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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends!!
I haven't been on forever I know! Nancy got very ill in Sept and was in the hospital for 15 days! She was in ICU for 7 of those days. She had 3 stents put in her heart. She had 90% blockage. She also had pneumonia and her lungs filled up and she had a very hard time breathing.
Carrie came home and helped us take care of her and I don't know what we would have done without her!!
Then on November 30th we had to take her back to the hospital with pneumonia. She was very ill again. But Praise God she is doing so much better!
I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!

Happy 4th of July!!

Christian Glitter by

Happy 4th to all my friends! I haven't been on for a while!

Since I was on here last Sarah and Kyle have had their baby boy! I am a great- grandma again for the 6th time. He was born on June 10th and weighed 6lbs and 11oz! They named him Wyatt Lee! He is a cutie!

I am having some very serious health issues with my kidneys. I would really appreciate your prayers about this! Thanks!

Have a wonderful 4th!!

The Storm Dancer

What a Beautiful award from Connie at Little Red Hearts From God When I read her post I had tears running down my face.I am honored to be chosen with the other bloggers. I will be posting my choice for the The Storm Dancer award later but I wanted Connie to know how much I appreciated her thoughtfulness. Thank so much, Connie.

New Post!

When I read Sandy's comment today I realized I am so behind on my blogging!! Did you know she has a new blog and with a new name!!Here you go Ramblings of a middle-age goddess.

On Saturday it will be my daughter Carrie who is a missionary in Mexico birthday. It will also be my great-great son Marcelo 2nd birthday! Born on his grandma Carrie's Birthday! Happy Birthday! This month was also Sarah, John and Sofia, Birthday too!!

Marcelo is doing so much better after being so sick. He had a high fever and it went into convulsions and he ended up in the ER. But he is getting along fine now.
It is Summer at last, but I did enjoy the cool spring and didn't complain about the weather to much, just all the rain!!
Karen will be going to Hatti soon for a missions trip with some of her friends from church. She knows it will be really hot down there!!
Since I wrote a post the last time Bill has improved and is feeling so much better and back to work part time.Thanks for your prayers!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Karen Nancy Sarah and Kelly at the shower

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Happy Mother's Day to all my bloggy friends! I hope each one of you enjoy your day on Sunday.

One week ago tonight my son Bill was Life Flighted to a hospital in Kansas City from the hospital down in Clinton,MO. Bill was having a heart attack. Good news! He is now home and improving each day! We are so thankful he is with us!! He has to watch his diet and exercise, etc.

On Sunday while he was in the hospital we were all down at his church in the afternoon for his daughter, my grand daughter 's baby shower. What a joy this was to be able to celebrate her event not having a funeral for Bill that afternoon!!! Glory to God!

Sarah received so many lovely baby gifts! Sarah and Kyle are having a baby boy! This will make me a Great Grandma for the 6th time!!

Nancy is feeling better,so pleased for that! I am working on getting my kidneys disease under control. The report on them was not good. Please add me to your prayer list! Thanks so much!

As you can see Karen has lost a lot of weight! She has now lost 150 pounds! So proud of her.Kelly has lost 75. It helps me too with my no salt diet! I miss salt more then sugar!!!

Happy Easter!!

We were able to go to Church today! Nancy saw this tee shirt, and spent her money on it and just put it on over her top she had on!! What a joy to be able to get to go to church today!! We were so welcomed by all of Karen and Kelly friends.
Loved the music and the sermon! We went out to eat after church. Came home and took a nap!! The weather here in western Missouri has finally turned to Spring!!!

A lovely Award!!

I received this lovely award yesterday from Jane over at Cozy Reader.Jane and I have been friends since I started blogging in 2007. She is a United Methodist pastor wife. I have felt so close to her ever since I read her post about her parents. My brother and sister in-law had so many things just the same as Jane's Mother and Dad that I just ended up with tears running down my cheeks just trying to read the entire post.

What is it Tom Brokaw says These men of WW2 were "The Greatest Generation". Jane's Dad and my brother really were.

Thank you Jane for your very kind words for me and thank you for this lovely award!

Here is the information on this award: The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blog world.Below are the rules for accepting this award:

* Put the logo on your blog or within your post.

*Pass the award on to 12 fellow bloggers.

*Link the nominees within your post.

* Let the nominees know they have received the award by commenting on their blog.

* Share the love and link to the person whom you received this award from.

I haven't given out a award for so long I hope I can do this!!!

Mary @ Mary's Writing Nook

Mary is a dear friend who I found when I was out and about one fall evening reading other blogs She has such a positive attitude and is so helpful and friendly.If you haven't been to her blog try it, you will be going back for sure!

Denise @ Shortybears Place

Denise is such a lovely woman of God! She is an inspiration to every one in Blogland. She has gone through so much,that without God's love she and Eddie would have not made it through this difficult time in their lives.

Sandi @ Rejoicing in the Lord

Sandi is a wonderful Christian lady who loves her family with so much passion. She loves the Lord with the same passion and is an inspiration to me.

Mama Bear @ Bears in Exile

I love Mama Bear! She has a wonderful blog and is very positive and inspiring! I love going over there seeing what she is up to! She has so many hobbies I think she is creative!

Barbara H. @ Stray Thoughts

Barbara has a great blog and if you ever need to know information she has it over there!! She loves the Lord and has great posts all about Him!! She has helped me many times with her posts.

Donetta @ A Life Uncommon

Donetta has a very sweet spirit. She had a very difficult life and has through God's help overcome so much! She is now raising two special needs children with so much love!!

I have good news!! I went to the oncologist yesterday and she said that the protein in my blood was NOT bone cancer!! What a relief this was. The protein they are seeing, is my normal protein. You should not have any protein in your blood or urine. But what I have it normal for me.

So I am praising God!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here it is a few days before Valentine's Day! I haven't posted for a long time! If I had posted, it would have been about snow and cold or cold and snow!! I am so ready for spring!! I bet Melli and Daisy are snowed in for sure!! What a mess out there. I heard on the news it was snowing in Dallas, the weather man said they had 5 inches of snow!

Nancy and I finally got to get out and about and that was really great!

Our Ladies Bible Study teaches jokes that maybe we will finish up in June!! We are studying a wonderful book by Beth Moore with her video's! I have really enjoyed this study.

Both Nancy and me are doing, ok.

Finally warming up here!!

Here it the middle of January! We still have snow every where, although you can see the street. I have not been out of the house since the Saturday after New Years!! I think I am close to having cabin fever!! Our drive way is better so I think this week I will be able to get out and about!!!

We have had freezing fog every morning and the weather man said again tomorrow.

I think we are going to get to have Ladies Bible Study this Monday. It has been called off the last two weeks because of the snow and frigid temperatures. But it is much better with it in the 30's!

Well, this sounded like a weather report!!

Our Chiefs didn't do good at all this year but they are making changes so maybe it will get better next year!!

Christmas Photo's!! Just a few!

Grams with my new MP3 player!! Kelly got me this! Now I have to learn how to use it!!!

Nancy

The manager scene people are over 50 years old.
I got them at the old Ben Franklin store in Englewood in
Independence in 1958!



Kelly in her new PJ's
I know, don't faint I have the Christmas photo's posted already!! When I first started blogging I didn't know how to upload or any thing at all with getting photo's or linking and I have learned so much since I started in June of 2007! I didn't post a picture of Karen because I could not remember which one I could use!!
Bill,Becky,Jake, Sarah, and Kyle didn't get to come up here on Christmas Day so we are having our Christmas with them next weekend.

It has snowed every morning since Christmas.In fact it snowed most of the day yesterday!!We had a very quiet Christmas Day with just the four of us. We played games with Nancy. She got a board game, Trouble, Old Maid cards, and Don't break the Ice. She had a big time because Kelly was the old maid.

Wishing you all a Happy and Joyful New Year!

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas! Wishing you a wonderful New Year,too!

I was over at Shortybears Place and I read that her husband Eddie had a stroke. Please go over there and tell her you are praying. I am sure if you read her blog each day you have already heard. Our prayers are with you Denise and Eddie.

Our weather is to get bad by tomorrow afternoon! Calling for snow, ice, and everything in between!! I talked to my son Bill and if it is real bad they will come up the next day and we will have our Christmas then! I sure don't want them out on the roads with a snow storm going on!!

Ten more days until Christmas Eve!!

Here it is ten days until Christmas Eve! I still have some shopping to do. So does Nancy!She did get to go out to the Dollar General for a few minutes to get most of her gifts. She is almost done. We did get all her cards out and there was a lot to send! The tree is up and decorated and looks great. One of our kitty's does want to get into to it and the other one, our big brown cat just is to big and lazy to bother. Kelly is putting up the Christmas cards that have come in, up on your door. Where do you put yours? On the door or just in a pile or basket or maybe some special deal you have just for this.
I sure want to Thank everyone for your prayers for Nancy this past year and especially in Oct. when she was gravely ill. We are blessed to have her with us this year!!

Kelly hosted her work party at Karen house on Friday night and it went really well!! It looked so festive and Nancy and I got to have some of the goodies and they were yummy!!

I realize I haven't been a very good blogger lately but it is just to hard with Nancy and the way things are now..... I know everything will get better in time and like some of you have told me we will be here when things get better!!!

Some pictures of our Thanksgiving

My Son Bill craving the turkey

Sarah,Kelly and Kyle

Nancy and Rocksie Bill and Becky's dog

Jacob, Karen, and Sarah

Grams

Here are some picture we took at my son Bill's on Thanksgiving. It was a beautiful day and we had a bountiful dinner! So much to be Thankful for not only that day but each and every day!!

Nancy went in for labs today and her blood pressure was good! I held my breath as the nurse pumped up the blood pressure machine. I was so happy when it was almost normal.

Karen bought me a nice 4ft Christmas tree which is not live!! We had a live 3ft one last year and it was lovely but it was dry sooner than I would have liked. Karen took my big tree for her house and it looks almost little in her large living room!! It was almost to much in here so I am very happy to have this new one!!

Nancy is buzzing around so glad it is the first of December!! She started talking about Christmas like a couple of day after last years Christmas. It wears on you trust me when you hear the same thing several times a day. But this is the way she is and we just love her and take care of her! She loves to send Christmas cards so I must get this going for her again. She sent out last year with my help 32 cards I did the addressing, and she can sign her name. It brings her so much joy I can't find the heart to say no.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends!

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving Day!

I have so much to be thankful for this year! I am so thankful that Nancy is with us to celebrate another thanksgiving!! We have a home to live in ,heat to keep us warm, lights to see by, clean water to drink the list is endless!!

Thank you Heavenly Father for sending your Son to save us from our sins!!

Now, I will try not to eat to much and sleep all afternoon on Thursday!!!

Hi on Wednesday!!

My friend Pea over at PEA's Corner is having a Christmas giveaway!! Lots of snowmen!! Go on over and sign up!!!

It is another dark and gloomy day here! Sure looks like November! Nancy has another Dr's appointment soon from being in the hospital last week.. She has slept a lot today. I would appreciate prayers for her that her blood pressure will be normal. Thanks!

Hi on Friday the 13th!!

I haven't been on for a week! On Tuesday we had to take Nancy back for her hospital check up and while we were there her blood pressure had fell again to 78/50 so we had go back up to the hospital. She was put on an IV for fluids and when they were better her blood pressure went back up. She came on the next day (Wednesday) She seems to be doing ok!

Yesterday was my son Bill's 50th birthday. He is having a problem. He has one eye that he is almost blind in and the other one is in trouble with to much pressure. He will be returning to see the eye specialist on Dec 3rd and I would love for you all the add him to your prayer list that is eyes will be healed!!Thanks!!

It is still pretty here! 61 degrees and windy but I think the weather man said there is going to be a change soon!!

I am sorry I haven't been out to visit! I will, when things calm down again.

Hey I drove the car today!!!!

How about this!! Karen had me drive her car today!! I had not driven for a very long time!! I did just fine. We went to the post office and then to the gas station!! I was really thrilled to be able to get behind the wheel again!!
It is so pretty here today!! 72 degrees!! Doesn't get much better then this!!
Thanks for your cards and e-mails for Nancy!! She taking a nap right now. Doing better each day! Praise God!!

Music to our Ears!!!

Great news!! Nancy came home from the hospital yesterday!! She has to be on oxygen 24/7 now. She was on this just at night time. The reason for the Christmas decoration is our local station Star 102 is playing Christmas music from Nov 1 to December 25th. This is a little early I think!! BUT Nancy just loves it and she had on her headphones singing off key with great enthusiasm all afternoon yesterday!! AND that is Music to our ears!!! SO happy to have her home again. She was so close to not to be able to ever come home again that we are so grateful for God's blessing us with her to be with us!! Thanks for your prayers!!

Nancy out of ICU!!

Good Morning!! Nancy is so much better and out of ICU. She was moved up to a room. She is getting back to her old self!! She says, I need a diet soda, or wants something else but music to our ears!!
I am going up for the day so I must finish up and get ready to go. Thanks for all your kind comments and Your Prayers!!!