Friends

I have been blessed in my life to have many friends, of all ages and all are different. Ecclesiastes 4: 9-110a says it best. "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow....."

This is one of my friends, Carol. She has been having a hard time lately and I would ask anyone who reads this to pray for her and her family. She is ending a painful marriage of 32 years at the same time her mother is battling cancer.

There are so many problems in this world.......that is one of God's precious promises found in John 16:33..."I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have many troubles, but take heart; I have overcome the world" This is especially precious to me on days when it seems that every time the phone rings, somebody is telling me something bad that I don't want to hear.

But our joy does not come because everything is going well, our joy comes from the Lord. So my dear friend, may He hold you today in His everlasting arms!

The babies

These, ladies and gentlemen are our babies! Jack and Mikey. This is them in bed in the motorhome on a recent road trip. They love to go in the motorhome. Russell and i never thought we would be so crazy about dogs, but it just happened! When our big lab Sam died about two years ago, we were so sad and I swore off dogs forever. It is too hard when they die. But after the grieving process ended, I started just looking at different breeds on the internet. I had very specific requirements.....small enough to pick up (that is not bigger than me!) and no shedding! For all of Sam's 14 years, he shed enough white hair to make several blankets.

I got Jack December of 2005....the perfect dog. He was housebroken in a week and was just the greatest! But I always felt like he needed a friend, so in December of 2006, I wandered into the pet store with my dil, Claudia, and we found Mikey. He was so pitiful and filthy! He and his 2 brothers were in a glass cage with newspaper shreds all over the floor and nothing had been cleaned in days obviously....so I made an offer and took Mikey home. Claudia and I bathed him and he was so matted I had to cut a lot of his hair. I felt guilty for not buying his brothers, but you know, you can only have so many dogs! When we took him to our vet, he had every possible thing he could have and cost as much as having a newborn human baby. But he was ever so sweet.....o.k. lets see, Jack was so smart and Mikey, well let's just say he's not the brightest bulb in the pack! He is almost 9 months old and still has the ocassional accident...but he's really sorry! And he is sweet....I keep saying that over and over and over and over, well you get the picture. Together they have lots of fun and the favorite game is fetching a toy.....

The point is....Russell and I in our midlives have really lost out minds. But you know, they don't ask for much, just some food, water and treats, they love us like crazy and greet us with wagging tails every day, teachers nor policemen never call about their behavior! So I'll leave you with one last picture.... Okey dokey, it is at the top! I call this one, "Hey, could somebody help us down?"

If you hit publish post too fast...

Wow, you have to be careful about hitting publish post....it just goes on and does it's thing. Now if I am going to write here, I would like comments...

I have been reading lots of blogs lately and am amazed at the Christian women in our world who put their faith out there for all of us to read and be amazed!

O.K. I tried putting a picture up and couldn't so I'm through for tonight.

Now that I can.....

Now that my blog will actually let me on, I feel obligated to write! I spent so long trying to get on it that I created 3 blogs....of course I do NOT know how to join all of them together.

Oh, well!

A little bit about addiction

I have been watching a show about a famous guy who is documenting his way through rehab on primetime. My oldest son has been addicted to many things since his teen years. I never thought in my wildest nightmares that I would have a child who was addicted to any mind altering substance. I believe it is one of the hardest things a parent faces.

I'm so tired, though, of hearing all the excuses addicts have for being who they are....My sorrow is for the family that suffers daily for their child, brother, father, friend, wife, whatever place they hold in the family. I just want my son to be free of not only his addictions, but also his anger. He is my firstborn, the tiny baby I held in my arms. I was a young mother and the first time I held him and looked into his eyes I remember saying to him "Your life will be so wonderful because I love you so much". I have learned along the way that love is not enough, at least not the love of a parent, or a son or daughter or a grandmother or grandfather and in my son's case, not even the love of his great grandparents. I know that the only love that will save him is the love of Jesus which can change his heart.

I feel like I'm rambling. O.K. I am.....if you read this, please pray for my son, Paul, and for all the confused grown up children that are so lost. I have placed him in God's hands and backed off for now. I pray our relationship can one day be good.

Give me Patience

This blog is going to kill me! I have been trying to get on for weeks now and this morning it just said yes. Of course, you know I would have a blog with a mind of it's own! I'm laughing because I'll bet if I try later, I won't get on.....but try I will!

I have news!!! Ashley, 15 and Adam, 11 my two grandchildren are coming on the 26th all the way from California to spend two weeks with their Florida family! I am too excited to put into words how I feel. I don't get to see them often and they are just delightful!!!

Trying Again

Well, I'm trying again at this blogging thing. The name of my blog "Too Wonderful for Me" comes from Job 42:3 I know that our God is so big and so sovereign. He knows so much that will escape my mind until I see Him in glory.

I know this, I love Him because He first loved me! He called me and made me his. So, I hope if anyone stumbles across this and reads it, that they will find in this something that directs them toward Christ.

My husband is a wonderful Christian man who keeps me sane and gives me a lot of guidance and between us we have four sons and 3 grandchildren :). See two of them above! They live in California and I don't get to see them near enough! I'll try to refrain from saying "grandmotherly" stuff! I could, mind you....I could!

O.K. that is it for now...I'll try to be more interesting in the future!