Aunt Bea’s Corner

I feel completely out of the loop.  It’s been so long since I blogged or even read anyone else’s blog it’s taken me all evening to just read a few of them and I’m still not finished.  I’ve been so busy with wedding and post-wedding chores I’ve just been consumed.  Last night was my step-dad’s birthday so we gathered over at mom’s house for that.  He turned 72 years old.  Tonight is the first night I’ve been able to just come home after work (even though I didn’t get off til 6:30) and just be home with no obligations.  I feel almost normal aside from the fact that I caught myself dozing as I was trying to read email and blogs.

The wedding was a complete success, I think.  It was beautiful.  It was fun.  And the bride and groom looked awesome, happy and in love.  It was a lot of work but it paid off.  I do want to take this opportunity to thank all my friends and family that helped out.  We could not have done it without you guys.  Also a big thank you to all that attended and showed your support for Jeff and Molly.  I know it meant a lot to them both.  I’ll post some pics as soon as we get some of them back.

I’m back at work and this week has been a lulu.  We’ve had huge days with tons of work.  We been working about five different funerals and we have two weddings this weekend.  Will the madness ever stop?  If someone would just stop the ride and let me get off I would appreciate it.  Most of you know that summer is supposed to be the slow time of year for the floral business but you couldn’t tell it at our shop.  Things have been busy.  No rest for the weary they say. 

Wes and Tiff have started a new baby blog.  Check it out.  There is a count-down to the due date and a couple of polls to participate in.  I’ve included the link in my blog roll at the side called The Pruett Family.  I only have about 6 weeks to get ready for Brayden’s arrival.  I better get busy.

Steve has been busy with all this 100+ degree weather.  The phone has not stopped ringing.  I’ve even had two phone calls to my cell phone over the past couple of days looking for him.  WOW, to be so popular must be nice.  Not really.  Thanks Steve for all your hard work.  You are awesome!

I hope this catches you up with my “goings on” and I hope you’ll take time to comment and let me know you’re reading my thoughts and ramblings.

They posed themselves.  Can you tell?

Glad they are all together this week.  Best friends like these are hard to come by.  I love you guys.

I hate bugs at every level but I especially hate the stinging ones.  I normally scream and run at first sight of them.  Walking to the front door this evening I felt an extremely sharp stinging on my ankle.  At first I thought I’d gotten into fire ants so needless to say I began stomping my feet thinking I was getting them off myself.  After running into the house and dropping everything I had in my hands I realized the pain was much greater than that of fire aunts.  It was then I began to realize I had been stung by one of the yellow-jackets that had been building a nest on our front porch.  Thinking back over the course of my life I don’t think I’ve been stung since I was 4 years old when a yellow-jacket got under my dress and stung me on the stomach 4 or 5 times.  What is it with me and yellow-jackets?  Anyway, I write to you now from my couch with my ankle propped up on the coffee table in front of me.  I can feel my heartbeat in the throbbing of my ankle with ever beat.  Good thing the wedding work I have tonight allows me to sit and use my hands.

I am still convinced that upon spotting a bug, screaming and running in the opposite direction is the best policy no matter if Steve and the boys make fun of me.

There is still so much to do in the next two weeks.  In fact, two weeks from tonight it will all be over and they will be newly married and living happily ever after.  But…..until then every second counts.  Read the rest of this entry »

That’s what I’m always telling my SS group “The Bridge.”  Pray until something happens!  Life, at the moment, feels hard.  There are a lot of heavy things going on in some of my friends lives.  There’s a lot of deadlines to meet.  My praying sometimes seems repetitious, but then there is that one little bit of change that someone might tell me about and it always confirms that my prayers are getting past the ceiling.  I’m doing that a lot right now…praying that is.  I’m attempting to make it more of my daily thought process.  When someone crosses my mind I’m lifting them up in prayer or when a worry comes to mind I’m trying to turn it over to the Lord.  Wow, old habits are hard to kill sometimes, but I struggle on.  I keep praying.  I keep PUSHing.  I do it with anticipation because if not, where’s the faith.  And that my friends is another blog completely.

As Americans we hear so much about freedom.  And as Americans we sooo… Read the rest of this entry »