(OK, I’m coming back on here about four or so hours after putting up this post so that I can tell you that it turned out to be one of “My Favorite Comment-Sections EVER”! I’m not kidding. You guys are the world’s biggest blast. But, I’m now in the shopping mood again.)
Good Monday Morning, Sweet Things!
I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you were able to observe some Sabbath rest and be still for a few moments, knowing that He is God. I had an usually wonderful weekend with unexpected joys. For starters, this was a weekend off. That means I got to awaken slowly on Saturday with no plans whatsoever then had an impromptu call from Amanda saying that she had a few hours to hang out. Turned out Melissa did, too. (The joys of having her back are too many to count!) As we were trying to think of what we wanted to do (and were shopped out and grossed out at the thought), Amanda said, “Let’s go see Aunt Gay’s new apartment!” I’m hoping it won’t be long before you get to know my big sister here on the blog. She has a story that might hit those of us presently slogging around in faithlessness with a fresh bolt of lightening. Her boys (25 and 15) also headed over to her new place at the same time and the thought of us all being together was better than a bubbling plate of cheese enchiladas with chili gravy running all into the rice and beans. (Man, I hate that I just did that to myself.) The six of us were inseparable in the early years when my mom, our Queen of Everything, was still alive and in complete control. (I say that with great affection…and without deception.) I have almost as many pictures of my sister’s boys as I do my own girls. Then a whole lot of life happened and that’s a story for another time. We had a blast together Saturday and laughed our heads off, which has always been a Green (my maiden name) family trait. What we lacked in emotional health, we made up for in humor. As my older brother, Wayne, says, we all have a keen sense of the absurd. And I might add, we earned it.
If you only knew the whole story…but, then again, you could say the same thing to me. Some whole stories don’t need to be told in public but they do indeed need to be redeemed. (To me, the line is drawn where the glory to God and the good to the listeners profoundly exceeds the pain of the testimony. If the listener will likely be left with graphic visuals and oppressive thoughts or pervasive sadness, we need to refrain from telling it in detail. In those occasions, generalities are best. We don’t have to tell people everything to tell them an important something. We also have to be very sensitive to the other people – often family members – whose secrets are inadvertently told as we tells ours. These are HUGE issues that need to be worked through with great sensitivity. Mind you, I’m talking about audiences here. I’m not talking about counseling sessions. We do indeed need to find someone trustworthy and mature in the faith, with a gift for counsel, to hear our whole story.) All this to say, if you’re alive enough to read this blog, you’re story is not yet finished and you’ve got time for a really great turn in the narrative that leads to a brilliant finish. I know that for a fact.
OK, can you switch tracks really fast? I thought we’d do something fun today. I was thinking again yesterday while I was putting on my make up and getting ready for church how ticked I am that L’Oreal discontinued the mascara Melissa and I used to use. It was our favorite EVER and no other mascara does lashes like it did. It’s so annoying when that happens. And what a double whammy after my favorite pen got discontinued! Some of you remember that nail biter. No wonder it’s been such a hard year. (Of course, I’m being ridiculous. I don’t want to insult those of you going through tremendously hard times. Like many of you, last year actually was really rough but, oh, that it would have been over pens and mascaras.) I decided it would be fun today to share your favorite ___________ ever. By all means, don’t share something that’s been discontinued or you will dangle a plastic carrot in front of your Siestas. Beyond that, it can be anything! (Suitable to this blog, of course) It can be your favorite mascara. It can be your favorite book. It can be your favorite recipe. It can be your favorite meal. It can be your favorite memory. It can be your favorite song. Share ONE FAVORITE THING of yours (only 1!) with your Siestas today. It may mean that some of us find a new favorite something this very day.
Start it like this: My favorite (fill-in-your-blank) EVER is… (then, for crying out loud, tell us)
I think this is going to be fun. I’ll start with a really stupid one.
My favorite lip plumper EVER is Sally Hansen “Lip Inflation.” It’s dirt cheap and it feels like you’ve rubbed Tabasco all over your mouth. If it plumps like it hurts, move over Angelina.
What’s your favorite something, Siestas??
First of all I love the saying at the end about the lip plumper move over Angelina I have never used it might try it.
My favorite thing is Oreo’s cookies and almond milk yum yum.
One more thing other favorite is beans and green chili stew with a buttered hot tortilla so good.
Carol
Carol can I just tell you that whenever I see you post, my eyes ALWAYS trick me into see Carol “Burnett” and I ALWAYS have this shocked feeling of “Wow, Carol Burnett is a Siesta!” LOL Then I read your name again. Happens every time. 🙂 Bless you today, Carol BRUNTLETT!!
My favorite frozen drink EVER is Sencha Cremesicle with hemp milk! I buy it every Thursday at Health Foods Unlimited.
Denise, Albuquerque, NM
My favorite Chinese restaurant and best meal ever was at the Formosa in Birmingham, AL and the best meal was Butter Cream Coconut Shrimp with Crackling Rice Won Ton Soup and the best tasting Egg Rolls with the kindest most loving owners you could ever hope to meet. My in-laws who have literally traveled the world over stated they never had anything so delicious in their lives. If you live anywhere near Birmingham, check it out for yourselves. You’ll be glad you did! Keep your eyes on the clouds, Jesus is coming soon! Hallelujah!
Denise, I live in Birmingham and love Formosa too. However, I get the Walnut chicken (I don’t think it’s on the menu). Has candied walnuts on top. It is soooo good!
My favorite movie EVER is Pride and Prejudice, mind you, I’m talking about the BBC version with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy! I’ve watched it probably fifty times and love it every single time! Movies just. do. not. get. any better than that … unless I’m snuggled up in my bed reading the book!!!
I love this movie too! Have you seen the Masterpiece Theater movies Emma and Downton Abbey? They are both wonderful!!
My favorite household appliance, hands down, is the Shark steam mop. I hate mops and nasty mop water and this requires neither. Last week it cleaned up a pile of dried up, sticky applesauce that I let sit too embarassingly long, with no elbow grease. I mop my tile shower…I have even mopped my kitchen table. Buy one if you can…that’s all. (I should be getting paid).
My favorite book…”The Shack”. If you have read it, enough said.
My favorite thing is to spend time with my precious husband, children and grandchildren eating, playing or doing ANYTHING together at all!
My favorite thing is getting pedicures with my 93 year old grandmother, my mom and my beautiful 6 year old daughter. It is so great that she gets to have all these special memories!
My favorite fiction classic is Jane Eyre. It encouraged my faith so much!
Well, if we are narrowing it down to one. I would have say one of my favorite things ever is when my husband prays with me and for me.
Back in November, my uncle went home to be with Jesus. I needed to take my mother to be with her sister (the one whose husband died that morning). Needless to say we were both upset. I stopped by husband’s business and asked him to pray for me. He tenderly took me in his arms and prayed for me and with me while his customers looked on.
That has meant more to me than words can say.
how very very special you must be to have such an amazing husband….
Beautiful…
My favorite dessert ever is Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory! Something I get once a year on mine and my husband’s wedding anniversary!
My most favorite appetizer is Houston’s/Hillstone’s Spinach Artichoke Dip…YUM!!! I have been known to order it as my entree’…sadly I don’t live in a city that has a Houston’s anymore…I am wishing for one at La Cantera close to where I live!
Oh my.. one favorite thing.. that is hard to decide… but my favorite place to be is on Crystal Beach in Destin, FL surrounded by my family and friends, playing with my grandbabies in that beautiful clear water!
My favorite lipgloss ever is..Prescriptives “Meteor” color! They have great lipgloss.Lasts long!!
My favorite eye liner is Almay intense i-color, crayon contour blackpearl 03 (hyperallengenic) and last forever! (Walgreen’s sells it and it’s $7).
My favorite way to spend my time in the middle of the night (which I certainly don’t do enough but is a very special ordained time with my Sweetest Sweetheart) is to sing and dance and praise His beautiful, glorious Name for as long as possible! I’m so refreshed by these beautiful one-on-one times with my Lord!
My favorite new moisturizer is Ultra Sheer by SkinMedica
It feels so good as my old face drinks up the Vitamins C&E. The best after a professional peel. This product line is expensive:( but worth it!!
My favorite hair brush ever is one I’ve had for all of my 28 years. It is a dark pink and black Goody brand. It has the most bristles, that have never broken or fallen out. It is the only brush that can smooth all my super thick hair when I put it in a pony tail etc. Also works great on fine baby hair!
My favorite open star cluster is Pleiades!
My favorite vitamins ever are Multi Vites gummy adult vitamins!
I’ve had issues my whole life with swallowing pills and these gummies make me feel stupid but happy that I can get something into my system supplement wise and not choke half to death!
My favorite of all time is homemade popcorn. I don’t go to movies, I go to eat popcorn. It would be the food I would want on a deserted island. It is what I think should be in airbags in cars. An accident would be much easier to handle if my face plowed into a pile of popcorn
My favorite treat is a diet coke and a roll of chocolate chip cookie dough! It makes me so happy I do a little dance in the kitchen while I eat it.
sounds like a perfect combination to me!!
I like both
thrift store shopping!
best thing ever… a newborn
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AGREE!!!!!
My beagle. If you never want a dull and boring life, get a beagle. Not only will you pass out daily because of how cute they are, you’ll get a lot of chances to practice godliness on a daily basis. Such as, patience, not killing your beagle with your bare hands because of the 50th idiotic thing she’s done that day, forgiveness, getting your hot fury under control, learning how to say bad things to your beagle without swearing. Okay, that last one might not count as godliness, but it’s gotta count for something 🙂
My favorite thing is to go shopping at the Christian Store.
My favorite beverage is Diet Mt. Dew…I drink way too much of it every day. I’m convinced at this point, I’m 90% water, 10% caffeine 🙂
My favorite thing EVER about being pregnant is GIVING BIRTH!!!
Please, Lord, let it happen soon! 41w 2d
Lord, deliver Jocelyn through her delivery and the wait until!
LOL. May today be your day!! 🙂 God bless you!!!
My favorite book series that I ever read was “The Mark of the Lion Series” by Francine Rivers. I could read it again.
Mine too!!
AMAZING!
My favorite thing is to share God’s Word w/ my home girls around my dining room table.
My favorite place to spend a week in the summer is Pine Cove! Family camp @ The Woods is the next best thing to heaven.
My husband and I met at Pine Cove, working as counselors in the summer. Favorite place ever! Almost cried when I read your comment.
One of my favorite things is ,…..Greencastle soap! It is the best soap ever! Makes taking a shower/bath a delight and once I started using it as a hand soap it got rid of my dry/cracked/bleeding hands this winter! Many great scents..but oatmeal clove and oatmeal at my favorites…well..so is spearmint, lemongrass, coconut lime…. 🙂
One of my favorite things is ,…..Greencastle soap! It is the best soap ever! Makes taking a shower/bath a delight and once I started using it as a hand soap it got rid of my dry/cracked/bleeding hands this winter! Many great scents..but oatmeal clove and oatmeal at my favorites…well..so is spearmint, lemongrass, coconut lime….
Here is the website and no I don’t benefit from anyone buying it
http://www.greencastlesoap.com I found it in a small shop in Black Mountain, NC
My favorite book is “Radical Gratitude” by Ellen Vaughn
My favorite kind of chip is Sour Cream & Onion. I eat waaay too many whenever I have them.
My favorite thing EVER is my two granddaughters, Addison and Kaitlyn. My favorite drink right now though is Sonic’s Sweet Tea! They make it so well!
Tammy
Ingleside, TX
My favorite thing is giving birth to each of my sweeties. I *loved* being pregnant and seeing and holding my babies. There is nothing like new life!
My favorite movie/musical is Mamma Mia! I have seen the movie a dozen or so times, but just saw the musical for the first time yesterday and I LOVED it! Such joy with a tune of ABBA in the background 🙂
Isn’t it the best?!!!! Love love love it!!!
Mama Mia is amazing. I is so much fun to see actors getting to have that much fun making a movie. Get the DVD and watch all the interviews, outtakes and special features. Especially the commentary.
making that movie look easy is true art. seriously.
there are few things harder to do on stage than look like you are having spontaneous fun. but they pulled it off brilliantly.
My favorite book series – The Mitford Series by Jan Karon.
I love those books, too…every single one of them!
My favorite is lunch time conversations with my granddaughter.
My favoritesong is “Do It Lord” by Travis.
my favorite version of Do It Lord was the sign language interpreter at the SLI event. She was SO intense. her hand gestures for the actual line ‘do it Lord’ were so powerful. she had us all mesmerized.
My Favorite MOVIE is “Pride and Prejudice.” It is the perfect curl up on the couch with a cup of coffee kind of movie. It just makes me happy!
currently my favorite perfume is “Amazing Grace” by Philosophy. Love the scent and the name!
My favorite snack is Archer Farms dried cherries (from Target) mixed with my roasted raw slivered almonds! Oh my…I made myself sick on this just today!!
My favorite childhood memory is watching The Walton’s while eating ice cream after dinner. Listening to John Boy’s narrative at the beginning and end of the show. (I too wanted to be a writer) Also, the sound of the screen door on their big house. We have the DVD’s now and I watch them with my kids. Takes me back and makes me cry everytime.
Wow. That just brought back great memories for me. Staying at my grandparents house on the weekend and watching The Waltons. *sigh* Thanks, I needed the joy of that memory.
One of my favorite things is “pebble” ice. Like Sonic or Chick-fila. Pour some sweet tea or Diet Dr. Pepper over it and yum-o!!
My favorite song is VICTORY in Jesus
We love the version on “Jesus Saves Live”
The thing that delights my heart nearly above everything else is AUTUMN!! I think I’m one of the few people that actually LOVE living in northern Ohio. 🙂
Crisp breezes, hot apple cider, squirrels burying acorns, toasty-warm sweaters, beautifully colored trees, raking leaves and preparing the flower beds for resting over winter, anticipating the seasons’ celebrations, the start of football season…… I could go on and on!! I’m fairly certain that this must be what my part of heaven is going to be like!!
My favorite scent EVER from Bath and Body Works is Moonlight Path! It’s a bottle of lavender goodness!
mine too!
My favorite coffee creamer EVER is Coffeemate Hazelnut liquid (not powder), and I put in enough so that my coffee is a lovely cream color!
Same here!! Even the FF is good! My coffee doesn’t taste right unless it has the hazelnut creamer in it!
well, since you mentioned mascara,
my favourite MASCARA is Lise Watier 24 hr GLAM. It’s waterproof, makes your lashes look miles longer, and doesn’t irritate this contact-lens wearer’s eyes!
Judith – Canada