Tackle It Tuesday

Mercy!

On this table I have the Christmas cards, the kids stuff to put away.
Then after school tomorrow (because I have to watch 2 kids for a Mom after school today) we decorate those cookies we made.
I have the bills to write out and to send,
also paper work to sort and toss and file.

I maid the lunches for the children and took them to the school
The bills are paid and ready to mail.
I got the Christmas news letter done.
and around 30 Christmas Cards done.
That is all...Where does the time go?
I have to go get the kids and then have 2 extra for the afternoon.

Dash wanted a tortilla with refried beans for supper, so I went to the grocery store. They had three specials I wanted to get in on $7.79 a pound roast for 1.79, 18 count eggs buy on get one free and a coupon I had for a free salad mix valued at 3.79. So My bill was 86, and I started to step away with Dash distraction and looked down to see they neglected to give me the credit for the specials. I went back to the register and walked away with $50. refunded me. I got $86. worth for $36, and Dash got his tortillas.
Beloved came to get me around 9 p.m. while still at task.
That blue basket was fill of little scraps of papers with phone numbers emails addresses and little important notes. It is almost empty. I transcribed them all onto two yellow pad sheets front and back fine print. I was able to address another 40-50 cards. I have yet to sign and place a news letter into them. I felt food to make contact with so many who I have neglected to do so with this year. So many old friends who also have such busy lives. Then there are those who I let go off who have years past fallen away from my radar into the promise of only seeing them again in the by and by. I still think of them and pray. Thats the best contact with some. :) Many old acquaintances are forgotten. Life is just that way.

Beloved and I are meet in his office to watch old reruns of "The Office" , a VERY funny show that we enjoy. Then it was off to showers and bed by 10:30

YIKES!
This was not touched yet
I have all the records to go through to essentially do the medical deductions for 2007 for Dash to have the coverage at the clinic at St. Joe's.
Then all these things need to be made
packed and mailed.
Wrapping of gifts for the kids as well.
I got the kitchen done part way.
There is laundry waiting to be hung in the master closet.
YE HAW!

Today is adoption day #6 for Dash.

Today is adoption day for Dash. Home now 6 years.

That is so amazing and hard to fathom.
(pardon the cake it is not my best work :)

Six years ago I brought home a son. I had waited 20 years for him. He is my Son.
I had a promise much like Sari of the Old Testament.
I saw it come about.
On this Day of remembrance, as we all watched those old tapes of us in Russia it was plain even
then that this was a wonderfully bright child.

We all went to Taco Bell for supper
We sat around the table and we each spoke what we liked best about Dah, then Beauty then Me and Beloved.

Dash liked best about us ...
Our Character :)
Beauty loves my laugh.

I read a poem to him.

Not flesh of my flesh
nor bone of my bone
but still miraculously my own
Never forget for a single minute
you did not grow under my heart
but in it.
He said..."Cool, I like it Mom"

We gave him a Bionical spider man to build.
He and Daddy man did it while we watched his adoption videos.

Beauty ran to get a gift to give him too.
A cord with keys on it.

.

I am so blessed.
He is such a wonderful Son.

Gift Ideas...

This is an exert form a devotional Shorty Bear sent me...

1. A homemade gift. Giving something you make represents time and effort invested on the recipient’s behalf. Each year, we make hot chocolate for our neighbors, scoop it into decorated mason jars and deliver it to their doorstep. The best part is ringing the doorbell and the running like crazy! Our neighbors love it and it has become a prized family tradition.

2. A treasured gift. Give something you already have, something that is of special value to you. Not your junk, but your treasure. Don’t ask the question, “What can I buy for Sally?” Ask the question, “What do I have that would mean a lot to Sally?” My pastor husband once mentioned in a sermon that he collects old Bibles. The next Christmas, one of our church members gave him an old and cherished family Bible. It is still one of Dan’s most precious gifts.

3. A gift of time. When we give thirty minutes of time, we are giving thirty minutes of life. While Dan was in seminary, we were always short on time and money. When Christmas came, one of our friends handed us a Christmas card with his gift inside, a coupon good for one afternoon of babysitting each week for the whole year. To this day, I still remember how thrilled I was when Scott handed us that card. Give a gift of time spent in prayer for a friend or an afternoon of errands run for an older friend. Time is a precious gift.

4. A gift of encouragement. Tell someone what they mean to you. Write it down so they can read your encouraging words several times. Writing it down can help you say it better and requires more time and thought. You can also make a tape or CD of encouraging words and thoughts for those who can’t see well or for that hurried mom who spends much of her life in a car. In my bible, I have several notes tucked as bookmarks for special verses; notes of encouragement that have keep me on my feet during difficult times.

5. A blind gift. Give a gift to someone you don’t even know; a gift that is given in Jesus’ name, just because you love Him. I recently read an article about a millionaire who sets aside large sums of money at Christmas. Dressed in a disguise, he then walks the streets, pressing $100 bills into the hands of the needy. “It makes my whole year,” he says.

6. A secret gift. Give a gift to someone you know without them knowing who gave it. Give with no hidden motive and with no possible benefit to yourself. Like most newlyweds, Dan and I were on an extremely tight budget during the first years of marriage. At one point, we had no money for groceries, a fact we shared with no one but God. We wanted to see what He would do. Returning from church one Sunday night, we started up the steps to our mobile home. There, on the sidewalk, was a brown package. We hurriedly ripped off the paper to find a brick with two $100 bills taped to each side. We still don’t know who gave us that gift, but every time I think of them, I ask God to bless them for their secret gift.

I thought this was a great list of ideas.
~d

So many gifts given...

We had a really amazing weekend.
Friday night when I was preparing a dress for me and pants for beauty to ware to a Christmas Ladies (Mother/Daughter dinner at the new church . I was speaking on the phone to Beloved. I was telling him with Beauty and I doing something special he needed to find something special to do with Dash.
I had hung up for speaking with him and then the phone rang (just then). It was Diann (A new friend who we know from the kids school and our new church) Her and her husband Drew were calling us to offer a gift. Drew had purchased tickets to a hockey game with a voucher for hats and hot dogs with drinks! WOW! what a splurge. Beloved was stunned and thrilled to have such an adventure with Dash. They took Drew up on the generous offer. The bad part was that there little man was and has been ill with upper respiratory problems. If your out there I hope he is doing better today. Thank you so much. Beloved needs to call Drew and tell him how very much it meant to him. He hopes to call tonight, after the adoption day celebration for Dash is over.

Beauty and I went to the dinner and met up with Debbie and her delightful mother, MILove and her sister. We unfortunately were not able to all sit together. Beauty and I sat at an other table. Beauty was a bit board and so after the meal she was bummed out a bit yee haw some "time with mom" boring! I looked down at the good little sport and said ..."How would you like to get out of here and go play?" Her face lit up! she was so delighted! I did not know what to do but I had a few tokens from a pizza place in my purse and then realized that we had gone back to the grocery and fixed a mistake the store made I had $8 bucks in my purse and so we went to a "jungle Jim's pizza game center" and played the games. She was so delightful. She is really good at basket ball, a very good athlete. I really need to try to get more of that into her life. We then went home and wrapped the gift she got for her Daddy and for her Brother. That really pleased her. It was just her and I.
Beauty was up a lot of the night coughing, she had been on antibiotic for a sinus infection. Beloved lost around three hours sleep because just when he got her to sleep then Willy started vomiting again. He grabbed a sweet potato off the counter top and got a nasty mouth fun.

Saturday was a real treat! It started of with a morning play date that I canceled... Beloved and Beauty asleep until after 9 a.m. and Dash with me awake and busy. We had breakfast and I did the kitchen.
Everything was arranged for the day. So after beauty woke up (from the cough medication that knocked her out) she was good. We decided with the encouragement of Michelle to keep on track and have a Man/ Woman day the Mom/Dad needed a time out! :)
So Michelle and Joe took the kids from noon till 4:30 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Jaye gave me a cell phone!!!! she has it as a extra and told us if it gets lost it is alright...we can cover the $10 a month and no problems if not... I accepted it.
That is strange to have a phone with me. It was nice to check on the kids. Beloveds folks gave us one some time back and we just do not like to have bills. It is such a luxury to me to use a cell phone. This is one that Jaye assures me no one wants needs or uses. No problem if it gets lost. You see Beloved and I would rather do without than to ever owe anyone. If we can not buy it ourselves we can not afford to replace it if it gets damaged. It is a way of character we have always lived by. I am so sorry for all those who have so often offered us to loan things. We would just be devastated if we could not rerun it as received. So we do not borrow.

He and I went to lunch at a wonderful Chinese restaurant called Pie Wei so good! It is like home cooked food done right! A big treat for me being as I cook every day. It was a luxury that was so enjoyed! Thank you Honey!
It was then, off to the picture show via a sweet gift card from a very thoughtful friend :) Thank you!!!!!! We watched a sweet movie " Life according to Dan" it was delightful! very good movie for the choices out there I am so glad we went to see it. I highly recommend it not "perfect", but really good.
We then went to Wal- mart to look for dishes. See post. We are so very careful these days to save every dime that it was hard for me to do this purchase. I had dishes and I did not NEED new ones. I could go on using them for a long time to come. Beloved had had enouhg of them. Now I really see why. I did not know the difference they would make. The old cups were all cracked and a lot of the finish is worn off. They were so heavy ! Wow the new ones are so easy to work with.!! I am so amazed! I would have to just lift may bee three plates at a time. Now I can easily pick up all 8 and lift them onto the shelf with out any struggle at all! WOW that makes it so mush less work to unload the dishwasher and stack! They take up so much less room too. What a big difference.
Then it was off the the bicycle shop and Beloved got new handle bars to lift up my posture on the bike. The therapist was concerned that my back was going to wind up a problem with being bent over so while peddling. We drove around and got some toner for the copier that has been out for 6 months. It is so nice now. the papers don't come out half black from the overflow getting on the paper. I had a big issue (just the stress of it) though because it is so hard to save and so easy to spend.
We drove around and went out to a supper at a Cracker Barrel and drove around some more looking for lights but could not find any big displays. We did not check the papers though. We hope to take the kids around soon.
Jaye met up with the children, here at 4:30, and watched them until 9P.M.! She totally played them out and they all had such fun! Thank you !! I will be very careful with it.
When we got home Beauty was a mess with her mania, it was really hard to come home too. She calmed down after about a half hour of working with her. Poor Dash missed out on Mommy because I had to tend to Beauty. She just gets so undone when she is tired. I slipped away to love on Dash and he fell asleep with his little arm around my neck.. He was tired. "Auntie" Jaye had a ball with them and they with her. She was even asked if she was their Grandma ha!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!! Every kid needs that sort of "Grandma" time. Just think how I feel when Beauty's peers asked if I was her Grandma! They showed me the ornaments and candy and toys!!! A cell phone for Beauty! (play one but she does not know that) . It is really funny she is practicing phone manners on a toy cell phone.

Sunday was spent minding fencings. Mis- understandings from the night before. It can not go without effect when parents go so long between alone times. We both get so tired we just need to be heard and neither has enough to really listen clearly to the other. We are very good friends. I need to listen better. I heard one thing but it was not his heart toward me. I was hurt because I was in "I" and not into Him and what he really meant. It is a good thing to always think the best of one another it made the mending of hurts more easy. Marriages can get full of frustrations when the marriage relationship gets so taxed by duties of life.
We got togeather and fixed the kitchen shelving problems. That is very loving of Hubby to do. His is a "Love Launguage of service" I think mine is words and service. He put the new handle bars on and it is great. What a difference 4 inches can make! I can ride now without the low back pain being so bad.
Now we just missed the viper literally! see this post.
We had a nice family movie night "the Walton's" and I baked a chicken. Our lives are full. We have so many adventures too.

I am so tired and yet I have many things I must do.
I have a cake to bake, a dinosaur. (so/so) he likes it.
Cake is finished.

Today is adoption day for Dash. Home now 6 years.

That is so amazing and hard to fathom.

Regarding...I do not understand what gospel you are preaching.

Rejoice said...

life and death -- MUST HEAR IT You & your husband. I do not understand what gospel you are preaching. There is ONE GOSPEL ONLY. According to the Scriptures, which gives glory to GOD.
Four Awakening Truths.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=625070351

December 7, 2007 1:04 PM

Pardon me folks but this soul left no other way to respond to the question. If you truly want to understand it might be helpful to leave and easier way to contact you than to have to do a post to do so.

This comment can be found after this post.

Now I am not sure why you have issue with this, The scripture speaks about avoiding vain arguments. This sorta feels like one I do not want strife.

My heart that morning was feeling compassion. There are those who KNOW Him and those who do not but all who KNOW what it is to hurt. I was preaching to no one... I was sharing my heart with those who may be there is cyber space who hurt. That they might be comforted.

If perhaps you mean what am I preaching in general on my blog?

I listened to your suggested sermon. I was able to hear most of it the audio was old and hard to hear at times. I did not dis agree with it in fact found it very good stuff. I do believe that it is the Holy Spirit who quickens us. It is not my attempt to preach anyone into salvation. I just hope to support the working out of it in the lives around me and in my own. To offer and then find support as well. We are "becoming new", that speaks of a process.

I think there was a pained hurt that the questionable accusation hit me. Do you intend to hurt or just question? I do not mind questions. In fact I love to share ideas and hopes and dreams. I do not EVER wish to hurt anyone. Many have been hurt in the vain attempts of religion. Even in the wonderful sermon these things are spoken of.

Jesus plus nothing means to me that it is HE alone who I believe in not works of my flesh or acts of piety that will quicken my heart to God. I am a dead man walking without The Spirit of God giving me LIFE ( that is LIFE not performance or attempts to achieve on my own "holiness"). Grace is UNMERITED favor. I am a woman who lves God with all my heart, soul and mind. Mercy undeserved kindness.

Why you may ask do I not just say so.

Strife! That is why I respect others and try to offer an understanding non-religious blog. My relationship with God is just that...My relationship, my friendship that extends out to my "Friends (Abba God)" friends and all those who my "Friend" cares so deeply about. Whether we all think alike or not. Whether quickened or not. The compassion's I feel are based on the Grace and Mercy I have been shown. The bent I take has been educated from years of religious (doctrines of men) wounds.

Now the Battle is to choose life or death. Yes we have an enemy who hunts us down to kill steel and destroy. Too many religions deal with him as if he is really not there and the effect of this is when things happen God gets blamed and people walk away thinking God has abandoned them. If they would of just been told that there is a battle going on they may have sought to be armed.

Nativity... through a childs eyes.

I found this set up like this in the kids bathroom.

everyone is at rest

He is being worshiped holding the children.
(My sister made the figurine for me)
Beauty made the nativity a few years back

Organizing the Kitchen * New Dishes*

Good morning! I hope you have all enjoyed your weekend.
Because of some dear friend who stepped in and Made Beloved and I take some time out.
We had a date day Saturday, Just he and I. WOW!
Thank you Jaye, Michelle and Joe
His heart was to replace the dishes we have had for 10? years. I found them and received them because they were a good price but he has always disliked them. Now that We have the new ones I cant believe I was so accepting of them. They were so heavy to hoist up every day.

This was the only box of a double set and we got a plater and bowl as a part of it for the the same cost as two single sets of 4

We added a set of 8 little desert dishes and 8 luncheon plates too.
The lunchon plates are perfect for smaller servings :)

Beloved then helped me to re organize and get the lower things up where I can get them easier. Stooping and bending at the knee are real frustrations. Now I can get things much easier.
He lowered the upper shelves and we set things used everyday lower. We also set up a place to make better use of the glass cookware. The daily serving bowl and patter are now easier to get to. Wow, it was so much easier to unload the dishwasher I am just amazed!

I went through the kids dishes and set it up better too. I just can not get under there any more. It is so nice to have things where I can get to them.

He and Dash pulled all the pans out so they could get where the handles are in reach. This has been a real problem every day to me. I is so much nicer now.
I have to go buy some more bay leaves now to replace the other. Those work great to keep out bugs. Insects cant stand them.

Wrapped Emotions...Dodge Viper misses my family by minutes.

This week and for the remainder of the month, Wrapped Emotions is celebrating "The Gift of Every Moment".

From Melody: "Thinking of the people who bless my life and of the blessings my family has received, I make a vow to slow down and be fully in every moment of this Christmas season. Not simply a catalyst or a bystander or a tired, grumpy woman, but to be completely aware of the gift of every moment I live. I want to feel Christmas with the wonder of children, sprinkled with the wisdom of maturity."

"During this holiday season this is what I wish for you. Whether you observe Christmas, Hanukkah, another religious holiday or simply the beauty and goodwill of the season, slow down and be fully in every moment. Perhaps in doing so, the vow will carry over into the New Year; perhaps you'll learn to do less and feel more. Let's try."

"Simply experience and enjoy your life this season and post to your blog as you will."

Read/see more Gift of Every Moment posts here!

You can also light a candle for Melody here!
My family was working out in the front today fixing up the bikes and riding in front of the house on the sidewalk the kids riding.
Beauty had a flat so hubby said he would go get a tube . I said no... lets all go as a family. So we went quickly up to get a tube. We came right back home to this. Just moment before we turned the corner was impact.

The skid marks started just in front of our home...

The Viper was going 80 miles per hour. He said the floor mat got stuck under the accelerator. He had just shifted into seconded gear. It hit the neighbors yard and took out a small tree and spun around hitting my neighbors white truck with the rear of the viper and it still spun around with such impact that it moved the white truck completely off its tread and struck their other new car right next to it. (my neighbor just got himself the new work truck)

The neighbor accross the street came to the aide of the driver. She was just starting Labor...Can you believe it!?
She is alright expecting a son tonight?
The son of the neighbor who lost their cars to the viper was waiting to pull the other truck into the driveway they were running late. If he had not been late the kid and his dad would also of been in the driveway...
No one was hurt. We were kept safe. The driver of the Viper passed me walking down the street he on foot said "I'm glad there were not any kids out or any thing no one got hurt...He said God was watching over it"...
So I told him how had we had just left for the store my children would have been right there and the other man and son would have been standing next to the white truck. He got pale...
I said yes...God was watching over all of us.

The driver of the Viper said to my children as we rode our bikes past at the end of it all..."I am so glad you kids were not out there"

Karens's Getting to know your friends

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know
your friends.  Okay, here's what you're supposed to
do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not
forward) this entire email and paste into a new
e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so
that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole
bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that
sent it to you......Tis the Season to be NICE!
 
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I buy paper from whats left from the year before sales. So each Christmas it is a mystery as to what I purchased the year before. This years discovery was a wonderful iridescent kaleidescope print and several shiny golds reds copper and silvers. Some wonderful opaque irredentist milky pearls as well. It is so fun. I also buy some bags or recycle the ones that are still real nice form the year before.

2. Real tree or Artificial?  I have asthma as does my son so artificial. Realistic type.
 
3. When do you put up the tree?  The weekend after Thanksgiving.
 
4. When do you take the tree down?  The
weekend after New Year's and it is exciting to get the place back to normal!

5. Do you like eggnog?   Like the flavor Yes... , but I am allergic to cow milk and so I do not get to indulge. :(
 
6. Favorite gift received as a child?  Rock candy that was a "lump of coal" it was my mothers humor. I loved the black licorice flavor it always had a little hammer to break it up.

7. Do you have a nativity scene?  Yes I will post a picture of it.  I read Karen's tradition of the baby Jesus in the straw on Christmas morning cool tradition.
  
8. Hardest person to buy for?  Anyone with expectations as apposed to gratitude.
 
9. Easiest person to buy for?  My children, and the poor.

10. Mail or E-Mail Christmas Cards?  Mail!  Karen wrote..."I love
Christmas cards and seeing everyone's individual
styles, and even handwriting!"...I agree.
  
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? This does not register I am grateful to recieve. The gifts that are unpleasant are anything given out of obligation.
 
12.. Favorite Christmas Movie?  The little Drummer Boy.
  
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. I watch and listen and hope to remember and when I see something with someone's face in mind if it is a real good buy I try to get it.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
I have given it away or to one who might like it but not as a wrapped gift.
  
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Navel Oranges (We had a tree for 16 year I tendered and had them the size of grapefruits with thin skin. I would climb the tree and worship and eat with the birds in the branches)  Candy and gravy. Oh how I miss climbing the orange tree every year. I would harvest it and take a red flyer wagon around the neighborhood with the bagged oranges as gifts to my neighbors. I miss those times.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?  clear tiny lights but most favorite is our old set of oil warmed by the light into a mock candles the bubble.

17. Favorite Christmas song?  Drummer boy. O holy night, Silent night.
  
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?  HOME, there is no place like it!
  
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?  No I don't think so.
 
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?  This year a Star (symboled to me of the guiding light). The angle is on the side table plugged in.
 
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?  My family has one on the Eve and then the morn from us and the late morn form the Grandparents and Uncle.
  
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Expectations  that temp folks into bad choices, watching the harm that this brings.
  
23. Favorite ornament theme or Color?  Our collection of yearly collected ones some are hand made but all have the theme of the year past attached for each player or member of our family.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I think that it once was ham but I am sorta steering away from pork this year so...a Standing Rib roast will don my table.! I will use a new recipe of orange juice, anise, red pearl onion, dried apricot and figs with fresh pears roasted at the last few minutes. It sounds heavenly to me. I will then steam baby carrots and make some simple desert.
 
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? 
Grateful hearts that don't fuss or fume (including my own :).
The only things I think of are eventual needs but the things still have life in them ,a Rowena Iron for sewing (my iron is a bit wherry but it still works ), or if I were just plain wild there is a really cool quilters free x/y attachment table that would fit on the embroidery machine big $$$400. too extravagant!
 
 

Copy at will and enjoy the fun.
Donetta

Thank you Karen for the e mailed invitation.

Good Friday Morning to all of you.

I awoke to the dream of my nieces water breaking. I cant hardly wait to call her when I get back to the house later today. I have the P.T. follow-up for my knee after I drop off the kids. I have been praying for her all morning.

I have been thinking of all of you who might not be all gun ho over Christmas. Who may actually feel the pains of loneliness and hurts of all those empty Christmas pasts. When all of the hopes and expectations that were dashed. Those of you who may be hurting. Suffering in quiet desperation. I want to comfort you and hold your hearts tenderly. I wish I could offer to you a comfort an ease for the discomforts that may overtake you.
Where it seams that God forsook you and left you adrift and abandoned. Please know this... That religion does not tell us but the truth is that we are in a battle and a force is against us. We can often help it along by our choices in error but often we are set up by it. Please understand and know that it is not God who is against you. You are loved. You are longed for. He does desire you. This world chews us up and spits us out and that enemy of our hearts would to destroy the very hope that is ours and leave us as wreckage adrift and estranged.
Come Home.
The door is a heart beat away.
The father of lies has stolen, hurt targeted the very tenderest of places within your heart. Then he turns around and blames God. If you have errors just own it, apologize where needed and let go and move on into the choice there before you.
Come Home.

Thursday Thirteen

1. I had a wonderful time with my girl friends the other night. We had a girls night out at a paradise bakery. Good friends, good fellowship and lots of good laughs. We have all know each other many years and do not do this often enough.
Thank you Lisa B. for setting it up and for getting us all in one place. Trisha and Michelle and Lisa your loving friendship and support are a treasure far to grand to measure. Thank you for the beautiful sunflower gift Michelle. I look forward to the time I get to use it. Maybe Saturday Night? I had talked to Jaye who had offered the possibility of child care. I am not sure if your available if so I'll take you up on it.
2. I get to go on a DATE with my husband! CROWDS CHEERING! A loving gift and offer of childcare sets us on a path for a night out (or afternoon?). We get to go to the movies!!!!!!!!!
3. The Kids had a great check up growth is perfect and Beauty got a prescription for an anti biotic a sinus infection suspected. Boy they were a hand full. Beauty accidently kicked me in the face in my glasses. She really clocked me! The doc thinks we may need to put her back on meds or at least he wants her into a pediatric psychiatrist. He thinks maybe she is either hyper,or manic or something but not right. Can I cry now?

The waiting room has a well child side and a sick child side each as a small video game and a television with a movie playing. American luxury.

Dash went first and Beauty just came undone for attention.

4. Beauty LOVES her pants! ya I scored!
5. I got home at 1:15, I awoke at 4:44 I am tired.
6. I had the follow up with the immunologist. He had some good news and some news to work on. I have a very bad grass allergy he is concerned about. It will hit me harder in the spring but he believes I may be a good candidate for immune therapy. Allergy shots. it would be 1xwk for 5-6 months... Big commenting. I have to check Insurance first. It would then be 1x month for 3-5 yrs. After that I would, he believes be less hindered by asthma, it may even protect me in my later years. I had a breathing test performed. I got to be the big bad wolf (it was on a computer). I do have asthma so we have to keep a watch. He wants me to have a special air filter on our furnace. The grass allergy is bad. Grass is every where at all times and some times so severe that I can be in danger if I do not treat the asthma at those times. My asthma is in good control today. He wants me to use the albuteral inhailer before I exercise (bike the kids to school) but he agrees with me that I do not need the Advair (controller) on a daily basis. It may be a different story in the spring. He could not do skin testing because of the angioderma. My thyroid is fine and the other concerns settled. I have to stay on the daily antihistamines to prevent the swelling of my face and such. Not to even miss one says he.
7. I have a sewing lesson to give tonight. Hay Trisha do you want to join us (you said you might like too)? Girls let me know maybe I can make Thursdays a regular thing and do sewing lessons. Sherry is just doing barter she offered to do so, and I am easy no barter necessary if you just want to learn. We are starting at 4:30 or so and if you cant come until latter just let me know.

8. I love my husband. He started an advanced "Wild at heart" bible study last night and is studying the effects on a man regarding Fathering. He is looking at the role of being a Father. How crucial it is for men to Father their sons. Good stuff. Boy Dash is sure blessed to get to have a FATHER.
9. The house is quiet for a few more moments while I finish this before I go to get the kids. I love them Beauty is sure hard right now and I really do not want to have to give her drugs. The doc said to try melitonon for bed.
10. My whole chicken is in the refrigerator it needs to go into the oven. (stretch and fatigue) :)
11. I got my new bead magazine. sounds interesting.
12. I now have even more paper work to do and to call on the insurance for allergy shots. I have to use a nose spray until I can get better from the grass as to allow poor beloved some rest from my snoring. The allergy to grass is making his sleep hard. Oh and I need to wash the dogs often you know so I can breath.....
13. My hour long rest is over. I need to go fetch the children and roll onto the afternoon tasks.I have a few pics to add but no time right now.

Thankful Thursday

Good Morning
at 4:44 a.m. I awoke for the second time alert x4. I felt His presence. I am so thankful to know my fathers voice and feel His presence.
I have to leave here at dawn with the children. I am so thankful to have on of the best pediatric groups that help our kids. They both have physicals today. I set the first apointment months ago so as to get them back to school post hast as not to have to great af vocational loss. Gratefully I have a car in the garage, Hubby left with lunch and I made the kids lunches and a breakfast sandwich for each one to eat in the car. I got the back packs packed.
I am so very impressed at such a great love as to wake me fully alert to task. I had felt a little bothered about the loss of $ to eating out and such but with fond gratitude I was awaken to task to keep on the goals of our heart.
My husbands heart Matters to God. His heart is to travel Back East in the summer of next year. We have not traveled like that in over 10 years and he is a soul with a wonder lust to explore and I love to join in adventures. I am thankful that when I came into the kitchen... I looked at the clock only to realize at the very moment I was awaken we had had a power out.
When I went into the rest room however the lights were working.
Strange thing 4:44 I have a funny little saying. 4:44 who could ask for more. For many years often remarkable things have occurred at this instant. The time on the stove was 4:44.
It compels me toward great appreciation to think how my loving Father speaks to me through the potholes of time and with all the little bound that we have. He shows Himself present to me.

I see the immunologist at 11a.m. So It will be a 22 mile one way trip to the kids appointments then back 25 miles or so to the kids school then turn back around for a 18-20 one way drive to my appointment and then 20 miles home. I will be driving most of the morning. My sweet white vale (sp) my Honda is full of fuel and well maintained. How thankful I am to have a husband who tends so lovingly to my car.

Beloved got his stitches out yesterday the biopsy should be back from the lab soon. I trust it is cancer free. Sweet man asked if I would remove them. He got himself up to his doctor and they said it is healing well. He is very fair and he had a worrisome skin mark on his neck. He had a positive several years back so I insisted and set up the test.

Well I best finish this warm tea and set to waking the wonderfully precious children that I have been gifted with.
Know your blessed...and be so very thankful.
There will always be those who have less and those who have more. See what it is you have and keep your eyes to the sky. You never can tell what awaits you. :)

Works for Me Wedensday* Making Dish and Pot Scrubbers.

Using netting that I get for around 89 cents a yard more often 59 cents a yard...In this case free... (Yes I had told God I needed some soon and Yes, My sister when she moved had a brand new bolt of ?15 yards gave me this stash.
So here is the process....
Good tools Girls and Gents!Invest in good tools.

I use the hand rotary and rule and cut squares, stacking the yardage several layers thick.

This was completed (in 20 minutes)
I use up old bobbins with partial threads or spools of thread with little left on them. It uses up the old so I have room in for the new. I also get threads that are on clearance bins and such for very little if it is a strange color. I don't care what color the thread is for these disposable things. Now if I give them as gifts of course I match the thread.
I sew them up one after another without even clipping them apart until I am finished the clipping goes much faster that way .
Use a zig zag with a back tack.

Wordless Wedensday *junk mail*

This was in my mail box today!
I had not retrieved the mail for three days.

Individual Education Plan Meeting for Dash

Individual Education Plan for Dash was at 8a.m. this morning. What a rushed morning with the children. Dash was ticked off about the new molds we have on his hearing aids they fit tight. The old ones had gotten very loose. So he started out not so happy.
I got Hubby off with lunch in hand ofter waking up so tired...Beloved and I indulged in 2 eppisodes of "the Office" in his office. That show is so funny! We watched it on the computer commercial free. It is so hard to stop. We got to bed around 11pm a bit late for the 6 a.m. "make lunched, feed the crazy dogs, and do breakfast routine. I was really dragging. When I hit my poor foot on the missed place foot stool I woke up God when I called out hiw name in pained frustration. I know...I apologized to Him.
The meeting was to take place at 8a.m. and that is normally when we leave the house for the drive to school. At the last moment I had beauty with a massive rats nest knot in the back of her head of beautiful blond hair that would just not do. So with every patient effort and a lot of disentangler I worked it out to the screeched tunes of a very upset uncooperative kid! Sensory integration the scourge of the morning hair comb out. Good Lord help me! That child was not well...easy oh no! not easy...
So running late for a meeting and accomplishing a very careful gentle knot removal we proceeded. I worn out emotionally by this point just felt like pulling my own hair! Thinking de-tangle that!
Got to the school well folks do you want the long or the short of it? OY!
When we did the MET meeting to confirm eligibility I was sent home a note about Beauty that showed a vast discrepancy between the graph that I had based my decision on agree (I had no real choice it was being denied) to forgo intervention and her real scale of disability. Entered the meeting this morning a bit (mildly stated ) miffed and defensive feeling betrayed. Now having after the morning I just had and was still untangling faced a round table of professionals. So true to my form I laid me out on the table and told them so. I was defensive and told them flat out I am not signing anything without full knowledge and understanding.
They covered Dash's needs and services they were going to provide. Then having to face the ushers syndrome issues at 8 a.m. sent me to meet up with the tears behind the veil of my eyes. We spoke about the possible loss of CRS (the clinic) funding and I explained that I had to come up with 9000 in medical deductions to of set the income due to hubby working overtime. I asked about Dash being able to get hearing screening both neuro and auditory testing more than once a year. Our Insurance covers the kids only once a year. Dash is supposed to have hearing test 4 times a year. The woman from the audiology came through for me an d added to his IEP the issue we had covered and it had been neglected in the IEP about having Dash checked on once a month to see if his teacher needed anything. Then new player was introduced. She would be taking over that role. I liked her a lot. (After the meeting her and I went over to Dash class so he could meet her).
Dash's speech therapist thinks that he will not be in speech long. The help for him with his off the charts IQ will have to come to his class room. The teacher will have to give him extra tasks. This high IQ is a double edged sword. He told his teacher that her scratchy voice was bothering him yesterday and asked not to wear the amplifiers (we did not have his hearing aids on!) He had left the house on the bikes and I could not ride the bike again to him. Hubby had the car. He is also using them turned off and letting the battery run out on purpose. (so I stopped by the nurse...every Monday she will call him in to get new batteries, show him who is smart!)
So after the meeting...walking to Dash's class for the intro and getting Beauty's backpack out of the car, I had to go back and talk this thing over about the discrepancy in the forms sent to me.

The phycoligist talked me into leaving my copy of the form...( I told her...I WANT THIS BACK)
She was very upset when I returned and began to spill the beens as it were...
She told me that she was not in agreement about Beauty not getting the help. That she was so bothered about the scores that after the MET meeting a few weeks back she went to her authority... She told me the chart I got that showed Beauty so very needy of services was processed on another scale that she was told she could not use. The form was supposed to have been destroyed ( think how God kept this truth for me to see). Well the discrepancy was so profound that she told me she even made comment to her LD teacher that I was very sharp to have caught at that MET meeting those points were just too close for comfort. I was assured that in March it was going to be reviewed. This is all because Beauties teacher is of the "name it and claim it" phylosify. I told her about what the teacher had told me about Beauty having problems because I WAS NOT BEING POSITIVE ENOUGH" are your jaws dropping?!
Those of you who know me....ME NOT POSITIVE ENOUGH! YES SHE SAID THAT TOO ME!!!!!

Well then this lady said to me that if Beauty had been in school all this time she would of already have placed her in LD and that she wants her in it now. BUT they need a year in system to prove it!!!!! Well now we waiste three more months to prove what we all know!!!!!!!!!!

Folks my sword it hot! and my arm is so tired that I cam home. I took a shower because as I was standing there the STUPID automatic air freshener sprayed me in my hair YUK!!!
I took a hot shower and fell asleep for two hours! I have done nothing for two hours but sit here in a jacket and just rest. That was a ride.

NOTE:
God made sure I saw the very document that was supposed to be distroyed. I even have a copy of it!:)
I'll rest my arm and sharpen my blade and swing it another day. For now I need to go get the kids.
Love you all. Thanks for enduring such a long post.

Tails from the scales Weel #10 -1

193 starting

191 week one

191 week two (at 189 on Friday) First Synvisk Injestion

193 week three Second injection

190 week four (189 peeked at me) Third Injection

192 week five

188 week six

189 week seven

192 week eight (most of it lining my colon)

189 week nine

188 week ten

Lost on pound this week.

We rode the bikes to the school Monday and Tuesday. That is an hour of riding
,a day for me. It is going well however my knee is a little fussy. I drove this morning. I have loosened up a little . It has been a rather stressful week again. I think that the stress plays a big part in my response.
O.K. some goals.
1. Drink more water and tea Now I love having a cup of tea at my side all the time.
2. Do my knee exercises and core strengthening. So so on this a bit hit and miss
3. Walk or ride bike every day. Doing real well hear.
4. Stay away from avoids (wheat,dairy, corn and candy) Doing better here,yet when I get those avoids I don't like how I feel that is an improvement to really care about how i feel.
5. rest better set myself up for a good nights sleep. Except last night this is much better. I do however love staying up with beloved and watching old episodes of "The Office" with him on his computer. That show is so funny the writers are just amazing.
6. Pray for all of you and myself that we all resist the temptations that would so easily take us off course. The importance of this is really becoming so paramount. I see how essential this part is.

I am not doing the intake thing well enough, I must spend more effort on my meal plan. No plan lately just grab the best thing I can find at the moment. That is not working either.

Paula from NaProBloMo

Good Morning. I received your note on the NaNo site, Rushed this morning sorry, I have a morning IEP for my son.
I have a hard time remembering the sign in for my account .
In answer to your questions.
Yes I make time to do crafts. They are a part of who I am and what I do for family and friends.
I am not sure of what you are referring to as "stash", for an award. I have so many different projects this month I just finished the two part series on pants for kids. Feel free to use that if it is for such a purpose. An award... first thing in the morning to look forward too..Wow what a way to start my busy day.
Blessing s to you Paula, and may your day be vibrant and full.