So, today I'm finally sending out this silly little blog I've been waiting to send to friends and family. I have wanted to have a place to capture my family's day to day stories for a while and since I'm not a face book person I decided this was a good place to start. I guess I was waiting until it was up to my standards and had all the kinks worked out before I hit "publish" and sent it to everyone. And then today, as I was having just another busy mommy day and heading off to a meeting at Ellie's school (then picking Ellie up, heading to a doctor's appointment, fixing dinner, bathing kids and then heading to our small group meeting) I heard a song on the radio. It caught me off guard as I listened to the words. As tears flowed down my cheeks I realized that I am one of the people they spoke of in the song... a person who is "busy with my own situation and in a hurried little world". As hard as I try to have balance in my life I'm not doing a good job right now and I thought to myself and prayed to God that he would use me and let me surrender to him and not my busy little world here on Earth! I wish I were up on how to download a song to my blog so you could hear it but for now, here are some of the lyrics from Sawyer Brown's song "they don't understand" and a video of my kids tubing yesterday with the music in the background. Enjoy watching the 4 minute video if you have the time. I hope that it helps you slow down today too! Enjoy the rest of my family's blog ;-)
A man driving on the interstate
Slowing down traffic making everybody late
Everybody's staring not knowing what he's going through
Somebody honked from the passing lane
Yellin' out the window, I ain't got all day
The old man looked around and he caught his eye
He said please forgive me
You know it's been a long life
My wife has passed away and my kids don't have the time
I've been left all alone
And its getting hard to drive
So please forgive my children
(they don't understand)
Everybody's busy with their own situation
Everybody's lost in their own little world
Bottled up, hurry it up trying to make a dream come true
(They don't understand)
Everybody's living like there ain't no tomorrow
Maybe we should stop and take a little time
Cause you never really know what your neighbor's going through
(They don't understand)
A man hanging on a wooden cross
Giving everything to save the lost
Everybody's starin' not knowin' what he's going through
Somebody said you don't have a prayer
If you were king, come down from there
The man just turned his head looked up and stared
He said please forgive them
For they have not seen the light
They'll come to know me when I come back to life
Go to heaven, to make everything all right
So please forgive your children
These are pictures of us going down the sledding trail (who knew this was buried under the snow in the winter)
Here's my final product after an hour of positioning pictures on graph paper, using templates and then hanging them STRAIGHT! I couldn't have done it without my new found favorite thing- the velcro hanging strips! Thanks Lindsay for taking ALL of our pictures over the last few years. We love them. As you will notice, I'm missing one in the collage. That is the one that I actually had to order on my own so of course that's not done yet, so you will have to come visit me to see it in person!
