Here it goes...

Ok.. I'm biting the bullet and crossing over the line into "bloggerville". Never in a million years would I have thought I would do this. However, this SAHM has heard the words "ouch", "butthead" and "no" one too many times from her 2 kids (2 and 4). My daily vocabulary has dwindled down to "stop", "time out" and "don't" enough times for me to question my own sanity after my patience has left the premises. Some days I feel like an appliance in my home running on auto pilot. The pilot has jumped the plane and a crash is coming fast. Consequently, these precious days are spiining way too quickly for me stop and take notice of my precious family and blessings... while finding myself just trying to maintain the "maintaining" without stopping to take inventory.

Alice Walker writes in the book "The Color Purple" a beautiful description of God's plan and how we live our lives.
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"... "People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back".... "It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect it".. "Everyone want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do,except walk?"

This twist of perception can really make a person change the way she looks at things. And my hope is to stop and fully realize all the beauty in my life, while laughing at the ironies and humor in eveyday life, and maybe lashing out at the absurdity of the situations we find ourselves in which we live. The economy, war, and daily battles can really hold a person's energy level and thoughts down. So there... I can't change those, but I can change how I view the things I see. It reminds me of the movie "Life is Beautiful". The gift a loving Jewish father gives to his young son while imprsioned in a concentration camp. He chooses to make the horrific situation into a game so his son doesn't know the tragedy for what it really is. They find the love, humor and distraction in the worst that life has to offer.

Up until this week I had never even read a blog. I've been told by people that some blogs have themes or purposes. How about life's doodles on maintaining sanity? Nothing earth shattering.. just things that interest me.. and a purposeful reason for living the life of a night owl. And hopefully along the way I can catch up on modern technology and gain some skills on this stupid "puter that drives me nuts but I find myself addicted to at times..