Making a plan...

Guess we've all heard the saying "aim at nothing and that's what you'll hit"!

The Bible says to "write the vision, make it plain".

This has been buzzing around in my head for a while....make a plan, set some goals...
so today I did.
I've been disgusted with myself for quite a while...extra weight has been making me feel tired,
unhealthy, etc.

I have to write it down, see it in print...this plan of mine!

Today I began The South Beach Diet plan. It's there in black and white, with good, healthy recipes, meal plans, foods allowed, foods not allowed.

I'm blogging this to help me stay accountable.

I'm going to try and keep a food diary too if I can. Haven't lasted too long doing those but will give it another go.

And the exercising....YIKES! Okay....I can do this! I can walk! I can jog on my mini trampoline!

So...plan in place and here I go!

Red Bird Found!

March

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

-Charles Dickens

"A Light exists in spring

Not present on the year

At any other period,

When March is scarcely here"

-Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday Day Anna!

Happy Birthday Anna!!!!

I so remember the Saturday morning you were born! You were my easiest labor and delivery!
After you were born, I told your dad we could have had you in a field, all by ourselves for the Dr.
on call did nothing but was just there!

We love you and are so proud of you! Have a lovely day "baby Anna" as Mr. Allen use to say!

Just "a few of my favorite things"!

I am such a lover of nature! Here in our Powder room, on a small,

handmade wooden heart table "lives" a wooden tree that one of my very favorite neighbors gave me a few years ago.

I decorate it for every season and it brings me such delight.

The table was made by Mr. Harkey, an elderly gentleman, about 15 years ago. He and his wife were such special people and I love the tables I bought from him.

I now have some of my favorite birds on the tree for Spring. The owls were hanging on the porch Christmas tree and the cute little birds are actually candles that Anna bought for me today at Pottery Barn! Now I just need a Cardinal!

The second shelf has this bird...sort of Partridge-like and a nest of eggs...all from the porch Christmas tree.

How I love the birds!!!!!

It's on the way!

Spring is on the way! It's coming! It's coming in all it's glorious "newness", "freshness"- stirring
our senses with magnificent colors, fragrance galore!

It's a time of awakening, renewal, rebirth and it is quite exciting!

It seems the older I become, the more I look forward to this season.
It shouts "LIFE"! And that life is contagious!

Live...truly live. Stop and smell the roses,... the hyacinth, the daffodils....
Sit outside and bask in the amazing creation with which God has so blessed us!
Embrace this freshness and let it spill over onto your friends and family, new friends,
onto your homes and the workplace.

Smile! Laugh! Enjoy all the beauty God has given us!
There is a time for every season under Heaven....selah.....

Make the most of it!

Babysitting?

Or should I say "grand-snake" sitting?

This is Sonic...our "grand-snake" and we are keeping him this week.
He is our oldest grandson's pet and actually he's pretty neat!

I love animals! Had never thought too much about snakes before but now that Christian has one,
I've learned to like him too.

I take him out and hold him. I talk to him and check on him many times during the day and early morning to make sure he's warm enough.

Mike has looked at him but will probably never hold him! Uncle Dan and Grandaddy saw him yesterday and Uncle Bill held him.

For some reason there aren't too many that want a closer relationship with him but that's okay too!

I know he's missing Christian but he'll see him soon! In the meantime I'm trying to take his place and be a good "Granggie" for Sonic, the ball Python!