More Than A Song

This week Kristine asked for our initials………so brought to you this week by the letters
G,K & B.
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We had a good weekend, not much going on here at all. We didn’t dye eggs this year, but the kids still think it’s not Easter dinner if we don’t have these!

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“All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it,
while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.”
(Oswald Chambers)

“No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.”
(Spurgeon)

We are having a music program tonight at church and again Sunday morning. I hope everyone has a blessed Easter weekend.

I think that Lost is new tonight and all I can say is……….it better be a good one! I think I’m getting tired of just getting tidbits and nothing really substantial. I still enjoy it and really want to watch it but then I find that I’m not quite satisfied with it when it’s over. There needs to be something else happening or more info given or something. It seems that it will be hard to keep it like this and keep people’s interest up indefinitely if the audience isn’t given something that will answer just something, just one thing maybe! Not just about why Hurley might not be losing weight, that wasn’t significant enough I don’t think.
I was all ready for Amazing Race last night and then remembered that they changed the nights! Can’t get used to that.
Maybe because it’s spring, I seem to be tiring of all these tv shows………..maybe I need to move on to something else for a while.

I bought a bag of Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Mix to take in the car last month when we drove to Dallas. The kids opened it while driving and proceeded to spill like half of it all over the suburban! I had never tasted it before but tried what was left of it on that trip, and that stuff is so good. The only problem I see with it, they put too many stinking pretzels in it! I guess that is the cheap stuff that they can fill the bag with so I would like less of them. But I have bought maybe 2 more bags since then and it it so good to snack on. Try it and see.
I probably like it because it has M & M’s in it 😉 I seem to be about food this week, sorry.

the tough go shopping! Or at least that’s always been my motto. So, I thought I would get out of the house today and roam around the big Walmart, exciting huh! I had wanted to get some hostas to plant; they had a ton of them in there last week and now there were none of those, just some really big ones and I didn’t want those. I planted some last year and the year before and they came back but this year only one has grown back. 😥 I will have to look for them elsewhere or later.
On the bright side, they did have something that I just learned about and it definitely made me feel better!
I’ll put some pictures on the extended page of it and some other happies that I thought of to make me feel better today.
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I saw this on Stacy’s blog and swiped it! She swiped it from Dawn!

What brand do you usually buy/use??

Film – Digital now, but Kodak when I bought film
Coffee – not much for me, I keep Folger’s lately for family/friends
Soft drink – don’t drink them! but Coke once in a blue moon
Peanut butter – Smucker’s Natural, but the kids like Jif!
Butter/margarine – Parkay Spray; sometimes get Blue Bonnet tub margarine
Cereal – Honey Bunches of Oats & Chex for Don, Cheerios or Yogurt Cheerios for me; occasionally get Heart Smart or Cran Vanilla Crunch
Toothpaste – Crest
Hairspray – alternate between Thermasilk and Pantene
Shampoo – Redken
Deodorant – Dry Idea or Secret. or whatever I decide to try next!

I finished reading my latest book, The Blue Bottle Club, this past week. I really enjoyed it; it was somewhat different than the others I had been reading lately. I will put a review of it in Hambones on the reviews page. I also did 3 more “books” last week—-books on tape that is. First up was At Home in Mitford, then Crazy in Alabama and the last one was The Summerhouse. Out of those three, I enjoyed the Mitford one better than the other two!
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I found this at Stacy’s blog and decided to take it as well. Surprise, surprise, mine is the same as hers! We seem to be so alike, no one would have thought that! haha

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere. You tend to avoid conflict – you’re more likely to share than rant. From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

I just finished reading my latest book, City Girl………it was a set of three books called the Yellow Rose Trilogy. I won’t review them here but will do it on hambones instead. That makes 13 books for me so far this year. I also “read” another one last week while in the car for a long trip; “At Home in Mitford” by Jan Karon….it was a book on tape. So, not sure how to count that in my list of books for the year; Stacy said I wouldn’t have any pages to record! So, maybe I’ll just list it under my book list and have an added section for books on tape. I don’t do them very often, just when we are driving for long distances, it really helps pass the time and miles and you get a book read in the process.
My review for the other books is here.

1. How many computers are in your home? Are they for personal or business use? 2, for personal and business
2. How many cars does your household own? What are the colors of the cars?2 right now when the kids aren’t home; dark blue and silver/gray…….2 more when some kids are home, black and green
3. When was the last time you did a thorough cleaning of your home? Did you find anything that you thought you lost?About 2 months ago, before a big party at my house….sometimes I will find things when cleaning up that I thought were gone but I don’t recall anything off the top of my head.
4. Do you generally get along with your neighbors? Is there one neighbor that really gets on your nerves? We do get along with the neighbors; no one really gets on my nerves
5. Are you basically content with your living situation? Why or why not?yes………have a great husband! kids are gone for most part now but I am happier with it now than in the beginning!

Baseball has started again………I used to watch the Braves play most every game that was on television, which was often since TBS carried almost all of their games! Then I think I burned my family out on them so I haven’t watched it hardly at all the last few years; maybe this will be the year that I pick it back up again. I saw tonight that the Braves beat the Dodgers in their opening game, like 10-5 or something like that. Hope they have a good year. If nothing else, we should try to make some more Mississippi Braves games this year in Jackson; we went to one last year and it was a blast. I remembered when I was there that it is so much more fun to go in person than to watch it on tv.
And of course, Braves games remind me of one of the first times we ever went to one of their games in Atlanta. The kids were fairly little, Elizabeth couldn’t have been more than like 5 or 6. She asked me a ton of questions about the field, the game, the players, etc and then out of the clear blue she asked me if Grandma was going to die! It so totally took me by surprise, I had no idea where that had come from. I wondered for a split second what to tell her and then tried to say that everyone would die but that she probably wasn’t going to die anytime soon. Then she asked again if Grandma would die and I thought I needed to try another answer when she said, “If Grandma dies, can we get a new grandma? and can it be the one with the pony!” I almost passed out laughing. We had been to one of Grandma’s friends the previous weekend, and yes, they had a pony. So she just wanted to make sure that if her grandma was gone, she wanted to get a new one, the one with the pony! I still to this day don’t know why she thought of that during the middle of a baseball game but she was going to make sure I knew about it. I don’t think she remembers it much now but it was cute, at least to me! But I’m the mama.

From this site:

1. Do you own any box sets of your favorite shows? no, but we should own some of Everybody Loves Raymond as much as Don loves that show!
2. Are you penpals with other people? not really, email but no writing
3. Do you still send out real, paper cards in the mail? yes, birthday, Christmas cards and other occasions
4. Have you ever bought or sold anything on Ebay? no
5. Did you have to set your clocks an hour ahead this past weekend? yes, I’m usually the one that does it
6. How many of your blog buddies’ birthdays do you know? only family and friends
7. When is your birthday (need not include year)? February

This week Kristine asked for the following:
1. WASHER AND DRYER
2. YOUR ROBE
3. A FLOWER

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I have been eyeing my neighbor’s wreath on her front door for a couple of weeks. So last week when the kids were home, I walked over to look at it closer and told her I might have to copy it. She said it was easy to do, so I got everything I needed and did it last week. It was pretty inexpensive too. I thought maybe all the girls would want one and I offered to get stuff to do one for them to take home……..Kathryn and Elizabeth didn’t seem interested, Shanna wasn’t here and I asked Trent about it for her but he never answered me; so for now I’m the only one that has one, other than my neighbor that I copied it from! She didn’t put a bow on hers, had ribbon loops that she put in random places; it was cute but I couldn’t find that ribbon so we picked a different ribbon and made a bow on mine.
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