October 25, 2012

• Thursday Thankful:

  • Here’s how it works (and don’t laugh).  The Lord tells me He wants me to write about something specific.  He gives me the topic, and then I wait for help… and there isn’t any – the command was it.  So I go, ‘Okay, Lord… I’ll see what I can do.’  Then I sit down to write it, and… I’m SO blocked, it’s not funny.  And I cry out, throwing my hands up in frustration.  ‘Now WHY would You ask me to write about this and then block me?’  and I wait… and wait… and then realize that waiting is EXACTLY the point of the exercise… to see if I will get the hint and wait.  So then I humble myself, apologize for my feisty nature, ask for shalom and understanding, sit down to wait… and while doing so, I read… and BAM!  He shows me something that is VITAL to what I am supposed to write.  Which means I was blocked because a) He wanted to get my attention on HIM, not the topic, and b) He had more information and it wasn’t time for me to write it, YET, hence the waiting.  I’m thankful at the end of the process, because by then I get it.  But in the middle?  It’s highly aggravating.  I am now at the end of the process and can therefore be grateful.
  • My brother and his wife have cleared the first trimester.  It’s their first baby.  It’s exciting.  And if it’s a boy, my bets are 10 to 1 that it’ll be named some variation of ‘Zach’.  I’m also grateful to them for lending us their beautiful crib for Baby Owen, who is going to graduate to a big boy bed on his birthday, just in time for us to return the crib to them.  I’m also grateful for the pumpkins they brought over last night.  Our patch yielded only two, due to the drought, so now we have pumpkins!
  • 17 Cheshvan.  I am SOOOO geeked.  And weird about it.  See, I’m racing like crazy to finish Halloween costumes for a Halloween I don’t intend to be here for.  So basically, I need to finish the costumes so that I can take a picture of us in them the day before, so that it’s recorded for posterity’s sake, just in case we’re NOT here to wear them.  In which case, it won’t matter.  Please don’t ask.  I often make little sense.  But I’ve got TONS of conviction, and that’s what counts. 
  • Speaking of, I’m grateful (in a backhanded way) for some very interesting news articles.  I’m going to do a SECOND post this afternoon, and share them.  They have to do with 17 Cheshvan, and they are… jaw-dropping.  Just so that you know – because I don’t normally post TWO blogs in one day.
  • Years ago, I made a weather chart for our homeschool, and it’s been on the fridge for almost a decade.  This is the picture of it – one of the hands were ripped off it by the time I took the picture.  Well, this morning a home ed site I visit every morning featured a FREE weather chart that is way fancier than mine.  So I’m upgrading, and am grateful for not having to re-invent the wheel!  Here’s the freebie (LINK)… in case anyone else was interested, too!
  • The Lord sparing me from training to run in a Thanksgiving 5K.  You see, that was my (first) goal with my weight – to run a 5K coming up near Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately, the day I started my weight loss challenge, it started raining.  And it’s rained pretty much every day since.  Our gravel drive?  Slop.  The chickens are wading in the pen, it’s so wet.  My basement?  Puddle-ville.  (But no flooding, and I’m SOOO thankful for that!)  At any rate, unless I want drowned-rat-itis, I’m not going out running.  Isn’t He good?  He saves me all that work…!  ((giggles))
  • Speaking of, it’s THURSDAY, and that means a weigh-in happened this morning.  The results…?  I’m down another TWO pounds!  My current weight is now 190 – and the goal of 185 by New Years seems SOOO attainable!  Did I mention that I fit into my pre-Aaron jeans when we went to Frankenmuth?!!  Granted, I didn’t breathe much during the seven-hour trip, but I was in them, and that’s a huge thing for me!!!
  • I’m grateful that my face is clearing up and my waist is shrinking inward and my niddah has finally passed and the insane congestion from my cold is waning.  Seriously, for the past seven days, I have been one heckuva wreck, puddy.  I have looked and felt like total doggie poopie.  To the point where I just kind of retreated to the deep recesses of the corner of the sofa to wait it out (and nap.  Napping makes everything better.)  I am NOT thankful to my mother for having shown up at my house with three sick children to get me and my children sick last Thursday.  But then, I’ve never been grateful for that, so what’s new?  But I can be grateful it’s on its way to the exit (ish).
  • I’m just grateful for a warm house, hot honeyed tea, soft music, the glow of lamplight, babies to cuddle, kids to play with, laughter, good food, good friends on-line, and LOTS of vitamins. Although I have yet to try ReflectionsNReality’s Oil of Oregano.  I bought some in Frankenmuth (at the Health Haus, haha!), but I’m afraid of it.  I think it’s dragon-in-a-bottle… I don’t want to singe my innards too terribly much.
  • Keeping up in school.  Yes, I know we’re only two weeks in, but I’ve had beginnings which were so… immediately unravelling?  And this isn’t one of them.  We’ve almost seamlessly continued where we left off on the old stuff, and easily added the new stuff.  And we’re liking it.  So that’s a huge, huge thing.  A wonderful thing!
  • Breaking my record in TripleTown.  It’s a game on my Ki-NoOk-droid, one that Lydia and I kind of have a thing for.  I got 440,000 (actually over that), and am totally geeking.  I also got two floating castles and a crystal… and how anti-climatic is it that there’s nothing BIGGER than a floating castle?  We were so pumped to see what the next biggest thing would be!!!  Eh, well.  Now I just try to get as many of those as I can.  ((grins))  It is, however, distracting me from Random Mahjong.  Which I can’t decide if its a good thing or not…
  • Fall.  I love the fall.  There’s something about fall… Not the scarecrows, either – am I the only one who thinks that cities lashing them to street posts is kind of reminiscent of the Roman Christians wrapping the Jewish believers in oilcloth and igniting them, using them to light the streets?  I don’t like the whole scarecrow thing, anymore.  It’s gotten dirty, nasty, sometimes evil and always kind of disturbing.  But scarecrows, skeletons hanging from the neck at every business establishment (also disturbing), and front yard cemeteries aside (is it okay if I just close my eyes while driving, just til I’m past those?), the colors, the leaves, the mums, the cider, the cornstalks, the pumpkins, the crisp air, the bright moon…?  I love that stuff.  Fall is my favorite time of the year.
  • Brian having extra work in the barn.  We had nothing, all summer (which was fine, because we spent the time together biking and camping and swimming and going on walks and such)… but now that it’s cooler, the work is coming in.  And that’s nice – it’ll pay for our X-mess.  And it makes Brian happy.
  • Oh, speaking of payments, I’m grateful that our new truck payment is only $50 more than our trailer payment was.  I was worried – for the newness of the truck Brian wanted, he was talking $150 dollars more a month, and I was terrified of the payment.  But because we went thru the dealer and not the bank, we were able to get a longer term and therefore a smaller payment!  WoooooT… because I was REALLY not comfortable before the payment book came in the mail.  Mucho praying and lip-biting on my part!!
  • WoW, I’m grateful for having so much to be grateful for!  These were supposed to be blippy.  ((Anna: have you EVER been blippy?  You just go ON, and ON, and ON… shut the heck up sometime, willya?))  Yeah. I know.  But this is my ventilation system.  Every girl needs one…

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