September Sixteenth

 

Listen… do you hear that… it is complete silence… well except for the whir of the washer and the plane that is flying by…

I am off today and home alone well except for son2 who is still asleep and off too but will get up who knows when…

Hubby is off at work for more training… he is just finishing up his computer training and will be having register/floor training today… Except for the computer training he will get through the floor training quicker as he has over thirteen years of experience in the job, just needs to learn their procedures and equipment…

Son3 is off at school… He was concerned as his white sneakers were not clean and his hair was poofy… and that he needed a haircut… he also had to cut his nails as he forgot to last night… I told him and what did you do all weekend except play games… weekends are also for getting ready for the week of school, don’t ya know… he has violin after school today for the first time, so hopefully he will bring home information of what all exactly it involves…

I will be off and on the blog all day as I make a plan of how to get this house completely in order day by day now that hubby is back at work…

I have been doing laundry, washing dishes, cleaning up the donations and getting it all boxed up for hubby to take in, washing TV trays, vacuuming, put up a few fall decorations, got some treats ready for the trick or treaters… Only 45 days til Halloween… Son2 got up at 10:30am… I wrote in my calendar/agenda to start planning my daily attack of the house…

Hubby is home from work now… and having lunch… the noise level has now gone up as he and son2 can’t talk to each other quietly and they push each others buttons and each must be right on conversations… they are so much alike…

Heating up leftovers for dinner once again, plus the leftover hotdogs and adding chicken patties to make sandwiches out of…

Son3 came home from school on time… he went to the class for the Strings/Violin that he had signed up for and they needed the packet he didn’t see to pick up when he signed up… I asked him all last week if he needed a permission slip… even the web site said nothing about a permission slip or packet… and yet the math tutoring mentioned a permission slip several times… they said he could bring it tomorrow but he told them it was already too confusing and that he had changed his mind… he also didn’t like the fact that it started almost an hour after school let out so the kids could do their homework while they waited… so just the chess club for him so far this year… I don’t mind as he needs all the time he can get to do his homework… which he has finished his algebra homework and I have checked it for him…

Son2 has two tests tomorrow and has yet to study and he has been off for four days… he says he still has time…

We put son3’s fish in with son2’s fish since his tank is bigger and has a filter… son3’s tank was already getting a bit murky… son2’s fish were so excited to see son3’s fish that they kept chasing them around and nipping them in play… they all are settled in now… son2 wants to get one more like son3’s fish and then there will be an even ten…

I also made a carrot cake to go with my ice cream later…

I have started my ‘diet’ again today… it will be a process wrapping my mind around eating again… Since becoming a supervisor I have gained back 17 of the 33 pounds I lost when hubby first lost his job… so to celebrate him getting a job, and my being an associate again without stress, I will be losing again… today’s goal was to not eat any tortilla chips… they are my downfall and very filling… and I did not eat any today… I did have corn flakes, mini tacos, an apple and some grapes… the goal for the rest of the week will be no tortilla chips and no seconds at dinner… When I first lost the weight it was all about the portions… I allowed myself ice cream and everything, but I could only have one or enough for one person… I am only one person and must eat as one person… so first goal to get past is eating seconds at meal time… I also bought my diet green tea pills… I had switched to regular herbal/vitamin green pills and I can tell that they are different in addition to eating too much…

Time for dinner… and Bones and Sleepy Hollow have their season premiers tonight… Plus Under the Dome comes on but I don’t think I will make it to 10pm as I have to be up at 4:30am… must save something on the DVR to watch in between season premiers…

Pictures of the day below…

Son2 and son3 got more fish…

Son3’s two fish in the larger bowl on the left… son2’s seven guppies in the tank…

We had merged them together after the pictures were taken…

A few Fall decorations… the crow is missing his nose, will have to find it somewhere in the drawers where I keep the decorations…

 

The hallway before on the left and the hallway on the right after… donations all boxed up and ready for hubby to take in…

The last of the boxes of son3’s room that son2 needs to go through to make sure there are not toys that he wants to keep and then I am going to go through them to see what I can use for the trick or treaters… for example all the plastic toy animals/dinosaurs/fish… the bowl ready with last years leftover treats…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Face each day this way: "God, I need you today. I need Your strength."

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

every challenge comes with the solution hidden inside.

When God puts obstacles on your way, your are meant to grow by overcoming them. Look for the seed of the solution at the very heart of the challenge.

 

 

Today

 

Sunny 95°

Tonight

 

Clear 65°

Tomorrow

Sunny 89°

Happy Journaling…

September Fourteenth

 

Lazy Saturday…

I slept in til 5:30am… that’s sleeping in since I get up at 3:30-4:30am all week…

Hubby made breakfast this morning of omelets…

Son2 slept over at his friends… but son3 was here to talk about his week at school…

Hubby and I went to Walmart to get him some pants for his new job…

We stopped at Big Lots, 99 Cent Store and Dollar Store but not much Halloween to be found… not even at Walmart… but Christmas was found in all of them…

Heating up leftovers for dinner from the week and seeing what is on the DVR to watch…

The boys and I are ready for dinner… Where is that hubby…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Make decision tonight to never again say anything negative about yourself out of your own mouth.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

suffering is just as important as well-being.

Like a tree accepts all seasons, accept your suffering with grace. Good days, like sunshine, will help you bloom and prosper. Hard days, like storms, will make you strong and resilient.

 

Now 4:21pm

 

99°

Tonight

 

Clear 67°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 96°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 63°

Happy Journaling…

September Thirteenth

 

Every day I open Live Writer and paste God wants you to know in my blog… but then I get distracted all over the place and don’t write an entry in my blog…

But I’m thinking that is about to change…

Because as of right now hubby is at WORK today for his first day… He has training for the whole day at his new job… after training, his hours will be evenings, part time, Monday-Friday… probably not every night… but at least three nights a week he will be at work… and I can have a bit of me time after getting the boys focused on their tasks…

Hubby will be working at Office Max in the copy center, like at his old job… so he is very excited to get a job finally in his field… It has been a long but quick three years of him not being at work… Unemployment was a life saver but even that had to come to an end… and then in stepped God with a plan all along of hubby getting a call for an interview in the same week that unemployment ended…

So hubby is very happy and I am very happy for him… for us…

I am no longer a supervisor at my job… once again changes were made and jobs eliminated.. so I stepped down to an associate back in kids… others chose the severance package… I always seem to go back around to kids… it’s where I started thirty three years ago… I’m loving it… I was way stressed in hardware/electronics… more than I wanted to admit… but I’m committed and a hard worker… I’ve noticed the last couple days in kids I have been letting myself get stressed as I am not getting as much done as I would like… but that is just me putting pressure on myself… need to step back and remember to have fun… I’m loving stocking and setting the floor and the ad set is so easy compared to hardware… and I have early morning hours so I can be home for the boys when hubby goes to work and he’s there for them during the day… see God always knows what he’s doing…

So I have lots of plans of getting projects done while hubby is back to work… but I know it will not all happen at once… baby steps… and more sleep… I am still not used to being back at the 6am hours and find myself falling asleep at 7pm… I was spoiled with the supervisor hours of coming in late and staying late and sleeping in all the time…

Haven’t heard from son1… he’s busy with work and his apprenticeship schooling… DIL is graduated from beauty school now…

Son2 has been learning to drive after renewing his driver’s permit… he’s in no hurry to drive and is a bit nervous… but is able to drive home from school now when hubby picks him up… and he even drove us around on errands last week…

Son3 is loving middle school but continues to not embrace homework like I wish he would… he is already struggling in two classes because of missing work… Pre Algebra and Science… and yet the boy who I can’t get to read a book has a 9th grade reading level on his Star Testing and is getting an A in English… they are reading Ricki Ticki Tavi… He signed up for the chess club and for after school music to learn to play the violin…

Son2 bought he and son3 fish…

Son1 got one fish to start…he named him Waldo, so he can say where’s Waldo…

And son1 got three Tequila Sunrise Delta Guppies…

They are going back to the pet store tomorrow to get another for son3 as they are community fish and his is lonely and son2 wants two more in a different color/kind…

So far Holly is the only cat who has discovered the fish…

Putting chicken enchiladas in the oven… I made fish last night… On the evenings hubby works, I’m thinking soup or cereal, lol…

As you can see below we are finally, hopefully done with triple digit temperatures…

Next week new fall shows are starting…

Time to straighten up and fix dinner… I’m sure hubby will be tired from not being used to being out and about socializing in a work environment… Plus filling his mind all day with computer training is tiring in itself…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

We spend way too much time looking at what others do when we need to be running to God to find out what He wants us to do.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

each day is an adventure for you to discover.

Face each day without fear or expectation. Experience to the fullest whatever comes your way. It is as God meant it to be.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

it's okay to receive.

Have you been the giver for so long that you have forgotten how to receive? Allow others to give you some of the love that you give so freely. Seek a balance between your giving and your receiving.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

as you surrender to divine providence in your life, you will feel lifted and carried and held.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

God sees you as you truly are, - a holy child of light:

I see you strong and whole. I see you blessed and prospered. I see you courageous and confident. I see you capable and successful. I see you free from all limitations or bondage of any kind. I see you as the spiritually perfect being you truly are.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

acting in anger never helps.

As time passes, the reason for your anger will fade. But the things you do in anger will stay with you forever as regrets.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you don't have to be serious to be spiritual.

Laughter is good! Levity is good! When you allow yourself to be joyful, that joy radiates to all those around you. God honors you and your laughter.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

each day is sacred.

If you are spending too many days doing things that bring you unhappiness, then you are not honoring the gift of your time on earth.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

there are countless ways to love God.

Love God through love for your parents. Love God through love for your spouse. Love God through love for your children. Love God through love for your friends. Love God through love for your country. For God is in all these and much, infinitely, more.

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Happy Journaling…

August Thirty First

 

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

peace is yours.

Storms may be raging around you, but you can still find peace in your own heart because the God of Peace reigns within you.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

there is a meaning to all this.

No one can see beyond the horizon of their own lives. We are threads in the great tapestry of time. Have faith. Every stitch has a reason.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

it is more than okay to live your joy.

Whatever makes your heart sing is what God wants for you! Of course it's okay to be happy! Of course it's okay to fulfill your heart's deepest desires! What your soul most dearly and deeply desires is the very thing God wants for you.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

it is very difficult to take care of others unless you have first taken care of yourself.

What do you need to do for yourself so that you can be available for others? What needs are going unmet? How can you be kind to yourself?

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

your remedy for anxiety is the question: 'Will this matter in a year from now?'

All too often you get so involved in things that you look at life through a microscope. Amplifying manifold, an invisible speck becomes an insurmountable mountain. Put down the microscope and imagine yourself a year from now looking back at today: 'Does this really matter?'

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you've been missing out on delight that God has sent your way.

Think back over the last day, - what could you have taken with delight that you just skipped over?

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

love has already found you.

So much time has been spent trying to make yourself lovable. Trying to make yourself more attractive, more interesting. But love has already found you, perfect and pure love. Rest assured that God loves you just the way you are.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you can make a difference today.

Even a simple gesture, - a smile, a touch, a kind word, can brighten someone’s day. Let your love flow freely today.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you have immeasurable potential.

Just as a tiny seed can become a giant redwood tree, you have only scratched the surface of your potential. You have the creator of the universe on your team and you've been given the ball, so run with it. Run knowing that you have immeasurable potential.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

there are no small miracles.

A miracle is a miracle. Don't forget to notice them! As you begin to notice miracles, you will find that they are all around. Love and blessings abound!

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

it is okay to ask for help.

You were not meant to go through this journey alone. Ask for help. There is strength in togetherness.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

there will be times when you feel tossed around by the tempests of your emotions.

When this happens, look for that still sacred space within you. Take some time to rest in that space. After a time, when you are ready, come out to face the world again.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

when the world seems crazy, chaotic, destructive, you can choose to create your own world of peace and love.

You do not have to immerse yourself in the illusion of craziness. You can create your own heaven on earth by being kind, surrounding yourself with good people, and nurturing the earth.

 

Happy Journaling…