Worked on Thursday and Friday to get a Book Order done for the entire school 🙂
Then tried to get online to submit the order, but they said I wasn’t registered. 😦
Then I tried to skype them using my itouch. Took bunches of tries to figure out the right country code and how to do it. Finally they still said I had to register online because I did not want to try doing it by phone with a 1600 dollar order and an iffy connection 😦
after feeling very frustrated for several hours. 😦
I realized that God is still in charge and I will do the order in His timing not mine 🙂
Last Sunday afternoon, I posted on R&R that my oldest great-grandson had gone down to confess his faith in Christ. He is being baptized tomorrow. So, TSWITW and I are going over to Greensboro again. We saw all of our grandchildren baptized. Now, it’s the greats. And that’s GREAT.
III John 4.
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.”
😦 We’ve had a bad week with the Kid. He got in trouble at school Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday he got detention. Hubby left Thursday morning and he has been very disrespectful of me for the last two days.
🙂 All the support I’ve received about homeschooling.
🙂 Becca started a homeschool gymnastics class last Thursday. She enjoyed it and I met some friendly homeschool moms.
🙂 Well, it is Saturday and I get a 2-day weekend at least. 🙂 Grateful for that!
😦 Our longtime editor — who is being severely and unfairly overworked by the current powers-that-be (grrr) — went home sick & looking almost gray late yesterday. We’re a tad worried though he thinks it’s a recurrence of a non-serious medical issue he’s had in the recent past.
😦 That long & sweeping JFK piece they’ve assigned to me needs to be turned in Wednesday. Overwhelmed just a little bit. Plus there are half a dozen daily stories that need to (or should) get done next week, though some of them will have to slide.
😦 My dogs must be part billy goat. This past week they hauled out to the backyard a bag of dry dog food (not a lot food left, thankfully); a foil bag of skin and coat granular supplement (about 1/3 full); and a can of wet dog food (1/2 full with a plastic snap-on sealer lid on top). All opened and contents devoured. I’d left the items out on the kitchen island ledge in my rush to get to work one morning.
🙂 I’m off today to float in outer space for a couple hours — my cousin and I are meeting up to see “Gravity” at the Imax theater in 3D. 🙂
🙂 Chas, blessings to you and your family — tomorrow will be joyful for you all. Enjoy.
🙂 The kitchen counter and dining room table are cleared off. A table cloth is on the table and their is a hurricane candle holder in the center. Three more boxes unpacked and put away. More Christmas stuff put in the attic.
😦 I have lost a box of crystal. It is the box that has the iced beverage glasses from my mother’s crystal and that reminds me there is a box of her china, the cups and saucers, etc.
😦 The devastation in the Philippines. My brother lives there. I am not worried about him, however. I am sorry for all those who have so little and are now more devastated and for those who have lost loved ones, been injured etc.
😦 The loss of my half-bath sink. “MY” sink.
🙂 Having a husband who can replace it and fix things when it is needed.
😦 Christians who cannot see the underlying presuppositions of certain practices or ideas. We sometime miss the forest for the trees. We really need to be in the Word and prayer to renew our minds; have ears to hear and eyes to see.
🙂 Laughter–what a gift.
🙂 🙂 Finally finished my grandson’s quilt. This one has taken forever, it seems. I could have done it much more quickly had I hand quilted it like I normally do. However, I learned much in the process of using the machine to do the quilting. It is not as good as I would like, but a four year old will not care. A good learning process for me. It has a Vegie Tales theme and I was a little worried he would outgrow the them before I finished! 😉
🙂 I found the china and crystal but you knew I would. It is put away.
🙂 We have an overnight guest. A griend of Paul’s came over to watch the game with him. It is nice to have the room to offer someone and to entertain again.
🙂 Beautiful 100-page book of hikes and walks my husband and I have taken in Indiana in our first two years of marriage.
😦 or 🙂 Having made a book of our love story, one of trees, one of butterflies and flowers, one of birds, one of things worth drawing, one of local hikes, and a paperback one of Misten, it seems I’ve mostly run out of excuses to make photo books. I want to make one someday of the Smokies, but we plan to go again someday in spring or early summer, and to the North Carolina portion, and so I’ll wait till we can (hopefully) include elk and some additional waterfalls, plus blooms from a different season than late summer / early fall. I also want to do one or two of family photos from my childhood and before, but before I can do that, I have to scan the photos. So I guess I’m finished for now, but they have been fun to make.
😦 We’re losing the last leaves from the trees, and that means winter is almost here. From the sound of the wind outside tonight, it really wants to clobber us.
🙂 Younger daughter spent the night with grandparents last night and came home with generous portions of three kinds of goodies; the two I have sampled are very tasty. But mostly the “rave” is for grandparents highly involved in their lives. (In addition to living within half an hour of all four grandparents, they live near all their aunts and uncles–something I never experienced. All my grandparents were dead, and aunts and uncles hundreds or thousands of miles away.)
🙂 After a nice few weeks without editing projects, I’m in a nice few weeks with several projects, and amazingly nearly all good ones. (One can’t assume all editing projects will be worth reading, but four out of five of this group have been very good.)
It’s midnight and definitely time for bed on a Saturday night (I had to have time for the antihistamine to kick in, since the last few nights have had poor sleep and I needed to break the pattern). Good night.
🙂 It’s a bright & sunny 81 degrees here. Not counting any windchill factor. 🙂 We’re having a very warm November. Thankfully, it’s chilly at night so my house gets and stays very cool.
🙂 Good sermon today on Rom. 7:13-25 (we got through v. 17 this week, the rest is next week). Included a section on the opinion of some Christians that Paul was talking about himself before he came to faith in this passage. But our pastor pointed out (for starters) that the verbs are present tense and that “the struggle does not comport with Paul’s definition of an unregenerate (unsaved) person who utterly abandons the quest for true righteousness … The person in the passage wants to do right.”
This internal conflict — that we know the law of God and yet do what we don’t want to do — is a conflict only for those who have been renewed in Christ.
We had a nice trip to Greensboro. It was an unusual service. They dedicated four babies and baptized four people Caden at 7.5 years was the youngest. Then a teen age black girl, then a policeman, then a guy so old and decrepit that he had to have help getting down to the pool and back up. When the pastor was baptizing Caden, he said, here is a young man who was dedicated in this church several years ago.
I thought, from some discussion, that Caden had made his decision in AWANA, but Becky said, No. He made it on his own, without anyone talking to him.
Becky and Brian are doing a good job with the kids.
I am happy.
III John 4.
Wandering Views 
Worked on Thursday and Friday to get a Book Order done for the entire school 🙂
Then tried to get online to submit the order, but they said I wasn’t registered. 😦
Then I tried to skype them using my itouch. Took bunches of tries to figure out the right country code and how to do it. Finally they still said I had to register online because I did not want to try doing it by phone with a 1600 dollar order and an iffy connection 😦
after feeling very frustrated for several hours. 😦
I realized that God is still in charge and I will do the order in His timing not mine 🙂
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Last Sunday afternoon, I posted on R&R that my oldest great-grandson had gone down to confess his faith in Christ. He is being baptized tomorrow. So, TSWITW and I are going over to Greensboro again. We saw all of our grandchildren baptized. Now, it’s the greats. And that’s GREAT.
III John 4.
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth.”
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🙂 How sweet is that, Chas.
🙂 Morning coffee, great view, quiet and peaceful house.
🙂 Life is good.
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😦 We’ve had a bad week with the Kid. He got in trouble at school Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday he got detention. Hubby left Thursday morning and he has been very disrespectful of me for the last two days.
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KBells, I am sending you a message through FB
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🙂 Second week of homeschooling went pretty well.
😦 Yesterday, I had a severe migraine, so we accomplished almost nothing in homeschool.
🙂 Becca was very compassionate towards me during my migraine, which is unusual for her. She played alone for hours while I rested.
🙂 L. has straight A’s, including her three high school credit classes!
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🙂 All the support I’ve received about homeschooling.
🙂 Becca started a homeschool gymnastics class last Thursday. She enjoyed it and I met some friendly homeschool moms.
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🙂 3 day weekend!
🙂 House showing this afternoon.
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🙂 What?! This is a 3-day weekend? 🙂
🙂 Well, it is Saturday and I get a 2-day weekend at least. 🙂 Grateful for that!
😦 Our longtime editor — who is being severely and unfairly overworked by the current powers-that-be (grrr) — went home sick & looking almost gray late yesterday. We’re a tad worried though he thinks it’s a recurrence of a non-serious medical issue he’s had in the recent past.
😦 That long & sweeping JFK piece they’ve assigned to me needs to be turned in Wednesday. Overwhelmed just a little bit. Plus there are half a dozen daily stories that need to (or should) get done next week, though some of them will have to slide.
😦 My dogs must be part billy goat. This past week they hauled out to the backyard a bag of dry dog food (not a lot food left, thankfully); a foil bag of skin and coat granular supplement (about 1/3 full); and a can of wet dog food (1/2 full with a plastic snap-on sealer lid on top). All opened and contents devoured. I’d left the items out on the kitchen island ledge in my rush to get to work one morning.
🙂 I’m off today to float in outer space for a couple hours — my cousin and I are meeting up to see “Gravity” at the Imax theater in 3D. 🙂
🙂 Chas, blessings to you and your family — tomorrow will be joyful for you all. Enjoy.
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🙂 No more expansion shower curtain rod. I finally installed the nice shiny curved one!
🙂 😦 More snow yesterday, roads even worse than before, snowing again today. It’s gorgeous outside!
🙂 We have power. I can do all the housework I want (or need) to do.
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🙂 The kitchen counter and dining room table are cleared off. A table cloth is on the table and their is a hurricane candle holder in the center. Three more boxes unpacked and put away. More Christmas stuff put in the attic.
😦 I have lost a box of crystal. It is the box that has the iced beverage glasses from my mother’s crystal and that reminds me there is a box of her china, the cups and saucers, etc.
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🙂 Turning the Kid’s bad behavior to my advantage. So far his punishment has included cleaning two bathrooms, the game room and the kitchen floor.
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If he was really, really bad, he can come and clean my kitchen floor. 😉
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Love those ever present consequences…
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😦 The devastation in the Philippines. My brother lives there. I am not worried about him, however. I am sorry for all those who have so little and are now more devastated and for those who have lost loved ones, been injured etc.
😦 The loss of my half-bath sink. “MY” sink.
🙂 Having a husband who can replace it and fix things when it is needed.
😦 Christians who cannot see the underlying presuppositions of certain practices or ideas. We sometime miss the forest for the trees. We really need to be in the Word and prayer to renew our minds; have ears to hear and eyes to see.
🙂 Laughter–what a gift.
🙂 🙂 Finally finished my grandson’s quilt. This one has taken forever, it seems. I could have done it much more quickly had I hand quilted it like I normally do. However, I learned much in the process of using the machine to do the quilting. It is not as good as I would like, but a four year old will not care. A good learning process for me. It has a Vegie Tales theme and I was a little worried he would outgrow the them before I finished! 😉
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🙂 I found the china and crystal but you knew I would. It is put away.
🙂 We have an overnight guest. A griend of Paul’s came over to watch the game with him. It is nice to have the room to offer someone and to entertain again.
LikeLike
🙂 Beautiful 100-page book of hikes and walks my husband and I have taken in Indiana in our first two years of marriage.
😦 or 🙂 Having made a book of our love story, one of trees, one of butterflies and flowers, one of birds, one of things worth drawing, one of local hikes, and a paperback one of Misten, it seems I’ve mostly run out of excuses to make photo books. I want to make one someday of the Smokies, but we plan to go again someday in spring or early summer, and to the North Carolina portion, and so I’ll wait till we can (hopefully) include elk and some additional waterfalls, plus blooms from a different season than late summer / early fall. I also want to do one or two of family photos from my childhood and before, but before I can do that, I have to scan the photos. So I guess I’m finished for now, but they have been fun to make.
😦 We’re losing the last leaves from the trees, and that means winter is almost here. From the sound of the wind outside tonight, it really wants to clobber us.
🙂 Younger daughter spent the night with grandparents last night and came home with generous portions of three kinds of goodies; the two I have sampled are very tasty. But mostly the “rave” is for grandparents highly involved in their lives. (In addition to living within half an hour of all four grandparents, they live near all their aunts and uncles–something I never experienced. All my grandparents were dead, and aunts and uncles hundreds or thousands of miles away.)
🙂 After a nice few weeks without editing projects, I’m in a nice few weeks with several projects, and amazingly nearly all good ones. (One can’t assume all editing projects will be worth reading, but four out of five of this group have been very good.)
It’s midnight and definitely time for bed on a Saturday night (I had to have time for the antihistamine to kick in, since the last few nights have had poor sleep and I needed to break the pattern). Good night.
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😦 5 degrees Fahrenheit here today. And getting colder. And that’s not counting any windchill factor.
🙂 Heading to church.
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🙂 It’s a bright & sunny 81 degrees here. Not counting any windchill factor. 🙂 We’re having a very warm November. Thankfully, it’s chilly at night so my house gets and stays very cool.
🙂 Good sermon today on Rom. 7:13-25 (we got through v. 17 this week, the rest is next week). Included a section on the opinion of some Christians that Paul was talking about himself before he came to faith in this passage. But our pastor pointed out (for starters) that the verbs are present tense and that “the struggle does not comport with Paul’s definition of an unregenerate (unsaved) person who utterly abandons the quest for true righteousness … The person in the passage wants to do right.”
This internal conflict — that we know the law of God and yet do what we don’t want to do — is a conflict only for those who have been renewed in Christ.
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We had a nice trip to Greensboro. It was an unusual service. They dedicated four babies and baptized four people Caden at 7.5 years was the youngest. Then a teen age black girl, then a policeman, then a guy so old and decrepit that he had to have help getting down to the pool and back up. When the pastor was baptizing Caden, he said, here is a young man who was dedicated in this church several years ago.
I thought, from some discussion, that Caden had made his decision in AWANA, but Becky said, No. He made it on his own, without anyone talking to him.
Becky and Brian are doing a good job with the kids.
I am happy.
III John 4.
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😦 I had to drive about 100 miles with the sun directly in my eyes. It’s hard driving.
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Oh, Chas, that is hard. The few migraines that I have had came from driving into the sunset. It is painful.
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