Tea & Hope

I have a magnet on my fridge it reads:

While There IS TEA

There IS HOPE

since I have Tea I have hope!

Hope that

• Our exchange student from Taiwan will learn English quickly
• My new job will even out into a manageable routine
• Joyful will have a wonderful year of Speech and Debate
• Psymon will settle into High School and the transition from middle school will be easy
• I will start exercising here soon and drop a few pounds
• Cooler Fall temps. are on the way

Hoping you all have a wonderful day.

Mrs. Potts

A New Adventure

So..............for those of you who might have forgotten, today was the first day of my new job. I have to tell you it was a pretty good day. The morning went well as far as getting out of the house. No major disasters, spills or crises with the kids. I made it out the door and to work calm cool and collected! I spent four hours at work today (remember this is only a part time job) getting a taste of the job I will be doing. Over all I am going to love this job. I have only one fear and it could send me in to tea sipping oblivion. Alot of what I will be doing involves alot of excel programs. I want to start running to the tea kettle now, turn it on and drink endless cups of tea! I have not really worked in excel before and I believe my kids know more about computers than I do. I realize however if I am going to succeed at this job, I will need to conquer my fear of excel. I am thinking I need to head to Tar*get and buy an electric kettle and pick up a box of tea bags, milk and sugar and take them into the office starting tomorrow. I think its the only way I a will survive. My co-workers are not (as of yet) tea snobs and they drink coffee. Ok any words of support or encouragement would be appreciated about now. Better yet send tea bags, I'll be going through alot of them.

Off to fix another cup of tea right now. My second since coming home from work less than an hour ago. What does that tell you?

Mrs. Potts

All Before 11:00 A.M.

Wow, I feel like the energizer bunny this morning! I just keep going and going and going. So far I have:

• Baked a Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake
• Marinated Eight Pieces of Chicken - company coming tonight
• cut up a watermelon
• 2 loads of laundry
• completed about an hours worth of ironing
• washed the rather large kitchen floor and entry way
• checked e-mail & blogged

and last Two Cups of Tea. I think it might be time for a 3rd cuppa and a rest before I start on the next project today.

Wish I was this energetic everyday.

Mrs. Potts

Working To Support Habit!

I am a Tea addict. I drink numerous cups of a tea a day. I also drink numerous glasses of Tea Jave during the hot summer months. I buy the Tea Java by the case! This is simply not an addiction I can over come. It will remain with me for the rest of my life. In fact I take great pleasure in sharing my addiction/habit with my friends. For more on that read an earlier post called Hooked Another One.



Seriously, I have been offered an amazing opportunity and I am really excited about it. I have been volunteering each week for an organization called Love Inc (Love In The Name Of Christ). I have loved my time spent in the office working with the staff and numerous clients. I looked forward to my time spent there each week. A few weeks ago I was approached by the director regarding a part time position they needed to fill. They asked me if I would be interested and if I would pray about it. I spent a week praying and talking it over with H.P., Joyful and Psymon. We all felt this was a wonderful opportunity and one I was to accept.



I will begin work on Monday August 4th. I am very excited about this opportunity God has given me. I am busy getting the house organized and a million other things before I start next week. I think I have packed in every appointment for dentist, eye doctor etc... for the kids or myself next week. It will be a busy week.



Love Inc is a national organization with many local offices across the country. Here is the link to the office I will be working with if you want to check it out.

http://www.loveinctv.org/web/default.htm



Just think a whole new group to convert to Tea!

Off to refill my Tea Java Glass.

Mrs. Potts

In My Defense

So if you have not read Psymons post, this post will not make sense to you. If you want to read it go to welcometosomewhere.blogspot.com and you will understand.

I really do feel after reading Psymons post I simply must clarify a few things. You have heard Psymons side now hear the real/rest of the story. As Psymon said he has entered the slimy world of contacts. This is not an easy world to navigate at first. It takes lots and lots of practice and with time it becomes much easier. Both Psymon and Joyful expressed an interest in switching from glasses to contacts. Being the wonderful Mom that I am I made it happen. I booked the eye exams and drove them to the appointments. Joyful after a few tries took to the contacts well. She still struggles but is sticking with it. Psymon as you know struggled. Now here are some clarifications on the story 1) the first day we were there for 2.5 hours. I give Psymon credit he really stuck with it and gave it his A game. 2) I was not the only one offering words of encouragement - we had two other sales associates offering there advice, opinion and own personal stories and opinions. 3) We had another customer offer words of encouragement with its so much easier for girls as they are used to touching there eyes putting on make-up. It is so much harder for boys. My question is why did my dear Psymon not want to yell at any of them?

Now to the next issue - Sonic. I had been out off the house since 8:15 a.m. I had spent another hour with Psymon while he tried to get his contacts in. Yes he did folks get them in and one of them out! We then went to one of my least favorite stores Wal*mart and purchased what we needed. The time was now 3:45 and Joyful told me as we got in the car she had left her phone at Nana's. Oh my, so we head that direction and looking down the road I see a train stopping traffic and out of the other eye I see Sonic and ten minutes left of "happy hour". So I am hot, tired and a cool wonderful Mom and I pull into the Sonic. Yes there were cheers for this detour. This should only take a couple minutes right. Wrong oh so wrong! We ordered pulled up and waited. Please remember I was hot and tired and I just wanted to go home to my air conditioned house. I started to complain just a little bit about why would people be ordering food during happy hour. I mean its happy hour that means drinks. This nice man I think he was the manager came out with our drinks and said sorry about the hold up and another gal came out with drinks for the car behind us. I was surprised and I thought I said did you hear me complaining about the wait. I don't remember saying what Psymon says I said. But there you have it my recollection of the day(s).

So to Psymon I say stick with the contacts it will get easier and you will truly enjoy them. And may this be the end of this story. Off to have an ice cold glass of Tea Java.

Mrs. Potts

Warm Lake

I noticed that I have been home almost a week and have not posted. I think I liked the thought that I was still on vacation up at the lake even though I was not. Like a few people we ran into up at the lake and I quote them "Warm Lake is not a place its a state of mind" "cant you feel the love". I will let you ponder that and wonder just as I did what these happy folks had been drinking. Let me just say I don't think it was Tea! We met them on one of our evening walks around the lake.

The week at Warm Lake was oh soooooooo very relaxing. I started and finished two books, worked some on a knitting project and relaxed by the lake. Joyful and Psymon enjoyed what we called dock surfing and boating. As boats would pass near our dock the waves would come in and rock the parked boat and or dock. The nearer the boat was to the dock the greater the waves that followed. Joyful really enjoyed this activity and even got her Nana hooked on it. Not to be out down HP and I saw our opportunity and ran to the dock and surfed the waves one night after a boat passed by. We must have looked totally stupid arms and feet spread apart (just like standing on a surf board) but we had a great time. Made me feel like a kid again.

You know I can't post with out mentioning Tea. Yes we had plenty of tea up at Warm Lake. We started with tea first thing in the morning. Most mornings were two cuppas. Tea was often served at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. as well. Now when you serve mid-day you serve it with a biscuits. We had some great biscuits for dunking and enjoying. We also had a few extra cups at various times for good measure.

Oh the lake is calling me back, unfortunately I am stuck in reality where I must live. But I will hang on to my memories of that wonderful week and continue to ponder "Warm Lake its not a place its a state of mind" Maybe just maybe they are on to something with that statement. Off to fix a cup of tea and ponder that.

Mrs. Potts

Off To The Lake

I will be off line this week. I am off to spend a week at Warm Lake in Idaho. I love my time spent at the lake. We will be staying in a cabin right on the lake. It is always peaceful and restful. No television, radio, newspapers, computer or cell phone access. It truly is a week away. I'll post upon my return. Its the perfect place for a cup of hot tea sitting on the dock watching the sun come up or go down. I am so looking forward to heading up tomorrow.

Have a great week.

Mrs. Potts.