Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas everyone.

Last Tuesday when I went to school at the church, I gave the students that I work with every week(one day) a little gift. I did not want Kaitlynn and Allison to feel left out while the others opened theirs so I got them something. Before I went to school I was concern as to whether they would like what I got them. I gave Allison her gift and told her the other one was for her sister. Oh my word was that little 2 year old excited. I heard her scream at her sister,"We got presents for our birthday from Bera." She had just had a birthday not too long before that and that is where she got that it was a birthday gift instead of a Christmas. Needless to say she melted my heart at that moment and that brought tears to my eyes.
I have thought so many times since then of how much we should be excited about what God gave us most of all His son born in a manger and then to die on the cross for our sins. I do not want to be so hum drum about this one bit.

I am so excited that I along with Dick are planning on going to Florida in Feb for the 50th anniversary of Hobe Sound. I have already started getting a few things together and have made a list of things to take. I am hopeing that we can get a place where I can cook some to save on expenses and the fact that I am a border line diabetic and should watch what I eat. To renew friendships of the past and also on facebook is excitement in itself.

We did something different this year for Christmas dinner. We ordered our dinner from Bob Evans. They had advertised about it before Thanksgiving. We got turkey breast, mash potatoes, gravy, dressing, green beans, corn, hot rolls, pumpkin pie and pumpkin nut bread. We will be eating left overs for a few days. What I have left over from that I will freeze and have at a later date. Martha said it was the best meal that I have ever slaved over in the kitchen. LOL I think that she was making fun of me for some reason. That is okay.

Matthew comes to our house for Christmas on Sunday afternoon. He will be staying for a few days. He got mostly Thomas the train things. This will keep him entertained for awhile. I got him some shirts with trains on them as well.

I am sure that each and every one of us needs to be reminded from time to time the reason for this season. I want to keep that the year round.

Have a good year.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Do we limit our asking God for big things?

I was made to realize so often we are stuck on asking for the small things in life. We fail to ask for some bigger things that seems impossible. When Stephanine made a comment on the other time that I blog, it got me to thinking about that God cares as much for the large things as well as the small. They may seem so small to the outside world but they are bigger than any mountain to us.
It also brought to mind that this case against the doctor that did my knee seems like a mountain but to God it is just as important as some of my small needs. I have had to learn to say more and more,"Here it is God, it is in your hands"and then let Him work it out where there seems to be no way. So many times we want to "help" God out by going ahead and doing it. Only to find that is not the way God had planned and we get ourselves in major hot water.
I hope that what I have said above may be of a help to someone out there. Remember one thing as I am sure that most of you have heard, when God shuts one door He opens up another one for us in His time.

Friday, May 15, 2009

God is still answers prayer

I know that it has been awhile since I have written. It just seemed that there was nothing to write about. That is till now.

I applied for disability back in 2007 and was told that I did not qualify. So I waited for a few months and reapplied. Of course I had to fill out a lot of paper work that then went to doctors and back to Social Security benefits. After filling out these papers I just prayed that God would take care of everything and I was leaving it in His hands. I was told the first time that if I did get it that I would not get any extra money and the B part of medicare. I said I understood. The other day I got my medicare card and here was part A and B on it and it starts the first of August. I was saying thanks be to God for hearing and answering prayer on this as I have been with out any insurance since May of 07. About 2 weeks ago, I got this letter stating that I would get a hundred dollar raise. It is enough to pay for my medicare. And also I got a check to make up for all of the back pay since Feb 07 because that is when I was no longer able to work. He has proven once again that if we leave things in His hands that He will work everything out in His time. So many times we want our answers to prayer right then and there but it is not His time.

Steven was out of work for awhile because of a lay off but thanks be to God again he went back to work. He has been working over time every since he went back.

Matthew starts kindergarten this coming fall. It sure does not seem like he should going to school yet. He will only let me rock him to sleep if he is very tired and unable to go to sleep. The last time that we had him he came into our bedroom and I pretended to be asleep as I wanted to see what he would do. I was peeking through my eyelashes and he kept watching me. Finally he said Nano it is time to get up. Before I got up he wanted to cuddle for a little bit and then he said I love you Nano. I melted like butter inside. He is so special to me.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Update from Matthew's Nana

Greetings to one and all.
I am going to try this once again and see if I can keep from deleating it this time.

I no longer watch Van. I was putting in around 96 hours of babysitting a week and something had to give. The only free time that I had was when I was asleep. A lot of times I was not getting to sleep till 1230 or later and then having to get up around 6 or a little after. This ole' woman has to have a little more sleep. It is nice that I can still have the girls in the morning and then have my evenings to myself. I am feeling lots better.

This past weekend my spiritual Dad Hovis, his son and 2 grandsons came for a weekend visit. They came for my birthday which was the 4th. I am sweet 16 and holding. LOL. Dad Hovis's mind is really slipping fast and it is sad to see him the shape that he is in today even to compare when the last time that I saw him in October. His attention span is very short and cannot remember anything. When we saw him in October he had his great sense of humor and was really teasing a lot but this time it was not that way. Davey(his son) has his hands full of taking care of him plus trying to work on the side. I am going to go out this summer and do some canning for him and that will help out plus give him a break as well.

Martha fixed dinner Sunday while we were at church and boy did it ever taste GOOD. She fixed beef n noodles, mash potatoes, green beans, broccoli slaw, jello salad, hot rolls and dessert. The rolls are from a mix that I get at Wal Mart that taste like the ones that you get at Reb Lobster. They are Pillsbury brand and are only 97 cents. The receipe calls for water but I use milk instead. They taste better as far as I am concern. They are called cheese and garlic flavor.

We are to get Matthew tomorrow night. I can hardly wait. He is so entertaining at times. It sure does not seem possible that he turned 5 on the 2nd.

Last Sunday, a gal from our church gave a presentation about her going to Guatemalea( I hope that is spelled right) and at the end told how many shares that she needed to go and etc. Anyway they started to take up an offering and it was pointed out to me by the good Lord that I had 20 dollars in my billfold. I said that it was yours God. I did not think any more about it and that afternoon someone gave me 20 dollars. You cannot out give God and I say Thank you God for your goodness to me. Even if I had not gotten that money in the afternoon it was still a blessing to give.

Take care and have a good day.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Greetings One and All

I never thought that I would be babysitting again but here I am and not minding it too much. Just ask me by the end of summer break and then I will let you know. The girls get out the 22nd and Van gets out around the 5th or 6th of June. At least I will not have them all the same time.

Tonight Van came in and ate his supper and went over the to recliner and fell asleep and slept for 3 hours. He was really sawing logs. I had speghetti, green beans, garlic and cheese bread and jello with fruit. Van ate a good plate of spaghetti and a can of root bear. He must have been very tired.

Last night I went to the girls spring musical. Oh dear the bleachers and I are not on the best of terms. And those stairs that are along the bleachers are the pits.

Well, do you know what happen to me this week? I got a call about rest home insurance. I accused my preacher of doing it and of course he thought that it was funny to say the least. Then I called a friend of ours in Indiana and ask if he did it and of course he said that he didn't. I get the hint loud and clear but I will get even if I ever find out who did this. Of course, it might be pay back to me too.

We have been cleaning the church and class rooms the last two weeks. I have enjoyed it. I feel that I am doing a little for God. When I was cleaning the class rooms I was praying for the teachers that they will reach those little ones.

Last week I had a definite answer to prayer. As most of you know I lost my job, insurance, benefits and the whole nine yards last year. Well, I heard about this free clinic down in Sidney for low income and no insurance. I had gone a little over a month ago and then had to go back on the 29th of April. The doctor came in and was talking a little about my medicine that I take and said that I should get most of it for 4 dollars each and the rest they would get help through the drug companies. After the doctor left to check on something I said, Oh God I wish that I could talk to him tonight. He came back in and made a comment about God supply the needs of this clinic. He gives one night a week there. Any way, I proceeded to tell him how good God had been to me the last year that I was off of work. I started crying as I was telling him that when I did not have 2 dimes to rub together to pay my bills that God would be there when I needed Him the most. Here he went to Oral Roberts medical school. He said that God told him to be a doctor and that he liked it to be able to work in the clinic so that he can talk about God.

God is so good to me far more than I deserve. Through this doctor and getting the generic at Wal Marts for 4 dollars. If I had to pay for it I would have had to pay over 400 dollars and through them I only pay 24 dollars a month. And the ones that I can not get through generic the drug companys are giving them to me. PRAISE THE LORD. He is so good to me.

Well, I think that my boy, Van has gone back to sleep so I had better get off of here and go check on him.

Remember friends, there is nothing impossible with God if we let him have control of our lives. As I told the doctor that we as people have quit depending upon God as much as we should and our children are getting away from seeing that.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Friends

Where would we be without friends? Most of all God as a very special friend whether we are glad or sad, good or bad. He is there for us.

I have one cousin that I am very close to, we are 2 years apart and we are more like sisters than cousins. We talk almost every day. Thanks goodness for unlimited time on Sprint. We have called regardless of what it may be to tell the other one. I also have a cousin that lives in California that is a lot older than I that I check in with about once a month and catch up with what is going on with the family.

Sunday, the 12 year old that I looked after decided to take a bike ride down to another street. Now mind you he had not ask permission to leave the trailer court like he is suppose to. I hunted at the park, Richard went to the store and looked around, one of his buddies that lives here in the trailer court and no Van. I was getting a little concern as we do have sexual pretators living about 2 streets in front of us. Well, I thought of some place else that he might have gone and in the mean time I see another kid that he has played with and I stopped and ask him if he had seen Van. He said that he had just left. By the time I got back to our place here he was and claiming that he was playing his video game. I told him what I knew and that he was to stay here with us. I contacted the grandfather and he also ask that he stay here till he got off work which was at 1130. He has been grounded from everything except sleeping, eating and watching TV according to his grandfather. This is suppose to go on for 2 weeks. If this does not do the job then the grandfather claims to be looking for a full time babysitter. And let me tell you Van is not looking forward to that to say the least.

The other two that I look after does not come till about 20 minutes till 7 now instead of 20 till 5 as the factory that Matt works for has cut some hours. It makes it better for the girls that they do not have to get up so early for the time being. And it is good for this ole' woman as well.

My grandson was here this past weekend and is he ever a corker. Not this time but sometime back Martha was teasing him and he finally had enough and he looked at her and said Marta(that is what he calls her) you have been bad, you sit on the couch and be in time out. Of course, Martha just about rolled on the floor laughing. He looked at her again and said You get in time out. You never know what he is going to say and do. For awhile he was not coming over because his aunt had a baby and I think that he thought he was going to miss out on some extra attention being given to the baby. He is doing better now and is ready to get back in the swing of things.

Take care and remember to call or write a friend that you think a lot of either from your past or present.