One of those days...

Well, I have been miserable since Tuesday. We came home through the mountains and it messed my ears up badly. Anyway, I was going to be brave and strong and went to get ready for church last night and was preparing to do my hair...I did a double take when I looked in the mirror, I had not done my hair all day! It was a mess. I decided not to go to church because the only way I could get any relief was to put a Q-tip in my ear and hang my head at an angle with my mouth open. (yes, I took a pic and no it will not appear on here.) I was not attractive. Well, Jacob decided yesterday to finish pulling up the carpet and the living room was in disarray so I had to plug in a lamp and sure enough I leaked my honey off my honey bread sandwich onto the floor and chair. Since I can't bend over without my brain feeling like it was coming out my ear I did the lazy thing and used my foot. I AM MISERABLE! I was awake quite a bit last night. I did not even really comprehend when Daniel left today. My cousin Penny gave me some ear drops so I will see if they work. I sure hope so because I do not like this!

Can I still cook?

I only cooked one meal in 11 days. That was a chicken and noodle dinner for Daniel's Brother and sister-in-law and their family. They seem to think I am the only one that can do that. I find that easy to do but since she does not I made them. I hope I still know how to cook after all that time! Tonight is meatloaf so I will find out if I am still able!

Back home again

I am thankful to be home again. We logged in over 2,500 miles! The drive there was uneventful but the drive home was very nerve wracking! We got in to blinding rain around Atlanta and behind an accident. Then right before we were going to stop for the night we got behind another accident! I was real nervous about that one because we ended up stopping over a bridge and there were semi's and several other cars on it. I was scared....well, petrified actually but going back in my mind to my days in Christain school I remembered Psalm 91:11-12. And he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot upon a stone. Yes, I know that heavy people float but so do dead ones! That verse did help though! So, Thank you Father for a wonderful trip seeing friends and family as well as for traveling mercies! I was happy that Bud Dunn was having a birthday because that allowed us to have fellowship with friends after church! I was also blessed to hear my mom sing on Wednesday and she sings just as beautifully as she ever did. She was fired up~seems like the Lord is really helping her in her devotions.

Just a quick note...

I am headed to Wal-Mart to get the last minute stuff so I can get home and work until church time tomorrow! I have no plans to leave the house until then but who knows. By the way, I bought an Eeyore cross stitch to do! YAH! One of my favorite guys! I am all in the mood to scrapbook so now I will look forward to coming home and getting started. I did my friends and loved ones page and it turned out pretty good! See some of you this weekend and see others when I return. Love ya'll!

Headed Home

Well, it is Monday and as of right now..............we will pull out of here on Thursday. I am going to go buy myself a cross-stitch because I do not want to deal with the 2 big ones I have and I can't sit for all those hours and do nothing. I wonder if they have ovens that you can plug in and use to bake. I thought about bringing my scrapbooking stuff but I need lots of space so that will not work. That leaves crosstitch I guess. Anyway, hope to see some of you soon!

Deep Thinking.....

I was looking through pictures yesterday because I am planning to make a page of friends and loved ones that have passed away. I have not done this yet because reactions have run the scale...I have had some raised eyebrows and "some that is a great idea" as well as one "you are so sick" I believe. If I do this it will be of people when they were alive and well so I don't personally see anything so sick about it. Anyway, it got me to thinking because as I was looking at these pics everyone of them had their own unique personality. It set me to thinking of when we were having our kids the reactions we got from "we would never have anything" to "that is wonderful." I guess if we didn't have 4 we might have more "things" but we would of missed out on so much because they are all unique. I also wondered what people would say or remember about me if I were gone. I asked the Lord to help me be a kinder more gentler person because I guess most of us want to be remembered as good and decent! Anyway, that is my thought for this day....I want to maybe make the world a better place for my having been here!

FOOD!!!

While I was somewhat confined to the house I cooked and cleaned.....ok I cooked more than cleaned but I made the YUMMY, FUDGY, PUDGY cake from the latest TOH magazine and it was soooo good. I also make homemade bread and several other things that were good. Those of you who get TOH you need to try the cake and it you do not get the mag you can go to their site and get recipes. This is not the cake but it is similar!

Janiece, did you get the recipe I sent to you from TOH? Oh, is it a sign of old age that wringing a rag out several times while cleaning my cabinets caused me great hurt in my wrist? Do I need to halt all cleaning?

Written in stone....sort of

As far as I know we will leave here on August 16th and head to Indiana. We will be at church on the 19th if the Lord wills and as far as I know so will my mom. I am excited to be there but I dread the trip. I get road weary after the first 100 or less miles. I told Daniel I would have to dig out my cross stitch! I only do that on trips it seems. I would rather cook than do fancy work!

Random thoughts

I have not been here for a few days because I have been dealing with an "issue" I don't care to discuss as well as cleaning house because it needs to be spotless when we leave to head North. Daniel's idea~~not mine! Anyway, I was cleaning the inside of my cabinets and it was quiet in my house......as your kids get older they get quiet now and then and it does not mean they are painting walls or giving each other haircuts! Anyway, it was TOO quiet so I popped my mom's tape in and she was singing, "when I survey" and it was beautiful. I asked Abby if she could just see the sorow and love flowing down but I guess that was for me alone because she could not. I still love to hear my mom sing and there are some songs that are just hers! (in my head) Just like I really don't care to hear anyone except Karen sing "wall of Prayer" Yes, I have heard that Brian Free sings it beautifully but I just don't care 'cause that is "Karen's song." And "Champion of Love" is Sara, Janiece's and Marylee's. I am weird I know. I wonder why people like you all get nervous to sing. My mom gets nervous and I asked why and she said she just does. Now if I could sing I do not think I would get nervous at all! I was singing the other day and Jacob(unbeknownst to me) was on the phone and his friend wanted to know what it was and Jacob said I was singing and that the fact that I can't do that never stopped me. Wonder if he thought someone was killing a cat!!!???? When we were told to make a joyful noise God was covering people like me! I do make a joyful noise!

Our Friend

Another of our Dear friends has gone on before us...We were so saddened to hear that Brother Fritz had parted this life. Well, we were sad for ourselves but glad for him that now he is strong and full of life again. He was our pastor for most of the 8 years that we lived in Michigan and he was very kind and such a gentle person. Jonathon knew him better than our other children and thought for a long time that he was his grandpa.