Num Nuts???????

Here is a funny video from the Spelling Bee.

t-i-q-u-e-u-r

I am watching the National Spelling Bee.

I am cheering for the home schoolers and the girl from Jamaica.

My favorite words so far are peristeronic and cyathiform.

The spellers can ask several questions of the 'askers' like definition, language of origin, part of speech, alternate pronounciations. Today one speller asked- Can I have a different word?

The finals are tonight on ABC at 7 central.

W-e w-i-l-l b-e w-a-t-c-h-i-n-g

Who is REALLY in control?

My friend, Pam, is expecting her third baby. This is remarkable. She is a cancer survivor. She is considered a high risk so she has super special stuff done to her at each visit. During one of these tests they think they found something wrong with the baby. The baby may be attached wrong to the placenta. They don't know for sure. The next doctor visit is late next week.

I talked to her yesterday. I told her that we were praying for her. I told her that I hate the 'not knowing' or the 'waiting room'. Life goes on but wouldn't it be better if we just knew something! Pam said that times like these remind her that she really is never NOT in the 'waiting room' and that the control we feel we have is just pretend control.

Wow! I needed to hear that.

I'll keep you posted on Pam

Go SEC

A very cool story about Tommy Tuberville and the coaches that traveled to see our soldiers. Read about it here

Almost there

Cathy asked me today at church about my bathroom and have we moved back into our room. Well...we can sleep in our bed and we can use the bathroom but all our stuff is not in there yet. I have new shelf paper in most of the drawers. I have unpacked three drawers in my bath. I need to put paper down under both the sinks and unpack the towels. On Carl's honeydo list for tomorrow is to install two new light fixtures over our sinks, add some shelves to our closets , put up some towel holders and a tp holder. I am not happy with the paint in Carl's bath area so John is going to repaint it with the same paint color as his bathroom. John and Carl are going to touch up some areas with paint. I plan to have the girls clean up the furniture in my room that got dirty with the wet tile being brought in. I also need them to clean the windows that got dirty with the cutting of the tile. After the closets get done, then we will move the closet stuff up from the living room.

So I'm sleeping in my own bed but we are still camping as far as having all my things in my room. I get dressed all over the place. You can probably tell!

We are not quite there yet but soon!

What's in your wallet?

I used to have this in mine but was afraid I'd lose it so I have it in a safe place now.

My Mama loved the Indy 500. No, that is wrong, She LOVED it. She often told me that the year I was born AJ Foyt was a rookie. I can remember waking up on the last Monday in May to the sound of cars racing through my room, only to realize that Mama had every radio in the house on to the race, including the one next to my bed. (The race used to be run on Monday but they had several years where rain delayed it til Tuesday. Now it is run on Sunday and if there is a delay it can be run on Monday)

Mama loved this race and only this race. She didn't follow Indy races just this one.
When I was six, my family went to Indianapolis. I can still remember the speedway. I remember when I realized that we were going to take a lap. I was scared because I just knew it would be in a racecar. I was relieved when a VW bus pulled up. This card says " I hereby certify that the bearer of this ticket has completed one lap around the Indianapolis '500' Mile Speedway. signed by Tony HulmanI have the race on right now. I have it loud enough so that I can hear it where I'm sitting as I type. I don't keep up with Indy racing until this race is on. We have had the race on for all my children's lives so that it is normal to them to have it on today.

The winner of last years race is married to Ashley Judd- Dario Franchitti
The 2002/2003 winner won the Dancing with the Stars last year- Helio Castroneves. Please remember that the 'H' is silent when you are passing on this useful info.

What a fun memory of my mama!

Make New Friends, But Keep the Old...

Carl went to Harvard in the fall of 2006 for an 8 week AMP course. There were 154 in his class 45 of which were Americans. He was put into a smaller group of 9, 2 of which were Americans. After spending 8 weeks together they became quite close. Below is Russell with Carl. Russell had work in California and then North Carolina. He flew to Little Rock to see and visit us on his way home to Australia. He will leave tomorrow and get home on Monday.

Carl picked Russell up from the airport and then showed him around his office. Tonight we ate supper at Bonefish. Russell is now looking at pictures that Kaitlin has taken for her most recent class.

It is fun to hear Russell and Carl laugh together.