When Puppets Speak...

...Kids listen. They really do.

Before I start, let me warn you -- this is going to be somewhat of a multi-topic, random post. Ready? Here we go.

My mom and I are part of a program in our church. It's basically a VBS, except that instead of being every morning for a week, this is every Saturday morning for five weeks. Make sense? Well, among performing many other tasks and helping in many other ways, Mom and I are the puppeteers.

OK, we're not very good yet, but we enjoy it!

Meet Gertrude and George:

Gertrude and me:

George and my mom:

So that's what my mom and I do in the Saturday Bible Blast. And my beautiful niece, Ariana? She's just plain cute!! And yes, that is an Auntie Bekah outfit!!

By the way, she's so close to walking!!! Yes, it's true! She has taken around a half-dozen steps, at various times, without holding onto anything. Aaaahhhhh!!! We're not really counting her as actually walking yet, because she can't really walk without holding onto something for balance, but she is so close!!

On to more random things. Such as.......my feet. I warned you this would be a random post.

How 'bout my head and upper body now?

Smile sweetly!!

Ready for a total topic change?

Recently I finally won victory over something that had been bugging me for awhile. Literally. It was pretty much like an OCD kind of thing for awhile. And when I say awhile, in this instance I mean basically 4 years. Yeah, it was quite a while. Do you know what it was?

This may shock some of you that don't know me very well, or that just never knew about this.

I collected candy wrappers.

I know -- weird, isn't it??!! But I was really pretty much OCD about it. I couldn't stand to throw away a.single.candy.wrapper. Ever. I would even get candy wrappers from my mom, my friends...

See this nice kitchen table?

Now look at it.

Yeah. It was pretty bad. That's 4 years worth of candy wrappers, probably about 95% of them mine, that I'd had been saving.

I had myself convinced that I was going to do something with them...something...anything... And actually, I did do a few things. I made a collage or two, I made some picture frames for family and friends...I did use a few of them. But nowhere near the amount that I had and continued to horde. I knew that I was never really going to do anything with them, but I couldn't stand to let them go. I was going through a lot of other issues in my life, and I don't know why I chose to hang onto them, but somehow I felt like I couldn't throw them away. Any of them. About 3 months ago, when we got our kitten, I had to move the collection, but did I throw them away? No. I bagged them up and kept them. But now, it was time for them to go.

Going...

...going...

...gone. Goodbye.

As a matter of fact, I had been doing the same thing with about 2 1/2 years worth of old catalogs, too...but those left about 2 months ago. So I am happy to report the victorty that Lord gave me over that area of my life!

Well, that about concludes this broadcast of Daddy's Girl Network's Random Post. Tomorrow we will be airing the July edition of Rebekah's Picturesque Guessing Game, so stay tune -- don't touch that dial! Goodbye till then! ;)