So much for Fall...

The weather forecast has us down for the first snow of the season tonight...rain and snow mixed for overnight. Not supposed to stick or freeze, but it is supposed to come down. And away we go!

On a completely different subject, I had an appointment with the eye doctor today. he says my eyes are healthy and perfect (go figure!) but I need bifocals. Are you kidding me? Seriously?! Yeah. I ordered the no line progressive lenses. They'll be in in 5-7 days. I am going to pick them up and go test drive some walkers.

Ahhh Fall

So if we say "Spring has sprung," what should I say about Fall? "Autumn has fallen?" Regardless, it is here. I am LOVING it! The mornings are cool enough that the kids need a jacket or sweater but the afternoons are still nice. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain and the high is only supposed to be in the 50s. Wowie! Winter will be here before we know it. I suppose I should get out the winter stuff and see what is needed. C is good for outerwear. I need to check about snow pants for E. They both will need snowshoes, but those aren't in the stores yet. I need to check on the clothes - C may need a couple more pair of jeans, and I need to see check on shirts too. Before it hits though, I'd like for us to go see the corn maze on the west end. There is a Hay Mountain, a pumpkin patch, and of course, the maze. The Maize It looks like fun!

E has been back to school this week, thank goodness. She missed all last week and Friday the week before because she was sick. Something viral, possibly the flu. Whatever it was, she was running fevers of WAY over 104 the first weekend. It was BAD. She was SOOO sick. None of the rest of us got it though so I am VERY happy.

We are getting ready to turn in the next round of paperwork to Rural Development. Hopefully Thursday or Friday...it just depends on when the payoff for the car goes through. I know so many of you have been faithful to pray for us and keep praying - please step it up and really cover this. This is where the rubber meets the road. If they approve this app, then we can start looking for a house. If they don't, then it is over and we rent. We really do NOT want to rent. We want a house, some permanent roots, a place of our own. We are praying that God's Will in this matter and our will are the same. Please pray that we will find favor with the people making the decisions and that everything will fall into place. If it all comes together, God will have worked a miracle and we will praise Him! But if it doesn't work out in our favor, we will still praise Him. He is in control. He has a plan. His ways are perfect. I am determined to trust Him in this step, just as I have trusted Him from the moment He put the idea in my head about moving here (well, I did argue about that for a while - all night one night as a matter of fact - but then I submitted to Him and started trusting Him LOL). He is good all the time! Hallelujah!

RIP Patrick Swayze

Of course this is how I will always remember him...

Talk about gone too soon :(

http://www.freep.com/article/20090914/ENT01/90914075/1036/ENT/-Dirty-Dancing--star-Patrick-Swayze-dead-at-57

Summer is Coming to an End...

Saw this on another blog and wanted to play :)

Favorite Summer Movie: Didn't see any movies this summer
Favorite Summer Cocktail: Peach wine coolers - not really a cocktail, but it's what I drank on the FEW occasions I did drink.
Favorite Summer Song: He is With You by Mandisa - not really a summer song, but it's the one that I listened to a lot this summer...
Favorite Summer Meal: anything on the grill :) I love the grill and can't wait to have our own!
Favorite Summer Outfit: capris, sandals, and a knit shirt - my feet have weird tan lines because of my sandals LOL
Favorite Summer Reading: Chronicles of Narnia
Favorite Summer Moment: Happened at the beginning of the summer - in Yellowstone Park with my parents - last day, last leg of the day, on the way out of the park. Caleb has been praying all week for a bear and he voices that prayer one more time - and within 1/2 a mile we see a Grizzly - then he voices a prayer to see a Black Bear and within 1/4 mile we see a black bear by the side of the road! Yea God! Thanks for affirming my child's faith!

Never Forget...

Can you believe it has been 8 years?

If I stop and think about it, I can. But still in many ways it does not seem possible. It seems like yesterday.

There we were, my baby of 14 months and I. A quiet morning at home, husband and father already off to work, and we sat playing and watching TV. I was pregnant then but didn't know it.

Looking back, I am glad I didn't know it.

The world turned upside down. The unthinkable happened. I sat there and held my baby and cried...my own horror, the unspeakable numbers of lives lost, overwhelming emotions tumbling, spinning, and washing over me...over all of us.

As a country, we were unified for that moment in time.

I still cry if I let myself dwell on it all...the families torn apart, the children left without one or both parents, the courage, the selflessness of so many, the senseless tragedy, the unfathomable viciousness.

How can human beings do those things to each other?

Each year I have marked the day...praying for the families directly touched, watching services on television. Last year I tried to find memorial commemorations on TV but they were few. Many stations didn't cover them at all and those that did were incomplete. How can anyone believe regularly scheduled programming is more important than recognition of Patriot Day? How quickly some of us forget.

I, for one, will always remember.

God Bless America - God help us all!