He does not fail!

Morning by Morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail!  -Zephaniah 3:5

Of all the things in my life that has failed, of all the things that I may have failed at, there is one thing in my life that has not failed, that is GOD!

No matter the time of day!

I get so frustrated, it seems no matter what time of day I decide to walk over to our front window and look outside, there is the neighbor looking this way.  It just drives me nuts.  I already deal with privacy issues inside my house with not getting to have my own space, but  when I look outside and see someone watching us, it drives me nuts.  I will be so glad when spring is here and we can put blinds back up in the porch area.  I am not sure if we will get new ones or use the same ones.  Depends on how much chewing one of our cats has done to them.  I can’t remember if hubby said we could reuse them or not!  I had such a rough week, I hope hubby and I can get some us time, go some place without anyone with us for a few hours and just relax a little bit!

Two gardens

I love starting my day with my daily devotions by Max Lucado.   This morning’s was called Two Gardens!  The scripture with it is:   “The Son Gives Life” John 5:21.  He compared Eden and Gethsemane, how in Eden man fell and in Gethsemane Jesus took a stand!  He compared the two trees how one brought death and one brought life!  What an awesome comparison and great way to start my day!

A friend of mine decided to open up a web site and get her business going, and asked me if I knew what was the best seo software to use.  Getting your site out there and picked up my search engines is important in our technology world.  I am not really that knowledgeable on the topic, as most of what I have ever used was supplied to me via my hosting.  She is just so excited about getting her site finally set up, she just wants to get the word out there you know, hey look here I am!

My son is working away on his project I can hear him the kitchen typing away, while I am in the living room typing away!  I got a new issue of In Touch Magazine in the mail.  I try so hard to wait until the month is for before reading, but I never make it!

Working along, can’t make assumptions

My son is in the middle of working on a project for one of his classes for school.  Of course with my dad being without a computer he seems to be hounding my son more and more.  He just assumes no matter what my son is doing, its not school work.  My son is doing researching on glucosamine hcl and the benefits is has for many people for a variety of things, one of which is arthritis.  He is putting a power point presentation together and the project is due soon.  I feel bad for him, because it seems he can’t really focus on what he is doing until my dad leaves the house.  I surely hope this doesn’t effect his grades!

She is just so sweet

I have a friend who visits my blog, she never comments but will send me an email once an a while in response to my blog post.  She has been reading about how I have a difficult time sleeping at night and sent me some information to check out on natural sleeping pills.  She didn’t know if its something I can take with the current medications I take, but thought it was worth a try in sending the information to me.  Awe that was just so sweet.  I know she is having difficult challenges in her life too right now and for her to take time out of her day thinking of me just makes my day.

I got a letter today from someone for years I have sent a Christmas card too since we connected in MSN groups years ago.  Snail mail!  I love getting mail that isn’t a bill!  She said she sent me an email (I always included my email address in my cards) and since she didn’t hear from me she wrote me a letter.  Wow last time we connected was when we were renting the Condo, and we been here going on four years plus another rental in between so its been a good 6 years I say?

Hoping to catch up on my podcasts

I am a little behind in my podcasts that I watch of Charles Stanley.  I subscribed to them as only four episodes are up at a time and decided I would also keep as many as I can as long as I have space and with an external drive I always have space, so I can watch them again when I need to hear the message again.  I was trying to start with the older ones then work my way up but I think I am going to start watching the current one first, then work my way back.  I don’t to just watch them all at once because I want to soak in the message and scripture!

I am loving the new song by Josh Turner, called The Answer!  When I am having a moment where I am feeling so lost, I listen to it, and I been listening to it a lot.  I also think I should add some diet supplements, not just vitamins, to my routine too.  I know I am losing weight but its not the right way and wondering if my body is depleting nutrients that I need and there are a variety of fruits and vegetables I don’t eat.  I got to get my body, my vessel, back to feeling what it once use to be!  I wake up and look in the mirror and always just looking exhausted and tired.   I think part of it is the winter blah’s too.  I need sunshine, especially when hubby has our windows blocked in the bedrooms for insulating to keep the warm air in the house.

So feeling so exhausted

I am feeling so exhausted, yet when I go to bed I can’t fall asleep.  I can’t figure it out.  It is like I can’t shut my mind off at night.  I lay there and I talk to God, and I think about one of my favorite songs and try so hard to just drift asleep, but I lay there for hours and hours.  My appetite isn’t what it use to be either.  Sometimes I feel like I have to force myself to eat.  I eat small portions and try to drink plenty of fluids.  I am thinking maybe of adding a multiple vitamin to my daily routine but afraid I might forget to take it.  I can’t take it at the same time I take my thyroid medication because then my thyroid medication doesn’t get into my system like it should.  I am hoping tonight I can hit the pillow, talk to God and just drift away in a peaceful sleep!

Not the way to go!

I was getting dressed today and noticing now my jeans that I just bought in the fall are really getting lose in the waist area!  I have to tell you stress isn’t the way to go when it comes to quick weight loss, but it seems with everything going on, my body is just reacting that way.  Today was a rough day emotionally, when you get to the point where you feel you have lost it all, its not the best feeling.  I have got to start taking care of me.  Changes are coming and I know the family is going to have a hard time with a few things but I have to start taking care of me too.  Ten years of being a caregiver has seriously taken its tole on my health and I find its not an uncommon thing to happen.  Most that I have talk to that are caregivers as well have not being doing it as long as I have.  I have always put myself last and now that has to change.  I have to, for the sake of my sanity, move myself up a few places.  If I don’t, then I am going to just get worse not only physically, but emotionally.  Time for change!

The gears are winding

It is a little weird for this mom to listen to my son talk about his future, not that is weird, I know its part of growing up and part of them becoming adults, growing and getting out on their own, but to listen to him talk with his friends online about different careers he is considering.  I knew one of them would be culinary because he is always browsing my cookbooks, and observing me more in the kitchen besides just eating dinner, which is more than I can say for his sister who I can barely drag out of her room to peel potato’s.  I also over heard the possibility of a military career but undecided exactly what he would do, just talking the different branches he like to join.  It’s really good to see those gears winding!

I remember mine

I been browsing to find some graduation announcements and invitations to get ready for my son’s upcoming high school graduation, and found a pretty communion invitation and it reminded me of my first official communion.  I had been going to church with neighbors who lived across the street and I had invited Jesus into my heart.  I was so excited that I came home and told my parents and they had a fit, and would not allow me to go to that church anymore, but made me go to an Episcopal Church, as that was my mom’s religion growing up.  She went with me once!  The rest I was dropped off.  I was thirteen maybe fourteen years old.  In order to take communion I had to take classes!  So I signed up and took the classes and had my first communion and my parents didn’t come.  But the church gave me a prayer book which I still have today and one couple, Paul and Cindy, gave me a pretty necklace.  I will never forget it!  Isn’t it just funny how certain things will spark a memory?

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