AHAHAHAHAHAHA! This song just makes me happy and giggly, not a bad way to start the work week!  :)  So mi madre (that'd be my Mom for those of you who don't know Spanish) turns 60 this week and I thought for the next few days I would dedicate song of the day to my Mom and the songs she liked or likes.  Today's song is thanks to Wham!  We loved this song, heck we loved Wham!  I have a very clear memory of Sundays in the car with my Mom.  The radio station played the top 50? top 100? for the week and my Mom wrote out the list every week and compared songs, were they going up on the charts or down?  Now that I look back I'm not sure why she did this but this song was in the top for a long time.    Watching the video makes me feel slightly hysterical.  My oldest redhead had a confused look while watching the video and then simply walked away and said, "And that's why I hate 80's music."  AHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Hav...

Isaiah 26:3 says that when we keep our minds fixed on Jesus Christ then everything about us - our character and our inclinations - will reflect him.  (Amplified Version)  We need the Lord every minute of every day that he gifts us with.  We cannot do this life without Christ.  We were not created to do this life without him but plenty of us try, don't we?  We strive to do it without him and when we get to the end of ourselves and our pitiful efforts then we turn to him.  How much easier would it be if we would just turn to him first?  :)  Gee, what an idea!  He gave you life and that means you need him every hour of the life he's given you.  I Need Thee Every Hour I Need Thee Every Hour (Jars of Clay) I Need Thee Every Hour (Randy Owen - from Alabama! - and The Isaacs) I Need Thee Every Hour (Fernando Ortega)

Ah, hair bands. AWESOME.  :)  Haha, my pre-teen, almost teen, redhead is like "ew".  I just laugh.  Cinderella.  Not a band I listened to a whole bunch but this song everyone knew.  I will say that Cinderella, while not being the most attractive band, was certainly talented.  The lead singer, Tom Keifer, plays piano, he plays guitar, he sings (although I'm not a huge fan of his voice in this particular song.  His voice is way better on songs like Coming Home).  Don't know what you got till it's gone. Doesn't always apply to relationships which is generally when people pull out the saying and use it.  Let's just take freedom for example.  Sometimes you don't realize how good it was until it was gone.  Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) Bonus Song: Coming Home

This song has been pretty much stuck in my head all week!  I alluded to it in an FB status update earlier this week. Things for me haven't been sunny with a high of 75 in quite a while but this week I feel like I'm climbing back toward that forecast.  I think I'm hovering around partly sunny with highs in the mid 60's.  :)  Definite improvement over stormy and highs in the 20's.  When dark clouds threaten your horizon look for the sonshine.  I did and I was, I am, always able to catch a glimpse of it peeking out from the storm clouds.  The son is faithful to always make an appearance.  Not sure of that?  Let's talk!  Happy Friday! High of '75

While the celebration of Christmas may be over the impact of Christmas goes on and influences each day.  My friend Tracy sent me this song and said it was one of her favorites, especially at Christmas time.  I had not heard it until I clicked on the link!  Tracy sent me the one by Travis Cottrell but I noticed that he was "redoing" it from the original so I searched around and tried to find the original artist but alas, the original artist isn't shown singing it - just talking about worship in general.  I did find a fave singer of mine doing it so I included that on here as well!  What I like about this song is that in about 4 minutes it gives a brief history of the birth and life of our Savior all within the first minutes of his life.  What his Mother and Father could not understand, what the world could not understand but what he knew and what God knew is that he came to die.  Yes, all of us from the moment we are born are dying but Jesus truly cam...

We love Veggie Tales and my youngest redhead is obsessed with this song currently (if you know her then you are not surprised my this).  She was dancing around the kitchen this morning singing this song and it got stuck in my head so...now I'm attempting to get it stuck in yours!  Veggie Tales are brilliant.  They appeal to the younguns and the adults.  I love how they put the Veggie twist on classic films like Lord of the Rings (Lord of the Beans), etc.  Enjoy (and I hope it gets stuck in your head! haha!)!  Rock Monster

Oh my gosh.  Thank you thank you thank you Jodi Friscic for sending this song my way!  It's great!  And it is true!  For anyone who is an avid, voracious reader this song is probably your new theme song!  I love Julian Smith's humor...look for another of his songs in the near future.  I'm a day behind because, ironically enough, I was wrapped up yesterday in my newest project - transferring my books I have read and books I want to read to Goodreads.com. :)  Virtual Bookshelf on FaceBook wasn't doing it for me so I switched and I've been having fun building my list of books "to read".  I think the number sits around 350 or so.  :)  SIGH.  So many books and so little little time.   A book is intoxicating to me.  The smell of a bookstore or library is one of my favorite smells ever.  I love the smell of books, the feel of books, and of course reading the contents of books.  Books have helped me imagine, esc...