I got nominated for being assigned a letter of the alphabet for which you pick ten words and explain their significance in your life. My letter is "G", so here we go.
1. GOD--first, foremost, and most amazingly, personal, real, and available to us through His Son.
2. GRAMMIE--the newest season in my life, which I totally and absolutely just love. And being "grammie" is especially sweet to me because my daughters called my mother "grammie" and she called her grandmother "gram". And as my sweet Gilly tells me, "We love each other SO much!!"
3. GIGGLES--it has been my very great joy to have so many days of my life seasoned with the laughter of children. My own babies and other peoples. And my mother told me that hearing my children laugh reminded her of me as a little girl.
4. GLUTEN FREE--I learned last March that I shouldn't eat wheat, rye, oats and barley--ever again in my whole life. Do you have any idea how many places in the food chain wheat is hiding? And that spontenaity flies out the window when you can't eat something you can't verify is safe?
5. GENESIS--one of my favorite books of the Bible. Not only does it have lots of the wonderful stories we all learned in Sunday School, but it is a gold mine of wisdom and understanding as we grow older. The foundation of God's plan for His creation and the promise of His Messiah are in this amazing book.
6. GOING--I love going. I love the process of traveling to someplace else, I love being someplace else, I love coming home to the comfortable and familiar. We spent 4 years traveling 2 hours each way to worship with a congregation that some very dear friends of ours were establishing in another city and I never got tired of the journey. And I love our dependable little workhorse of a car--VW New Beetle Diesel (50 mpg, thank you very much!)--which keeps driving affordable in these day of $2.75 per gallon fuel.
7. GREEN--not my favorite color. It's my brother's favorite color. But my favorite color is blue and that doesn't start with a "G". Blue is beautiful; green--not so much.
8. GRIEG--I don't know that I would call him my favorite composer, because I like so much of what so many other people wrote, too. But his Peer Gynt Suite is not only really good listening but also the source of a favorite memory. (See post) And the beginning part of his Concerto is some key or another is great.
9. GENERATIONS--the older I get, the more I love the connectedness of life. The memories of my childhood in the 1950's, the stories my mother told me of growing up in the 30's, and my children's memories of growing up in the 80's are a part of our family history. As I watch my grandchildren grow, I am more aware of the importance of building a legacy in their lives, of sharing with them the love of God who sees from the first generation to the last. Deut 7:9
10. GIT R DONE--Our lives have been greatly enriched by the wonderful young men our daughters married. They are bright and funny, good husbands and fathers. And, since I don''t get out much :-) , I hear much of what is current in the world through one of them. The first time I ever heard this expression was from Clay. And it cracked me up. So even though it belongs to culture, I think of this as his own personal funny.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
ABC MEME
When our living room was so torn up and life was so chaotic, I just didn't have the emotional energy to blog. But some people (!) keep asking me when I'm going to get back to it and this is the kind of jumpstart I need. So here's my contribution to the ABC dialogue.
ACCENT: I was born and raised in Texas and sounded City Texan rather than Country Texan. Then we spent 14 years in New Jersey and I lost a lot of my accent and learned to talk WAY too fast for my husband who tells me to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n on a regular basis.
BIBLE BOOK THAT I LIKE: Isaiah and James
CHORE I DON'T CARE FOR: Dealing with clutter. Stuff that piles up overwhelms me.
DOG OR CAT: Uh...that would be someone else's dog or someone else's cat. My poor children pined for a pet but they never had one. (Oh, except Daughter#1 had a guinea pig once that she left with a friend when we went on vacation. It died while we were gone and her friend's mom didn't want to dispose of the body without letting our child say goodbye, so she put it in the freezer and returned the corpse-cicle to us when we came home. Gee, thanks!!)
ESSENTIAL ELECTRONICS: We have only the very most elementary--TV, VCR, DVD. I have a iPod which I like to use when I remember and a Palm Pilot that has my lists of gluten free foods. But I'm on my computer multiple times a day.
FAVORITE COLOGNE: I like Bath and Body Works "Moonlight Path"
GOLD OR SILVER: Yes. My wedding ring is gold but I wear my silver James Avery charm bracelet all the time (until the clasp broke and now I can't remember where it is).
HANDBAG I CARRY MOST OFTEN: Old, old black one that is so faded it looks navy, too, so I carry it with everything. Pretty pathetic, but no one has EVER suggested that I have any fashion sense.
INSOMNIA: Either not at all or half the night. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason cause that I can pinpoint.
JOB TITLE: Wife, mom, grammie, hyperfocused bulldog, researcher of whatever I find interesting.
KIDS: Two wonderful daughters, each married to a wonderful husband; each is a wonderful mother.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Me and my sweetie of almost 35 years, with our younger daughter's family currently living with us til their new house is finished.
MOST ADMIRABLE TRAIT: That's a hard one. Some of the qualities that I happen to think are a gift from G-d are a little difficult for my family to put up with, like seeing things very black and white.
NAUGHTIEST CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR: Refusing to take naps. My mother told me once that I would be sorry someday that I wasn't willing to take my naps and when I was a sleepy young mother with babies who wouldn't sleep, I was SO sorry!
OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Childbirth 1975, 1981
PHOBIAS: I won't sleep in our trailer in the country because it has critters.
QUOTE: "Worry slanders every promise in the Word of G-d"
RELIGION: Raised Methodist. Out of the clear blue sky, the L-rd dropped a hunger into my heart to reconnect with the Jewish roots of our faith, so now I'm also a Messianic Gentile.
SIBLINGS: Three brothers
TIME I WAKE UP: 5:30 am
UNUSUAL TALENT OR SKILL: I'm told that the ability to work in a roomful of crying babies and not be frazzled is unusual.
VEGETABLE I REFUSE TO EAT: I like a lot of vegetables, even the slimy okra and the dreaded spinach and broccoli, but there are some that shouldn't be allowed to take up space in the produce department-- eggplant, brussels sprouts,
WORST HABIT: I fall off the healthy eating wagon far too often. I eat healthy for months and then I'll wipe out a six-pack of Hershey bars in one day, along with a bag of Mission Tortilla Chips and a pint of Haagen Daz Coffee Ice Cream.
X-RAYS: Broken arm (had to be set by an orthopedic surgeon), regular dental stuff and chiropractic x-rays
YUMMY STUFF I COOK: Lasagna, Brownies, Creole chicken--all gluten free
ZOO ANIMAL I LIKE MOST: Haven't been to the zoo for my own pleasure in years. It's the most fun to take a child you love and see what a good time THEY have.
ACCENT: I was born and raised in Texas and sounded City Texan rather than Country Texan. Then we spent 14 years in New Jersey and I lost a lot of my accent and learned to talk WAY too fast for my husband who tells me to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n on a regular basis.
BIBLE BOOK THAT I LIKE: Isaiah and James
CHORE I DON'T CARE FOR: Dealing with clutter. Stuff that piles up overwhelms me.
DOG OR CAT: Uh...that would be someone else's dog or someone else's cat. My poor children pined for a pet but they never had one. (Oh, except Daughter#1 had a guinea pig once that she left with a friend when we went on vacation. It died while we were gone and her friend's mom didn't want to dispose of the body without letting our child say goodbye, so she put it in the freezer and returned the corpse-cicle to us when we came home. Gee, thanks!!)
ESSENTIAL ELECTRONICS: We have only the very most elementary--TV, VCR, DVD. I have a iPod which I like to use when I remember and a Palm Pilot that has my lists of gluten free foods. But I'm on my computer multiple times a day.
FAVORITE COLOGNE: I like Bath and Body Works "Moonlight Path"
GOLD OR SILVER: Yes. My wedding ring is gold but I wear my silver James Avery charm bracelet all the time (until the clasp broke and now I can't remember where it is).
HANDBAG I CARRY MOST OFTEN: Old, old black one that is so faded it looks navy, too, so I carry it with everything. Pretty pathetic, but no one has EVER suggested that I have any fashion sense.
INSOMNIA: Either not at all or half the night. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason cause that I can pinpoint.
JOB TITLE: Wife, mom, grammie, hyperfocused bulldog, researcher of whatever I find interesting.
KIDS: Two wonderful daughters, each married to a wonderful husband; each is a wonderful mother.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Me and my sweetie of almost 35 years, with our younger daughter's family currently living with us til their new house is finished.
MOST ADMIRABLE TRAIT: That's a hard one. Some of the qualities that I happen to think are a gift from G-d are a little difficult for my family to put up with, like seeing things very black and white.
NAUGHTIEST CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR: Refusing to take naps. My mother told me once that I would be sorry someday that I wasn't willing to take my naps and when I was a sleepy young mother with babies who wouldn't sleep, I was SO sorry!
OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Childbirth 1975, 1981
PHOBIAS: I won't sleep in our trailer in the country because it has critters.
QUOTE: "Worry slanders every promise in the Word of G-d"
RELIGION: Raised Methodist. Out of the clear blue sky, the L-rd dropped a hunger into my heart to reconnect with the Jewish roots of our faith, so now I'm also a Messianic Gentile.
SIBLINGS: Three brothers
TIME I WAKE UP: 5:30 am
UNUSUAL TALENT OR SKILL: I'm told that the ability to work in a roomful of crying babies and not be frazzled is unusual.
VEGETABLE I REFUSE TO EAT: I like a lot of vegetables, even the slimy okra and the dreaded spinach and broccoli, but there are some that shouldn't be allowed to take up space in the produce department-- eggplant, brussels sprouts,
WORST HABIT: I fall off the healthy eating wagon far too often. I eat healthy for months and then I'll wipe out a six-pack of Hershey bars in one day, along with a bag of Mission Tortilla Chips and a pint of Haagen Daz Coffee Ice Cream.
X-RAYS: Broken arm (had to be set by an orthopedic surgeon), regular dental stuff and chiropractic x-rays
YUMMY STUFF I COOK: Lasagna, Brownies, Creole chicken--all gluten free
ZOO ANIMAL I LIKE MOST: Haven't been to the zoo for my own pleasure in years. It's the most fun to take a child you love and see what a good time THEY have.
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