Seasons

What is it about this time of year?  The air is cooler, crisper, cleaner.  It almost seems like you can feel the new energy everywhere.
i already think about how great it will be to run at night with the cool breeze in my face.
i am loving the new sweaters in the stores….although here in  South [...]



Leeland

i am sad that all of a sudden my Leeland CD won’t play in the van.  can’t tell what’s up….but when i put it in, it just sits there.  i love that CD.  guess it’s time to buy it from itunes and download it to my ipod.
one of my favorite songs is this one:
Carried to [...]



She’s 18

Overnight, in a blink of an eye, just like that….she turns 18 today.
I hope we have helped her find her wings  …song by Mark Harris.



Yes and Yes!

 If if i had this body, i would want this dress!
Totally!
I would have no place to where it, but who cares?
I would put it on to go to Target.
I would put it on to go to Wal-mart.
I would put it on to watch the band practice on the Thursday afternoons.
The only trouble is that you [...]



dusting off the keyboard

i had a chance to work on a new song yesterday.  my publisher sent me an email and asked if he’d heard all of my Christmas tunes.  i think he had, but i sent him the title of a few songs on a Christmas CD i recorded a few years ago, just in case he missed [...]



Could this be heaven?

So how was your weekend?  Are you ready for a Monday just so you can relax?
Have i got a little treat for you, Sister!*
(*today’s post is definitely for women. sorry to any of the men folk who have dropped by)
I was reading one of my favorite blogs www.thepioneerwoman.com  when i read about this…..and i thought [...]



Friday randomness…

…caught the end of “Beaches” on tv last night.  i love that movie! 
…thank you Lord for Carmella coffee from Ellianos
…my baby turns 14 tomorrow
…my other baby turns 18 next week
…i am reading “Same Kind of Different as Me”–awesome book
…would someone please organize my pictures?
…if i could do anything today, i would find a piano [...]



Of Balls and Hugs…

Sometimes a hug is just the right response….
the ball and the hug



Diagram of songwriting

I was just clicking sites, reading blogs….just purusing through some entries before the end of the day and WOW…i started reading the blog on a song.  it woke me up.  
It was Shaun Groves’ blog and he was talking about a song by the Avett Brothers.  He began to dissect the lyric and explain the hows and whys of some [...]



Proud mama post

I give you clear warning up front…..this is me just being so thankful and so proud of what God has given me.
I watched these two….

…lead worship at the House of Joy Leadership Communion this past Sunday night.  (no, not in those clothes…but i couldn’t help but post their pictures from Homecoming this past weekend!)
The youth [...]