Today is Wednesday

Wednesday's child is full of woe -- isn't that what the nursery rhyme says? I was born on a Wednesday, so I guess that explains my less than positive outlook on most things. I can twist them back to positive, after I've delved into the negative, though. But mostly I approach things from a negative perspective.

My children keep telling me, "Mom, you're so negative." And I guess I am. I wonder why that is? I don't really think it has anything to do with my being born on Wednesday.

I know that we are told that "This is the day that the Lord has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it." So I should be rejoicing regardless of the what the day presents to me. And in Ephesians 5:20 I read that I should be "giving thanks always for all things unto God."

So, I shall try to be positive in my BLOGging.

First, you will notice that I added something to the "what's this BLOG about" arena. I added, "and my life since then." I had to do that because I was getting more and more into the present family happenings, which is a good thing, and so I just added that little caveat to what is included in the BLOG.

Now, here are some positive things about today:

My back (after two days of being flat on it) is better (mostly). I have been able to walk relatively pain free, but I'm very tentative when I walk afraid to twist something back out of whack. But Thanks be to God I can be comfortable in a chair and I'm able to walk without the pain. That hasn't been possible since Sunday afternoon through last night.

The weather is beautiful again today. That makes three days in a row. I was out on my sun porch today, and enjoyed the birds singing. They're finishing their nests and some of the mother birds are sitting on their eggs. I listened as they chatter back and forth. I love the sounds of Spring. My sister loved the sounds of the birds when she visited me last April. I am so looking forward to our time together in a couple of weeks.

More April gold has popped up around the neighborhood. Those daffodils finally sprouted and are in full bloom and are very lovely this year.

I heard from my niece Jennifer -- who now goes by Jessie -- another name thing I haven't been able to wrap myself around -- but there I go being negative. I guess when I learn the name of someone, it's hard for me to change that knowing to another name.

For instance, I have a friend whom I've always known as Bobbie. At one point, there was an effort for us all to change and call her Barbara. I'm sorry. Bobbie is Bobbie, just like Alan is Alan -- not Bob as many folks call him and know him as. And then there's a young man in our church who was named at birth Jeremy, and then he decided after 17 or 18 years to change it to Jeremiah. I still call him Jeremy. It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks, I guess. So Jess -- you're still Jenny to me. I hope that's okay.

Now, here's something interesting -- Jenny's brother is Daniel Jacob -- and he was known as Daniel in his early years. I really haven't had a problem with his new name -- it only took me about 15 years to change my thinking about it -- he goes by Jake (short for Jacob).

Same with my son. We named him Philip, but called him "Pip" from the day he was born. Pip, like in Great Expectations -- the Dickens novel. Alan and I were watching that movie on TV back in the late 60s while I was carrying "shim" not knowing whether we were having a boy or girl, and we decided to name our boy Philip on the birth certificate, but call him Pip, like in the novel. Well, when Pip was about 7 years old he decided he didn't want to be Pip anymore, he wanted to be Phil or Philip. It only took me 30 years to change that over -- I still call him Pip from time to time, that is when I'm not calling him "Mark" (my brother's name) or Beck, Cyn, Phil -- last in the list of my three children. Don't all mother's do that?

I wonder how long it took Sarah to get used to her husband's new name -- the name that God gave him when he changed it from Abram to Abraham. Probably not too long, I mean she probably called him Abe before it was changed and after it was changed kept up with the Abe thing.

Just trying to be positive here. How am I doing?

Today is "date" day. Alan and I have tried for months to have a date day -- Wednesday is our date day by proclamation of Alan -- and we have missed our "dates" for several MONTHs now. I hope this is the start of something I can count on, again. Alan picked Wednesday because we can see a movie for half price on Wednesday -- we're old -- and seniors get half-price admission on Wednesday. Thing is, dinner is cheap on Tuesday. But I think I can talk him into eating out after the movie. We'll see. I'll let you know. :)

I'm off to enjoy the movie of the week with my husband -- we're going to see Expelled.

You all have a great day. Runnemede folks, you're included in that admonition. Bye for now.