Juicy Dreaming Diva

I'll never be a Natural Woman...

Oh my...nuff said!

I just love this woman...she's got His hand on her heart...most definitely!

Breathing...

I am here.  And soon I will be back...but summer fever has taken hold and I am off doing and seeing and running.  Just one more week of school for the boys...and then we will "Ahhh" and relax.

The way I feel tonight!

You SO need to laugh! I'm here for you babes!

You need a laugh...I can feel it.   So being the person who cares enough to ensure that you laugh...I am sending you right over to THIS LINK.   <----Click there babycakes, then come back and thank me.  Because I KNOW you will want to thank me.   It's THAT funny.  Yes indeed.

And Ms. Fitarella....honey YOU simply rock!   I will be laughing all night now, thanks to you baby!

Loved it.  Simply...LOVED IT!


( Feeling fabulously girlie because of the hysterical laughter that made me nearly blow soda through my nostrils while reading this post!)

Twitting my way into laughter!

Just a day or so ago, I Twittered, that baby Jack had spilled coffee onto my Mac keyboard...(Yes, I know HORROR!). While I thought I had pretty much cleaned it up...alas, I have a few irritatingly sticky keys on my keyboard! What is a girl to do?  I have not a clue.  Sooo, I Twitted. 

What's that?  You ask.  And yes...if you read me...you KNOW I love it when you ask.

See that little spot over to your Left?  It says...Twitterings and under it Twitter Updates.   Well, that's the place where you'll see little bits of "what's up in this Juicy Diva's life" at the moment or a couple of hours ago...or a day ago...all depending primarily on when this girl has a chance to tap out a Twit on her now coffee sticky Mac Keyboard. You can sign up where it says, Follow Me and when you do...you'll be able to see the little updates of me and other friends on your Home page...all day, every day...its kinda like an addiction to cookies...one just isn't enough.  But I digress....

Well..when I sent out the Twit message asking for help on cleaning this thing up...I didn't see a response.  That is, until today, when I was surfing quite smoothly around the internet for another reason and bumped into this girl's blog.  Where I finally read a response to my keyboard disaster.   It's not exactly helpful in the area of coffee... but this just made me laugh out loud! 

Dreaming divas, this is what she suggested I use....for any crumbs that should scurry inside of my keyboard.  For some reason it has struck my funny bone,  just by lookin at it.   

Forgive me here but I think it's a cross between cute and ridiculous!   Can you really vacuum with this itty bitty comical miniature and where was this invention when I was playing with doll houses?

What do you think juicy friends??

Read more about this little invention of giggle pleasure here.   Or if you just happened to love me and feel horribly sorry for me and my sad keyboard state...which leads you to want to send me one of these treasured mini-vacs of joy...email me here!  (wink, wink)

(Charmed with the giggle-fest this brought me!)

Why we learn the Good Stuff from Kids

Every night we have the same bedtime ritual.   He crawls under his covers and we talk for a bit and then I ask, "Ok, let's talk to Jesus.   What do you want to Thank Him for tonight?"  or "What would you like to tell Him?"  And Matt the Great, my middle boy, always says something like...

"Dear Jesus, I hope I have a good night's sleep....." followed by other requests or concerns of his fully 7 (and three-quarters as he would tell you) year old heart.

Last night I asked him the same question and this is what he said.

"Dear Jesus, thank you for the fireworks that we could see tonight from our front porch.  They were really nice! Thank you for letting us watch them...."

And I suddenly remembered the distance fireworks that we indeed could see from more than 5 miles distance.  Yes they were beautiful.  Yes... they were special, because after all, they were fireworks.  But did "I," mommy to Matt the Great, even consider THANKING God for letting us see them?  No.  Sadly...no. 

As I left the room, I did some thinking.   I started to consider all of the special every day things that I see and smile about but rarely think to thank my Father in Heaven for sending my way.   Like the gorgeous red cardinal that landed just outside my bedroom window for more than a moment and stared in our direction.   It was stunning.  And I loved it.  But I didn't thank God.   

And what about the soft Caribbean guitar music I found and totally enjoyed throughout my outdoor lunch with my family in the afternoon.  LOVED it.  But didn't thank Him for it.   Or the green grass playtime that I shared with baby Jack in the late afternoon sunshine.   Didn't thank Him for it one bit.

I realize that even in this moment, I am forgetting the smallest of things in my day already.  Things that have been sent my way by the goodness of a big Dad in Heaven who sent them to me because He fully loves me!  And yet, while I loved them...I didn't quite get around to saying thank you.  In some cases, I didn't even notice.

I have much to be grateful for and much I should say.   So, let me begin by saying this:

"Father, thank you so much for Matt, who once again has taught me much...in this case, that I lack gratitude for loads of little things you've done for me.  Thank you for caring enough to point that out to me through a little child...my child."

(learning....truly learning, but so not there yet)