Birthdays and More

Over the last two weeks we have had two grandsons get a year older.  Isaiah is now 10 and his older brother Josh is 16 today. Not only do we have these boys getting older, but two of our granddaughters are going to be older in April.  Busy time in our house with grandkids birthdays especially since we now have 8 total.  They range in ages 4 months to 16 years, we are blessed indeed.

Now concerning our church family, we have decided to give our home church a few more weeks to see if it improves and they might stops the drama.  If not we will continue on our journey to fine another place.  Spoke openly about my concerns to the pastor when he called to invite us back.

Here is a photo of today's birthday boy.  Remember he's 16 were lucky to get any photo of him.

Changes

Are there any good reasons to change churches? I believe there are. A life-change may bring about a need to change. For instance, if you get married, and your spouse had gone to a different church than you. I would think you would both want to worship in the same church, so one—or both—are going to need to make a switch.  Likewise, if you go through a divorce, I doubt you will want to stay in the same church as your ex. Awkward.

I suppose if there is a huge doctrinal shift in your church or in your denomination that you just cannot abide, you may feel the need to make a change. But even there I would be very cautious.  Just what church is going to have perfect doctrine, at least your version of “perfect”?

Is it important to stay in the same church for a long period of time? Or is church-swapping a right all Americans have? Now that I mention it, is this a unique problem for American churches, or do people in other countries change their church allegiance as frequently as Americans do?

Perhaps I am just old-fashioned. Perhaps I am hopelessly out-of-date. I do realize that at times God is going to come on some and lead people to another church.  God can and does lead some to do things we might question.  But I think these are the exceptions. (And if God is in the leading, it is an exception you must follow.)   For the most part,  I think we imperfect people need to select an imperfect church and stay there.

My husband and I have been blessed to be a part of our church since the beginning.  We started out in a office building of a Trustee for two weeks, moved to a mall within 3 weeks, and built a new building within 3 years.  Currently our church is at year 6 and have had our share of issues as with any church.

So it is with heavy hearts that my husband and I have made a decision to change churches. This wasn't anything we take lightly, we even resisted the Lords gentle push.  After several weeks on bended knees and prayers.  Larry and I realized it is time that we change churches.

I'm so excited to see what church the Lord has in store for us in the future, a new journey begins.

Beautiful Day The Lord Has Made

The entire weekend has been beautiful.  Larry & I got out and did a little yard work, and I do mean little.  It wasn't his fault this time, the first beautiful weekend, we decided to just get out and putter around.  Had good intentions, but didn't pan out well. 

First up on Saturday was checking into adding more stuff to our lawn to help the grass.  Went back to Lowes, and decided we just needed to get a truck load of top soil dumped in our front yard, and start over.  My job will be to get the cost on said truck loads of soil....  Then today made the decision to purchase new cushions for our outside swing, and purchase a new cover.  Went to Southeastern Salvage who has always had wonderful prices in the past.  But alast, didn't have any outdoor cushions yet, said check back soon. 

Both of these trips resulted in us riding around North GA, and Hamilton County looking at other peoples wonderful weekend work.  Yards everywhere are looking good.  Our poor yard has had a hard time between the weather this past year, and our large oaks who starve the grass for water, and keeps the grass too shaded.  Hopefully we will get this yard into shape before long.

Daylight Savings Time, well what can I say about this. I like having the daylight when I get home from work.  But my system will take weeks to adjust.  The body doesn't adjust as fast as I would like it to sometimes, and time change is one of the hardest. This new daylight in the evening will allow me to get more yard work done durning the week rather than only on weekends.  So another good thing.

On another note, our pastor Dr. Dennis Newman will be back in the pulpit full time.  He had taken a little time off to deal with his health, and his good friend Rev. Jerry Redmen filled in for him.  It's going to be great seeing Dennis back where he belongs, but sad to say goodbye to Jerry.  Thus is life, always changing!

Ok, project this evening is to read Sunday paper, go thru some magazines, and sort thru my coupons.

Wish me luck.

Chivalry Isn't Dead

Well today I decided to go to Lowe's at lunch and purchase grass seed and soil.

Well since I've had my hip replacement, I feel so much better that I forget I can not do everything I did before.  I say all this in an effort to explain.  You see I purchased some soil, which weighted 38.5 #'s dry, we had heavy rain last night, and all these bags now hold moisture, which makes these bags weight a lot more that the 38.5 #'s.  So I pulled a bag from the top of a pallet into my shopping cart aka buggy which requires some maneuvering on my part.

I picked up my other items, checked out, and retrieved plastic to lay in the back of my SUV.  Once I got out to my SUV, placed the plastic in the back, I picked up the bag.......   Well I must say I tried to pick up my bag of soil, I couldn't lift this bag, I was shocked, and amazed.  I've never not been able to lift something like this.  This is were the Chivalry Isn't Dead comes into play.  A young man in his mid 30's must have noticed that I kept trying every-way I could think of to maneuver this bag out of my buggy.   He said "Mame can I help", I gladly stepped aside and allowed this wonder man the opportunity to HELP ME!  He had me loaded everything in-about 2 seconds, even returned my buggy, he was such a gentlemen.

I can always say I'm proud to be from the south.  Most men in the south sincerely offer to help people.  This is the way they were raised by their mothers, and the way they hope others treat their mothers, wife's, or daughters. 

California Family

Isaiah

It is so hard to believe that Isaiah and Josh will be having birthday's this month.  I'm sure Chris and Misty will be excited to have another driver in the family (you know I'm kidding).  I'm sure they will be worried silly.  Josh will be sneaking up on the driving world, look out California he's coming.  Can you believe we're old enough to have grandkids behind the wheel.  Where has the time gone, I remember Isaiah in his carrier at the bowling alley just yesterday, screaming at the top of his lungs:-)  Now he's pushing those double digits.  There too young, their not suppose to be getting older, they need to stay kids much longer.  I'm sure Chris and Misty are glad they are no longer in diapers, but I'm cannot believe how much they have grown.  Here is a photo of Isaiah, future birthday boy.  Here are the rest of my California bunch:

Chris & Misty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nathanial

Victoria aka Tori to the family

Tony

 
I'll have to fine a photo of Josh, the other birthday boy, and post it later.  Hope everyone has a great day.

Hard to believe today our youngest grandson is 17 weeks old.  This photo was taken this morning by his mother, he's such a happy little boy.  He is loved by all that spend time with him, his sisters thinks he is the best thing since toys, that will change as soon as he is older and into their stuff.  But for now, he's our littlest angel.

A friend of mine from work has written a blog that I find enlightening, you might want to read it when you have time.

Here is his blog address: methodsocratic.blogspot.com  


Marc's writings are so spot on.  I fine our political parties are out of control lately with their spending, and finger pointing.  Fact is we need to cut government, and stop spending or this little angel and others will be paying for our stupidity.

FYI, our Ashlyn has an ear infection (swim ear) today, say a prayer for her please.


Hope you all have a great day.

Going Gray

Yes dear friends I'm going gray.... surprise!

I know all of you are surprised by my decision to embrace the gray.  Larry has encouraged me on this journey and I'm going full speed ahead.  Here are some updates to my new look.  Maybe another haircut or two and I'll be there.

On another note, we kept the granddaughters the other night.  It was a hoot.  They wanted to try and stay up all night, watch Disney channel, and eat junk.  We thought OK we would let them, we figured at their ages they wouldn't make it.  Lilly Grace (our youngest granddaughter who is 6 soon to be 7 on April 4th) made it till 2 AM.  At this time of the morning, she had a stomach ache and needed to sleep with us.  Now as I was holding her, Larry aka Pops decided to hold me, between the two of them I thought I was going to have a nuclear melt down.  They were both generating some heat, finally I moved our little angel between Larry and me so I could hang partially out of the cover.

Keep in mind our 10 year old is still in the den watching TV.  I cannot sleep until I know the kids are asleep, so needless to say I didn't sleep.  Larry on the other hand slept like a champ, within 5 minute of his head hitting the pillow he was asleep.  He didn't even know that I had put Lilly in our bed until he got up at 6 AM, which woke Lilly.

At 6AM Lilly decided to join her sister in the den for more TV watching.  Finally within 15 minutes both girls were out like lights, and which time I looked at my well rested husband and said "I'm going to sleep now, and they are your responsibility until I get up".

I woke at 10 AM we all dressed and headed out for breakfast, Home Show at the Trade Center, and then a birthday party.  Fun was had by all.  Until later.

Something New

I figured it was time to start blogging.  I've discovered that the world has changed, as should I.  This blog will be about my family, and our crazy friends.  I'll share our travels, and journeys thru life. I'll brag about my grandkids, and share recipes which I like.

I hope you enjoy!

Here are a few photos of me and my wonderful husband Larry.

This is a photo of Jamie and her family taken about a week ago.  This is Ashlyn, Ayden, Jamie, Chris & Lilly.  We love them so, and are blessed to have them living in the same area.  I'll post more photos of the family later.