Pay day!

It is finally payday!  Why can't I make it from payday to payday with extra in my checkbook?   hmmmm.  Payday is always a good day though.  Started my Monday off with an almost 3 mile walk with my friend, lisa.  We got a little rain at the beginning but it passed quickly.  I got a workout at curves and then did my grocery shopping.  Now it is home to put away the groceries and then back to work at 3:30 for training in new pca staff for a shared consumer.  

Al has jury duty at noon....and that should be interesting....wish I was a fly on the wall.

Okay, short and sweet. Let's all be productive today and coast the rest of the week;)

Thought for the Day!

Al, my sweetheart, and life companion, is having a season of discontent.  I know this season well, as I recently visited it, but have since moved on to a sunnier location.

Thing is, when I was in this season myself, my dear sweet husband reminded me of a recent book I had read and shared with him.  He said "get your eyes off yourself & get em on Jesus"
This really makes so much sense.  When your eyes are on you it is personal and only about your needs and let's face it, even more so, your wants. But, when your eyes are on Jesus, it is a position of humble service that reeps blessings and rewards never even imagined.

So that's my thought for today people...Let's all quit looking at rain clouds and focus on the Son!

Ps, lift those in prayer who are in their own season's of discontent or hardships.

What a gorgeous day!

After a whole string of too many hot days (90 +) It is 73 degrees and sunny, That is right, Sunny, as in not raining...Can I get a Whoot whoot?

The trouble is that it is August 24th, only two weeks till we go back to school and life of leisure as I know it is over.  With School and start of Autumn comes my 50 hour weeks and trying to fit everything else I want to or have to do.  Oh well...at least I am here and breathing....let's just savor every morsel of Autumn, till winter hits us over the head with that white stuff and cold!

motley crew has nothing on us....waiting on the dock of the bayfield wi

It's a dq day

Hey guys I know, let's walk to the park it's only 3 blocks....(felt like 40!)  Maybe it was the 90 degree temp or the two and four year old in tow. 
Grandpa went to the dairy queen and brought us all dq's ...okay what was left of the ice cream.   Ice cream cones don't travel well in hot weather. (silly grandpa)

of course its raining we're camping aren't we?

We pulled into Bayfield about noon.  I got lunch started while the rest broke camp.   After lunch, we all went to bayfield to sight see.  Well, all but Al who stayed back with Ernie and took in a nap.  We had some awesome icecream cones there....hmmmm

once back to camp we tried to go bike riding but the hills and the effort involved canceled that back.  It was about 6pm when the firewood was delivered to our campsite and I started the steaks, potatoes and green beans.  Dessert was smores and cocoa, I had maple flavored cookies with sutterhouse pinot griggio.   

We were just finishing dessert when kate spilled the cocoa on herself, she was ok but worked up.   Kate and I went to the camper for comfort and with in 10 minutes the skies opened and the rain came a pouring down! 

Thank God the campground has wifi!  and here we are...all together snuggled in the popup camper with the rain singing us to sleep.

Moving Day! Good bye big city ....home again, home again jiggity jog!

She did it! After 5 very long years, lots of hard work, and living in an incredibly small apartment, she graduated from the Uof M and passed her Teaching Test.  When she left her small town, MN  in 2005 she was embarking on a journey with a relatively unknown future. 

She returns to her small home town, with miricle of miricles, a teaching job!  What an unexpected turn of fate.  She comes back as a married women and young professional, walking the same halls she left five years ago with uncertainty.  Now she is a contemporary to the same teachers who helped her discover herself and what she wanted to do with her future.  She is a wonderful young lady to whom I am proud to call my daughter.  She is, I am sure, one of the finest new music teachers to come along in sometime, with compassion and talent both.

Welcome home Anna and Tim.....We are so blessed to have you home.

Welcome home Anna and Tim....We're so happy for you both

Happy Birthday Baby Boy

Thirty-one years ago today, You came into the world.  You were not screaming your lungs off, you were not healthy pink.  You were purple and the neonatal team at the hospital worked for 20 minutes before you pinked up and screamed hello mom!  It was after some 12 hours of labor, and some modifications to my anatomy that you came into the world, and my world has never been the same.  I often joked that August 12, 1979 was the last time I had 8 full hours of uninterrupted sleep because you were born on the August 13th, 1979.  You were always your Dad's lucky 13 I guess.
You have always been laid back and easy to get along with.  You are also fiercly stubborn and set in your ways. I guess you have a little of Dad and I both.   :)

Well Happy Birthday sweet heart ~We Love you ~  Mom