Wall Talk

I decided to do some wall talk on my dining room wall. Annie my K-State Art major genius with her hands came and did it for me. I love it...it turned out so neat..
Everett and I both sing so we had her paint "Sing as if no one is listening"
Thank you Annie....

Memories

Memories, that is what we are doing today, making tomorrow memories. What kind of memories are we making for those we love or those that come in contact with us. Are they pleasant, or are they hurtful...

My kiddos always talk about the past..the past Thanksgivings, Christmas's birthday's vacations etc. I think as the years go by we all want to hang on to something of the past and the one and only thing we really can keep are our memories. Well maybe not some of us forget. Yesterday we went to help serve Thanksgiving dinner at Newton for the community. Our church is involved in that...I made a new memory. There were a lot of people, hundreds that were served. It felt good to dish out food for those that came...to serve instead of being served. Tal our son and family helped, in the morning we talked about Thanksgiving of last year...last night my Annie and Steph and I walked we talked about Thanksgivings of the years before, about going to Grandma Ada's on Saturday after..on and on some things I have forgotten but someone will remember. We break some traditions and can start new ones just makes for different memories.
I pray that your memories of the past are pleasant to reflect upon..the little ones are watching and will remember...I love this season..it seems to be the season of love...care and concern...more hands reach out to help others in need I believe more at this time of year than others...We need to make Christmas last again all year long...

It's about Time

The days are passing quickly, time is going by in a flash..soon it will all be over. The turkey put away and on to the next. Things happen, people come and people go, on and on nothing at all stops..I want to say whoa...whoa...wait a minute I want to catch up...I want to catch on..things change and by the time I get use to them they have changed again..just like the back ground of my blog, I am thankful that my dear daughter does that for me!! When I check in here to write I never know what kinda background I am going to have...Thank you Steph...I love it...

Thanksgiving is later than usual this year so that means Christmas is sooner...right?
They have been playing Christmas music for a couple of weeks already on the radio and in the stores...is that so we buy earlier and longer??? I think so...but before you know it, it will be New Years..Are we ready...I believe ready or not here it comes...

My babies are growing so fast..Chad how old will you be next year?? Tal, Steph, where has the time gone???? No really I meant the twins and the rest of the grand kiddos...I love babies...but they just don't stay that way, in size anyway...maybe babies, but they are bigger and not as cute then...

Well I pray all of you have a great Thanksgiving and to remember we need to be thankful everyday...and lets have Christmas all year long...remembering Christ's birth (by the way Abby loved your blog on the real birth and how it must have taken place) His death and most important His Resurrection!!!

My prayer

Lord, today I wish that I could take back some things that I've said...
I wish that I could take away the trials and struggles of those that I love..
I wish that I could carry their burden like you promise to carry mine...

I just wish that I could really show those I love how much I really love them like you have shown me...

Full House and Two full tables

We had our thanksgiving dinner today...we are a growing family..just our immediate family we now have 2 tables full, one of adults and one of children and lots and lots of food..10 lbs potatoes, 1 ham,
1 turkey..more sweet potatoes more then I can count..2 lbs mac and cheese..2 apple pies, 1 pumpkin and brownies..I can go on and on...

It was the twins first Thanksgiving, they really didn't take up to much room. Jack slept most of the day Sophie wanted to be held mostly by her Papaw..why do they love him so...Grandma's tired tonight, cooking a big dinner is fun, but a lot and lots of work..it kinda reminds me of a wedding you work so hard and plan and in minutes it's over..wish it would leave my waist that quick...:)

Now on Thursday we will go and help with our church to feed the ones that don't have a place to go or food to eat..I am looking forward to that.

Today I give thanks for God's provision, His love and His promise of NEVER will He ever leave us or forsake us. As our sermon went the morning he does have expectations of us...as His children though..I want to be a faithful servant.
I have so much to be Thankful for....

Thank you God for the Joy today!

I thank you God for the beautiful day you have given Everett and I. We started off today by having breakfast in one of our favorite little cafes in Galva. Then we headed to Mac to take care of our new little twins (which by the way are 5 mo. already) and Henry. What a joy, then I headed to preschool to watch our other 5 yr. old grandson's play and ate lunch with him and mommy and daddy, it was a joy to be with them...then my granddaughter Annie came home from college and I got to see her, and what a joy that was...then Everett and I headed to Wichita, did a little Christmas shopping, ( I do mean a little) one gift bought..and what I wanted to get Everett for Christmas I got him today (because he asked) then we headed to his Uncle's that is soon to be 94 had a wonderful visit with him...it too, was such a joy to sit in his living room of the house he built in 1949..so warm and cozy..hearing stories of the past..love it...

My Day

Today I was short 2 girls at work..we are not in our busy time and I was a little ahead of schedule which I like to be so when I am short of help it doesn't hurt to bad.Today was one of those days when I was a bit ahead this morning when I came in.
Well about 12:15 the phone rang...it was a supervisor out at the main plant wanting to know where Monday's the 24Th wire harnesses were. They were needing them and didn't have them. Now I run one week ahead of them always so I knew that I sent them out at the beginning of the week...so we check my calender and I started telling him the models I had sent out, he preceded to tell me those were not on the schedule for the 24Th and told me what was...WHOOPS..didn't have them..what I had done was instead of hitting the 2 on the # key I had hit the 0 so when I entered them on my calendar it read 11/04/08 instead of 11/24/08 so I had just copied down the 4Th production instead of the 24Th. So I went and told my girls, guess what I have a problem and I am counting on all of you to help me fix it. And fix they did. The wires had to be cut, ends put on, soldered into circuit boards and harnessed..Shipping came to pick them up at 2:30. I was so proud of them, not a one of them complained all just started pitching in. Yes I thanked them several times and told them how much I appreciated it.

Today I am thankful for each one of these girls.....they went the extra mile...

Thank you God for providing for me....

He's Got the Whole World

There is a song that we sing "He's got the whole world in His hands, He's got the whole world in His hands, He's got the whole world in His hands... then it goes on and says He's got you and me brother in His hands He's got you and me brother in His hands, He's got you and me sister in His hands...Do we believe that??

Each day it seems we turn on the news or the computer and hear more bad news about the economy not just here in the USA but world wide...We want to fear what is going to happen..the Bible has so much to say about money...and our handling of it..what has happened..the whole world has messed up...we have become a generation of spending now and paying later and it has caught up with us..I remember when people used to save and then buy today people buy and pay and then buy and can't pay and no one has saved...we have out spent ourselves...

But we as believers can't fear..there are so many fear nots in the Bible that if we truly believe what it says we have our trust in way more than our bank accounts..

I have my trust in the ONE and only One that has the WHOLE world in HIS hands!

Thankful

Today I am thankful for the beautiful weather!! Isn't it gorgeous??
This has been the prettiest fall...

Repair or Prepare

Note from Everett today:

Yesterday you can't repair (it's gone)
Tomorrow we can't really prepare
Because we aren't promised tomorrow

Focus on Today
Focus on Jesus

Giving Thanks

It is the time of year that we should all reflect on what we have to be thankful for.
The Word of God says In all things give thanks. No matter what our circumstances are we can find at least one thing to be thankful for if not more.

Today I am thankful for my children..the love and respect that they have for their father and I. I have 3 of the most respectful children that I know. They have for the most part always been this way to Everett and I. God has so blessed us with our children and continues to do so. So many times I feel that way and fail to tell them so I am telling you all now THANK YOU..for your love for Dad and me. I am also so very thankful for my 2 daughter-in-laws and son-in-law, although we do not see them as in-laws but as our own. I so claim them as mine...So for today this is what I am thanking God for...Thank you Lord

Projects

We are in the process (or I really should say Everett) in doing the winter projects in the house now that he can't spend all his time outside. He took all the wall paper off the last room in our house that had wallpaper on. At one time the whole house was wallpapered..Now it is all gone..it seems so clean and fresh with it out of here. We have lived in this house longer than you would imagine. I have done and redone every room a few times. It's hard to keep the house up to date so to speak.
Is it really necessary?? Unless you want to sell then it's more important to keep it up to date...I like change in my house it gives me a sense sometimes of a new space...Some people don't change anything at all..and that's OK. My mom was that way and so was Everett's a few years before his mom died we redid her house and she wound up taking some stuff back and keeping some but don't really think she really liked everything the way we did it...

Kinda reminds me or our life...change, keeping things the same, to hang on to because of sentimental reasons I have been going through things little by little, don't like to do that..and have ran across things that I will never use again but have a hard time parting with it...Are we like that with things in our hearts..old sins we might have had that we keep going back to, old habits that aren't necessarily good, bad and negative thoughts that shouldn't be in our lives that pulls us down or hinders our walk with God. Stuff that is there that is so hard to get rid of...trying to find peace which we may think lies in things of this world...position, money, possessions...Stuff that really shouldn't be the focus of our lives if we are in Christ..and confess Him as Lord..but somehow we want to stuff it back just in case...worry, envy, whatever..it may be we need to give it up...Let it go and clean out..Life is so much better without all the clutter...So peaceful without all the stuff that gets in the way...

Thoughts

These are some thoughts that I have had.....

Why do good things always seem to happen to people who are not necessarily good?
Why do some have extremely thick hair and others don't?
Why do some of those that seem to be living a righteous life have such hardships?
Why is food that tastes so good be so bad for you, or make you fat?
Why when you think you have something figured out you really don't.
Why when you are have a great time it ends so quickly?
Why is so many of things that happen to us are out of our control?
Why is it so hard to surrender everything to God.
Why when we think that we have surrendered it all something else pops up.
Why when I go somewhere I have never been it is never as I thought it would be.
Why I am glad that God knows..and someday if then it matters at all we will too.

Days

Some days are harder than others and this happens to be one. There are days when I feel like I can conquer anything and today is not one of those. I did not wake up this way but I am letting someone make this way...it is not right. I know that God is in control and I am leaning on him. This is an inside battle in me right now..I have turned it all over but for some reason I am having a hard time letting it go.
Everett always puts his hand over his head and tells me just LET IT GO...That is what God's says too, it is about dying to self...my feelings...OK I am going to let it go...Here it goes...I will not let her affect my mood nor my peace nor my day nor my life...NO I Won'T!!!!

Today's Note

When you add the letter P and R to the word each,

Here is what you get:

Each of us today need to Reach out to a
non believer and

Preach KIND words to him or her about Jesus and
being BORN AGAIN

Time Change

I am not quite getting use to the time change yet...I used to love it..getting dark early and getting to stay in at night and not having as much to do in the yard and stuff, but this year it is bothering me more. I come home and just in an hour or so it is dark. I am really trying very, very, hard not to let it bother me. Tonight tho, I am struggling.
It's kinda like life, it is continually changing. I was just telling Everett tonight when did this all happen. Life happens so fast...it is so, so important to cherish the moments. I had my annual check-up today and each year I am reminded that I am not as young as I used to be. But I am so thankful that I have the life that I have and am not complaining, just maybe being a little sad about how fast things change.
It just seems like yesterday that I was the younger one...and now all these younger girls that I have working for me remind me that I am not..and really I wouldn't want to be...some things, but wouldn't want to go back and do it again unless I was ASSURED I wouldn't goof up like I did so many times...but I am sure that has molded me into who I am today.
Just feeling a little sentimental tonight..
To all my children and grandkiddo's I love you all so much.....

Gossip

Note for today:

Say a person every time they would gossip
they would gain a pound...
Some at the end of the day couldn't get out the door.
You? Me? The hairdresser down the street...
The office girls,
Talking on the telephone...
Maybe Sunday morning at church...
Whoops, I just gained a pound.
It is very easy to do isn't it..
Be careful of the words that we say...
Proverbs 25:18

Happy Birthday Abby

Dear Abby,
Reading your mother's posts about says it for me too, altho you were my first grandchild and not child. But the emotions and love were almost the same. Maybe even more because you were my firstborns daughter.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. Your Papaw Bon and I standing at the window each one of us saying how you looked just like our side of the family. I was so proud..I spent that whole first week with you , never going home. Your mom would lay you on my tummy after your 4a.m. feeding you sleeping there until your next feeding.

I had to finally go home when your dad and I had a (misunderstanding) on Saturday night about who would give you a bath...he had promised me I could as long as I was there, but I walked in and there he was doing my job...I was upset...Oh how I love you.

All grown up in the big city of Chicago...about ready to graduate college..you have been so faithful in your dreams hanging in there and setting your goals way up high.
Never fearing to try something new and adventurous, even having your wedding in our back yard..what a beautiful night..what a beautiful bride..and what a beautiful child of God's you are!!

Love you and have a great 22nd Birthday

Here in the South

We are having a great time down here in Little Rock. We are waiting to go to the wedding this afternoon. So it's been relaxing time...nice.

We spent Thursday at Silver Dollar City. It was beautiful. If you have never been to Branson when they are decked out with the Christmas lights you need to come. It is amazing. I am asking is my light shining that bright for Jesus as the lights of Silver Dollar City are shining. After all that is what Christmas and every day is all about.

We're headin out

I am so excited, since Everett has retired we kinda just pick up and go when we want to. It is so much fun to be able to do that after all these years. I love it.
Tomorrow morning we are once again heading out. First we are going to one of our favorite places AGAIN, Branson. (Thanks kids for the season pass to SilverDollar City you gave us for Christmas last year...great idea!)

Christmas in Branson is taking place. We will go to Silver Dollar City and take in the festivities there. Friday morning we are heading to Little Rock Ark. We are invited to a wedding there on Sat. afternoon. One of Everett's good friends from work is getting married and we are going. I love weddings!!

I love the weather, and thinking about getting some hot cider..and good coffee and spending a few days, just chillin out! God is good!

Another thing that Grandma has to brag on, 5 of our grandchildren, that are in school, had parent teachers conferences this afternoon and ALL of them are doing excellent!! We are so proud of you all!! (But what was I expecting?) Proud of the 2 that are in college too! And also the ones that aren't in school yet.....

Song

Note for today:

I fought the law and the law won,
I fought the Lord and the Lord won.

The main song in Hell could be:
"I done it my way"

Fear Not

I know that everyone has an opinion. That is American. I just pray that is not taken away and we still will have that freedom. I know that most of the voters for the seemly winning party cannot agree, I just pray they know exactly what they were voting for. It may seem good for awhile but I think that we all need to hang on to our hats.

But God has said so many time FEAR NOT...So I am going to let my hat blow and hang on to God's Word....

Done

It is done...I have casted my vote...

Big Day

Here in our little town of 15,000 or so people my hubby went to vote at 7. There was a line way out the door and no place to park. It's exciting to be in a country that we have this privilege. I am wondering now when I am going to go cast my vote, as I am working and will have to sneak out to do it.
My hubby's note this morning:

Why do we call it a pair of pants when there is only one.
Why do we say a pair of sissors when there is only one.
Why do some people have a pair of Gods?
When there is only one God!

You can't worship two masters!
Who is mastering your life? (Or should I say what is mastering your life?)

Anticipation

I remember when I didn't pay any attention to the Presidential election. Today you would either have to be deaf and blind not to know who is running or who isn't.
But maybe there is one person or so here that doesn't know what is going on. But I really rather doubt it. I personally am ready for this to be over with and let what is going to happen, happen. I am sitting here smack dab in the middle of the great USA and know they say my vote will count and I pray that it will and have to trust there are enough honest people left so that can happen.
I will vote, it is my duty, I believe that we must, while we still have that right.
Let us not forget to pray today for our great nation and go and cast that vote.
I know one thing that God is still in control today and forever!!

Reunions

Today we had a reunion on my hubby's side. First one since the early 1980's.
Now let me tell you people do change in 20 some years if you haven't seen them.
Cousins of his that I haven't seen since I didn't know, but oh so interesting to hear the stories and share of the past 20 some years. Some really have a story to tell. My life in return has been pretty humdrum...That's OK tho, I am not complaining.

My hubby has some uncles on both sides of his family that are really up there in age.
One uncle there today will be 96 in Feb and the other one 90 in Feb. I have written about the one on his Mother's side that will be 94 in Dec. These uncles all still live in their own homes and still drive. It is pretty amazing to listen to them talk.
One was a P.O.W. in W.W. 2. To hear these stories of them growing up and what the world was like then I have not lived through anything. If you think of how our forefathers came over here from other countries and many did not make it..it is a miracle. They fought and died for us that we could live in the land of freedom.I just pray that is not about to be taken away from us. We have to remember each new law that goes into effect takes away one more piece of freedom that we have had. I am not saying that all of them are bad, but each restriction that is put upon us is one less freedom that we have. We need now more than ever for God to Bless our Nation. And pray that once again we can become ONE NATION UNDER GOD that our forefathers fought so hard for us to be.