Friday, November 30, 2007
Harding is Wonderful!
Mike Cope's blog had an plug for ACU yesterday, so I think I need to do one for Harding....If you thinking about college, Harding is the place to go! It was the four best years of my life and my friends I made there are still my best friends in the whole wide world! If you think you might have an interest in Harding at all, look on the Haring University website or leave me a comment here with your information and I'll get the right person to get in touch with you. Can't find a better, more fun, place with higher academic standards than Harding to go to! We also have a needs based scholarship through Associated Women for Harding that you can apply for. Some of my happiest, funniest memories are in Searcy and /or other places with my Harding friends! Can't beat it!!!!!
Monday, November 26, 2007
I'm Gonna Be a Grandmother!
I am so excited! Laura and John are going to have a baby in early June 2008! What wonderful news to get for Thanksgiving!
We needed some happy news to combat the stuff going on with Mama and Mutt. They got moved to the nursing home on the Monday before Thanksgiving. We still don't have conclusive information from the masses in Mutt's chest. He will have to have a needle biopsy to be sure. We're leaving the decision up to him. He turned 88 on Monday. Mama is sick with a virus or something today...Looks like they won't be leaving the nursing home this time though we haven't talked to them about it yet.
Robin and Cheryl have finally found a house to buy and it is really neat! It has several acres with it and plenty of bedrooms for all the kids! I am so happy for them to finally have a nice place they can call their own!
Have a happy holiday season!
More later!
We needed some happy news to combat the stuff going on with Mama and Mutt. They got moved to the nursing home on the Monday before Thanksgiving. We still don't have conclusive information from the masses in Mutt's chest. He will have to have a needle biopsy to be sure. We're leaving the decision up to him. He turned 88 on Monday. Mama is sick with a virus or something today...Looks like they won't be leaving the nursing home this time though we haven't talked to them about it yet.
Robin and Cheryl have finally found a house to buy and it is really neat! It has several acres with it and plenty of bedrooms for all the kids! I am so happy for them to finally have a nice place they can call their own!
Have a happy holiday season!
More later!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy being with your family and eating all the turkey and trimmings (or in Beckie and Gene's case, steak and bakes potatoes)! We'll be going to Corinth on Wednesday and spend the night and sometimes on Thursday afternoon, we'll go to Huntsville and then come home on Friday afternoon so we can decorate for Christmas on Saturday.
Please pray for Papa Mutt (my step-dad). He's in the hospital right now in Corinth. They've found a mass in his right lung and aren't sure what it is. They've done a biopsy but we don't have the results yet. I spent the weekend with Mama so that Diana could have a break. I think they are going to have to go to the nursing home when Mutt gets out of the hospital because he is so weak, but Diana and Robin are going to let the doctors handle telling them. I think Papa Mutt knows it in his heart, but I don't know how Mama will take it...she will probably be ok as long as Mutt is. Just please pray for them and for us.
Once again, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Please pray for Papa Mutt (my step-dad). He's in the hospital right now in Corinth. They've found a mass in his right lung and aren't sure what it is. They've done a biopsy but we don't have the results yet. I spent the weekend with Mama so that Diana could have a break. I think they are going to have to go to the nursing home when Mutt gets out of the hospital because he is so weak, but Diana and Robin are going to let the doctors handle telling them. I think Papa Mutt knows it in his heart, but I don't know how Mama will take it...she will probably be ok as long as Mutt is. Just please pray for them and for us.
Once again, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Two tags to catch up on...
I was tagged by my friend, Jennifer Greene and Rebecca Jane and Reagan, too, I think.... last week and now that I have a minute or two and I'm responding to their tags!!
MY ROCK STAR NAME (first pet and current car):
Lady Solara
MY WANNABE NAME (favorite ice cream flavor and favorite cookie):
Cinnamon Cashew Crunch Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Chip (boy am I glad that's not my name...I can't even spell it!)
MY "FLY GIRL" NAME (first initial of first name and first three letters of last name):
THAC
MY DETECTIVE NAME (favorite color and favorite animal):
Red Horse (sound like an Indian, doesn't it?)
MY SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name and the city where you were born):
Skelton Indianola (you know all good Southern girls drop their middle names when they get married and take on thier maiden name as thier middle name; however, Alice Indianola, doesn't sound any better!)
MY STAR WARS NAME (first 3 letters of your last name and first 2 letters of your first name):
Hacta (maybe I'll carry around a big hatchett where ever I go!)
MY SUPERHERO NAME ("The" and second favorite color and favorite drink):
The Blue Perrier (can't get enough of that fizzy water lately...makes me think I'm in Europe since I can't go there!)
MY -cough,cough- ENTERTAINER -cough,cough- NAME (name of your favorite perfume/cologne and favorite candy):
White Shoulders Snickers (I wore White Shoulders in college...never wear perfume now...gives me a headache!)
MY WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (mother's and father's middle names):
Lilly Tracy (not too bad, I guess.)
Now for the other one...
50 years ago, I was 5...until tomorrow when i will turn 56. I was in first grade and believe it or not, I was the tallest kid in my class!
40 years ago, I was 15 and attedning Indianola High School. My graduating class in 1969 was the last ever graduating class from there. The next year, they had forced intergration and the high school became the junior high for the entire city and Indianola Academy sprang up overnight because no one in Indianola wanted to intergrate. I was not in the "in crowd," but I wasn't on the bottom of the food chain either and I had lots of friends. I was always in chorus and took piano...but I didn't keep up my lessons, so I can't play now. That's one thing I regret. I was big in 4-H and loved doing all the competive things with 4-H.
30 years ago, I was at Harding...the best 4 years of my life when all I had to do was study and had Daddy's credit card in my hot little hand. My friends I made at harding are still my very bestest friends in the whole wide world. I went on a campaign to Italy and England where Tim and I fell in love. He first kissed me in the side yard of St. Paul's in London.
20 years ago, Tim and I were married (actually we've been married 33 years, so this is not a completely accurate time line) and had Laura who was 8 by then because she is 28 now and Joe was 5 because he is 25 now. Tim was out of dental school and we thought we were living high on the hog! We'd already lived on Kevin with a swimming pool and were building the house we live in now (which they will have to carry my cold dead body out of because i don't intend to ever move again!)
10 years ago, well actually 12 years ago, I took my first trip to Ukraine(1995). It was a wonderful mission trip and we also took our family to England that summer. Vivian joined us and we saw every Beatles thing there was to see. It was the hottest summer on record for the past 20 or 30 years in Europe and we all about burned up! But we still had fun!
Somewhere between 10 and 5 years ago, I went to England with Beckie, Reagan, Laura, Katie, Vivan, and Cindy Cogbill. Vivian got the van stuck in a garage. It was so funny...of course, i'd think it was funny,,,I didn't have to drive. And when she drove in London we felt like the European vacation...only instead of going continually around Big Ben, we kept going around Travalgar Square. One thing about those round-abouts you can just keep going around until you decide which way to turn. And I went to Germany with Beckie, Reagan, and Mami while Laura was at HUF. Though we would get to see her, but we didn't. But it was a great trip anyway!
5 years ago, I got this wild hair to go back to school and get my Masters in Counseling at HUGSR. Now I'm working for the Christian Counseling Center sponsored by Sycamore View and taking classes to sit for the Liscensed Professional Counselor Boards. Most of the time, I really enjoy the work. Just wish I could figure out some way to get the clients to all come in during the work day instead of late afternoon and evening, but when you're working with children and adolescents and their families, guess that's not really an option. They can't miss school every week.
I'm not too good at remembering all these dates...Beckie is usually my memory. Sometime in the last 10 years, Diana, my sister, and I took our mom to Ireland and our cousins and thier mom went with us. I also went to Italy with my cousins. Laura went for part of this trip. The pope died while we were there so Rome was rather crowded and we didn't get to see everything we wanted to.
Vegas as fun. We saw The Producers with Tony Danza and the All-American Superstar show with impersonars. Tim got elected to the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Implant Dentistry which means he'll have four board meetings a year around the country. Maybe i'll get to travel with him. You know me...I'm always ready to go!
MY ROCK STAR NAME (first pet and current car):
Lady Solara
MY WANNABE NAME (favorite ice cream flavor and favorite cookie):
Cinnamon Cashew Crunch Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Chip (boy am I glad that's not my name...I can't even spell it!)
MY "FLY GIRL" NAME (first initial of first name and first three letters of last name):
THAC
MY DETECTIVE NAME (favorite color and favorite animal):
Red Horse (sound like an Indian, doesn't it?)
MY SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name and the city where you were born):
Skelton Indianola (you know all good Southern girls drop their middle names when they get married and take on thier maiden name as thier middle name; however, Alice Indianola, doesn't sound any better!)
MY STAR WARS NAME (first 3 letters of your last name and first 2 letters of your first name):
Hacta (maybe I'll carry around a big hatchett where ever I go!)
MY SUPERHERO NAME ("The" and second favorite color and favorite drink):
The Blue Perrier (can't get enough of that fizzy water lately...makes me think I'm in Europe since I can't go there!)
MY -cough,cough- ENTERTAINER -cough,cough- NAME (name of your favorite perfume/cologne and favorite candy):
White Shoulders Snickers (I wore White Shoulders in college...never wear perfume now...gives me a headache!)
MY WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (mother's and father's middle names):
Lilly Tracy (not too bad, I guess.)
Now for the other one...
50 years ago, I was 5...until tomorrow when i will turn 56. I was in first grade and believe it or not, I was the tallest kid in my class!
40 years ago, I was 15 and attedning Indianola High School. My graduating class in 1969 was the last ever graduating class from there. The next year, they had forced intergration and the high school became the junior high for the entire city and Indianola Academy sprang up overnight because no one in Indianola wanted to intergrate. I was not in the "in crowd," but I wasn't on the bottom of the food chain either and I had lots of friends. I was always in chorus and took piano...but I didn't keep up my lessons, so I can't play now. That's one thing I regret. I was big in 4-H and loved doing all the competive things with 4-H.
30 years ago, I was at Harding...the best 4 years of my life when all I had to do was study and had Daddy's credit card in my hot little hand. My friends I made at harding are still my very bestest friends in the whole wide world. I went on a campaign to Italy and England where Tim and I fell in love. He first kissed me in the side yard of St. Paul's in London.
20 years ago, Tim and I were married (actually we've been married 33 years, so this is not a completely accurate time line) and had Laura who was 8 by then because she is 28 now and Joe was 5 because he is 25 now. Tim was out of dental school and we thought we were living high on the hog! We'd already lived on Kevin with a swimming pool and were building the house we live in now (which they will have to carry my cold dead body out of because i don't intend to ever move again!)
10 years ago, well actually 12 years ago, I took my first trip to Ukraine(1995). It was a wonderful mission trip and we also took our family to England that summer. Vivian joined us and we saw every Beatles thing there was to see. It was the hottest summer on record for the past 20 or 30 years in Europe and we all about burned up! But we still had fun!
Somewhere between 10 and 5 years ago, I went to England with Beckie, Reagan, Laura, Katie, Vivan, and Cindy Cogbill. Vivian got the van stuck in a garage. It was so funny...of course, i'd think it was funny,,,I didn't have to drive. And when she drove in London we felt like the European vacation...only instead of going continually around Big Ben, we kept going around Travalgar Square. One thing about those round-abouts you can just keep going around until you decide which way to turn. And I went to Germany with Beckie, Reagan, and Mami while Laura was at HUF. Though we would get to see her, but we didn't. But it was a great trip anyway!
5 years ago, I got this wild hair to go back to school and get my Masters in Counseling at HUGSR. Now I'm working for the Christian Counseling Center sponsored by Sycamore View and taking classes to sit for the Liscensed Professional Counselor Boards. Most of the time, I really enjoy the work. Just wish I could figure out some way to get the clients to all come in during the work day instead of late afternoon and evening, but when you're working with children and adolescents and their families, guess that's not really an option. They can't miss school every week.
I'm not too good at remembering all these dates...Beckie is usually my memory. Sometime in the last 10 years, Diana, my sister, and I took our mom to Ireland and our cousins and thier mom went with us. I also went to Italy with my cousins. Laura went for part of this trip. The pope died while we were there so Rome was rather crowded and we didn't get to see everything we wanted to.
Vegas as fun. We saw The Producers with Tony Danza and the All-American Superstar show with impersonars. Tim got elected to the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Implant Dentistry which means he'll have four board meetings a year around the country. Maybe i'll get to travel with him. You know me...I'm always ready to go!
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Las Vegas Bound
We had a great marriage retreat this past wekend at Natchez Trace State Park. The fall colors were beautiful and the presenters (Leanne and Keith) and the exercises (not physical...get your mind out of the gutter, but talking exercises that forced us to be open and honest with each other) they came up with us to do as couples were great.
Tonight we are headed to Vegas for the rest of the week to a Dental Implant meeting. I will be sitting in the room most of the time rewritting my paper and studying during the day. Tim will be in seminars. In fact, he is doing one seminar with Stewart Ortan Jones (I think that's his name). He is from England and quite well known in implant circles so that's quite a feather in Tim's cap. And on Saturday night, he will walk across the stage and get his Diplomat award. That's the highest level you can achieve in implant dentistry, so that's pretty impressive, too. Hope I'll have photos to post later.
Tonight we are headed to Vegas for the rest of the week to a Dental Implant meeting. I will be sitting in the room most of the time rewritting my paper and studying during the day. Tim will be in seminars. In fact, he is doing one seminar with Stewart Ortan Jones (I think that's his name). He is from England and quite well known in implant circles so that's quite a feather in Tim's cap. And on Saturday night, he will walk across the stage and get his Diplomat award. That's the highest level you can achieve in implant dentistry, so that's pretty impressive, too. Hope I'll have photos to post later.
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