It was a Good Friday

Today I took my dad for a dr. appointment. It was to check in with his urologist. His psa was 0.4 so the shots he is getting for his prostate cancer are working! It was all good news today. We celebrated with frosties from Wendy's!!! No school/work today again. I bathed out of the kitchen sink since our showers are frozen up. By the time I get my fanny in the sink, doesn't leave much room for the water! ha! Just kidding. I crack myself up sometimes. Sponge bathing works in a pinch. The best for last - Emily is on her way here. yea! Good times ahead this week. oh, boy. . . . . picking her up at 11:30 tonight at the CR airport. I should sneak in a nap, but I am too psyched.

BRRRRRR

BRRR! So record lows are the talk of the day. Cold is cold. And it IS!!!!!! No school again today. I had the screaming mimi's so bad last evening and all night. My tummy cramped so badly and I got so tired of getting up and sitting on the COLD toilet. yuk. I finally got to sleeping around 5 and then slept until 10. Today I felt kind of strange - like you're real empty but nothing sounds good - well, I drank lots of water cause I was thirsty. And I worked on a couple pieces of art, but really did not have the creative juices flowing to really enjoy it. We already have heard that there is no school again tomorrow. I have not been out of the house since Tues. but I have to take my dad to the dr. tomorrow - just hoping my car starts! I also need a few things at the store - like to restock the Immodium and T.P.!!!!!!!!!!! And . . . .ANd. . . . .AND. . .. tomorrow Emmy comes! hurray, cause I need her.

SNOW DAY

This is a fun project I did today and I am so excited about it, because I think it's funky and cute and I get to see these precious little mugs up close and a lot!!!~! So I took some heavy wire and did my swirly thing and used little sticker things to attach the photos and poked them into my colored rocks in the big vase. It sits on the dining room table. I love it! Also I vacuumed, did laundry, cleaned my bathroom (finally), sorted piles of miscellaneous things from Christmas that had accumulated on the counters and table. Cleared out alot of clutter in general. It feels pretty good. How this place gets like this with only 2 people is beyond me. . . . oh, well, then it must be Don if it's beyond me. huh?! Put a roast, potatoes, & carrots in the oven to slow cook. Also today I got to chew out a collection agency that keeps calling us looking for Pam Behrens. It upsets me that they can pick some name out of the phone book that starts with B and then proceed to harrass them. That's basically what happened. dummies! Check the spelling! Check the numbers. Check to see if your brains are turned on. enough. I'm done.

Tuesday's Lesson

Did you know there's more than one way to make a snowman? My preschool kids taught me this today. Sometimes the biggest snowball doesn't go on the bottom, sometimes the smaller one does. His hat can go upside down, inside out, or even in between the snowballs! He could have legs or not. His whole body could be covered with buttons or he might only have one right smack dab in his middle! Which reinforces my thinking: there's no people like snow people!

MY MONDAY

OK, it's been an amazing day! First big blessing was a bracelet that a student (Canaan) gave me. It has the verse "trust the Lord your God with all your heart - lean not on your own understanding" with hearts and crosses on it. He picked it out himself. I love it! And I gotta say the verse is a doozy for me, very timely with things going on. Then I walked over to Lisa Hollan's office just to duck in my head and say welcome back! She greeted me with a huge hug and we agreed to go to lunch when I got done at work. It was an awesome conversation at lunch. We even talked about how nice it is that when we get together, we don't necessarily have to talk constantly either or talk about anything serious, though sometimes we do. She is a dear soul and I love her. For two seemingly different people, we seem to have a lot in common and a connection that is hard to explain. So I won't even try to. Nobody else would get it. Anyhow, I love how God orchestrated all this for my day. I am so very thankful.

AMAZING STUFF

I think I have finally come up with a New Year's resolution. Although I am not crazy about calling it that. I was thinking I could post more often if I would note some way that God showed me something quite amazing that day - just write it down on the blog - share it with the world! ha, like so many people read my blog, whatever. I guess it could be my personal diary- ha! But what if it helped others, inspired someone, amused anybody, ya know? God has His hand on it all, we too quickly forget that. So here goes my day and I will be back later to let you know how it went! Be prepared to be amazed along with me!!!

Art on Etsy

I am so excited and proud of my two artist daughters for getting their etsy shops open and going great guns!!! You've got to have a look before everything gets sold out! Go to our art blog thingswithwingsartjournal.blogspot.com and you can link right to their shops. Wowsers!!!! It's awesome stuff! My youngest is making me pretty proud, too, for so many reasons. Her musical talent is blowing people away in the Austin area. She will be home to visit soon. yea!!!