Well a week from today is Thanksgiving. About a week from right now I will be draging. I will have part of my family here. Shanna (my oldest) and her family will be here, and I am truly thankful for that, but I think I know how the shephard felt when he lost his sheep. Lori and her family are not coming home and although my mind understands it, my heart is having a real hard time with it. I am used to little kids running around and waiting on them. I am blessed that I have a home for them to come to and enough food for those that will be here to eat, so I a thankful but also a little (no, a lot) sad that the whole bunch will not be here.
Can't wait till the next holidays so all my chicks will be in the coop!!!!
Have a wonderful day and may we all live in His Grace.
Sheryl
Quit worrying about John he is doing good. ;) He gets the whole next week off. We are headed to Longview for my friends funeral and then be with my family for Thanksgiving. I hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving. And thank you for the get well wishes. Take care.
Hope your thanksgiving is a good one too. When I was young LouAnn wagged me everywhere she went and alot of people thought I was hers. I think I look just like my mom but after all they were sisters.
I am still alive. We had a wonderful time in the Smokies. The weather was wonderful and by the time we left the leaves were beautiful. We will be going again in May with friends and then leave from there to go to Fl to see Lori,Chris and the children.
We will be staying in a little house just inside Gatlinburg and it has a glassed in back porch that is right on the river.
I am a little sad because Tuesday it Aleigha's 10th birthday and I will not be with her for her birthday for the first time in her life but that is just part of them living so far away, but they are happy and that is what really matters. We will get to see all of them for the X-mas holidays.
I am working hard and staying busy. Jim bought me a big flat screen for X-mas but I already have it so that is fun. We have been watching a lot of movies. Beau loves it because it is in the basement and we have a couch down there so he lays with us while we watch TV. He likes all his "people" together. I think that is the herd dog in him.
It is nice here today but it has already started to get cool and rainy. We even had a fire in the fireplace one night last week. Of course I love that.
Just wanted to post a little something to let people know I was still alive and kicking. (just not too high)
Have a wonderful day and may we all live in His Grace and my God Bless America as we go through the transition that is upon us.
Sheryl
How sweet of you to think of her. She will be tickled. I'm so happy to be here with her. She can't see as well but is still crocheting what she can and determined to teach me how to do it right!!!!!! I love her. I need to learn all I can because she's right. She won't be with us for a long time and thats just because of the law of nature. Love you.
Norman is a little sore but is doing fine. Missing Aleigha's 10th birthday is really hard, but I'm going to send her a box tomorrow or Saturday. I hope she doesn't miss us being there as much as we will miss it! Love you!!
I'm not sure when you were in the Smokies, but Gene and I were passing through the edge on Halloween evening, about dusk. It was misty raining and the clouds sat heavy on the mountains. I mean, REALLY heavy. I was working on my songs on that trip and purposely worked on one I wrote about the 10 Commandments. One of the phrases is "From the Mount, a thunder sound, heard by people on the ground." We talked about the great cloud that descended from God appearing in the fire. I tell you...it was truly Awesome. I try to use that word selectively, and that was definitely an Awesome visual.
I think he understands that we fear because we have such little faith. Like Peter walking on the water, what did he have to be fearful of? He had the Creator himself asking him to come, the very one who created the waves. I think the more faith we have the less fear we will have. I also fear losing my loved ones but I think that's because I love them more then God, because of my little faith. I have put my loved one on the thrown of my heart where only God should be, and that I have come to believe is idolatry. I am a fearful idolater.
Unfortunately, the game was televised here. This looks just like last season...everyone UK played early last year played way over their heads...and apparently it's happening again.
Her sight has gone alot since we were here last year. Sometimes the macular degeneration goes quick and other times it is slower. I'm praying slower for her. She's worked hard to get Xmas afghans and scarfs and hats done before so hope she can sell them. That will make her happy.
It is that time of year again. It is our annual "girls" trip to the Smokie Mts. There are only eight of us going this year so everybody will have a real bed. We have had as many as 16 so there were Areo beds everywhere. Some of the girls have other commintmemts this year and sickness of parents are keeping others from being able to go. It is just nice to be able to get away and talk, laugh, eat, shop and eat some more. We will be leaving Sunday morning and coming back on Friday this year as someone else had the house booked for the weekend. I wanted to be back to give out candy on Halloween anyway. I will get there in time to attend services Sunday evening. Actually the house is right across the street from the church building which is very nice.
Please pray for our safe travels.
I hope everyone is well and may we all live in His Grace.
Sheryl
Have a wonderful trip! We won't be TOO far from you. Well, at least closer than we are now. We'll be in Martinsville, VA just over the border a ways from Greensboro, NC.
Have fun and it sound like you will be having lots of fun. They have something like that every year here in Texas but I haven't been able to make it to one yet. Maybe one day.
Thinking of you and your friends for safe travels. :)
We had a wonderful trip to Birmingham. The wedding was so beautiful and different. It was held at a chapel at a YMCA retreat. The window in the front overlooked a lake and the sun was setting. Awesome. They just did some really neat things. Karen's dad gave her away and did the ceremony. It was so touching. When she through her flowers, it was actually a bunch of long stem roses peach that came apart as she through them so several girls got a flower. They had used bride and groom bears for decoration and they through them for the kids. So neat. They had given out sparklers and we all lit them when they left the reception.
I will not have to go on the road for a while but will be leaving on the 26th for the Smokies. Can't wait for that.
I hope everyone is well and happy and may we all live in His grace.
Sheryl
Yes I am having surgery on the 20th for parahyperthroidism. I have nodules in my left throid lobe and the para thyroid but he is also concerned about the right side. So probably will do exploratory and I will be there for 23 hrs. I'm hoping for the orthoscopic and being there 4 hrs. They say it's a relative quick surgery and if the right person is doing it successful. I welcome you prayers.
The weather here is so wonderful I just had to tell everybody. Of course at my sge I am hot all the time, so with the cooler tempetures, I am sooooo comfortable. I drove over to Owensboro today and the leaves are changing. I absolutly LOVE fall. It is almost my favorite season behind spring. I love fall because of the cooler temps and the leaves changing colors. I love spring because that is when I work in the yard and start watching for my flowers to come up showing God's wonderful power.
We will be leaving a week from Friday going to Biringham for a wedding and then the 26th I leave for my anual treck to Gatlinburg. Can't wait for that. Hope to be back in time to give out candy on Halloween evening.
I hope all are well and happy and may we all live in His Grace.
Sheryl
A little too cool for me right now! Fall would be O.K. if it didn't mean winter is coming! Guess who was here this morning? My cousin Diana! Aunt Doshie and Uncle Jewell's son was killed in a freak accident on Tuesday and she and her mom were on the way to the funeral. It's a terrible tragedy but it was so good to see her!
