Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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.
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.
Friday, September 11, 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sad and Happy
A sad week for me, we buried my younger sister Dixie Lee. She was buried next to her husband
and youngest daughter. She had been ill for eight years with lung and breathing problems brought on from smoking since she was 16.......
A happy week for me, because my three girls and their families, sister, brother, friends and
relatives were very supportive with love and being there for me. Funerals seem to be times
for reunions and I saw many cousins, uncles and friends I hadn't seen for years.
I will not stay sad, I realize that every word I hear triggers a picture in my mind that results in a corresponding emotion. These pictures and feelings can be either supportive or debilitating.
Try cancer, death, accident, problem, pressure, failure, can't, won't , impossible,
Now try, vacation, play, Hawaii, love excitement, friends, trust, success, happiness, I can, I will.
Every word, however fleeting is a seed. When planted in your mind, each seed yields a positive or negative picture, along with a positive or negative feeling. I will be vigilant of the words I plant. I will enjoy all the good memories I have of my "little sister."
and youngest daughter. She had been ill for eight years with lung and breathing problems brought on from smoking since she was 16.......
A happy week for me, because my three girls and their families, sister, brother, friends and
relatives were very supportive with love and being there for me. Funerals seem to be times
for reunions and I saw many cousins, uncles and friends I hadn't seen for years.
I will not stay sad, I realize that every word I hear triggers a picture in my mind that results in a corresponding emotion. These pictures and feelings can be either supportive or debilitating.
Try cancer, death, accident, problem, pressure, failure, can't, won't , impossible,
Now try, vacation, play, Hawaii, love excitement, friends, trust, success, happiness, I can, I will.
Every word, however fleeting is a seed. When planted in your mind, each seed yields a positive or negative picture, along with a positive or negative feeling. I will be vigilant of the words I plant. I will enjoy all the good memories I have of my "little sister."
Monday, November 3, 2008
''Haba Na Haba Hujaza Kibaba"
"Haba Na Haba Hujaza Kibaba"..........."Little by little fills the pot!" A Swahili Proverb...........
I love this little saying..........That is really the way a life is lived, little by little or one day at a
time. You live as you die, little by little. My second sister is gravely ill, and her life is ending day
by day a little at a time. I feel sad, her choice of smoking for many years was not a good choice!
My youngest sister and I just got back from a wonderful two week driving trip through the
New England States. October a perfect time of year to enjoy the leaves........I always say the
best part of memories is creating them. I journaled every day as I always do and titled the
memo "You and Me and the GPS". We would still be wandering around Pennsylvania somewhere without "Mertle." Every morning we got out the atlas and said let's head for that
place and put it in "Mert" and off we would go. She seemed to prefer the back roads and every
getto in the 10 states we hit, but we got to see some beautiful country that way. Very few free-ways were even touched. I just learned to Tex so kept the family informed on my where-a-bouts. Started in RI, MA,NH,VT,NY,NJ,DE,CT,PA AND MD........Not in that order though. So
I say if your hitting the road get you a Mertle to be your companion. We argued with her a few
times and had our doubts about her not knowing how lost we felt, but she always came through
loud and clear when we made a wrong turn............and always got us to our destination. Will I
ever get enough traveling????
I love this little saying..........That is really the way a life is lived, little by little or one day at a
time. You live as you die, little by little. My second sister is gravely ill, and her life is ending day
by day a little at a time. I feel sad, her choice of smoking for many years was not a good choice!
My youngest sister and I just got back from a wonderful two week driving trip through the
New England States. October a perfect time of year to enjoy the leaves........I always say the
best part of memories is creating them. I journaled every day as I always do and titled the
memo "You and Me and the GPS". We would still be wandering around Pennsylvania somewhere without "Mertle." Every morning we got out the atlas and said let's head for that
place and put it in "Mert" and off we would go. She seemed to prefer the back roads and every
getto in the 10 states we hit, but we got to see some beautiful country that way. Very few free-ways were even touched. I just learned to Tex so kept the family informed on my where-a-bouts. Started in RI, MA,NH,VT,NY,NJ,DE,CT,PA AND MD........Not in that order though. So
I say if your hitting the road get you a Mertle to be your companion. We argued with her a few
times and had our doubts about her not knowing how lost we felt, but she always came through
loud and clear when we made a wrong turn............and always got us to our destination. Will I
ever get enough traveling????
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