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Mowing time already?!

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It wasn’t right I tell ya! Cold, windy, dark, and 48 degrees! It was 80 degrees earlier this week, and our grass (a combination of fescue, bermuda, and crab grass…and lordy, the wild garlic…peeeewwwww!) grew 2 inches since I cut it last Thursday! Oh, well, it happens at least once every spring…sitting bundled up on the tractor cutting the grass. Along about the 1st week of August, I will be sitting on the tractor begging for 48 degrees!  Enjoy your Friday, everyone!

When it works its heaven. When it doesn't it's hades!Carter and Ammon will be all over this yard in the morning! ;o)

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Rain going to bed…stars at 6:00 am.

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I love this kind of morning. It is also so nostalgic and refreshing to hear the roosters cock-a-doodle-dooing here in the country (just 18 miles from downtown Chattanooga!) before sunrise. I hope and pray Ammon and Carter will continue to grow up here…Lord willing!

I wanted to share this poem with you all today. The rain from last night and all the spring flowers are what brought it to my mind. It is by Robert Loveman who lived in Dalton, Georgia.

The Rain Song

It isn’t raining rain to me,

It’s raining daffodils;

In every dimpled drop I see

Wild flowers on the hill.

 The clouds of grey engulf the day

And overwhelm the town;

It isn’t raining rain to me,

It’s raining roses down.

 It isn’t raining rain to me,

But fields of clover bloom,

Where any a buccaneering bee

May find a bed and room.

 A health unto the happy

A fig for him who frets.

It isn’t raining rain to me,

It’s raining violets.

 

 

 

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Look down!

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One more Nanny Caylor story for the week:

My Nanny’s ancestors (The Hartsfields) settled her house and land in 1867 in Varnell, Georgia. As I was growing up, her yard had a plethora of different species of daffodils (including eggs and butter) and bearded irises that she had collected from all over the Southeast, and so much more! She had a special, plain, red rose from a clipping off her Aunt Dolly’s grave in Sugar Valley,  Georgia. There were herbs such as ruby and emerald basil and yucca that had been sent to her house from Oklahoma/Texas from before the turn of the 2oth century. There were also wild violets by the hundreds. When I saw this violet on Monday, it made me think of my Nanny. Take time to look down today and see some of God’s beauty that we often neglect and walk right over.

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“Pretty is as Pretty Does” (Nanny Alexander)

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 On Sunday after church, a friend tracked me down in the foyer and said, “I just want you know that you have the most beautiful daughter. My son and I see her and always say to each other, ‘There goes the little princess.’ I was very gracious, and I finally said, “I really appreciate the compliment.”

First of all, I am very thankful to God that I have two beautiful children. I am told quite often not only from family members and friends but from total strangers all over the world how beautiful they are. However, I love this philosophy from life from my great-grandmother. Her name was Sarah Maro Cox Alexander, and she was born and raised in Varnell, Georgia. She lived from 1886 until 1945. She lived through two world wars and the Great Depression. She also raised three lovely daughters one being my Nanny Caylor. Whenever someone complimented the beauty of her daughters she quickly stated, “Pretty is as pretty does.” Since I have my Carter, I have to include, “Handsome is as handsome does.” I don’t care if my children win beauty contests or become international super models. If they do not have a beautiful inner being, then they are not beautiful on the outside. However, they are off to a good start being beautiful inside and out.

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Happy Monday/Educational Tip

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Educator’s Tip

Happy Monday!

For some of you who do not know, I am a doctor of Education. I have been in education for over 20 years! I would like to share some teaching tips for future parents, already parents , or students who are going to be educators. Most of the time, I will share the ideas during the school year.  Here is one! ;o

Alphabet Circle: combination of verbal/bodily kinesthetic multiple intelligences

Sidewalk chalk is a MUST (Crayola ®, you can give me my gratuity later…LOL)

1. Make a Circular alphabet with chalk. BIG so everyone can see and walk on it.

2. Sing the Alphabet while you…

                A. Hop over the letters

                B. Ride a tricycle (like Carter if you are teaching at home/pre-school)

                C. Bounce a ball

                D. Design your own game

Carter sings the alphabet...Sophie our daschund looks on

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Happy Spring!

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Happy Spring

Getting ready for church, and we are late as usual. Everyone slept well (Did you all see the huge moon last night?). We hope everyone out there has a blessed Sunday. We will catch up later. Haven

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Our world today

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Add to or Discuss…
Local News: Ammon, Carter, and I have our friend, Lex, in our prayers. He had a friend to die over a week ago. It was a tragedy to Lex, to the friend’s family, and to the community. God bless you, Lex, and may the Holy Spirit comfort you in the way only he can. In Jesus’ name.

National: We are praying for the people on the West Coast who will be inhaling nuclear contamination from the Pacific eastward traveling jet streams.

International: All our prayers to Japan. Nuclear power can be a blessing, but it is such a worry and a threat to the environment and to humans. I am so glad the United States is not leading the “No Fly Zone” over Libya. We need to let regions take care of their own affairs. We absolutely DO NOT have the billions/trillions of dollars it takes to “protect the world”. Have you all seen Hillary Clinton lately? In two years of being the Secretary of State, she has aged ten years.

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Spring is right around the corner!

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Ammon, Carter, and I have gone from jackets and sweaters to short sleaves! According to our front porch thermometer, it is 80 degrees!! Woo hoo! We have sun and blue skies. We are also blessed with purple and pink hyacinths, yellow daffodils, and the daffodils my great-grandmother (1886-1945) called “Eggs and Butter!”

The babies and I were playing around our cypress tress that have been labeled “Christmas trees” (please remember that they are only 28 months old), and we started up the hill to our swing set. As I was walking, Carter called to me by my right side and said, “Hand?” I looked down, and he and Ammon were already holding hands ( I had not told them to), and, so, all three of us went up to our swing set hand in hand, and all of us swang. It was a beautiful moment.