Wordless Wednesday

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(Taken by son last year)

Is it my turn yet?

I am having a terrible time getting onto the computer these days. First it's in use by my husband for job hunting purposes, then it's in use for several hours while my son and I do school. After school he's allowed 1.5hrs of Runescape time. Then hubby needs to be back on there job hunting. After 6PM my son is allowed by Runescape time, then hubby needs on again. See what I mean?

I have so many blogs I love to follow that by the time I get through them, I have no time to update my own blog.

I can tell you are crying tears now for me.

Jackie is doing something called Hot for the Holidays that I'm considering doing. I want to lose weight and occasionally try. I think this might make me much more accountable - putting an actual picture of me on the world wide web (not that the whole world reads this blog like they do Nate's !) and telling of my progress, or shaming myself by my lack of it. I challenged Jackie that if she posts a "before picture", then I will join HFTH and post my picture. Posting my picture will be far more shameful and embarrassing, believe you me. I have 40-45 lbs. to lose. And my weight has been a number so secret that only my doctors, scales and me know it until now. So, Jackie, watcha gonna do?


Whoops, I'm supposed to be letting my husband on here for his job hunting and I'm supposed to be using the Total Gym. Screwing up already today...

My apologies, Wendi!

I haven't been using my favorites links on my blog in order to visit them, so imagine my surprise when I used them this week and discovered I'd entered one wrong. I love to visit Every Day Miracles, but somehow had it linked to another favorite. I have now corrected it. Sorry, Wendi!

I found it because I was house and dog sitting for my parents this past week. Since I didn't have my computer favorites along and was using their [very slow!] computer, I depended on my Blog Favorites list. Since their computer takes so much longer to move around and download a page, I wasn't checking everyone's blogs as often and rarely left a comment, so if you're reading this...it wasn't because I wasn't thinking of you and wanting to support you with a comment!

My mom bought me a whole box full of apple "seconds" and told me not to pay her, just to give her some applesauce when I made it. Mmmmm!!! So I made applesauce several days this week. I was very careful adding the cinnamon, though. One year I was making applesauce and went into the kitchen in the evening to add the last minute sugar and cinnamon. I didn't think I'd need more than the nite-lite off the stove hood, but I really should have turned on the light. I reached into the cupboard for my cinnamon and sprinkled liberally. I stirred it in. something really stank. I took a taste. YUCK!!! I turned on the light and looked at the cinnamon bottle. It was CUMIN. I had to throw the whole batch out!

I love looking at great photography and found this new site through another blog. The pictures are so amazing!

I have some other new favorite blogs I'm adding to my list. Check them out!

Prayer for my friends

Please pray for MckMama as she's been admitted to the hospital.

Continue to pray for Tricia of CF Husband, also, as she's still in the hospital.

And, pray for me too. I think that I am needing to be in the hospital for a "tune up" (CF phrase for IV antibiotics and fixing up), but my husband is totally out of work at this point and hasn't been able to find anything else, so it's a bad time to be racking up bills, but a bad time to be sick.

Not Me! Monday

MckMama over at My Charming Kids started this fun thing called Not Me! Monday. It’s fun to read all of the wacky and brutally honest and human things that others do each week!

This is my first attempt at Not Me! Monday.

I did not spend at least an hour trying to decide whether to do this or not.

I did not bake two Apple Chip Cakes this week since I screwed the first one up.

1st attempt

2nd attempt

I did not eat dessert for my sole meal twice this past week and I definitely did not gain any weight because of my poor eating habits and self-discipline.

When my son asked me to watch television with him the other night, I did not turn him down and read instead!

When I finally had some time alone at home the other day, I did not purposely walk across the house in just my underwear, just to not prove that I could because I was alone.

When I got dressed for church last week my dress was not too tight and when I dressed for church this morning my suit was definitely not too tight and uncomfortable. This would definitely not mean that I have no comfortable clothes to wear to church anymore!

When we had my parents over for this afternoon my husband did not demonstrate how loudly I snored last night and I was not impossible to wake up. Not me- I would never do such an unladylike thing and I absolutely did not snore like that!

The Great Pumpkin Slaughter

I have always cooked up Neck Pumpkins for my pumpkin baking. They are fantastic and one neck pumpkin will produce enough pumpkin for about 4 pies or 3 pies and a batch of Pumpkin Chip Muffins. But here in GA I can't find neck pumpkins. No one even has heard of them here.

So I bought another kind of pumpkin that a saleslady recommended. Don't ask me what kind it is. I only know that it was the hardest thing I've ever tried to cut open.

I started with this knife I got at Sam's last year that will cut ANYTHING. Wood, tomatoes, meat...anything. But it wouldn't even penetrate the pumpkin.

Knife #2 was much larger, but that wouldn't work, either.

Knife #3 was smaller but was a filet knife with an extremely sharp point. Surely this one I could wield like a folcrum, stabbing it with the tip. Nope.

Move on to knife #4. A steak knife. I figure if the other blades didn't work, maybe if I sawed the pumpkin with a sereated (is that spelled right?) edge it would work.

For pete's sake! By this time I think that someone sold me a rock painted like a pumpkin. I was at least a half hour into this act of cutting open the pumpkin and was no further along and getting terribly worn out.

I pulled out Knife #5. This one is like a meat cleaver or a small machete. I positioned the pumpkin on the counter so that it was still, raised the cleaver up over my head with both hands on the handle and brought it down as hard as I could.

I got the knife in! But only about 1 inch and I couldn't get the knife back out. So I raised the knife AND the pumpkin up about 2 feet off the counter and started banging it down onto the counter as hard as I could. I was half afraid I would crack the counter. (No, I don't have granite countertops!) The pumpkin finally split open.

That pumpkin pie had better be good. (I know a can of pumpkin would be a lot easier, but once you've had homemade for years, it's hard to switch back!)

Sorry that I don't have any pictures! If I'd known this would have been such an ordeal I would have had my husband or son video tape the pumpkin masacre for you to watch.

Peace, like a river, attendeth my soul

I think that's how that song goes. From "It is Well"?

That's how I'm feeling at the end of this week. The week started with such fear and trepidation over my husband's lack of work and wondering how we'd pay our bills and keep a roof over our heads. I could hardly think of anything else.

The situation hasn't changed (except we found out the company won't have work for several months due to damage from Hurricane Ike), but I have. I had mind knowledge that God was in control, but had a hard time transferring that to heart knowledge.

Today I feel calm. I almost feel like something is wrong with me that I'm not worrying, but I just know in my heart that God has promised to supply our needs. I don't know how He will do it, but I guess I will find out. While my husband busily went about applying for jobs today, I just set aside my worries and fears.

My sister told me tonight that she has been practicing something that has been helping her. Each time she thinks of something that worries her, she immediately prays for it. Kind of like replacing worry with prayer. It's a good idea for all of us.