January 8, 2009

• Looking forward to Spring?

  I know, I know,…..    there is still 8″ of snow on the ground, but I like what the heading says.  It’s all I’ve got going for me.  In fact it’s all anyone has going for them…. REST IN THE LORD, How precious and how fulfilling.

  What’s up in my life?  Well first of all, I traded some cards last year to a blog friend, for some fruitcake.  It turned out I liked it so good I ordered some again this year.  Pop never liked fruitcake so I didn’t figure I had anything to  worry about…. I should have worried because Pop so happens to like this fruitcake and it is a race to see who gets the last piece.   (Pop can eat his fruitcake out of the freezer, that he bought a couple years ago)  But, being the loving wife that I am  I’ll keep quiet and not remind him of the fruitcake in the freezer, till next year.

  So much for fruitcake. Guess what I finally suppose to get my taking machine, so as long as I can type I can talk. While the rest you get a tired jaw from talking too much, all I to do is push a booton.  (whatever a booton is) it must be kind like a button .   I shouldn’t be writing this when I’m tired and silly, but I’ve lived without a computer for the last 4 days, and it is too good to have it back. I mean that, I shouldn’t be so tied to it, but I  found myself looking longing at the quiet, dark corner in which it sets.  It’s dark because I didn’t even turn the lights on in the corner. Anyway after 4 days it seems good to have it back (like an old friend) And did you ever listen to the house when the electricity is off.  It’s quiet and still. Well that’s the way the corner was.  

  Blessings…….. What are blessings? I think they are anything that God allows in your life that makes you feel warm inside,   (and sometimes they make, a women, cry)  This last Christmas I was sooooo blessed in everyway, but there are 2 blessings that stand out. One came 2 days before Christmas and the other New Years Day.   The one was noticed right from the beginning and the last one it took awhile to realinze it, but I felt warm circles around my heart with joy, so I got to thinking, it was a blessing and O, so great a blessing.  the first one I could write an entire post about it and I will sometime, but for now I’ll just say a friend appeared at our door with 3 – 2′ logs of custom made summer sausage. We couldn’t begin to say thank you enough but before he left our 30′ freezer had 1 1/2 shelves of FREE freshly butchered angus beef in it. How does one say THANK – YOU? I felt so unworthy, but is just like our God, He doesn’t do anything half way.  It bring tears to my eyes everytime I open a package of steak or a roast. In fact I feel like hugging the frozen hamburger, too.

  Blessing #2. My son came for a visit on New Years Day and all planned on going to my daughters  (she lives 12 or 15 miles from us).  As a mother I feel sorry for her, she has so much to do and is so cherry and sunny about it, and I know Pop and I are an added responsibility to her, but she never complains.  Anyhow I was feeling pretty good when I got up so I called her and told her I would bring deviled eggs and tuna puffs to add to a finger food type supper. I made 70 tiny cream puffs and boiled 15 or 16 eggs. MY son and his family arrived and he immediately started to peel the hard boiled eggs. About that time I gave out, my energy was gone.  At first I panicked, I had told my daughter that I would help with supper.  Then I happened to think that Ted did this all the time for years before he was married.  (We owned a catering business and we would do 15 dozen eggs instead of 15 eggs, and we would do 2 or 300 cream puffs, instead of 70) So I lowered my pride and asked him if he would the rest for me?  “SURE” and while I laid down and relaxed, he made the filling for the tuna puffs and finished the eggs, and got them ready to go. That was a BLESSING,  I didn’t have to give any instructions, because he knew how to do it the right way. 

  Tired Mothers, I say don’t give up, you might think what you are trying to teach your little ones is for nought, but they will come back and bless you some day.

  To count the blessings of God would be to number the stars.  Salvation is a blessing, that fills the whole universe, and it don’t cost us a penny.

  One last thought, Don’t you think, I might be able to post more often if I didn’t write so long everytime I posted.

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