🙂 My woman came back to me
😦 I had to go to Greenwood for her. Below is a copy of an e-mail I sent to Chuck because he said he saw us in Spartanburg and wondered why.
At a certain point, kids worry about parents like parents used to worry about kids..
I was Friday morning. They were scheduled to leave anyhow.
About three a.m. Polly got up to go to the bathroom. As she was leaving, she did something to the door, (I never understood that part.) But in doing so, she fell and fractured her right arm below the elbow in three places. I asked her if it were a simple fracture. She said there was nothing simple about it. But yes, no bones are sticking out. Not a compound fracture. But she is in a cast and can’t drive.
Dianne drove them to Greenwood. Mel and I went to Argeree’s and we each claimed our women and came home.
Elvera and I stopped by the Red Lobster in Spartanburg for dinner. At dinner she expressed a mild preference for steak or prime rib. I told her I wish I had known that. I would have gone straight up the mountain and gone to Outback or Binyons.
Anyhow, we got everyone home OK.
BTW. They are scheduled to go on one of their trips in April. Going to Prague. I aked Mel why Prague. They just want to go there. He says they may have to cancel now.
We’ll see.
😦 I going to be a pall bearer this afternoon.
A guy in my SS class died. He had been sick over a year. He was 92. Was a flight engineer on B-29’s out of Guam during WW II.
I don’t like being a pall bearer. But it’s custom and has to be done.
😦 Sale of my folks’ things and the house will be soon. Family issues. I will be glad and sad all at the same time.
🙂 Babysitting four lovely grandchildren. it is early, yet. Might not seem so lovely later. 😉
Nothing lovelier than to see them playing nicely together.
This is a rant about Easter and before I type it I want you all to know that I have prayed over my attitude.
The CEO’s of the church. You know Christmas and Easter Only. They show up and expect a seat and warm welcome….yes I have reminded myself of the Prodigal Son. I show up about 48 or so Sundays a year and you show up 1 and whenever Christmas Eve is and act like you own the place.
I am seriously considering skipping Easter this year because why should I have to stand or sit in the vestibule because you want to show off your new Easter dress and take care of the obligatory church attendance?
OK I feel better now. I will probably go about 30 minutes early and be happy about it. I really wish I could talk our priests into the Easter Vigal on Saturday night. It is a beautiful service and no one really knows that much about it and you don’t feel guilty if you don’t make it on Sunday. It would really solve a lot of my rant. I have tried to get this for the past 3 years
😦 Losing a mom — so hard, no matter how old we are
😦 Tax day for me. I spent a long time rifling through stuff to find what I needed last night, longer than usual (partly because I was shredding other paperwork in the process that needed to get “gone” from here, old bills, etc.).
😦 Friends going through health scares — an 85-year-old church friend in Colo whose breast cancer has returned (but a different kind than the one she had 17 years ago — thankfully it’s tiny and the doc has recommended a lumpectomy, not a mastectomy); my 82-year-old friend Norma who has cancer in the liver; and my friend Carol who has a mass in her lung, still undiagnosed but possibly could be cancerous
😦 The anger and division in our nation — I know better than this, but spotted the “trending” hashtag #boycottindiana on Twitter yesterday and read through some of the thread. Eeek. Christians are definitely and very openly disliked (to put it mildly; hated might be the more accurate term) in that crowd
🙂 God is sovereign, it is all working toward accomplishing His grand purpose
🙂 The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it
😦 Living in Indiana does mean I’m still in the middle of winter, or at least at the unrelenting tail end. (Come on, we can get above freezing. We can do it!)
🙂 Had a really nice lunch yesterday with my husband, parents-in-law, and sister- and brother-in-law (three couples) to celebrate birthdays of two in the party. For much of the meal we were all laughing and teasing one another (and the waitress and trainee) and I asked the waitress if she regretted getting our table and she said no, we were fun.
🙂 Today marks four years since a guy from Indiana called me on the phone after three weeks of both of us spending pretty much all day writing e-mails. 🙂 What a sweet four years it has been. 🙂
😦 Had to take down our bird feeders this week since I saw at least one, probably two or three, sick birds. I hate that mostly because I hope we didn’t infect more. But also migration season is underway, and it’s a bad time to be without feeders for a month (the recommended “downtime” when sick birds are found). Oh well.
😦 And of course AJ’s family, Mumsee’s family, Karen’s family, Kim, and others are heavy on our hearts.
😦 Arrgh. I forgot to ask him about making sure we get direct deposit set up for the refunds. I’ll have to call him and leave a message.
😦 My tax guy is several years older than I am, but he grew up across the street from us & his mom (who was British) and my mom were good friends. He said his mom died in November, 90 years old, which is a pretty good run. But still sad. And he said he still felt that “orphan” thing we all get when the last of our parents go.
😦 R making a fuss about Forrest’s being sick & having an ear infection, acting as if Emily doesn’t care & is being neglectful. (She was in contact with his pediatrician, who wanted her to wait a few days before bringing him in, as ear infections are often viral, which antibiotics don’t treat.)
🙂 Forrest is still up to playing & running around, & trying to convince me to give him candy.
🙂 Looking forward to church in the morning, & then a relaxing Sunday with my hubby. (I hope his orders don’t take too long for him to finish.)
Kim, I know what you mean about Easter sunday services. We have 2 services on Easter Sunday and on Christmas Eve. It’s good that they at least come at those times – maybe they’ll be drawn into a relationship with God rather than just the perfunctory (?) obligation they feel.
But… we actually more than double attendance on Easter? I don’t understand.
🙂 We have 2 services & a lot of people on Easter, too. Many family and friends of members who have been invited (probably not for the first time) and, because, well, it is Easter after all, they decide to come. 🙂
🙂 The way I see it is that we come to faith by the hearing of the Word — so anytime people are in a place where the gospel is being preached is a good thing.
Easter is crazy busy at our church–we even serve breakfast and have an Easter egg hunt– but it’s the only time some get their families in church so we just rejoice and collapse in the afternoon!
I wonder who’s cooking dinner in my family next Sunday? Hmmmmm.
Rain in Germany and we are more than ready to go home. Very tired and my rib pain was worse today than since I got injured. 400 mg ibuprofen every four hours . . . Starting to wonder if I should make a doctor appointment when I get home .,. . 😦
A wonderful, easy time with our Stargazer, and a tremendous break for both my overworked husband and me!
Prayers for my daughter-in-law tomorrow–minor surgery, but the first she’s ever had.
South Carolina women beat Florida State 80-74. Tough game, last four points scored in final seconds.
Seminoles led most of the game. It was a tough loss, almost not fair.
It seems strange to see the losers cry. Women are lucky that way.
They can cry. Men want to hit something.
Chas, we watched the Duke (men’s) game, and the TV showed us men crying on both the losing and the winning side.
I have long noticed that men in sports are “allowed” to do all sorts of things our culture doesn’t usually allow to men (except perhaps with immediate family, like a man to his father or son): men can not only hug, but hug tightly, slap each other on the rear end, even touch one another’s faces. The amount of intimacy in sports-related public touches amazes me. And, yes, they can show emotion in rooting for their teams or experiencing a loss or win.
(Full disclosure: if anything my husband cries easier than I do. But women do, on average, cry more than men do.)
I’m not sure I’ve ever attended a church that gets extra visitors on Easter, more than say 5% of the congregation, a small enough number that they’re likely just to be someone’s family member visiting from out of town. I figured that tradition was either dying off entirely or that guests were going only to mainline liberal churches, since I haven’t seen them at either Baptist or Presbyterian churches.
I will say, though, that in Chicago I often attended extra services at other churches. I was attending a Baptist church, and my church did a horrid job with Easter. (They celebrated by adding about half an hour to a service that was already about 90 minutes long and hard to sit through if you’re thin, and the sermons were often things like “what we can learn from the resurrection” rather than “Rejoice! He is risen!”) A tiny little Presbyterian church close to me did a noontime Good Friday service that ended with people leaving silently, and a large Lutheran church did a beautiful Easter-morning service, and I often went to both, and then to my own church (which made my own church’s service extra hard to sit through, so I was torn and didn’t always attend the Lutheran service). So I probably would have counted as someone attending “only for Easter,” but the truth was I simply had a different church where I was a member and faithfully involved. (I went to the Lutheran church for other special services, too, like the Bach cantatas; they did amazing music.)
We double our attendance on Christmas and Easter. on the one hand it is great to be sought out but on the other it is frustra ting. This afternoon was a 5pm service at our church plant in downtown Mobile. We will do the same thing next Sunday at 5.
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😦 So sorry to hear about Aj’s mother last night.
🙂 My woman came back to me
😦 I had to go to Greenwood for her. Below is a copy of an e-mail I sent to Chuck because he said he saw us in Spartanburg and wondered why.
At a certain point, kids worry about parents like parents used to worry about kids..
I was Friday morning. They were scheduled to leave anyhow.
About three a.m. Polly got up to go to the bathroom. As she was leaving, she did something to the door, (I never understood that part.) But in doing so, she fell and fractured her right arm below the elbow in three places. I asked her if it were a simple fracture. She said there was nothing simple about it. But yes, no bones are sticking out. Not a compound fracture. But she is in a cast and can’t drive.
Dianne drove them to Greenwood. Mel and I went to Argeree’s and we each claimed our women and came home.
Elvera and I stopped by the Red Lobster in Spartanburg for dinner. At dinner she expressed a mild preference for steak or prime rib. I told her I wish I had known that. I would have gone straight up the mountain and gone to Outback or Binyons.
Anyhow, we got everyone home OK.
BTW. They are scheduled to go on one of their trips in April. Going to Prague. I aked Mel why Prague. They just want to go there. He says they may have to cancel now.
We’ll see.
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😦 I going to be a pall bearer this afternoon.
A guy in my SS class died. He had been sick over a year. He was 92. Was a flight engineer on B-29’s out of Guam during WW II.
I don’t like being a pall bearer. But it’s custom and has to be done.
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😦 My heart goes out to AJ and his family.
😦 Sale of my folks’ things and the house will be soon. Family issues. I will be glad and sad all at the same time.
🙂 Babysitting four lovely grandchildren. it is early, yet. Might not seem so lovely later. 😉
Nothing lovelier than to see them playing nicely together.
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🙂 GOD IS IN CONTROL (I just needed to shout out that good news)
😦 Sad feelings for AJ & family
😦 Tax season slump
😦 Cold weather, again
😦 My yard and driveway look pathetic for Easter
🙂 Bosley is a warm cuddler when it’s cold weather
🙂 Getting some clothes together for donation
😦 Wish GA RFRA had passed already
🙂 Still have hope over RFRA because of God
🙂 Palm Sunday church traditions
🙂 Twitter evangelism
🙂 Christian books & authors
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This is a rant about Easter and before I type it I want you all to know that I have prayed over my attitude.
The CEO’s of the church. You know Christmas and Easter Only. They show up and expect a seat and warm welcome….yes I have reminded myself of the Prodigal Son. I show up about 48 or so Sundays a year and you show up 1 and whenever Christmas Eve is and act like you own the place.
I am seriously considering skipping Easter this year because why should I have to stand or sit in the vestibule because you want to show off your new Easter dress and take care of the obligatory church attendance?
OK I feel better now. I will probably go about 30 minutes early and be happy about it. I really wish I could talk our priests into the Easter Vigal on Saturday night. It is a beautiful service and no one really knows that much about it and you don’t feel guilty if you don’t make it on Sunday. It would really solve a lot of my rant. I have tried to get this for the past 3 years
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😦 Losing a mom — so hard, no matter how old we are
😦 Tax day for me. I spent a long time rifling through stuff to find what I needed last night, longer than usual (partly because I was shredding other paperwork in the process that needed to get “gone” from here, old bills, etc.).
😦 Friends going through health scares — an 85-year-old church friend in Colo whose breast cancer has returned (but a different kind than the one she had 17 years ago — thankfully it’s tiny and the doc has recommended a lumpectomy, not a mastectomy); my 82-year-old friend Norma who has cancer in the liver; and my friend Carol who has a mass in her lung, still undiagnosed but possibly could be cancerous
😦 The anger and division in our nation — I know better than this, but spotted the “trending” hashtag #boycottindiana on Twitter yesterday and read through some of the thread. Eeek. Christians are definitely and very openly disliked (to put it mildly; hated might be the more accurate term) in that crowd
🙂 God is sovereign, it is all working toward accomplishing His grand purpose
🙂 The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it
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I didn’t know that women still buy special Easter clothing.
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Chas, it’s another reason we need to go shopping
But seriously — I haven’t bought anything ‘special’ (as in a dress) for Easter in probably close to 20 years.
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🙂 I live in Indiana.
😦 Living in Indiana does mean I’m still in the middle of winter, or at least at the unrelenting tail end. (Come on, we can get above freezing. We can do it!)
🙂 Had a really nice lunch yesterday with my husband, parents-in-law, and sister- and brother-in-law (three couples) to celebrate birthdays of two in the party. For much of the meal we were all laughing and teasing one another (and the waitress and trainee) and I asked the waitress if she regretted getting our table and she said no, we were fun.
🙂 Today marks four years since a guy from Indiana called me on the phone after three weeks of both of us spending pretty much all day writing e-mails. 🙂 What a sweet four years it has been. 🙂
😦 Had to take down our bird feeders this week since I saw at least one, probably two or three, sick birds. I hate that mostly because I hope we didn’t infect more. But also migration season is underway, and it’s a bad time to be without feeders for a month (the recommended “downtime” when sick birds are found). Oh well.
😦 And of course AJ’s family, Mumsee’s family, Karen’s family, Kim, and others are heavy on our hearts.
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🙂 Last snowshoe of the season this morning
🙂 It’s warming up – didn’t even freeze last night
😦 It will get cold again and it will snow again before spring is finally here
🙂 Heading to Calgary and my family for Easter this week
😦 AJ and his family’s loss
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🙂 Taxes turned in.
😦 Arrgh. I forgot to ask him about making sure we get direct deposit set up for the refunds. I’ll have to call him and leave a message.
😦 My tax guy is several years older than I am, but he grew up across the street from us & his mom (who was British) and my mom were good friends. He said his mom died in November, 90 years old, which is a pretty good run. But still sad. And he said he still felt that “orphan” thing we all get when the last of our parents go.
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😦 The loss of AJ’s mom.
😦 R making a fuss about Forrest’s being sick & having an ear infection, acting as if Emily doesn’t care & is being neglectful. (She was in contact with his pediatrician, who wanted her to wait a few days before bringing him in, as ear infections are often viral, which antibiotics don’t treat.)
🙂 Forrest is still up to playing & running around, & trying to convince me to give him candy.
🙂 Looking forward to church in the morning, & then a relaxing Sunday with my hubby. (I hope his orders don’t take too long for him to finish.)
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🙂 SUNSHINE!! 🙂
Kim, I know what you mean about Easter sunday services. We have 2 services on Easter Sunday and on Christmas Eve. It’s good that they at least come at those times – maybe they’ll be drawn into a relationship with God rather than just the perfunctory (?) obligation they feel.
But… we actually more than double attendance on Easter? I don’t understand.
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🙂 FOG!! 🙂
🙂 We have 2 services & a lot of people on Easter, too. Many family and friends of members who have been invited (probably not for the first time) and, because, well, it is Easter after all, they decide to come. 🙂
🙂 The way I see it is that we come to faith by the hearing of the Word — so anytime people are in a place where the gospel is being preached is a good thing.
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Easter is crazy busy at our church–we even serve breakfast and have an Easter egg hunt– but it’s the only time some get their families in church so we just rejoice and collapse in the afternoon!
I wonder who’s cooking dinner in my family next Sunday? Hmmmmm.
Rain in Germany and we are more than ready to go home. Very tired and my rib pain was worse today than since I got injured. 400 mg ibuprofen every four hours . . . Starting to wonder if I should make a doctor appointment when I get home .,. . 😦
A wonderful, easy time with our Stargazer, and a tremendous break for both my overworked husband and me!
Prayers for my daughter-in-law tomorrow–minor surgery, but the first she’s ever had.
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🙂
South Carolina women beat Florida State 80-74. Tough game, last four points scored in final seconds.
Seminoles led most of the game. It was a tough loss, almost not fair.
It seems strange to see the losers cry. Women are lucky that way.
They can cry. Men want to hit something.
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The girls go to the Final Four in Tampa.
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My irritant problem is solved. I will haul myself out of the house earlier on Easter Sunday and attend the 8am service.
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KIM
Please don’t go to the Easter service irritated.
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Chas, we watched the Duke (men’s) game, and the TV showed us men crying on both the losing and the winning side.
I have long noticed that men in sports are “allowed” to do all sorts of things our culture doesn’t usually allow to men (except perhaps with immediate family, like a man to his father or son): men can not only hug, but hug tightly, slap each other on the rear end, even touch one another’s faces. The amount of intimacy in sports-related public touches amazes me. And, yes, they can show emotion in rooting for their teams or experiencing a loss or win.
(Full disclosure: if anything my husband cries easier than I do. But women do, on average, cry more than men do.)
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I’m not sure I’ve ever attended a church that gets extra visitors on Easter, more than say 5% of the congregation, a small enough number that they’re likely just to be someone’s family member visiting from out of town. I figured that tradition was either dying off entirely or that guests were going only to mainline liberal churches, since I haven’t seen them at either Baptist or Presbyterian churches.
I will say, though, that in Chicago I often attended extra services at other churches. I was attending a Baptist church, and my church did a horrid job with Easter. (They celebrated by adding about half an hour to a service that was already about 90 minutes long and hard to sit through if you’re thin, and the sermons were often things like “what we can learn from the resurrection” rather than “Rejoice! He is risen!”) A tiny little Presbyterian church close to me did a noontime Good Friday service that ended with people leaving silently, and a large Lutheran church did a beautiful Easter-morning service, and I often went to both, and then to my own church (which made my own church’s service extra hard to sit through, so I was torn and didn’t always attend the Lutheran service). So I probably would have counted as someone attending “only for Easter,” but the truth was I simply had a different church where I was a member and faithfully involved. (I went to the Lutheran church for other special services, too, like the Bach cantatas; they did amazing music.)
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We double our attendance on Christmas and Easter. on the one hand it is great to be sought out but on the other it is frustra ting. This afternoon was a 5pm service at our church plant in downtown Mobile. We will do the same thing next Sunday at 5.
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