Wednesday Wisdom

• no matter how much you want to clean out the freezer and use up that tiny bit of spinach don't put it in the chicken pot pie, your kids will call it seaweed, and won't TOUCH it with a 10 foot pole.
  
• as good as it feels NOT to have to hop over to the bathroom closet with your shorts around your ankles don't leave the extra rolls of t.p. out near the toilet, the kids will start a new roll each time and you will find 2-3 half used rolls on the floor in the bathroom (how much are they using anyway, I think we go through a roll a day...note to self; discuss toilet paper use at supper tonight)
  
• even if you are in a super duper hurry to complete the laundry don't take a QUICK look at your hubby's uniform and toss it into the dryer without thoroughly inspecting it for grass stains in the most unusual places (I know this is why the Lord gave us the knowledge to create the Clorox Bleach Pen)
• it may be nice to be able to turn the radio UP and do a load of laundry but don't be glad to finally get your sleeping hubby out of the house only to learn he use the expensive bug spray on the lawn on the only evening it is supposed to rain (in his defense he has been working nights and completely oblivious to the weather for the last few days)
• if you have a puppy; always, ALWAYS cage your watermelons (see next post for more information)
  

Why are my watermelons caged?

We had a beauty of a watermelon growing; it was a bit bigger than a softball and she was perfectly round. With my 10+ years of 4-H experience in Horticulture Judging (I even once won a trip to Denver)I had little doubt this almost perfect specimen would be a purple ribbon winner.

Today the watermelon wrangler got her mug around the 'looks too much like a ball so I gotta have it' fruit and watery stools are in her future.

So, we caged the other two tiny bulbs of melons and we'll see if we can get one...

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a makeover for mommy

Dd decided to try and make mommy 'feel better' by doing my nails and my face.When she was done she confidently said, "You are pretty enough to go to church, mommy!"

Ultrasound is not so ultra; another battle for my brain.

Doc says the picture of the baby was not conclusive enough to rule out some important things so we do a redo next time at my August visit. I had her feel the tiny knot in my abdomen and she says normally she would recommend a biopsy, but since I will be scheduled for a PET in November, we can wait. My weight is down to less than what I was at the first baby visit, she is slightly concerned. I am not. I have not really been feeling all that well. I am extremely tired and my tummy aches all the time. I am emotionally spent and taking it out on my family, and those whom I love the most. I am praying for strength and trying to spend my down time reading the Word and doing my Bible Study. I think it has been helping, but I am not strong enough most of the time and I give in and scream and yell instead of taking a deep breath and counting to ten. Sometimes I wonder if there is something wrong with me. I'd like to blame it on the chemo chemically altering me, but I had these tendencies before I got sick.

This this study I am in, "Battlefield of the Mind", is enlightening in that it reminds me of the devils power and his strongholds over me. I have to continue to try to think and say the right things and not fall into speaking or thinking evil thoughts. That is a LOT harder to do than you may think.I often want to just give up and crawl into bed and sleep the day away.I am continually praying and asking God for the help to get through my chaotic days. One of the things Joyce Meyer says in the book is; "You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." I never realized how important my thoughts really are. THEY HAVE AMAZING POWER! It is frightening to me that my pessimism can affect how I live my life. In Proverbs 12:7 the author says; "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he..." YIKES! Here is another verse from Matthew that identifies us through our thoughts; "Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit." Matt 12:33

I have a lot of work to do. Thank goodness for a patient and kind God.

Perhaps it's just me...

but lazy days of summer are a thing of the past.

It's already July and I couldn't tell you where my June went. All the bookmarks in my daily devotionals and calendars are stuck on May dates. Shame on me.

Dh has the week off, so this morning I had hoped to sleep in, catch up on some much needed housework and laze the day away. Not in handsome hubby's plan. He was up before 8(not me). Unpacking the pop-up (which now pops up like it is supposed to, but that is another post entirely)so that we (I) can re-pack. He folded the 4 baskets of laundry that I did last night (while I was downloading photos from the Lake Thompson trip) and started attaching the bike rack to the camper so we don't have to fit the kids bikes into the Blazer when we travel. I think his plan is to try and camp near his parents house so that we can visit and enjoy the great outdoors.
The kids are excited because they love swimming and fishing and being outside. I am anxious to maybe finally finish my crocheted baby blanket and start a few little projects I have been wanting to try. My last day in Vemillion I had to get an oil change so I walked over to Pamida while I was waiting and they had all this cool yarn for a quarter a skein. I spent $5 and want to try to make a handbag, a scarf and a few other small things. I also have some reading to do in my Joyce Meyer,Battlefield of the Mind Bible Study. This one caught me hook, line, and sinker with the introduction and reminded me of Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness. I am craving it like I crave chocolate and it promises to be a great study for myself and the handful of amazing women who are attending.

I just now finished putting dh's drawstring tie back in the waist of his favorite (old, and practically worthless) pair of insulated sweats. Oh to be the woman with a waist that required a drawstring to keep my pants on, sigh. A girl can dream, can't she?

So, I think we're off again. I feel like I haven't talked to my friends or family in ages. I think I will take the cell phone along this time and try to catch up.

Thursday is my big ultrasound and NO WE ARE NOT FINDING OUT THE SEX OF THE BABY! My mother has offered me an insane amount of cash to find out, but I can't, I won't, and honestly,I just don't want to know. That's it, end of story. Truthfully, I love being surprised and this will be the third BIG surprise of my life. How many of you can say you have been truly surprised 3 times? I count my blessings.

May you all be blessed with at least one lazy day before summer is gone.

Lake Thompson

A few friends invited us to camp with them this weekend. So we loaded up the pop-up and hit the road. The kids had a blast swimming, riding their bikes and getting buried in the sand. The guys went out fishing quite a bit, but weren't too lucky. Ds went on the boat for a couple of hours one evening with daddy. No more than 5 minutes after leaving the shore, he whined, "When can we go back daddy?" So, dad took a few moments to explain patience to him. An hour or so later when dad spoke up about the lack of bites on his line. Ds was quick to quip back at daddy, "You need to be PATIENT, dad, for the fish to bite." Lesson learned.