AUGH!

Ok, this has been one of those days! I made bread on Monday but decided I did not like it very much so I decided to make some today that I know I like. While I was cleaning up my mess Abigail said she would fix us some soup. How much of a mess can that make??? When you hear, HUH? and OOPS you know you have a problem so I turned around and I did not say "Hallelujah" I said, "for the love of Pete how did you accomplish that." She had soup on the counter, in her hair, on the knife stand as well as under the cabinet and on the floor. Oh, and down the side of the stove! Well, I was going to show her how to do things so I grabbed a spoon and started to stir and yep, perfect mom (not) made a mess too. I plopped soup on the burner! Grrr...we had a good laugh and cleaned it up but still.......... By the way, the bread is finally done and tastes wonderful! I guess I better not make her out to be a slob or klutz. The top would not pop so she tried to push it down and up..........do not do this!

Bloggin' dreams

With all the uproar in my life I have had some strange dreams lately and in one of them most everybodies blog that I look at was there.........it was the Sebring Christian Bloggers convention! Yeh, nutty! We were all trying to decide where to go eat and I was adament that I wanted to go to our new White Castle (we do not have one) and noone else wanted to so I stomped my foot and said, "if you weren't going to do what I wanted why did you come to MY town?" Bless Angie Davis' little heart she looked at Karen and said, "I thought you said she was nice." Karen and Sara told her that I used to be but they did not know what had happened to me! I sure was glad to find that only a dream! I would never do that! I hope!

Thank You Lord

I have so much to be thankful for: Our little friend Johnathan seems to be on the mend. The Drs. had told his parents that he would start to potty on his own and he appears to be doing that! The Lord is also helping my mom and myself through this time. I expect a box any day from her with some of his things and some pictures of his service and as of this moment I think I can handle it, if not, I will wait til my hubby gets home and let him look first. I guess my dad saved alot of stuff. I have been with Daniel 19 years and my dad had a picture of me with an ex-boyfriend! I do thank you all for your prayers and I pray for all of you. I know that having little ones can be difficult and so can having teens so we all need prayers!

In the mood for food!

I am really in the mood to cook! I need some help though...Sara, did you by any chance ever write down the stroganoff recipe that used to come on the bag of noodles? (that I fixed many moons ago) and also, does anyone know whether or not you can freeze whipping cream? I am NOT talking about cool whip. I am a little smarter than that! It is on sale right now and I want to get extra if it can be frozen. I am also planning to start my Thanksgiving meal shopping so if you have any great ideas for that I would love it. Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite time of the year and it doesn't bother me a bit if it is just us and I do it all! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Also, are smaller turkeys better or does it matter?

A special Thanks...

A special thank you to all of you that prayed for my mom yesterday. She said she held up pretty well and that my dad looked pretty good considering the circumstances. She got a death certificate and the official cause of death was: malnutrition and dehydration. That was a painful thing to accept especially since there are so many unanswered questions that will never be answered. I do thank God for his love and care in these times. We could never have a better friend or listening ear. I felt so alone during this time (as far as earthly friends) but I had to keep in mind that people just don't know what to say at times like this. Anyway, thank you all for praying and God bless you all!

I have seen Holiness...

I never doubted that what my mom professed to have was real but after the past week I would never ever doubt it. She has had to make the arrangements and everything for a man she has not lived with for 22 years but God is helping her. God did answer one prayer and that is she does not have to go in the house to go through his things~someone has bagged them up for her. I thought I was doing ok but for some reason I had total meltdown yesterday. Of course, that could not happen at home it had to happen at church. My mom was telling me that other friends they had years ago are really torn up and that got me to wondering "WHY" and I think perhaps it is for many reasons. I know my reasons are many. The wasted years and the thought of how things could of been so different as well as the thought that maybe you could of done something. I have already told Daniel that if he ever sees me shutting out everyone I hope someone will intervene and save me from myself! I was surprized when my mom told me that if she had of known he was sick she would of taken him in and taken care of him. Daniel said that I should not be surprized because that is what the love of God will do for a person. Just pray for my mom tomorrow especially around 2:00. That is when the service is. I am just glad she will have some friends there. One little bit of advice...never wait to say what you need to say because you never know what tomorrow will bring!

YUMMY!

This is a picture of the absolutely yummy dessert I made yesterday! I got it from Taste of Home. Sometimes I have wondered if my hubby ever gets tired of seeing me looking through those cookbooks but I after the way he went after this I kind of figure he thinks it is worth it!

my dad

Well, I am in kind of limbo here so if you will continue to pray for me I sure would appreciate it! I am so amazed at my mom (although I guess I shouldn't be) she is more or less making the arrangements and alot of people would just say no way since they have been apart so long. She meets with someone next week after the service to go through his things and that will not be easy. I will not be going to the service because last minute like that would just be too costly. Anyway, pray for my mom because this is hard on her in spite of the circumstances.

on the lighter side............

I stopped this morning to get Seth a liquid breakfast before I took him to work with his dad and saw the funniest sight......a guy had tried cutting his jeans off to make shorts and one leg was about 3 inches shorter than the other and I guess to compensate(haha) he had pulled that sock clear up to his knee and the other was pushed down around his boot top. I think he must be single!

shock.............

I guess right now I am in shock. I found out that my dad died on the 3rd I believe. I knew this day would come and to be honest I am surprized it has crushed me as bad as it has (before you criticize me too much you would have to understand the dynamics.) I was just devastated and my mom is broken also. I guess because in spite of everything we do remember some good times and some good things. I suppose I was one of those that felt like I would never fall into sin like that but now I am older and realize that "except for the grace of God there go I." I wonder if he ever felt like the Psalmist David in Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Of course now there are so many what ifs and they are just things that you have to leave in the hands of the almighty God. I guess I am done for now with my spilling of guts. Thank you for taking time to read this and to those who pray for us thank you for that. I know some will find it strange that it would even bother my mom since they were seperated for 22 years but they were still friends of sorts so she needs prayer too. Then you always have the guilt of not knowing if you prayed enough or cared enough.

In memory...

I wanted to post this on the 22nd of September which was the 3rd anniversary of Bob Campbell's home going but I was unable to work on the computer. I miss this man alot and alot of the time. My whole family thought he was wonderful. He enjoyed being a Christian. He was also a man of prayer. The other day when I was calling friends to pray for our friend Johnathon Seth said he sure wished Bob was still here and I asked him why...his response was "you wouldn't have to call anyone else, you could call him, he would pray and there would be results." WOW! What a testimony! What a man!

BUSY!

Yesterday was a wonderful day! I started out helping my friend with her kids. I went home and baked 3 loaves of bread, 2 pumpkin pies and one apple. For supper we had...pork loin, mashed potatoes, gr. beans, corn and deviled eggs. Oh, by the way can ya'll pray that my metabolism speeds up? Just kidding it might have to do with my love of cooking!

Johnathon

The new news on the baby is that his condition is something he should grow out of in time. In the meantime they will have to stimulate him to make him go.

The memories I scrapped!

These inages are not real clear when enlarged but they do show what I did in regards to what I mentioned awhile back about doing the page.