http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp recent pleonast.com entries by user missysnapp en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=581790 Heard a sermon last night that I expect will change my life. It wasn't new information. It was just powerfully put. Over and over again, he made the point: The God of Heaven has established His rule in such a way that prayers of believers can impact the decisions He makes. Why, I have no idea. But my prayers are set up to make a difference. Do I believe this? Yes. Do I act like I believe it? Not really. Everyone is running scared in our failing econonmy. Have I prayed about it DAILY? Have you? The illustration was used of the persistent widow in Luke 18. A widow was used to illustrate total weakness and dependence. An unrighteous judge was used to illustrate the brick wall that widow was up against. This was a more extreme example than what we deal with. God is caring, giving us even more reason to never give up. The judge had no reason to care about the widow, yet she got her wish granted...by persistence. Asking. Asking again. Asking still again. Coming back to ask again. Oh look... 2008-09-30 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=571502 It is Week 3 of Brady being in pre-school. Many of you may remember our TRAIN WRECK of a pre-school attempt from last year. It was an obvious decision of take him out and let him chill at home. This year, I expected resistance to some degree. But instead of resistance, it's as if his body has been tuned to this school and just looking for his soul mate. He now prays for his school. "Dear God, thank you so much for my school." My personal belief is that it's the hand sanitizer. The kids have to sanitize before sitting down at their table. One morning last week, Brady's teacher stuck her head out while he was in the middle of this very lengthy process and said, "He likes to rub it ALL THE WAY in. Welcome to my world, Ms. Debbie. Yesterday I picked up two extra kids to drop them at her. Everyone had a paper trail as we made our way to the car. Michael was carrying a bear that was chickenpoxed up with tissue paper decor. At the beginning of our journey it had 2 eyes and a m... 2008-09-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=563376 Hey. We are hitting the monorail tomorrow and Downtown Disney. We have no intention of doing a park at this point in the summer with 4 kids, so we're doing this the free way. I know I can pay parking at the Magic Kingdom or Epcot and get on the monorail that way. Can I also park at one of the resort hotels, such as the Grand Floridian, and do the monorail? We kinda want to get off at some of the hotels and mill around. Not sure they allow that. It IS Disney and they DO own the free world...or most of central FL anyway. If you have any tips, send them my way. 2008-08-16 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=561976 This is worth a public post. If you ever wonder why things aren't working (and I do), try this on for size. Powerful Reading for Moms 2008-08-12 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=513539 Hey, y'all. It's been pointed out to me that I am older than dirt, though I will refrain from naming my accuser. :) Since I went to school with an older crowd (that means you are older than dirt, too, if you went during my years), let me point you to here so you can read what's up with Connie. If you knew her or know her now, please send something our way. This would help cheer her tremendously. I'm just kidding about being older than dirt. I'm sure there are a lot of people on here looking forward to their 20th high school reunion next summer. Goodness. I don't think that fact helped my case any. In other news, we've had more poop incidents than you could shake a single stick at this week, B set off the emergency alarm in Costco today and almost lost his mind, and all 6 of us took a walk tonight. The third item is likely the most notable. Pictures to follow in a future post. 2008-04-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=464859 Do you ever wonder why we feel closer to God and each other when we are out in nature, hiking or camping away from it all? Is it that we are in a natural setting so much or does it have more to do with being away from the unnatural setting? When I am out in the woods, or on a mountain, I pray more. There is no TV to watch, no CDs to listen to, no phone to answer. When I’m off in some cabin, I read my Bible, because that’s what I took to do there and because I don’t have so many daily tasks pretending to paw at me. I was reminded of Jesus’ statement that “where your treasure is, there will your heart be” as I rooted through my house this weekend for garage sale items. Are you aware that you are rich? Filthy rich? I wasn’t consciously aware of this until this weekend. I can’t believe what I have the ability to throw out in Monday’s trash, because I don’t need it. Not only do I not need it now, I never needed it in the first place and I now feel the weight of it aroun... 2007-12-03 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=463811 You have one hour. You cannot gain weight from the exercise (you are granted immunity from weight gain...) You have to choose one food item to gorge on. You must gorge. With these rules, what do you choose? I choose Brownie batter. A huge, huge bowl of brownie batter and a large spoon. Mmm. 2007-11-30 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=462291 Hello everyone. I am actually in car, with my hands on the steering wheel, driving from Alabama to Florida and posting on Pleonast. I will let you figure that out, but the car Internet connection makes us studs and demands your respect. I will post about our trip later, but let me leave you with a few inventions that came to mind as we suffered at the hands of 3.5 children inside this van. First Invention - THE CHILDREN'S PORTABLE TOILET - This one we actually stole from someone else and have already employed. This is a simple water bottle that only works on boy anatomy under the age of 6. I can tell you I got a very shocked expression when I told our oldest; "We ain't stoppin' --- use this." After he got over the initial shock he spent the rest of that car ride staring pridefully at his own urine. (Note to future car toilet inventors/users - Do not keep similar bottles of juice in the car at the same time) Second Invention - THE MAGNABRELLA - Standing outside the car i... 2007-11-26 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=448793 This will be short, because a certain Lucy Caroline is speaking to me over the monitor and her words will only stay positive for so long. I felt the need to change the entry because a gay Dumbledore is not worth taking over a blog and because I may be silent for a small stint. I've done some deep thinking recently, because I've had to. I've been thinking a lot about who we are. Who we are at the core. Who we are striving to be. Who we are in times of crisis. Whose courts we are standing in. I've done my share of wrong things, I assure you. I fight myself daily. I often go to bed not so much wishing I hadn't done certain things wrong, but wishing I'd done more right. Wishing I'd been stronger. The weight of a long day, of 3 1/2 kids, of this and that is often enough to stimy the growth I had in my intentions that morning or the day before or a year ago. But God is gracious and patient and He has given us time and each other to grow. My question to myself and to everyone is what are we ... 2007-10-24 http://www.pleonast.com/user/missysnapp?l=5&entryID=448453 In case you haven't heard, here's the lastest water cooler talk. In the middle of book 4, I am announcing myself a Harry Potter Defect. I quit. I don't have time in my life for something that now openly, and after-the-fact gratuitously, promotes gay lifestyles. Gay Wizards, of all things. Here are a couple of especially sickening quotes. You can read about this pretty much anywhere. "Well, it's official. Albus Dumbledore, a hero of the phenomenally popular Harry Potter series and headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts, is gay. That's right, Harry's mentor and father-figure would prefer a nice wizard to a hot witch any day. "This is a victory for homosexuality the world over," one wrote. "Dumbledore is iconic, and I can't wait for all those little children to hear about this. I am so insanely proud of [Rowling] for doing this." So. If you aren't disturbed by the Harry Potter craze and world influence now, you should be. JK Rowling just used her inf... 2007-10-23