grit and glory

you have been liberated for a week ……
independance like 4th of july!!!
sweet potato’s you joined the light for several days..
i am proud of you !!!

i must also comment on the picture you have with your blog…
that guy needs to brush his face with all that hair.
he seemed camouflaged for a moment there if it werent for the orange hunters hat and seahawks jacket..

but most of the world will agree that he must have been an incredible good looking baby to turn out like this…

anyhoo i sound flambouant now and will stop..

LONG LIVE THE ANTI-BLOGGER !!!!!!!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-BLOGGER !!!!

THE WAGES OF BLOGGING IS CARPELL-TUNNEL

BE WARNED EVIL DO-ERS BE WARNED………..

Welcome back to blogdom Alece.

So Anti-blogger, the wages of blogging is a fate worse than death? Is that in Romans somewhere? Or the Anti-blogger’s Guide to the Galaxy?

Yeah, he is kinda cute…

Alece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I checked your blog daily…. waiting for a new blog…. Missing your cute stories.. LOL.

and then I have to do an

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww for all that you said about your husband…. So sweet!

leecy-pants:
(i’m sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but i believe i’m an expert on this subject and my opinion is respected in many blogospherical circles.) upon first glance, i DO believe you married a redneck.

Oh YAY, you’re back. Missed you.

Alece ~

I’m sorry but I am going to have to agree with Mandy here. Although you’ll need to buy him a flannel and a John Deere hat first to be a real red neck.

The accent might be a little weird though. How do you say y’all with a SA accent?

Anti-blogger!! Seahawks good choice. My home team.

This was so romantic though,

Welcome back!!! You’ve been missed… and your hombre has much more natural looking facial hair then davers. Lets just hope they don’t inspire one another to grow-on come September. oiy vey… on a positive note- Dave now sports the go-tee… so much better… but the stache is still very questionable.

that picture made me smile!

Glad you’re back; we missed you! You are Niel are too cute!

A-B — you are killin me with your comments. i loved the way you used “sweet potatoes” — oh dear… i think i need to start saying that! and yes, please tell my man niel that he has until july 30 to enjoy that redneck bushy-face look o’ his. before he boards that plane, his face better be as smooth as a baby’s butt. carpel tunnel?! where do you come up with this stuff!!!???

ric — “far worse than death” made me laugh!

applepie — i’m glad you agree!

anna — i’m so glad that you changed your name to anna instead of aspf or whatever it was before. i would always try to pronounce it in my head, and that is SO hard!

mandy — he really doesn’t come off that redneck all the time, i swear! he’s clearly been away from his yankee wife for far too long!

birgit — thanks! glad to be back.

heidi — we loooove the seahawks! and i don’t think niel would ever say “all y’all”. well, i maybe in a over accentuated impersonation of a southern accent. just to poke fun.

amers — send me a picture of the goatee! i wanna see it! and dave’s already been “threatening” me about getting niel to grow a nasty stache for sicily. i’m gonna beatdown that boy…

joyrenee — i’m so glad! :)

shinea — you should see how cute we can be when we’re actually together!

so i guess this means the cop is out of a job again…GREAT! because he doesn’t have to go out and find you…

problem is…”sexy” anti-blogger…she has been blogging elsewhere this week…so she wasn’t truly liberated…she’s too corrupted…and i won’t say who corrupts her the most, but her initials are mandy thompson…

i wouldn’t worry about that cop. he seems smart and resourceful enough… oh wait. nevermind.

the challenge wasn’t to NOT comment elsewhere. just not to post something. that was hard enough. and my comments WERE fairly limited in nature compared to usual… so … i should get bonus points for that. i think so anyway.

and yeah, everything’s always mandy’s fault.

:D

aspaf just stands for Anna Spafford LOL

I just pronounce it A (long A) spaf

And spafford is pronounced like STAFFORD on with a p. Everyone messes it up and it is hilarious to listen to people try to pronounce it. It’s simple really, they over analyze it. ROFL

This AB guy is great! He had me laughin’ out loud: THE WAGES OF BLOGGING IS CARPELL-TUNNEL

And, okay, everybody, Alece’s husband is not a redneck…he just lives in South Africa and happened to be chewing on some straw.

I like scruffy Niel.
And I was checkin your blog everyday.. I was about to text you and ask ” Alece are you ok!?”.. haha..
(HI Niel!)

Welcome back Miss Alece, good to see you on mine as well! :) I don’t know how you do this except the strength of the Lord. Jer’s gone a weekend and I’m going crazy…praying for you through this time!!!

:)

Well I’m glad you sacrificed some comments for lil ol me…. I was getting worried! ;-)

And, I didn’t know you were married to the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz! ;-) heehee

I didn’t think Niel was one for whole grains.

Was that only a week? It seemed like much longer. I know many respectable bloggers that do the weekly thing. Anyway, good to hear you talk about your hombre.

Going out to tea - check ya’ later girl. :-) xoxo

anna — once i saw your full name, it made sense. (i hadn’t known your last name before!) and i don’t get how people can mess up spafford. seems pretty straightforward to me!

yeller — thanks for standing up for nigel!

amy joy — thanks for being ABOUT to check in on me! ha ha! and please please please don’t encourage scruffy niel’s scruffiness.

debs — i don’t know how i do it either!

brandy — “if i only had a brain…” that’s one of my favorite scenes from the movie. BUT… don’t be talkin’ ’bout my husband like that!

nat — whatever it takes to stay regular…

gigi — enjoy tea time. cheerio!

I was referring to the straw sticking out of his mouth and hand. ;-)

HA!!

i know, i know! silly rabbit, trix are for kids…

DOH!

awwww. i miss him for you!!!

HA! Too funny, you two!
Trix are for kids, eh? Dag. Good thing I got Cheerios last time I went shopping…
I dunno, ‘lecey. I’m pretty sure I could help with that Deere hat.
And scruffy = not okay! I totally understand that.

tam — thanks… i think.

roo — i bet you could help with a john deere hat. let’s hold off for now. it’s enough that he now has a john deere to ride around on!

he owns a John Deere???!!!

“if he looks like a redneck…
and he drives like a redneck…

then ….

he must be…..

a redneck.”

oh dear. i’m shaking my head over here, mandy.

remember this picture of niel driving the mower like it was a racecar? (telling you he’s a nascar fan is NOT going to help my case at all!)

http://gritandglory.com/2008/03/04/happiness-is-16/

Don’t worry Alece, Jer owns several John Deeres….and yes his neck is red! ;) I think his tractors sexy!!!

ha ha ha!

niel makes a john deere sexy!

HAHAHA!
Oh, my. This is getting good. I should make sure my mom is reading these comments!
My dad not only drives a Deere, has Deere gear, loves NASCAR… but he makes his own diesel fuel to go along with it!
Oh, yeah. And he rocks a farmer’s tan. Every year. Red-neck included. :D

this has gotten pretty good! and if your dad could ever teach niel how to make diesel, he’d so be all over that. (especially since it’s at about $7/gallon in SA right now!)

and niel has the WORST farmer’s tan ever!

How come farmer’s have that tan anyways? Why can’t they take off their shirts?? nobody is watching?

just sayin..

hey girl! I have been ending up behing you on every blog I stopped at today…so I think its God saying…visit Aleces blog! :lol: well maybe not..but had to come say Hi !

NASCAR?

Farmer’s Tan?

end.
of.
story.

When I saw AB’s picture I thought the same thing as Mandy and Heidi. I was thinking he looked like some midwestern farm boy, from Iowa or Nebraska.

I always look forward to reading your blog post, even though todays was a tad mushy for a guy to read, except of course for you hubby. :)

heidi — i know, right?!

darla — i see you all over the place! i’m humbled that you’d come on over to the grit and glory! thanks!

mandy — dang…

ed — i know. this was a little mushy. even for me! ha! that’s what happens when i’m apart from my husband for 6 weeks and counting!

anti-blogger — PS: no messages for nina????

Alece,

I’ll still stand firmly behind my case. The situation maybe be “country”…but not the heart and personality!

xo

and that comes from someone who’s actually MET the anti-blogger!

Alece, going on 6 WEEKS?!?! :(

I had to be away from Jake once for 6 weeks and it was pure torture. Oh wait, we had to do that twice. The first time, I was 9 months pregnant. Yep. He had to miss Dylan’s arrival. The first week he was gone I had to go grocery shopping and took my friend with me, and I cried through the entire store. No joke. She said “was this a couples thing?” and I couldn’t even answer her. We did EVERYTHING together. Even grocery shopping. Fat pregnant girl walking around a grocery store crying. Man oh man. Be glad you aren’t pregnant!! HA!!

believe you me, i AM glad i’m not pregnant! ha ha!

and yes… we’ve been apart since may 20, and i won’t see my man until july 31.

SIGH.

i can’t believe jake missed your son’s birth! that must have been so incredibly hard for you. i cannot even imagine… how soon after did he return home?

‘lece, dad’s experiment has been pretty interesting. i guess he’s putting out about 50 gallons every other week or something like that, at about $.96 per gallon. yikes!

holy crow! that’s incredible. what’s he makin’ it out of?? would it run a car (a diesel model, of course) or only something like a tractor? i’m really thinking niel would want in on this deal.

Alece, he didn’t come home until Dylan was 4 weeks old. :(

Luckily my mom was there. :D

Hey, not much longer until you get to see him!! yahoo!! Are you two going to take any kind of special trip? Just you two? Like a weekend getaway or something?

oh my goodness. was he deployed somewhere? i’m glad your mom was able to be with you, but… man oh man.

no special getaways… just him bringing me popsicles and changing the friends’ episode dvds while i recover from surgery! (at the end of august) romantic, eh????

dang.

you’re all nuts.

i’ve been nursing since 05 too and this conversation made ME uncomfortable. i thought it was funny — those who haven’t had kids/ maybe didn’t nurse — you’ll get over the breast issue. (except you, alece, you’re broken in for kids!)

i was going to guess tummy — maybe cindy was right with the underwear!

^^danielle caught the wrong comments section. :)

‘lece pa fetches used soybean oil from local restaurants, etc. i did mention it to niel when he called a couple months ago (wow, that was a couple months ago!). i still haven’t talked to you in too long. and you’re in FL. so i’ll wait. i’ve got a heckuva week coming up, anyway.

i laughed at danielle’s accidentally misplaced comment. thanks, friend.

roo — verrrrry interesting… and yes. hopefully talk sometime soon.