To Many Projects

I wonder are you at all like me? I have so many projects in various stages and yet none of them are finished. Add to that, more project ideas floating around in my head. By projects I mean such things as scrape books to finish, cross stitch projects to complete, decorating ideas for around the house, quilting, cards to make and of course the never ending list of books to read. I suppose I should also add organizing closets to my list. Its one I think about alot but keep putting off.

Why is it I can come up with all the ideas but finishing one seems to be such a challenge. Now cards and scrape booking I can understand. You will always have pictures to put in albums and cards will always need to be made for various occasions but, I have not even finished the baby pictures yet! I must have four different albums going in various stages.

HELP. If you have any suggestions for finishing projects please share them in the comment section. Wow - that's a big assumption - that people are reading my blog. If you are please share any motivational ideas for finishing up projects.

I think I will make a cup of tea and start on a list of projects in process and a second list of projects I would like to start. Maybe having a list and being able to cross things off will help, I know the tea will help. As you may or may not know Tea fixes everything!

Mrs. Potts

Tea as a Juice?

I have been a tea drinker for along time. Hot or Cold I drink tea but I have never considered it a juice before. To me tea is not a juice it does not fall under what I even consider a juice. Juice drinks come from fruits not from tea leaves. According to the article I just read tea is one of the top ten juices you can be drinking for your health. Tea is above apple juice but below orange juice in this list. Tea as a juice I just don't think so. I will however continue to drink it. Like I need a little more encouragement or justification to feed my habit. But thanks to this article I do have one more reason to continue my addiction and drink tea!

Summer

Wow - I love summer! Things are so relaxed, schedules there really are no schedules and things seem to move at a slower more relaxed pace.

When Joyful and Psymon were younger, summer was full of activities, the water park and play dates. Now the two are older summer is a little slower and a whole lot easier. Joyful is driving and getting around as long as she has a car available to use or friends who are willing to offer her a ride (no she does not have her own). Both of the kids are old enough to be dropped at the movies (I don't have to go with them) the water park, golf course or mall with friends. It seems to free up my time. Now don't think I am complaining about previous summers they were wonderful, in fact I miss those days at the water park working on my tan. I really don't have one yet this summer. But you see each "phase" has its benefits and I am enjoying the phase I am in right now.

To give you an example, I should have been cleaning my house this afternoon. Its not really dirty but could use a spruce up, but Joyful was at the mall and Psymon was playing golf and I had a really good book just calling me to finish it. So I popped a bag of popcorn, poured myself a big glass of Tea Java (the only iced tea in the world) and sat in my favorite chair and read my book to the finish! What a great book. I am a huge Mary Higgins Clark fan and I had just picked up her latest book from the library on Saturday. I needed to finish that book, it was begging to be finished. I had to know who had committed the crime. Just so you know the end did not disappointed. It was a great read. Ah the joys of summer! A quite house, popcorn, tea java and a good book - summer does not get any better!

Mrs. Potts

Its Alot Of Work

We are getting ready to head out of town tomorrow and its alot of work! Joyful qualified back in February for the National speech and debate tournament held in Las Vegas Nevada. We are very proud of her and are putting together the trip. This trip has been a challenge from the start due to numerous things that I won't go into. Anyway, we leave tomorrow and I don't understand way getting out of town is so much work. The house needs to be cleaned. Yes its important to me to leave a clean house when I depart and come home to a clean house. The laundry all needs to be done and ironed. Yes I am one of those people who iron. The dinner needs to be cooked the newspaper stopped along with the mail and numerous other things along with packing. I have not even started that yet. Please tell my why is it so much work getting out of town?

Off to start the ironing, cook the dinner and then pack.

I think I need a cup of tea before I start all that. I'm off to put the kettle on instead.

Mrs. Potts

Frustration

Last night H.P. Joyful and I sat down to watch a movie. The weather had turned cool and we were having a few rain showers. It seemed like the perfect night to "hideout" in the basement watching a movie. Psymon and our guest J opted out. The decided to play games and hang out up stairs. Sorry more information than you needed. Back to the movie. We rent from a large national company and the videos come in the mail. We had waited for this movie The Great Debaters and were very excited to see it. Joyful is a speech and debater and had already seen the movie but wanted to watch it again. We were enjoying the movie and I have to say it is very good and worth seeing - but we never got to see the end of the movie about two scenes short the movie stopped playing and would not be played again. We tried cleaning the disk, cleaning it with Windex but nothing would make the movie play. Frustrated is a mild word to use to describe our feelings. This was the moment we had waited for - Joyful added to our pain saying this is the best part of the movie. The pain of not hearing that great speech and seeing how it was concluded. Well I contacted our company and let them know, the movie our non-playing one is in the mail box and we have a new one coming. But oh we have to wait and wonder and wait and wonder till at least tomorrow when the hopefully playable DVD shows up.

Company Coming

We have company coming and I am excited! My dear friend J is sending her daughter for a visit. M arrives this evening. The whole family is looking forward to M's visit. What a privilege to be entrusted with a friends daughter for five days. M is 15 and is right in the middle of Joyful and Psymon. We have known M and her family for about fourteen years now. We meet when we both moved to Missoula, Montana. We have visited them each time they have moved and they in return have visited us. They are getting ready for their next move in about six weeks. We are planning next years vacation. We will have the opportunity to visit them in Nebraska. Now that's I state I have not been to yet and I'll be looking forward to it.

We have lots of fun things planned with M, like shopping. What girl does not like to shop? We also plan to try out the black light miniature golf in town. The water park is an option only if the temps. warm up. Who knows what other fun things we will do. It will be fun no matter what we do.

Like I said at the start of the this blog, I am excited! J is such a dear friend, one of those rare friends you can talk to about anything, the distance and miles don't seem to matter. I should also tell you that when J and I get together fun, and laughter always follow. I do mean lots of laughter and we usually try something fun and foolish we have not done before. Those stories (toe rings, air brush tattoos, fake nose rings etc...) are for another time. I'm wishing J was coming with M but that's not possible with the move in the works. So I will enjoy M and look forward to a visit with J in the fall. Laughing and smiling just thinking about getting together in the fall.



Mrs. Potts

Great Read

I just finished reading a great book. You know the kind you don't want to end, the kind you want to read again, the kind you are still thinking about. That describes the book I just finished. So let me share this book with you. The book is called The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews. Its is a fast easy read only 210 pages. But what a story! Its is fiction but is also considered a "self help" book. I found it to be a wonderful story full of great thoughts and questions. I don't want to tell you much about it because I don't want to give anything away. I want to go back and read it again, this time underlining important parts that spoke to me. If you get the chance pick up this book, read it and tell me what you think.

It goes perfect with a pot of tea. Tea and a book - what a wonderful combination!

Mrs. Potts