The Texas Mama

“The situations and experiences we face in life reflect what Heavenly Father really knows about us and what we need to make weak things to be made strong.”

That quote is actually hanging on the wall just above my laptop in the office so that I can look up at it often. It gives me a feeling of strength and comfort every time I read it.

Thanks for hosting, Strawberry Kisses and of course Three Buttons for This is..

We are one of the lucky few who already have power back on. And I feel guilty about it. I can hear generators roaring away in the neighborhood next to ours. Crowds gather at the gas station every day all day. Many people don’t have water either. And here I am sitting in my home enjoying all the modern conveniences that I normally have.

I haven’t left the house since Monday. I don’t want to fill up my car with gas when there are so many people in line waiting to fill their gas cans up to run their generators. Stations are only letting them fill up one can at a time. Fights have broken out at the local gas station. Police are there to monitor everyone to help insure that they are on their best behavior.

We’re running awfully low on food, so I may have to go down to the closest grocery store today. Hopefully they have more cold foods available. When the hubs went Monday, there weren’t much refrigerated goods to be had. He grabbed milk and meat and that has been what got us through this week so far.

I have plenty of dried goods- cans upon cans and boxes upon boxes of non-perishable items. But a family needs butter. And fresh fruits and vegetables. Oh, and maybe some chicken?

I am becoming more and more impatient for life to return to normal. We had such a great little schedule going. It feels weird being cooped up all week. The house is pretty darn clean, that’s for sure! I’ve been sewing and crafting with Hali. I’m honestly surprised we haven’t gone totally stir crazy. But I suppose we have some practice at staying home all week. I’ve spent some time in the past few years since Hali was born without my own car.

Fall is officially upon us in just a few days. It has taken some restraint for me to not put up all my fall home decor items. Come Monday? I will be showing no such restraint. I LOVE fall. I love it. My favorite season. We have been blessed with a cool front this weeks as well. It is never this cool here in September. It’s amazing. Such a blessing to all those who are still without power.

And that concludes my ramblings for today.

Lucky me, I’ve been awarded my very first blog award!

Thanks to Mommy Lounge!

And now I am passing it along to a few of my very favorite blogs:

The Sky is Pink- Lera is thebest thrifter there is and I am super jealous of her pyrex collection.

Thornberry- I wish I could sew and crochet half as well as she does.

Balancing Everything- I know poor Jessica probably can’t step too far away from her infamous bowl to accept her award, but I love her and her bloggy goodness. No matter where she’s blogging at.

Loralees Looney Tunes- Loralee is well, Loralee. I just think she rocks. Nuff said.

Pass along the goodness please!

It’s 2:00 a.m, and I am still all kinds of angry on behalf of Loralee. She has had the unfortunate experience of being plagiarized. By a woman who apparently has made a habit of it, as we discovered that she has stolen from at least two other fellow bloggers. You can read all the back story here, in Loralee’s entry and comment section.

 American Sweatpants wrote a wonderful piece that was apparently too good not to steal.

As was Chelsea’s review of A New Earth.

There may be more, but I am tired of looking. Archives have been saved, so we shall see. The truly unfortunate part (well, aside from that stealing is a crime and very bad and morally wrong) is that she LIED about it. She tried to pass it off as someone else’s fault. Obviously, this thief has issues. How unfortunate for those who’s words she stole that they got involved in her problem.

Loralee was, while angry, pretty understanding about it, even in her anger. I just hope that things are righted as they should be and that no more people have been stolen from. What a night.

And shame, shame SHAME on you, you dishonest person- stealing from people like that. And involving other websites- I hope you understand the possible legal ramifications of your actions- and if what you say about your future plans is true, then you should understand all too well.

So, in case you didn’t notice, here we are. Mom and Me is no more. I am now The Texas Mama, which was my website url.  The Texas Mama is now powered by wordpress. It is combined with the craft blog that I had started last year.

The header needs work. I threw up a bad quality picture of some recycled paper notebooks I made a few months ago just for the sake of having something there. I am about to flex my artistic muscles and see what I can do about that. I took several years of art classes as a teenager, so it’s been a while, but I think with a little practice, I can get back in the groove.  All of which means lots of “drawing time” with Mama, so Hali will be a happy girl!

Categories still need to be imported from the old blog. The blogroll needs changing. The page needs a ton of tweaking, which means I need to get a couple of books on css from the library tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes…