Jenn rambles on

Wanna know what I love about this week already? It’s Vacation Bible School week at our church!

I’m the game director. It’s what I do. It’s kinda like I get to use some of the skills I learned in college (Recreation Leadership) but I get to to use them to help kids learn about Christ.

Those of you that go to Weston might have been in attendance for the puppet show last night at the VBS Rally. Good ‘ol Harold and Stella, arguing about what was more important, the fun stuff at VBS or the spiritual stuff. Fortunately, it’s both, as Mama Puppet pointed out. That Mama, she is one smart puppet. When you’re a kid, you need the fun stuff to balance out the spiritual stuff and it makes you want to come back the next day.

I think I’m pretty blessed to be able to have a hand in the fun and games. Hopefully it’ll be enough to keep the kids coming back tomorrow and maybe they’ll even bring a friend.

I was juuuuuust about to crawl into bed when I remembered I was going to try and write a book review sometime today. Oh dear, it’s late and I don’t know if I have anything in me but I’m gonna give it a shot.

Genesis continues to be a great read. I’m learning detailed stuff about other stuff that I only knew a little bit about before. (see, told ya I wasn’t gonna make much sense). It’s amazing what you can learn reading the same passages for a whole week.

I love the story of Abraham and Sarah and how patient they had to be in waiting for the son God promised them. I’m sure they had their doubts, I mean, who wouldn’t at that age? But they also knew that God can do anything. They were rewarded with a son, Isaac, of whom they were SO HAPPY to have. I learned more about Ishmael, too. I didn’t remember alot of that information about Hagar and them leaving, etc.

Ok, chapter 22, when God tests Abraham and asks him to sacrifice his long awaited son. Of course, I’ve heard the story before, so I know how it ends but every time I read it, I was amazed at Abraham. AMAZED. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to almost do that. I sort of wondered why God would even ask him to make that decision. But it seems that, with Abraham, there was no decision, he just obeyed. I will be the first to admit that there is no way I would have even entertained the idea. And that is why I am Jenn, and he was Abraham.

I love the story of Isaac and Rebekah and how faith and the work of the Lord were the things that led them to eachother. What a great love story!

Anyway, I think that’s all I can do tonight. I’m excited to read on! Yay!

If you have no idea why I am doing this, click here to find out and won’t you please join us? You will be blessed, very blessed.

Well, my very busy day (see below) has taken a turn. I was supposed to have a car this morning to run some errands and cross some things off my list but due to circumstances beyond my control, I’m house bound. Again. As always.

So, I decided to get my random draw over with so I could stop being so excited about picking a winner and concentrate on some other things I need to do.

Since I’m me, I feel the need to explain exactly how I went about my random draw. Don’t worry, I’ll get to the winner in a moment. But if you can’t wait, you could just scroll down. But that would be rude. Anyway, first I was going to ask Mike to pick a number between 1 and 133 since that is how many comments I was THRILLED to get. But it occured to me that no one picks 1 or 133. So then I decided to write out all the numbers on paper, cut up said little numbered squares, and have my almost two year old pick a number out of the mixing bowl that the numbered paper squares were in. She picked the paper with the number 46, who turned out to be Cheryl! And I know her in real life! How crazy is that? We go to the same church! Anyway, thrilled that Cheryl won. I’ll be emailing her soon.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who commented. I had a blast reading them and checking out some of your blogs. I hope to get to the rest of them eventually.

I’m pretty sure that if Rocks in my Dryer does this again, so will I.

This is going to be the busiest weekend. Ever. I had the smart idea that I needed to participate in the Town Wide Yardsale tomorrow. In my head I thought I had tonnes of stuff to sell but upon inspection, it really isn’t that much. Oh don’t get me wrong, there is lots of junk in that basement of ours but alot of it is just that, junk, or it’s stuff I can’t part with (yes, I have a problem). So, I have a few things and I will put out a table and people will mock me and keep walking around the sub for more exciting and interesting yardsales where people actually, you know, SELL their stuff.

I also had it in my head that most of the junk down there was mine. I’m happy to announce that I am not the only pack rat in this little family(which I knew, but now I’m announcing it for good measure). Alot of it belongs to Mike but there is about, oh, a ZERO percent chance that he’ll get rid of it. He likes to keep stuff FOREVER. Sigh.

Most certainly more importantly, our church’s Vacation Bible School starts on Monday so I’m busy preparing for that. I’m the super cool game lady…ok, I’m just the game lady, we’ll see if I’m super cool after the week is over. It stresses me out a little for the simple fact that I might forget something important or not have enough games planned or something totally HORRIFIC like that. Even though I did the job last year with no major mishaps except for the headless plastic lobster.

I’m also working on something that I can’t tell you about.

Don’t you just love that I said that?

AND I have to do my random draw sometime today and pick a winner. AND I have to make plans to find places for all of the things I am going to win. Not. I never win and even though my hopes are high, I won’t be surprised when no one emails me to tell of my victory in their random drawing.

AND I have to try and find time to do my Book Review of Genesis 20-25 sometime today. I really am going to try and do it. I really am. I’m gonna try. And I’m gonna keep telling myself that until I do it. I could be up pretty late.

AND I have a car today, I think, which means I can take the girls and run some errands to cross a few things off my ever growing list.

AND time is slipping away as I type…there is cat hair to be swiffered, laundry to be started, children to feed, lists to make, and things to worry about so I better motor.

I’ll do my very random drawing a little later.

Is it just me or is this give away thing really fun? Oh it so is. Never again will I hit the 90 comment mark…until Rocks does another give away…which she may, which I will prolly participate in, because I’m high on the comments. And very excited to actually send my prize to someone with a little note saying “lets be friends”. If you are looking to find the aforementioned contest, scroll down one time. If you are here to read something because you are tired of looking at the contest then keep reading. Although I have nothing exciting to say, I’m going to type a short while.

I have a ballgame in our home town tonight. So all you that live near this home town that we love, feel free to come cheer on Mrs. S and her team mates. I do love a cheering section which I may have mentioned before. Start time 6:30pm, second field behind-ish the arena.

Our munchkin has a new favorite saying so if you aren’t tired of hearing things that my almost two year old can say then read on. If you are tired of it, stop reading now.

Oh, you’re still here? Good. Anything that is a slight bit bigger than she thinks should be normal she refers to as the, “Big, big, giant…” For instance. A slightly larger leaf than the one she picked up two minutes ago is the big, big, giant leaf. A pool any bigger than a wading pool is a big, big, giant pool. You get the picture. It’s just kinda funny for me. Maybe because I am going to be one of those parents that I totally thought I would never be. You know, the ones who brag about every little thing their child says or does. I might be that parent. If I am, I apologize whole-heartedly. It’s just that my kid is really smart for her age and…teehee, just kidding, I’m done.

Except for one more thing. She said, “wuv you, mom” the other day and gave me a good snuggle. And I didn’t even tell her I loved her first! I may have melted like a Smartie in the dryer when she said that.

Mmmmm, Smarties. I gotta go.

 Edited to add: With American thanksgiving on the way, this post is getting some renewed traffic from searches. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Sorry about that, it was from a carnival in the summertime.

 Shannon at Rocks in my Dryer is having a give away carnival, which I mentioned this morning as I was trying to think of something to give away. Lumber? no. Cats? no. Primitive country wall hanging thing? YES! I actually bought this for myself the other day but in the spirit of giving (and also the spirit of hoping I win something) I have decided to give this away in a random draw that I am very excited about. It is not everyday that I get to have a random draw. In fact, I’ve never had one before. Ever. How exciting!

Ok, all you have to do is leave a comment and tell me you’d like to win. I won’t even make you think of something witty to say and you don’t even have to look around my blog. It’ll just be exciting to have lots of comments. I’m easily entertained like that. Yes, yes I am.

Oh yeah, here’s the photo title to click on to see it. Sorry about the extra step of clicking to see but I haven’t mastered the art of picture posting yet. give thanks

I’ll randomly draw (yes, I enjoy the word random) on Friday and email the winner. This give away is open to Canada…and, what the heck, the US too. I’ll prolly only ever have one give away since this could cost me a fortune in shipping. Oh well! I love giving, so I’m over it. Ok, commence commenting!

I was on a stretch there for awhile that I had lots to blog about. I suppose there is still lots to blog about but I haven’t been thinking much in posts for some reason. Probably from lack of time to actually think. Yeah, that’s it. Thinking takes time.

Rocks in My Dryer is hosting a Dog Days of Summer Bloggy giveaway carnival thingy and I plan on winning something. I just do. I also would like to take part and give something away but I haven’t thought of anything yet. Pretty much the only people who would prolly even enter would be you all that live close to me and I can’t think of anything that I have that you might want. But I’m going to keep thinking because I want to hold a random draw on Friday. I’m not sure why I think it is exciting to hold my own random draw but I just do ok, so leave me alone. Thank you. I’m sure I can scrounge up something interesting from my house just so I can hold a random draw. Let’s see, what do I have lots of. Well, there is lots of left over lumber from building the house. I’m not sure lumber is a good giveaway item. Besides, if someone from another province wins, the shipping cost would be out of this world. I have four cats, maybe I could include one in the draw….noooo, I kid, I love my kitties and besides, half of my readers do not enjoy cats, isn’t that right friends? You know who you are.

Anyway, I’ll think of something soon and whether you want it or not, please enter just so I can have my very own random draw, ok? Thanks, you’re swell.

Oh and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to our friends E-wok and Cooter. I have a special post for E-wok coming soon so stayed tuned.

I just realized that if you click on E-wok’s blog, all you will see is pictures of me that she has so kindly posted around my birthday. Yeah. Special post for my dear friend in the near future. The girls are watching Dora so maybe now would be a good time. How’s now, Erin? Ok, sounds good.

…she stops mid-way, because I am ignoring her, to clearly say: “Mommy, I cying. MOMMY, I CYING HE-AH!” (mommy, I’m crying here!)

Yeah, I think she’ll be ok.

I just checked my blog stats - a handy wordpress feature that I enjoy - and it appears the search engine term “nothing but a fool” led someone to my blog. How appropriate.

And oh so accurate.

So I think I burnt my brain today. In the sun. Cuz it was so hot. And I played outside. And I loved it.

Summer seems to have finally arrived and it was a beautiful weekend to play some baseball. It’s even more fun because apparently I was playing on some sort of stacked team that beat every other team we played by the mercy rule. And in case you have no sweet clue what the mercy rule is, let me tell you. It’s if you are beating a team by more than 10 runs by the end of the fifth inning, the game is over. As not to cause them even greater shame on the ballfield. Yes, so we won three games today with the mercy rule.

I hope we win the tournament. It’s a very fine team of slo-pitch geniuses that I got to play with today. They’ll have to tell me how it ends because tomorrow is Sunday and I’m not missing church and especially not the baptism with church picnic afterwards. Oh no, I’m not missing it. Cuz I’m all dedicated like that.

Also, even though I don’t believe I can formulate a formal review of Genesis 6-13 at this time, since I burnt my brain, I will tell you that I read the assigned reading and learned lots of new stuff that I had always missed before. Like the fact that they were in the ark for like a year. I just always had it in my head that it was 40 days and 40 nights and then they got off and lived happily ever after.

And then I thought alot about Noah’s wife. We aren’t told much about her but she obviously went along with her “crazy” husband and trusted that what the Lord was doing was good. Imagine if your husband started building a huge boat and telling everyone that they were going to die in a massive flood! Being married to Noah might have been hard for awhile, especially on a boat filled with animals for a whole year. I can’t wait to talk to her in heaven, she’s prolly pretty awesome.

Ok and so this is what I heard from the back of the car yesterday, “Paise him, paise him, aw we wittle childwen, God is up, God is up”

Which is most certainly, “Praise Him, Praise Him all ye little children, God is love, God is love.”

My not-even-two-year-old is singing herself some praise in worship in the back seat Can I get an “Amen” up in here?

Because of this post, we found out that I am compassionate towards animals. It reached a new level today people.

We have a kiddie pool on our patio and at night we cover it with a big ‘ol tarp to keep the leaves and such out. This morning I was looking out the patio door while the girls were eating breakfast and I noticed a June bug (JB) in a little puddle on it’s back on top of the tarp. And for a split second I actually felt bad for it and considered going out to rescue it.

It was a short lived idea and I was surprised that I even felt bad for it for that amount of time.

I don’t believe I’ve ever posted about my dislike of JB’s. Probably because thinking about them makes me cringe and writing a post about them would give me the creeps for sure. So I’ll just say this: Any creature that makes that sort of flitting noise, sticks in your hair, only comes out at night, and weighs as much as a  piece of fruit, has no purpose in my books. Yuck. Ew.

My cat got it off the tarp…I didn’t see what she did with it after that. I bet it involved some crunching though. Eeeewwwwwwww! I have so grossed myself out.

Good news. The Irving store up town has small bottles of Raspberry Gingerale!

I know, I’m obsessed. Get over it