Color-Filled Hodgepodge

It's Wednesday!! You know what that means. It means a Hodgepodge post. 

So, check out my thoughts and then head over to Joyce's blog to read what she wrote and what many other bloggers are thinking about today. 

1. Share one thing that really makes your day.

Wow, there are so many things that can make my day. But, one of the easiest ways is when my boys just give me that random smile or come over and hug me for no reason. It just doesn't get any better than that, no matter how bad of a day I was having. 

2. Lots of these kinds of lists out there, but one found here says the fifteen most colorful places on earth are:

Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy~Burano, Italy~Havana, Cuba~Rio de Janiero, Brazil~Chefchaouen, Morocco~Balat, Istanbul, Turkey~Menton, France~Jodhpur, India~La Baca, Buenos Aires, Argentina~Guanajuato, Mexico~Capetown, South Africa~Valparaiso, Chile~Wroclaw, Poland~San Francisco, California~and Pelourhino, Salvador, Brazil.  

Of those listed which would you most like to see up close and in person? Of all the places you've seen or traveled in your own life, what would you say was one of the most colorful?

Well, while most would choose Italy, Morocco, and Turkey, I am choose San Francisco. The reason I am choosing it? It's close to my brother in LA. We have never been able to visit him in LA and I would really enjoy that, the kids would like it, and he's been asking if it was possible. 
3."Everything you want is on the other side of fear." Jack Canfield  In general, would you agree or disagree with that statement? Why?

I guess my answer would be, a little bit of both. Everything you NEED is in God. I have found what I want is often not what I need. But, I also feel that fear is a big thing in our world. Instead of realizing God has really got this under control, we live in fear. So, if we don't take that first step towards Christ due to fear, we will never have what we need.

4. Imagine you're stranded on a desert island and dessert appears...what do you hope it is? Do you ever struggle to remember which spelling is desert and which is dessert?

Oh, this is so easy. I have been thinking about this dessert for a while and just mentioned it two days ago. My very favorite dessert ever ... Boston Creme Pie. Yum!!! 

I hate the words desert and dessert. In my brain the spelling should be opposite of how they are. I have Googled it a few times, just to make sure I am right when I am spelling it.

5. What song almost always makes you cry?

Blessings by Laura Story has me bawling every single time! I mean, I cry the ugly cry. It touches me on such a personal level due to my kids issues. 

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not,
This is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

6. January is National Soup Month.  Everything from soup to nuts, in the soup,thick as pea soup, souped up...which saying most recently applies to your life in some way? Explain.

Hmm, this one is harder. Lately my kids have been such goofballs and I have been saying what my Grandmother used to say to us, "you are full of soup". I mean, I have been saying it a lot. 

7. Write a two word note to your younger self. What does it say?

PAY ATTENTION!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

If you like chicken but are a bit bored with what you normally make, you really should check out the Bangin' Ranch Drums from Trim Healthy Mama. You could even make it with boneless breasts if you can't bring yourself to eat darkmeat. Just make sure you change the cooking time. 

Bangin' Ranch Drums