MEMORIES, OLD AND NEW: AH, A THREE DAY WEEKEND! AND I AM GRATEFUL

WELL, AT MY HUSBAND'S REQUEST, WE GOT UP EARLY AND WENT TO SOME YARD SALES THIS MORNING... BOUGHT A FEW PRETTY GREAT THINGS, SOME NEW AND A COUPLE OF "OLD" THINGS ... TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.. SOME WE KNEW, SOME WE DIDN'T KNOW.. BUT STILL ENJOYED OURSELVES.. THEN STOPPED FOR SOME BREAKFAST AND A COUPLE OF CUPS OF COFFEE... BOY DID I NEED THE COFFEE BY THEN .. LOL

ONE OF THE "OLD" THINGS THAT WAS SOO VERY SPECIAL TO ME WAS AN OLD AND I DO MEAN OLD ELF! "TREE SITTER" (just one that sits in the Christmas tree) BUT I MAY USE A LITTLE ROCKING CHAIR FOR THIS ONE.. HE'S SO SWEET LOOKING AND JUST A REALLY AWESOME FIND.. IF YOU READ MY BLOG LAST YEAR AT CHRISTMAS YOU WOULD KNOW THAT OUR PARENTS, DAD MOSTLY HAD ONE SPECIAL ELF THAT HE PUT IN THE CHRISTMAS TREE EVERY YEAR.. NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ELF.. BUT SOME OF US NOW FEEL SO WARM INSIDE WERE IT COMES TO ELVES.. LIKE THEY (OUR PARENTS ARE HERE WITH US) WELL, THIS OLD ELF REALLY MADE MY DAY, THANKS BABE! IT DON'T TAKE BIG THINGS TO BE A BLESSING!
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Blessing of His Love

I Bless you with knowing the FATHER

loves you until eternity. By no means

shall His love for you wax cold.
I Bless you with knowing that nothing

can separate you from His love, no

matter how high you go, no matter

how deep you sink, nothing in life and

not even death can separate you from

Him, and His love for you. No demon or

any other power in hell can separate

you from His love. His love for you is

revealed through Christ Jesus your Lord. In all things and every situation you

will have victory, you will conquer, because the victory of Christ Jesus is your

victory.
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WE PICKED NATHAN AND ABIGAIL UP ON OUR WAY HOME TODAY.. THEN LATER ABIGAIL AND I RAN DOWN TO THE GARDEN

WE GATHERED SOME TOMATOES AND PUT THEM ALL IN A BAG.. BUT IT STARTED RAINING PRETTY HARD, SO WE MADE A RUN FOR IT I HAD ALREADY TOLD HER TO TAKE THE DOGS UP ON THE BACK PORCH (but the back door was locked, so I was going to run out by the car to put the veggies in and go open the back door for her and the dogs) WELL, I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL WE GOT HOME, MY BAG HAD A GREAT BIG HOLE IN IT AND WE LOST 4 OR 5 OF THE TOMATOES FIGURES THAT THEY WERE THE BIGGEST ONES WE HAD.. BUT IT'S JUST TO FAR TO RUN BACK TONIGHT SO THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT... BUT THE ONES WE GOT WERE DELICIOUS ON OUR TACOS.. THANKS GOD!

ACTUALLY WE HAD TACOS IN THOSE NEW SOFT SHELLS THAT ARE LIKE SMALL BOWLS.. CALLED STAND AND STUFF... AND STUFF WE DID... NORMAN PUT RE-FRIED BEANS IN THE BOTTOM OF HIS, THEN TACO MEAT, TOMATOES, PEPPERS, ONIONS, LETTUCE, CHEESE AND SALSA... I HAD MOST BUT NOT THE RE-FRIED BEANS.. DELICIOUS! NOT ONLY WERE THE SHELLS STUFFED...
WE ALL WERE! LOL

PRAYING FOR JAKE, HE'S BACK IN THE HOSPITAL.. DOING ALL THE THINGS HE HAS TO DO IN ORDER TO GET PREPARED FOR HIS STEM CELL TRANSPLANT OR REPLACEMENT (OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED) GOD BLESS, HEAL AND COMFORT HIM AND BLESS HIM AND FRANCES WITH COMFORT AND INNER PEACE.. ALSO SPECIAL PRAYERS FOR JENNA AND MANY UNSPOKEN PRAYERS... AND PRAYING DAILY FOR EVAN .. GOD BLESS EACH CHILD THAT HAS THIS HORRIBLY PAINFUL DISEASE OF E.B. AND OF EVERYONE WITH CANCER.. GRANT A CURE PLEASE AND THANK YOU.. PRAYING TOO FOR THE BAND'S SAFETY WHILE PLAYING .. AND TO AND FROM MONCOVE LAKE TONIGHT
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