Struggling To Find Ourselves

….What you would do if you could do a certain decision in your life over?  I think most all of us have, at SOME point.  Would you do things the same?  Or would you change that decision you made and hope for a better outcome?  I think it’s hard to say, really, because you DON’T know that the outcome would have been better if you had chosen NOT to do this instead of doing it.  But, who really knows? 

Whoever said “Hindsight is 20/20″ was TOTALLY right, in my opinion!!!  Sometimes, after the fact, it’s easy to see that you SHOULD have done this, or gone this way, instead of what you ended up doing.  But, then again, us stubborn humans have a tendency to look at only today, and we forget to look at the possible consequences of our decisions, until it’s too late.

There’s your “Food For Thought” for the day, me thinks!!!

God Bless!!

A church in this area recently got a new Pastor after being without one for almost a year.  I HAVE to admit, this new Pastor (who’s not really an official Pastor yet….more on that later…) has brought some GREAT ideas with him that he is slowly incorporating.  One of those ideas is adding an insert (or two) to the bulletin on Sunday mornings.  On one of these inserts here a couple of weeks ago, there was a little paragraph about one of the things that the church is supposed to do.  It said something about bringing encouragement and faith to those who are feeling down and lost because of “the cares of this world”.  Too many times, that little act of caring gets lost in the hustle and bustle of daily life.  And I HAVE to admit that, as a member of ANY church, it is one of the things that some people need the MOST!!!

Think about it for a minute….do the people of YOUR church do that?  Do they offer endless encouragement when things get rought?  Are they available, no matter how dark the days get?  Is there that certain someone who ALWAYS has the warm smile and encouraging word and the warm hug JUST when you need them?  I don’t think a church can TRULY serve and worship God WITHOUT those qualities!!!

Maybe I’ll write more about what this new Pastor is doing another time, but for tonight, I guess that’s your “Food For Thought”, so you can put that thought on simmer and mull it over for awhile.

…after my shower, I got dressed and got back on here.  I paid a couple of bills on-line and got a couple more ready to go in the mail.  I deleted some e-mail.  I finished up what paid entries I can, and I’ve even played with my side bar a bit on here.  Had some more books to add to our “already read” list!!!  That’s getting to be quite an impressive list, even if I DO say so myself!!!  And we are only in April.  Can you tell we like books around here?

Now, to decide what to do now is going to be the interesting part. I should/could read some Bible…or I could read out of a couple of other books that I’ve got started and see about finishing them up….or I could get out some new books I JUST got.  They are part of this “new door” I was telling you about a few days ago.  And man, do they have some GOOD writing in them from the looks of things…and VERY good pictures!!!  They will be GOOD additions to our “schooling” library, I think!!!  VERY valuable, for more than one reason!!!!

More babbling later, maybe….

…all is well in the town square.  Wait a minute…we don’t have a square.  Hmmmmmm….did ALL towns used to have a square, just so they wake everyone up in the middle of the night yelling that?  How annoying would THAT be?  I guess it would depend upon if you were asleep like most people, and WHO was doing the yelling.  I know people who I don’t want close enough for me to hear ANYTHING they say at ANY time of day or night….let alone YELLING!!!

I think it’s time to go TRY to lay down again for awhile.  I don’t know if I’ll succeed or not, but I’m going to try.  Morning comes too early around here some days….ESPECIALLY with visitation coming up!!!

Have I rambled around rambling lately?  I don’t think I have.  You know, I’ve gotten quite good at rambling about….absolutely nothing.  I never knew that rambling about nothing was such a task, but I have recently found out that not just anyone can do it successfully, and even fewer people can do it more than once.  And here I do it ALOT….*L*  I must be pretty talented, don’t you think?….*silly grins*

Written on 2/20/2008

….even know I’m back?  I’ve had one note left since I came back on-line, and I haven’t had the opportunity to go check my counters and so forth yet.  I’m beginning to wonder if I’m typing to myself on here these days?  Oh well, this is more for me than the world, anyway.  It really doesn’t matter if anyone else reads it or not.

Well, our tender loving care for Chief yesterday seems to have done the trick!!  This morning and all day today, he was acting like his normal, ornery self!!!  He’s been eating good and drinking good.  Thank God for victory over sickness in our herds!!

I don’t know how many of you actually scroll down and look at my sidebar, but I’ve added an item, and MAY add a couple of more when I get the chance.  I’m not sure yet.  I added “Keeping My Hands Busy” today…I’m thinking about adding “Keeping My Prayers Busy” which will be a partial prayer list….We might change the “Currently Reading” to “Keeping My Mind Busy”.  What do you think?….Hmmmmmm….so many possibilities!!!

I’m just short of halfway up my next project, which, if you scroll down and look at my new addition, you will find is another set of mittens.  I’ve got the stitches for the thumb on holders, so I can go back and work them later….and I am just getting ready to “repeat the pattern 7 more times”, because I start decreasing for the top.  It’s going pretty fast, actually, now that I’ve got the pattern pretty well figured out!!  SHOULD be able to have the first mitten in this set done either tomorrow or the day after, which means I SHOULD be able to have both mittens in this set done by this next weekend!!!  Then I have one more set to do, which I’m HOPING I can have done by New Year’s or shortly thereafter.  I think I may just end up adding another category for my “projects” too!!!

Do you see how many projects I have lined up to do?  My family has been without home knitted items for about the last 13 years, almost….can you tell that some of us have missed them?  I would LOVE to start making a sweater here and there too!!!  Mom had this great book that had sweater patterns in it that don’t have ANY seams to sew.  Now that’s MY kind of sweater!!!  I’d LOVE to start being able to make one here and there, but I want to make SURE that I’m not going to get one started, and then get bored with doing it or whatever and put it down for months on end.  Things like that take FOREVER to get finished, and that is one bad habit that I’m trying VERY hard to keep under control.  My Mom had a BAD habit of doing that sometimes….I still have craft projects that SHE was working on that weren’t done.  Maybe one of these days, I can at least finish most of them.  One of those projects that is half done or so is one of those one-piece sweaters that she was making for me.  It needs someone to put the sleeves on it.  The only problem with ME doing it is that her and I knitted SOOOOO different at the time that she was doing that sweater that I am afraid it wouldn’t look very good.  Does that make any sense?

Oh well, other than that, not much is going on here today.  It was JUST warm enough to melt…but not much.

We made some more candy today.  We made some the other day when I did an entry about doing something that I haven’t ever done before….well, we made some more today.  It has been about 13 years since we’ve had Divinity candy for Christmas too!!!  I have to say that, from the length of time it took for the first small batch to disappear, I would have to say that it has been missed!!!  I KNOW I’ve missed it!!!  That used to be one of my favorites!!

Other than that, Dad’s got to go to work first thing in the morning….we’ve got school this week…and some shopping to do before the holiday to get the last of the stuff for dinner and such.  Nothing TOO major going on here….

We’re still waiting for page rankings to figure out what they are doing….mine is still fluctuating, and so is my Sister’s…not sure WHAT is going on there.

Okay, all, you’re probably tired of the rambling, so we’ll let you go for tonight.  You all take care, and have a good evening!!!….*hugs* to those that normally get them (you know who you are)

…in more ways than one.  Definitely slow, here on the computer.  Haven’t done TOO bad so far this week, though, considering.

Dad went to work this morning.  Had to go to Texas, via Oklahoma City, which will make a pretty good end for his week.

Haven’t seen my Sister since the day before yesterday, because of the ice, but I’ve talked to her at LEAST once a day on the phone.  Have plans to get together tomorrow for awhile.

The ice and rain finally stopped early this morning.  Now we just have to be careful outside because EVERYTHING is slick.

Need to transfer laundry to the dryer pretty soon, and already have the dishwasher going.  Kind of cluttered my kitchen today with dirty dishes…*silly grins*…It was fun, though!!!  Tried something that I had never tried before.  Will HAVE to try it again, probably…SOON!!!

Other than that, not much going on here today.  I am going to TRY to sit down and knit for a little while here pretty soon, as I didn’t get any done while we were doing school.  I don’t know if I’ll succeed or not, but I’m going to try.  If I don’t get any knitting done today, I will DEFINITELY try to get some done tomorrow!!!

Okay, that’s enough babbling for now, me thinks.  Thanks for all the notes, and all the visits!!!…*hugs* to those that normally get them (you know who you are).

…and the weather isn’t ending any better than it started.  We are still getting freezing rain, and it’s starting to cool off a little bit too, which means all that rain and freezing rain that we’ve gotten today is going to freeze.  I think tomorrow is going to be another GREAT stay-at-home day!!!

School went okay today.  It was different for us with Dad being home, but we got it all done anyway.  We are counting down the pages left in the Kindergarten material!!!  Oh, my buddy DID miss one problem on his Math paper this morning…because he wasn’t paying attention.  Gave him an 87% on that page, though, as there wasn’t many on that page to start with.  When I had him go back and do it right, though, after we talked about it, he got 100%!!!  Shouldn’t bring his score down TOO much!!!  That’s only like the second problem in what 3 months or something that he’s missed.  I guess we have to expect him to miss one here and there, don’t we?  And it’s NOT because he didn’t know how to do the problem…he just wasn’t paying attention.  It’s going GREAT, though!!!  And I am SOOOO thankful that we don’t have to be concerned about whether school is in session and if the busses are running and such!!!  Thank God for home schooling!!!

Anyway….more rambling later, or tomorrow, I think….

….Written on December 6th….

Okay, now I HAVE to get to Sam’s Club shortly after the first of the new year!!!  I used all the cinnamon we had in the raisin bread, and being out of cinnamon is like a crime in this house.  That’s almost as bad as being out of potatoes or peanut butter.  It DOESN’T happen!!!  I’ll get a container when we go to the store, but the containers we can normally get at the regular store don’t last very long in this house…..soooooo, Sam’s Club, here we come!!!