Christmas 2006 !!

Christmas 2006 was a great one in the Brumfield household. We hope that your family had a fun Christmas also!! :))

UPSIDEDOWN POTS!!

Mom , Debra, and myself have been quite busy the last couple months doing craft shows. Some of you may know that we have a couple of sidelines....Potted Blossom our upsidedown pots (pictured above) also Wags2Whiskers dog clothes (pictured). Broardmore craft show was CRAZY........If you are in Denham Springs December 9th we will be there for the street festival.......

FRONT ROW !!!!!

FANTASTIC!!!!! On Nov 1, Wed night my good friend Debra and I went to HPC to see Joyce Meyer. The 8:30 service, it was wild , crazy, awesone and a blessing. We sat front row, brought back memories of a rock concert.....Praise and Worship was out of the park my ear drums are still recovering and her message was one I wish everyone could of heard, it was right on.

Got to love Joyce Meyer!!

GUESS WHO ?????

This was Halloween 2005 at the Vet Clinic. Sorry to say no dress up this year. Well could you guess who they are? It's Miss Piggy and Willma!!

Mitzie And Dewy

For those of you that have not been able to make it to one of our shows, here are two designs of Debra's for Wags2Whiskers. Aren't they cute?

I Thought This Was Good!

A good Friend sent this to me ,I thought this was good.

I love the last paragraph!




The Necessity of the Desert by Os Hillman, September 6, 2006
..."I have become an alien in a foreign land." - Exodus 2:22God's preparation of a leader involves training, extended times of waiting, pain, rejection, and isolation. Are you ready to sign up?Moses was brought up in Pharaoh's court. He had the very best of everything-education, clothing, food, and personal care. But there came a time when the man God would use to free an entire people from slavery was going to have to learn to be the leader God wanted. At age 40, when most of us want to be thinking about winding down instead of beginning a new career, Moses was forced to flee to the desert.Like Joseph and Abraham, Moses had to endure some difficult years of preparation that first involved removal from his current situation. He went from notoriety to obscurity, from limitless resources to no resources, from activity and action to inactivity and solitude. And, most importantly, waiting. And waiting. And waiting. He probably thought he would die in the land of Midian.

Then one day, a full 40 years from the day he arrived, God appeared to Moses in a burning bush. Everything changed. God said, "It is time." The years had seasoned the vessel to prepare him to accomplish the work.God is preparing many workplace believers today. The circumstances may be different. The time frames may not be quite as long. But the characteristics of the training are still the same. Do not try to shortcut the desert time of God. It only leads to cul-de-sacs, which force you to revisit the lessons you are meant to learn. Embrace them, so that He can use your life for something extraordinary.

OK...OK...OK...OK!

Ok, I know it has been almost a month since my last post. There is way too much going on in my life and at this point in time I am finding it very hard to juggle everything.

My VERY good friend had surgery this month ,and is out of work for about another four weeks and since she is also a co-worker I am working two shifts at work: 7a.m. till 6:p.m. every day (Yes Saturday's and Sundays, hours are not as long on weekends) And the Book! well that's another story all together, spending every extra minute on all the notes for the book.

But I must also say that I have also had some great Family time with Dudley, JP, and his girlfriend Heather this month sooooooooooo after all of that I slip in to the tub and fall in bed....the blog has been the last thing I have thought about.

The "Next" Button !

The thought that I need to blog has been rolling around in my mind ..need to blog ...need to blog. I have been in to everyones blog even people that I don't know!

I was tempted the other day when I noticed the "next blog" button, so I clicked. Yep! there are some.... ummmm shall we say different people out there, but on the flip side I saw some of the most beautiful pictures, read some of the funniest stuff, and wept at some true raw emotions.

So if you are ever tempted or maybe just a little bored just give the "next blog" button a click, you will never get the same one twice always in random order.

Melissa Brumfield

On June 27, twentyone years ago I gave birth to a Beautiful baby girl, Melissa Sue.
Our family was so blessed to have her for 18 years. So of course with June 27th right around the corner, my mind has been playing that what if game. Turning 21 is always a big deal for most teenagers , so knowing this would of been her 21st birthday I play out many different seniros of what that big day would of been like for her. (I am sure we all know what she would of wanted for that Birthday and what she would of planed) But what I wanted to let friends and family know I have found that grief is a strange animal and not a like for any two people and as a family each one of us miss her sooooo much and grieves differently, we all stand firm in our faith and the promises of God that Melissa is in our future!! And this is what I have come to know: In the natural I want answers (the why?) but in my spirit I know the answer, in the natural I am grieving, but my spirit knows it is ok!

Though these types of important dates are hard and serve as a reminder she is gone they do hold some of the best memories. God has never left us and our strength comes from him, as we continue to seek his face in all things, he continues to show us where he was in Melissa's life and himself in our lives now.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!!
Love ya,
Mom

Family

This was a great weekend! Dudley's parents came in from Houston for a visit. It has been close to 3 years since they have been over to the house. Dudley and I took off Friday , Saturday and JP was able to get Friday and Saturday night off.

Sorry I have no pictures of the visit but if you check out www.jpblogspot.com or www.heatheraliseblogspot.com they also talk about the visit and might even have some pictures. I know on JP's he has a video of Micky making sushi.

It was a great visit and a reminder of how important family is and should be to all of us.

We love you guys and thanks for making the trip we know how hard it was for you all to come to the house it meant sooo much.

I had to laugh!

Had to post this picture, I thought it was on the funny side. Today Dudley and I went to the 12:00 noon service. We left the house around 11:25, can I tell you that at 11:38 it was raining so hard I couldn't even see the car ahead of us. I would have to say one of the differences from the 10:00 service and the 12:00 o'clock service is that we were able to park fairly close to the Church and we had our own umbrella so we were able to make it in with out to much fuss. However some people were not so lucky and true to HPC the Staff was running people in and out with umbrellas, but as JP explained it to me the people ran so fast they would have to run with the umbrella extend over them and they would be left out from underneath the umbrella. Anyway (sorry I know I am rambling) after service I caught a glance at JP in gym shorts and a HPC tee with his crocks on. Now I know good and well when he left the house this morning at 6:45 am he was dressed in a pair of nice dress slacks and a white dress shirt .

They had to change into dry clothes....What ever they had in there cars. As JP walked his father and I out there was Tyler standing by the front door tell people goodbye as they left....His out fit was a little more out there than JP's. Tyler was wearing a suit jacket, tee, and Hawaiian swim trucks and flip flops.... Like I said I just had to laugh!

THE BIG 50 ! !

OK, it's ture I turned 50 this month. My Pokeeno/Bunko group dressed me up and took me out for a night on the town. First stop was "P F Chang" where after Wed. night service JP and Heather joined the twelve of us for dinner :( poor Dudley had to work). We were given one very long table on there back patio it was lovely and the food was very good. After Dinner we loaded up (oh yes every time I entered or exited the van they would roll out the BLACK carpet to walk down) and went to the "Melting Pot" for desert. The only time I felt old was when I was falling into bed around midnight, way way past my bed time.

The next morning I awoke to 18 or more Black Crows on wooden stakes in my front yard (Sorry no picture) and when I arrived to work the whole clinic was decorated with pictures of me from birth to the present! Even had my nudie on the bear skin rug....I was all of 6 month old! They ordered Happy Meals and Cains for lunch along with a little cake and ice cream. And a good time was had by all!

Now refelcting on turning 50 ! Not has bad as I thought, I remmeber turning 40...just the sound of saying I was 40 would make me shiver, and the thought of turning 60....and the sound of that !! TOO much Too much..........will dwell on that at a later date.

P.S. If your initials are D.McD. you will be 50 one day too, and thats all I am saying for now.

PROTESTERS

Easter was great! The service at the River Center was great! (Job well done guys.) and no doubt God showed up in a large way! But what I would like to talk about happen for me after the service leaving the River Center.

As my family was leaving the service we could see some commotion a little bit a head of us, a man screaming and banging his very tall banner on the ground and other people handing out tracks. It was crazy I was having such a hard time wrapping my mind around what was going on. All the way to the car and the ride home I was trying to grasp what that was. Why where those people there, why were they not at their church, why were they protesting at our service? Why, Why ? Like I said before I just couldn't wrap my mind around it.

After much thought on what was going on this is what I am feeling, These people may know the Bible and the Law but they must not know Jesus! And how sad is that not to know the love of Jesus! His grace and mercy, we can only pray that they will one day awake with the presence of the Holy Spirit in there life!

Blog Or Delete ? ?

Ok, ok this was a much larger undertaking than I thought it would be. JP has commented that I can not go more than two days with out a new entry, my brother-inlaw has commented about JP's comment (he was agreeing) and put in his two cents. .... something along the lines of it has been more like two weeks since my last entry. And today my husband told me, "ok you need to blog or delete you blog"

I am not quite ready to give up yet so hang in there with me and hopefully I will get rolling with this concept of bloging!

Big Mistake !!

I have found that when driving by yourself in the car your mind tends to wonder, random thoughts will just pop up. Well today while I was running some errons before work I was listening to one of my Healing Place cd's and was thinking how much I loved that cd and can't wait until April when the next one is released, and how I had given the Christmas cd to my best friend Ginny up in Waskom, Texas and just how much she had told me she loved it. When I told my self that I needed to pick up the cd I was listening to and the new one when released and drop them in to the mail.

Now, I am working on this, random acts of kindness with out a reason, but of course the first thing that popped in to my mind was what event would be soon (Easter, Birthday, Mothersday ect...) so that I could get these cd's off to Ginny, when...............IT HIT ME!!!!!!!! This was a BIG MISTAKE!!! I had overlooked her Birthday just last week !

Now we all can say that we have friends, but how many really true, there in a moment notice, holding you up, understanding you inside and out, and letting you be right when it is important to you kinda friends do we really have? I have three and Ginny is one of my three, and I felt horrible that I allowed the everyday, dayin and dayout things distract me from this important day.

A Big Mistake,
I love you girl!
John 15:13

It's been tough!

Ok, my first post. This has been tough I just finished all the questions for my profile and am ready to get started. Not real sure just who all is going to want to read or even know about this Blog other than the family. Maybe they will use this blog as I use JP's blog and thats to keep up with what all is going on in his life, big differance he is 22 years old and I am pushing 50, got to be much more going on with him than me!

TEST RUN

this is a test run i am explaining things