Ballot

Skeet Taylor ... you are NUTS!  He couldn't get his ballot to work today at one point when he was asked to vote for THREE folks for Water and Soil Commissioners and there were only TWO choices!  He told me later that he wrote in MY NAME so he could get the machine to go on to the next one!  I'll probably win!!!!

Song

I have this odd thing about me that every day I wake up with a song running through my head ... and I mean EVERY day.  Sometimes it drives me a little nuts!  I'm not ever sure why it's that particular song ... and sometimes I even have to look up the lyrics that go with the tune.  But, today, this has been my song ... one I actually haven't sung in years!  It's made me feel at peace today.

God is still on the throne,
 And He will remember His own;
 Tho’ trials may press us and burdens distress us,
 He never will leave us alone;
 God is still on the throne,
 He never forsaketh His own;
 His promise is true, He will not forget you,
 God is still on the throne.

Ronald

(2013)  I have bus duty in the morning and have to check off the buses as they arrive.  If cars pull in the bus lanes, I have to go ask them to move, which is a job I HATE because the folks are all stressed and sometimes mad, etc.  Anyway, today, a blue van was blocking a whole row of buses from getting in, so I went over and tentatively knocked on the tinted windows to ask the driver to please park or go around the back of the school instead.  When the window rolled down, it was this big, creepy Ronald McDonald CLOWN guy staring back at me!  Scared me to DEATH!  I completely did NOT expect his scary smiling face through the window!!!  Come to find out, the Kindergarten was having some special Ronald McDonald program this morning. Teaching elementary school is like living in an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE on most days ... where else does this kind of stuff happen?!  :)

50 Shades

So glad I FINALLY got to color my hair today before it got the starring role in 50 Shades of Blond, Orange, Gold, and Gray!!!

Possum

WHY can we never have a peaceful, uneventful night around here??!! For the past two nights Buddy has been going crazy by the downstairs window barking nonstop, and I haven’t been able to see anything out there.  Tonight Skeet finally discovered what he’s been barking at ... a creepy possum sitting behind one of the deck chairs!! Yuck! Skeet went out on the deck and kept trying to swat at the possum with a broom,  but it just sat there staring at him. Lily and I were watching through the screen window, screaming when the possum tried to bite the broom and suggesting Skeet lure him away with a piece of lunch meat. (Skeet found all that very helpful. 😂😂) No such luck. Now we’re stuck for the rest of the night with an unwelcome visitor on the deck, and Buddy insanely barking and howling over and over and over! Just another typical night at the Taylor circus!

Daddy

(2010) It's official ... Skeet has been out of town WAY too much the past few months.  How do I know this?  Because tonight a very scraggly pizza delivery man with a white stubble beard and no teeth came to the door, and Lily ran down the hall towards him screaming "Daddy".  Nice awkward moment for Mommy, to say the least!

Crossfit

Driving Bran up to CrossFit tonight ... I'm going to sit in the car and eat a cookie while I wait for him.  Hahahahahaaa!!!!

Tires

Today I had to take my car to Discount Tires to get a tire replaced that had a nail in it.  (Me + Discount Tires is already the beginning of a horror story in my book.)  At any rate, though the guy helping me was super nice, I just wanted to get in and out of there with a fast quote on how much it would cost to order my new tire so Robert Skeet Taylor could go get it later.  Unfortunately, Enthusiastic Tire Guy had different plans.  He proceeded to teach me everything I never wanted to know about tires and tire pressure.  He showed me a whole bunch of stickers on the inside of my car door that I didn't care about, he told me all sorts of numbers for correct air pressure in my tires, he showed me a bunch of charts about green, yellow, and red tire tread zones, and then he talked for over thirty minutes about the Georgia Bulldogs and their football season.  Anyone who knows me well knows that if there are any TWO things in the WORLD that I have NO interest in AT ALL, it's CAR PARTS AND SPORTS TEAMS. Though I smiled and said "cool" to this barrage of "fun facts," I began secretly wishing I had nails in my ears instead of my tire!  For that hideous hour, I truly thought the Ascension had happened and I had not been chosen, because I'm pretty sure I got a glimpse of HELL today at Discount Tires. 😂😂

Cake

(2013) Grammie and Papaw are coming over for supper tomorrow for the FIRST time since Mom's fall and surgery!  We're all excited and we're making one of their favorite meals, roast with potatoes and carrots and onions in the crockpot. We're also baking a special cake ... but I am driving all of us insane because I can't quit singing "If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake."  It's a curse really!!!

Bribe

(2011) Had to "bribe" the kids to get in the tub tonight by adding some red and yellow food coloring to the water ... they now have a bright orange "Halloween" bath!  They jumped right in after that!

Ug.

(2010) Remember my new pink cell phone I was so excited about?  Brandon left it on the back of my Jeep and I ran over it this morning.  Ug.

Trick or Treat

(2011) I am losing my mind!  Lily Claire has rung the doorbell about 1000 times now and keeps screaming "Trick or Treat!"  She's not quite understanding that today is NOT Halloween!!!!  AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Fortune Cookie

Hahaaa! A funny memory from a few years ago! ...
We went to our favorite Chinese restaurant tonight and when it came time to read the fortune cookies, we had a hilarious faux pas!  Lily asked to read Skeet's fortune out loud to all of us and, without any help, proceeded to read, "You will have good-looking personal affairs."  WHAT?!!!  Skeet was LOVING that fortune, until I snatched it and said, "Sorry mister.  It actually says, 'You will have good LUCK in your personal affairs!"   Oops ... letting a first grader read your fortune may alter your fate quite a bit, apparently!!  Hahahaaaa!

Men’s Sunday

(2011) GREAT Men's Sunday service at church today!!!  The theme was  "God's Power Tools" which Dylan really loved and listened to.  One funny thing though ... a men's chorus sang the upbeat chorus  "At Calvary" and Dylan thought they were singing "At Halloween."  He was very inspired!  :)

Costume

Sooooo much work ahead of me to make Bran into decent husband material one day ... case in point:  Tonight I walked into his room with all this highlighting product goop in my hair, my head covered with a huge plastic bag, moisturizer cream on my face, my pink robe on, and my black glasses.  My husband is smart enough not to comment (years of training).  My son, however, says, "What the heck, Mom?!  Is that your Halloween costume?!!!"  Yes, I did swat him!