tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.comments2013-08-13T09:51:22.291-07:00My World in a Nutshell- BevUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-8956497900280046592013-08-13T09:51:22.291-07:002013-08-13T09:51:22.291-07:00Lori...You're very welcome. :)Lori...You're very welcome. :) <br /><br />Bev Smith, aka Mrs. Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10591659376189676998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-82260419691290736432013-08-13T09:03:06.729-07:002013-08-13T09:03:06.729-07:00Yes. Just got back last night from taking our youn...Yes. Just got back last night from taking our youngest to college. My heart is full. Thank you for this.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10329847672158755537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-73532432730987490462012-04-28T04:27:31.723-07:002012-04-28T04:27:31.723-07:00Well said. What a blessing it is for those of us ...Well said. What a blessing it is for those of us who want to do something to help those we care about, and don't know what to do, to know that the Lord knows and He will do what we can't. I continue to pray for you all and others who suffered loss last year. VickiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-16657752240135390152012-04-27T06:08:50.926-07:002012-04-27T06:08:50.926-07:00Thanks, Bev, for your beautiful thoughts. Thinkin...Thanks, Bev, for your beautiful thoughts. Thinking of your sweet Katie today. I think of her often, as I know the strength it takes to go day by day after such a loss. Keeping you all in my prayers.Karen Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09973122045837646553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-75549034638606595062012-04-10T21:48:00.727-07:002012-04-10T21:48:00.727-07:00I first heard this lovely story many years ago - i...I first heard this lovely story many years ago - it was part of a speech given by Judith Mischel at the wedding of her son Adam to Audrey. It was the most beautiful and meaningful speech I ever heard, ao I asked her for a copy. There were no silly golf balls, pepsi or coffee, just rocks, pebbles and sand.<br /><br />She simply said, "I want you to recognize that this is your Life. The rocks are the important things, your family, your partner, your health - and your children - everything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.<br /> <br />The pebbles are the other things that matter - like your job, your house, your car, and your friends. <br /><br />The sand is everything else. The small stuff.<br />If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you."<br /><br />She went on to say, "If you put the sand into the jar first, there’s no room for the pebbles, and the rocks. - The same goes for your life. <br />Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Take care of each other. <br />Keep the lines of communication open between you, no matter how tired or angry you may feel.<br /><br />LISTEN! - don’t just hear each other, and the same goes for your children, too, when they arrive. Listen to what they have to say.<br />Enjoy and learn from each other’s differences.<br /> <br />Turn dinner time into family time, when you concentrate on each other and your children, without talk of work, and definitely with no television on in the background.<br /><br />Play happily with your children when you become a family, participate in positive activities with them, know where they are at all times - and teach them, by example, to give back to the community in which they live. <br /><br />Take your partner out dancing, just the two of you, and always keep the romance alive, ESPECIALLY after your children arrive. <br /><br />Organize little inexpensive surprises for each other, and always remember that the courtship doesn’t end when you marry. This is the time it must truly begin - <br /><br />and being married doesn’t mean putting in 50% each - it means each of you giving of yourselves 100%. <br /><br />Spend joyful time with grandparents and your other relatives, ensuring that your children are always part of a loving extended family. <br /><br />And make laughter, and loving, part of your lives.<br /><br />There will always be time to go to work, make another dollar, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the garbage disposal, but your family ... it is the most precious and fragile gift you will ever receive, and you must never take it for granted.<br /><br />Audrey, I raised a little boy, and tonight, with all my love, I am giving you a man.<br /> <br />I pray that you will know nothing but love, passion, romance, joy and success in the life you share - <br /><br />- and you will have a very good beginning if you both remember to take care of the rocks first, the things that really matter. <br /><br />The rest IS just sand."<br /><br />I hope her children took her advice - if they did, they'll have a wonderful life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-88103526241452273652011-11-21T16:03:49.322-08:002011-11-21T16:03:49.322-08:00Sorry April - but we surely do love you and that f...Sorry April - but we surely do love you and that fella of yours. :)Bevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-29641960869249196572011-11-21T06:48:57.563-08:002011-11-21T06:48:57.563-08:00Ms. Bev, you're making me cry....
~AprilMs. Bev, you're making me cry....<br /><br />~AprilAprilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-55661647121923109472011-08-24T19:28:55.999-07:002011-08-24T19:28:55.999-07:00Oh Linda. Thank you for such sweet, sweet words. ...Oh Linda. Thank you for such sweet, sweet words. I think all of us moms have a love that is unmatched by anything else for our kids and I think we all feel very inadequate at times, me included. I too look forward to the day when the street is lined with cars of all of our "neighborhood babies".Bev.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-20190631919799897742011-08-24T18:22:07.504-07:002011-08-24T18:22:07.504-07:00Beverly, it has been such a pleasure watching your...Beverly, it has been such a pleasure watching your family from across the street. Not as a Gladys Kravitz, but as one who smiles at the comings and goings. Your faith shines so brightly and your example of love to your family is nothing short of spectacular. It's no wonder that I always think of you when I read Proverbs 31 - you are that lady, right down to dressing your family in scarlet (or crimson). I look forward to the day that the street is lined with cars again - cars full of your babies and their babies coming to find their special spot around that table.Linda A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-72661645494845728082011-08-24T07:59:50.746-07:002011-08-24T07:59:50.746-07:00I wish you well in finding projects you want to do...I wish you well in finding projects you want to do as an empty-nester. Don't be surprised if it involves putting that leaf back in and using your table for those noble causes. My dining room table serves me well in that regard.Anita Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-37501513784326918152011-08-24T07:52:17.196-07:002011-08-24T07:52:17.196-07:00above was by me: Angela L.above was by me: Angela L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-2197149718426686242011-08-24T07:51:14.311-07:002011-08-24T07:51:14.311-07:00aawww Bev, they'll still be coming back. You&...aawww Bev, they'll still be coming back. You'll have to put it back in when their all there at the same time! They've left, but that's the natural process(I know that you know <br />that). :) Mikayla may be back when she's done. Don't know what she has in mind to do, but you just never know how things will work out. Their healthy and happy, and I know that's what you want for them. Love you!<br />P.S. Not too much longer and I'm coming for coffee!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-63587278738401969352011-08-01T18:53:06.281-07:002011-08-01T18:53:06.281-07:00She was such a beautiful bride! And all of her at...She was such a beautiful bride! And all of her attendants were beyond beautiful! I feel very blessed to have seen (most) of those ladies grown up from tiny little girls twirling their dresses at church into the beautiful young women they are today. And you did an amazing job on the flowers! They were beautiful!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343364455701416876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-38110979579156024992011-05-25T08:55:39.166-07:002011-05-25T08:55:39.166-07:00Bev, I will continue to pray for the families invo...Bev, I will continue to pray for the families involved in these terrible tragedies. Thanks for your thoughts, they are of great encouragement to me as well when I can not explain why things happen like they do in life here on earth. In Christian love, EileenEileennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-75974262360415807102011-05-25T03:21:57.149-07:002011-05-25T03:21:57.149-07:00Thanks Bev for sharing these beautiful thoughts. ...Thanks Bev for sharing these beautiful thoughts. The family we have in Christ is one of our greatest blessings, both in good times & in bad. And the hope we have of being in heaven one day if we are faithful to Him is what gets us through this life. You all & others who are hurting are in our prayers.<br />Betsy ShelburneBetsy Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-33259695056687391572011-05-24T16:49:53.087-07:002011-05-24T16:49:53.087-07:00What wonderful reflections, Bev. You are right on....What wonderful reflections, Bev. You are right on. We must trust. He will not leave us and "yes, He cares." Love to all of you, prayers as well. KPKathy Perkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-78397709126512657872011-01-01T09:52:35.946-08:002011-01-01T09:52:35.946-08:00What a great thought to start off the year...I'...What a great thought to start off the year...I've been thinking a lot the last few day about changes for the new year...Maybe it's time to "adjust the sails" Thanks for the thoughts!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343364455701416876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-54334373100916691372010-10-05T08:07:20.281-07:002010-10-05T08:07:20.281-07:00Yum. :) I love that stuff!Yum. :) I love that stuff!Emilynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-81219040390950379292010-09-16T19:36:53.444-07:002010-09-16T19:36:53.444-07:00Oh Bev, I remember that smell too!! My Granny mad...Oh Bev, I remember that smell too!! My Granny made me a "cotton-pickin" bag from a flour sack using socks as shoulder straps. I remember the scales being set up on Granny's front porch and everyone would weigh the cotton they picked when their bags were full. I claimed I picked " a hundred pounds". In a flour sack?? Oh, well it kept me out of the grown-ups way....Oh, and I loved going to the cotton gin with Daddy! Those were REALLY hard times for my family but an era that will soon be lost.Leisa Penderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11579171203745904237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-45292031754624222112010-08-19T14:54:18.985-07:002010-08-19T14:54:18.985-07:00It's the best isn't it Sandra!It's the best isn't it Sandra!Bev Smith, aka Mrs. Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10591659376189676998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-66473501933179740952010-08-18T20:15:21.337-07:002010-08-18T20:15:21.337-07:00We LOVE chocolate biscuits!!!! Scott's mom ha...We LOVE chocolate biscuits!!!! Scott's mom has always made them and now the kids are all learning to appreciate some chocolate biscuits!!! Yummm-O...now I'm hungry---ha ha!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343364455701416876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-24232699342662418632010-06-22T09:09:23.771-07:002010-06-22T09:09:23.771-07:00They only get better, Sandra. They only get better...They only get better, Sandra. They only get better.Bev Smith, aka Mrs. Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10591659376189676998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-83954068655748585682010-06-22T07:18:54.634-07:002010-06-22T07:18:54.634-07:00Ha Ha!!! I did something like that the other day w...Ha Ha!!! I did something like that the other day with Austin, no windows rolled down, but he quickly begged for me to stop and added "PLEASE--- do not EVER do that in public!!!" I thought it was pretty funny, so needless to say -- I kept singing! He just slumped down in the seat and started shaking his head!! Oh the pre teenage years!!! They are gonig to be so much fun!!!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343364455701416876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-38529544549925542122010-06-14T14:52:42.201-07:002010-06-14T14:52:42.201-07:00It's just too easy not to make at home! Let m...It's just too easy not to make at home! Let me know how it turns out. hugs...Bev Smith, aka Mrs. Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10591659376189676998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884524348524197123.post-82206829306384878092010-06-14T11:07:48.935-07:002010-06-14T11:07:48.935-07:00Yum!! I think I am going to fix us some grilled c...Yum!! I think I am going to fix us some grilled chicken tonight and whip up a little white sauce to top it off! Have a great day!!!Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343364455701416876noreply@blogger.com