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Our Daily Thread 12-20-14

Good Morning!

5 Days!!!! 🙂

Today’s header photo is from Kare.

*It’s now Sunday the 21st, so I believe someone has a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Linda. 🙂

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On this day in 1790 the first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, RI.

In 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union. 

In 1879 Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 

And in 1968 author John Steinbeck died at the age of 66.

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Quote of the Day

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

Dale Evans

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 This one is a request.

And this one is because I like it. From King’s College Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aL9rKJPr4&feature=player_detailpage ______________________________________________

Anyone have a QoD?

7,368 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-20-14”

  2. Jo – Yes, I am keeping a few pieces of his clothing. One of those is a cashmere sweater that he had even before we met. He rarely wore it, and in fact hadn’t worn it for several years, so it is still in great shape. I am saving it for The Boy, for when he grows up.

    Some of the clothes that I have put in the bags have been those that Hubby wore a lot, and although I choose to give them away, I hug them before putting them in the bag.

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  8. I was good yesterday and when I was at the clinic I made an appointment to see the doctor about freezing the spots that need it on my nose. She was going to schedule me yesterday, but I didn’t want it during conference. Then it was going to be the day before I go to Goroka and I realized that wasn’t a good time, so scheduled it for the day after that trip.
    Such a busy life.

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  11. Mumsee – I have been reading the discussion with interest. I can see the points made by both “sides”. Yes, I think you should speak your mind and heart on the matter.

    As for speaking further about it, maybe if a thought comes to you that is considerably important to you, you should share that thought. Does that make sense?

    Gotta go get The Boy from the bus stop.

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  13. Mumsee, I think Roscuro did an excellent job with showing the Scripture as to how elders are to respond to wolves in our midst. It might be worth going back and rereading her posts from yesterday and today and see whether they lend any clarity about the wisdom (or lack of it) of being unequally yoked with known charlatans. In answer to your question, I think it is good to give the “benefit of the doubt” upon initial charges against someone we respect, but ultimately to defend Scripture and the Gospel and not people we respect, when they conflict. I’ve had to make that choice a few times in my Christian walk (including about a year ago with a preacher I highly respected), and it’s painful, I know.

    I’m currently reading some reports about the recent United Methodist general assembly (in which the traditional view of marriage was affirmed, but only because of delegates from Africa, not because of American delegates), and this paragraph seemed relevant here:

    Even the Apostle John — who wrote more about Christian love than any other biblical authors — said: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works” (2 John 1:11, see also 16:17, Galatians 1:8, and 2 Thessalonians 3:14).

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  15. Thanks, Cheryl,

    I suppose we are needing to understand definitions. I fully concur about elders and wolves. But I put that in the context of the local church. Our local church leadership ought to be warning of the wolves, and not allowing them to speak in the churches. I assumed, whoever was heading this conference, were not believers and had invited a varied group to speak; or were believers and had some other motivation. In that situation, I see nothing wrong with believers adding their voice. And we have Philip: 1:18: What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.

    Every time I went to a social function in the military, I was eating and socializing with nonbelievers, some would have been false teachers at some stage. By the end of each meeting, most of the folk probably knew where I stood in Christ. That is what I believe is in and not of. We are called to be out amid the nonbelievers, that is how we bring Christ to all peoples.

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  16. It was being presented as a Christian conference, and there is video of Chan promoting it. And photos of him praying with the false teachers at it. His name can’t help but add credibility to the conference for those who know his name (and respect him), and therefore his presence gives credibility to the wolves. He treated the wolves as brothers in every way, publicly, until he was called to account afterward, and then he backtracked.

    I don’t know his standing with God; my research a few weeks ago showed serious concerns, and I personally wouldn’t read or listen to the man. But I believe he erred greatly in judgment on this one, and he needs people to pray for his discernment.

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  17. Absolutely, I certainly pray for him, as with all folk I have allowed to influence me. I don’t expect any or those people to be perfect and rely on discernment God has given me to help me find the Truth and throw out the lies.

    Yes, if he had given his reasoning ahead of time, that would have helped his case. But he seems to have learned from it and has people in place now to help him with that in future. I don’t believe he should cease and desist so much as be aware and be wary.

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  18. Interesting discussions with Moses, yesterday. Waiting and watching for the opportunity to mention Truth. So far, he has been. But his belief is more in evil spirits than anything, and how they are in charge of the night. He does talk about Jesus and us being accountable to God for our actions. He plans to be back in a couple of weeks so we will be looking through the Word for Truth to share.

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  19. Tina continues to struggle. Last week she actually cut herself on the back of the wrist (not the inside where real damage occurs) a couple of times and tied a piece of yarn around her neck. I cleaned out her room again of all dangers I could be aware of. Her OUI person also checked it out and talked with her to figure out what was going on. Her psychiatrist has yet to respond to emails or any thing else. And so it goes.

    She said she did it so people would feel sorry for her. She does not want to kill herself, just get attention. We talked about that for quite a while. The worker pointed out how much attention she already gets. Interestingly, our sermon today was on how we still have our bodies to deal with even after we get a new heart. The tension/fight continues between the old and the new.

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  20. My friend mentioned at Christmas that she wanted to make me a photo book of my visit. Well, she never asked me for photos. She told me she was working on it and sent me a link. Then I went through what I had and sent them. I was sitting in conference and going through my phone which I don’t use here. She couldn’t believe what I had, but only used two of them. I sent her comments, but she got them after she finished. Now I feel bad for making her feel bad, but it won’t be much of a treasured book. Oh, well.
    By the way, my comments were positive, but I mentioned which ones I would like to add.

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  21. Jo, we had something similar happen with my father-in-law’s funeral. Since I married into the family seven years ago, I’ve taken far more photos at gatherings than anyone else has (and with a better camera). When my father-in-law died, my sister-in-law asked me if I had photos for the photos they would put on the screen. I think she asked for 15-20, or maybe 20-30. I took hours going through my photos and ended up sending her about 10 more than she requested since it was hard to narrow it down. I included some photos that I thought were quite important, like my mother-in-law sitting on her husband’s lap and them looking at each other lovingly, and another of my husband and his father sitting on the couch side by side watching IU basketball, both of them with an IU cap and Iu shirt, looking very much like father and son (they are similar facially and they were both laughing). Of all the photos I sent, she used at most one. (One might have been a similar shot taken by someone else or might have been the one I sent.) We got a copy of the videos on a disk, but I was like “Who even wants it? My husband isn’t likely to look at it, and all the photos of the time that I have known the family were ones taken by other people, mostly at events where I wasn’t even there.” The really precious photos, especially those two I just noted, weren’t included. My daughter’s wedding wasn’t included, as I recall, except a photo of my sister-in-law’s granddaughter taken in the lobby (with her great-grandfather). (I also had a lovely photo I took of my in-laws in the lobby that day, her putting his corsage on him. I gave her the corsage specifically because I knew I could get a great photo, and I did.)

    So, yeah . . . don’t ask for photos and then not use them!

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  26. Yeah, I imagine it was a boutonniere. At any rate, I figured it would be harder for Mom to put it on him than it might be for some younger woman. But I figured that she would value the opportunity, and it would give me a chance to take some precious photos. (The wedding photographer wasn’t in the room.)

    I put together a photo book of our daughter’s courtship and wedding, and I made a copy for us and one for the newlyweds. (I sent our daughter a link to the book so that she could have me take out any photos she didn’t like, change anything she wanted changed, etc. I had a few photos in my copy that I printed in sepia, and she wanted those done in full color, so I did that, but I don’t think she asked for any other changes.) And I sent a link to the mother of the groom and had her choose 20 pages of photos, and had that sent to her. The mother-in-law also chose a different “title” for the book than the one I had used, so I changed that for her.

    The wedding was two-and-a-half years ago, and a few months after it I was sent a link to the online photos from the official photographer. (She had not one photo of me and the bride. I made the mistake of handing her–rather than someone else–my camera and asking her to take a photo of us. She took a photo, but I looked at my camera later and it wasn’t on there, so I think she just used her own camera and didn’t like the photo she got, and apparently she figured I was just the stepmother and not important, so she didn’t get any shots on her own initiative.) We haven’t received any prints and probably never will (including family photos that were the last ones with my father-in-law in them–I didn’t get group shots with my camera), so I’m really glad I made the effort to get a lot of photos myself.

    I see professional photographers bristle that they “set up shots” and then family members take pictures too. And I sort of understand their frustration, especially if amateur photographers are getting in the way or are ruining their shots with their own flashes or making people look at the wrong photographer. BUT this was our family wedding, not hers. To say the mother of the bride can’t take photos because there is a photographer there is absurd. First, I have been to a wedding where the photographer messed up and ruined all the photos (they all turned out yellow and most of them were blurred–obviously the photographer wasn’t really a professional), and having some other photos just in case seems wise. Second, I am going to take some shots the photographer won’t see, and my shots will be personal in a way hers aren’t. I stayed out of her way and shot from different angles if we were shooting the same thing; I was as discreet as I could be. But third . . . if I hadn’t taken my own photos, I wouldn’t have any. It cost us too much money not to have at least some photos of it!

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  28. Tina seems to be deeply into depression now. Not acting out, just not doing anything. She just sits and stares. Yesterday I convinced her to go out and work on the pinata she had wanted to make. I told her to hang it from the swingset and work on it. But she worked on it on the ground and the chickens ate all the papier mache off when she left it to dry. I told her again she should hang it up but bring it in after a short time and hang it in her room to continue drying rather than leave it out in the rain. It rained. It is still hanging on the swingset.

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  29. Tina came to us with an IQ rating of 60. We thought she had improved as the years past, but now husband thinks she has gone back down to a 40. I don’t know how that all works but she is definitely less able to follow directions than she was. I suspect all the chaos in her brain interferes with her ability to process simple directions.

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  34. And now we have a new question. A space has opened up in a facility in Moscow. The daughter of a local couple is up there and her apartment mate is moving out and she asked if Tina could move in with her. That would be fantastic for us, because Tina keeps telling us she is moving out. It is a facility, an apartment, where Tina would have her own room and use of the kitchen but there are live in workers who are there twenty four seven. Sounds quite promising. But, if God does not want her there, we don’t either.

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  36. Moscow is a couple hours north of here, where my folks and brother and family live. Five hours south is Boise with other brother and family, daughter and family. Both would be good. But the OUI social worker from here was aghast that we would even think such a thing as Tina is too vulnerable to predators. I thought that is why they had twenty four hour caretakers but maybe they are the problem. I know nothing.

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  37. Praying for wisdom. That is an opportunity, but also a difficult decision. How about a trial period, maybe even a weekend or a couple of weekdays for a visit to see what she thinks and what you think.

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  39. The option is off the table for now as they don’t accept seventeen year olds. They do, but not into this particular house. Her OUI social worker was not in agreement anyway, thinks she would be taken advantage of. I thought that was what the live in supervisors were for, but she would know better than I would. Mike is going to a guardianship training event in a couple of weeks to learn the next steps.

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  40. Mumsee – I would think it would be similar to how a lot of school bullying happens. People will complain that the teachers let it happen (and maybe in some cases they do), but in my experience, most bullying (or taking advantage of others, in this case) seems to take place out of sight of the folks in charge.

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  41. Come to think of it, that’s how sexual abuse happens, too. A little girl I knew was even molested in the same house where her much older sister was present, and the older sister had no idea what was taking place.

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  44. Coming here today, I notice that it has been a few days since anyone has commented, so I checked, and found that we have fallen off Top Posts.

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  48. “It’s a pretty, sunny. . .” What?! Forgot to add “day” in there – “a pretty, sunny day. . .”

    Of course, it’s not quite really spring here yet, so the prettiness has more to do with the sunshine and blue sky, rather than any greening, although I have seen signs of some of the earliest spring bloomers getting ready.

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  52. Unless someone else comes along to comment more, I will not continue this. But if Jo and Mumsee, or anyone else, wants to keep this going, I’ll play along. 🙂

    Have a blessed day, whomever reads this!

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  55. Oh! I just read that we are supposed to have some strong winds today. I love windy days! (Except for when it is freezing and windy in the winter, and I am outside for some reason.)

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  56. Tina is totally off her rocker again. I had hoped she was getting better though something was clearly still off. So the last couple of days I have let her play with the other children under supervision. They built a fort and played on the swings and colored and such. She fought with the twelve year old several times, which does not actually mean fight so much as he runs out of tolerance with her and her mouth and then they start physical altercations but nothing of substance. Then she went wonkers. Last night she threatened to stab the eleven year old, multiple times to cause lots of blood. And the eleven year old is her favorite and is most tolerant of her strangeness.

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  58. If she continues with this, we will have no choice but to move her to a facility. We cannot live with the constant threats to us, to the smaller ones, and to herself. She has a visit with her psychiatrist tomorrow, or we do. She says she is not going to be there. But the doc will want to hear how she is doing and will probably adjust her meds again. I am not convinced the meds do much other than allow her to sleep better. but we keep on.

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  60. Good news. She said she had been looking for a dead goat to throw at me. Talked with her social worker who says she needs to be admitted as she is in complete psychosis. Which is true but in the past they have never had any open beds. We will see. She sees her psychiatrist tomorrow.

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  62. Good job, ladies. I tried to comment several days ago, but couldn’t get on.
    I probably won’t be commenting too much as it seems I have to logon with my password each time. It is nice to know that I am not the only one struggling with this.
    Such a relief to know that my taxes will be a reasonable amount and an amount that I have sitting in my account.

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  63. Husband got taxes done a while ago, I was delighted. He usually waits until mid April, like the fifteenth….at eleven at night.

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  65. It’s a gloomy, cloudy here in Southeast Michigan. 🙂

    I wish spring would come for real. It’s unusual that we haven’t yet had even one 70-degree day by the end of March, and there still aren’t any in the forecast. Looks like we’ll hit the mid-60s this weekend, then go back down into the 50s through April 18.

    The good news is I haven’t had to mow the lawn yet.

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  72. I am feeling anxious. Lots of little things, but what I am feeling may just be from something else. My taxes will now be more, ouch! The good news is my cpa told me what she did and gave me advice of how much my tax would be should I do the same thing again.
    I have been asked to give feedback on someone here, or not here yet, that they are considering for a position. This person was awful, but has now been gone for a few years, so they may not realize it. No people skills at all. oh, well…

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  74. Hi Jo, God has gotten you this far, He will finish. But I certainly understand getting anxious over things. Mike wonders how I come up with the things I get anxious over and why.

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  78. My car seems to be totally dead. Probably needs a new engine, which I don’t think you could find here. I can walk, but we have had so much rain. Even if it is dry in the morning, it will rain when it is time to go home – up a slippery hill.

    You know what I think I have enjoyed most about the singles van is giving anybody and everybody rides. Yesterday a new mom with four kids at the store asked me for a ride home. So easy to do. I always say, the van only holds 20, so see if you can fit.

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  81. Saturday has arrived. Whew. I forgot to tell the psychiatrist about Tina and the yarn around her neck and knife scratches on her arms. What kind of mom am I???

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  82. I would say you are a mom with too much on her mind. Not your fault. In the midst of crises, we all tend to forget important pieces of information, and later wonder how we could have possibly forgotten.

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  84. But the last two days seem to have gone very well with Tina. Her driver came to get her yesterday, but it was the driver the psychiatrist told her she was never to get in the car with again. Something we had tried to fix earlier. The driver is a self professed Catholic, Baptist, witch who plants all sorts of lies into Tina’s mine. Well, Tina went out by herself and told the driver she was not allowed to ride with her anymore. The driver accepted that and drove back. Finally, the med transport people agreed.

    So Tina had her world shaken by not going to OUI and handled it very well. Then, in the afternoon she was riding her bike to the Catholic Church yard sale when she heard thunder so came back home (she knows not to ride in a thunderstorm). Again, she handled the disappointment very well. She has been speaking nicely, helping with chores and extras, and doing self entertainment like coloring and drawing.

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  86. OUI is Opportunities Unlimited, apparently just a local business. Privately owned, it provides assistance to people with disabilities to increase their independence. Tina has learned such things as crossing the street safely (yes, we worked with her a lot on that but she could never seem to understand why she was turning her head to look), how to play UNO, takes things to the recycling center, visits people in the nursing home, goods to the thrift shop, etc. But she does those things without mommy so she is learning she can do these things. Her worker called her when she was doing the dead owl thing and was able to calm her down and get her to agree to see her doctor the next day. The worker calls her on her stuff and works diligently to build us up in Tina’s mind so she realizes we are here to help. Really quite helpful even just to have responsible babysitting for a few hours so I can focus on the other children.

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  87. a quiet Sunday afternoon here. When I click to like a comment, another box comes up with nothing in it and then goes away, like a mirage. But I noticed it is not accepting my likes. Oh, well.

    God has given me some ideas. I emailed a single gal, widow, from Oregon, who is only here occasionally to ask if I could borrow her truck. She said yes. She will be here on May 8th. I would like the truck now, but she needs to be the one to email the folks that have the truck now. I just need patience. Those folks have another vehicle, so it shouldn’t be a problem for them. There is also another teacher who is going home for her sons wedding. I will ask if I can use her vehicle while she is gone, which would be when the other gal is here. musical vehicles, anyone?

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  88. Had to spend time this morning answering a very involved email. An 82 year old friend is coming back for a visit for a couple of months. She was one of the originals who came in the 50’s. Still working on a dictionary for her language group. Her emails are so involved. She wants to know everything. She comes in July and I will be the one helping her with many things. I hope she knows that I am not as strong either. She has things stored here, even in my home. She needs to go through and sort things, send some home and dispose of others. I pray for her each morning as I see her things in the top of my closet.

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  90. I was looking at the prayer thread this morning and thinking what an incredible gift we have been given, in prayer. God desires to hear from us, and He gives us all sorts of people in different situations we can pray for. He already has His plans but He wants to hear from us concerning them as well.

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  91. feeling so very frustrated here. We had a staff meeting yesterday. The principal is being asked to take another position in branch leadership. Feels like the school is being shoved under the wheels of the bus. They want feedback, but not based on the school. This principal only plans on being here one more year and that year is when we will have our WASC accreditation. Such a poor decision. Very discouraging. He, by the way, does not want the position. and only agreed to let his name stand. It makes no sense whatsoever. The email announcing the decision did not match with what he, himself said.

    and then there is the car which is ready for the junk pile…..

    Time to go to school and get ready for the new term.

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  95. I did manage to get my car home. Not sure if I should drive it or not, but it is here. Starting to rain now. I could see it coming so didn’t spend as long in the weight room.
    Thanks for understanding my grumps.

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  97. When we first moved here, we had serious mud to crawl through to get chores done. Now, we have a rock road covered with dirt so we are not walking in mud as the water drains out. Makes for much more pleasant chore time.

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  98. We have the deep clay Michelle was talking about the other day. Clings to everything Especially to turkeys and their eggs. We still have to figure how to make their home a bit less swampy in the spring.

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  99. I saw some kids struggling at recess. So I thought about it and decided to have an alternative recess. Where kids could do art and play games. After some thought, I realized it would have to be in my room, which is 75 feet long and has lots of fun stuff. I asked my aide if she would be willing to be on duty and then checked the idea out with the principal. Today was our first time. I forgot to mention it at the staff meeting. So I put a note on the white board in the staff room. I was on yard duty the first recess so I went around telling the kids that they were invited. Right at the start of recess, we got a hard rain. Everyone came to my room. When I counted, there were 50 students in my room. And more than that as kids came and went. The noise was a bit much, but mostly they just all had fun. I kicked two kids out, girls in my class who were running and crawling around. Two other girls will be back tomorrow to clean. I let them use the easel on the back verandah and they decided to spatter paint. When I checked after school, there was paint everywhere. Other than that it was a total success. Everyone was having a great time. God is good.

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  104. Still don’t have any real idea if Jess is pregnant or not, though she did send a sonogram with her name and the date. But remember the cancer scare where she made the whole thing up? And various other scares over the years. It could be she is out of options and remembers we had always told them they had a safe place here if they found themselves pregnant and without other positive options.

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  105. yup, more rain here this morning. But we did, briefly, see the sun yesterday. I don’t even want to step on the grass, it is so squishy.

    Lots going on here, a bit discouraging. They want to put our principal in the directors office and we have no one else. A very bad idea. He said no and then said he would let his name stand and see what God does.

    Will it let me post this??

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  107. And I am wondering if it is a real pregnancy or if she will move here and suddenly mysteriously miscarry. She is welcome either way, she desperately needs a reset.

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  108. She is now saying she is struggling to get out of her lease, which she signed a few weeks ago, accidentally. She did not know all her roomies were moving out so she paid their share as well as her own and signed a new lease starting in June. She really needs to take a break from adulthood as she is not doing it very well.

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  109. Husband is in Boise today. The daughter in law who lives in Boise, is getting sworn into the Idaho Bar today and he took advantage of that and that another son wants to borrow the trailer to live in for a while. He took the trailer down to Boise, son will pick it up this weekend. Husband got to visit with everybody, he is such a social butterfly.

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  110. Our neighbors who moved out last year, have since moved to Oregon. He showed up at the door yesterday, he is here to get some taxes done, etc. He has been living in his vehicle the past weeks and for another couple of them while he gets the business done prior to heading back to Oregon. We did not offer to let him stay here because husband was heading for Boise. But today, on his way back home, husband will stop at the guy’s vehicle and invite him to stay for a few days. No idea if he will accept. We have room. He has a dog and smokes a lot We will see.

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  112. I get to pretend that I am you as I now have to remember to enter my name every time that I post. Tho that is easier then having a new screen come up where I have to enter a password.

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  115. Mike has a voc rehab meeting with Tina this morning, then will probably run up to Moscow to see if he can figure out something on Jess’s situation. She claims her apartment is full of mold and she can’t live there and can’t get out of her lease, which she signed, thinking the others would stay if she did.

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  116. I screen shotted and sent her a copy of a text she sent me last month about how she had cleaned the mold out of the bathroom and her roomies are such slobs they did not know to do that. Now she sends me pics of the same moldy bathroom. I told her it is an ongoing process when you choose to live in a moldy house, to continually clean to keep the mold at bay. Her stories change by the minute.

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  117. It will be interesting to see how we discover if she is actually pregnant or not. Will I go with her to a dr appt? Will we drug test her and preg test at the same time? Will God come up with something else?

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  119. Son in law contacted us last night, he is still quite concerned about our daughter. Sounds like she has sunk deeper into depression and is shutting off both him and the baby. Mike may go over there. I am not planning to. We have four children here, and the animals and it is looking like her older sister will be here, so I have plenty to keep me busy. We have offered to bring the baby here so they can get some real rest and get back on their feet. They ought to have bonded with him and the disruption would be kind of like a visit to grandma’s for a couple of months. We will see.

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  121. Well, I am just waiting to go somewhere. My aide, Wendy, invited me to a party today for her son that graduated from college last week. She was even looking for a pig to roast. I made brownies. But, I am an introvert and I only know Wendy. I sorta know her other kids, but haven’t seen them for a while. I helped with the money to get this boy through college, though I have never met him.

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  122. I figure that I will go a little late. not sure who will be there. I have a few bouncy balls and stickers if there are young children. I don’t speak tok pisin. oh, well

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  124. Things continue to snowball. Baby has a skull fracture from falling off his play mat. Been to the doc and sent home. Son in law is not to leave daughter alone for a second as per mental health directions, though they do not consider her suicidal. Mike is on standby to go over and stay with her while her husband comes here with grandson, if that is what they decide.

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  125. Meanwhile, the other daughter, pregnant, tells her sister that she has continued to drink, smoke and drug. She is not using illegal drugs, but other folk’s prescriptions. Argh. We said we wanted to get them to eighteen without a child or a police record. Succeeded. Who would have thought they would become so much more challenging in their twenties. Anybody who has ever dealt with human beings….

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  127. I wondered the same thing, figuring the play mat is generally flat on the floor. But the doc accepted it, which is why I am so anxious to get this transfer in place. Now son in law confirms the story so maybe…and nurse daughter did confirm that there are a lot of skull fractures out there from unexpectedly simple reasons. So I will accept it. But I know she is in desperate need as is she, which is why they are seriously interested in our offer.

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  130. a new adventure for sure. Hope you have an ergo or something to keep that baby close to you. What a combination to add a baby in with the other four.
    praying

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  131. I just did facetime with my youngest and she was snuggling Archie. When I mentioned Easter she asked Archie to say ‘ He is Risen’ wow that is so encouraging.

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  132. He is Risen indeed!

    Grandson and I will probably be spending a lot of time right here in this chair, when he isn’t with grandpa in that chair. Otherwise, we will probably be outside getting fresh air and walking. For now, all I have is the cradle the two sisters and brother brought with them from their bio home. That will be nice for Amber to see her son in it.

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  135. Thanks. Tina overheard that Amber may be coming home in July so she has been play acting violent ugly plays for the past few hours, right on the edge of the room she has to stay out of to give me some distance. Constant violence toward the sister, the husband, and the baby. Makes me wonder if perhaps we should not bring the baby here. Though Ashton would never be alone with her and will not be accessible by her. I have sent some video to her OUI worker.

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  138. Thanks, things are coming together.

    The warehouse is nearly cleaned out for daughter to take up residence. She will stay there until seventeen son turns eighteen and moves out. Then we will consolidate the younger three in one wing in the three bedrooms and move twenty two to the other side where she will have two bedrooms. One for her and one for her baby.

    Husband should be nearly to Okinawa, he had an eleven hour layover in Seoul. We have followed son in law’s instruction on not going with the idea of his mom helping. One more drama down. She was indicating her relationship with her son was more important than his with his wife. Sorry, no. She accused us of manipulating her son to send the grandson here and accused daughter of making up the whole PPD thing to get off the island. Thanks but no thanks. Still waiting to find out what the final plan will be. Once husband gets there and has a chance to talk with daughter and son in law, and son in law has the chance to talk with his chain of command and the doctors, something should come together. Not my worry, they can handle it. I will be here if God allows.

    Seventeen has a tad over three months to go here, but if he is off to national guard summer camp in early June, that could be it. It is a nine week camp and should take him past his birthday, so we could conceivably move his stuff out in June.

    Seventeen year old daughter has determined to settle back down and is doing well, hopefully that will continue.

    I am glad God has a plan, I am glad I can trust Him. I am glad He promises to provide all I need to do His will.

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  139. And now I find seventeen year old daughter has been providing twelve year old son with scantily clad female pics, which he keeps under his bedding for his personal entertainment. I suspect she gets them when she goes to OUI. People think they are just harmless “fashion” magazines but they are not. I certainly do not need two more pregnant females here now. Something we have worked diligently on for years. But with son’s total lack of impulse control and their other challenges, no more playing outside without complete supervision. They are generally fairly closely supervised, but this will ratchet it up. Little boy is growing up! Unless God intervenes, he will have no restraint.

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  140. Seventeen year old denies it and eleven year old confirms her side. Now twelve said he found it alongside the road while walking the dogs. That, I also believe. Finding the truth around here is God’s business. Sometimes He lets me in on it, sometimes not.

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  141. I know what you mean, Mumsee. Sometimes God gives me an inkling about something that is going on, so I am somewhat prepared when it blows up, and other times, I’m totally surprised, having had no clue.

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  146. However the lack of sleep gave me an opportunity to pray. There is a mom of one of my students who is suffering from depression and can’t sleep, so it was the perfect time for me to pray for her. She lives just three houses from me.

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  151. I had trouble falling asleep last night, too. Could have been from the Diet Coke I had with dinner.

    I usually don’t have soda, but Nightingale brought home some Burger King food for dinner, and she got Diet Coke for me.

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  152. Today she did some baking for our After-Easter Brunch that we are putting on tomorrow afternoon. Kinda neat that of the six women who will be there (that’s including Nightingale and me), three are church-going Christians. That’s why the brunch is in the afternoon.

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  156. Mumsee, do you know when Mike will return with the little guy? Of course you have your hands full as it is.
    Let us all know so we can be praying through all of his travel time.

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  158. Mike flies back Friday evening, should arrive in Pullman at six thirty. Perhaps my brother or nephew will give them a ride to the car in Lewiston and then he will drive himself and baby home.

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  159. The plan, which I am not thinking is a good one, is then to drive down to Boise (five hours down) Saturday for fifth grandchild’s first birthday party, and then home. That is an awful lot of travel for a three month old.

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  164. I pushed it yesterday, taught a full day then went to the weight room and did 1.75 miles besides the weights, then showered and went to the Burger night at Teen Centre.

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  165. The good part is that I don’t need to wonder when I should go to the weight room today or when to take aa shower. A totally free day.

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  166. I couldn’t sleep last night again. My nose was running and I was cold. Trying to find the right temperature. Put on gloves and socks, then a light sweatshirt. Finally got a light blanket to throw over my bed. That helped cuz my comforter is so heavy I don’t like my arms under it, but the light blanket is just right. So funny, first hands are cold and then arms, have to keep trying til I am comfortable enough to sleep.

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  167. so I just learned something, since I have to type my name each time. I can type my name and then just push enter to post. I thought that I had to get the mouse and push that post comment button.

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  168. A gray day today, but not raining. I think we are finally past the rainy season. the ground is drying out. It still rains, I heard it raining in the night, but it is a lighter rain and not torrential.

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  169. I also found out how to get the reader pane in my email, both online and on my computer. you know, where you can see a preview of the email you are clicked on. I had that, but it disappeared. Someone commented on ukaweb on how to get it online. So I figured there had to be a way to get it on my computer, and, clever me, I found it. I hated that list that I had to click on each email to read them.

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  173. My oldest daughter sends out a weekly, usually, newsletter from her coffee shop which is the only way that I hear from her. Today I learned that my oldest grandson has a cast on his arm from a broken thumb, but he was smiling.

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  174. I need to go write some notes. A friend is leaving for her daughter’s wedding on Monday and can take mail, I hope. I got a large unexpected gift this week I need to write a thank you for. Also a sweet lady, and supporter, in my church lost her husband this week.

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  176. Hi Jo. It has been in the 50s mostly, some days going up into the lower 60s, and has been quite rainy. But the leaves on some trees (not all) are finally coming out. Right now they’re in that stage where they look like they are wilted and just hanging there.

    Funny how, at least here in New England, temps in the upper 50s and lower 60s can feel warm when the sun is out, but when it is rainy, those same temps can feel rather chilly. Yesterday I described the feeling to Nightingale as “raw”.

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  177. Right now, it is 67 degrees and sunny out. Cooler temps and more rain are coming back later in the week. (I really don’t mind, though. I’d rather have cool and rainy than hot and humid.)

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  184. someone said they are sending me a gift today towards going to Australia in June. I am going to need a break by then and something to look forward to is wonderful.

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  187. Yesterday morning, with The Boy’s regular allergy medicine not working, and his eyes being red and itchy, Nightingale gave him Benedryl, thinking he would be active enough at school to keep away the sleepiness.

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  194. Cheryl – He has one of those, but it doesn’t seem to help with this particular symptom. (They’ve tried more than one kind, of course.)

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  197. I am not getting outside as much as I would like but I like what I am doing. We don’t leave baby unattended (napping in playpen for example) due to the predatory nature of some of the other children. Makes it rather challenging to get other stuff done but it is okay to not get it done.

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  198. Mumsee – Do you worry that when those with the predatory tendencies grow up and leave, they will eventually abuse other children?

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  200. My aide told me yesterday that she will be gone next week on Thursday and Friday, but Friday is a teacher workday. Our entire staff of employees is attending a Trauma healing workshop. With fighting between groups and other things, I am sure that it is needed. She was so tired the other day. A friends mother had died and they all get together to mourn most of the night in a haus cri.

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