Help me! My Head Shall Explode! For Real! :(

Oh my stars and stockings. That is all I can say, and grasp my head with both hands to hold it on. I had written quite a long post detailing how nothing was going right AT ALLLLLL in the kitchen today, and then lo and behold, the internet disconnected, and the post was lost. Hadn't been saved. Hadn't been anything. Gone! I should make up some new word that expressly describes the frustration I am feeling. Rats! Grrrrr!!! Or, to be cheerful, and give you an idea, maybe the most appropriate word, for when you can't think of anything to say: (And I give a murderous glance kitchenward as I type in bold capslock: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!!!!!! There. That seriously relieved me. Now to go deal with dinner. -Rachel

"The Ship's Cook" and a large Tussy Mussy

Hey guys! Last night we had so much fun! Matthew, Sarah, Anna, Emily, Leah, Aunt Christy, Daniel, and I all learned "The Town Square" and "The Ship's Cook" from the 2009 Emma! We just watched it on Youtube, and then I taught it to everyone else from there! It would have worked better if we had more couples, but it was a ton of fun! I love dancing! Yesterday, while at choir, I went on a walk with one of the King's Daughter's sisters. We took a nice stroll along the very picturesque pond near their home, and absolutely filled our arms with flowers! Gracie came with us and looked so sweet in her little lavender dress with her chubby hands full of half-wilted daffodils! I do not want a picture enough, to go upstairs, take a picture of my flowers, load them onto the computer, and then attatch it here, so you shall just have to imagine what a beauty it must have been- a whole quart canning jar bursting with peach blossoms, flowering quince, forsythia, daffodils, narcissus, white and purple violets, and the ever amazingly fragrant meadowseet. Well! Leah, my much-enduring sister, :) has gone up for me to take a picture so here it is! I was thinking once again how wonderful my Lord is to give me such flowers. I have always dreamed of the day when my husband will pick me a bouquet, but isn't it amazing that God actually created flowers just for my enjoyment? That is something an earthly husband will never quite be able to do! :)

Aren't they purty?

I see that Sarah's post raked in alot of comments! Some radio stations have pledge-drives in the spring- I think this blog needs a comment-drive! :) We should just have a post that says, "Leave a comment" and see where it gets us! (I'm half-way kidding!) Or maybe I just need to learn to love iTunes? Anyway, all you picture-people, enjoy Leah's heroic attempt to take a picture with an evil-minded camera! :) -Rachel

American Dream

Hey Guys! I decided to do this tag, because I thought it would be fun. I'm using Matthew's iPod, so I skipped ones that either I didn't know, or wouldn't have put on my playlist. Some of the answers are funny, some don't make much sense, and some are very random.:)


The iPod Playlist Shuffle Tag:

Put your iPod or iTunes on shuffle and write the name of the song as the answer to the question.

If someone says, "This is okay", you say: Lose My Soul

What would best describe your personality: Agnus Dei (I guess I dissin' ya'll in Latin;)

What do you like in a guy/girl: Fingerprints of God (Very true)

What is your life's purpose: By Your Side

What is your motto: Something Crazy (This one couldn't be better said:)

What do your friend's think of you: Free to be Me

What do you think about very often: Jesus, take the Wheel ( I don't think about this enough)

What is 2+2? Stained Glass Masquerade

What do you think of your best friend? The Great Adventure

What do you think of a person you like? I Will Not Be Moved (sounds sorta stiff)

What is your life story: By His Wounds

What do you want to be when you grow up? Riverdance (Ha, ha!! :)

What do you think when you see a person you like? Beauty will Rise

What do your parents think of you: The Song of the Cebu (I certainly hope not:)

What will you dance to at your wedding?: Be Unto Your Name (Interesting music, maybe we'll do a clog dance)

What will they play at your funeral? Revelation (Live)

What is your hobby/interests?: Lead Me to the Cross

What is your biggest secret? I Will Always be True

What do you think of your friends? I'm Letting Go

What's the worst thing that could happen? To Life

How will you die? Declaration of Dependence ( Wow! I must die from trying to do something by myself, and not heeding wise advice)

What's the one thing you regret? My Chains are Gone (Yeah, I'd always loved those chains)

What makes you laugh? How You Live (Turn up the Music)

What makes you cry? The Dream (Fiddler on the Roof)- It is a little disturbing ;)

Will you ever get married? I Will Not be Moved

What scares you the most? Alrightokuhhuhamen (Some Indian shouting that would scare me, I guess!:)

Does anyone like you? If I Were a Rich Man ( he,he!:)

If you could go back in time, what would you change? Legend of McBride

What hurts right now? Running Just to Catch Myself ( I can't stop!)

What do you most often exclaim? Help is on the way!!!

Where is a paradise? In the Light

What did you first say as a baby? Cartoons (Now I wasn't THAT hooked on the T.V.:)

If you had a pet, what would you name it? Got to B Tru (Maybe if it was a Rottweiler)

What is your favorite sight to see? East to West

What makes you gag? Draw Me Nearer

What are you best at? Miracle of the Moment

If you wrote a book, what would you call it? Magnificnet Obsession

What did you wish for last? Live out Loud

What would your superhero name be? Does Anybody Hear Her (Maybe I'd have a power that made me silent?)

How soon will this be over: In Christ Alone

Where are you sitting? You Are Being Loved

What do you most dislike? Somewhere in the Middle

What do you most love? Bring it On

What do you not care about? Give Me Your Eyes ( Yeah, you don't have to do that)

What is your secret name: Cinderella (Man! It's not secret anymore!)

What will you post this as? American Dream

-Sarah

Ennui- otherwise known as months of rain

Hello! How is everyone? I am doing well, but excessively tired of all this rain. Some mornings I wake up wondering if our home is just an island in a mucky sea of puddles! Very dull indeed. Okay! So, I have been reading "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. Something I have noticed about his writing, and the writing of other great British authors like C.S. Lewis, is how well they can describe characters in very few words. I have been continually amused throughout the book by the way Dickens described various peculiarities in people- like Mr. Wemmick, who is said to have "a mouth that looked like a post-box" and from then on when speaking of it, he would say, "by now I could have posted an entire package in Mr. Wemmick's box" or something like that. It just amuses me. I consider it a mark of a fine author when they can make you form an exact picture in your mind of someone's build, or mouth, or clothes, or anything else without ever using words commonly associated with the object. That is something that I am not particularly wonderful at in my own writing. Another thing I have observed, is how you can turn your reader's mind to either like or dislike a person, merely by the way you describe them. Take anyone from a picture for example. I am sure that you could write two descriptions of them that equally represented the person: one favorable, and the other not. Well, this is not a very interesting post, and I have to do school! -Rachel

I Can't Even Imagine

I rediscovered how much I love journals today! I was writing in my journal and then flipped back through some of the pages from last year. I was struck over and over by how God has worked in my life, and changed me! (Not just last year, but continually!) Sometimes we can get bogged down in our trials and can't see the forest for the trees. I know that at times, I think: "I am no farther along in His kingdom than I was as a 12 year old!" and yet, in my journal is proof of His mighty hand in my personal life. He was wrought great changes in my life, He has tried the mettle of my heart, and helped me stay faithful to Him, He has blessed me again and again by working things out when I thought that surely it was the end of the world! ;) He is so great!
I was impressed once again to remember that I am merely a player in the best drama in history! And that being said, all will be worked out impressively and perfectly if I could remember to just act the part written for me to play! When I try to improvise....it doesn't work! I have a whole guide-book; a letter written to me to tell me how to walk through this life, and it reminds me constantly that I must trust to the Master to craft my story!



(Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.")

(Psalm 37:5-6 "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.")

Those are just a couple of the verses that show me over and over, time and again that the One in whom I place my trust is the only One worth having! I will commit my way to Him, and He shall continue to put into place His plan. I'll keep on journaling, and who knows what my God may have done in my life by this time next year? Or the next? Certainly, in my wildest imaginations, I shan't be able to guess how marvelous it really will be! -Rachel