Molly is home

Molly is now home and resting comfortably. Thanks to all who prayed for her. Mandy is even being nice to her, I think she can sense something is a little different about Molly. We also had her dew claws removed as she had 2 of them when we adopted her. She has some real snazzy looking purple bandages on her two legs and she also needed to have one tooth pulled. I am so happy it is all done and over with. Right now she is laying on some cozy blankets on the couch and sleeping.

I feel very blessed to have the wonderful friends from my blog and on facebook that I know to call on for needed prayers.

Thanks again my treasured friends, Blessings,Joann

A couple of prayer requests

I have a few things I would like to ask of my readers to pray for. Tomorrow (Tuesday) our dog Molly is getting her teeth cleaned doesn't sound like to big of a thing but they have to put her out and we just don't like that at all. She really needs it done but we are both very anxious feeling about the whole thing and of course it will cost lots of money which we don't have right now.
The other thing is my mom is having cataract surgery on Wednesday. Please just keep both of them in your thougths and prayers.
I know some may think it is stupid to worry about Molly as she is just a dog but to us she is our baby that we would do anything for and we love her so much. Mandy will be doing a lot of crying tomorrow with her big sister gone for the whole day, but that is because she is a baby. She cries just when one of us goes outside...

Thanks to all of my wonderful readers.
Blessings,Joann

Mattie got a promotion!!

I just wanted everyone to know how proud I am of my little Mattie he was promoted to specialist (SPC) I don't know the exact date but within the last month. I have been trying to find a picture on the Havoc Hounds facebook page but no luck yet. If I ever do find one I will be sure to post it. Also please note I changed the address in the right sidebar to reflect his current rank.

I am just so happy today as most of the people I sent friend requests to from Escalon First assembly of God church have responded. So many of them look exactly like I remember. There is one family who also have a Matthew and he and my Mattie were in the same group in church, very strange to see him all grown up.

I pray that everyone has a very blessed week ahead and that I will have some good news about this job thing by the end of the week.

Blessings,Joann

Decisions, Decisions......

Today I made the decision to keep my facebook page. I had thought about getting rid of it but realized that I do enjoy, it maybe not all the time but the majority of the time.It is real nice to reconnect with old friends. Today I came across a name I hadn't heard or thougth of for almost 15 years and when I went to her facebook page I knew almost everyone on her friends list. that took me back to the one place where I felt was home. Back when Jennifer and Mattie were little we lived in a very small town and started going to the local Assembly of God Church. I knew the first time I stepped in that door I was home. Everyone was so wonderfully friendly and not just on that first day over the next 5 or 6 years that we attended there we were so graciously welcomed. I think about that church from time to time. It was the place my son at 2 years old learned his first Bible verse "We are helpers" not sure where it is in the Bible but I was so proud of him. Anyway enough of that.

This past week or two has gone by so slowly as we are waiting to hear about a job. I do not like to wait at all!!! This next week we are supposed to hear about it and I am praying it will be on Monday and not on Friday at closing time. Roger has tried to stay busy, but lets face it,it's so hard for someone who is used to working all day just sit around and wait. He has been helping around the house because well frankly I have been doing nothing. MY daily list of things to do has not been getting done at all. The basics get done, meal making and laundry but then that's because Roger is doing them. I have been totally dropping the ball on my homekeeping.

This past weekend we went over to Jennifer's house for a small party. Chris' Mom was visiting and we had never met her so it was nice to go and visit.

Katie showed us her and Dylan's new bunk bed set~










Jennifer's also got a new bed, I think it is very pretty~




Our tree in the back yard has been blooming and it is just gorgeous, it doesn't last very long but it sure is pretty~






Roger has been working on a new gate for the side of the house, it turned out beautiful~







Here you can see (if you look closely)Mandy on the other side of the gate looking through~





As I had mentioned in a previous post Mattie is getting married. We didn't know for sure when but we now have a tentative date October 22, 2011, I have been in contact with Sara, his future wife about giving her a bridal shower, this is a little hard as she lives in Las Vegas but her Mom lives here so she does plan to come this summer and I think we will just give her the shower then. This is also just a tentative date as if Roger gets a job we may have to move and then of course I won't be able to give her the shower. We will have to see what happens. Hopefully we will know by the end of next week.

I was looking through old photos yesterday and came across some from 2007 and I had so many crafty things I had done,seems like I just don't have the desire to do any type of crafts anymore! My favorite thing to do is embroidery but even that is just not interesting to me. I remember when I got the baby quilt for Katie. I started working on it in August and I had it embroidered and sent to get quilted and had gotten it back before she was born in October. I sat and worked on it for hours everyday and enjoyed every minute of it. It was a lot of work but it turned out so pretty when it was done.
Here she is with it, hanging on the wall in her bedroom~


I also made one for Dylan his was made of small squares and then put together and quilted ~




I only did the embroidery part the person who quilted them did everything else. Now I am just not interested in doing anything, even reading which is another thing I used to LOVE!!
Please if you remember keep me in your prayers and also Roger and the whole job situation.

I think this next week is going to be very stressful for both Roger and I but I am trying very hard to keep my head pointed at the sun..

I recently found an old song that I just fell in love with, I don't know the name of it but the chorus goes

I can't see the sun with my head to the ground,
tears fill my visions and weighs my heart down.
But I found the secret when I knelt to pray
That when I lift up my head then He lifts up my heart and my troubles just all roll away!!!

Blessings,Joann

A lazy Sunday and a prayer request....

Today has been a lazy day, We did pretty much nothing other than go to Target to pick up a few things. Since Friday was Roger's last day at work my weeks are going to be so totally different from now on. Jennifer stopped by today and we were talking and both Roger and I said at the same time (jokingly of course) I was tired of him being home and it's only been a weekend so far, and he said that on Saturday he was already bored from being at home and it had only been one day.....so we will have to see where this new adventure for us takes us. I am not relating any details but please keep us in prayer this coming week.

One of the good things is that I don't have to get up at 5AM anymore Yahoo!! I am not a morning person so this will be just wonderful. I do much better if I can sleep until about 8AM I know that sounds kind of late to some but I rarely get to sleep before Midnight or even later. Roger and I are both night people.

I haven't been here to blog lately mainly because I just don't have any thing exciting to say. I have been very lazy lately and not much homekeeping has been done. Luckily it's just me and Roger and things don't get to bad.

Our grandson Dylan will be turning 7 in March, I can't believe it has been that many years since he was born. He wants a new bike for his birthday which of course I want to buy for him and Roger says did you forget I don't have a job??? This is going to be hard to get used to. We are not rich but having to think about do we have the money for this or that will be something new.

Well I have already run out of things to say so hopefully I will have some more to blog about later in the week.

Blessings,Joann

Life gets in the way!!!

Don't you just hate it when life seems to get in the way of your plans. Lately this has been happening more and more for me. I mentioned in my last post that I would be back blogging this coming week, but I lied, well I didn't know it but I won't be posting and don't know when I will be back maybe never??? I need to deal with some issues before I can come back and post.

Blessings,Joann

Birthday greetings for my son

I am enlisting the help of my fellow blogger friends to make my sons 21st birthday a happy one. Mattie will be turning 21 in April when he is in Iraq, so no celebrating with him. I was thinking about this today and thought how nice it would be if my friends would send him a birthday card, maybe it would make his day a little brighter. If you are interested in sending him a card his address is under his picture on the right side bar. Please don't send any gifts that is not why I am doing this I just know it would be a wonderful suprise to get lots of cards from all over the place. Right now it seems to be taking about 2 weeks for mail to get to him and his birthday is April 24th so make sure to mail early probably by the 1st of april just to make sure it gets there. You may also want to mention that you know me through my blog or he may wonder who in the heck is this from.

Thanks in advance, I plan on blogging again come next week. I took an unexpected break for a while.

Blessings,Joann