MOVIE REVIEW MONDAY:

MEET THE ROBINSONS!!!
This is going on my top 10 family cartoons!!! We all just loved it and the movie lines are just flying all around the house.

We especially love the similarities of Lizzy and our Lizzie!!!

THY WILL BE DONE!!!+JMJ+

+The Greatest of these is LOVE+

From the second reading at mass today: (see meditation at the bottom)
1 Cor 12:31—13:13 or 13:4-13

Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
But I shall show you a still more excellent way.

If I speak in human and angelic tongues,
but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy,
and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;
if I have all faith so as to move mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not pompous,
It is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.

One of my very holy mentors as a young bride taught me this:
(just insert your name where Love is)

Sam is patient, Sam is kind.
Sam is not jealous, Sam is not pompous,
Sam is not inflated, Sam is not rude,
Sam does not seek her own interests,
Sam is not quick-tempered, Sam does not brood over injury,
Sam does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
Sam bears all things, Sam believes all things,
Sam hopes all things, Sam endures all things.
Sam never fails.

Oh, how I wish it was true...what a good meditation to try to strive for.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

MOM IN LABOR:

Start praying for her!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Things my daddy used to say:

Don't you wonder where the things your ancestors say come from? Well since this blogs main purpose is to keep a record for my kids of our family, I thought I would record some of the funny things my daddy used to say. Like this comment: "deader than kelsey's nuts!" He usually said this in regards to our family "automobile".

Or as he says:

Well, I found this at this cool site here that has sayings and where they came from:

[Q] Where does the expression deader than Kelsey’s nuts come from and what does it mean?

[A] I’m told it’s an expression that former US President Richard Nixon was rather fond of using. Like other Americans before and since, he meant by it that something was unquestionably and permanently defunct. You might hear somebody say “The battery’s deader than Kelsey’s nuts”, or “His chances of surviving the election are deader than Kelsey’s nuts”.

That takes care of the meaning, but who or what was Kelsey and what was so special about those nuts? He turns out to have been a real person, John Kelsey, one of the pioneers of car manufacture in the USA. With the encouragement of Henry Ford, he set up the Kelsey Wheel Company in 1910. By 1913 this was based in Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit. To start with, he manufactured the wooden wheels that were then state of the art, but later moved into making wire-spoke wheels and later steel wheels. As Kelsey-Hayes Canada Ltd, the company still exists.

The saying refers to the proverbially secure attachment provided by the nuts and bolts on the wheels that Kelsey’s company made. In the view of the public, nothing could be fixed more tightly. And the obvious anatomical innuendos in those nuts made the saying just a little naughty. Though some examples are recorded from the 1930s, the phrase began to become more widely known in the 1950s. Early on, it appeared as “tighter than Kelsey’s nuts” to mean a person who was stingy or mean, and is also recorded in the form “as safe as Kelsey’s nuts”, meaning very safe.

By the early 1960s, it had evolved away from these fairly obvious formations to the imaginative and metaphorical phrase still used today. It would appear to have been a close parallel to — perhaps borrowed from — the much older as dead as a doornail.

Let me know some of your funny sayings.

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

I MUST NOT BE MENT TO EXERCSE TODAY:

I am trying to exercise again. The baby is four months old and I know it is time. So this morning I got ready to workout early before all the little darlings woke up.

It went a little like this:
6am: get on running shoes
6:05: get water bottle
6:08 get on treadmill
6:09 turn on treadmill
6:10 adjust speed
6:11 treadmill turns off
6:12 check to see if I blew out the power
6:13 all looks fine, try again and again to fix problem
6:14 go to TV to look for my exercise DVD-of course can't find it
6:15 try to find exercise show on cable-can't get TV to work
6:16 google exercise online, to try to find online workouts-can't find any
6:17 keep looking online...
6:20 baby wakes up
6:21 nurse the baby and blog about not getting to exercise...
6:36 exhausted by my morning...ready to go back to bed!!!

7:40AM update: husband woke up and tried to fix treadmill...no avail...tried to work TV, finally got it to work. Found FitTV and found bollywood workout. What a joke!!! I exercised with them for 10 minutes. I felt like I was being taught how to seduce a man by Salome...the woman were wearing no shoes, flared pants, lots of bracelets, lots of makeup, their long, brown, curled, hair down flowing on their shoulders, a shirt with only one sleeve, golden belts, and a gem on the middle of their heads. It was hysterical!!! So my two year old and I did it and laughed alot. My husband watched and decided it was kinda like a mating dance!!!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

Update to Thursday's post about women in dilemma

God is Good!!! My friend spoke with her Wednesday night following the Mom's night out, she was in much better spirits, sounding quite confident that she wouldn't go through with the abortion. She was so moved to hear about all the prayers and support coming her way.

My friend spent the day with her yesterday and it was such a blessing. The ladies at the Pregnancy Clinic got them in for a sonogram. Ironically, they had an 11:00am appointment (the time her abortion was supposed to be) and a 12:00 so my friend picked her up at 11 and they went to the noon appointment.

The sonogram was a wonderful experience. The most moving part for her was finding out the due date which happens to be the birthday of her daughter - September 3rd! So crazy!! Please keep up the prayers. The situation will remain fragile as long as she continues living where she is now - zero positive support. She is so wounded and desperately needs to be in a supportive community. My friend offered to have her come live with her, but we'll see what happens - she is so afraid of "putting anyone out" for her sake.

I'll let you know how things develop! Please keep praying!

THY WILL BE DONE!!! +JMJ+

A Young woman in a dilemma:

A young woman was scheduled to have an abortion at 11 AM today-(Thurs), but is now on her was to a sonogram appointment instead. My friend said that the young women is much more open to options other than abortion, but is fragile and may change her mind.

THY WILL BE DONE!!!+JMJ+