Why Can't a Girl Dream?

Enough said...love, love this kitchen...someday in my home!!! And look at the peek of the couch....love the pink color and the fabric and accent pillows!!!! This is going in my inspiration folder for sure!!!!

Little Moments Like This!

So....walk into my office this morning...start to turn on my computer...and see a sweet note from my oldest daughter, Abbey...who was in my office last on the computer while I was in a parent meeting. These sweet words will continue to echo through my mind and give me a smile all day. It's the little things, right in life....you bet it is!!! My sweet Abbey girl states on her note...plain and simple.....Love u mom...Have a great day....Love Abbey.......ohhhh...talk about making my day and melting my heart! This is also the same girl who told me this weekend her La La let her shop online for her birthday and she "racked in" stylish fashion from three different places...."Although Mom, I had to delete some items from the shopping cart at Justice because my total was 283.65. But I got it down to 83.00." bahahahahahah I love you my Abbey Sue..you are my first born....and a lot like myself in ways. I am so proud of you and the little girl you have become and the woman you will be some day! I love u! Mommy

I heart Beth Moore!

To go along with maximizing my mornings...I have decided to order a Beth Moore book. I have heard several of my friends talk about her and our church has had studies with the Soul Food groups...but I've never engaged in the opportunity yet to study her wisdom and words. Til now...ran across her blog this morning and wanted to publish an excerpt from her blog that spoke to me and some personal issues I am going through at this time.


"My devotional time this morning was spent on the subject matter of anger. I thought to myself how life offers one opportunity after another to get hopping mad about something...or, more often, toward someone and what kind of price we pay. What kinds of words we say. Proverbs 16:32 (NET) says, "Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city." Let's quit blaming our hormones and our husbands and our workplaces and just bring our anger problems before God. Let's tell Him what we're mad about, repent for our reaction to it, ask Him to tend to us, heal us, free us. And, if the situation or relationship continues to be irresistibly, understandably infuriating, may He teach us how to refrain from sin in our anger until we can be loosed from it altogether. For those of us who don't have one of those monumental, overwhelming reasons to be angry and we're just temperamental, irritable, and summarily lacking in self-control, sometimes it's just the matter of making a choice. As my grandmother used to say, we can get glad in the same clothes we got mad in. Or, then again, we could just change clothes and see if that would help. One way or the other, it's time to get over it." ***So let me just say Amen, Beth!*** Have a blessed Sunday everyone!

Defining "ME"...

Me. On a small scale.
Childhood:
Strawberry Shortcake metal lunchbox
Books. Way too many to name.
My big stereo(which my parents still have in the guest bedroom)
Flannel nightgowns.
cinammon sticks(homemade)
Posters. (Kirk Cameron, Ricky Shroeder from Silver Spoons)
Cabbage Patch Dolls

Nuns(private catholic school)

watching Top Gun in the convent our 8th grade year
High School:
stock shows
White gmc truck
my first wreck the day after I got my license(waving to boys).
Burger Shoppe
state basketball championship sophomore year
My first date with my friend's boyfriend in his mustang(didn't last long...he dated all of his sister's friends that were freshman and then my cousin)

Office Aide(teasing my principal)

Weiner and wheelies in the church parking lot with friends

My friend Stephanie running into Trail Stop with the mini van

love's sandwiches after basketball

ugh..basketball fourth hour before lunch

lockers(once again...went to a catholic school with none til 8th gr.)

FFA(enough said...so many loves here)

Old Blue and FFA road trips

FFA friends

College-
The Weed

The Bakery by the Dorms at OSU...best cinammon rolls
Hanging out at Farmhouse with Whitey(rip).

Kappa Delta
the biscuit(aka Stephanie Dickey)
Lizzy and her french dip sandwiches
Luau
Birth control.

Bagels

Joe's

Joe's weekend

Taylor Burnett

MARRIED LIFE BEFORE CHILDREN
Black yoga pants.
Sports Bras.
Naps
Lingerie.
Alarm clock.

Chi straightener.

Eating whatever I wanted

Not having to exercise

Spending hours at school working in classroom

Eating out with my hubby and friends for hours

????what did I do with all that free time..no children???

Now.
Hoodies.
Camera.
flip flops or flats.
cookbooks.
facebook
laptop

THREE daughters
Bottle making fool
pandora bracelets obsession
eyeliner.(quick)
Kitchenaid.
Birth control.
So that is my list of defining "things". I would love to read yours. (copied this from Natalie's sentiments blog)

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day to all my blogger friends out there and non blogger friends. May you celebrate the loves of your life! I am blessed to have such rich love from my husband of almost 13 years this July...and of course, the love from my three beautiful daughters.....family and close friends! Celebrate Love!!!!

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!!!

My forever memory moment today...

I had a workshop today on powerschool that started at 8:30...so I took advantage of the fact that I could take my older girls to school this morning. Usually I am in charge of taking Nelley and Taylor takes the older girls. When I told my Sofey last night I could take her to school...she states to me "I love you Momma!" Talk about melting your heart.....love, love IT! So this morning as I pull up to her school, she opens the car door, shuts it and stands facing me waving goodbye until I drive away. I about lost it thinking about how my second baby girl is almost a first grader and will be going to school all day this fall! The picture of her standing there waving to me is embedded in my memory forever! Just had to share my forever memory! Made my day!

Sweet vs. salty.....

Ok...so I must confess...I am sitting here eating doritos and at the same time teddy graham mixture(cinnamon, choc. chips and chocolatey teddy grahams). Yes...it has been a stressful day in general. So when I stress...I confess....I EAT!!!! I know that my ultimate goal is to be a balanced mother not a perfect mother...but my goodness.....I feel like I just never have enough time in the day to do anything balanced. Laundry is never done at my house...it is continual. My house, lately, is never clean.....toys, clothes, shoes, magazines, unread mail, unfinished projects...lay all around my house. Then there's the whole issue of my career.....I have been a counselor now for 8 years....and if you are a counselor out there reading this...you will very much understand this when I say that I feel like a "sponge." Students and adults come and go in my office during the school day......tell their stresses or worries...and I absorb them. They leave my office feeling better(at least I like to think that they do) and then their worries are with me...the sponge. I go home and continue to dwell on what I have heard or things I might have said to them or how I could have said this or did that...and on and on. I have found from experience that if I don't destress......I carry that burden with me and it weighs heavy on my emotional and physical and mental being. So I need stress relievers....so you guessed it....I EAT! After all...life is kinda like my after school treat.....sweet at times....yet salty at others. Ups and downs.....triumphs and trials. I am praying very deeply for answers. I pick up my oldest daughter today who proceeds to tell me that her friend has asked her to ask a boy in her class if he will be the friend's boyfriend. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? She is in the third grade. I proceed to tell her that, "No, that is not a good idea to get involved in that and to tell her friend that her Mom says she is too young to be talking about boys." Here comes the stress.(for the next 18 years of teenage years with three daughters). She then proceeds to ask me to call her friend's mother and tell her about this....uh, I don't think so. I tell her I am in charge of her and her actions, not her friend's. This is how we handle this situation. Any advice out there? Going to kick my feet up. Quiet now at the Burnett house...Nelley is napping, Sofey and Taylor are working out(which I should be) and Abbey is at dance. Hope everyone out there has a great evening. Signing off......

A Mother's Prayer....

A Mother's Prayer
I pray you'll be my eyes
And watch her where she goes
And help her to be wise
Help me to let go
Every mother's prayer
Every child knows
Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she'll be safe
I pray she finds your light
And holds it in her heart
As darkness falls each night
Remind her where you are
Every mother's prayer
Every child knows
Need to find a place
Guide her with your grace
Give her faith so she'll be safe
Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she'll be safe

***This is dedicated to one of my dear friends who had to show her true love for her daughter recently and we are still praying that her daughter sees the light. This is also dedicated to another dear friend of mine whom I just met this past summer and is also a school counselor who just lost her daughter to an overdose.....love you Janet and you continue to be in my thoughts and prayers!!***

ART....HOW I LOVE THEE....

Just ran across the cutest prints from an artist on Etsy and wanted to share...thinking about getting it for a very close friend of mine that is going through an extremely hard time right now in her life....precious precious prints! Check it out on etsy. Here is what the print says..."Every girl needs a swimming cap and a pair of wings to make her way in life… That is what this series of works is about, the ups and downs of life and how we stumble through. Sometimes we feel like we are sinking and things are out of control and then there are some days when things are ok, treading the water of life and am pretty much on top of things. Then there are the moments where you feel you are being lifted right out of the water when everything in life slots together and my world is just... right.I guess you can’t help but use your wings when you have a friend beside you… whether that friend is right with you in person, in spirit or imaginary it sure helps."