Sister Loves to Dance

 Here are the pictures taken on Saturday before the recital. I will try to post the video so you can see her in all her glory.



 She's getting too big!

And too beautiful!

Happy Wednesday Friends!

Love,

Tiff

Drowning in Blessings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mmgV6mPvb0

I love this song and wanted to share it today.

God uses songs to get me through my day (through the minutes....).

This one feels appropriate and is a beautiful reminder of my blessings.

So when you feel like you are drowning.....I hope you are drowning in blessings.

Praising Him for who he ALWAYS is.

Tiff

Adam and Eve?

I was looking through my phone and found the following pictures.



Not sure what that was but I know their daddy was laughing!



I am pretty sure sister took the below picture herself.



You just can't help but smile. They remind me if jack spray and his wife. I'll say it again...I swear we feed him!




Happy Thursday!
Tiff

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Some Things are Worth Repeating (and worth hearing again)

OUT OF CONTROL! Yes, you read it right...the morons are out of control today. And it's not just me...no no no, there are others around me that have expressed the same sentiment today. As I hung up the phone with yet another one of God's precious morons, I heard Beautiful by Mercy Me.

Just when I need to hear it and be reminded as my day goes out of control (like it was ever actually in control...) that it is not mine to control. Letting go of the anger and frustration is so freeing!



The days will come when you don't have the strength
When all you hear is you're not worth anything
Wondering if you ever could be loved
And if they truly saw your heart they'd see too much

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU ARE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE THAN ALL OF THIS
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU ARE TREASURED, YOU ARE SACRED, YOU ARE HIS
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL


I'm praying that you have the heart to find (I think this should be FIGHT)
Cause you are more than what is hurting you tonight
For all the lies you've held inside so long
They are NOTHING in the shadow of the cross


YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU ARE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE THAN ALL OF THIS
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL
YOU ARE TREASURED, YOU ARE SACRED, YOU ARE HIS
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL

Before you ever took a breath
Long before the world began
Of all the wonders He posessed
There was one more precious
Of all the earth and skies above

YOU'RE THE ONE HE MADLY LOVES....ENOUGH TO DIE!

You're Beautiful
You're Beautiful
In His Eyes.....

Sitting and listening to Him love me....I hope you have two minutes to do the same today.

Praising Him for His ridiculous creatures and finding joy in the ignorance of it all!
Tiff

Snippets

This morning was challenging. Not for any good reason...I was pissy. (I remember when mom hated that expression!) And do you know why? Because I didn't get up when I should have...and I changed my outfit 3 times (everyday)...and felt frustrated because I always change 3 times...and sister felt like she needed to talk to me and tell me one mire thing. And then I looked over at this beautiful girl God gave me and tried to take a picture. But she wouldn't stay still and I got frustrated for all the reasons listed above... And I hand a weather headache...and I didn't get s good picture of her.

All very good reasons for feeling a little pissy this morning!





Then I start fighting to fix her hair and silly bubby pulls a "toot-toot"!





Happy Thursday!
Tiff

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Nothing for April...but for May?

Do you ever feel like you run out of time for the day or the week or the month? I feel like I am constantly planing things in my little head that fall through or disappear (in my little head)!

I could swear to you that I blogged several times during April. I just knew that I had used my new fancy phone app and that I blogged about my life, nope...or maybe I thought about blogging about my life at home because my phone pictures are blurry. Of course that would require that I turn on my computer at home, which seems like a tremendously difficult task considering the fact that I sit in front of a computer ALL day at work! I just can't make myself sit at another desk. Not when there is such quality programming on after my children stop fighting and get to sleep!

If you know me, you probably know that life has been extraordinarily difficult in the last few months. If you don't know me, you might want to click the button at the top of the screen for the next blog. Or go to some of my favorites...Amber's Blog  Kate's Blog  Jo's Blog  Jana's Blog ....there are so many.

(you ready?)

Our family has been facing some extreme times. Extreme highs and extreme lows...and they are exhausting. My dad had a stroke 2 years ago. He will be 57 on Sunday. It was a pretty bad one. He is paralyzed on his left side. It is not fun to talk about.

In August of last year my dad was put on hospice because his cardiac output was under 20%. To me this means that 20% of his heart works. He has a fibrillator from his heart attack he had about 10 years ago. We've known that his heart was weak. We knew he was getting weaker. I think I knew it. Sometimes it is hard to remember what I know or think or feel and how long it has been that way. The "blah-ness" of it seems to mush together in the toilet of life. (gross)

So we didn't think he would be here at Thanksgiving....but Granddad wasn't supposed to be either and he made it through two....Then we were kinda worried about Christmas....then we were told in January that he had a week to live..he was still with us in February...then in March my brother got married.....then in April he went to hospice....then we were told he was in kidney failure (Monday) and would be in a coma by Thursday and in Heaven by Monday....then the following Tuesday (yes, one day after he was going to be in Heaven) they decided to send him home because (in my opinion...) he wasn't dying fast enough.

Now we are in May....Dad's birthday is upon us. (*And AUNT JO's by the way...Happy Birthday beautiful! Lucinda Rocks!) And it seems to me that we are still sprialing in the same circumstances of life that feel like they are trying to pull us under. And I just don't know what I am supposed to do with it. And I just don't know how I am supposed to feel about it.

Part of the difficulties I have experienced is understanding who he is or what he knows. I know that part of him left with the stroke. I forget that things are not the same because he is still sitting in the chair in his underwear covered with a blanket when guests arrive...just like in high school.

But now he is in a hospital bed.
But now he doesn't have the same sense of humor he had before.
But now he isn't the same and he can't do things for himself (instead of just not wanting to because mom would).
But now I have children that are going to grow up having faded memories of this man that was larger than life.

And I just don't know what's next.

Do you ever feel like you run out of time for the day or the week or the month?

But in the midst of it all....I am still praising HIM for who he always is...and will continue to be!
Tiff