Sunday's Song

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Have a favorite worship song-new or old-
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Flashback, circa 1983!!

Friends

Words: Deborah D. Smith

Music: Michael W. Smith

Packing up the dreams God planted

In the fertile soil of you

Can't believe the hopes He's granted

Means a chapter in your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always

It won't even seem you've gone

'Cause our hearts in big and small ways

Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Chorus:And friends are friends forever

If the Lord's the Lord of them

And a friend will not say never

'Cause the welcome will not end

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

to live as friends.

With the faith and love God's given

Springing from the hope we know

We will pray the joy you'll live in

Is the strength that now you show

But we'll keep you close as always

It won't even seem you've gone

'Cause our hearts in big and small ways

Will keep the love that keeps us strong

Chorus: And friends are friends forever

If the Lord's the Lord of them

And a friend will not say never

'Cause the welcome will not end

Though it's hard to let you go

In the Father's hands we know

That a lifetime's not too long

to live as friends.

Listen here:

BTW, the name of the song is just 'Friends.' This version was the only one

on the playlist website that was the full length so I chose it even though it

is not correctly named.

I lost two friends at two different times in high

school. This song was played at the funeral of the

first, and by the time second one died, I could no longer

listen to this song.

It took me years to hear it without

crying. Even now, it moves me in ways very few other

songs do. I miss both friends. Both were wonderful,

amazing christian kids. It was truly a hard thing to

understand, then and now.

I am thankful to have the knowledge that I will see

them again one day!!

Hope you are having a blessed Sunday!

TTFN,

Date night!

I just had a long luxurious bubble bath in my huge tub.

~~~~Ummmm~~~~

Now Paul and I are about to get ready and go out to eat

and have a kid-free night with some friends!

Yay for date night!!

After the last few weeks, I need a night away.

Ok...I'm off to get ready! Have a great Saturday!

TTFN,

Randomness and lots of pictures.

We had a holiday weekend...

Sunday night we decided (very short notice)

to invite Konnie and Isaac over for dinner.

I took lots of pics of the babies playing together.

Here are just a few:

Hammin it up!
Lovin the ball popper!!

Waitin to get into the kitchen-'Hey, we're hungry too!!'

The boys playing.

Isn't this typical?? He's trying to get a kiss and

she just wants to talk on the phone!
I actually did get a pic of them giving each other a kiss,

but it was too blurry :(

But, I mean, really, do you think she'll be able to resist this face?!?

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Monday, Memorial Day, we all (Konnie and her fam too)

drove over to New Orleans to go to the aquarium.

We saw lots of these:

Emmie was not so enthused about being in her stroller, can you tell?

The boys.

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Then we went to the Riverwalk Mall

and stopped here-Cafe Du Monde-for world famous coffee and beignets

(pronounced ben-yays)

SUPER YUM!!

Since we had just had a snack and all, we decided to stop here-

The Fudgery

-and buy a ridiculous amount of Fudge.

And the show is almost as good as the fudge!

They sing(loudly) getting the crowd to participate

while they are working the fudge.

At the end of the show are free samples!

This was our first trip to NO since Katrina.

It was depressing to see how bad things still are.

Just like here, there are so many things that are

still not repaired or replaced.

We had a really good time, though.

I can't wait to go back and do all the things we

didn't have time to do...

the zoo, the French Market, Jackson Square,

and ride the trolley down

St. Charles and see all the beautiful homes!

Can you tell I used to LOVE New Orleans?

Anyway, on the way home we stopped

and ate together at TGIFriday's in Gulfport.

Our waiter was a complete ditz!!

It was really funny.

And then we said our goodbyes and headed home.

What a great couple of days.

TTFN!

'I'd like to thank the Academy...'

What a great way to start the day!!

I won an award!!

Kelli, my IRL friend who got us all addicted

to this crazy blog thing, sent me this great award today!

Thanks, Kelli, and right backatcha!!

Seriously, copy and paste it back on your page

cause you deserve it-again!!

Visit Kelli at Random Thoughts of a Supermom!

Kelli's super fun and crazy crafty!

I SOOOO envy admire her

cool talents and abilities!! I wish I had just

a smidge of her creativity! She has three

super cute boys, and Eli might be the

rolypoly-est cutie I've ever seen!!

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I hope it's ok to pass this award on...I'm gonna anyway!

First, to my IRL friend Konnie at The Dooley's.
We've been friends for a long time.

She has one funny hubby, and 3 beautiful boys,

the youngest of whom she swears will one

day be my son-in-law!! Look out Emmie

(can you say arranged marriage??)She has been

going through alot with her mom's cancer this

year, and I love the updates on her mom

and reading the funny things the boys say!!

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Next is El over at Profoundly Seth.

I must be painfully honest and say that while

I've followed her blog for quite a while, I have

mainly stayed in the land of the lurkers!

Sorry, El! Ellen has one sweet girl and three

precious boys-two here in her arms, and

one in heaven in the Father's arms.

I love reading about Seth and his

amazing journey, but I also love reading

about Ellen. She is transparent and real.

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Lastly, I am giving one to Mimi over at He & Me +3.

She was my first blogging friend who wasn't also

an IRL friend! Thanks for hanging around, Mimi!

Mimi has 2 beautiful girls and one spunky handsome

boy! They all have the greatest dimples ever!!

I love Mimi's sweet soul-she has the

nicest personality, and it's fun to read about her

and her sweet family!

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In other really cool news, if you follow MckMama at

http://www.mycharmingkids.net/

you know their local news did a story on Stellan

last night. The story was moving and well done!

I was particularly impressed that the news

station made no attempt to take out the 'God angle'

of the story. God was very much given the glory!

And BTW...if you watch the story, pay

attention when they are showing all the

Stellan's name gallery pics. When the reporter

is going through all the things people wrote

Stellan's name with, 'pretzels, candy, blocks, blossoms...'

the blossoms they show are mine!! That's my Stellan pic!
I was so excited!! I saw it at midnight last night!!

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BTW...

Yes, I have put a LOT of lbs a few lbs

back on...

and YES, I do wear LOTS of empire

waisted shirts (that happen to look maternity but are NOT)

to cover it up...

and YES, we do have a rather impressive

(if I do say so myself)

track record of having babies...

but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am NOT pregnant!

Please don't ask. Everyone else has already asked.

It's starting to get really stinking depressing old.

We do intend, by the grace of God,

to have at least one more, but I promise,

when it happens, we'll let you know. :)

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That's enough excitement for now, I suppose...

Thanks again to Kelli.

If you're new here, welcome!

Thanks for looking around.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

TTFN,

PS...anyone else have MAD frustration over the

crazy spacing that happens when you post a

pic on here?????? I can't fix the double-spacing

and it's driving me crazy!

Back in blogland...making friends.

Ok, so I totally laid out of blogland all weekend.

Sort of.

I did check in now and again, and read everyone's

new posts. I just didn't do anything of my own.

I'm always excited to do Not Me! Monday posts,

but Emmie let me get so little sleep Sunday night

that I just couldn't wrap my brain around a post

where I had to say everything backward!!

Just too tired, folks!

On that note, however, I must confess that

Emmie slept ALL NIGHT last night!!!

WHOO-HOO

(insert manic happy dance here!)

I think it is the first time EVER.

Did I mention she's 11 months old?

Did I mention how painfully sleep deprived I am?

Did I mention that I adore her anyway?? :)

And she's totally taking steps all over the place!

Walking, already...where did the time go?

Anyway.

We were busy most of the weekend, and that probably

added to my tiredness.

We had a great dinner at our house with our IRL friends

Konnie and Isaac-otherwise known in blogland as

The Dooley's

and speaking of Konnie, congrats to her as she is

the winner of a super cool summer giveaway

at another IRL friend Kelli's blog,

Random Thoughts of a SUPERMOM

Great giveaway, Kelli, thanks for the fun!

~I digress~

Back to our weekend...

Then we began the redecoration of our living room

that I have been WAITING for!!

We have been buying things here and there-

when we had a little extra money

and when things were on crazy good sales-BTW,

I LOVE Kirkland's!!! And if you sign up for their

email, they will send you coupons!! Come on,

thrifty moms-it doesn't get better than coupons, right??

We also went to a salvage place in Mobile and got

a 10X13 rug that cost about $900 elsewhere but

because it had a few MINOR flaws on one CORNER

we got it for under $200!

I love saving money!!

(cause we don't have much!! LOL)

The redo is not quite finished, but when it is, I will

post pics.

Ok, I've gotta say, unless my visit counter is

wrong, I've got quite a few lurkers.

I know you're out there!

I love to meet new people and make new friends!
Please let me know if you check my blog

now and again-

leave me a comment, and follow my blog!!

I would love to meet you!

In fact, if I can get 25 friends (via followers,)

I will post a giveaway!

I've got a $15 giftgard to

☺Target☺

to giveaway to a friend. But you've got to

be a friend first!

Hope to meet you soon!

TTFN,