http://mizfancypants.com my deep thoughts, foibles, confessions and pictures of my kids Tue, 18 May 2010 13:50:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may remember my post about NaNoWriMo.  You may not remember it.  Maybe because I haven't talked about it since then.  Maybe that's because I never actually wrote anything.  I fussed over characters and dialog for a few days, but nobody ever did anything.  I HATE reading books like that. ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/11/29/wooooohooooo-we-have-a-novel/ We took most of last week off to prepare for this volcano making contest.  Heyhey, Eyebrow and Mastermind were all very excited when they heard about this contest and had the creative, ingenious, and disturbing idea to make these wonders of the natural world out of CAKE!  In fact, they ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/11/14/molten-magic/ I am just running with the butt-prints in the sand theme here today because I feel this has been a profound message for me in my life lately.   God has been verifying my diagnosis with little serendipitous clues like that poem.  What a hoot when God gets you right where ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/11/05/getting-spiritual-sand-out-of-the-spiritual-butt-crack/ One night I had a wondrous dream. One set of footprints there was seen. The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore. But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?" Those prints are large and round and neat, "But Lord, they are too big for ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/11/03/prints-in-the-sand/ I just wanted to share what a great movie I thought this was.  If you haven't seen it, it is now available for purchase or rent and I highly recommend it.  I am one of those people who gets a thrill learning about apologetics.  For those non-religious zealot types, this ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/30/great-movie-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/ I don't know what I am thinking, but I just signed up to write a novel in one month!  For those of you who don't recognize that hip, cryptic acronym in the post title, it stands for National Novel Writing Month.  It is a contest held every November in which ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/30/nanowrimo-anyone/ I have been meaning to post for days now, but we've been constantly busy doing stuff!  So I thought I would just post a brief synopsis of our last few days for all of you who are following our extremely interesting lives. Saturday we picked up cousin "Amfie" and had her ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/29/week-in-brief/ I was willing to contribute.  I had good intentions.  My blogging prowess and technological savvy was growing by leaps and bounds.   My SuperGeek husband had taken me to the on-ramp of the information superhighway (he hates that term) and now I was weaving through the traffic. Surely any monkey with ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/25/teamwork/ I woke up early this morning (6:20am).  This is against my nature, so I give credit where credit is due; Divine Intervention.  The only other thing that can rouse me at that hour is a crying baby, which I haven't had in a few years. Thoughts placed on my mind: ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/21/245/ Well, the cold has gone from my throat, to my sinuses and has settled in my chest.  I wish I could say that I'm one of those tough, martyr-types for whom any illness is just a minor inconvenience.  Like a hangnail, to be ignored.  (But hangnails are REALLY painful!)  Someone ... http://mizfancypants.com/2008/10/20/the-healing-power-of-tang/