Church Coffee

Have I mentioned lately how much I love coffee? I think I'm going to marry it! I mean, I think about it all the time. I don't care if I've just had some I can pass a coffee shop and feel this unexplainable celestial pull to the counter and before I know it I'm uttering something about 'bold but not bitter'. I think one of my very first posts explains my theology of coffee (click here). Just looking at these beans makes me wanna get a cup...even if it is church coffee. (tick, tock, tick tock) okay, I'm back.
Tomorrow I leave for a week at the farm. The 'you-can-have-whatever-you-want' gods have taken a liking to me I guess. Each morning I will wake at 6:30, flick on the coffee maker I set up the night before and wait. I'll pour a cup for my mom and one for me and watch for deer or turkeys as I wake all the way up. Thank you God for coffee...

Saturday Morning

It's 8:45 on Saturday morning. I've just been in the back yard to see what surprises Mother Nature has for me this morning. Look at these morning glories and moon flowers! All her life, my Grandma Mills grew these moon flowers by accident really. I think she planted seeds once and then they came up every year after that...the plants were huge!! Mine are on a much smaller scale but the flowers are still wonderful. They bloom in the night and then last into the day until it gets really hot. Then they get tired and make room for the flowers that will bloom tonight. For a really good time I'll get a lawn chair, get a tall glass of iced tea and go out there about dusk and have a moon flower party as I actually will get to see them open. The whole plant shakes and shudders as the flowers open before my eyes like one of those videos they speed up so you can see the action. Sometimes it seems like the flowers so anticipate opening that they just shiver with excitement. Can you imagine being that ready to start the day??
Sorry for once again making a 'flower/life' connection but I just can't help it. I realized this morning that maybe this is why I HAVE to start my day outside. Maybe I'm looking for inspiration for the day from these self starters. They're just so proud to be 'out' that I think I can gain some perspective from this incredible expression of God's excitement for life.

Date Night

Well, if July wasn't already the best month in the world, it is after yesterday and this coming Wednesday. Yesterday Alvaro and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. Actually, we celebrated on Saturday at a great restaurant we've discovered...Roy's. It's a Hawiaan fusion type place where we got great service and food. I highly recommend it! After that, we went to see the new Batman movie. A good old fashion date night! On Wednesday, we celebrate our anniversary again since we had to weddings in 2002. One here in Texas and one Cali, Colombia. So on Saturday I think we will celebrate with a Dairy Queen Blizzard of the month (which I've been craving since I saw the sign advertising the Girl Scout's Thin Mint flavor) YUM!!!

I'm no marraige expert but I sure do recommend having date nights to keep a relationship happy. For some reason, just being out and about and experiencing the landscape going by is such great togetherness...listening to each other's comments and impressions of world...and a little hand holding along the way is great too. :)

Anyway, I'm happy and ready for the work-week after such a fun weekend. Have a great week.

That's Sick!

okay, it's just me who's sick...no really, I'm home sick today. I've got the tummy thing and...oh, I won't go into it. And yes, because I'm neurotic, I feel guilty as heck that I'm not in the office! So I'm doing what I can to check in on my computer and do some work online.

When I'm out sick, I worry that I'm missing out on the things going on at work. Like I'm going to miss out on something that isn't going to be there tomorrow...waiting, lurking, anticipating my return. I have my sister in law picking up a stack of papers I need to work on so that I won't feel that the day is a complete loss. Why can't we just be sick? The answer....

For me, being sick is not a good reason for our visitors to not get a contact. When someone has gotten their butt out of bed on a Sunday morning and decided to visit a church, they deserve a little lovin'. So, tonight, in my jammies, I will make some phone calls between spoonfuls of soup and toast. God works even through the urps and downs heh heh.

It's the Big One!

Well, here's why I haven't blogged lately. It's my birthday month and I've been having way too much fun to even think about it! Tons of cards, emails, dinners, the gift of a pedicure and manicure, cakes, cupcakes, balloons, an ice cream party and a myriad of other wonderful gifts and well wishes. What else could a girl ask for? Growing up, my mom always made it our birth MONTH. My big day is on the 8th so for eight days in a row I got to open present. One day it might be a bottle of shampoo and the next, a fun pair of socks and the next day...a carton of Whoppers! I didn't care what it was...it was wrapped up with a bow and I got to open it.
I have to admit that in June I was having some funny feelings regarding this birthday. I'll just say it...I didn't want it to come. It's a biggun and maybe it's vanity, maybe it's because I'm not so good about change but I just didn't think I was ready. But on Tuesday of last week I awoke to the alarm just like always. I sat up in bed and took stock of my mood. Everything seemed okay to me...I didn't feel any different. I stumbled to the bathroom sink, washed my face and looked into the mirror...didn't look any different. So I decided right then and there that it was going to be a great day.
Of all the birthday joys I've received, the best gift has been the acceptance of self which God gave me at 5:30 on a Tuesday morning. (All the best gifts come in the morning :)