Bob Seger Rocks!

Ever since I heard You'll Accompany Me on the radio I have been hooked on Bob Seger. He has so many amazing songs in his collection. I have included a classic song and a modern collaboration with 3 Doors Down. Bob Seger Rocks!

Bob Seger-You'll Accompany Me

"Someday lady you'll accompany me."

3 Doors Down & Bob Seger-Landing in London
"All I think about is you..."

Who else do you think Rocks?

Blue Valentine

I am sucker for romantic movies. I love movies like Titanic, The Notebook and Dear John. I just discovered this trailer for Blue Valentine starring Michelle Williams and Rylan Gosling. This movie looks amazing! Now to find out if it is available for viewing.



What romantic movies do you enjoy?

The Black Crowes- She Talks to Angels

I tend to hear this song quite a bit on the radio. I've read a few books about angels and have watched videos about making contact with our guardian angels. But unlike this song I haven't heard any angels calling out my name. I hope they don't call out my name until it's my time. If you know what I mean.  Do you believe in angels?

"says she talks to angels
they call her out by her name
oh yeah, she talks to angels
says they call her out by her name"

If I wasn't afraid I would?

I heard this a while ago and thought it was worth sharing. Say the following over and over for a few minutes, "If I wasn't afraid I would (fill in the blank)." The first few times you may laugh or come up blank but after a while you will start being more specific about what you would do. Then ask yourself what is holding you back from doing those things.  Try it today!

Animusic

One night I was watching PBS and saw an Animusic video. I was blown away. It is really creative! Do a Youtube search for Animusic and check it out!

The Invisible Mother

If you are a mother or know someone who is please send this to them. They will appreciate the message!

The Invisible Mother


It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be taken to the store. Inside I'm thinking, 'Can't you see I'm on the phone?'


Obviously not; no one can see if I'm on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping the floor, or even standing on my head in the corner because no one can see me at all. I'm invisible. The invisible Mom. Some days I am only a pair of hands, nothing more! Can you fix this? Can you tie this? Can you open this??


Some days I'm not a pair of hands; I'm not even a human being. I'm a clock to ask, 'What time is it?' I'm a satellite guide to answer, 'What number is the Disney Channel?' I'm a car to order, 'Right around 5:30, please.'


Some days I'm a crystal ball: 'Where's my other sock? Where's my phone? What's for dinner?'


I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes that studied history, music and literature--but now, they had disappeared into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She's going, she's going, she's gone!


One night, a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a friend from England. She had just gotten back from a fabulous trip, and she was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting there, looking around at the others all put together so well. It was hard not to compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic, when she turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, 'I brought you this.' It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe. I wasn't exactly sure why she'd given it to me until I read her inscription: 'With admiration for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees.'


In the days ahead I would read - no, devour - the book. And I would discover what would become for me, four life-changing truths, after which I could pattern my work: 1) No one can say who built the great
cathedrals--we have no record of their names. 2) These builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never see finished. 3) They made great sacrifices and expected no credit. 4) The passion of their building was fueled by their faith that the eyes of God saw everything.


A story of legend in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man, 'Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by the roof, No one will ever see it And the workman replied, 'Because God sees.'


I closed the book, feeling the missing piece fall into place. It was almost as if I heard God whispering to me, "I see you. I see the sacrifices you make every day, even when no one around you does."


No act of kindness you've done, no sequin you've sewn on, no cupcake you've baked, no Cub Scout meeting, no last minute errand is too small for me to notice and smile over. You are building a great cathedral, but you can't see right now what it will become.


I keep the right perspective when I see myself as a great builder. As one of the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished, to work on something that their name will never be on. The writer of the book went so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree.


When I really think about it, I don't want my son/daughter to tell the friend he's bringing home from college for Thanksgiving, "My Mom gets up at 4 in the morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for three hours and presses all the linens for the table." That would mean I'd built a monument to myself I just want him to want to come home. And then, if there is anything more to say to his friend, he'd say, "You're gonna love it there..."


As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel, not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers.


Share this with all the Invisible Moms you know... I just did!

Eric Clapton- Bell Bottom Blues

I woke up to this Eric Clapton song the other day. What a great song!

Bell Bottom Blues


"I don't want to fade away.
Give me one more day please.
I don't want to fade away.
In your heart I want to stay"

What songs have you woken up to recently?