguense  Pink Butterflies

Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana

Echeveria "Doris Taylor"

Kalanchoe "Blossfeldiana Hybrid"

Sedum Hernandezil

Monanthes Btachycaulon

Kalanchoe "Frosty Pink"

Echeveria "dondo"

Don't you just love my babies?  I do.  Now I am on my search for more babies.  Home Depot had none, but Lowe's had a good selection.

After my find, I get a call that I need to pick up my Gabrielle from school.  So my Tommy drives home and I get a cold drink and then I am off to the school to get my Gabrielle.  Of course, she wants to go to her friends house and will be home later.  My Payton calls and he will be home later and  my Alexis is at home waiting for me to return home.  it is so nice to be wanted, if only for money.  So when I get home I take care of mother-in-law and give my Alexis money to get her nails done.

My Tommy then tells me that we need to get the cars cleaned since we decided to sell the Highlander and just keep the Avalon.  So he washed the cars and I vacuumed and cleaned them out.

Tomorrow should not be so busy of a day.

My Favorite 10 Girly Names

  1.  Mandy (not Amanda, just Mandy)
  2.  Bridgett
  3.  Alexis ( not Lexie, Lex, Alexandra, just Alexis)
  4.  Gabrielle
  5.  Harley
  6.  Caitlin
  7.  Shelby
  8.  Heather
  9.  Madeline
 10.  Mikaela

10 Good Things on a Monday is a weekly feature that Nina does each Monday.

Here's how it works:(1-6 is copied from Nina's blog)

1. Think of a particular group of good things you want to make a list on, does not necessarily have to be about books, e.g. your current book wish list, or your favorite book foods (you know, foods you love to eat while reading, if you're like me), or your favorite girly names, whatever you can think of, as long as it makes you feel good.
2. If you have no ideas for a list, you can always visit my blog post to check out my theme for that week and you can take a cue from my list.
3. Post your list on your blog, grab that cute ARGH button above and put it on your post too, so we'd know you're doing this meme.
4. Leave the link for your post on my own 10 Good Things post for the week, if you see others doing it, comment too and let's share our good things with everybody.
5. Everybody goes through the whole week happy!

Questions: 

1.  What are you wearing right now?
2.  Do you have any freckles?
3.  What is your favorite Lifesaver flavor?
4.  What is the last movie you saw in the theater?
5.  Would you rather live without tv or without music?
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My Answers!

1. What are you wearing right now?  I am so glad that I had changed my clothes before I opened up the questions today.  Before, I had changed, I had on my pink sweats and a sleep shirt with socks.  Trust me, not a pretty site.

So when my Alexis got home from school I had her take my picture so you could see how I look today.  Not bad, but then not really great.  Today was clean day.  Nothing special.

2. Do you have any freckles?  Absolutely!  And if only my freckles would grow together, I would have a great tan.  

3. What is your favorite Lifesaver flavor?  My most favorite flavor is butter rum.  It was cherry until I tasted the butter rum and all thought of cherry flew out of my head.

4. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?  I know that it has been a while, but the last movie I went to see was with my girlfriend, because our husband's didn't want to go and sit for so long and that was the movie of Michael Jackson "This Is It!".  I never had the appreciation for him as I did after I watched the movie.  He really was a talented person.

5. Would you rather live without tv or without music?  I think that I could live without tv much more that music.  I grew up without tv some of the time and really never missed it.  I think that life had a better quality to it.    

Five Favorite Scriptures

I just came back from doing a blog hop.  I found the most delightful blog called Undeserving Grace, put together by Tara.

Today she has put out a post on selecting only five Bible verses.   Now the catch is you only choose five and these five are the ones that you would pray every morning  How hard is that?

So here is my try at it:

1.   "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, tomorrow and today and forever" Hebrew 13:8

2.   "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all
        your strength"  Mark 12:30

3.   "I can do all things through him who gives me strength"  Philippians 4:13

4.   "Give, and it will be given to  you.  A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over,
        will be poured into your lap.  For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."   Luke 6:38

5.   "May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed"  Psalm 20:4

Church

     Today was a great day.

     My husband and I have not been going to the same church for the last couple of years.  The reason is not because of different beliefs, but because the church that he attends is smaller and at first did not have anything for our girls.

     So we decided that we would go to a larger one and then my mother-in-law did not like it because it was so large.  We went back to the smaller one, but the girls just were not happy.  After talking, my husband and I decided that we would go to two churches.  He and his mother and then the girls and I would go the the other.

     The one that the girls and I went to, started having a service on Saturday nights and I decided to go to that one and the girls went to the Youth service on Wednesday nights.  This has worked okay.

     Now with the mother-in-law getting worse, ever time I would get ready to go on Saturday nights, she would get nervous about my leaving and I would feel guilty about leaving.  So I decided that I would just start going with my Tommy.  Well, after making that decision, mother-in-law has been getting up at midnight ready for the day.  Which means that I have to stay up.  Last night was the first time that she has slept through on a Saturday night in four weeks.

      That being said,  that is why today was so very special.  I was not disappointed.  The presence of the Lord was so great that is felt that you could have cut it with a knife.  When I got home, I talked with the girls and told them that I wanted them to go with us as a family at least one Sunday a month for now.  Both were agreeable.  We will see how this works.  I really want them to go and for us to be a family for the last few years that we have them at home.

     For those that don't have a personal walk with the Lord, should give it a try.  It gives you a  peace that you won't get any where else.

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