"A Wink and a Smile"

Little {c} is wearing her shoes ... This little puppy finds them tantalizing ... She chooses to find the positive in the whole situation. "Awwwww, Auggie likes my spark-A-lee shoes.  Boys like spark-A-lee things!"

Blogger is driving me nuts.  Earlier today I didn't even have real access to my blog ... some sort of ERROR that a lot of other people had.  It may have had something to do with my template or widgets. ANYWAY, I'm feeling like this place needs a little work. BEAR with me!

Sounds like a nice idea ... let's see if I can keep this up ;) I love finding quotes that fit in perfectly with todays issues.  Hmmmm ... I can think of a very old book that works well EVEN today. "It is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize a Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes God . . . Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.” -G.K. Chesterton    My heart has been very heavy these days thinking about the world we live in.  The phrase "politically correct" is just going too far in my opinion. We are all about making EVERYONE happy when I'm not so sure that is THE PLAN ... that it is even possible.  I've heard the word BIGOT thrown around a lot lately.  Ugghhhhh ... name calling just makes me so angry.  There are many that say that we need to keep religion out of politics when religious groups have alwa...

We saw these guys ... And then FINALLY we saw this guy ... who had a really GREAT voice (wonderful live) and his band was pretty wonderful too! It was a school night so we cut out just a little early. I'm wondering if we missed this song ... (of course Colbie Caillat was not there to sing the duet ... some girl named ANYA who was just okay as one of the opening acts)

I love this very minute ... My quiet house where everyone including the dogs are sleeping My great NEW SleepNumber bed that I can't wait to crawl into and get my 6 hours of interrupted sleep My clean sink My country  ... just peeked over at the news to see very graphic and crazy stuff over in Afghanistan (ugh) My newly confirmed daughter who was quite excited after coming back from her first Catholic Youth Group (for high schoolers ... yikes) I could care less about ... The kitchen table that did not get properly wiped and sanitized tonight ... tomorrow is another day The four rubberbands that I never wore in my mouth today (I will tomorrow ... promise) My old email that I know I should check because somehow I still get stuff over there (like the possibly overdue library book reminders) That I never signed my youngest up for preschool next year.  While she still loves hanging out with me, I may as well teach her myself . The upstairs portion of my house.  With this new puppy, I hav...