Happy Thursday!

It's just a happy Thursday because it is 12:30 and all my clients are done for the day and Tim and I will get to go to a movie this afternoon and it will be like old times! That is if we can find one we both agree on...I'm ready for a chick flick...

Leanne Braddock and I had a nice drive to Searcy and back on Tuesday. I spoke on A Clear Conscience - Dealing with issues of Anger and she spoke on How to be a Good Mother-In-Law. We were surprised at how many people were there and did not have nearly enough handouts prepared. But it was good to see so many friends. Sweet Macky Murray came to smile at me since Beckie wasn't in town to do that for me like she usually does. Alice Ann lead the singing and she did a great job. I also got to see Tony Garcia's mom and little sister. He has another audition with the Navy band in October. Mrs. O was there, too and several other of my AWH friends. Dana Evans ate lunch with us. She is getting ready to move to Kuwait and work as a civilian with Bob! I can't imagine going there! It was fun. Liz Howell gave me my plaque for reaching the Deanna Smith Memorial Membership Level in AWH. That was exciting! I am go glad to be there! Half way to the Louise Ganus! I might make it before I die!

We also got to see Wil and we made a stop at the Reynolds Building to see Dr. James, who we almost missed, because he was busy running around the building and would not answer his cell phone. We did get to see Dan Tullos, but not Jack Shock...he is never in his office when I am around; however, Dan decoded the messages from Jack to Beckie on her blog for me. Thanks, Beth for the offer of a bed, I knew I could call you if I needed one, but Leanne and I had decided to just drive over and back the same day. We both had clients on Monday and Wednesday. I'm looking forward to being with you at homecoming though!

Tim and I are going to Kansas City to see Laura and John this weekend. I will so glad to see them!

Different day

I had planned to attend the AWH National Council Meeting today in Searcy, but you know, sometimes, life just happens, and things don't work the way we think they should...i came home with a bad headache last night and took meds and laid down thinking it would go away like it has been doing lately, but it didn't...When Tim got home, he had to give me a shot. I had to miss going to sing to Mr. Al Simko, the sweetest little man at church who can't get around very well anymore. When I woke up this morning, I still had the headache and felt too woozie to drive, I stayed home. I really hated to miss that meeting. It is the funniest one all year because you get to meet all the students who get AWH scholarships. But anyway...

Today, Tim took me to see "Flyboys" this afternoon. It was a WWI movie about pilots. He love it, I liked it ok...
After last week's movie about football, I'm due a "chick flick" pretty soon!

Gotta get my speech for the Harding lectureships finished up and the power point done....That's next Tueday.

All you people out there reading my blog, leave me a comment so I'll know you're there!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!

Happy Birthday, John! Hope you have a great day! I tried to send an e-card, but I'm not sure it went through. I'm sure there is some way to have this computer sing Happy Birthday to you but I'm not smart enough to figure it out so you'll just have to imagine it.
Love you and thanks for making my Laura so happy!

Shannon's Wedding

First let me correct Laura and John's blog address from the last post. It is www.hackerwright.blogspot.com

Now on to Shannon's wedding. Shannon is the daughter of my first cousin, Linda Sigler Mitchell, daughter of my Aunt Des, sister of my mother. Shannon went with us when we went to Ireland several years ago. She was our driver and did a great job driving that big van on the left side of the little small lanes in Ireland. And she was with us when we went to Italy a couple of year ago when Laura joined up and we spend a week in a villa in Tuscany and the pope died in Rome. The wedding was beautiful and I was so excited to see Sherry, Shannon's friend from Canada who had also gone to Italy with us. Mike James, who took my wedding pictures and Laura's wedding pictures also took Shannon's pictures. She had not decided on a photographer so after she saw Laura's photos on the web, she decided she'd have Mike come to do hers. I'm really glad, I think she won't find anyone that she would have been more pleased with. Her flower girls and one of the ring bearers really gave a show to everyone. The other ring bearer was the son of the groom. He was precious and he did everything just perfectly. The only thing that I originally thought was bad about this whole thing is that I found out that she is going to Greece on her honeymoon. That was our next trip that we had planned and now she's going without us! But we (my cousins and me) decided that maybe that would be good for us because she can go first and find out all the neat things we need to do and see and plan our trip for us (if she gets out of her hotel room long enough). Her husband promised that he wouldn't be one who would whine if she decided that she wanted to go on a trip with us...we shall see....

It was really neat seeing so much of our family all there together for a happy occasion instead of a funeral! Tim and Joe went fishing. They had a great day together, but I'm sorry they missed seeing everyone at the wedding. You can read about their fishing trip at www.artist-tim.blogspot.com

Have a great week!

Tim says it's been too long since I posted anything on my blog...I really haven't had a lot going on except same old, same old stuff. I have been seeing an acupuncture doctor for the past few weeks. It is amazing how many less headaches I have had since I started seeing him and when I do have a headache, I take meds and lay down for about 20 or 30 minutes and then it's gone...it is amazing even when it's cloudy or rainy or a front is coming through...It's wonderful! And I've lost about 6 pounds. Not that you can really tell since I have so much to loose, but anyway, a little is better than none.

We went to see "The Illusionist" today. It was a really good movie! At times, I really wondered if it was going to have a happy ending or not, but it did! Hooray! Tomorrow, Tim is going fishing. I am going to my cousin's wedding. I'm looking forward to it. I've been to Ireland and to Italy with this cousin so we have lots of fun memories together. Somehow, I don't usually do things as crazy with them as I do Reagan...But the pope did die the last time we were in Italy together and she stood in line all night to try to get to see the body...but they closed the line and she didn't get to see him. That next morning, the other cousins and I went to try to get a look at the Vatican thinking that the line was closed and ended up in the line...they had reopened it! We didn't stay in it because we wanted to see Rome and we only had that day to see it! When the news people came up to interview us, we were surprised to find out that we were standing in the line to see the pope! Guess I'll get to see the Vatican in November. I saw it in 1973 but that's so long ago, I hardly remember anything about it!

You can find out what John is teaching in his Christianity and Tyranny class if go to their blog sight www.hackerwright.com
He has some of his class notes on there. He may study himself into believing before this year is over!

Five Years Ago Today

Yes, I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing...Cristen Roberts (then Godley) was picking me up at Bud Davis Cadallic on the way to class...she was taking counseling classes then at Harding Grad and when I got in her car, she was listening to K-Love and she said, "Listen to this - Do you think this is real or that it is just one of those end of the world kind of commercials that they play sometimes?" And they were talking about the planes crashing into the World Trade Center. When we got to school, all the TV's were on and everyone was crowded around. It was very difficult to concentrate on class that morning. Then when we got home, we found out that all planes were grounded and the Sycamore view building was full of people who needed places to stay and food to eat so we all went into action to try to take care of the people. There were even some from foreign countries that Laura when up there to try to communicate with. It was wild. It was incredible. It was a day that I thought I'd never see happen in my lifetime. It was a day that changed our world forever. My heart goes out to and my prayers go up for all those who lost loved ones that day and those who have lost loved ones since because of the war. I have no idea what the answer to all of this is. I only know that I have no control over it and I can only pray that God's will be done when it's all said and done. I do not intend to watch any of the movies or documentaries about 9/11. I know how they all end and they don't have happy endings...you know me....I only like to watch things with happy endings...there's enough sorrow in real life to pay to watch things that make me sad!

On a happy note...Emily Godley got engaged and seems very happy. Beckie has written two fun posts from Italy. And I am enjoying my counseling practice very much! Tim and I are supposed to meet some Harding recruiters and juniors and seniors and their parents form the Memphis Area at Bahama Breeze tonight for a gathering. That should be fun if my 6:00 session doesn't go too long over time. That's my greatest shortcoming....I'm not very good at stopping at an hour if the client wants to keep going and I don't have another scheduled immediately after!

Labor Day Weekend

What a fun weekend we had! We went to Huntsville on Saturday morning to visit with Tim's family. Denise and Wayne and Johnathan and Sandy and Karina and her baby, Lucian, were there also. We had quite an enjoyable visit. We all went to church together on Sunday morning and then cooked out burgers for lunch. It was pretty funny because Tim's dad was saying that someone needed to make the hamburger patties and I was the only woman in the kitchen...every one else was changing clothes. I DO NOT PUT MY HANDS IN YUCKY STUFF LIKE HAMBURGER MEAT!!! I BUY ALREADY MADE HAMBURGER PATTIES OR TIM MAKES THEM!!! I immediately left the kitchen and went looking for Tim. When I came back with Tim, his dad was working all kinds of spices into the meat and cutting them out with a coffee cup. I don't know why he asked for someone else to do it anyway since he wanted to spice them up the way he wanted to do it. They were really delicious! After lunch, we all left for home.

On Monday morning, we went down to Corinth to spend the day with my family. It was fun, too. It's so nice to have most of my family in Corinth now. It's only a 30 minute plane ride. Billy came back with Diana and we flew him back to Indianola at the end of the day so it made our ride home a little longer but not nearly as long as his 4 hour drive would have been. Tim took my nephew, Tracy, up in the plane and few him over his house and his school. Tracy had never been in a plane before and he was so excited. Diana was going to let him ride back to the house in her convertible with the top down. He was running around the airport saying, "This is the best day of my life!" He was even hoping that his teacher was going to let them write about what they did on Labor Day today at school.

And I even got up and walked this morning...I don't know how far, but I could barely make it back home....I just kept saying to myself...you'll walk further than this in Italy every day....this will be nothing compared to how far you'll walk in Italy....now if I can just keep getting up and walking so I can do it when I get to Italy in November without dying! It's not too late, Diana...you can still get a ticket to go with us!

If you want to see some beautiful paintings, look at Tim's blog - artist-timblogspot.com but if you want to see some beautiful photography, look at Laura's blog hackerwrightblogspot.com Both of my children got their dad's skinny gene and his artistic gene....I am glad for them...too bad he can't somehow pass them on to me...I'd be satisfied with just the skinnny one!