AOL Shutting Down Our Journals!~

AOL is closing down our journals, read here for more info:

http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/entries/2008/09/30/sad-but-true..journals-closing-its-doors/4061

If you are my friend, you know how to find me. Please keep in touch! I have made some great friends through AOL journals. Can't believe they are doing this to us!~

Blessings!~

Susan

Prayer Needs!~

Dear Journal,

A lot has been going on lately.  First of all, Sonya sent me some beautiful Autumn graphics.  Thanks, Sonya!  Sugar told me about her graphic journal and said I could snag them.  Thanks, Sugar!

My family has some prayer needs, please see below and pray accordingly:

My daughter has been out of school for two days with chest pains and having trouble breathing.  She has MVP and asthma.  It is so hard to watch someone you love so much, especially as young as she is, struggle to breathe and know she is in pain and there is nothing you can do about it; however, I have been a Christian since I was 10 years old and I have learned that prayers can work wonders, so I would really appreciate prayers for her.  This is homecoming week and the game is tomorrow night (we need a miracle here too for the football team) and she wants to go.  She also has plans to attend the homecoming dance and already has her outfit planned out, so I pray she is better by tomorrow.

My Mom has had iriitis (inflammation of the iris) in her eyes for a while now.  Her doc said she had a really bad case of it.  He prescribed drops for her.  He told her if the drops didn't work, she would have to have laser surgery, and if that didn't work, corneal transplants!  The drops had made her eyes much better.  Her doc even said she had received a miracle, but she went back for a checkup and he told her they were worsening again and prescribed more drops.  Please keep my Mom in your prayers as well.

Day-before-yesterday, my husband cut his thumb with a saw blade.  It wasn't near as bad as some past incidents, but it did bleed and was painful, then yesterday, a 6 x 6 got dropped on his foot smashing his great toe up pretty good.  He is hobbling around and has been in a great deal of pain.  We have no insurance, so he opted not to have it x-rayed.

I am still believing that a job with benefits and decent wages is going to come along for him, even if it means we have to relocate.  I would be so grateful if you would remember these needs in your prayers.  Please send any requests you might have as well.  They will be prayed for!~

Blessings!~

Susan

P.S.  I do realize all of my friends/family are not Christians and for those of you who are not, please hold good thoughts for my loved ones.  Thanks in advance to all of you!~

It's Here! It's Here!

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy!  Autumn has finally arrived!  Woo Hoo!  Now I can use all my pretty Autumn graphics.  If you have some you would like to share, feel free!  I am no longer in a graphics group.  Don't really have the time.  ::sigh::  Life keeps me busy.

Hubby is totally out of work now.  Hoping and praying something comes through for him real soon either in industrial maintenance or construction.  He has been in the construction field for 30+ years and can do anything in it, including driving heavy equipment.  He has 5 years experience in industrial maintenance, so please pray and/or hold good thoughts.  Did I mention we are willing to relocate?

 

Thanks, Sonya for this cool graphic!~

Hope you all are enjoying the first day of Autumn!  I have rested for the most part, as I worked 3rd shift the last couple of nights.

Fall is here!  Fall is here!  Tra la la la la la la la la  ::susan sings and dances around happily::

Have a most wonderful Autumn week!~

I Just Have One Thing To Say...

Thank God, It's...

Have a great weekend!~

Susan

P.S.  My favorite season is upon us! Woo Hoo!  One guess...anybody?  Come on, you can do it.  Hee...

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It could have been much worse!~

 

It was like this:

I was on the way to pick C up from school.  I was only doing 35-40 MPH because it was raining very hard.  Truck fishtailed, then started spinning with me.  Spun around several times and slid into grass.  Slung me up on embankment right before you get to the dumpster near the high school.  I swear the way the truck slammed into bank, I thought it had dented the whole driver's side.  It is a small wonder the truck did not flip.  That was a pretty steep bank.  I drove truck back onto road and stopped at dumpster where I could pull way off the road and walk around the truck to safely survey the damage. Thankfully only minor damage to truck.  Small dent in bumper and took some paint off above tail light on driver's side. I think the tail gate has a place on it, too. I was right at the school, but instead of going on to school to get C, I was so shaken, I drove slowly back home and got hubby to drive me in the Silverado.  It has much better tires.  Did not want to chance that again with Carrie in the vehicle.  Thank God it was not any worse and I am okay!~

 

We got burglarized again.  :-( Guess they came back to get what they did not finish getting last time.  Thankfully, we had gotten most of what was left after we discovered the last burglary.  Still not exactly sure what all was taken, but this time around, we know they got all three of our bicycles and our Sears Craftsman lawnmower.  The first time around, they got $2000-3000 worth of tools and camping equipment; however, I have a grateful and thankful heart.  I am grateful that I still have what is most important to me, my family and my friends.  I am so blessed and I know it.

 

Have a wonderful week and BE SAFE!~

Susan

Montgomery, AL

Dear Journal,

On Sunday, we had an appointment in Montgomery to find out about getting financial aid for our daughter's college.  The appointment was at the Embassy Suites in Montgomery Alabama.

Sorry I couldn't get a better pic.  I took it as we were driving away.  Anyway, Montgomery is the capital of Alabama, so I had my Hubby drive by so I could get a pic of the capitol building. If we had had time to stop, I could have gotten a picture of the star on the capital steps where Jefferson Davis stood while being inaugurated as President of the confederate states in 1886.  We had to get back home because I was scheduled to work that evening.

 

It was a nice little outing.  I wish we had had more time to spend getting some more photos.  Montgomery has a rich history and some beautiful architecture.  Maybe we can go back around Christmastime and get some pics then.  They always decorate the capitol for Christmas.  Speaking of Christmas, a couple of Christmases ago, we went to a Christmas party, I am pretty sure I wrote about it in my journal.  The party was at Regions Bank in Montgomery.  I snagged a pic of it, again taken from the car as we were riding, so it is not that great, but you can see what an impressive building it is, and our party was up on one of the floors, probably about midway, so it gave a grand view of the city at night.

Regions Bank

Another name for Montgomery is Monkeytown.  I have vaguely researched the origins of that nickname and, it is as I feared, it is called that by redneck racists because of the high population of African-Americans.  I hate phraseslike that which stereotype people.

Anyway, I have posted some pics of the things we saw while in Montgomery.  I wish we had had the time to go to the River Walk by the Alabama River.  Ahh well...maybe next time!  Such is the story of my life.  ::sigh::

Will write more as I have time, journal.

Susan

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What "Big Bird" really is!~

"Big Bird" in the daylight, lol (see last entry to understand this one).

For those of you who guessed satellite dish, you guessed correctly.  What I cannot get over is the fact that I fell for it being a big bird in the dark at least temporarily, even after as many times as I have walked by that thing during the day walking my dog!  In all fairness to my hubby, son, and myself, we all wear or need glasses, literally!~  ;-)

Hope I brightened your day with my tale!~

Blessings!~

Susan

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Yes, This REALLY Happened!~

Big Bird?

My Hubby let our dog, Mary Jane, out one night as he does many nights, to do her business.  I am in my office working, my son is watching TV, my daughter is in her room on her laptop.  All of a sudden, Hubby calls all of us, "Oh my God, ya'll have to come see this thing, Quick!  I don't know what it is!"

So, my son and I rush to the back door to look out and see what strange thing Hubby has discovered in our back yard.  We look out and we see what he sees (see photo above).  He told me he had called Mary Jane back inside because he didn't know what it was.  Then my son commented he thought he saw it move.  We were all under the assumption it was some kind of large bird like an ostrich would be, only there are no ostriches in Alabama unless they are in a zoo, lol.

I ran back for the camera and tried to get a closer look.  Hubby warned me to be careful.  As I got closer, I started laughing.  As many times as I have walked my dog in that very spot, both day and night, I should have known right away what it was.  Anyone care to guess?  I will post correct answer in another entry.

Have a wonderful day!~

Susan

Family Reunion

Dear Journal,

We had our annual family reunion for my husband's Mom's side of the family on Saturday.  It is always on Labor Day weekend.  We had it at the New Life Center at Shady Grove Christian Church.  We had lots of good food, great desserts, and some great fellowship.  I made a green bean casserole, a huge garden salad, and a huge casserole of macaroni and cheese (from scratch, not no boxed stuff). The kids were able to play foosball.  The grownups played Bocce ball, but most of all, we just had a great time fellowshipping together as a family.  I am so glad we went, as we had not been the last two years.  It was loads of fun.  That's all for now.

Susan

 

Saying goodbye to my baby! ::sniff::

Dear Journal,

I am quite sad today.  I have to take my Ram and turn it into the bank.  If I do not do it voluntarily, they will come pick it up, as I just went three payments past due on it.  I have had to revert to parttime working, as I cannot hold out to work a full 8 hours anymore.  My doc thinks I may have multiple sclerosis, but I have not been able to have the MRI to rule that out since losing my job in December that carried our insurance.  I personally think it is going to be some kind of debilitating arthritis, as that runs in my family, but I do have many MS symptoms, so who knows.  I am not going to cry in my cheerios over it regardless of the diagnosis.  I have cried in my cheerios literally about losing my Ram though.  I love my truck.  Thankfully, I still have my 1997 Buick LaSabre, and although my son wrecked in in February of 2007, I think it was, it is still driveable.  I have to get the insurance and tag, replace the windshield, get the outside mirror on the driver's side remounted, and get the front headlight fixed on the driver's side to be able to drive it.  The front tire on the passenger side is flat, so need to get that plugged.  Hopefully, they can plug it as it is a relatively new tire.  Anywho, I guess thats life.  Ya just gotta roll with the punches.  ::sniff::

The kicker is I still have to pay for the truck.  The bank will sell it for what they can get out of it, which probably isn't going to be much with gas prices like they are and it is a gas hog.  It was perfect for me though.  Since I work from home, I just used it to take my daughter to school and pick her up and occasionally make a jaunt into town for groceries or what have you.

To my Ram:  I love you.  I hope they find somebody who will love you and appreciate you as much as I did.

That's all for now journal.  Will write more as the mood strikes.

Susan

P.S.  I just got back from the bank after trying to turn my truck in.  I received a miracle today.  The bank let me keep my truck temporarily, long enough for me to get my Buick back on the road so I won't be without transportation.  Meanwhile, they are going to see if they can refinance it for a lower payment or defer the payments.  I need you to pray and/or hold good thoughts people!  Also, pray that my husband can find a job with great pay and benefits and that said job will have a great staff of people that will be easy to work with!  Thanks in advance!

Me

The Cruelty of Others

Today's entry is in this journal:

 

Journey Through The Valley of Shadows

 

Let me know if you cannot access it and I will add you as a reader.

 

Blessings!~

 

Susan

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary!~

Dear Journal,

Yesterday, my family and I attended a 50th Wedding Anniversary party for my husband's aunt and uncle.  A remark was made by a family member about how my daughter was dressed.  Some of our family never even spoke to her.  She asked me why.  I had no answer.  They don't like the fact that I let her wear clothes with spaghetti straps and some of her tops THEY consider to be too lowcut and her dresses way too short (she was wearing shorts under her dress).  What they don't know is, my daughter went back into her room and put an undershirt on under the lowcut top to make it not be soooo lowcut (another of her cousins was dressed almost identical to her and I didn't hear any comments about her!!!!).  She was wearing her converse tennis shoes that come up to her knees.  She has her bangs dyed pink on one side and purple on the other.  Carrie is very artistic and creative.  They don't want their grandchildren to want to be like my daughter.  This infuriates me to NO end.  I am debating about whether to say anything or let it go.

They SHOULD be hoping and praying their grandchildren turn out like my daughter.  She is a rare gem in today's world of teenagers.  She is a good girl.  She has great friends.  When I let her go off with them, I don't have to worry about what she is doing.  She has always been where she said she is going to be, doing what she says she is going to be doing.  She has a heart of gold and a heart for people.  She has learned to put others needs above her own needs, sometimes at a great cost to herself.  She is an "old soul" if you will, wise beyond her 16 years of age.  She has ambition and wants to make something of her life.  She loves God, her family, and her friends and is loyal to the end.  Now tell me, family, what is your beef with my daughter again? Grrrrrrrrrr...now I remember why I liked living away 1500+ miles!!!!!~

::cough::  Umm...last time I checked Carrie is MY daughter.  It is up to ME, not YOU and your hypocritical judgemental ways to decide what is right for her.  Man, I could be petty and tell some tales I know to be the truth about YOUR kids, but good thing for you I am not like that.  I don't go around talking behind your backs about how I think you should dress your kids/grandkids or how I hope my kids don't turn out like yours.  See, regardless of the bad things YOUR kids have done, they are STILL my nieces and nephews and I love them as such.  I pray for them.  My Mom taught me a long time ago....what goes around, comes around, so if I were you...I'd watch out.  The good book also says how you judge is how you will be judged.  Put that in your pipes and smoke it!!!!!~

Signed,

Angry Mom

Thank you!~

 

Get your mind out of the gutter, ladies!  I mean a piece of Cake!!!!  Mwahahahahahahahaaaaaaa....

Just wanted to thank all who have emailed me to wish me a happy 49th birthday today.  I am grateful for every day that I wake up breathing, especially the older I get.  Hard to believe next August 2nd, I will turn the big 50!  Where does time go anymore?  Anyway, thanks to all of you who sent emails and commented my MySpace.

Blessings!~

Susan

P.S.  I would consider it a wonderful birthday present if you could take a moment and spend it in prayer or hold good thoughts in a moment of silence for our troops!~

About the Stalker........

I just want to clarify about the stalker in this entry.  David has not in any shape, form, or fashion contacted me.  I happened across his MySpace and found my picture on there.  It really creeped me out.  I realized he was keeping tabs on me through my MySpace and AOL journals.  If you have a MySpace or Facebook, please request me as a friend and I will happily add you.  My MySpace link is:

myspace.com/scottiessister

I have been feeling a nudge for several months, that I believe to be the Holy Spirit, telling me to make everything private that I had a lurker keeping tabs on me that I didn't want.  I should have followed my instincts then!~

It is probably going to infuriate him that I have made everything private.  That part concerns me.

Anyway, hope you all have a great Thursday.

Blessings!~

Susan

Well, I'll be John Brown!~

I can't believe it!!!  AOL finally fixed my journal to where I can add pics more than one at a time again!  Will wonders never cease!  Now, I gotta get busy taking new pics, lol!  The Stone Mountain pics are already in another entry.  This is just a test to see if it is really fixed or if perhaps I am dreaming! If I wake up tomorrow and they are still here, I will know it is real!  Here's hoping it's real (I am quite sure you all are quite tard of hearin' me fuss about it, but dadgum, this has been messed up for a very long while)!!!!!  Frustrating to say the very least, but hey!  I'll take what I can get.  ;-)

The Last Time

I have been helping my son move for the last few days.  It has been a chore to get everything together.  It makes me quite sad.  We moved into that house when my children were 3 and 13 after our mobile home, that was paid for, had been destroyed by Hurricane Opal in 1995.  They are now 16 and almost 26.  The house originally belonged to my in-laws, but they built them a very nice new house without stairs.  They were getting on up in age and needed an easier place to take care of.  Their new house was actually the last house my FIL ever built.  We rented the A-frame from my father-in-law.  Their new house was two doors down.  Only a church was between us.  I have been with my husband over half of my life, his family is my family, so I didn't mind living close to them at all. My beloved father-in-law and his sons (Hubby included) built the A-frame.  He was a contractor with only a 4th grade education.  He supported a wife and nine children on his meager earnings as a contractor. He salvaged the material to build the A-frame from two older houses in our town that were over 100 years old.  He contracted to do the work to tear them down and built the A-frame out of that material.   This pic shows closeup of tongue-and-groove paneling.     This pic shows the pine flooring in the living room (the hardwood flooring is upstairs under carpet as well).     Fireplaces are built out of antique bricks from old houses. The A-frame boasts tongue-and-groove heart of pine paneling and pine hardwood floors in parts of the house.  He never had a blueprint for the house.  I find that amazing, being that he only had a 4th grade education.  The house has 2.5 bathrooms, two fireplaces built out of the antique bricks, and two bedrooms.  It has a large kitchen/dining area, an L-shaped living room, a large laundry room, and a family room.  Off the back was a patio, and off the second story was my most favorite place, a screened-in deck.  My family and I spent many happy hours on that deck.   Patio was under the deck.   Great place for plants in the summer. I remember reading chapter after chapter of many books, playing with my cats on that deck, and entertaining on that deck.   Sometimes we had meals on the deck, sometimes it was just us, sometimes with other family or friends.  I can also remember after one of my surgeries during the Spring of the year, I sat out on the deck recuperating.  I could hear the birds singing, the sky was blue, and the temperature was perfect.  It was a perfectly beautiful day.  There is a catfish pond behind the house the deck overlooks.  I remember feeling so happy that day.  I will sorely miss that deck.   View of pond from the deck-this was taken after a severe thunderstorm and pond was quite muddy. One of my daughter's friends and I spent a lot of time talking sitting on that deck.  When I think of him, I will choose to remember him fondly.  One of the last times he came over, he sat and played for her with a guitar she and his Dad went in together to buy for him because he had lost the one he loved due to unforeseen circumstances.  I searched high and low for a replacement guitar for him and had almost given up hope when one fell into my lap.  It's actually smaller than what I wanted, but the sound when played was so rich and resonated well, I prayed he would like it.  I lied and told him it was for my daughter and that she wanted to take guitar lessons.  I told him I needed him to check it out for me and tell me if it was a good deal or not.  After he played it that day and gave me his opinion of it, he made the statement to my daughter that he wanted that guitar.  It's so funny because it was for him all along.  It gave me such joy to be able to do that for him after the way he lost the Santa Rosa acoustic he loved so much.  My only regret is not getting to hear him play it more.  I have strayed from the subject again.  ::sigh::  I swear as I get older, I cannot concentrate well at all.  I have so many nitpicky medical conditions that are so aggravating. I just basically wanted to say how I got to sit on my deck once more today during a wonderful thunderstorm (I love storms, yeah, I am weird like that).  The rain cooled it off considerably.  A nice wind was blowing across the deck.  It made me really, really sad to know that is probably the last time I will ever sit on that deck, the deck my father-in-law and his sons built. I remember our first Christmas in the house in 1995, my daughter was only 3.  She got one of her presents from under the tree unbeknownst to us.  I noticed her missing and went to find her.  As I got to the top of the stairs, I noticed her sitting just inside her bedroom door with her back to me.  She had torn the packaging off of one of her presents, a Barbie doll she had asked for.  When she saw me, she held it up and said, "Pretty!"  I couldn't help but laugh and, of course, I let her finish opening it. There are so many wonderful memories tied up for me in that house.  We had many family Christmases there when my in-laws lived there.  I have many pics to look back on and remember those wonderful times when we gathered as a family to celebrate the holidays, the many Thanksgivings, Christmases, Easter Egg hunts, and other holidays as well. Even with my own family, we had get-togethers there with friends.  Usually, our biggest get-together was on New Year's Eve.  I would cook, ask friends and family to bring a covered dish, and we would bring in the New Year together.  Such wonderful times of fellowship. There was a time I wanted to own that house more than I wanted anything else in the world.  We gave up that dream to move to Colorado.  After living in Colorado, my dreams have changed.  I no longer want that house, but I will miss it terribly, especially the fireplaces and the deck. After we moved to Colorado, my son and daughter-in-law bought the house from my FIL.  They were living there when she left him.  Unfortunately for him, he has many bad memories associated with the house, which iswhy he wanted to sell it. I have been told the new homeowner plans to dismantle the garage.  He is giving the wood to his Dad who plans to take it to south Alabama to use it for something.  I watched my father-in-law build that garage from wood off of the 18 acres he owned.  He used his chainsaw to cut down the trees he needed.  I watched him use his primitive tools to scrape the bark from the trees and I watched him turn those trees into wood planks to make up the garage.  It makes me sad to know it will soon be gone just like my father-in-law.  He passed away in October of 2006. The new owner has already started making some changes, changes I do not like.  He sheetrocked over the tongue-and-groove paneling in the front bedroom.  I feel that takes away from the rustic look of the house.  He is changing the half-bath in the master suite into a full bathroom.  It really takes away from the roominess of the master suite.  I don't understand why the house needs another bathroom when it already had two others.  Oh well, it isn't my house any more or my son's.  We should finish up getting the rest of his belongings out tomorrow.  I do admit to feeling somewhat melancholy, but, at the same time, I look forward to what God has planned for my family and I next.  Hopefully, it will be the move to South Carolina or, even better, Colorado. We have moved six times since November 2001.  The 3 years and 4 months we lived in Colorado were the happiest time of my life.  Tomorrow, I will most likely walk through the door of the A-frame for the last time and, even though the house is no longer in our family, I will carry many wonderful memories with me.  I am looking forward to the future and where it might take us.  It has been nice being home with our family and friends these last three years, but now it is time to move on... Blessings!~ Susan

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, EVERYBODY!~

 

Don't have anything much to say (I know, can you believe it?).  ;-) Just wanted to pop in and wish everybody a Happy Independence Day!~

Blessings!~

Susan

Internet Down, Tools stolen, and Update on my niece!~

Sorry I haven't been around for 3-4 days.  Internet has been down.  Haven't been able to work either since I had no internet, as I depend on the internet to do my medical transcription job from home.  That will put a huge dent in my paycheck. ::sigh::

Bad news.  When we moved out of our son's house in November, the new homeowner allowed us to store my husband's trim tools in the garage still.  He wanted us to get them out ASAP, but Hubby works 7 days a week usually.  We finally took the time to go get them only to find he had been cleaned out.  Almost all of his tools were gone, especially his trim tools.  I don't think I have ever seen him so upset in the 30 years I have been with him.  I don't blame him for being upset, as that was probably $2000-3000 worth of tools stolen, as well as our Coleman camping stove (it had never even been opened).  I filed a police report.  I have to take a more detailed list with model #'s to them soon in case they recover our stuff.  I pray they do.  The garage was open, there was no way to lock it up.  See photo below:

 

UPDATE ON WENDY:

As for my niece who was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she saw a neurosurgeon from what I understand.  She will be monitored via MRI for the next year every three months.  If the tumor is growing, it will be removed.  From what I understand, if it does not grow, it will be considered benign and they will just leave it, as they said she can live just fine with it.  I pray it does not grow, hope you will help me pray that prayer or hold good thoughts for her.

As for my nephew, Allen, he is home from hospital and doing well.  He does still need prayers considering the fact that he has CF and diabetes.  My nephew, Roger, who had the 4-wheeler accident continues to heal nicely.  Thanks to all who prayed for all of my family's needs.  Still haven't heard back from job Hubby applied for.  He so needs this job or one comparable.  Hope they call soon.

Guess that's all the latest news, so I shall bid you farewell for now.

Blessings!~

Susan

Prayers Answered!~

I "borrowed" the photos from my niece, Jennifer's MySpace.  Pictured from L to R:  Michelle (niece), Roger (nephew), and Jennifer.

 

Roger and Jenn

Roger is my nephew who was very recently in a serious 4-wheeler accident.  His doc told him had he not been wearing his helmet, he would not be here right now.  THANK GOD he was wearing his helmet!  Let that be a lesson learned for all who ride 4-wheelers!~

Thanks to all who prayed for him.  I am happy to say he is expected to make a full recovery.  Now he needs prayers and good thoughts for a swift 100% recovery.

Allen (nephew) and Leslie (niece) (I "borrowed" pic from Leslie's MySpace). They are brother and sister.  Hubby's twin brother's children.

I am happy to report that Allen is home from the hospital.  If you will remember, he is my nephew who has cystic fibrosis and diabetes.  He was rushed emergently last week to the Children's Hospital because his kidneys were shutting down.  He was in critical condition.  They admitted him, put him on an IV to get the needed meds into his system and I am happy to report he is back home now and doing well.  Thanks to all who prayed for him!  The docs did say his kidneys probably could not take another hit like that, so please continue to pray for him.

Wendy and Tony

Wendy is my niece who has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor.  I have not heard yet if she has had the biopsy or not to find out if it is malignant.  Please continue to keep her in your prayers and good thoughts.

As for me, I am feeling quite dizzy today,so I think I shall go lie down and see if I can't get to feeling better.

Hugs!~

Susan

Nine Year Anniversary!~

Nine years ago today, my life changed forever while I am on this earth.  If you are interested, please see this entry.

Journey Through The Valley of Shadows

Blessings!~

Susan

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Prayers Needed for Another Nephew!~

My nephew, Allen, was taken emergently to the hospital yesterday.  Allen has cystic fibrosis and diabetes.  His kidneys have started shutting down.  This is my husband's twin's son and one of my favorite nephews.  He is in critical condition and much in need of prayer and positive thoughts.

My nephew, Roger, who had the 4-wheeler accident is at home recuperating nicely.  I so thank everyone for your prayers for him.

I still have not had an update on my niece Wendy's condition.  In an earlier entry, I asked prayers for her as she has been diagnosed with a brain tumor in her pineal gland.

We also need for my husband to be able to change jobs to obtain benefits and enough money to pay our bills.  He has applied for a company in North Carolina.  We pray he gets this job or one comparable.  There has even been mention of him going in as a foreman, which he so deserves after 36 years in the construction industry.  This would be great money, which we desperately need.

Thanks so much in advance!~

Blessings!~

Susan

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