Where did they come from????

You know that I was raised in a simple home with older parents, kinda serious most of the time although my father did have an off of the wall kind of sense of humor.They were not parents that believed in getting a higher education and did not encourage even going to high school because of religious beliefs and just believed that you could get messed up and worldly ideas if you were to go and hang out with the world in that kind of setting. Never did I get help with homework or get any kind of encouragement in any kind of projects or any school activities outside of the everyday class rooms...my parents never took part in anything that had to do with us children other then providing us with a home and food and clothing and love.. that was pretty much it....so in return I probably raised my children that way to some degree..because in all reality I didn't know better...so going on to say what I want to say is I don't know where my children got all their smarts...although Everett is pretty smart...smart is an adjective that I never placed in front of me...not to many times in my life have I said "Oh boy am I smart" no, no, no.....

So where did everyone that I supposedly gave birth to and whom they gave birth to get it?????? My oldest is a go getter...she doesn't stop, not for a moment and has never ever let me forget or feel bad about not pushing her to go to college....I feel bad....I really do...but in my eyes she has done GREAT..she has never given up...and is so talented and smart in so many areas it amazes me..I personally think that she is doing terrific and it wouldn't make her a different person had she had that college education, but wished she did so she could feel better and I could too...but for whatever it is worth I think she is very smart.....and Witty and gifted in so many areas...self taught and has done a terrific job raising her 3 children..

My 2nd child, my first born son...there just about isn't anything in the electronic field that he can't do...here too, he wanted to go to college..we had him enrolled at Pittsburg State even had a down payment made...and believe me when I tell you for us at that time it wasn't easy to get...and then when we went to apply for a student loan we were not approved because we made to much money...what ....where on earth is it then....so we had to tell our dear son that he was not going to be able to attend..now I know for a fact that if he would have had 20 yrs of schooling he probably couldn't do any better then he is now...he owns his own computer business and everyone rants and raves about his brilliance....he builds them, repairs them, sets them up and teaches you how to use it...with little or no effort on his part..a natural...self taught and doing a terrific job raising his 4 children..

Our youngest..( our baby) too, is a very smart and talented young man...he started the computer business now that his brother runs...he got involved with a company when he owned his business that wanted him on board with them to take care of all their computer cares and problems..he has been to Germany several times and different places here in the states, taking classes and has moved up very successfully in this business...he in return did go to 2 years of computer tech school in Manhattan...I am sure he could have done it on his own, but I am sure the school helped him in a bunch of different ways...he is a very talented man too...musically like his father...drums, bass guitar and now mandolin and is doing a terrific job in raising his 4 children....

Now my grandchildren...the ones that are in school...and I now have a granddaughter getting her Master...her Master she has graduated from 4 yrs of college and is going on...a very smart young lady...so proud of her...her sister is in her 2nd year and is doing great also....an art major...now where did she get that???

I have a grandaughter in middle school...straight A's my others that range from 4th on down to kindergarten...all are right up there with their cousins and sibblings...

So now where do they get this from...not from me...but as I can see it, God He is the giver...and when He gives and we apply we can not fail...if we don't use excuses as a crutch to not go foward...He gives all of us gifts and talent and when we use it for His Glory and not our own..and take our focus off of the would of beens and put them on today..and go forward and do our best with what He has given us...that is all He asks of us...I am so thankful for what He has given me....my family..I love them all!!!

Great Wolf Lodge 2010

Great Fun was had by all!!

Great Wolf Lodge

This is Great Wolf Lodge week-end for our family. I think that this is the 3rd year..I am looking so forward to it and am very excited..getting all the family together for the week-end to have a blast..we head there on Saturday, swim go and eat and then head back and swim some more...linger around...and just hang out..the kiddos love it..On Sunday morning swim and then hit the game room before we leave and the kids get to play all the games....

Tonight as I sit here I have to thank God for the gifts He has given me..the life of each and everyone of my children and their spouses and all the grandchildren..I am blessed beyond measure...to think of all the trouble in this world..the killing the terrorist threat, the great earthquake now and all the dead and all the rubble...and here I sit in this warm comfortable home..a loving husband...all the family, the time we are looking forward to spending together...if I have complained today Father forgive me...we have health...food...clothes...I have a good job...friends...church family....a decent car...what do I have to complain about...nothing...and above all I have a savior...Jesus Christ...and you have a savior too....He died for each one of us....the whole world....Thank you Father..Bless my family, friends...keep each one in your care...

What????

This seems to be my favorite word lately...along with my hubby's and some other people that I know...

It reminds me of this story..about this guy that got a new hearing aide...he was telling his friend about it. He told his friend that he had just bought a 3000 dollar hearing aide...his friend then asked him " what kind is it?" which to the guy replied while looking at his watch oh it's about 12 o'clock...

This is what I feel like I cannot hear people..it bugs me...I want to know what others are saying..(maybe I shouldn't) but when they are talking to me I want to hear and I am always saying HUH??? What???? One of these days I am going to take notes on what is said and what is heard and it is not just me...it is others too, that I am around..it can really be pretty funny....so if you happen to be talking to me and I don't answer I am not trying to snub you I just can't hear you...maybe it's time I get me one of those 3000 dollar aides....

Remembering

Isaiah 43:12 says "Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past."

As we yet come to another end of a decade this is what my New Year resolution is going to be...I have been asked already what do you want to change in 2010? Didn't really know exactly what it was until now...we always want to lose weight (which I still do) but I also wanted to do that before Jan 1 and couldn't get motivated and so didn't...my goal a couple of years ago was not to go shopping so much and stay home more...well that really didn't happen either...be more organized....

I have a tendency to always want to look back...not necessarily wanting to go back but wishing that I would have done things different, not said the things that I said, not did the things that I did...but as I sit here blogging no matter what I do, or think, or try I can not go back..not even for a moment..why then do I forget when I know that I can still mess up...and then look back and think oh my word...why did I just do that or why did I just say that???

The last 10 years have brought a lot of changes into my life...8 grandchildren were born..oldest granddaughter got married and moved to Chicago added 2 more grandchildren to our family...Everett retired..our president was a first for our nation...the threat of our safety has been a real issue, gay marriages, on and on...the fall of the banks, auto industry..but you know if we look back is it really any different...the depression, the dust bowl days..W.W. 1 and W.W. 2 ask our veterans how it was back then...Vietnam..

There are things that we will always remember and there are things we would all like to forget..but the Bible says we should not dwell on the past...but march forward..keeping Heaven in our sight at all times if we are believers...that is how I want to start living my life...totally..pressing on...persevering keeping my eyes on the prize...

Now the next 10 years will again bring many changes...one being sometime in the next 10 I will be retiring...right now it kinda scares me...but I know when the time comes I will be ready...

Now one other thing I have to work on is my blood pressure...went back to the Doc yesterday and it was up again and has been....I inherited this from my Mother...
I have to get motivated and get to excising again...when will it be warm???

So looking ahead...putting the former things behind...I am going to press onward...

Happy 2010

When???

When do all the changes take place? When do we all of a sudden change our views on things, when do things that use to excite us,excite us no more? Does it happen during the daytime hours or does it happen at night when we are sleeping.

How can one day we be young and full of energy and full of hopes and dreams for the future and trying to decide what we want to do with our life and hope that all turns out for the best striving along and hoping that tomorrow will be better or different from today and then tomorrow comes and is it??? Do we start off each day believing that maybe today is the day our dreams might come true whatever those dreams are...you hear people say..one of these days...or you know right now I am so happy I can't even imagine anything going wrong...or changing..

You know seems like yesterday I had those same dreams, dreams of the future what they had in store for me...dreams of peace and contentment...happy to be where I am, kinda just settling down and taking it easy for a change instead of trying to keep up with everything and everyone else...well you know what??? When you get here, and that being where ever here is it doesn't happen...well life is easier now for the most part...but still there are things that still don't feel totally settled..and I don't think this side of heaven ever will...and for that I am thankful knowing that someday..it will be perfect...

I can look in the mirror and wonder where did the time go and when did all this happen...and then I ponder on and thank God for each day that He has given me and all the blessings.....this Christmas season I want to remember Baby Jesus and what His life meant for me...and take the focus off of me and put it on HIm the one who saved me....

BELIEVE

How many times a day do we use this word and what does it mean?
We can hear something that is being said and we say "Oh yea I BELIEVE that"
Or we can be talking and someone can tell us something, what comes to my mind and when I hear of someone passing away and we say "Oh no I just can't BELIEVE that.
Or when someone is getting a divorce we might say "Do you BELIEVE that, they have been married for 25 years..
Or perhaps we might hear of someone on the news that maybe had 6 or 7 babies and we say "WOW can you BELIEVE 6 babies"
Or someone says " I have lost 30 lbs...but maybe we might look at her and think to ourselves "I don't BELIEVE 30 lbs maybe 20....
Or maybe just maybe something terrible has happened...like a terrorist attack or maybe a bad car wreck...so someone really sick or been diagnosed with cancer and we have a really hard time BELIEVING that...

Now then those of us that are born again believers that confess that Jesus is Lord and that He was born of a virgin (which we are now going to celebrate) and that He died for our sins and was buried but rose again on the 3rd day...and we say that we believe..how many really BELIEVE????

WE can believe..but the real test comes when we put all our trust in HIM...ALL our TRUST....not just for our eternal life but for our day to day life here and now..that we can count on Him to take care of ALL our needs ALL our concerns!

When friends and people let us down we know that if we BELIEVE with ALL our hearts, soul and might...that Jesus NEVER WILL let us down....

This season as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, and that is what this time is all about...not about the presents that we give each other but it is about the present that God gave us in His Son...if only we BELIEVE!!

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever BELIEVES in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life...