October 2011

  David 

We were blessed to have a visit from David, our bestest son, in October.

He was here for about 8 days, and we had a wonderful

visit with him - possibly the best ever.

Both of these pictures are from my phone,

so they aren't very good quality when translated to Blogger

through my email. I took them when we were at Mom's visiting.

I love the generation pictures, Dave with his Grandpa Frank behind him,

and of course Dave and Grandma Lois.

She really enjoyed the his visits while he was here.

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We have been rather busy the last few months, hence my giant lapse of blogging.

The end of July we had to move Mother from her two room suite in

assisted living to the skilled nursing wing.

She was quite ill at that time, and it took about a month for her

to get back to normal.

Now she is doing really well, compared to how she was on July 21st or so.

Thank the good Lord!

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My dearest sister has been here twice since the end of July.

Mary came to help me get Mom's stuff out of her assisted living quarters.

It took us five solid days to get those 2 rooms cleared out!

Most of the stuff is either at the Etcetera Shop

in town, in a storage unit, or in my house.

Mary and I were so busy I didn't take any decent pictures of her.

After that week, Mary went back home to Alaska to work her

last week of work so she could retire!! YaY!! She has joined the  ranks!!

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In September, Mary and Roy (also finally retired) came

back down to Kansas to visit for about 10 days.

We so enjoyed having them here.

They drove around the lower western 48 for about a month and a half.

We were visited during the early part of their tour.

They managed to hit 10 or 11 states on their drive.

Then they had had enough driving and sitting on rental car seats.

I again failed to get decent pictures. Good grief!!

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David came to visit during October. He also talked his

second cousin Maia into

coming down to Newton for a couple day visit.

That was great fun - having both of them here.

Maia is alot of fun and interesting to have around

- enjoyed the two day visit

very much!

The time with David was very special for both Lee and I.

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The end of October was Judgement House at church.

I helped with doing make up for scene 2 and

Lee was in the prayer room all 6 nights

of the presentation.

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Last weekend I had the opportunity to speak at a retreat in Wichita.

This was the pilot retreat put on by the newly formed

Essentials for Married Women board.

The retreat was Friday night and Saturday til 4:30 p m.

It was a very nice time at the Vineyard Fellowship

and after I was done speaking Saturday afternoon,

I could relax and enjoy.

I enjoyed all of it, but this was a pilot for me too

since I had never thought of myself as a retreat speaker.

I was just one of 6 speakers, so it was less stress than

a whole weekend of speaking would be.

The ladies at the church were so gracious and

it was very well organized.

It all just showed me again how wonderful

our heavenly Father is in His care for us.

I would never have considered that I would ever

be a speaker anywhere - at my home church or anywhere else,

but God will use whoever is willing to say yes to Him!

Remember that if you say "No Lord," He is NOT your Lord!!!

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