Yesterday was absolutely fantastic!!!
After having a fabulous morning at church (big crowd, awesome people, loads of fun), we headed up to spend the rest of the day with Karen's mom and later my mom. It was all wonderful!
I was talking on the phone today with one of our leaders and she had mentioned how they had spent the day with their daughter who lives in Seattle and how much fun they had. Another great day!
I talked with a buddy of mine who lives in Cali today and he said yesterday was great as well. Of course 85 degrees and celebrating Mother's Day guarantees a great day!!!
All in all, it was great celebrating moms and then being able to celebrate with my mother in law and my mom made for a great day!!!
Great days are good!!!
MTC!
Mark
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!
We celebrated Mother's Day at our house yesterday!! Karen is such an awesome mom!! God must really love me for letting me marry out of my league! I love it!!!
Hey, to all the mom's out there, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!! You guys are the huge heroes of life!!!!! For all of your tenderness, we guys know how you really are...there is no way on earth we could ever endure the whole childbirth thing. Shoot! We can barely endure the child birth classes!!!! You mom's really are tougher than us guys!!!
I hope everyone of you has an absolutely wonderful day as we celebrate YOU!!!!!
MTC!
Mark
Hey, to all the mom's out there, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!! You guys are the huge heroes of life!!!!! For all of your tenderness, we guys know how you really are...there is no way on earth we could ever endure the whole childbirth thing. Shoot! We can barely endure the child birth classes!!!! You mom's really are tougher than us guys!!!
I hope everyone of you has an absolutely wonderful day as we celebrate YOU!!!!!
MTC!
Mark
Friday, May 9, 2008
ARE YOU READY?
I love Mother's Day!!! Are you ready for it? Do you have the cards, the gifts, the reservations made? The older I grow, the more I love Mother's Day! I suppose it is because I understand more fully the effort, love, sacrifice, instrution, devotion and just plain hard work mom poured into me! Let me tell you, I was a ton of work!!!!
My mom is one of my heroes!
She was raised on the wind blow landscape of North Dakota at the end of the Depression. My mom did not have running water until she was in high school. She was the youngest of six. Never really had Christmas presents, they were far too poor. In the winter, grandma would put stones in the oven and heat them up and then my mom and her sister would take them upstairs and put them in their beds to stay warm...for a while.
Needless to say, my mom could kick my rumpus any day of the week. She is a very strong woman.
That's why God gave her four boys.
She poured into us boys everything she had and now she does the same for her grandchildren. She laughs at hard work, scoffs at sacrifice, and has never wavered in her faith and love and devotion to God.
I remember when my girls were five or six years old. She was walking with my two little girls with their sandals on the wrong feet and two high school age boys were coming in my mom's direction. My wife and I were about 30 yards behind my mom and the girls. The boys had the low hanging shorts and my mom didn't think that was too cool for her to see let alone her two precious grandaugthers. She gave those two boys the verbal berries!!! Had they lipped off I'm afraid she would have decked 'em. She had obviously gotten her message across because those boys hiked their drawers up and were beat red in the face when they walked by my wife and me.
Mom is the most loving person I know. She can't get enough of her grandkids. She has almost killed every single one of them when they were babies, because of her never ending kissing and hugging. She really knows how to pour it on.
All I can say is that I am eternally grateful to God for my mom. I am eternally grateful for allowing me to be raised by such a wonderful, charming, beautiful, talented and strong woman.
I can't wait to see mom on Sunday and give her a hug and a kiss and once again tell her how much I love her.
I love you mom!!
MTC!
Mark
My mom is one of my heroes!
She was raised on the wind blow landscape of North Dakota at the end of the Depression. My mom did not have running water until she was in high school. She was the youngest of six. Never really had Christmas presents, they were far too poor. In the winter, grandma would put stones in the oven and heat them up and then my mom and her sister would take them upstairs and put them in their beds to stay warm...for a while.
Needless to say, my mom could kick my rumpus any day of the week. She is a very strong woman.
That's why God gave her four boys.
She poured into us boys everything she had and now she does the same for her grandchildren. She laughs at hard work, scoffs at sacrifice, and has never wavered in her faith and love and devotion to God.
I remember when my girls were five or six years old. She was walking with my two little girls with their sandals on the wrong feet and two high school age boys were coming in my mom's direction. My wife and I were about 30 yards behind my mom and the girls. The boys had the low hanging shorts and my mom didn't think that was too cool for her to see let alone her two precious grandaugthers. She gave those two boys the verbal berries!!! Had they lipped off I'm afraid she would have decked 'em. She had obviously gotten her message across because those boys hiked their drawers up and were beat red in the face when they walked by my wife and me.
Mom is the most loving person I know. She can't get enough of her grandkids. She has almost killed every single one of them when they were babies, because of her never ending kissing and hugging. She really knows how to pour it on.
All I can say is that I am eternally grateful to God for my mom. I am eternally grateful for allowing me to be raised by such a wonderful, charming, beautiful, talented and strong woman.
I can't wait to see mom on Sunday and give her a hug and a kiss and once again tell her how much I love her.
I love you mom!!
MTC!
Mark
Thursday, May 8, 2008
LET'S BLAME THE WEATHER!
It seems that up here in the greyed out PNW, we could just about blame everything on the weather. I mean come on, let's get real, we haven't seen a streak of nice sunny, warm, border line hot weather since, well, I can't remember!!!!
I remember discussing this with a friend who moved out here from Wisconsin over twenty years ago and he had to get on medication for a while because of the grey! So I blame the weather for that!
When I was in college the old road rage thing started up. People blamed it on too many people moving into Seattle from sunnier climates and the weather made them drive weird! Go figure!!
I would like to blame the Mariners and their abysmal playing on the weather.
Starbucks is blaming their recent struggles on the weather! Seriously!!! Just kidding!
Why do you think tanning establishments are so effective up here??? Yep, the weather!
Why do we drink so much of the aforementioned black stuff in a cup???? Yep, just to stay warm.
So, whenever you have a problem, just blame the weather. Don't blame the dog or the wife or the kids or the boss or the garbage man or the traffic man or even the weather man...now there's one for you! Why would you want to even be a weather man up here?
So, just be happy. Deal with it! Get over it! I just checked outside, it's grey again!
MTC!
Mark
I remember discussing this with a friend who moved out here from Wisconsin over twenty years ago and he had to get on medication for a while because of the grey! So I blame the weather for that!
When I was in college the old road rage thing started up. People blamed it on too many people moving into Seattle from sunnier climates and the weather made them drive weird! Go figure!!
I would like to blame the Mariners and their abysmal playing on the weather.
Starbucks is blaming their recent struggles on the weather! Seriously!!! Just kidding!
Why do you think tanning establishments are so effective up here??? Yep, the weather!
Why do we drink so much of the aforementioned black stuff in a cup???? Yep, just to stay warm.
So, whenever you have a problem, just blame the weather. Don't blame the dog or the wife or the kids or the boss or the garbage man or the traffic man or even the weather man...now there's one for you! Why would you want to even be a weather man up here?
So, just be happy. Deal with it! Get over it! I just checked outside, it's grey again!
MTC!
Mark
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
MENTAL
No! Not that!!!
I saw a deal on Discovery or something like it about the physical effects of the IronMan competition on the body of a normal joe. Pretty amazing.
At one point during the run, he had to stop and get checked out by doctors. He thought he was a gonner. The doctors convinced him otherwise after a complete check up.
He was suffering from severe pain all over due to a lack of proper hydration. His muscles were tearing and could not mend themselves due to a lack of water. Once he reydrated, he convinced himself to finish the race. And that is just what he did.
He said the turning point was when he made the switch in his mind from "I can't go on" to "I can finish this thing!"
You've heard it before. I have as well...."Mind over Matter". There is a simple yet profound truth to it all. If we set our mind to complete versus quit, we normally do what we think.
So here is the deal: what are your primary thoughts regarding a challenge you are facing?
I saw a deal on Discovery or something like it about the physical effects of the IronMan competition on the body of a normal joe. Pretty amazing.
At one point during the run, he had to stop and get checked out by doctors. He thought he was a gonner. The doctors convinced him otherwise after a complete check up.
He was suffering from severe pain all over due to a lack of proper hydration. His muscles were tearing and could not mend themselves due to a lack of water. Once he reydrated, he convinced himself to finish the race. And that is just what he did.
He said the turning point was when he made the switch in his mind from "I can't go on" to "I can finish this thing!"
You've heard it before. I have as well...."Mind over Matter". There is a simple yet profound truth to it all. If we set our mind to complete versus quit, we normally do what we think.
So here is the deal: what are your primary thoughts regarding a challenge you are facing?
- Quitting
- Slacking
- Leaving
- Finishing strong
- Perservering
- Completing
- Doing the right thing
Most of it is just mental!
MTC!
Mark
Sunday, May 4, 2008
SUPER BLESSED
I am one of the most blessed humans on the planet! There are so many things in my life that God has blessed me with that blow my mind!!
He has blessed me with phenomenal kids, a fantastic family, super parents, awesome brothers, a great church filled with outstanding people, etc, etc.
But at the top of the list is my wife! God has given me a woman I do not deserve. Trust me, he hooked me up with her, because, quite frankly, I'm just not that sharp!!!
One really cool thing is that her birthday just so happens to fall one week prior to Mother's day. Celebrating her birth and then having the privilege of celebrating her 'momship' one week later, is for me, a really fun deal!
So, today is a big day because we get to celebrate her birthday and me and the girls get to party with such a wonderful lady! And then next week we do it all over again!!!!
I'm just flat out super blessed!!!
MTC!
mac
He has blessed me with phenomenal kids, a fantastic family, super parents, awesome brothers, a great church filled with outstanding people, etc, etc.
But at the top of the list is my wife! God has given me a woman I do not deserve. Trust me, he hooked me up with her, because, quite frankly, I'm just not that sharp!!!
One really cool thing is that her birthday just so happens to fall one week prior to Mother's day. Celebrating her birth and then having the privilege of celebrating her 'momship' one week later, is for me, a really fun deal!
So, today is a big day because we get to celebrate her birthday and me and the girls get to party with such a wonderful lady! And then next week we do it all over again!!!!
I'm just flat out super blessed!!!
MTC!
mac
Friday, May 2, 2008
PLAY BALL!
It's been at least 15 years since I played on a church softball team! What a riot!
Last night we had our first practice and it is obvious that 15 years have gone by and the body just doesn't do what it was once capable of doing. But some things never change!
Winning is not the objective, staying healthy is!
Being an encourager to the other players, knowing they are doing thier best!
Enjoying the opportunity to hang out with people and get to know them better.
Laughing at: 1. myself 2. my fellow team-mates 3. Anything and everybody else
Looking forward to the games and laughing some more!!!
So, here we go. A summer of games and good times on the old church softball team. I'm just hoping Casey doesn't get too winded over there playing first base!!!
Let the laughter begin!!!!!
MTC!
mac
Last night we had our first practice and it is obvious that 15 years have gone by and the body just doesn't do what it was once capable of doing. But some things never change!
Winning is not the objective, staying healthy is!
Being an encourager to the other players, knowing they are doing thier best!
Enjoying the opportunity to hang out with people and get to know them better.
Laughing at: 1. myself 2. my fellow team-mates 3. Anything and everybody else
Looking forward to the games and laughing some more!!!
So, here we go. A summer of games and good times on the old church softball team. I'm just hoping Casey doesn't get too winded over there playing first base!!!
Let the laughter begin!!!!!
MTC!
mac
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