Greg the Poet

I was looking through my stack of notes Greg gave me in 2005 when we started dating. Hilarious!! Here’s a poem he wrote: (Yes, Greg wrote a poem!)

The heat of life attacks me
It seems I might fade away

God has made a way to escape
This wrong feeling today

His love never fails
He loves me just where I stand

His grace pours over me
My life is in His hands

Could it be that God knew
I needed someone

Now I can see
He caused me to fall in love
With the beautiful Darcy McD

I have a purpose and  a plan
God has put into place
Thanks to God’s mercy, forgiveness
And loving grace

 

2 Things I Will Never Let Greg Live Down

1. When Greg and I first got married, he would sometimes go to bed before me because he had to get up earlier than me. One night Greg was already in bed and I was brushing my teeth. I looked up into the mirror and Greg was standing behind me. I jumped out of shock. He was looking at me but he wasn’t “all there”. I thought he might be sleep walking. He smiled at me and asked, “what are you doing?” He then started to march in place like a toy soldier. His arms were swinging and his legs were kicking up into the air. I told him to go to bed and he marched over to the bed. Greg fell face forward onto it and went right to sleep. I asked him the next morning if he remembered what happened and he laughed and said no.
2. I had my wisdom teeth removed several years ago before we were married. After the surgery, they put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me out to meet Greg and my mom. I was completely drugged. I was concerned about something choking me so I pointed at my throat and they told me it was my tongue. I had blood coming out of my mouth from the surgery. These things disturbed Greg and next thing you know, he fainted. The doctor and nurses started attending Greg and not me! Talk about stealing the attention.

 

A December to Remember

December started out great. We had snow in Houston again for the second year in a row!

Oh and we got to dog-sit another Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. What a treat! Toby is the one smiling on the right.

On New Years Eve I laughed so hard when I saw Greg come into the living room wearing this hat. I didn’t know we still had it. We got it last year when we were in NYC for New Years.

 

Double Take

Does Karl Rove look like someone you know???

 

 

how about my dad?

-Darcy

 

7 Things

Obviously there were a LOT of things about Hurricane Ike that got really old after 15 days of no electricity, but on the positive side…

7 Things I Liked About Ike (in no particular order):

1- Playing Battleship with Greg on the porch.

2- Good sleep. Going to sleep when the sun went down and waking up when the sun came up did a body good.

3- Feeling Amish. When cell phone service didn’t work, the only way to talk to our family was to get in a buggy and ride to their house to talk to them.

4- Getting to know really nice neighbors.

5- Family time. I love them so much!!

6- Learning never to take for granted my gas stove. It’s going to take a while before I can eat chicken noodle soup again.

7- The hurricane got to the brain – Greg would point the flashlight to the ceiling and the light would be the hurricane and the vent would be our house. It was a nice bedtime story.

-Darcy

 

this made my day

 

I may be one of the last people on earth to find out that you can Google an address and not just get an aerial view, but an actual, physical “street view”!

-Darcy

 

Powerful

 

This video from Hillsong Church has an amazing story behind it. The lady (with the light blue shirt) who sings this song called Desert Song had a child born premature who later didn’t survive. She sang it for this video not long after her tragedy. It’s powerful.  -Greg

 

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