Walk with me as I "Follow the Fish"...JESUS!!!

I know who you are, though no one told me it was you, I have missed you so much... I've been really feeling blue. We don't blame you for doing, What you felt you had to do, We just have to stand by, With those that say it's untrue. I have prayed for all, may the Lord take our fall, and turn it around, But only God knows how. I'm sorry for you, and all that you have been through will we be friends again, how will we get through? I've cried all I can cry, All I want to do is scream, Lord please take this all away, it must be some bad dream. I am sorry my dear friend, I don't know what to do, but I want you to know, that I'll ALWAYS love you!!! ****************************** Romans 8:28 God works ALL things together for good for those who LOVE HIM and are called according to HIS purpose!!!

Hi there bloggyland, I hope this new year finds you in prosperity and good health. So far it has been a good year for me and I am thankful for the fresh start. Last year has got to be one of the most trying years that we've had in all areas of our life - health, marriage, financial, challenges with our children, leaving our church of 10 years and starting at a new church, etc. I'm so hoping this new year will be a better one. Thankfully there were no major health issues but we did manage to fork out over $6K in medical bills along with $6K in health insurance premiums...that wasn't fun. God blessed us with a FREE weekend to a "Weekend to Remember" seminar - it was a great time for us to get away and be ministered to and really helped strengthen our marriage for some things that were yet to come in the year that we weren't prepared for. Financial...that leads back to the above medical bills. Our son in law won the $4 million dollar Missouri lottery in May and t...

Despite our year of difficult instances and circumstances this year...I was determined to still make this a GREAT Christmas. In November I got an idea to take my husbands 130 poems that the Lord gave to him in 2003 & 2004 and make them into a book. I thought we had lost all of them because the computer they were on had crashed but I was able to find hard copies that he had in his office. I began researching free publishing software and settled on www.blurb.com - Heather and I designed the cover and I got to work typing away. It was difficult being so giddy with this awesome secret and not being able to tell him. The first order I placed I was a bit concern because after I was half way done with the book, I happened upon some pretty negative reviews concerning Blurb , I was all bummed out but decided to continue with what I was doing and to just Trust in the Lord with it. I only ordered 5 to see how they would turn out and they were PERFECT. They were delivered within 2 weeks of be...

Not sure WHO reads my not-so-much posted blog but for anyone who looks here I'd like to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas! "For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11

After stopping for lunch in Springfield at "Lambert's Cafe" We went to Branson using our Bluegreen "points" timeshare at the Wilderness Club @ Big Cedar Lodge...we had a FABULOUS time.If you have never been to Big Cedar Lodge, I HIGHLY recommend it...it's GREAT fun! We stayed at the Kings River Lodge on the Bluegreen side Our studio room was really nice... We arrived on Monday - despite the rain that thankfully stopped about an hour out of St. Louis...we had dinner and Heather swam at the indoor pool. On Tuesday it was still slightly rainy and overcast so we played some games, watched a movie, did some shopping and ate at the Truman's cafe...it was a good day. Wednesday was the best day with the sun shining and it being 61 we hit the outdoor activities - we went on a 2 hour hike, went swimming in 1 of the 6 or 8 outdoor pools, ate at the Truman Cafe & Worman's House, we played miniature golf and went to a wagon ride/bon fire...we had SO much fun!...

We usually go over to Eckerts to get our pumpkins but this year Larry and I went to Aldi and they had them for $1.99 each...WOW - we snatched up 2 of them for the kiddos to do...thankfully we did cause with all the rain and other things going on right now, we didn't make it over to Milstadt. It's ok, we had a GREAT time carving our Aldi pumpkins!

Well - Over at Organizing Junkie there was a challenge to tackle the drawers that are hiding all kinds of "disorganization" - This has been driving me CRAZY for quite a while...since my mom got sick and died things have been "accumulating". So I took the challenge and dove in and tackled 7 drawers and 3 cabinets. I didn't really have any containers to organize the drawers and cabinets but I think they turned out ok for now. Boy did I find some interesting stuff. I forgot to take before and after pictures of "all" the drawers but I've got enough photos to show that I've been busy for a few hours this morning. I have one grocery sized bag going to goodwill, 3 grocery sized bags of trash, 7 decluttered drawers (though from the photos they may not "look" decluttered, TRUST ME, they ARE!), 3 organized cabinets, a bug and a bucket of toys. (more on the last 2 later :-) I began my endeavor on the drawers in the livingroom - nearly all of th...