She'll no longer be invisible

Come back tomorrow for pictures of my meeting a fellow blogger! She's in town today and I'm dying to see her. Camera is in my purse. :)

Are you curious??

See ya tomorrow!!

Have a great day!
Hugs and blessings~

Just some fun!

Happy Wednesday all! Let me say I have a bit of a hangover today. And, I mean a little too much Nyquil last night. It messed with me. I slept like a B-A-B-Y but I'm thinking I'm still asleep and I'm obviously not.

Let's look at some silly things. Because that is the mood I'm in.

I have these Halloween lights with some pumpkins on the mantle in our den and our beloved puppy, Pepper ate the extension cord on the first set so I WILL NOT allow her to do that again.
What do you do? You drape the cord over the lamp during the day when not plugged in. That is fancy at its Halloween finest. Look closely. You can see.


This is what the Nyquil hangover looks like. Bless my sweet heart. I must be drugged out to let you see me like this. Oh the beauty.

Thank you Jenny for this fabulous coffee cup from San Antonio. Do y'all remember what happened to my gift that I gave away during the gift exchange?? Did anyone write to Kim or Patty and say "What the heck was this?"

I feel like Pepper. I'm stuck and I can't get out. We found her like this yesterday afternoon in the laundry room. No tellin how long she had been trapped. And, I bet our bigger dog, Bailey, is laughing hysterically in her own little doggy way...."Serves you right wild woman!"

Have a great day friends. I'm going to tackle "the" Wal-mart this morning. I'm sure that will clear this foggy head of mine!

Hugs and blessings~

Fran

I want to be....

.......excellent, but I'm not. That's a boogaboo word for me. It holds such power doesn't it? Power in a good way, not a bad way.

Excellence also means superior. Now, that really has some power.

However, this ole word has been stewing and brewing in my brain for a couple of weeks. And, I must spit it out. And I mean spit it out to encourage you and me.

Let me make a confession or three if I can real quick:

1. I am a HUGE procrastinator
2. I have at least 4 things I've been meaning to do here at home since January. Not done.
3. I am a HUGE procrastinator
4. I'll start something and drag it out for weeks. Something short that doesn't take weeks.

Sound familiar to anyone?? I think a lot of us can fall into this ever so sweet, not too harmless pit and yet it can be really dangerous in terms of excellence. Maybe because we are too busy or our priorities are out of whack that we aren't pursuing excellence.

Here is my list of a typical day and I bet you can all relate to most of it or at least parts of it:

1. Up
2. dogs out
3. coffee/prayers/Bible
4. kids up
5. kids out for school
6. exercise
7. clean up house
8. clean up self
9. head to work
10. work
11. pick up kids
12. 2nd shift begins with family
13. homework
14. extra curricular
15. errands
16. dinner (hate this one)
17. kids cleaned up
18. bed

Another confession.....

I don't do any of these things with excellence. NOT ONE. And, I'm not beating myself up over it either. Its just that I'm a procrastinator and that gets in the way. Every now and then I just get my eyes opened to the reality of how I am living my daily life.

I will begin to do better. Starting today. Farewell procrastination. I can't be excellent with you leading the way. The two of us will no longer tango together. You are getting on my nerves.

I want you to think about yourself and your family. Think about all that you do and have going on and the relationships in your life.

Are you excellent or superior?? Or are you just humdrumming along with a very average "go at it?"

Colossians 3:23 tells us "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men."

Conviction welcome aboard. You have taken the place of procrastination. The good thing is that I love me a good ole conviction. It's revealing and has much to say over me and what I'm doing.

So...my encouragement for you this day is to go out there and work with excellence. Because aren't we serving Him anyway? Isn't He our goal?

Be excellent at friendships, your job, conversations, errands, your time, your meetings, your whatever. Wherever God has you today be excellent.

Be excellent friends!!!! It's not that hard is it?! :)

Hugs and blessings~

I can't believe I'm showing this!

Ok, this was by far the hardest thing I've done in blogland. Remember Bethanne when we couldn't figure out how to link people and now we can strike things out??!!! And, even put up a video. Oh, the progress.

There is a funny part 2 to this video that who knows when I'll ever post. Since it took 6 years to get this 12 minute video uploaded....I can't take on part 2. And, its only 1 minute long.

Yes, you read the above paragraph correct. The video that I did is a little over 11 minutes long.

I took you through the house, showed you "life" within our walls, probably did way too much filming of things you could CARE LESS ABOUT, and most importantly you are going to ask....

"Fran, why are you only video-ing your teeth and nose??"

The answer to that comes in part 2 that you may never see.

With a knot in my stomach and typical life at the homestead...."sit back and please still be my friend!"


Untitled from Fran Thomas on Vimeo.

Done. Over it. Finished.

Well...with such frustration in my heart and words coming out of my mouth that aren't very nice......

I will kill my computer.

And, it's new.

I am half crazy.

I need therapy now.

I need someone to tell me how.

I have fought with....

Youtube.

Blogger.

Vimeo.

Why in the sam heck does it take so long to upload a video??

Is this normal??

I even re-did the "best" one (12 minutes long thank you) and did a one minute video.

And, it is STILL taking way to long.

In my opinion of course.

So....I gotta run now because I've wasted like 207 hours trying to do this for y'all.

And, I'm over it.

Taking a deep breath and walking away.

Please feel free to leave any tidbits of advice you may have.

Now, have yourself a GREAT Friday!

And, it's really not over because I will win this battle!

Hugs and blessings~

If it kills me....

If it absolutely kills me and causes me to act like a maniac fool.....

I will post my very first video post within 24 hrs!!!!!!

Can I hear a "WOO HOO???!!!"

Just kidding.

I haven't even filmed anything yet, but I'm on it girls.

I'm on it.

Stay tuned.

Complete silliness and craziness is coming to a PC or Mac soon!

Have a great day with Jesus! And, check out the scripture for the day over at your right.

Hugs and blessings~

Who are these people???

Well, here's a little sneak preview into Halloween at our house. I thought maybe my older boys would have "moved on" from Halloween and dressing up........ WRONG.

And, don't hate me, but we love to do the trick or treat thing and we have wonderful neighborhood parties and kids are just flat out CRAZY!!! Of course I mean a fun crazy not crazy crazy!

So...we spent an insane amount of money on costumes yesterday and tried them on for size today. And, I thought I'd never get them off their bodies. And, the dogs wouldn't stop barking at them either.

One of my boys is going to save the world (AKA the cutest Batman ever) and one child is going to scare the bejeebers out of little children and one child is "not pictured!"

Enjoy...and Happy Halloween.....a smidget early!