New Outlook

For Explorer's leadership group we are reading an awesome, deep, thought-provoking book called, Gospel Revelation. The past two weeks we have been reading about the soul and how excellent our souls are. If they weren't so excellent, then Jesus would not have died for them!!! This week, there was one entry that really made me see my students in a different light. The author said that even the meanest of creatures should be looked at as having an excellent soul; that Jesus died for them, too!!! Immediately, I thought of, in particular, about 4 students who are really "trying" me this year. And now, at least this week!, I have been focusing on looking at them through God's eyes and realizing how much He loves them and how He gave His one and only Son for them, as well as me!!! What a new perspective!!! Isn't it amazing how we hear something for so many, many years, and then, at just the right time, God allows it to penetrate our heart and it really makes sense?? He has opened the eyes of my heart!!!! Oh, how I love Him!!!!

Techno Granny!!

All the teachers on my team call me "tech granny" because I seem to know so much about computers. I guess I have them fooled real good!! Anyway, I just got off the phone with my computer guru son to ask him a question about Facebook, and before I could get my question asked, he asked me a question about how to download the background onto a blog page!! He said he has been trying for 2 days to set up a blog, and couldn't figure out how to put a background on! I love it when I can prove that for a 54 year old woman, I still "got it"!!! Ha!! I love you, Lucas!!!! (Okay, I have to admit that everything I learned about computers, I learned from you!!!)

My Little Helper!!

Well, today is a rainy day, so I decided that while Mike watched all the football games on T.V. I would finish the quilt that I have been working on for Breanna. Dooley thought I could use a little help pushing the quilt through the machine!!!

First, he peeks at me under the machine and starts barking so I will pay him some attention!

Shug picks him up and he quickly jumps up on my sewing table and proceeded to sit on the quilt and say, "Would you please play with me?"

I really want to help if you'll let me!!!

Happy New Year!!

Wow, it's hard to believe it is 2009. Where did 2008 go? It is amazing how fast time flies when you get a little bit older, isn't it??? Anyhow, I am sitting here waiting for Mike to come back from the lake after taking the big dogs walking. The new year finds us 'granddog' sitting for Jeremy and his family while they are visiting Kendra's family in Michigan!! So, needless to say, Mike and I stayed in last night and were in the bed by 10:00!! So no watching the peach or big apple drop this year!! We figured we better get as much sleep as possible, because we didn't know how Dooley (the Yorkie) was going to do last night. Noonan, the beagle, is no trouble at all. He's more of a laid back kind of guy, however, Dooley is a different story! We brought his crate, thinking maybe he would bed down in it along with Sadie and Noonan in Sadie's room. However, he had a different plan!! From the moment we put him in, he incessantly yelped that little Yorkie yelp until I got up and tried another plan! He has been sleeping in Jeremy and Kendra's kitchen with the gate up so he can't get out, so I tried that in our kitchen. Needless to say, that didn't work either. So after about 15 - 20 minutes of thinking he was going to quiet down, what does grandma do? Goes and gets him and puts him in the bed with us, where, I might add, he cuddled up between us and slept most of the night! Just like children, huh?? Here are a few pics of the granddogs hanging out at Shug's and Papa Mike's house:

Dooley taking a snooze in his little bed!

This is Noonan and he is tired of the camera!!