Yankeegals Cafe The World through my eyes…

~My weekend was very interesting. I had a couple unexpected phone calls, stressed a bit..and now things are back to normal. As normal as normal can get, I guess.

~One of the cats caught a Blue-Jay and my daughter tried very hard to save it. After an hour though, it died.  It had a small bite on one if its wing. Looked fine otherwise, but it couldn’t stand up or walk, and couldn’t stop shaking.

 

~I went to bed early last night. 10pm DH was happy and assumed, by me going to bed early, I would wake up this morning with bells on,  ready to hop into a well lit room,  have conversation, etc. at the crack  of dawn.

I did-  but man, Oh man!  am I grouchy right now.

Here it is, before noon, and I’ve already been up for 6 hours. Don’t like that!

I have Zumba class for the next 4 nights in a row and was really hoping to have more energy then I do right now.

I simply do not understand morning people.

 I mean, unless you have a mass amount of work to do, why wake up early? And even then…

If I’m up at 5-6am..I have every single thing that I can possibly do here, done by noon.

Then I spend the rest of the day looking at the clock…and being cranky?

 So, No! I’m fine being like the women at the well….

Some day I will be appreciated for that. See? I’m hopeful. :o)

~I sit here finishing up the last bit of coffee from the pot…as the kids are deep into their last week of lessons..

~I don’t have to cook today and have leftovers galore. I’m happy about this.

~I was watching HSN a bit ago and now I find myself still thinking about the Deluxe spin mop! But $40 dollars for a mop and bucket? Not gonna happen. I will wait for the uncanny model that will eventually come to Wal-mart for only $20. And even that, is pricey for a mop. I wish there was way to try before you buy.

~My 6yr old starts kids Zumba this Friday and is very excited. My 5yr old may sit in to see if it is something she may want to do.  My son is not sure. It is for boys and girls ages 4-10. I know the instructor well, as she is my Zumba instructor too. She just got certified to teach Zumba-Atomic now. Which is for kids! :o)

~That is it for today….

 

Woke up to another easy day. DH took the kids to work with him. Well, two out of five, that is. He had to work till noon today, and days where he leaves early, he likes to bring the kids to work. I stayed home and did Easter crafts with the three youngest. It was a lot of fun.

Dh and I went to go see Titanic today. The 3pm show, which was not a matinee because we wanted to see it in IMAX 3-D. For those who don’t know..IMAX is extra loud. The screen is nearly twice the size, and the special glasses are much better then the standard 3-d ones that you generally get for a plain 3-D movie. The movie was 3.15minutes long.

The last time we saw it was the year it came out, and that was in a drive-in. Granted we went to see it 4x! But I had forgotten what an epic love story it was. No one actually goes and sees it for the semi-documentary side. At least I don’t think so. *grin*

The only thing that could have made it better was if the old lady jumped at the end. That is what Dh said. I still don’t see why she had to throw the necklace over board. THAT should have been sold and the funds left to the grand daughter IMO. But…..

Another funny thing is, I’ve never actually ever heard of the Titanic. That is, until it came to the movie came out. lol

After the movies we went out for a coffee, and then home to pick up the kids for church. They were having a flashlight egg hunt.

I was telling one of my friends about it and she told me that it is with flashlight because the Jewish tradition the mom and dad use hide ten pieces of yeast bread outside (representing sin) and the kids would look for them in the dark with their  flashlights.  

When they found them, they wouldn’t touch them… Instead, they would scoop them up with a wooden spoon and feather, and put them in a paper sack to burn.  

I thought that was interesting. I honestly did not know. Did you?

We then got home and I got everyone in bed..including Dh..So now I have quiet time to relax.

Tomorrow is going to come early…. My daughter has only one more Round Robin before her TN. trip..Then she will be off to state nationals in Florida. I’m so proud of how hard she has been studying, without me even mentioning the need. This has become very important to her..She also has only two small groups left before her rally. She  is hoping to be crowned Queen this time. She was crowned Princess last time. <3

Guess that is it for today….

Today has been one of those days…You know the ones…Where you wake up,  just want to gaze at  the ceiling, for no apparent reason.

Not much to do because I did all the cleaning last night. The kids had a very easy day ahead of themself,too. They have one more week of school, and then they are off for a couple months.

Al’as-I forced myself to get up.  The kids were already awake and doing their lessons. The house was peaceful and quiet.

 I decided to start  cooking. I took some boneless chicken out last night, and placed it in the crock pot with some chicken stock and shredded chedder cheese. I then made a big pot of brown rice and a tossed salad. YUM!

Then I realized that I had some severely over ripe nanners. My daighter makes banana muffins and bread all the time, so we wanted to do something different. I have never made, or even tasted Banana pudding, which seems to be a Southern favorite down here.

I asked on FB what I should make. One person said Bananas Foster, which I had to Google, because I had never heard of it. Turns out,  you cook the bananas with brown sugar and butter, and use as a syrup over ice cream and french toast. Sounds  sinfully heavenly!  But also insanelyyyyy rich.

My daughter found a banana cookie recipe, which was what another had mentioned to make ..Then my son commented that he felt like cake. I checked and had a block of cream cheese, so cake it is!  Well, not really cake, but cupcakes. :o)

 There is something extra special about a cupcake. It’s a feeling. No one would ever place a whole cake in front of them..but when you have a cupcake on a plate and it is right under your nose…It just makes you feel special. You know you can eat the whole thing by yourself! :o)~

 I ‘m sitting here finishing my coffee, then will start on those cupcakes.. DH bought this new coffee flavoring, called Honey-Vanilla. Tastes wretchid! But…..*The thought that counts right?*

I love honey, but I guess not in my coffee. This stuff is nasty! lol

I wanted to lay out and tan today but it’s not a tanning day. The sun has been in and out all day. Even though it’s in the upper 70′s. I like it to be in the 80′s when I lay out. I was going to lay out and tan yesterday, but DH said he thought I was going to get stung by a wasp..so I decided to take warning, and not. *G*

What else?

My kids have been busy all week playing at the creek in the woods.

They have been bringing me gifts each day.

We had no idea about the creek until late last year. We also didn’t know there was anything in it!  I’m not a creek expert, or anything like that…In fact, I didn’t even know what a creek was until we moved down here and I heard the term! LOL

Our creek is full of cute little creatures. Crayfish, salamanders, tadpoles, toads & frogs. So cute! The kids have brought me a bit of everything..<3

My salamanders died..I think we have one left. Someone told me that they need running water..All my tadpoles are doing great and a couple crayfish have made it.

We have been feeding all our fish tank fish live food to keep them healthy, so that has been neat. We have our ‘pets’ then we have our food for fish! My 7 year old had a big problem with this at first and couldn’t bare the thought to feed live tadpoles to the fish.

After explaining it to her, she’s now the first to start the morning with A—-

“DID ANYONE FEED THE FISH YET, CAN I?” 

 SO CUTE!

 

 

 

 I’m talking about LIFE!

Things happening that are simply not planned.

Maybe an unplanned move which utterly disrupts your life and changes everything that you ‘thought’ your life would be. People coming into your life, people leaving your life.

It’s a never ending cycle at times.

When I look around at life I see how things work.   And I see how some things simply do not work. When we reach a certain age we mature. Right?

It goes without saying. I hope?

We live and behave in such a way where we will know the outcome. Amen!

We don’t take chances with our lives the way we once did when we were younger. Our lives become safe. At least in our own minds they do. *G*

We live with a certain level of responsibility.

A sense of know how.

Confidence!

 

We have ideas of how things should be…. but very rarely do these ideas over take the way our life actually is. The way we had planned it to be.

 

There are very few circumstances in your adult life when things happen organically.

 

Every where we look there are things that happen.  Either by habit, or ritual….or careful planning.

THIS is your life!  This is everyones’ life!

 Yes, I know God is, and will forever be in control, yet considering free-will…..and things switching gears..Life Happens!

At church the preacher will give a message and he will get several AMENS!

He knows this!

Everyone will stand for prayer  then sit down,  then stand back up for singing.

Each week it’s basically the same theme. Give or take..

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Nothing unexpected!

You go the store, you place things in your cart, and then you cash out.

It’s that easy!

 Nothing out of the ordinary.

Nothing unexpected.

Unless of course there’s a sale, and you are hoping to get a case of something, but they are all out!

THAT is always unexpected.  In a bad way!

 

Now take relationships. Are they safe?

Do you know what to expect in each one of them?

I would say so!

You get into a routine of each one, therefore knowing what to expect from each.

It’s a Good thing right?

I was listening to a man talk about his wife. He had been married for twenty years, and one day when his wife woke up, she was unable to speak.

She went to the doctors, and it turned out, at age 48, she had something very much wrong. They were both told that It would be getting rapidly worst, with each passing day.

The husband went on to say how hard it was to care for her.

She use to be able to cook, clean, and take care of him!

 But within a couple months, she was unable to do anything.

 She couldn’t walk, talk, or even bathe and dress herself.

Listening to him tell the story I started to tear up.

His daughter kept asking him why he bothers to stay with mom, he shared.

That HE was still young enough to make a new life for himself.

He said that he told her that he stays, because of the commitment he made years prior.

 He stays because he took a vow, for better or worst.

 He felt it was ‘his duty’ to stay.

 In essense, he felt obligated! :o(

Where did his testimony just go?

Right down the crapper! IMHO

You see, while some folks would be getting teary eyed because of the ‘commitment’ factor. Some look at it as in…It’s all in vain!!

What happen to Love? What happen to staying because he LOVED her?

Without LOVE, there is nothing. And so without LOVE, there will never be a real commitment.

Without LOVE, there simply is no REAL commitment. It is ntohing more then an illusion.

Sure, you can be a man who is well respected by the community.

A man who is looked up to because of his commitment.

But where your heart is…that is what matters!!

If you have LOVE, you will have that commitment.

If all you have is commitment, and not any LOVE…Where is your heart?

Something to think about….