Downsizing......the hard way

I have been busy deep cleaning since Daniel has been gone. I really thought I would be able to get rid of some things like quarter size apples and the other small things I have to decorate with but no, it is all too "special" to me. The skunk was something I got my mom for Christmas. It still has the price tag and I paid $1.58 for it at Hills when I was 10. That is a keeper and so was everything else! I did downsize the cloth I have on the apple crate. (the crate belonged to Daniel's grandma Mings) I was not happy about that particular downsize because it used to hang rather niclely and show the apples around the border. Now it barely fits. The oak barrel was something a friend of mine had and no longer wanted. Something that good just can't be tossed so.........I am now trying to figure out just where to put it and what to put in it! I can't wait til my sweetie gets home this evening. I am not gonna do a big meal since I never do that on Wed. because of church but tomorrow I will fix his favorite. That is one of my ways of saying, "I missed you and I am glad you are home." I do not care for meatloaf but Daniel says I make good ones. Is there such a thing? I am also gonna try my hand at Sugar Cream pie! That I do love!

YUM!

I am not sure what I have done right lately but we have been invited to dinner twice...not ONCE but twice! Yesterday we had a wonderful Sunday dinner with a lady from church. My friend found out that I was a "work widow" like she is for a few days so we were invited to her house for supper tonight. It will be a spaghetti supper and I am going to make breadsticks for it. I told her not to get too excited because if the weather didn't cooperate I would have to get something store bought. It should be a fun time with my 3 boys and her 2 girls. I think I will also make zuccini cupcakes. I told Daniel I would wait til he got home on Wednesday to make them but he said not to bother on his account which led me to find out he doesn't care for them. Oh, well they are yummy and the kids like them so I will leave him out and surprise him with a Sugar Cream Pie when he gets home!

I know there's a God in Heaven!

On a few occasions I have been asked how I can know for sure there is a God! That is ONE question I can answer for a certainty. It was around this time of year that I really truly believed. Trust me getting there was a hard journey. My dad had left a little more than a year before and I was angry, sad and all those other emotions. I remember my mom and I being so poor that we were eating ALOT of macaroni and tomatoes. (I hate them to this day) Anyway, mom had to sell some of her loved Betty Lukin flannelgraphs so we could get some money and believe me I was torqued about that. I just could not figure out how a loving God could get us to that point. She needed $150 and was going to sell the flannels for $75 and try to get the rest somewhere else. As the man was in his car checking this out I told God that if he really existed I needed to know TODAY and that if he did would he put it in the man's heart to give my mom $150 instead of $75. I told him if he did that I would never doubt him again. Well, here comes our friend with a check. He said that he wanted the things and that he felt led to give her a little more. As he walked off I watched my mom and before she opened the check I piped up and said, "it is $150!" She stared at the check, then at me and asked, "how did you know?" All I could do was sob and I finally composed myself enough to tell her and she was shocked. She also took time to let me know that even though things were not always the way we wanted them that God had never forsaken us. I will tell you one thing...there have been times my faith was weak and I wandered astray but never have I questioned that God was real. I know some people who think what I did was wrong but I do know that I was sincere and truly needed to know for myself that day. I am just so thankful that our friend listened to that still small voice that day otherwise my faith might of been shaken forever. I had a friend tell me that maybe the devil did that to confuse me but believe me my confusion was totally gone and I honestly do not think the devil is in the business of helping lift people up! Anyway, that is my little thought for today! Never doubt!

News for Angie Davis!

I had the best time~~~in my dream! I found out that Angie and Gene were gonna be gifted! With a baby girl. According to Kent it is a surprise from Jesus that was only told to him and the Davis' aren't supposed to know until she shows up but if someone knew I was going to have a baby and I didn't know it I would sure appreciate the news! I have been busy washing baby clothes and blankets for our special arrival. My daughter is coming home from granny T's soon and I have been doing her room from stem to stern! I told Daniel I hoped nothing happened to me while I was doing all that laundry because people sure would wonder. I DO NOT have a baby, I AM NOT expecting a baby and frankly I am not even expecting to expect a baby! Anyway, good luck Davis clan!

it's about time!

I finally got one of those counters to show up! Unfortunately I look like a beginner because this particular one would not let me start the count! Oh, well! I am a novice in alot of ways so..........! See ya'll later. I am off to Wal-mart then to get started on my mile long list of stuff to do in this lifetime. Please pray for me. I have been having trouble with my ear for awhile and Daniel says I have to go to the Dr. and I don't wanna!!!

a little of this and that

I have been busy, busy, busy! I decided to clean Abigail's room with extreme carefulness. That is a big job! Then I have to also do my other stuff. I am also working on a scrapbook for Jonathon. I decided the other day to let all this go and have fun..........which for me entails cooking. I messed up the whole deal! The bread could of been used to "involutarily manslaghter" the kids or Daniel. I guess the weather was wrong for that. The meat never did get tender. The carrots? Well, part them were done others were not. The potatoes were edible. Thankfully dessert, which was, "oatmeal scotchies" were good. I can live with that. In other news, my mom got part of her money back from getting her van unlocked. She also got ordained the other night and she is back at her own place safe and sound. Neither her or Abigail came home engaged~YAH!

Roses for momma....

I asked my mom several months ago if I could ask her a hard question and she told me that I could even though she might not have the answer. I let her know that she alone knew the answer to the question. My question for her was: Did she still think with all that she has faced in her life that it was worth it to serve God. I think I shocked her but she never hesitated for one second and her answer was, "yes, a million times yes!" I told her that to people looking on it looked like she didn't have anything and she said she realized that it did look that way but that God had always supplied her need and that she would rather live in a tent by the side of the road and be in God's will than to have everything and be out of God's will. I really wasn't surprised that she answered me that way. She also told me that the devil did come at times and tell her that she had never accomplished anything but that was something she had to leave in God's hands! I will say I went away from that conversation thrilled because I knew that I could face anything and still come out on top. Thank you mom for your Godly life and helping me to see that God is always enough!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Happy Anniversary Daniel! I could pretend we have never had any rocky spots but that would not be true so I will just say that I am so glad we made it through the hard times and that our lives are better than ever! I love you dearly and I am so thankful that we are still together and still in love after all this time! You are my best friend~~~REALLY! OK! I postdated this to show on our anniversary but it did not happen so here it is now!