Father's Day...doing what Father's do....just being dad. Plain and simple....

ummmhmmm... life is good...

Is there anything better than sherbert ice cream???? I mean really, seriously...is there?

Yes folks...this is what I am eating and yes I am eating this on a Saturday night, IN FRONT OF MY COMPUTER, while I read and catch up on my blogs...

one of my nephew's is spending the night...they are upstairs watching dvd's...mainly scary movies. I think the last movie I seen on was the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies...my nephew said the sweetest thing tonight. 'i miss how you used to make us those sandwiches! that was fun!' See, when they were little or younger, me and my ex didnt have a lot of money. (truth be told...not much has changed in that department) but we never told family they couldnt stay...we just...figured it all out and usually it worked out in the end. So if anyone wanted to spend the night...they could. What I would do was get out a huge serving tray/platter and make up 7 or 8 sandwiches of deli meats and cheese...slice them into 4's and place them around a huge pile of chips. The kids loved it. I just didnt know HOW MUCH. Looking back...I understand why they liked it...

it was just so simple and sometimes simple is perfect.

Soooooooooo tonight...instead of going out for dinner guess what we had....

sandwiches and chips

And just like when they were younger I ate the last one because they couldnt decide who had the most or who had the least and everyone said how unfair it all is...

gotta love it

Tomorrow is Sunday...the last day of the weekend...enjoy it and stay blessed!

Ohhhhhhh to be a kid with tons of beads in my hair, running through my grandmother's yard with no problems in sight, green green grass, sunny skies...wuddnt that be nice!!!

My niece 'Mylie @ my parents house this summer.....

Thankful for ….

A rebirth in my faith

Renewed belief in hope

Love

Random acts of kindness from me to you or from you to me

My childhood home

My community bed…my boys have all kinds of electronics in their own rooms but every once in awhile they both love to be in my bed watching a movie…even better when the cat and the dog are in the room too.

EVERYTHING that has happened to me…good and BAD. If it hadn’t happened I wouldn’t be the me, right now, in this space of life that I am in. And I think this ‘me’ is alright….

True friendships

Peace that passes all understanding



Flocks of birds…hey…some people have the Ark as their promise…I have my flock of birds. They so make my heart lighter when I see them…I don’t know why. I usually see them on my way in to work. For example, I’m driving like a speed demon, look up into the sky and see like a black blur across the highway…the closer I get the more I realize…it’s a flock. Stretching across. Undulating, sometimes separating into two flocks but pretty much, I look at as God doing that JUST FOR LITTLE OLE ME. But today I was running a lllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllll late and instead of seeing them on my way to work, there was a flock of birds in my tree’s this morning. LOUDLY ‘chirping’ or whatever sound it is they make. Well I’ll be (as my grandmother used to say)…I almost dropped to my knee’s. I should have because this was a bad morning and THAT was my promise that I can fly no matter what…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone…stay blessed and look for the thankful in your life…I am SO sure its there….

I can not express how great yesterday’s blog chain was!

I’m still reading Christina's Simple Things blog post’s, still nodding my head in agreement, still thinking ‘MAN you hit the nail on the head!’ and really thinking, I need to do this more often.

See…I am the first one to do a blog post listing what is wrong with my day, who has upset me or what I want to change about me. It is so easy to go into the negative about myself and others that I don’t even realize that I do it half the time.

So it was…heaven sent to remind me of…those simple things that make it all worthwhile. That yes, the bigs things are big and lets be honest, I SO love the big things too but what keeps me going are those small simple things.

Here’s to the Simple Things…

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*** I’ve also added a couple handful of blogs to start stalking…LOL

my dad and my great neice, and his great grand-daughter, Ava Rae

Thanks Christina for doing this.........



Quiet Sunday mornings

Rainy Sunday mornings with nowhere to go

coloring with my great-niece

crayons

buttery popcorn

well loved books

Puppy dog eyes

Creamy biscuits and gravy

the words 'hey you' from him

true intimacy

thick warm blankets

men's athletic socks

Hot cocoa with strong coffee

‘love you mommie’

Thank you’s from my ex husband because yes...it is hard

Flocks of birds first thing in morning

A good deep gut wrenching cry

Having others see what I seen in a photo I took

My mother’s love, there’s nothing like it

My cat actually wanting love..actually this is not so simple…it’s a great fete to be deemed worthy

The way the singer Adele pronounces her W’s, its like...warmth

my youngest son's laughter...

my oldest son singing in the shower...


* I had to add this...I am LOVIN' reading everyone's list!! I'm going through Christina's list of blogs and in every list I have thought at least once 'I LOVE THAT TOO!' Perfect example of what is simple can be abundant...thanks again Christina!