A Mother’s Journal

It’s crazy how time goes by for me now!!  I find myself thinking, “oh, it’s been a couple of days since I posted, so I need to update my blog,” and then I look at the calendar and it’s been a week! 

It’s work, I tell you!  40 hours a week keeps a person busy.  Add to that my GW fashion runs.  And cooking.  And just looking for Lynn.  And you understand why the days run together! 

I continue to take silly pictures from the GW dressing room.  I mean, what else is a camera phone for??  And I think you all like the GW Fashion Report.  I mean, I hope so, ’cause you are getting a ton of it! 

Bright colors are making me happy these days.  I need bright.  I do.  I think the dress above is just the ticket!  With white tights and my black leather cowboy boots!  Not sure about the gray shirt underneath, but was just trying that on for size.  (I bought both the dress and the shirt.)

Another pretty find was this black silk and polyester dress with beautiful ribbons tying in the back!  Another great find (at under 4 dollars) for the holidays!  Yay.

And while we are talking YAY things, I want to show you my bible verse jar.  It is something I have wanted to do for the longest time, and being at the apartment Rose Cottage has finally brought the peace and quiet to implement it. 

A few years back, I found a blank journal at the thrift store for a dollar.  At the bottom of every page was a bible verse.  I knew right then…

I recently went through, tearing pages out and cutting the verses from the bottoms of the pages.  I then folded each little verse and dropped them all into this beautiful jar, tied with an antique-y ribbon adorned with a glittery tag. 

Now, folks, this does not take the place of bible reading.  No sir!  But on busy mornings I can send John and Michaela out the door with a bible verse.  Or at suppertime we can share a verse.  Or while I am working in the kitchen and they are doing homework.  You get the picture.

Actually, let me go pull a verse for you…

I will extol You, my God, O King, and I will bless Your name forever and ever, Every day I will bless you, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.  Psalm 145:1,2

Now.  On to the topic of food.

Am I still loving my steamer?  Golly yes!  But how about this liver, baby!?  Well, I found out last night that John and Michaela both should be on their respective track teams because they both ran after one bite.  Really, really fast.  Amazingly fast.  I heard Michaela say GROSS before she tore out of the kitchen.  Actually, I don’t force them to eat things they don’t like, but I am not cooking something different.  So take it or leave it.

I was craving liver.  I got this grass fed beef liver at a local fresh market, so I know where the meat comes from, and all this was only 2.00.  I am sure we won’t have it all the time.  Not after last night’s reaction.  But sometimes.  The frozen corn was put into the bottom layer of the steamer and set for about 28 minutes.  Once down to 15 minutes left, I put the tray of frozen asparagus on top and covered again.  (Watch the steam; don’t get burned!!)  When the timer stopped, all my veggies were done.  Just add butter. 

Last but not least, this is going to serve as a real journal today.  I simply must record my dream from last night but I know I cannot write with a pen fast enough to get it done before I have to work, but boy can I type!  (Reference picture of typist above.)

I dreamed last night that Michaela and I had driven to the coast.  To a beautiful hotel.  A fancy hotel with a person waiting on us much of the time.  He was a very nice man.  He seemed to know I did not really have enough money to be there but he never said a word.  We were only supposed to stay for one night but we ended up staying for four.  By accident.  How does anyone do that?  In the kitchen in this room we had (and I don’t really remember how the room looked, by the way) there was a sink with a garbage disposal.  Someone had left a bunch of very large red and green tomatoes on the vine and I found them.  In that bunch of tomatoes was a very large, very bright green spider, looking really like a black widow, only it was scary green with red and black markings.  I decided to plunge the tomatoes and the creature down the disposal, but I knew in the back of my mind that there was also money left behind in the tomatoes.  I plunged them down anyway.  I kept wanting to get the money back but it was gone.  When it was time to depart, I somehow had a bulldog that I set up on this fancy side table in the hotel hallway.  I nearly knocked over two things but caught them before they fell and put them back.  Immediately the man was there again.  Friendly as ever.  As I was leaving, I remembered to show the man that someone had also left a bunch of tomatoes in the windows.  Somehow I am not sure if they had money or not.  Next, Michaela and I were in the car, speeding along a narrow road along a rocky coastline with sea water crashing and rolling down below.  All I needed was a kerchief around my head and Elvis in the next seat and I could have easily been in a 1960s movie.  Anyhoo, I missed my turn and realized I had gone way out of the way.  The dream ended with Michaela and me turning around and heading home, with me explaining that we had not really had the money to stay for four nights.

Me and my dreams.  Any clue as to what that all means?

As far as the spider, I am wondering if somehow this picture of me got tangled up in my dreams.  It is the typing picture with the color inverted.  My son John said it is so scary that he thinks it should not be on line.  So I won’t put it here, but I will let you click if you want to see.  Nothing evil folks, just lil ol me with colors inverted.  Scary Lynn.  It was late when I edited these pictures, so maybe I took the colors with me to my dreams.  Also, I have been so focused on my foods and what I am deficient in, maybe I am looking for something in tomatoes, where I found both a spider and money!  Go figure!!

Have a lovely day!  Enjoy this day!  It won’t be ’round again!