Yeah It has not snowed for days and days!

Come have tea with me and celebrate the thought of spring. I am told we will get a few more gasps of winter that will stop us in our travels and then it is actually coming. I am thrilled. And I might add my lovely eldest daughter Miss Willow is to wed in the spring somewhere USA and then a lovely reception in her church later. Sigh! Not only is my future son-in -law made just for Jams but he is a Christian, kind, loves kids, is tall, leaning toward really handsome and has a very romantic name. It is good! Spring, a wedding and beginnings!

Snow what thats what!

This blogspot keeps rejecting my blog for some unknown reason so I am tiring of writing inane sentences about snow. The fact is I have huge icicles and Jack went out and removed a lot of the most beautiful. If I could make the pictures go to this computer I would share them but today nothing is going perfect so I am ending the blog sessions and going to boil some chicken up for a tasty chicken soup dish for my weekend.
Jenna got a job so pray that Jack does well without us.
Tishtosh is in a mood. I have taxes to do. Money does not grow on trees nor does the cupboard fill itself. The freezer is getting empty which is a blessing until it is gone and then it may be less a blessing.. My precious job is soon to be without pay it seems. Sigh! God has a plan and I am hanging on with my faith engaged.
Next week is the first Sunday night Service (Alternative with coffeehouse atmosphere) and I learned something new about my computer which thrilled me to death. I actually learned how to take a full page and shrink it and put 6 sheets on a page for a booklet. Not hard but who knew? Not me until I found a guru willing to share and then experimented until I found how to do it so it was really readable. Yippee! Ending on a high note I will say no snow is predicted this weekend. Yeah!

Day after V day! Ruminations...

Okay so I am game for a V-day with few surprises. I got 7 inches of snow that was 3 more than predicted...Jenna shoveled a lot. She also tried to clean and help me rearrange even though she was short on energy after all that snow. We had rented The Holiday from V market to watch but it took us so long to do the work that it was late and we lost Jack to sleep and sheep and then Jenna had a headache and went to Petersons to sleep as Daisy is hers this week. So I watched it alone. Then because I had not gotton it all cleaned up in the bedroom after rearraging I had to sleep in the recliner. I ate chocolate and brownies and Pizza and salad and still today I am eating candy at S's and white bread biscuits. I have to get over it I tell you. I am housebound and concerned about 5-6 really serious things and eating seems to happen every so often and too often. I need Spring bad.
So Jack went out with me to get his B-12 shot and then PW gave him $5 so he could get me a Valentine at V market. It was nice. He is often normal and a good man resembling who I married but then once in a while I wonder just who this man is. (You can get his story from him on a good day filled with old wives tales and interesting speculations about women in general and some just meant for me.) I will just smile and say "Get used to it".
The shower for Amberly is this Sunday and guess how much snow is predicted for that day? Just cannot believe it but they have said 10" and above. I hope this is just not going to happen. All the work and fretting I have put in getting ready for this massive baby shower. Now I just hope people show! Well, with 60 invited maybe we will get a normal sized group if it is possible to drive at all. We will have to eat a lot of cake if it is a bust...gotta love the melodrama of it all.
Winter is now old if you ask me.Today I wish I was on an island with sand, sun, shade (and no spiders), a good book, a cool drink and a breeze. Oh Yeah! No shoes, no shirt and no problems...just me and my swimsuit and sunblock. What kind of fantasy is this? Winter in Wisconsin Fantasy! Oh Yeah!

Reading Opens New Worlds Up to Us!

What are you reading? Who are you teaching something new to? What will you learn today? I have brought with me this weekend the following books and publications along with my Bible and Prayer Portions book:

The Memoir Club a novel by Laura Kalpakian

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

Brush Arbor Quarterly sub-titled Stones of Remembrance published by Wisdom's Gate

My Daughter, my joy A Helen Exley Giftbook which I picked up at Frugal Muse.

123 Book meme

All who read this please find the nearest book of over 123 pages and go to page 123. Count down 5 sentences and write the next 4 sentences. Please post the name and author of the book and post on your blog. Please leave a comment with a link if you do this so I can read it! I look forward to this and below is mine...

I saw this on someone elses blog and just decided to use it to stimulate.

The nearest book to this computer that is mine is Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life". Page 123 opens chapter 16 which is What Matters Most....my excerp is:
That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it. Of Course, God wants us to love everyone, but he is particularly concerned that we learn to love others in his family. As we have already seen, this is the 2nd purpose for your life. Peter tells us, "Show special love for God's people."

Thanks readers!

How will I do this?

I am in need of an answer for my financial dilemma. There is not an easy answer! I am looking to the left and to the right watching for a door that God will open. I am ready to give up anything that God would require but I have cut much out already. It is necessary for me to fast and pray for an answer. The fact is I cannot make it through even the month ahead with what I can see will come in and what must go out. I want to think outside the box and I wait on an idea or a gift from heaven. I have been in a bad spot before and God helped me. I do not want to presume upon God but He takes care of His own. I depend on God for all now that I am certain that depending on Credit is indeed presumption of the worst sort. It presumes that God's hand is short, that I am above doing without. So........as I walk out the penalty for not trusting God in the past I do not want to continue this line of thinking. I want to instead go to a place of total trust. He will see me through.
Do not pity me. Watch and see what my Heavenly Father will do! His timing will be perfect. I am humbling myself by confessing my wrong thinking and actions of pride. His word is true and His Spirit is alive in the world today. I will listen and learn and go forward under His hand.