This is our (I am a Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend -- so it has been a bit busy. With hubby working on the railroad we are never sure what days he will be home or working so today we had our special dinner -- decided on having roast beef this time and later in the week we are going to have a honey/garlic ham.
Anyway it has been a very busy day -- got everyone included this morning in doing chores so that none of had to spend a lot of time doing any one of them. Sure helps when everyone pitches in.
Now hubby and son have gone off to a hockey team. Our local team ' Kootenay Ice' - (WHL league) were Champions 2 years ago -- we have had them hear now for 5 years -- hubby and son go to just about every game, giving daughter and me some time alone -- nice.
We are doing pretty good at the moment with son and his school -- have made some changes -- concentrating on only one subect at this time -- and going to complete the one subject for the grade level and then go on to another. Seems to be working -- he is able to get a lot more done now in 3 hours knowing that is all I am going to ask of him. And then in the afternoon he works on whatever school project I have assigned him. Last month he was to do a report called '1900s' and it was to be written from the point of view as being born in January 1900 and all the changes he would have seen -- getting all the important parts of history. It ended up being a 16 page typed report -- he did a really good job of it I must add. He did not understand 'the great depression' so some of his ideas of what his family would be doing re working would not have matched up but his story line was excellent -- working in being a Christian family and all. He just got the mark back -- the online teacher congratulated him for an excellant job -- said the mark would go well for Socials (due to the history he included) and English. He got an A+ on it -- only correction the teacher gave him was that he has used 'me' when he should have used 'I' -- the teacher suggested him looking into working for a newspaper because it was so well written -- I thought that was funny! But was son proud -- and so are we.
This month his report is on space travel. He is gathering informaton and then going to be writing this from the aspect that the year is 2044 and that he is travelling for 1 year -- him as a Christian captain and some of the crew believing in the Big Bang theory. He has been doing some research for the last few days and it is interesting what he is coming and telling us -- just all the little bits of things he is learning from searching things out about the different planets ect -- he is coming up with very good questions -- ones we can't ask but the Science tutor we have will have fun answering. Such as one plant - not sure which one -- it takes it 15 hours to make one of our days but that planets year is much longer -- why? So while doing this research he is really learning -- and doesn't even know it!!
I go to the hospital on Tuesday for a cancer checkup -- if all goes well then I don't need to travel to Calgary Alberta to see the cancer specialist until December. Please pray that this Tuesday's exam will give good results. By the way when we go in December we are not taking the children -- we have people that are going to take care of them for us -- 1st time ever -- so this will be the first time in 13 years that we are completely alone with no kids!!! Hopefully we are going to be able to get these people to take the kids every three months when I need to go for my checkup -- that way hubby and I will have some quality time with the kids. They each have been away overnight but not both at the same time. Hubby is already telling me that he knows I am going to 'freak' out especially with leaving my daughter -- she is the baby (she would not like to hear that as she is 14) but she has Down Syndrome -- and we have always been within 45 minutes from here -- in December it will be like 6 hours away!
I got weight on Wednesday, October 8 -- have lost 5.25 pounds since September 15 and am down 22.75 from my heaviest recorded weight -- so I am feeling good about that. With working diligently on my Christian 12 Step Program and the Challenge from Dr. Phil's book since September 15 I am seeing some major changes -- am finally realizing that all this weight has nothing to do with food -- and what a wonderful feeling it has been to finally really leave major burdens at the foot of the cross. I think to many of us, myself especially, go to the cross wanting to leave our burdens but for whatever reason we take them back!!
My walking at our rec plex is not up to 642 miles -- mini goal is 650 miles so just about there. This all since Jan 2 2002. And my goal is to have reached 700 miles walked by December 31 2003 and I can see that this is very doable!.
Anyway I have rambled on for a bit -- hope everyone is doing well.
I verse of Scripture I read in my devotions today that spoke to me is the following:
Job 6:24-25a says
Teach me and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words.....
I'm just popping in to ask for your prayers. Most of you know that it is my dream to live and work in Ireland - well some job opportunities have come up in the West of Ireland, which is where I REALLY want to be. I would appreciate if you could pray that I will get one of these jobs and that God will remove all the obstacles in my way. I lost my last job through ill health and I doubt my last reference will be that great - I just worry that noone will want to employ me. I was praying about it the other day and I distinctly heard God say to me ' I will make the impossible possible' - so I'm putting my trust in Him as I know he loves me and wants me to work. But I'd really appreciate your prayers too as this means so much to me!
Amanda~Prayers to you dear for all that you desire. It's cool that you had a word w/the Lord, perhaps it's telling you to not give up, nothing is impossible. How is you db doing? Any job prospects for him now in Ireland?
I'm having a hard time getting going today. May just do stuff around the house today and this afternoon/evening i have my Church group and i'll be leading tonight so i have some preparation to do. I also am knitting eyelash scarfs right now and a biblestudy-friend is buying 4 of them from me. I have 2 done for her today and i have another order for 2 of them but double-length. I also need to get ready for my weekend away. And Sunny, no it's not in Ohio.....sorry. It's in upper MN, above Lake Mille Lacs, about 2.5 hours north of my house.
Vikings have a BYE week so football is boring for me today, although I know Sunny and Gary are excited about today. Hope your teams do well! Oh, are they playing eachother? Then I don't know what to tell you! And baseball is making me mad now, a bunch of grown up men beating up on each other.......geez, think of what they are teaching the kids. They get paid way too much money in my opinion to act like that. There is no excuse for it. OK, off my :soapbox: about that.
AMANDA PANDA...I'M ALSO PRAYING FOR YOU. SOUNDS SO INTERESTING FOR YOU TO GO TO IRELAND! KEEP US POSTED.
MITCHYPOO...I AGREE ABOUT THE BASEBALL PLAYERS...SOUNDS SPOILED TO ME!
GARY...YOU HAVE A GREAT FAMILY!
SAMI...MY DH WOULD HAVE KILLED THE DOG!! WE CAN'T HAVE DOGS HERE...WE'RE TOO CLOSE TO THE ROAD. AFTER TWO WERE RUN OVER, WE GAVE UP. NOW, WE HAVE TWO HORSES.
SUNNYD...YOUR ANKLE LOOKS TERRIBLE! BETTER TAKE CARE OF IT.
I've had quite a time getting on here. I lost my password and couldn't find it. so, I finally ordered another one. Who knew it took just a few seconds to get it?
Happy Thanksgiving Sprout! As a fellow Canadian I too celebrated today. I cooked a turkey dinner for 13 of us. The turkey was kind of dry but the other dishes made up for it. Everyone has gone home now and I still have some pots to wash up. To top it all our hot water tank sprung a lead just as people were leaving so DH has been busy fixing that up. Thank God for husbands and Home Depot.
Needless to say my eating has been pretty pathetic this weekend. I made an awesome pumpkin pie and ate 2 pieces. Extra walking for me now.
Gary: What a nice family and now to have a face to match to the messages. I hope to very soon try to get one of my family on too.
Sami: I am loving Curves. Even though I'm not showing much weight loss yet I am feeling more definition in my shoulders, arms and elsewhere. Clothes are fitting better. I plan to start on their eating plan next week and get the weight moving too. They do not promote any extras such as supplements and don't expect you to follow their diet unless you want to. I highly recommend it.
Amanda: My prayers are with you. God knows the desires of your heart and He also knows what's best for you.
Sunny: Your ankle looks really sore. Is it any better? Don't give up on Curves. I need your support!!
Even though not all of us are celebrating Thanksgiving today lets all reflect on the blessing God has given us in our lives.
sorry I haven't posted in a awhile our DSL went out over the weekend. We have bell south. It is a really bad provider, no one knows anything. My huband was on the phone for several hours trying to solve the problem. Each time he got a new tec. person he had to go over everything. By the end of the day he was in a very bad mood. I haven't heard him cuss since he got saved,but he came very close to losing it. He is a computer addict and he was going through major withdraw.
My cpap machine is working real good. I feel like a new person. All my energy is coming back. I have been tiered for so long I didn't know what normal was. My thoughts are no longer foggy, I am not falling asleep all day, and my mood is alot better. I just wish I could loss this weight. I have been the same for over a month. I'm starting to cheat on the diet.
I'll post some more tomarrow
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and gorify your father which is in heaven~Matthew 5:16~
THIS IS FOR YOU WILMA... http://www.angelrays.com/ripl/tdaydun.html SORRY, I MISSED YOU EARLIER. IF THEIR ARE OTHER CANADIANS HERE...."HAPPY THANKSGIVING " TO YOU, ALSO.
EISENJ....I'M SO GLAD YOUR CPAP IS WORKING FOR YOU. YOU KNOW, SOME DAY WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THESE PROBLEMS....THAT ALONE, WILL BE HEAVEN TO ME! IT'S BEEN SO MANY YEARS SINCE I FELT "NORMAL", I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER HOW IT IS. LIKE I SAID...GLAD YOU'RE BETTER.
TALK TO ALL TOMORROW....
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Location: I am from 29 Palms, California... but now live in Northeast, Ohio
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Just a brief message right now...
If anyone here would like to send me a picture of themselves via e-mail I will gladly downsize it for you and post it - like I did for Michele. Just PM me and I will give you my e-mail address. We all would enjoy seeing your beautiful faces...
Gotta be going... I have allot to do this morning before my first CURVES workout (back) in a week. Thank's SAMI for all you concern's, but I will be okay - really. I have taken what you have said and consulted with my Mom (who is a retired nurse) and know's what I need to do to prepare this ankle so I can go back to working out again. To be honest - I am a bit nervous, like I was on my first day there. But I will be fine. Sue - the owner - is also very concerned for me and I don't think it has anything to do with fear of a law-suit. She is a brand new ( first time ) owner and is just very caring of her customers. But I do know of what you speak, SAMI... have seen that too. You have solid concerns, but I think I am fine here. The nurse that spoke up to help does NOT work for CURVES - she is a customer and was working out when I hurt myself and lent a hand and some advice. Then when I got home I went on the net to see what to do to care for it and have been following that. I am now in the ugly green stages of the bruising & can actually see my ankle bones again - which means I am healing up okay. Again... I thank you! (((Hugs)))
Later everyone!
As Arnold would say... "I'LL BE BACK!"
~ Wlima and Sprout happy thanksgiving. We usually invite a needy family, lonely elderly or service person to our home for the holidays. My family and my husbands family never visit. We are christan and that is a threat to them. We might as well be drug addicts or alcoholics. It not that we ram our faith down their throats. It just our life style is very different then theirs. My father hasn't visited in ten years. He says it's out of his way. He however travels all over Europe. I keep leaving this issue to God at the alter but I keep dwelling on it. We have visited him for the last 15 years. This year we are vacationing in Orlando. Our daughter is performing at Universal studios in June and we can't afford to go up north also. I guess we won't be seeing any family this year.
~Amanda~ I'll pray you get a job in the location of Ireland you want to live. God has some great plans for you. He loves both of you.
~Sunny~ that foot looked nasty.I'm so sorry you have had to go through so much pain. Your God child was cute as a button.
~Gary~ I loved your pictures of your family. Your wife is beautiful.
~ Angel~ When you feel bad for so long you forget how feeling good feels. I saw a show on TV yesterday about dealing with pain. There was a monk that practices a type of chinese discipline. He could lower his pain threshold mentally. They also said a love of family and God helps limit pain. The pain of child birth is difficult but the love of your child out ways the pain. We will endure alot of pain for the sake of our family. Men/weman have been tortured in wars. It is there love of God and family that pulls them through. As a christans we also know that our pain is temperary. Some day we will go home to the Father. Our pain will be gone. He endured alot of pain for us. Christ died on the cross for our sins. He knows and feels our pain.
Sunny~Thank you! Thank you! You are so sweet to do that for me. I tried and tried to send these pics in May but it wouldn't let me. This was my graduation and the one of me and that beautiful blonde is my dear sweet Mother! We are in the japanese garden at school. It's really beautiful there. Always thought if i got re-married i'd like to take pics there.
Today is a new day, i feel reenergized and althought I don't have it all figured out am thinking of starting the fitness journal from Angie. Guess I don't have to have it all figured out, just give it a go and do my best! My small goals are to drink atleast 64 oz. of water today and eat low-carb, low caffeine and exercise atleast 30-45 minutes today. Will have to make the effort this afternoon. I've planned my food today, that's a start, just need to concentrate on the other small goals.
Location: I am from 29 Palms, California... but now live in Northeast, Ohio
Posts: 2,107
S/C/G: SW-245.5/CW-209/GW-170
Height: 5'5"
Pic of our home
It is just such a beautiful day here today - I had to take a pic of our home and show you all... it suppose to be yuky the rest of the week. So I got it while the getting was good
Am here -- just busy!!
and Happy Sunday!
And baseball is making me mad now, a bunch of grown up men beating up on each other.......geez, think of what they are teaching the kids. They get paid way too much money in my opinion to act like that. There is no excuse for it. OK, off my :soapbox: about that.
POSTING for MICHELE/Mitchypoo
- which means I am healing up okay. Again... I thank you! (((Hugs)))
Pic of our home
