Everyday People

This song has always been a favorite of mine, sung by Sly & the Family Stone or later by Nicole C. Mullen. 






Everyday People

Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong,
My own beliefs are in my song,
the butcher, the banker, the drummer and then,
Makes no difference what group I'm in...

I'm everyday people, yeah, yeah

There is a blue one who can't accept the green one,
For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes, for different folks,
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo

Ooooh sha sha we got to live together

I am no better and neither are you,
We are the same whatever we do,
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then,
You can't figure out the bag I'm in...

I am everyday people, yeah, yeah

There is a long hair who doesn't like the short hair,
For being such a rich one that will not help the poor one,
And different strokes, for different folks,
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo

Ooooh sha sha we got to live together

There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one
That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
And different strokes, for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo

I am everyday people.....

Blue Highway - Someday

Ohhhhh....what a song! Love it so much!

RYLAN WESLEY LOVELACE

Rylan Wesley Lovelace made his appearance on July 3, 2017. We all thought he was going to be born in June, and Courtney wanted him to be born while David, Amy and Gideon were here on vacation, but the little stink took his own sweet time and got here when HE wanted to.

He is a beautiful baby. Not a lot of hair, but there is some, think it is going to be lighter colored. He looks just like his daddy too, seems to be a pattern with babies born in this family! 

I am a blessed woman to have all these grandbabies, and great grandbabies. Now I have 7 grandsons, 3 granddaughters, 3 great grandsons and 1 great granddaughter. WOW

Cumberland River-Dailey and Vincent

This Song that gets stuck in my head A LOT is "Cumberland River" by Dailey and Vincent.  LOVE their music! If it gets stuck in my head as it often does, I find myself playing it on youtube over and over until it goes away. Sometimes it just makes matters worse and it is stuck longer. I don't mind, because I LOVE the song. Now I also have another thing on my bucket list and that is to go see that beautiful, lazy, long long Cumberland River !!! (I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, this would be on it!)Here it is for your listening pleasure...





HAHAHA....Just a side note. I need a hearing aid or two. I am not kidding. I have listened to this song over and over the past couple or so years and there is a line in the chorus that says "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', lonely as can be" and I misheard it as "Shirley Mae's a'waitin', bony as can be"...that lyric really bothered me. I thought, couldn't the songwriter think of anything else? I thought, wow, it is a hit the way it is, who am I to tell a songwriter what to write? 


Then I decided that the word was "bonny" instead of "bony" and that Dailey and Vincent didn't know the word "bonny" and so pronounced it "bony". I even asked my kids and other family members if they knew what "bonny" meant. A couple had a vague idea kinda what it meant, and some of the others didn't. I was convinced the word was "bonny" and they were mis-pronouncing it...what arrogance on my part. HAHAHAHA....well one night I was listening to it as usual and when it came to that line, I heard "lonely".....LONELY.....LONELY....LONELY....made complete sense. Sure enough, when I looked up the lyrics that was the word. Why didn't I look it up first? I forgot I could....maybe I need some jellyfish for my memory too...I should have known, I have misheard song lyrics all my life. Haven't told any of the kids yet...I might. hahaha

Courtney's Quilt

Okay, here I go again. 

I don't think I am a quilter. I don't honestly know if I enjoy it or not. Then again, I have only made 3 quilts if you count my lead blanket I made out of old jeans, and I certainly do count it! 

But, since I made Danielle a quilt and she liked it, I decided in my mind to make each grandchild a quilt, even if it takes me the rest of my life, which is entirely possible! HAHA

Courtney loves the colors of mint/aqua/turquoise type greens and gray, so that is what colors I will use in her quilt. She is like me and likes a floppy quilt so I will try to see if June will quilt it with a little less filling than Danielle's quilt. The one I tacked for my bedspread was made with filling from Walmart, and it is very floppy, so I may end up doing the quilting myself although I can't see anything but a mess there.

This will be interesting to see how it goes. I have cut out most of the pieces and sewn up 12 blocks so far. 

I am weird I guess but I don't like traditional quilt patterns. I like something more random. When I made Danielle's quilt I used  a pattern I saw on pinterest. It didn't look like any pattern I had seen, but I admit I don't know much about many quilt patterns.

I started Courtney's quilt with a random pattern in mind, but when I laid the blocks together I didn't care for the way it looked. Really kinda busy. So, I rearranged the blocks into a more traditional type pattern and they look 100% better! See now, sometimes traditional is better. 

I still only do squares, because they look hard to do, I have tried and made a mess of them, and I don't like to sew enough to learn how to do them well. And I doubt I ever venture into triangle pieces or applique, although I already lied, I appliqued some words onto Danielle's quilt...

Anyway, we will see what we will see when I get it done...

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PEARLY BLUE

Pearly Blue. Old bluegrass song that Alicia taught Garrett to sing. He loved the song. He won't sing it much anymore, at least not to me. Maybe he sings it to Alicia when he is over at her house. 

Here is Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in 1956 singing Pearly Blue (I guess the actual name of the song is "Down the Road").



PEARLY BLUE

Now down the road just a mile or two,
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue,
About so high and her hair is brown,
The prettiest thing, boys, in this town.

Now any time you want to know,
Where I'm going down the road,
Get my girl on the line,
You'll find me there most any old time.

Now everyday and Sunday too,
I go to see my Pearly Blue,
Before you hear that rooster crow,
You'll see me headed down the road.

Now old man Flatt he owned the farm
From the hog lot to the barn
From the barn to the rail
He makes his living by carrying the mail.

Now every time I get the blues,
I walk the soles right off my shoes,
I don't know why I love her so,
That gal of mine lived down the road.

Third Day-Revival

WoooooHoooooooo!!!!!

Leighton Joseph Lauglin

More babies, well one here and one on the way. Kyle and Kassidi had their baby boy on March 7, 2017 and he is a big beautiful baby! He weighed 9 lbs and has a head full of beautiful dark hair.

I had dental work on the day he was born. Had several teeth pulled and dentures put in, but I insisted we stop back by the hospital and see him. I was SO loopy from the pain meds they had given me I couldn't even walk straight. Bob had to get a wheelchair for me to sit in. I was ordering him around, buying gifts in the gift shop and looking back, I probably should have waited until the next day, but I really wanted to see the baby that day...haha.

Kyle and Kassidi are so proud of their boy. I know Kyle wanted a boy, because he already had his little princess, and he wanted one of each. So glad it worked out that way.

Now we also found out that Courtney is having a baby in June so we are excited about that too! Can't wait to see the little sugarbaby!

Can a family have too many babies? Not a chance! Love 'em all!

I Like to Sing...So Sue Me

I like to sing. I really like to sing. 

I am not a good singer. I have recorded myself countless times, old tape recorder, old cassette recorder, computer, cell phone. I can hear okay, I  just don't sound that good singing. kinda off key, sometimes I hit it, sometimes I don't...

Before I decided I didn't sound good, I was singing everywhere. At church, I'd sing a special, well...I might sing two or three. Go to a singing at a different church, I'd sing a couple. 

I always thought I sounded okay, until, I recorded myself. Then there is no way to fool yourself or deny the truth, I stink at singing. I want to sing well. I have always wanted to sing but it just isn't meant to be. 

I thought God was leading me to sing. Was He, or was it just me wanting to sing? Which leads to something I have heard discussed a lot. I know you should do things you are lead by the Spirit to do, but I have also heard a preacher say, if you can do something well, and it isn't against scripture or God or the Holy Spirit, do it. So, do you have to be lead to sing, or sing for God if you can sing? 

I am not going to sing again at church, unless I get some kind of "sign" from God that I am supposed to. I have a sign I have asked for,  if I am supposed to sing, and have never had it revealed to me. 

I used to ask for a sign, Lord, if I am supposed to sing, let someone ask me to.....then hint to people about singing. I wasn't fishing for compliments exactly, I just wanted to sing and wanted them to like it. 

People would tell me, You sing with a lot of heart...okay, I know what that means...I don't want to be the person that sounds awful, off key, screeching, bellering as one man put it, but puts her heart into it. I can put my heart into something I am good at, like....like....well...nothing comes to mind that I am good at, I am kind mediocre....but....

I would have rather somebody just tell me outright that I wasn't a good singer and shouldn't sing, then let me sing like I did for years. 

It does kind of dawn on a person after a few years that nobody is asking them to sing....then  I think, oh my how awful I must have sounded...and I know even at my best moments I didn't sound like the better singers at church, or somebody off of Gaither for goodness sake.

But, I still like to sing. There are a few people who like to hear me sing. One of them called a few days ago and asked if he and his wife could stop by and me sing a song they liked that they had heard me sing. Two Shoes...it was Two Shoes...he said he would play the guitar for me. 

It was lots of fun. We sung that song two or three times, then sung a couple out of a church songbook, then he had me go through a stack of songs he had written out and see if I could sing any of them. He and his wife ended up singing one of those, to me. 

One time at another church, a pair of sisters who are well known singers in our area told me they loved my singing. Was I going to make a CD? I thought they were joking but no! They were serious. Really? Really?

Someday, when I get to Heaven, I will have a beautiful voice. I hope. I'm really not sure if I will or if Jesus will be like some of the people here and say "Just sing it and put your heart into it and it will be beautiful." My heart knows that Jesus loves me just as I am but my mind says no way. BTW Jesus...I want to play the piano and the guitar too.