Wait Just a Little Bit Longer

Sometimes wouldn't we just love to stop time...for one more hour, one more minute, one more second.
Let me stay in the hot bubble bath just a little longer....
Let me hold my babies one more time....
Let me not erase the little notes my grandkids leave on my blackboard and let me remember them forever..
Let me sleep 5 more minutes in the morning.....
Don't let my coffee cup be empty....
I don't want my life to be half full.....I want it all.......

I want the slobbery kisses, I want the "I um u's, I want the soft kisses on the cheeks, I want the feeling of you falling asleep in my arms one more time...the smell of the stinky feet when I take off your shoes and socks after a long day of play.....I want to sit at my Mother's dining room table one more time and eat her roast, mashed potatoes and apple pie...I want to not have a care in the world for one day....someone else paying the bills......I want the feeling of someone always being there to take care of me no matter what happens...

We are always in a hurry....hurry to bed...hurry to get up....hurry to get this done, that done, and then we want to do this....and then that.....

I want to holler" STOP"..let me stay just a little bit longer....savor the moment....where does the time go???
Always waiting....for this....for that....
I am thankful....thankful for the days the Lord has given me, for the opportunities I have had for the times I have taken.....and regretful for the once that I have missed....but I can't go back....just forward...learning everyday from my mistakes and trying the next to do better and missing the goal once again...but go on and on and try and pray that today I do better...not always looking ahead..at what might be beyond me to to do..but cherish each moment....and thanking God for each day that He gives me...life is so fragile, and God is in control....of my time here on earth...but I am in control of how spend it....I really don't want to waste it...

Bethany and Kaity

This week our church had a concert presented by the Chamber Singers from Maranatha Baptist College and Seminary of Watertown Wi. We housed these two girls and what a delight and blessing they were.

We talked and shared testomonies and stories and as we learned of them we shared about us. We enjoyed their concert and loved having them into our home for a bit....Two more that I will someday meet up with in Heaven....

You Just Never Know

You just never know when you wake up in the morning what kind of day it will be. What will happen. Everett used to carry a card in his Bible that said " YOU may tie your shoes in the morning but by night the undertaker may untie them". How many times when we wake up do we think of something going wrong, or out of our plans. But how many times does it actually happen...I would say that if we kept track a lot...most of the time out of our control and sometimes it can be in our control.....

Yesterday at about 11:10 I had taken a bathroom break at work when one of the girls hammered on the door and said Everett is oln the phone and needs to talk to you right away, and I knew if he needed to talk to me right away something was not alright.She handed me the phone and said " It is Jack"...my heart started beating harder as I took the phone and Everett said that Jack had almost had the end of his finger cut off and it was just hanging there by threads...now what went through my mind was that maybe he had gotten a hold of the sissors or maybe a knife...but at any rate we didn't know how just knew they were in route to the ER and needed us to be there to help....as the story unfolded he had gotten his finger in the side of the door where the hinges are and his little sister being on the other side didn't know he was there with his little finger in the door and slammed the door shut and that was that......the poor little guy wound up going to Hutchinson hospital into surgery to have his tip of his right ring finger sewn back on...so far all is well...quite an ordeal for the little guy.....but he has been a trooper and it could have been a lot worse....for sure....

His injury yesterday led Everett to his note for the day for me...and now you , who read this blog....

" Don't shut the door on Jesus...if you do then you will let Him slip right through the tips of your fingers...."

Thought that was worth sharing....

Happy Anniversary March 3

27 years ago these two were married....Love you both and Randy we love you as our own son. You did great you two...have a GREAT day and many, many more years...May God Bless you forever......