Never Gone cover by my amazing daughter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS71XTjAV6c

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    Heather Powell Stackhouse Just stunning Shileen! I'd buy her album!

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    Jaclyn Abila When can we get this girl an Album, I need her on my iPod like yesterday 

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    Shileen Elizabeth Hollis Karnes Thanks girls. I wish she could see herself the way we do. 

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    Sarah Kristine Hall So talented!

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    Rebecca Hollis Beautiful Hannah!

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    Lesa Wyatt she has an awesome voice

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    Lesa Wyatt did she write that?

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    Shileen Elizabeth Hollis Karnes no, she's covering a Colton Dixon song for a contest she entered

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    Lesa Wyatt well she should win - she's awesome!! tell her to tell the enemy to shut up!!

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    Lesa Wyatt can't wait for randy to hear her!

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    Heather Powell Stackhouse Man, I just listened to this again. Not to be weIrd but there is such an anointing on her. Does she have a you tube channel? If not, she'd do great on there!

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    Shileen Elizabeth Hollis Karnes Awe, thanks Heather. She just created her youtube page last night, so I will encourage her to add more of her stuff. She has alot of originals she's done that are amazing.

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    Shileen Elizabeth Hollis Karnes Hey Hannah, you see these comments??

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    Heather Powell Stackhouse Hannah- You sweet girl are talented! There is clearly a worshippers heart in the middle of how you sing and play! Be encouraged and confident in what you've been given! Sing it girl!

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Ok, this is soo not going to be done before I leave. It's no rush, anyway. I think it's kind of funny how my kitchen looks schizophrenic. Plus, I'm losing interest in the project. I know I have to finish, and I enjoy starting new things and creating them, but I hate the having to finish the whole rest of the thing part. But here is one pretty section..

I'm using General Finishes "Java Gel Stain". It seems to be sticking pretty good. I found the instructions on Pinterest, of course.

Woke up to find out a friend experienced a parents worst nightmare. My friend Joy lost a son in a car wreck last night. He was married just last summer. Joy and I had lunch a few weeks ago and were talking happily about our children and stuff going on in our lives, and I told her about my trip to Greece. She mentioned being afraid of doing stuff like that and I told her.. If it's your time to go home (to heaven), it doesn't matter where you are, God can take you home right out there. (pointing to the street)
I'm praying that those words won't haunt her now, but be a comfort, that God has a plan, and though we sometimes won't understand it this side of heaven, he does provide comfort to those who mourn.
But it still hurts. Really bad.

before

24 hours later:

Progress has been made, but the place is a mess. cabinet doors are spread out all over the garage. 

It's gonna look good when it's done. Which is gonna be a while. This is just section 1 out of 3 in my kitchen. It will probably take about 3-4 days per section. I MIGHT make it in time..

in progress

I have a problem. A book problem. The Costco book section is to blame. I bought this one yesterday and read the whole thing, yesterday.

I'm one of those types who can't eat just one chip. Or brownie. Or anything. Blame it on OCD/personality disorder/whatever you want to call it, but I can't just pick up a book for a few minutes a day and read a book over a week or so. I always intend to. But then I get hooked and can't put it down and then all of a suden Josh comes home and I'm like, Oh shoot, what time is it?

 These are some I've read recently..

And these are for the plane trip to Greece, if I can keep my hands off of them until then...

Odds aren't good.

I need projects to keep me busy. This morning I went to Lowe's and bought a bunch of dirt and grass squares and filled in some of the big dead patch in our front yard that is our front yard. I think now I'm going to start refinishing our kitchen cabinets. I've been wanting to do it, but have been afraid of such a huge job. I've got 2 weeks till Greece, that should be enough time??

Yeah, I know, I'm slacking. It's spring break. Jordan's home. We've had shopping days, chick flick marathons, and just plain old hanging out. Too crowded to go to the amusement parks this week, plus we're going to Paris in 2 months, so we need to save money.
*I'm about to head out to my first Girls & Guns club meeting tonight. Basically a bunch of girls from church that love to shoot and have gotten our CHL. 
*I've reached another dead end with my dizziness testing. I have seen so many people and have done so many tests, but no one can find the cause of my dizziness. It is plainly evident in tests, but the source is elusive.
*Tomorrow morning we have our second Greece team meeting. Very excited about that trip. I just wish my head was better.
*We're refinancing our house. We're getting a 3. something, as opposed to 7. something interest rate.
All for now, gotta go..

Jordan news flash:
 She is transferring to a school near to home after this semester. She has decided she hates science. This is no surprise really, as we were warned this may happen to freshmen entering the program. It's 95% science(water sampling, chemistry, research, etc) and about 5% mammals. So she has had a change of heart about the direction her life should take. She also severely misses Michael (and us). The holidays were very rough on those 2 with his mom dying and I think that her priorities have shifted quite a bit. She will change majors to become a kindergarden teacher. This suits her very well.
I am not at all sad about this development for more reasons than the obvious. We miss her. But she is also having a major issue with a man down there. His name is Steven and he's 30 something years old, mentally challenged, and a student there. It's a very long story that I won't go into, but he's not only harassing my daughter but he has previously been charged with a very serious crime in 2011 and is out on bail from what we understand. All you need to know is that she needs prayer for protection. He's very angry with her and is unpredictable. It's taking every ounce of faith I have to not pull her out 2 months early. But I don't want her to lose all these college hours. The campus police are aware of the situation and have told him that they are watching him. And I know the Lord is watching her. 

If you think of her, please join us in prayer.

Fact or Fiction?

Interesting History


They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families
used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken &
Sold to the tannery... if you had to do this to survive
you were "Piss Poor"

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't
even afford to buy a pot... they "didn't have a pot to
piss in" & were the lowest of the low

The next time you are washing your hands and complain
because the water temperature isn't just how you like it,
think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their
yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by
June.. However, since they were starting to smell...
Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.
Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting
Married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man
of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then
all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the
children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so
dirty you could actually lose someone in it..
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no
wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get
warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs)
lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and
sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof...
Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the
house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs
and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top
afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into
existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other
than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had
slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet,
so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their
footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping
outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way.
Hence: a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big
kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit
the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly
vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold
overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew
had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence
the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas
porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could
obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination
would Sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.
Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running
out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins
and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the
grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins
were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
realized they had been burying people alive...
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night
(the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone
could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that's the truth....Now, whoever said History was boring