How can we be so Booooring if we are so busy all the time?
Randy at least has end results for his time that you can see and feel.
He just finished another chess/Chinese checker board with drawers. It's beautiful. He's working on a Christmas gift for someone now and busy racking wine and mowing leaves and playing in the compost heap.
My time is spent on the... well .... intangible. :) And not very timely either.
Aunt Valorie and I are working on a project for Grandpa for Christmas. I bake pies and they disappear. I made two biiiiig pans of meatloaf thinking to freeze some, but it tastes so good that we are still eating it - every day.
Christina is in the process of moving to her first real apartment with a friend named Andy.
Her room looks more empty than Megan's even though Megan took more stuff with her.
Randy and I can never move, we have too much stuff. I try to throw something out and Randy scrutinizes everything in the trash and suggests other uses for it.
We would love to build an addition onto the house. One with room for storage. Think it's possible? The addition, yes. Room for storage, Ha! never enough room for stuff.
Gotta go bake some more pies.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Saturday, October 21, 2006
My wonderful gransons
Two little bubbies sitting at their tableBeing such good boys eating peaches and peanut butter and jelly.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Warm Feet
Cecile & I went to see Joel,Kara,Aidan,Theo, & Marissa over the weekend. We left Thursday morning (Megan (Cecile) Time) and arrived around 9:30 p.m. We played card games and Chinese checkers. We went to BW3 and watched the Michigan / State game. We also got to go to Chuck E Cheese. Sunday Joel & I donned our worst grubbs and entered the crawl space under the front of the house. Some of the things that we encountered will remain hidden forever right where we left em. I think it will be the start of "Joel the Handyman". He was a slave driver. He wouldn't let me take breaks, no naps, no drinks. We were is some tight spaces. Besides the sore muscles it got done. When we finished Aidan told me "Grandpa you need a shower" Most of it washed off. It was wonderful to see the Atances. Aidan is growing up so fast & Theo is walking all over the place. Marissa seems to be keeping her sanity. Kara probably needs more sleep. Theo is a eating machine. We came home through Columbus. It might have been a little shorter. We probably won't do it very often.
Randy
Randy
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Dealing with Adversity
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first, she placed carrots; in the second, she placed eggs; and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes, she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed a hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softenend and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you."
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so, at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
This concludes today's sermon.
Love
Mom
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first, she placed carrots; in the second, she placed eggs; and in the last, she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes, she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed a hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softenend and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you."
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so, at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
This concludes today's sermon.
Love
Mom
