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hi girls. i haven't emailed any of you back yet with the address yet. i am in california. in julie's super fun house…eating yum-o food and getting ready for photo sessions. when i get home to kansas i will respond to all the awesome emails! i think together we are all a powerful force! love you all for wanting to help. bye.
when our group went to africa in march, each of us was given something to collect and bring to donate. after the Good News Club on saturdays in Kroo Bay the children are given an egg. we were told that since our visit they have been able to give each child a vitamin with their egg. we received an email that they have run out of vitamins and wondered if we would be able to collect more. we said YES! can YOU help? 1. buy children's vitamins. 2. email me for the address for where to send them. ( cdduerksen@yahoo.com ) 3. send them. (if you are local you can give them to me anytime) 4. smile. 5. pray for all the children who will receive them. COME ON LADIES. jody and cassie and pam and kari each blogged this today too…said it so beautifully. i loved what jody added at the end of her post….and i am going to paste it here: I’m quoting in full here Jaime, a missionary in Costa Rica. “I’m gonna go fight poverty for two and a half hours. 2.5 hours on a Tuesday morning to solve the biggest problem in the world. What a joke.
We will show up with a bag full of bread and an armload of bananas, and the children will clamber around us like ducks at a pond. A bunch of little ducklings, falling all over each other for a bit of bread and a soft pat on the head.
And for 2 and a half hours we will laugh and play and eat, and we will talk about Jesus. And when we leave, they will be just as poor as when we arrived. Poverty taunts us as we drive away.
It’s overwhelming.
The problem is so big, and we are so small. It feels ridiculous… showing up to war wielding a loaf of bread.
Of course that’s how David showed up. Just a shepherd boy with some bread for his brothers, a kid who was quick with a sling shot. He chose for battle against a giant, not a sword, or the kings armor, but five smooth stones. And he won.
He said to the giant:”You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” ~1 Samuel 17
I kind of love that.
I’m going to feed the ducks, now.
And then, with all my might, I will hurl a tiny pebble at their giant enemy. And I hope it hurts like hell.“
(Jaime)
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Thanks!! you rock hmmm, I’m local and my school gives kids vitamins each day for free. Maybe we could get a bulk rate. I’ll check into it. I love how the blogging world can come together to give vitamins to needy children in Africa. Very cool. I emailed you for an address! This is awesome. I emailed you for an address. GREAT idea!!! Would love to know how many suitcases this post generates!!! I blogged about it today (http://jennisseasons.blogspot.com/2010/09/company-girl-coffee-917.html) and am sending you an e-mail so I can send vitamins to you this weekend. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to give. Amen Sisters! I’ve got my pebbles ready! Although mine are aiming at the poverty giant in the Philippines. It’s everywhere ladies, pick a place a hurl those pebbles!! I will definitely be doing this! I even reposted it on my FB and Tumblr. You will receive an e-mail from me shortly for the address! Hi Megg, Thanks for posting this! We’ll be sending lots of vitamins. What a wonderful and easy way to help out! I just sent you an email asking for more info. I am going to share this on Twitter and Facebook as well. Chills. What a great post from Jaime, too. will definitely send some vitamins out. i love the idea of taking the kids shopping – getting them involved and teaching them the value and joy of being a blessing to others! These children capture my heart with each picture. Simply beautiful! Thanks for allowing us all to join in on this! I will be buying vitamins and getting them to you! Megan- Please send the address – I’ll have them shipped straight over from Amazon. I’m visiting Jessica McClenahan until Sunday and then will head back to Colorado. Not sure if you would prefer to wait awhile and just send a bunch at one time to Jody but if you would like me to take what you have already collected I’d be happy to. I’m just a few minutes from her. Anyway, thought I would throw that out there just in case. Call Jess if you would like me to. Otherwise, no worries and happy vitamin collecting! 🙂 I am sending mine to Jody directly also thru Amazon I sent my vitamin order directly to Jody via Amazon.com. I’m glad I could help a little! 🙂 Absolutely!!! Please send me the address where to send them. Thanks for posting this! Ordering some vitamins via Amazon & sending directly to the address. Easy peasy! Seriously, this is less than a meal out with my family & goes for a lot of good. Sent money to Jody thru Paypal. Thanks for the opportunity to give! Love this! And love the quote at the end. Powerful! I sent the e-mail from my office for the address. I am computer ignorant. Can I share your post on my facebook so I can mail a HuGe box of vitamins? This is awesome and beautiful. The Bible quote brought tears to my eyes, because that is how I feel about cancer research. I will do what I can to move this forward, so that one day, no more children and families will suffer what Katie (and we) suffered. NO MORE. Okay, maybe it’s the pregnancy hormones talking, but the quote from Jamie made me cry. Wao….thanks Meg for this, will email in a sec for address. Tears running down, I’m a Cuban refugee and I totally been there so come on girls let’s do this for these children. Hugs~ LOVE,LOVE,LOVE this! I shared this on my FB! Thanks.. I will buy several bottles this week and bring them to your house on Sunday. This will be a great service project for our family. Thanks for giving us the opportunity. Email sent – let us know when the person is leaving so we get them there on time! 🙂 Yes! Another great way to teach my little girl about how the world around her is so imperfect. And how blessed we are to be able to serve. Thanks. I’m going to stick this on my blog too. i just cried my eyes out reading this. I am sending this link to our pastor & hope our church can help. also i will be sending vitamins. i’m emailing you for the address now- thank you for this post thank you for blogging this. i needed this this morning. i am in. i will blog this later and email you for the address. also, while i was reading your post, i was listening to pandora’s elizabeth mitchell station and a man was singing “i can change the world with my own two hands”. not sure who it was singing, but I am gonna just take that double whammy encouragment as God’s voice to me 🙂 off to get my vitamins and obey Him…thanks for being you, Meg. Will be adding this to my post tomorrow…it fits in so perfectly. You make me happy Megan. crying and overwhelmed. Thanks for reaching out to us! Can’t wait to help out. Just a note too, if you can’t physically send the vitamins, Jody is collecting donations via paypal and she’ll go buy the vitamins. Her paypal is jodylanders @ gmail . com (remove the spaces in paypal) Absolutely!!! Going out today! And just so happen to be heading to the post office too! Hopefully I can get your address in time! Yes ma’am we will help! I will do a post on my blog later this morning also! Oh yes I can help! I love this! I love what Jaimie said, very humbling, very sad, but very true about God’s love for us and He fights for us everyday! I will send you an email now chicky!! Yes, I’ll be happy to help out and help those babies over in Africa. That’s such a sad story but one I’m so glad you were able to experience and share with the rest of us here. Thanks for the opportunity to help out in some small way. I will send you an email later today to request the address of where to send the vitamins to. P.S. I have also added this link on my blog to help spread the word! Big hugs, Meg! :o) My mother hosted a Good News Club in our home. It was during one of those club meetings, I was saved. Very near and dear to my heart. The pebbles do seem so tiny, but hurling anyway. Thanks for the opportunity to help. Already sent the email – I’m in! Thanks for giving us all the opportunity to help out! I can only help with 4 and 5 :(….I’m sorry! I would love to send some vitamins! Beautiful pictures of even more beautiful children, thanks for reminding me……. great idea meg, am sending an email now. Wow…never bought vitamins before…so colorful, so fun….so humbled. I’m in…email already on it’s way. I’ll so be doing. look for my email soon. —————————————————————————————————————————– on saturday before sean's football game we got to eat at Roy's BBQ. it's in an industrial area of town and it's really tiny. the HAPPY and the not-so-happy.
scott was with us too but wanted no photos. it's good. it's in hutchinson, kansas….and they have a website. :) did you enter the lisa leonard givewaway? i will announce the winners tomorrow.
(again….it's much more vibrant when it's not in typepad….so weird!) I’ve always thought it’s so cute how little B has the same curly hair as his big brothers! Aw. “and restrooms within three feet if me” My husband and I have been known to plan entire trips around good BBQ joints. The Texas hill country has some amazing ones. We even bought a book titled Follow the Smoke: 14,783 Miles of Great Texas Barbecue. Can you tell we like BBQ, just a little bit? Oh my! Your pics make me hungry. BBQ is the best, and I LOVE me some good potato salad with it, too. 😉 Talby is missing out if she doesn’t LOVE bbq. I could probably eat good bbq everyday. I got spoiled when I lived in TX. Mmmm…the BBQ looks SO good! Love your beads…super cute. I am dying over the pictures of BBQ. My favorite food ever. My cousin loved Roy’s bbq! You’ve inspired our dinner tonight of pulled pork sandwiches with grilled buns. Cannot wait until I get back to TX for Thanksgiving and have some real bbq! I don’t think I have ever seen a picture of Talby not smiling! Those down home places are just the best! I think our kids could have quite the showdown in the pout department – Talby’s is pretty good, but my Owen, – well, lets just say he’s had a lot of practice! 😉 That food looks so good!! I love eating at local joints. I love that they just close shop when they run out of food. Makes sense, right? Does that happen often, ya think? Hey Meggie… I like the hot beer, lousy food and bad service sign. hee hee. LOVE love lOvE BBQ. My grandparent’s live in Hutch but I’ve never been to Roy’s. Our family favorite is Hog Wild!! It’s a must everytime we’re in town! susan you have such a beautiful family (: The bbq looks so tasty and such a fun place. I made your stuffed shells tonight and they were a big hit. My two year old picky eater even hate two whole shells and said they were delicious! This will definitely be a new favorite meal at our house. My goodness. There is NOTHING like a down home, hole-in-the-wall bbq joint. The best. Mmmm…. BBQ… YUM!!! I am jealous of your ability to always pull off the best jewelry…it looks great on you! The happily fed by BBQ smile looks great on Craig. I live in Hutchinson and you are right…Roy’s is the best! The bread is every bit as good as the meat and sauce. The commercials on the radio say that trains will stop on the tracks across the highway to go into Roy’s for lunch. It is yummy! That food looks gooood!! talby’s pout is classic. We had a new BBQ joint open up in Leavenworth, KS. It is pretty good and small. A nice deck to relax…”All Slabbed Up”. Great brisket! I have Craig’s face there, not Talby’s. Bless. I looove Roy’s, too….but it’s been a while since I’ve had it. My parents (who still live in Hutch) usually have some of their sauce in the fridge. YUUUUM. You’re making me hungry! Love a good BBQ! Sounds like a great place to eat! Makes me hungry! Love the family photo-so cute of all of them. It sounds like a wonderful place to eat. Nothing like that around here that I know of. that awesome family picture…what a bunch of foxes 🙂 Gotta love Kansas…if just for the bbq;) Love that pic of you shoveling food in. You crack me up!! Wow, those boys have the best hair 🙂 The bread looks yummy too. All barbecue joints should be owned by a guy named ROY! Looks yummy! Here in Virginia we have the “Smokey Pig” – your joint looks very similar to it. Love me some BBQ! what a great photo! have you thought about making a flickr account and uploading your photos through there, and then using the html code (when you click on the photo in flickr it’s under “share”) to put them on your blog? i was having the same problem with my photos then found out that many sites distort the quality of your pictures when you upload through them. flickr does not, so they look beautiful when you post them to your blog. just wanted to share since i was having the same problem 🙂 Oh ~ now I want BBQ! Fun! Your jewelry is soooo cute in that pic! Have a great day! Mmmmm…Roy’s BBQ. I’ve been there once…who would have thought a girl from Canada would have been to Roy’s BBQ. It is so deliciously yummy!! I finally found a BBQ sauce and a slow cooker recipe that is close to the yumminess of Roy’s, but will never be quite as good. When you live in the far north you do what you can to get close to the real thing. We don’t know much about BBQ here in Canada. Like, it’s still just a verb here. I’ve always wanted to try it, though. Think they do delivery? Those kinds of places are the best. We have a place in our town called, “Carl’s Perfect Pig.” It’s pretty small, shamelessly pink inside, not at all swanky, and always packed. We love it. That looks good and I have to admit I am often more like Talby than Craig and Scott when it comes to bbq. Actually, it’s not so much that I mind eating it, I don’t like smelling like it like you described as soon as you walked in the door. I always want to go home and shower and wash my hair afterwards. 🙂 Kelly I grew up in Hutch. I’ve never heard about this one. When we go see my parents we go to Hog Wild….we bring home a 6 pack of their sauce. We’ll have to try it next time we go down to see them. I LOVE Bar-b-que places that aren’t open a lot and close when they run out…they tend to be really good. Yum! Looks so good. aw….poor talby. i would’ve totally ate her bbq–to take it off her hands, of course. is that wrong?:) My husband hunts near Hutch so he only gets to enjoy Roy’s a few times a year. But let me tell ya, he brags about it all year long afterward! I just sent him the link and said “I guess you aren’t the only Roy Fanatic out there.” Mmmm I wish there was one near me. I don’t think there is a BBQ cafe in the whole of the UK, after seeing the foodie close-up I’m going to have to find out! Kansas is a little far to go for a BBQ, sadly. Mmmm… I wish there was a BBQ place around here that served BBQ on that kind of bread. That sandwich looks really good. Makes me want to go find one for lunch. yum! glad to see that other people have kids who don’t like the food! Roys BBQ is the best…even though you smell like the place everywhere you go afterwards and people KNOW where you’ve been. I can’t believe you wore such a cute outfit. Smell those beads today. Do they still smell like hickory or mesquite or whatever they use? 🙂 Oh I just love how all the boys in the last picture have CURLY hair. One of ours does and he hates while everyone else loves it…boys. Of course we love bbq here in TX and that looks great! Yummy BBQ!! I’m jealous lol Great to know about the bbq place! Hutchinson is the closest “big city” to us, so we go there quite a bit. We will definitely try Roy’s. Alright, where did you get your beads? They are mouth watering! I L~O~V~E, LOVE BBQ!! I’m the only one in my family that could eat it just about everyday. We used to have a place like that in my hometown but the owner sold it and the new owners made it into a cafe of somesort…. :o) Love it! I LOVE your jewelry, Meg! That quilt/blanket the family is laying on is awesome too. we have a bbq place like that here…love it! What a cute family! my mailbox has just been such a happy place recently. this package was from lisa leonard. i was looking at this necklace with all my babies names and thought "this is ONLY for me." i love everything in lisa's shop. (ps: have you heard that miranda lambert song "the house that built me"? i really like it) i love reading lisa's blog. would you like to WIN some lisa leonard for yourself? These are absolutely beautiful! I know my mother would love to have one of those, too. Love your blog Meg! inspired by eric carle's beautiful butterfly. i doubled pieces of construction paper and cut lots and lots of shapes…totally random and free hand. some pieces were wing shaped or body shapes but the rest were just odd shapes. and they each had a glue stick.
sean's…..identical pattern and perfectly symetrical…sooooo sean. they were planning who they were giving their butterflies to while making them….i love that. and just for fun…
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Don’t know if someone already said this, but this would be fun with a felt board. sean’s looks like an african mask…so cool! I love all this butterflyness…. I so need to get crafting with my kids. Thank you for the great project! It inspired me to do it with my little one…and blog about it! You do the funnest things with your kids! Hey were your ears burning this weekend. I was sitting at the table with a group of women at Spark and I heard this Australian woman name Jasmine mention your name. I said “Do you know Meg? I just love reading her blog.” Then Blue Lily, Jasmine and I had a sweet conversation about you!” You definitely have to come next year. You would seriously love it! And I would love meeting you in person! I love the swirly mouth butterfly! What a fun idea 🙂 Love this idea! This makes me think of the amazing Butterfly House in our area. If you are ever in St Louis, you must stop and visit – it’s simply magical. Super cute! That was one of my favoite books as a kid. Here is another crafty idea. I assume that you have a large amount of scrap fabric so this might be perfect for the kids. You could get smaller wreath forms so they could hang them on bedroom doors and wouldn’t take as long to make. Awesome craft. Butterflies are my favorite! How cool is this project!!! You know, I have been following your blog now for alongtime, and I have never left any comments before, but I just have to now… Not a day goes by that I do not fit you in my busy schedule, I mean seriously I am addicted to checking out what you do next with your family, or just you being YOU!!!! You make me laugh all the time, and you also make me think alot too!!! I have always admired you for so many reasons, but that would take a entire email problay to explain, but for no other reason than the fact that you are a Mom as I am with four daughters, and I admire all the things you try to do with your children to keep them busy and enjoying this life in a fun and creative way… I hope you know as I am sure by now you do, how Wonderful you really are!!!! Have a great day!!!! I’m so glad you posted this idea! My three year old loves art projects and this will be perfect for him. i recognize the book! it’s the hungry caterpillar! i used to read it to my nephew all the time! anw, what a fun craft idea! thanks for sharing! scissors, glue and paper. Life doesn’t get much better. I really liked the outcome! What is awesome about this is that it is so totally simple and everyday, but with the direction you gave them, they had such a good time and were sooo busy! Love the simplicity…as usual you are inspiring! Love it. I think the girls and I will be making butterflies soon! How cute! I may have to steal this idea from you! Thank you for posting it! I love it so so much! Those are GORGEOUS! I love all of them, especially Sean’s! Love it! Added it to my ‘Stuff I Love’ section!! Have you ever seen a video of Eric Carle at work? It is fabulousy amazing! He sits in his studio and paints tissue paper with watercolors. Then, he cuts them up to create the actual images you see in the books. I LOVE Eric Carle for the richness of both his books and art! will you come and do crafts at my house? I’ll just pick up after you guys (you can do the rest :)) I love the butterfly bouquet! Beautiful! I Love this!!!!! eric Carle is my fave- and the very hungry caterpillar is THE BEST! What a fun project- I have to do this with my kids!!!! I love that you do this with the kids each week!!! You are such a good mommy:-) I love the butterfly craft and will definitely be borrowing this for my own little ones. What do you usually do with all of the cool projects the kids make? They spend so much time making them, I always feel bad when they end up in the trash… Any ideas? I had your blog open in Google reader. My 4 year old son saw the pictures of this craft and begged me to help him make a butterfly, too. He especially liked Talby’s. He said, “I want to make my butterfly just like that.” Thanks for the idea! So sweet….. Several years ago we took my grandson to an Eric Carle exhibit at the art museum…. He loved it. so cool! such a great idea! how fuN!!!!!!!! SO fun! Gorgeous!!!! This is one of my favorites that you have done. I love how all the kids have their own style. Very cool! That first “inspiration” picture, the butterfly wand. WOW!! Check out http://www.jenstark.com (the red line at the top is sculpture, which is my favorite. I think you’ll really like her stuff — not butterflies, but bright colors and cool paper sculptures. I’m trying to figure out a lesson using her work for inspiration, The butterfly wand inspires me too!! The shot of Talby cutting is just beautiful. She is deep in thought. Love it. Great idea, too. GREAT craft!! So pretty. I’ll be trying this with my kids for sure very soon. THanks! Lovely!!! I love that book too:) so pretty Meg! This is a great idea Meg. I love it because it’s easy enough for my 3 year old. Oh the butterflies are beautiful. Great idea. Eric Carle books have always been a favorite of mine…. Love this. We have done a similar craft with the book, ‘Color Zoo.’ I cut out basic shapes in a variety of construction paper colors, and the object is to use the shapes to make different animals. My kids got very creative. Another book/craft/project we’ve done is to have a ‘Pinkalicious’ Party. My girls love Pinkalicious and so we made pink cupcakes with pink icing and had pink lemonade. Beautiful! I love that you used Eric Carle for inspiration… Beautiful Meg. I look forward to your craft Thursday posts. Love the imagery you chose at t he end of the post. What a great idea for a craft! I bought the supplies to do the flower watercolor art you did, at the beginning of the summer, but we still haven’t gotten around to it. 🙁 How timely, my little lady and I were just reading the vhc last night 🙂 LOVE that idea! Your creations are beautiful. I’m so going to steal this idea and do this with my kiddos. Thanks for the inspiration! Beautiful!!! Such a great idea!! Oh, LOVE this idea! glue sticks. that makes mine very happy. What beautiful butterflies! Wow what a great idea meg. This is definitely something I could do with the girlies. I was just thinking of you as i posted about making cornflour paint. I think your kids would love using it.
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I don’t see any of these above, so… Try Podrunner on iTunes. Free downloads with music that won’t distract you from your pace, it’s good for training and trying to step up a notch. The music is catagorized in beats per minutes to help you stay focused. It’s maybe not for everyone, but it is helpful. I used it in a marathon to keep my pace steady. One earphone in, one out for safety! ‘Jealous of My Boogie’ by RuPaul!! A year ago, I quit listening to music while I run. One song I loved for the pace that no one has mentioned is Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot. That’s great for keeping feet moving. Among my favourites are AC/DC, especially Thunderstruck ((the opening riff will have you running a six minute mile :-)) and most of palookaville by Fat Boy Slim, especially Wonderful Night. Hth I know this is a way late comment. I don’t spend that much time online….I have a 6 month old. However, I am also a fan of that Ke$ha song. You should check out the DJ called Girl Talk. We bought the CD called Feed the Animals on iTunes. It has so many good mixes for working out. It can keep my legs going when my mind is screaming “Stop and get ice cream now!”. Oops! I forgot by new favorite. I LOVE the new Eminem and Rihanna song “I love the way you lie”. Again, I could go on…. I love Lay’em Down by Needtobreath; Hold Us Together by Matt Maher; Bright Light by Matchbox 20; All Night Long by Joe Walsh. I could REALLY go on but I don’t have my ipod at work with me (yep, reading your blog at work!!) I love it. You inspire me in so many ways. Thank you for your blog and for opening your life for us to see. It is wonderful! Take care and have a blessed and wonderful day! Hey! Hey! by Superchicks and Last Dance for MaryJane by Tom Petty are good ones. The Petty song has a strong beat, almost like a cadence. I will look for a few more too. Also go to C25Kplaylists.com they have some set up for the Couch to 5K running program and even if you are not following the program, you might find there playlists (at least the song choices) helpful. Anything 80’s with a beat. But I also love Pink, Gwen Stefani, and Katy Perry. Mine are listed here http://elzabelz.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-like-to-move-it-move-it.html The best running song is “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquoi. Think dance scene in Napoleon Dynamite. It’s long and gets me pumped up every time! Have you ever heard of Robbie Williams? He’s a favorite of mine. Some are lovey soft music, and some have a great beat! And he’s nice on the eyes…. Pink is really good. She’s got a lot of really bouncy ones. I have a playlist with a lot of her fast paced ones that I play when I need motivation to keep moving. I just found this website yesterday because I was having the same problem. All of my music was too boring or too repetitious. I LOVE all the different choices of styles and energy (and the fact that you could listen to them on the site). http://www.inthegym.net/ Try The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Janelle Monae for new bands OR go back to the 80s and get some Loverboy, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, AC/DC, and Def Leppard. That would be a rocking good run! I’ve been sucking wind BIG time on my runs lately 🙁 but Pink ,Lady Gaga, and some Kelly Clarkson are always good ones to give me that little extra when I have no more! 🙂 hahahaha, and I just remembered an oldie I haven’t used since my kids were littttttle: from The Apostle soundtrack (and my Sun. a.m. workout): List of Demands (Reparations) by Saul Williams. If I worked out more than once every six months on average I could answer your question, instead I have a little story for you. One time, while I was pregnant with my daughter, I was so nauseous I couldn’t hold it any more and had to use the walmart restroom to vomit. Talk about wanting a Germ-X bath when you get home. kanye west’s touch the sky is the best & so is stronger obviously. I read every comment to see if anyone suggested these. My fav is Mockingbird – Rob Thomas Great post! I need new music as well and I’m constantly scrambling for a pen and paper when I’m in the car to write songs down! A few that I love: Flawless(go to the city) george michael DEFINITELY Mika. My ‘treadmill playlist’ has “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”, “Relax, Take it Easy”, and “Love Today.” More of a power walking tempo, but still great. so, I didn’t read through all of the comments before posting, so I’m sure I’ll have some duplicates: My favourite ‘Happy’ song at the moment is- -C’mon C’mon by The Von Bondies (The theme song to Rescue Me…the music from that show is GREAT) It’s embarrassing, but … Shakira “Hips Don’t Lie” I agree, I need something with a good beat for any kind of walking/running. try no music, No play list here-but I do agree with your excitement about eating at Roy’s!!! I love that Ke$ha song too! At the moment, I seem to work out best to the real rocky tunes on the Marie Antoinette SDTRK, Hong Kong Garden is one of my favorites, for some reason I seem to walk faster or “ski” harder to it. The slower songs are good for your down time or when you are just warming up. 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Here are some favorites: Get Me Bodied- Beyonce A few of my faves while running (my playlist is very diverse): I have the perfect mix of songs. It’s on my “Nike Workout” playlist that I use with my Nike running thing. Gosh I hate WalMart, I avoid it like the plague and HAVE to go there tomorrow… they just can’t be beat on kids eyeglasses, unfortunately 🙁 Some of my favs to run around Newton! anything by Lady GaGa is great for running! I also like me some T.I. and Justin Timberlake 🙂 well, it’s good to know that walmart is filthy all over the country. it’s making me less of judgmental of my fellow townfolk – and by townfolk, i mean filthy disgusting poo smearing pigs. okay, i have a ways to go with the less judgment thing. at least i have a gallon of hand sanitizer in my purse in the meantime. and back when i used to run, i ran to pink – girly rock anthems are the best for running…and don’t judge me – i love me some angry eminem when i’m running. good luck. Check out this webite that has some playlist based on your pace. http://www.remanents.com/blog/ tick tok, say hey, fergalicious, i gotta feeling, steal my sunshine, i wanna be sedated, mr brightside, viva la vida I know I’ve seen some of your kids in KU t-shirts… there’s an amazing new download for a Jayhawk anthem called “Game On” {rap} here: http://www.krizzkaliko.com/ The rumor is that he’s going to perform this song at Late Night this year, big fun for Allen Fieldhouse! Try Podrunner free downloads on I-tunes. The interval training ones are great for just zoning out and getting it done!!! Great storm pics, I live in Florida, we get cool looking clouds coming in off the Gulf. To be honest – I love the Glee soundtracks to work out to! I don’t know if any of the songs have a very strong beat, but they sure make me laugh and keep my mood upbeat while I work out, which is a definite plus when working out can put me in a bad mood sometimes. I also love to listen to “Rent” from the musical by the same name. It gets me running fast!! It has a very strong beat and if you sing along during, you will probably sweat even more! 😛 Good luck! i love you meg, but not enough to type out my whole list. 🙂 my absolute FAVORITE music to run to is Vampire Weekend. I Fought The Law by Green Day. Great for running. Dang..people really have some great ideas! I listen to Skillet and Heath McNease a lot! I just love how real you are! Loved this post. Have been reading this blog for a long time now. I comment every once in a while. Oooh, I can’t wait to read everyone’s suggestions because I need new music, too! Here goes: 2 of my favorites: Wow, the pictures are awesome. here are a few of my jams that actually make me run faster: Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons I love Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice – it has a great beat and puts me in a good mood! Move and Rawkfist – Thousand Foot Krutch. I am not a runner. I don’t even exercise even though I should. I don’t remember if I’ve left a comment on your blog or not, but I’m local — go to GCC…Was with you at the crafting weekend back in December in McPherson. I really don’t have any good music recommendations for you, BUT I just have to say I’m jealous you’re eating Roy’s BBQ…My husband introduced me to that place when we were dating, and to this day, it’s my favorite BBQ place. We don’t get to go there often, though. I hope it was tasty. Here’s what’s on my “Running” playlist (some fast, some slow, some inspiring…little bit of everything): All time favorite running playlist. Its titled…. Ok, I am a dancer and need a serious beat when I am working out! Oh my gosh! People really know their music. I love Neal Diamond. You don’t want any music advice from me. Black Sheep by Metrix Let’s Get Loud- Jennifer Lopez (I KNOW!) outkast ‘hey ya’ is my alltime favourite for a workout…so much so, that when i hear it now (just on the radio)…i’m ready to workout! toby macs new album tonight has so many awesome songs,and i like good old madonna and brittney:) Ok, you can laugh – it was totally by accident, but I have most of the songs from the soundtrack of the Disney Movie “Jump In”. Believe it or not, they really have a good beat and keep me moving. It’s a movie about jumping rope, so it is pretty upbeat (just got rid of the slow songs). I have different play lists for different work outs. Slower music in the beginning and the end. One of my favorite play lists is Madonna – Ray of Light and then Prodigy (there beats are great) I like that because I tend to sing while I am running and then feel like a fool. Love Prodigy!!! Loving Getting over You (David Guetta featuring Fergie). 🙂 Almost forgot: sounds crazy, but “Call of the Champions” by John Williams and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Not kidding. It was the theme of the 2002 Winter Olympics~I blast it and it gets me through my last loop on my run. So inspiring…it makes me think I’m in the Olympics. Or something 🙂 David Crowder Band’s Church Music CD is full of great workout songs! i have 2 work out mixes – one for pop and one for rock LCD Soundsystem has some great beats and I love “Weapon of Choice” by Fatboy Slim. We do Rihanna’s “Shut up and Drive” at Jazzercise…. also a song called “Evacuate the Dance Floor” but I’m not sure who sings it. 2 good ones: A few of my favorites are – I have to agree with Kodachrome and Grace Kelly… “Your Love is my Drug” is my favorite right now too! I also like Kanye West’s “That that don’t kill you makes you stronger” (I know that’s not the exact title, but it’s something like that), Justin Timberlake’s “Bringing Sexy Back” is always a classic (sometimes I even do that “yeah!” parts out loud at 6am on a dark street by myself). And I also like Carrie Underwood’s “Undo It.” Hi Miss Meg~ LOL! “I twitter naked” …then why are you wearing a shirt? Kutless and Starfield! What gets me all pumped up are the funk-beats of the Red Hot Chili Peppers! I love it!! Anything from the Black Eyed Peas…they get me moving! Pump It- Black Eyed Peas. Disturbia- Rihanna. Forever- Chris Brown. Forgot to add: I was going to suggest Ke$ha! I love that song for working out. I also like Dynamite by Taio Cruz, Matt & Kim- Daylight & Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare, REM- The Great Beyond, Dashboard Confessionals- Vindicated, Cage the Elephant- Back Against the Wall, & The Script- Breakeven. I know of some GREAT Christian upbeat stuff… Here are some of my favorites: Totally going to check out everyone’s suggestions =) I feel moved to start praying that you get a Target closer to you….there is no reason for your suffering through Wal Mart to continue. Californis Gurls-Katy Perry One of my favs – has a GREAT beat for running/working out is called “Movin'” by Group 1 Crew. Ronnie Freeman–Breakaway I’ve been loving One Republic’s album Waking Up for quite a while now. I don’t exercise but they’ve got some really rhythmic stuff… “Make for You” “All The Right Places” “Everybody Loves Me” I have to listen to rap or vintage (better than saying classic) rock. This is going to date me, but I LOVE Jackson Browne’s album, “I’m Alive.” It’s supposed to be about his breakup with Darryl Hannah, and the title song is so full of energy that it makes me want to punch the air. The other songs vary in intensity, so if you are doing a run-walk, it’s great. I also love the Beach Boys, the OLD Beatles’ songs & Elton John, and anything by James Taylor. Hope this helps you get your motor running again! How about “Animal” by the Neon Trees? I love the beat there. Anything by David Crowder Band – so worshipful and energetic!!!! Reliant K is also very good. On my long runs I would get soooooo sick of the music! I started listening to downloaded (audible) books. They don’t have quite the ‘pump you up’ vibe that music does but it’s a great way to pass the time! Here are my favorites from my running playlist (not that I’m a runner or that I use it regularly). In general, I do not listen to a lot of music with profanity…but somehow it just seems to fit when you’re running. Kanye West – workout plan I’ve just started running again and I just added these to my iPod. Even though some of these are not necessarily my favorite songs, they are just the right “speed” for me. Telephone by Gaga and Beyonce!! I get goosebumps and feel completely invisible! Great Post! I need some new tunes too. I have a playlist I’ve listened to about a million times. So I’m sure I will be checking back often to see what everyone says. Okay, this is really dated, but I still like the Rocky soundtrack. I used to have the tape (dating me)in high school and used to run to it all the time. I still like it – good beat in a lot of the songs. I think it is actually the fourth Rocky movie (when Apollo dies) – it has “Living in America” on it. Now I must go and dig through boxes to see if I can find the tapes that I still have so I can pull out that tape! 🙂 I just have to tell you – your blog makes my day everyday – it is one of the first things I check every morning and then again a few times a day. You just brighten my day! I love your pictures! That is incredibly eery!!! Toby Mac, Hawk Nelson, Todd Agnew! They’ll work out your spirit as well as your body! Johnny Cash, “Get Rhythm” I love Chris Joss’ Discotheque Dancing – really funky, fun, I can’t listen to it without running around. Bottums Up!!!!- not sure who it’s by, but it HAS-GOT-A-BEAT!!! it’s new “on the teenage scene”! 🙂 LOVE IT! you can’t help but move when you hear it! I am sure you have these already, but these get me through my workouts. Katy Perry/ Timberland “If we ever meet again”. Bryan Adams with Mel C “When your gone”. Paul Simon “Kodachrome”. Brandon Flowers “Crossfire”. Taio Cruz “Break your heart” BTW ~ love.Love.LOVE the photos. I love cloud photos and storm clouds are the best. 🙂 A few faves from my “Gym” Playlist So What by P!nk and the Glee sound track (well, all the fast songs on it) are my current faves. I really like the soundtrack to Twilight (esp the 1st song). Ignition by tobyMac…great beat and yells at you to kick it up a notch” a couple of times throughout the song. 🙂 so much fun!!! Great shots Meg 🙂 cute, cute, cute! three kids. now that’s a nice number. story is only 4-months old so i better wait! I love jumping pictures! I’m going to take some of my children doing that tomorrow! I love to see Daddies be silly! Good for them! Way fun. I can’t wait to see the rest of the pictures – funny funny. Kassade isn’t a cheerleader but she is in dance. That is a very normal picture for those two. jumping photos are the best! (and so hard to do!!) The girl is a great jumper! And she is wearing jeans too! that last picture is great – I’m guessing they’re brother and sister? I would love, love to get a picture like that of my older two – it wouldn’t be a normal thing for them to do but then I could pretend that they would do something like that together. I love photos like this! I would have loved to watch that photo shoot. Very smile-inducing. Great pics, as usual! Wow. If Kassidy isn’t a cheerleader… she should be. Seriously. And I’m with Amy D… Russ has the best facial expressions ever. omgosh….how fun?!!!! i especially love that the curb says, *reserved*;) most excellent!!!! I love the little girls face in the jumping pictures. What a doll. That little blonde cutie with the curls is adorable! Great family pics. They looked like they were having a ball:) Oh Megan! Once again you have captured the fun in that family! So glad I can claim them as part of my family. Love them all so much and these pictures are great! You always do a great job! are those jumping teenagers, siblings?? they look like they get along!!!! good for them!! LOL that LOOKS like fun!!! Amazing height and the colors are perfect. Love these. How the heck did they do that. It looks like they were jumping off a trampoline? But it doesn’t look like you took the picture down low? Did they jump off the curb? It doesn’t look like it. Sheesh.. this is going to keep me up at night. I wish I could jump like that!!! Did they jump off of something? Cheerleader, right? No one else can possibly jump like that. 🙂 oh my gosh…best jumping pictures EVER 🙂 love these! what a super cute family! how did they get so much height in their jump??? I soooooo wish I lived closer to you! WOW!!! Is that little London??!!!! She’s so big now ;( And really, you should just take your camera on the road girl! You so rock! Those pictures are super fun! The neighbors look like fun too! Meg, those are great pics! Amazing shots! Too funny, I love the dad’s face.. russ’ expressions crack me up! great photos! they look like a fun bunch! Great shots Meg! Love them! I really want to get fun family photos taken 🙂 they look great! |
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Melissa - Hey Meg,
Doesn’t God just amaze you sometimes with His awesomeness??? On Thursday my heart friends and I met and we were talking about how to do big things for the Kingdom, and how as moms of littles, we sometimes feel like we can’t. After all, the littles are our main mission fields right now and they just don’t travel well!(We have 23 children between the 9 of us) Then, I came home and saw your vitamin post!!! YAYAYAYAY!!! I was so excited to share w/my girls and now we are going to collect vitamins to send for the trip! Everynight as I’m passing them out to my kiddos I’m praying for those sweet babies out there, for who a vitamin is a treat. Thank you so much for making people aware of situations like this and offering easy ways to help! OK- now that I’ve rambled on… I need the address.. 🙂
melissa - ok, i’ve been patient enough.
i read your blog everyday and for three days there’s been nothing.
no new posts.
please come home soon!!!!!!
i need to see your bright pictures.
i need to be inspired by all the color in your world.
(are you a little freaked out by this comment??? LOL)
((i’m starting to scare myself))
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jaz - Yes, we will send some!!
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Liz - You should do a cookbook. Just made the crescent chicken, and tomorrow am making the ham and half & half recipe. we loved the meatballs.
Could we just move in with you?
Heather Ferger - Where are you in KS? I am in the KC suburbs.
julia - now you’re going to have to go to the East Coast…to make things even.
Lori - Ooh, haven’t done a quilt in years. Sounds like you’re having a blast. Enjoy.
peta - have fun!
Laura - where are you in California? That is where I am!! Hope you are having fun!
Kelly - ahhh! have you ever sewn a quilt before. we love california! Kelly
april - YAAA hope you are having fun!!! The weather is perfect right now!!!
Holly - That sounds like a fun time. I’ll be right over…from DC!
Holly - have a fun time Meg!