Voting!

Don't forget to vote! I went down today and got that done! Make sure you also pray for the poll workers! Try to be nice to them too! :)

I know that I will probably never be a tough, old bag if I keep letting my heart melt over every animal I see going through heartache but for some reason I just can't help myself. The other day a Sandhill crane got hit by a car in front of the house and for the last 4 days the mate has come everyday and stayed near. That just tears me up! It reminds me of a song I used to ask my mom to sing and I am still not sure why I did that because I cried every time. It went something like this:
There's a lonely little robin on a branch by my door, there he waits for his mate to return evermore...remember I'm lonely too and as the lonely, little robin I am waiting for you!

what is that groaning????

I was dreaming~~~bright and early Friday morning that an ambulance was racing around on the road looking for someone that had called in. I went outside to tell them that if they would turn off their siren they would not seem so incompetent and I heard someone groaning. I was looking for them and found them about the same time I woke up....to groaning. HUH? It was my hubby. Of course I did what any good wife would do and tried to "wake" him up and he just groaned. Finally, I shook him. "honey, are you awake?" AAARRRGGGHHH! is what I heard! Yikes! He was awake. My next logical question was, "are you ok?" AAARRGGGGHHHH! Apparently not, so I finally figured out that he had stretched too much and pulled a muscle! He could not walk much at all. I finally did something right and borrowed a walker from a friend. He is some better thanks to a friends prayers. Of course, he is back at work today. Not anything too strenuos I hope. Laying out a kitchen and putting knobs and such on the cabinets he installed earlier. Please pray for him if you think of it! He has back trouble due to a long bike ride he took years ago, with Seth on the back. (that tells you it was years ago):)The funny part---if there is one is that Abigail was also dreaming someone was groaning!

excuse me???

I was trying to look up something on ASK.com and when I typed in "how to" the following items came up...
1. how much should I weigh
2. how to get pregnant
3. how old is Barack Obama
4. how to tie a tie
5. how can you learn to walk in stilettos
6. how to build
7. how do I download videos from youtube
8. how many feet in a mile

some of those were entirely not on my list of things to know. Some of them I know :) and some I just don't care about. I just found it interesting that some people do not know some of these things!

Surgery for my mom

Well, it looks like my mom will be heading off to Noblesville on November 11th to have her rotor(sp) cuff fixed. I hope all is well with her and for any of you that would want to go see her she has to spend 10 days in rehab so it will be a boring time for her I am sure. Pray for her if you think of it. She did not want to have this done but the Doctor said she really didn't have much choice!

Growing up!

After reading the nice post on Amy's blog I decided to let you all know that your kids probably do appreciate the things you do. Maybe they are too young to articulate just yet. A few weeks back I was working around and Jacob was doing several jobs also. Finally, I told him that I was going to owe him big time and he asked what for. I told him it was for all he had done that day and he responded with a question. " how long have I lived in this home?" 16 years. "exactly, I could never make up for all that you have done for me, and Dad? he's the best." I admit I got a little teary-eyed and told him that all we did we did for love and he told me that he did what he did for love too! After I had made the cinnamon rolls last week Jonathon asked if I would make them again sometime and I said, "yes, but I can't guarantee when." Since I had time a couple days later I made them and when he came in that evening he asked what was in the oven. When I told him it was cinnamon rolls his response was, "already? WOW!" He is a man of few words! Anyway, our job as mom/wife is important and we will be rewarded someday! p.s don't you just HATE it when people ask what you do with your time!?

ANTIQUES!

Even though I was never the cutest kid on earth(ugly duckling was a nick name I had) I absolutely love this picture of David and I. The look of innocence was a treasure to me!

Does anyone recognize the little redhead in the picture???

Cinnamon rolls~~~YUMMY!

I am so happy! I have been wanting to make cinnamon rolls off and on for years and just never wanted to waste the ingredients but yesterday I finally decided if I could make bread and crescent rolls and pie crusts and that sort of thing then I could do the rolls! They were wonderful! Exactly what I was looking for. When Daniel and I were dating we shared a big cinnamon roll at the Greenwood Mall and sharing is fun but honestly I could of eaten the whole thing. My appetite was never shy. I have a very big affection for pastry of any kind. The next time I make the rolls I will add more cinnamon to the sugar as well as a little bit to the dough. The recipe only called for a total of 1 tsp. and that was not enough! I added more anyway but need to add a little more. I must confess Daniel only ate one last night so this morning I wrestled with myself for about a minute~~~it felt like 5. Then came to the conclusion that since that dear man loved me so, of course, he would want me to have it. Now some of you are thinking that I am taking advantage of his sweet, generous nature....of course I am! On another cooking note. I look at cookbooks from my collection everyday and I have in the past looked at other people's cookbooks when I could get my hands on them. I always loved the old ones! Well, I have a couple from '89 and some from '90 so now I have my own old cookbooks! That is old isn't it? Please don't say NO! My little heart couldn't stand it!

busy every now and then......

Saturday I was a busy lady. Doing some things I needed to do and a little I wanted to do. I swept, did laundry, dishes, baked 2 loves of banana bread, made my pumpkin pie cake for Sunday dinner as well as made supper...chicken casserole. For dessert I made banana ice cream. That was a busy day for me. Sunday was typical: church 2x, lunch, dishes and a nap in there somewhere. Monday I did not do much at all. I guess I decided to take the day off. I scrapbooked some in the A.M. because the teacher was there and I could. :) Then I made 2 loaves of white bread and a homemade chicken noodle dinner. I only did one load of laundry! Oh, yes! I absolutely cannot forget....Saturday I played 3 games of UPWORDS with Daniel and beat him every time. Seth played one game with us and I beat him also! That was fun!!!!! Sometimes it is nice just to work like crazy then other times it is nice to not do much at all!

Lookin' for recipes

A long time ago I made a recipe for Stroganoff(SP) that called for beef pieces. It was on a noodle package but as luck would have it they don't have it on there anymore. Did someone smarter than me happen to write that down? I am also looking for a freezer dessert that had vanilla ice cream and oreos in it. We had a principal at Bethel whose wife made it. I won't put her name on here but her initals were GN. Can anyone help me with these recipes?

One Year

It is so hard to believe that a year has already come and gone since my dad passed away. I didn't actually find out about it until the 4th though. I never thought I would recover from it but God has been good and I have been able to lay all my failings at his feet and leave them there. I know that my dad knew the way to Heaven because at one time he was headed there so I have to leave his soul with the almighty and hope that he did what he knew to do. I guess my feelings of failure come from not being a better example to him by showing Christain love. That is just one of those things we can't dwell on since there is no way of changing it. One thing it has done is to make me not hesitate to say something that maybe would encourage or lift someone up.

I do not mean to sound like a bawl bag or whiner but there are things that seem very clear to me that others do not understand and before I sound like a know it all that definitely goes the other way but something happened today that seems very clear to me....
in Feb. Seth got glasses, in May the nose piece came off and they gave us a much cheaper frame ($40less) but no refund. The other day Daniel took him in because those glasses just were not working. You could see just by looking that they were not straight at all. The new frames were $30 more than the LAST pair so they charged Daniel that. My gripe is they COULD NOT or WOULD NOT understand why I thought we should not of had to pay the $30. And the funny part is they could tell me the prices of all the frames we had ever gotten and when we got them but they could not tell me how they had given me that refund! If someone can explain to me in very clear English how I should of had to pay that I would really appreciate it!