The last few weeks have been STRESS-FILLED with Hunter and add HORMONES to the mix and you get full-blown depression. "This too shall pass..." and did.
Thanks for your comment regarding smaller congregations. The biggest one we attended was about 125 and that's when Dennis was training in Bellflower, CA.
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that if you go here, you can watch full episodes of that show Life. They have all of them from the first season. Hope all is well.
How many of you are familiar with mental illness...I mean intimately familiar, having a close friend or immediate family member who is often irrational and at the very least difficult to live with? Please talk to me...when my son, Hunter (who is a bipolar teenager) is having a bad day/week/year, I get so down too. Before living with this problem for the last 18 months or so, I really had no clue what it was like. Still, he tries to explain what's going on in his brain, and although I can sympathize and love him, I don't understand it. My sister has struggled with deep depression since childhood, and we have had many conversations about that too...it's impossible to truly empathize when you've never experienced it. And I know there are LOTS of people out there who struggle with much worse problems and situations. I just become so...lethargic. Although, I am able to function on a daily basis, I don't want to DO anything (because of the stress, I suppose), my enthusiasm for anything is minimal. Tell me how you cope...
I cope with stress by dwelling on things above. It sounds really corny of me, but Jars of Clay's CD "Redemption Songs" is in my car's CD-player pretty much every day.
Thinking about eternal things and meditating on God's power and wisdom in everything helps me cope. There's really no other way I've found that's as effective. Although when I am VERY anxious, taking xanax before prayer/meditation works wonders. Wonders.
Glad you enjoyed Elizabeth. Yes, she is very helpful driving! She's a good driver. She enjoyed you and Frank very much.
I'm looking forward to getting to know you a little better w/out the stress of a wedding! hahaha!
Hey, I can do that all day...I have a couple of friends (no names, Val and Denise) who have teased me for YEARS about once saying that Frank was "practically perfect"...like Mary Poppins, you know...well, the Lord blessed me much more richly than I deserved with this man, who has grown more precious to me year by year. And although I have realized over the years that he is nowhere near perfect, he is the perfect mate for me, as the Lord well knew when he brought us together. Frank is sweet, funny, solid, wise, hard-working, practical, thoughtful, romantic, mature, and has shown his patience and forbearance many times over this past year. I can't help but get teary talking about him, because I am so grateful he's mine...and hey, he's still crazy about me after 25 years of marriage (see, I know he's not perfect...he's nuts!)
Okay, Ladies, do you accept the challenge? How much mush can you spout about your man? Let's hear it!
Hey Annie, sitting right here with Val and we are still laughing about that day when you were young and naive. You mean after 25 years he hasn't moved to "Perfect" instead of "practically perfect". Ha, Ha, Ha. We Love You (and Frank too)
Destin is a resort area near Pensacola FL. Go to google.com and type in "Destin, FL" and see the beautiful beaches that come up. Or, just wait a few days and I'll have them in my pleo :)
it was great seeing both of you last weekend. I know you are so proud of Bailey and happy that she and David will be living closer. BTW, I think my hubby is terrific too.
Frank and I recently joined an athletic club, so we could TRY to get in better shape. I have been doing step and yoga classes for 2 1/2 weeks, and I can safely say that EXERCISE IS STUPID! It just makes me feel old and fat. And, hey, when do I stop getting sore every single time I do something even a little new or difficult? Oh yeah, and I HATE sweating. Yes, I'll admit, I'm starting to feel a little better and more toned (barely), and my clothes seem to be getting a tiny bit looser, but still, getting up at 5am is just no fun!!!!!!! Hey, is this my first vent? I think it is! Go me!
I've been doing Curves for about four years and I love it. I was taken to the emergency room last Friday (low blood pressure) and the only thing I could think about was that I wasn't going to make it to Curves.... hmmm, maybe they should have taken me to the mental ward....
If you're sore everyday, you're working tooooooo hard! hahahahaha!! Really, Good for you! I used to go to water aerobics at 5:30 am, and, just like her you end up missing it when you can't go.
Exodus Party details: Mine was a costume party (costumes were people/things/from the lifetime of Moses), and there were costume awards - Best Plague, Best Egyptian, Best Israelite, Most Likely to be Struck Dead by God, Most Mosaic, etc.
"Crossing the Red Sea Contest" - two people race to slurp a path through a pan of red jello
"Golden Calf-Building Contest" - shaping golden calves from either yellow play-dough or yellow sugar cookie dough. If you use sugar cookie dough, bake the calves and have a
"Golden Calf-Eating Contest" - people race to see how can eat a golden calf first - no hands allowed!
"Jeoxodus" - Jeopardy with an Exodus theme. Some of our categories were "Law and Order," "MapQuest," "Family Feud," and "What's For Dinner?" You can draft contestants (or get volunteers!). I had no buzzer system, so if they knew the answer, they had to shout "Plague!"
But I think the best was last year the man who took a green shirt and hot-glued little plastic frogs all over it. He went as the plague of frogs! And there was a pillar of fire/cloud last year, and a plague of darkness!
