Tackle it Tuesday

My big task is to get all this medication into me to kill the abscess in my jaw

 The trick is to keep it down and remember to get it all taken by days end.

One down..

That means I ate and took it.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

 This is another desire to do.

The skirt around the cutting table is being changed.

The former skirt is now being used as a valance.

I have to remove the velcro from it and then sew it on this skirt when I am able to sew it.

 

 I got the yardage cut into 5 -36 inch section and pinned, with the salvage edge trimmed off.

 

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The blue bird is taken from the idea of my "solo flight print.

This room is turning into the blues.

 

 I was able so far to mix the cookies and when I am able to I will get back up and scoop and bake. 

My Knee needs to rest.

I do not want to over do it and miss out on the best part of the day...

working in Dash's class with the kids.

 

After lunch I will go over to the elementary to teach the children reading skills.

Ya I just got home

My girl friend gave me a lift to the truck at the other end of the parking lot.

I actually asked for help

I so enjoyed this group today.

The teacher switched me to the At Risk Group.

One very shy girl well she is no stranger now!

Glory this baby opened up!

They were a group of four girls and one boy.

Two of them recognized me from last years Art Masters Program I taught them.

It was nice.

Now I rest!

Then Supper

Laundry is separated and a load washed.

Little by little I will try to do some more.

Thank you for your prayers

My legs are terrible painful tonight. It is my hope to serve at the elementary tomorrow. I help children with reading skills. My little small group has been without me. They do need leadership. One of the children stepped up and kept on task. I want to be able to walk so I can be there for them tomorrow.

Please remember to pray for my daughter she is to go to sleep without me beside her. My pain just will not let me lay there. Or sit here much longer.

I appreciate it. The second round of injections were very painful to the right knee and the leg is just having a fit.

I can only imagine

Just got to tell somebody!

 Possibly the build up and post set into the one tooth that must be protected or we could loose all that has been done on it so far.

So I got into the dentist at 3:40 Husband, children in tow. 

Knees week from the shots.

My dentist is a Dave Ramsey Fan and has run his VERY successful bussiness 

Debt free!

GET THIS!!!!!!sorry turtle dove :)

So the build up was going to cost 

$109. out of pocket

instead of the $240. (We are given the ins. right off even though we have used it up.

Now next year we have our benefits and the crown would of been $670.if we paid cash in full today.

but with the 60% coverage it came down to $275 for next year

All right then the filling was to be 86. out of pocket

If we had ins coverage a $17. fix but it can not wait.

BUT...

God is good and my dentist is kind and we have been given favor.

He is going to reschedule an 80 minute appointment

Set a good strong temp on today

Then he will do the rebuild

crown prep

post

and Temp crown 

on the 17th of November

Set the new crown on January 1st 2010

He will not code or bill it until January 1st 2010

$300. will be our total out of pocket cost with our insurance coverage 

at the new year.

the filling will just cost us the $86 cash on the November 17th!

instead of $996 just for the crown plus the $240 for the build up (without the favor to charge us a reduced rate) 

or having to come up with $109. build up $670 crown plus the $89.for the filling cash due now.

No more out of our savings this year.

We can do Christmas.

that saved us   $1236.

Thank you for your prayers.

Rejoice with me!

Menu Plan Monday ****amended!****

Laundry for the kids too.


two loads washed and dried 




 Possibly the build up and post set into the one tooth that must be protected or we could loose all that has been done on it so far.

A miracle happened see the next post!

I must do this today!

All before 1 p.m. 
Monday afternoon I will be having the next round of knee injections.
I will not be able to do anything for a day or so afterward. 

Knees done
Yes it really hurt, but the left one is already showing some improvement before today.

I have the Dentist appointment at 3:40

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I was up till 2 a.m. last night.

The antibiotics bother my tummy and leave me tasting metal, unless it is the infection itself.

So I stayed up and visited several of you.

Did the menu and when I got way too tired went and cuddled up with my honey.

Fall nights make a warm bed such a joy.

Kids are off and so am I too the laundry and the garden.

Enjoy your morning.

I can do all things through...

Marriage Monday on Nov. 2, 2009 "A Love Letter to My Husband."

 
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 Greater love has no man but to lay down his life for another.

He laid down his life for me.

sister mouse

Please God all I desire is a home of my own
A Man that Loves You.

Chatham pup and Dove

 

My Dear Husband

Yesterday I spoke of that early time when as only a brother in Christ to me you saw deep into the caverns of my teeth. I will always remember you selling your motorcycle to take me to the dentist. That day in that dentist chair when the dentist proceeded to look down my top at my breast you took me out of there and told him off...then you found me another dentist but not just any old dentist you research to find me the best dentist in the valley one who worked with special needs adults. You did this for a sister...a sister who became your bride.

Easily you let go of your passions to cause me to become your passion. It is with that passion you have for me that standing with me those early years you broke through the enmeshment of my family of origin. Making me able to fight through so that I would have my freedom from the dysfunction of my youth.

I remember the day you held me when married only a month the call came in that Rusty (my boyfriend of 4 years ) was dead. You held me , you wept with me and understood. Not a jealous bone in your body . Only trust in me.

You my darling believed in me. You saw me in all my glory even if it was only a foreshadowing of who I have become.

You walked with me laying down all the hopes and dreams of a "normal" life. Others saw you as a white horseman reaching down for the gutter child. Never did you ever see yourself that way. You saw us always as equals in the eyes of God in the eyes of that love we reflected back and forth.

Many years you played a duel role in my life as husband friend parent teacher healer a child helping another child so that we might grow into adult hood together.

My Dear beloved friend my lover dear husband and father of our young your love has kept me longing for breadth when it was the only thing that could of done so.

You have grown into glorious manhood along side this woman once child. Your an example that many would gain honor from.  Even within the humanity of your frailty that spirit of humility shines through.

Dear soul my friend you are true faced to me. I trust in you always. Even when we disagree you hear me and listen. I love that man who you are. Never a bone to destroy. Never a thought to slaughter life or anything living. No joy find you in the kill of a beast or the destruction of a man. You are he who would weep of such things.

I love who you are. You are safe and true. Quarks yes...shoot um' ups on computer aside :) it is a joy. Then that's just me and you accept that it is me.

You accept me, fight for me, believe in me. Longing always to bring me/us life more abundant.

This is your heart for me. Your life laid down for the others around you. Seldom ever longing with envy or resentment for those things that your sacrifice has left you with loss.

Never let go of your dreams my friend. We may not see how they could come true...but for you it is my desire they do so.

It is easy to like who you are.  You embrace the world around you with silent compassion. Those who God cares for do you also long for them the best life can give them. This is a beauty around you.

Oh your laughter, the balance you bring in our family. The playfulness you share with your children is a spark of light that will glow within them their entire lives.

You have sparked that same glow within me. You are that light set up in our home and my darling you shine.

You Shine.

You...you light up my life.

Please join us for Marriage Monday on Nov. 2, 2009. By majority vote this month's topic is, "A Love Letter to My Husband."

Every marriage begins on a high note. We're full of love, and we trust that the days ahead will be full of joy and fulfillment.

Early in your relationship, n o doubt you received (and sent) a love note or two from your sweetie. When was the last time you scribed a few words of appreciation to your man? Let's recapture some of those romantic good feelings this month.

Our challenge is to write prose, a poem, or even a song that expresses our love and gratitude for the man God gave to us as our life partner. Celebrate your husband in words, and let us share in your excitement! I guarantee you'll have some fun in the process.

Please Bring a Friend

Feel free to copy any part of this announcement and post it on your blog. As always, the more participants we have, the better.

***Happy November***

Yesterday the kids got into way too much mischief.

After some time I realized in my pain induced stupor that I needed to give them some direction.

This after the girls decided to help remove the wallpaper boarder with a NAIL FILE!

Can you see gauged walls, arg!

Then there was the chalk on the freshly painted yard walls...

Three scrub brushes later it was the child on the arm of a chair caught just at the moment she would of just broke her neck.

Instead she broke the frame to Dashes baby picture.

At that point I ask her if she would like me to call her Grandpa to come and get her or if she really wanted to wait until mid afternoon for her mother.

It was all three of them don't get me wrong it was just getting too much.

I was able to glue the frame the wall...well that will be another story.

I think it was alot of my own error for not keeping them better directed.

 

 Dove made the most beautiful star

 

 Dash's work.

Speaking of work.

Look what my sweet lovin' man did for me.

Leave a man to your garden for a weekend and they will not put up with the inconveniences.

Now no longer will I have to either,

YA!

 I designed the garden along side the main water line.

He tapped into it and designed a raised spicket for me.

No more hose dragging or back bending knee stooping pain!

 

 He even made one point to the other side for ease.

 

 He is so happy for me.

He is so loving to me.

I adore this friend a lover of my soul.

 

 

We had our family movie and lights off movie

Not one single doorknocker.

We did have to listen all night to the house across the way with a chain saw massacre theme

I love that this month is over.

I have not gone out to see if there is any damage yet.

I think November 1st has always been

the day it is over!

Now I can decorate for fall.

Now I can breath.

Now the images fade.

Now the month of Thankfulness begins in my nation, my community.

Now the stores will celebrate a worthwhile cause.

Now it is fall.

Happy Fall

Ya!

Now I celebrate!

Urgent prayer please

Care'o lyn is in need of support for her grown special needs daughter is in a bad way.

The wisdom is critical for her needs are great to heal her body .Please pray.

Free to be me Florida Christian Bloggers Retreat Part 3

The Friday Morning Song

This is the chorus.

Laughter and morning joy.

The Hospitality of Jeff and Angie.

 Jeff was so kind and made me an egg without milk.

This is just their way if there is a need it is filled.

Everyone is made to feel special and loved.

 

We had Coffee and juice and pigs in a blanket.

Jeff with his effervescent yet subtle charm...Even gave possum in a can to Joann.

Have you ever seen someone bring such grace and poise to a can of possum.

YES possum, some folk still eat it!

You'll have to go check out her kids reaction on her blog.

Very funny.

This child must of been sitting under the humor tree for she was full of the fruit of it.

  

It was time to go tend the pea patch.

So after a wonderful time of morning fellowship and friendship we all set off to see to the retreat.

There was table setting and meal preparations, goodies bags to be packed with hankie, pen and many wonderful pamphlets a book and a CD. Too numerous to think off. I enjoyed the color coded M&M's too.

The store was being set up many hands at work.

We then attended the prayer room for our group prayer over the retreat.

While we were in the room praying I began to laugh.

It ws as I saw a thread rising up out of each of us and becoming a great cable. 

The strands were as if they may have been DNA. 

 

The strength of the corporate prayer was holy and I began to laugh at the beauty of it. 

I shared this with a few but found myself hushed of it with others. 

Those holy things best left holy and care as to it not being trampled.

We left that prayer room and set to start to tasks.

I was left to attend others and as I asked to do so I ran into a little bit of a trigger.

Our dear friend and fellow was setting up a table.

I innocently heard her ask of her babies and for some reason I thought of dolls.

So when I asked to help her she asked me to unload a box of babies. It was a small box covered with a plastic so I did not see what I was reaching into.

It was a box of soft spongy life like fetuses.

I almost lost my cookies.

I simply replied

"I am sorry I can not do this"

and closed the box. She responded "Oh just if you would put some of each color over here in a box please". She commented perhaps I need to have some healing of it and I had to just tune that comment out. Her heart was good but the comment untimely.

I looked down to see them for before I had just felt them.

Just then a pair of beautiful eyes said "here I'll do it".

We must all stop and think of the shoes that others have walked in. We may think and fight with great fervor for our goals and visions. Remember that there are many who we do not know what it is like in their shoes. Walk softly my friends in all of our good causes walk softly.

It is one thing to stop abortion another to heal those who have become trapped in the wake of it.

I fled to the prayer room into Lynn's arms and just wept

really cried my eyes out.

It was safe there with her.

Now I have done a lot of work over the loss of Nathanial my son never born.

It was time to weep.

That I had done very little of.

I belly wept and Lynn was there to hold me.

I held her in her concerns as well.

We were together there for and with each other.

It was beautiful.

I could not go into the shop so I did not do so much shopping.

The very thing I did have eye on sat too near the pro life display.

Later though it was actually given to me by Marsha at the farwell moment.

She is an amazing woman with great passion for the unborn.

I love her deeply.

Later that day a young woman came to me and opened up and poured her heart out.

I was tender to hear her.

I was tender myself.

I do not know if I offered you the support you needed and If I faltered I am so sorry.

I was still reeling a bit.

I had been reminded of how bad it hurt to heal after the wounds of an abortion.

I lost My baby almost 30 years ago and it is still fresh.

He is with the Lord and has forgiven me as has the Lord and I also forgave myself for such a choice at such a desperate time. It still hurts.

I posted my testimony over here at a Life Restored Blog

When we are so strongly involved in a cause let us always remember that those who were victims of the very thing we are so vigilant over need to be considered lovingly.

Marsha was so very concerned over the exchange and I was able to tell her . She spoke of getting healing well even with healing those scares can run very deep and close to the heart of a woman.

 

 The ladies made a luncheon and it was lovely.

 

 

 

 We all came back to the Green Frog Cafe after the meeting

 

 Worship was a pleasure.

 

 This little fellow was a reminder of the night before when that little frog kissed my cheek and fell to the earth as I jumped back in a start.

 

To she who has an ear...

 

 

Our Turtle Girl and her dear friend

 

Turtle Dove

 

 

The canyons I told you about

I do not remember who but his is what I told you.

This is obsidian in its natural state.

 

 This was all spoken with love.

Obsidian arrow heads and snowflake obsidian.

I had the privilege of seeing into the souls of a few of my fellows

Some courage taken as well to speak of what I saw.

Most received it as it was given some may not have.

That's alright I know I am a strange bird.

My eyes see the names of folks as they are...

It is like a giving of an Indian name.

Where each were named for who they are.

I fly in a free sky, free to be me was the retreat title and so I just was who I am.

 We were at the end of a day.

I had a young one so strong on my heart but nothing left of me so I came home with Connie the pillar. Comfortable and resting in her company I did as she said and just walked in and offered each a place and then just put my Jammie on and went to sleep.

I was spent. Over and over the retreat was to be a time of rest for me.

So even though I did not get to know many as well as I would of loved too...it was for me to rest.

In that evening hour a dear Turtle B came with a gift.

She is so beautiful!

 

 We have some common ground between us.

She had come with a requested shell.

Dash had asked if I could bring home a conch shell.

I told little Dash Man that I would do my best but to ask Pappa God to provide for it.

Now when Barbara asked me if there was anything she could bring to me (she drove up) I told her of the Dash request.

She quietly came into the room and I so tired barely stirred.

In the mornings light I found this gift she had given me.

 

Her and her husband let go of this treasure.

Now what a gift!

She was so sweet to give this to us.

I only got to speak a little to her and show her a few things she needed to see.

We hope to get together more and speak often.

It was a very busy day.

When I awoke to see that shell I stood jaw dropped!

I do understand now more why I was so very tired and needed that sleep so bad.

I am recovering two jaw infections and so the awe was just so perfect.

Thank you Turtle B

Barbara for the shells, there were several off the beach she gave too.

Dash was so thrilled and I will be taking the shell to the elementary next week if I am able to serve.

The children will love seeing it I am sure.

Stay tuned for the next installment

It is time I go get ready to make cookies with the kids.

Enjoy your day.