Archive for April, 2009

Hooters for hair?

Monday, April 6th, 2009

scan0001 (3) This advertisement that keeps reappearing in various forms in our local city magazine really ticks me off.  So I emailed them:

We saw your cheesy ad in Style magazine and wanted to throw up.  I am a wife and mother of five sons.  We really don’t care what our stylist looks like physically, we just want her/him to know their stuff when it comes to cutting hair.  We’re offended by your ads and will avoid your business.  Trying to lure men to your stylists because they’re ‘hot’ is just not cool.  You girls really think a lot of yourselves.

(Sidenote:  They have my email address and name, but haven’t replied to my email.)

Oh how the days go by…

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

008  I woke up at 3:30 this morning to find all the lights on in the house, so I made my way downstairs thinking I’d find my 16-year old  student propped up in a chair asleep with his Economics book! He has a huge test today at the college campus. He looked up at me, still dressed in his street clothes and declared, “I’m not even tired!” The energy drink he’d consumed at 9 pm – (after an 8-hour workday at his new job) – had kicked in, he’d gotten his second wind and there he was, busily reviewing every last detail of the coursebook, the workbook, the Professor’s online message board, and his scrawled notes spread across the floor.  So much is riding on this test score and he’s determined to conquer it while endeavoring to keep his spiritual life strong, juggling a job, household chores, his other school subjects, his commitment to perfecting his bass, piano, drum-playing and song-writing, not to mention nurturing a few friendships in the cracks.  

He’s learning about real life as a young adult, while I find myself holding my breath at moments, watching from the ‘bleachers’, praying and trusting God for wisdom in the last season of my privileged role of training him.  He turned out the lights about 4 and slept like a log until I woke him at 9.  I tossed and turned for hours. He’s the one with all the pressure…but I’m the one who can’t sleep! So much to think about – am I doing okay as a mom?  Should I have?  Why did I?  How could I? Why didn’t I?  Pondering all the years of mothering my five sons…bumbling through at times…trusting God every single day, while questioning myself regularly along the way. 

I feel a little tender today as I watch him grab his work uniform, his notes and the car keys!I mumble one more fervent prayer for my little man as I hear the roar of the engine.  Sigh. 

I think I’ll make myself a fresh cup of coffee.  Hope you have a singing Saturday!  May God truly bless your day!

DONE!

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

clip_image002Announcing my release from the tedious torment of self-imposed tax-prison. I am FREE! I have also created accounting procedures for this year that are sure to streamline my files and speed up next Spring’s ‘09 tax preparation, thus greatly lessening my tax-time grief and significantly shortening my confinement with the adding machine. Now I’ll drop hubby at the airport for his ministry weekend away and shift gears to prepare for the upcoming CHEA (Christian Home Educators Association) home education conference and Leadership Conference in late April in the Bay Area, my trip to Seattle in 13 days, my assistant’s wedding in 15 days…right after I get the laundry done, plan dinner, correct papers and take a deep breath…TGIF EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A WOMAN!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Sarah Palin, devoted and loving wife to Todd, mother of five and grandmother of one, Governor of Alaska, friend of the unborn, leader extraordinaire, courageous pioneer, champion of Judeo-Christian values in our culture-gone-mad…I call her a national treasure.  If you’ve noticed the headlines lately, you know the media vultures are hovering over her and her precious family day and night, trying to wear them down and take her out.  But she knows better – she’s nobody’s fool.  I think the liberals’ arsenals are aimed at her because they are shaking in their Birkenstocks, scared out of their skin that this chick might really do what she said she would during the 2008 campaign.  Mark my words, she’ll have the last word

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PALINS while you thank God for genuine people who are willing to weather the harsh, perpetual storms of public life to make your world a better place to live.