The weekend was so full I did not have time to get on here at all...soooo much happening.Friday was my daughter's 23rd birthday she wanted to go eat @ Vaughn's and we did along with our niece Kristy and her fiance'Nathan and her daughter Kenzie.Afterwards they came over and my dear hubby and Kristy's dear fiance' went to the boats(my hubby lost all he took in 10 min...good job sweetie...Nato won half of it ...gotto love Texas hold em.) while we all stayed here and played with the girls and watched "Tori and Dean",I like that show too cute .
We had a big 2year olds birthday party to go too....soo much fun....pin the tail on the donkey {{{ only today it is stick the tail no blood involved these days hehe....}}} There was a big pinata to bust {{ alas nooo busted shins or knees or heads here only strings to pull no bats or stick involved}} Even without all that there was still lots of funn and laughter involved !! That is one down and 4or 5 to go still this year ....loosing track my mind is still full of Dora the explorer!!!
Sunday was no day of rest for me ...cleaning & afternoon trip to Wally World and Fred's....It was soo HOTT HOTT HOTT HOTT !!!!! Of course i had to walk for days to get into the store.I had such a horrible headache by the time i got home. I am blessed with a hubby that will chip in and do his laundry when i feel bad, poor man had to finish up ll his stuff. I had done alot of it but since he had been out on the road for three weeks it was 3 loads to do in all ...lots of trucker grime to get rid of gotta love that diesel smell . I just don't know what i would do with out my baking soda it is great to get the smells out makes the clothes cleaner looking to ...wow I sound like a commercial. I finally got into bed late that night only to wake up later wide awake , hate nights like that . Today was a good day ...got my Trucker off to deliver something, somewhere so we can all keep on surviving. I miss him so much when he is gone but I love hearing him tell about where in the USA he is and what he is seeing.
UPDATE ON MY LITTLE POTTY TRAINING GIRL !!!!
So far she has had very few accidents ....we still put her in a diaper at night but pull ups when we go somewhere so that she can still go potty and she is doing quite well at that too!!! I am a very proud Grandee!!! Her mommy is happy too !!! [or at least she will be when she is done with this summer 2 class of A&P II it is so tough.
I got the following two stories in emails I just had to share them !!!
The necklace
The cheerful little girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.
"Oh mommy please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?"
Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face.
"A dollar ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma."
As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents. On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere, Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.
Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night as he finished the story, he asked Jenny, "Do you love me?"
"Oh yes, daddy. You know that I love you."
"Then give me your pearls"
"Oh, daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess, the white horse from my collection, the one with the pink tail. Remember, daddy? The one you gave me. She's my very favorite."
"That's okay, Honey, daddy loves you. Good night." And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.
About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, "Do you love me?"
"Daddy, you know I love you."
"Then give me your pearls."
"Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper."
"That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you."
And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.
A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian style.
As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek.
"What is it, Jenny? What's the matter?"
Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, "Here, daddy; this is for you."
With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny.
He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her the genuine treasure. So it is, with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasures.
God will never take away something without giving you something better in its place.
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The ant and the contct lens
Brenda was almost halfway to the top of the tremendous granite cliff. She was standing on a
ledge where she was taking a breather during this, her first rock climb. As she rested there, the safety rope snapped against her eye and knocked out her contact lens. 'Great', she thought. 'Here I am on a rock ledge, hundreds of feet from the bottom and hundreds of feet to the top of this cliff, and now my sight is blurry.'
She looked and looked, hoping that somehow it had landed on the ledge. But it just wasn't there.
She felt the panic rising in her, so she began praying. She prayed for calm, and she prayed that she may find her contact lens.
When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the lens, but it was not to be found. Although she was calm now that she was at the top, she was saddened because she could not clearly see across the range of mountains. She thought of the bible verse 'The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth.'
She thought, 'Lord, You can see all these mountains. You know every stone and leaf, and You know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me.'
Later, when they had hiked down the trail to the bottom of the cliff they met another party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, 'Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?'
Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw it? An ant was moving slowly across a twig on the face of the rock, carrying it!
The story doesn't end there. Brenda's father is a cartoonist. When she told him the incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a cartoon of an ant lugging that contact lens with the caption, 'Lord, I don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll carry it for You.'
I think it would do all of us some good to say, 'God, I don't know why You want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it and it's awfully heavy. But, if You want me to carry it, I will.'
God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
Yes, I do love GOD. He is my source of existence and my Savior. He keeps me functioning each and every day Without Him, I am nothing, but with Him.
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. ( Phil. 4:13 )
God Bless You !!!!!
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