Feeling better!

Praise the Lord! I have felt so bad for so long...good to have a day when I feel half way human! So many have been so kind to pray for me. I hope and pray I am on the right track with the vitamins now.

New baby coming to my daycare tomorrow, so I really should get to bed. I have so many things I want and need to accomplish here in my home. Hoping that I will continue to feel better each day so that I can soon concentrate on the things I need to do here. And so hoping I'll be feeling well enough by September that Henry & I can take a little mini vaction and go somewhere to get away for a few days!!

Thank You Lord for Your blessings on me and mine!

Wow! Long time!

Almost 2 years since I last posted! I'm not very good at blogging! As anyone can tell! ;-)



Soooooooooo...lots has happened in my life since my last post....won't even try to catch up. But I thank the Lord for all the valleys and mountain tops I've crossed since then! He grows us through all these things and so I wouldn't be the person I am today without them! Praise His Name!



I've been having health problems the past 3 or 4 months and don't have a clue what is going on and neither does my dr. it seems. Why is it that when they can't figure out what's going on they want to try to blame it on stress? Yes, my life is stressful at times, but no more so than many other people's lives. Ugh! I've been through this so many times and no one can seem to find an answer...except they think I'm stressed and that's my problem! Ugh! (again!)



Just a few short weeks until I'll be taking a week off from my daycare....can hardly wait! I am praying I'll feel up to Henry & I taking a short trip somewhere, just to get away from everything!



Well, that's about all I'm up to for now. Hopefully I'll be back before 2013! LOL!

I must have drifted off to sleep or something!

HaHa! It has been about 5 months since I posted something here! Good grief! Can we say busy?!

Oh well. Life gets in the way of many things, I guess! New grandson, husband retired, summer veggie garden, just daily ups and downs! What can I say?

Anyway....life is good, too, and God has richly blessed us everyday!

Nothing too exciting to report. Pretty much same old same old. Oh! Wait! Remember back in January I said I would lose 52 pounds this year? Well, I think I later reported I had gained instead of losing? Well, I am back on track ( hopefully!) and have lost 20 pounds since around the first of July. Slow, I know! But better than gaining, for sure. Anyway....that just leaves me 3 months to do the other 32 pounds! Hmmmmmm...not sure I'll get the whole thing by the end of the year, but I'm trudging along with it anyway! Praying it will come to pass.

Well, this is short and sweet. Just wanted to stick my nose in and let you know I'm still alive!

God bless you richly is my prayer!

Good news!...and...( ahem) not so good~sigh~

We have that new grandson I talked about back in December! He was born on April 17, and he is a dandy! Mason Carter Jenkins weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz and was 19 inches long! Head full of dark hair , but I still can't tell what color his eyes are gonna be. He's almost 5 weeks old now and getting just a little spoiled, I think, but that's ok! Well, that's the good news!
Now for the bad! I said back in January I was going to do my best to lose at least 1 pound a week this year. Would you believe that instead I have gained about 7 pounds! Argh! Well, I'm not giving up! I'm still going to keep trying to get back on track! I need to get started going back to the walking track...we've had so much rain that there's been little chance, and we've had so much going on around here there's been little time to go! I know...excuses, excuses! Some one hold me accountable, please!

It's brand new year!

I don't do resolutions anymore...try to set some goals, but never make promises to anyone or myself. Seems everytime I try to begin a new project or plan anything too far in advance someone in my family gets sick or something happens to delay or change plans made. Sooooo....I've decided to follow the scripture Matt. 6:34 " Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. "
Oh, I know we have to plan for things to a certain extent, but worrying about it changes nothing! Some things we have a little control over , but truthfully, none of us knows what the next hour, not even the next moment, holds. So, I'll plan on planning things according to His will and not my own....
Christmas was good. Everyone was well, and we were able to get together, enjoy one another's company and eat! What we all love to do best. Now it's time for me to really start pushing back from the table. I have a goal...ahem...hopefully, of losing 52 pounds this *year* ....this year!...ha! I decided surely...surely, I can lose 1 pound a week! Surely that can't be too hard!
What do you think? One lousy pound a week? I'm gonna give it a try, at least!

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, they say! *sigh*

It's a boy!!

I thought it was so sweet of our son and daughter-in-love to invite her mother and me to go along with them today when they went for the sonagram to find out if they're having a little girl or boy....and yes! It's a boy! I think if either of them had smiled any bigger their faces would have split! I'm so happy for them....and for us, too! Now it's just a matter of waiting until April for the little guy to arrive!

It amazes me that there are people who actually believe these little ones are not real human beings until the day they are born! My word! Maybe they've never seen a sonogram up close and personal and seen these little guys and girls moving about in their mommies tummies, or seen and heard their little hearts beat!

" Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5. This tells me that God knows us before we are even concieved and has a plan for our lives! I'm so thankful I serve a God who loves me and knew me from the beginning of time!

I long for the day when we'll see Him face to face.

And can't wait to see our new grandson face to face as well!!

Last day

of November! Hmmmm, tomorrow, being the first day of December, officially opens the door to Christmas season, I suppose. I have bought about half the gifts I need to buy. Will try to finish that up next Saturday!

I wonder how many are thinking about our Savior as they get into the season!? It's so easy to get caught up in all the excitement of getting and giving gifts and forget about " The Gift" of the very first Christmas and every Christmas since! I always loved getting up on Christmas morning and seeing what 'Santa' had brought. I was probably 10 or 11 before I really understood about what Christmas is about. Mainly because I don't remember being taught that it was about the birth of my Savior. If that was ever mentioned, I don't remember it. You see, my dad was not a Christian until I was 13 years old. My mom said she was saved at a young age, and they were both good moral people. Worked hard, loved my brother and me, and tried to give us as much of the good things of life as they could afford. But it wasn't until I was 10 and my parents moved us ' back home' to Mississippi from Wisconsin that I remember hearing for the first time about Jesus. We moved next door to this wonderful Christian family who had a daughter just 6 months older than me and 2 sons, one of which was about my brother's age. They invited us to attend the Baptist church they attended and would take my brother and me with them when my parents didn't go. And my parents didn't go much until after my dad became a Christian some 3 years later.

I can remember always feeling there was something more....Someone more. I had a sense that just going from day to day in much the same way wasn't all there was to life. And I'll be forever grateful for that "family next door" who loved the Lord enough to lead me to Him.

So....as we celebrate this season....maybe you can look back a bit and think about your first knowledge of Him...or someone special who might have introduced you to Him!

Let's be sure to remember 'the reason for the season'!