It is no secret that I love words.  I love to read books full of words.  I like to read books that tell me what words mean.  I like to read books that tell me what other words mean the same thing as the word I’m thinking about.  WORDS!  I love them. 

My children have recently begun playing a game (to them it’s a game, to me it is a challenge.. like brain exercises!) wherein they say a word and I define it.  They think it is astounding that I know so many words.  They both ask why I know so many words.  I answer simply, I like to read.   I have read non-fiction books, fiction books, cookbooks, dictionaries, the thesaurus, story books, phone books, encyclopedias, cartoon books and all variety of books.  Why.. because the written word has power over imagination and language.  With words I can travel across the ocean or to a distant planet or even to a place where they know what to do with a tiny little ball-ish thing called a caper.  (Caper is both a food item and a happy little dance move). 

Recently, I am learning new words such as “pro se litigants” and “notary” and “retainer” as well as other such legal type words.  I’m learning a lot and THAT, my friends is why I love words.  You can learn all sorts of stuff if you pay attention to words.  Plus it makes you a force to be reckoned with in the game of Taboo.  (which happens to be my all time favorite game ever!!!)

Have a happy  day! 

Do you all remember that song from childhood that goes like this?

The B I B L E
Yes, that’s the book for me
I stand alone on the word of God
The B I B L E.

Well, as a child I thought that might have been the most ridiculous song ever.  Really.. who is going to stand on the Bible and OF COURSE you have to stand alone, you couldn’t fit more than one at a time on a Bible anyway.  The surface area is fairly small when you start filling it up with feet.  I sang it anyway because it was a short song and it involved spelling so that was cool.  Didn’t understand it at all. 

Then I grew up a little and started to understand it meant to “take a stand” or “place your beliefs” in God’s word ONLY.  Well THAT makes so much more sense and I can totally get behind that message.  I wonder why that wasn’t taught to me better when I was a child?  I get it now, so it’s all good.

I still love to sing worship songs.  Currently my favorite might be “The Great I Am” by Phillips, Craig & Dean.   What is your favorite song?

Have a happy day!!

My last blog entry was in October 2012.  Now it is August 2013.  That is quite a long time.  Long enough to have a baby…… which I did not do.    HAHAHA!! 

In fact it was long enough that I didn’t even remember my screen name and had to ask someone what it was, and then try to remember my password.  But here I am again.  It seems that there was a bit of a scare and hullaballoo about Xanga shutting down.   Scary!  Even though I haven’t been around for a while, I still have some pretty important stories on here I would hate to lose.  Yet, if they did get lost, that doesn’t erase them from my memory or from happening. 

I’m not so sure what I will say here in the next few days.  I’m going to have to marinate on a few thoughts and see if any of them become blog worthy.  Meanwhile, I hope all of you are having a great experience and happy days!