God Knows Best

This little piece made me think:
"God doesn't give you the people you want; he gives you the people you NEED..........to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be."
23 years ago when my husband walked out on his family, I ask many times "Why God"? and I was very angry at him. What had I done to deserve the hurt? Now many years later and with reading the above I am more at peace in my life, and so understand how true it is. I guess I was given him at the time for a reason, we had three beautiful, healthy, smart, capeable, talented and wonderful daughters. That said, I'm not sure what else we had in common. We did love to travel and he being an airline pilot made that plausable for his family. Since he left I have found new strengths and have gone on in my life to grow in many ways I never would have with him.
A wonderfully strong family unit of three families. I have gone on with education in foreign language, with NLP classes and talked on Cruise Ships, I volunteer, I have traveled around the world ......12o countries, 6 continents and 48 states and spend quality time with my nine grandchildren. I am happy, I have a good life, Thank you God!

This is our latest family excitement - check out Sherrie's rebuttle to her latest critics www.youtube.com/watch?v=-573k2jSnEU.

This I leave to my grandchildren

Experience - A Teacher

When troubles and trials are present
When disappointments are found all the way
Take courage and always keep trying--to believe
the good of each day.

Sorrow leaves gifts at it's station
Misfortunes great blessings disguise,
From trials is from joys we learn values,
By mistakes we are often made wise.

Experience is always a teacher,
whether problems, or gladness or pains.
Looking back through the years we shall all find,
Our striving has not been in vain.
Unknown.

These past few weeks I realize how lucky I am as I have talked to many of my dear friends. At our age so many health problems, children problems, job or money problems. I am so discouraged with what Obama is doing to our great country and what my generation is leaving for the grandchildren to pay for. But God has warned us! Our experiences of years can see it, but young, ambitious presidents............Sorry kids, I didn't vote for him.

TWO CANS OF CORN

I just read a story that I cannot get out of my mind.............."Two cans of corn", on how to start a food storage program, that would benefit anyone. The author made it clear that no matter who you are bad things can happen in your life. If you get sick or lose your job, a earth quake, flood or fire , so many bad things are happening to so many good people. If they would just realize each time they go shopping to check the sales and buy two extra cans of corn,or beans or peas and stick them away in food storage, that soon they would have a nice food storage. So your neighbor or brother's house is the one destroyed, you would have extra for a pot of soup and a meal to help someone else..............or it could be their pot of soup that helped your family in time of need. "Two Cans of Corn," says so much to me, I went right out and bought two cans of corn and put down stairs on a shelf in my laundry room, and each week I will buy a couple of things that are on sale to add to my food and water supply. Only a couple of dollars a week will not be noticed to much and could make a big difference in yours and someone elses life.

I am determined to be more faithful to my blog, my inspirations are my niece Nicci and my daughter Sherrie. Sherrie just got her book "The Power of a Penny" published and is so good to keep us posted on how she and the book are doing...........Love it. And my sweet Nicci, second grandchild, that is a ball a fire and part gypsie like her grandmother.... is far away from home going to graduate school in Indianna. I love to know all the fun and exciting things she is doing.

Moving right along

Time does fly........I have had another birthday since my last update. Easter has come and gone and Mother's day is around the corner. Pam and Rob had a 30th wedding anniversary and a fun cruise to celebrate. Will went through appendicitis and a knee operation. Nicci will be home next week for the summer, then off to Indiana to graduate school. Tiff just co-chaired a soriety convention in town.............she got many thank-yous for a great job. Alex had his first prom nite last night. Richard Benj. got a drivers permit and loves Lacross. I am going to make Andrea a skirt, apron and bonnet so she can trek with the church group. Also Sherrie, Karrie and Kennedy joined me in an April birthday. Pam and the Christensons went to "Wicked" yesterday and Kennedy stayed with Grammie. Wednesday night the Cooks with to "Wicked" and Scottie stayed all night with Grammie. I saw "wicked" in New York, but liked Mama Mia better. And Brayden is as tall as I am. what a "Fun Bunch'" of people I am related to..........and Rob invted me to one of his gourmet dinners tonight! Life is good!