The lady in that picture is me today.
Or I should say that she would be me if I owned an ironing board. Which I don't. Turns out that families who don't own irons don't need ironing boards. Kind of nice. As you know, we Meltons are very deep and spiritual (also wrinkly) and so we try not to have too many "extras." But please try not to feel bad if you do own an iron. We all have things we need to work on. I am not here to judge.
Lovies, I'm gonna need the rest of the week off. I'm sick. I'll be back with a bang next week, trust me.
Also, I think there's a fancy button at the bottom of the blog that says "Subscribe to Posts" and if you register there, this very blog will magically send you emails each time I post so you won't have to keep checking each day.
Pray for my family. I'm even more tired and grumpy and confused than usual.
Must go grab my snuggly blanket and fuzzy socks and watch endless episodes of House Hunters until further notice.
I'll leave the comments open in case anyone has anything important to share this week. Or un-important. We like un-important too. Love to you. Be good to yourselves, pretty please. I consider each one of you to be extremely important.
Love, G
Huh, I thought I was the only one who owned neither of those things. Who knew?? ;)
ReplyDeleteTake care and feel better soon!
Feel better G!
ReplyDeleteEveryone else - am I the only one that sees "subscribe to Momastery" but for whom it isn't clickable?!?
I think it might be worth buying an ironing board just so I can punctuate how I've been feeling with that pose!
ReplyDeleteSnuggle down and House Hunt on the Jersey Shore with some Kardashians! Feel better!
-Christi
hmmm...shoot. can someone techy figure this out for us?
ReplyDeleteOh poop, that sucks. Hope you feel better, G. We're already hunkering down for the long, long winter of sickness to come, popping Vitamin C like candy... (wait, IS it candy??)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I am far from techie, but I think I figured out how to subscribe to your blog posts. You have to first click on the Momastery banner, so it takes you back to the "home" page -- not an individual post page. Then click on Subscribe to Posts -- it'll give a drop down menu and you have to choose how to see the feed (Google reader, etc.). I added it to my Google reader and it's all good. Maybe a few others can try and see how it's working.
Take care of yourself...
I haven't used an iron in years. I don't think I know how to iron anymore (not that I ever did).
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better soon. Snuggling on the sofa actually sounds nice ... is someone running interference on the kids for you?
My grandmother gave me an iron and our house has a built in ironing board. From a more 50's era. It's so sweet. We use it as extra table space. :)
ReplyDelete((hugs)) to you - hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteTricia
feel better, girl! it's hard when the mom gets sick because well...you know what happens.
ReplyDeleteThanks everybody.
ReplyDeleteI actually really like getting sick. Not super sick, but just a bit under the weather. I really, really, love a good excuse to hunker down and not put on jeans and watch cartoons and tell the sweet sun "thanks for all the effort, but we won't be needing your services today." Relieves some of the mommy pressure to MAKE A DAY OF IT. For the same reasons I love rain, snow, football, code red air quality days, etc . . . more yoga pant time for me.
Sometimes, we wear our jammies all day and then just change into new jammies before Craig gets home. Those are my favorite days.
LOVE.
G
OH MY!
ReplyDeleteJust saw that they rescued 8 miners!
JOY TO THE WORLD AND HALLELUJAH AND HOT DAMN!
Yay, I'm watching too! Hope you feel better, hey take the weekend off too (ha ha). Adrianne just said her kids were puking so I'll steer clear of them - must be going around.
ReplyDeleteI'm home sick again (infection again and fever after surgery LAST Monday). I too have been very grumpy and under the weather but SOME people just don't seem to get it! Those people that live with me? Ugh. I think I am better off alone.
I could never click on the "subscribe to" otherwise I would! Need fixing?
Take care!
Hugs!!!!
ReplyDelete2 Words G... Wrinkle Release. It makes ironing and those clunky ironing boards obsolete. Best stuff ever!
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PS - Feel better!
G- when I was three I picked up the iron turned to my mom and said why don't you sew like other moms? Needless to say the iron isn't a regular feature in my home!! Hope you are feeling better. x
ReplyDeleteSo funny that you post about Irons becuase my iron broke this morning. I stood in front of my closet trying to figure out which shirt was less wrinkled then the others.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are feeling better soon. Sounds like a good day to open the windows, get some fresh air in the house and watch some repeat episodes of Glee. Seriously, if you haven't watched Glee, you must go out right now and get it. I didn't think I would ever like it but I'm hooked now.
Heeeeey G.
ReplyDelete*hugs*. Sounds like you could use 'em.
Also: YES, rescuing the miners is AWESOME!
:) :) :)
Hugs and kisses and prayers for you sweet Glennon. ironing is seriously overrated - I think my board has cobwebs on it in the storage room that I'm afraid to go in because it smells like the litter box. Thus, no ironing for us.
ReplyDeleteWatch all the goodies on TV - including glorious news of the miner resues - and eat chocolate!
xoxo
i love my iron, but i do love hanging out in yoga pants all day. it's just that wrinkles make me cranky. it's like how i have to make my bed with hospital corners or my whole day or week is off.
ReplyDeletejennifer, i have an extra iron. i thought mine broke one day and immediately booked it to target for a replacement. besides, you need to come over!
feel better, g. and remember, an ironed shirt a day keeps the doctor away. well, it could. maybe.
(seriously ladies, have you ever slept on freshly pressed linen??? it's a slice of heaven. seriously.)
i would also like to state that while i own no clothes-y type iron, i do own four flat irons for my hair.
ReplyDeleteso, there you have it.
it's just easier for me to be deep and spiritual and simplified when my hair looks nice and flat.
I do own an iron, and one of those mini ironing boards - it doesn't have a big stand, so I can put it on a table top and iron. It's for "emergencies" and gets used about 2x per year. Many years ago, I adopted a policy on ironing: If it has to be ironed, it has to go to the dry cleaners. Oh, and everybody is responsible for their own dry cleaning (which means that my hubby has to take his own shirts to the cleaners.)
ReplyDeletebut I digress. G - feel better soon. Keeping up with the Kardashians is oddly entertaining.... or so I've heard. ;-)
Feel better, sweet G. When my little even senses I'm not feeling well at all, he goes for blood. He knows when I'm weak : )
ReplyDeleteHouse Hunters with a snuggly blanket and fuzzy socks? LOVE.
Love and hugs to you, G! xo
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog, Glennon. I depend on my wife to tug my shirt sleeve and send me your way, and I am always blessed by it. I feel inspired to raise a few points in a spirit of love and seriousness, because the conversation really does matter. My fear in reading your letter to Chase is that you have been caught in the “all or nothing” trap. One side asserts that love necessitates that I fully affirm and embrace your sexuality. The other side asserts that love necessitates that I fully reject and fix your sexuality. In both cases, love has been hitched to judgment, and the judgment either way (is it a sin or isn’t it?) is driving the train. But we’re supposed to leave the judging to God, right? Jesus says plainly “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” Or as Paul says “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.” What about this is so hard for Christians to get? Our real problem, I think, is that we really don’t know how to love without judging, and we ourselves are so insecure as to need judgments to feel secure about ourselves (“Am I ok? Am I loved? Just as I am?”). I want my boys to stand secure in my love for them, but more importantly I want them to discover God’s perfect love. Because, let’s be honest, when I’m getting pecked to death by my chickens, I often do not act very loving, and in those moments, my boys feel my disapproval. But with God, that disapproval or disappointment or frustration never exists. Just love.
ReplyDeleteBut I also want them to know that God cares about how they think and how they live and that He is able to speak into their lives about those things and that it is a good thing for them to want to listen to His judgments. Not because it has anything to do with whether He loves them more or less, but because there is a rich and wonderful life that only God can fully lead them into, and to get there you have to be willing to hear God say “no” even if it has to do with something as deeply personal as one’s sexual expression. Did Jesus show love to the woman who was dragged before him half naked by the religious bullies who hoped Jesus would have her stoned? Yes. (“If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”) Did He have a judgment with what she should do with the rest of her life as it regarded the issue others wanted her stoned for? Also, yes. (“Go now and leave your life of sin”) So, judgments do matter, but they are a matter between a man and his perfect Lover. What matters between you and me, is love. “Love one another.” Without judgment. But as I said, that is a very hard thing for us to do, because of our basic insecurities. So, I hope and I pray that my children come to know how deep and how wide is God’s love for them, in order to get free from their natural born insecurities. And in that love, I hope they gain the freedom to let God speak into their lives about every thought and action, however big or small, and not be very concerned with what man has to say. Will I have my own opinions? Sure. Will I share those opinions with my child? Sure. But at the end of the day, I want my child to know that he stands before God alone, and not before or behind me, justifying his choices.
So here’s the thing, what happens if Chase discovers that he is attracted to men but also comes to believe that God does not want him to have a sexual relationship with another man? And not because he has been brainwashed by the haters of the world, or bought into a bad interpretation of Scripture, but because of his own sincere inner conversation with God. Having seen you celebrate his sexual orientation, will he feel that he is betraying you by saying “Mom, I want to be celibate?” That being said, if there is an error to be made on this or the other issues of our cultural battlefield, I believe yours is the error to be made and the one I believe God will be more gracious to judge. Thank you again for provoking the conversation, in a spirit of love. I look forward to further conversations.
Jeffrey,
DeleteI love what you said here. It gives us so much more to prayerfully consider. Thank you and thank Glennon!
Shannon