simply me and jeans

“You get a line and I’ll get a pole, We’ll go fishin’ at the crawdad hole, Honey, baby mine.” My dogs weren’t sure what to do when I started singing that little ditty yesterday.  We were walking past a culvert when I noticed two huge crawdad holes in the water and immediately thought, “I wish […]

Over the years, I’ve come to notice that life is much more about uncertainty than it is about certainty.  There are a few things I feel sure of, but on a bad day I can even question those.  That’s the journey, isn’t it?  We don’t know what tomorrow holds.  We don’t always understand why yesterday […]

I’m an idiot. Seriously. After almost 50 years on this earth you’d think I’d learn a few things.  Things like… taxes are inevitable, Sonic will get my order wrong, politicians will find something to fight about, it will rain when I wash my car and when I hear God speak in regards to my family I should obey.

It’s confession time. Sometimes I’m jealous of my husband because he  can do no wrong in the eyes of my girls.    I’m glad.  Really, I am. But there are those days when nothing I say is right.  Times when I get on their nerves because I’m  breathing.  Times I worry that they are  making the mistakes I […]

Let’s take it from the top.  I woke this morning to a daughter that couldn’t keep her eyes open.  She wasn’t tired but suddenly seemed to have the eyes of a vampire.  Tears ran down her face as she got ready for school because…yes…she didn’t want to miss another day.  Needless to say,  the drive […]

“Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God” — William Carey My 20 year old daughter is in Wyoming’s Wind River Range on a 40 day backpacking trip with Solid Rock Outdoor Ministries.  There’s no phone service and sending or receiving letters is sporadic.   Carrying a 50 pound backpack on a 120 mile […]

I’ve been thinking about my grandparents lately.  Something about summertime stirs up memories of family reunions,   the shade of a huge oak tree and the sound of an old country house at night.  One of Mamaw and Papaw’s favorite places was  the swing on their front porch.  It seems like every time we drove […]

I  love music.  Pretty much all music. Well… not so much heavy metal, but don’t hold that against me.  Occasionally I’ll torture my girls by making them listen to classic rock or songs from the 70’s but  I  think they like it more than they let on.  Sometimes I torture my husband with Neil Diamond. […]