Edited 4-2012
A family kick-ball game.
{jeanie}
Lives in Colorado, where there are over 300 sunny days a year! Which, I need!
Married to Dave, best friend and lover for over 30 years (we’re off to a good start)! We got married just less than 2 months after out first date, but before that we’d been friends who wrote letters across the miles! He is one of those men who just gets better with age. Oh yeah! Lucky to be in love with my best friend…
www.lilacphotography.com, dang I married a hot guy!
Familia: We raised 5 kids and lived to tell about it!! 5 grown children (4 of which are married to the best people ever!), 6 extraordinary grandchildren: Gavin-almost 9, Hunter-7 1/2, Guini-6 3/4, Gemma-5-shortly, and Averi-4 and Amelie Belle turning 2 in just days.
My parents finally retired near Chicago (my old stomping grounds) and their clan has grown and increased to include so many wonderful nieces and nephews and sisters-in-love and the brother-in-laws, too. Great people living exciting lives. Dave and I have family all over the United States living for Jesus and going to the nations. So blessed!
Books that impacted me for life when I was just nineteen: Yes! by Ann Kiemel (because I wanted to be able to sing encouragement to people like she did), Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman by Anne Ortlund (and everything else I have ever read by Anne – she has mentored/discipled me without ever knowing it).
FOOD Love: Italian, Mexican, Chinese, country-fried, Kalamata Olives, Bleu Cheese, seafood, Creole, turtles (the candy), anything with caramel, and TOMATOES!
My true SOUL FOOD belief – breaking bread, enjoying even the humblest meal at a convivial table filled with love and laughter? The best meal you will ever eat. And may you have many of those in your lifetime!
Best question ever: What is God up to in all this? From John Eldredge’s book, Walking with God. Makes me look further than to my comfort and my way when things get crazy!
Foul of choice: “I Think I Love You, ” and “I Woke Up in Love this Morning” are 2 of the greatest songs ever and they are both by the Patridge Family. Really – you have to listen to them again!
I also love David Cassidy singing “I Can Feel Your Heartbeat.” How cute is he?!?
BUT MY FAV PATRIDGE SONG OF ALL TIMES?? ”It’s One of Those Nights”!! It was way more obscure, but WOW I love that song! (see my home movies page for a rendition of this song done by my sweet kids for Mother’s Day a few years ago)
Half a century - where does the time go??
pictured: me at one, and at 50
Greatest *5* joys:
About Writing. It turns out I am graphomaniacal, big-time! I LOVE to write: clattering on the keyboard or pen to paper. I am leaving words for my children and grandbebes. Words, the best of all I have, declared and decreed ~ w r i t t e n. The BeeGees summed up for me best:
“Words are all I have to take your heart away…”
My LOVE language: Quality time and touch (the ones the books identify). But also (the ones that aren’t in the books) the written word {letters, I L O V E letters!} AND song. I truly believe music and song are a love language for me. Everything and every person is a song to me and I am touched when some one has a song for me. I love a melodic refrain…
Home decor style: Well, the HGTV website quizzes say I have a warm and vibrant color personality and have a “classic casual” style (meaning: “transitional ~ a mix of contemporary and traditional; usually updated, graceful and enduring.” Perhaps. My favorite magazines are
- Traditional Home
- Veranda
- Architectural Digest
- Martha Stewart
Did I mention a crazy green coffee table??!?
Nice site. Love the picture, very you and the best part, now we can all get into the mind of Jeanie. I love the category, Stuff I actually think.
Hey, when are we going to hear more about you??? me
Dearest Jeanie, Just dropping a line to say hello! Hope you find deep joy today—splash around in His joy–let it spill out all over the place!! love you, -h
miss ya
Jeanie, my love!!! I have missed you soo much… heard you had a website, and decided to come talk a look and say hello… So, hello! ~Alix
Alright Sis, Since I am working over your site here this a.m. I will also take to time to share a little FYI about you…"Jeanie"…with those who stop by…you know, from a brother's perspective. More later, Joe
Hi again, folks. In my frist chapter I promised to tell you a little about my sister Jeanie. In this chapter I will share with you a little about how she single-handedly organized a world impacting group called, "Hunk Watchers of Iowa", back in about the 8th or 9th grade. Jeanie, who was always followed by a group of cronies, including Sherri Cramer, used to gather in French Class 201 and pick a "Hunk-of-the-Month" and then they would splash his name all over the place and carry on as if they had just handed out an Oscar. All the guys wrinkled their noses at such tomfoolry but secretly waited the day they too could get their names plastered on bookcovers and posters and inside fe-type-male locker doors. HWOI had no shame at all- even selecting Bill Roby one month, who everybody knew was 100 % farmer through and through…I mean, any guy who would dare to wear white socks in those days was asking for ostricision (thats a sort of socia-emotional term folks). Anyway, I bet somewhere in the back cover of some wrethced, abused, soiled french book there still fades the name or two of a former Hunk of the Month. That's what our Jeanie did. Joe
First of all, truly, it wasn't a single-handed organization, at all. Sherri Cramer and Lorri Teufal and Kelli Lala, etc. we all "led" Hunk Watchers of Iowa.
You are probably right about the faded names in the backs of some wretched French books, tho. 'Tis sad that after all those years in French studies (7th grade – 11th grade), I cannot speak the language. But I did see some pretty fine looking guys.
Bill Roby is a judge in Florida now! And he was a hunk!!!
Please no more brother stories or I shall have to banish your posting privileges.
I just read this page and I think Joe and I could be friends. We could bond over tormenting Jeanie.
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Ah, the Hunk Watchers of Iowa. I did not have the privilege of attending school with Jeanie, I wish I had, would have saved me a lot of years of grief in college, but I digress. I would have hoped that I would have been graced to have my name written on some "Peachie" notebook somewhere. And by the by, she does speak French and speaks it well !
I just HAVE to say, that I love two of your movies in particular- The Dream Team, and Baby Boom. Such good movies! Very few people have heard of the Dream Team, so I just had to agree with you on this board, that is so cool that you love it too!
Ah yes, The Notebook… I think it's the actual story of My Hubby and me. Have you seen Somewhere in Time? It's an amazing one, too. Jane Seymour long before she appeared on Dancing with the Stars… ;)
Yes, Stephanie. Somewhere in Time is agonizingly and tormentingly beautiful!
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Oh Dear Lord Jesus! I have prayed for this day. Truly! I even signed up for a trial classmates membership to find out who Joe M was that sent me a message! And the proper abbreviation is HWofI. Thank you very much. I have many great memories of those days at Harding Jr High. So many, in fact, that revolve around my great friend Jeanie. And it seems that God always brings us back together at the right time. So, I don't know what this time is about, but I sure do have a big smile on my face right now! Dave, I'm sure we could have worked you into things. Jeanie always knew a good thing, when she saw it. French is hard to retain, but some of it comes out when you try to learn spanish, I've learned. So, it seems that you've matured into the sort of person I look up to these days. Busy, active, organized, all that Proverbs 31 stuff. Congrats. I've retired from dentistry, and now cook 3 days a week at my church (NewSong Christian Fellowship) which is fun. Oh, I guess you don't want the whole long story on your blog. I just about got carried away. So, hope to hear from you soon, and I guess I'll spend the next couple days researching this website! Sherri
We were insane! I’m glad Joe thinks the guys were secretly hoping to be recognized by our little band of boy-crazy cherubs, but I have to wonder…? By the way, John Dietz will ALWAYS be my favorite. Sherri emailed this morning that she found you – and quite the find! It’s wonderful to see we all three are living our lives full-out for God. It’s been a road, but by His grace it led back to Him. I hope to hear from you too – au revoir! Lorri (Teufel) Barnes
By the way Jeanie – Quiet Man, Something New, Return to Me – definitely rank as some of the best of all-time! I love the cake picture – I do cake decorating too – although semi-retired. The Partridge Family was always a fave – I guess all these little things remind me of why we became fast friends all those 30+ years ago! We can’t be that old!! Lorri
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So glad you girls FOUND each other!
God is Good!
Sherri’s Mom
You know, I just ventured here for some reason after all this time. Your movie picks 1 and 17 are two of my favorites. I am thinking the end of Return to Me might be the best movie kiss…”You came all the way to Italy for me?” Whoa.
And, I am just learning you are a gardener….We’ll talk.
Dave and Jeanie it is so good to know that you are doing well and your kids look great. We miss you more than you can imagine. Please feel free to contact us!! God bless you!!! We love you!!!
Ron and LeAnn Barnes (Kokomo, IN.)