Guess who's coming home this Friday for a few weeks???
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Have to get my hair done, get the grinder to ebrase the grease out of my hands, hide the power bills from the new spa, the new concertina french doors .. well the less said about THAT bill the better ... how the heck do I hide the new patio and spa room ???????????? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I know .... Transient global amnesia caused by severe emotional trauma ... when I looked at the bills <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I think I'm gonna get home improvement grounded <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Aussie's a-comin.......hide the evidence!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(What can we try and break this time? I still heavily favor kneecaps.)

What about a collar bone/clavicle? Then he couldn't hold a weapon.

You'd hafta break them both. I'm sure he is equally proficient with both hands by now.

We are doing well. We survived yesterday, and only one person has been clobbered so far today. Of course, it's only 0745, so there's still time. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis is almost finished with her set of 10 children's stories, tracing the geneology from Adam down to Moses, to give a sense of how all the families and stories fit together. Very cute stories! Except she keeps wanting these detailed reviews from me, and is not satisfied with, "Yup, I like 'em."

Well, this week has been a disaster at work. I took a day off for dr appts and that lead to the need for 8 PT appts and an MRI and a couple of follow up appts w/ the dr. Sheesh!

ok....could we just herniate a couple of disks in his neck or something?

8 appts AND an mri? How does any one person get so lucky???

Today's Dervishism:

"You scared the day livinglights out of me!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

OMGosh! That's too perfect!

T&L!

It was in this morning's mail. You can't know how perfect the timing is. Bad d/o with VD last night and she is up to her antics again. I am extremely disspirited at the moment and feel like I am only treading water, but not gaining on land.

I keep asking, "will it stop, will she stop, will I have the stamina to survive this?"

I had brought Stephen King's Talisman in this morning to read. Now I have something infinitly more interesting (specially since I've read Talisman about a bajillion times). Prolly a heck of a lot more thought provoking than mental candy floss, too (which is where I rate S.K.'s works).

Ug.

Neak,

I love you too. I will hang on. I will try harder to be good. I'm just tired, right?

Again, thank you both.

- Kimmy

You've been under attack, Kimmy, dear. And it's not a matter of trying to be good. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> You hold tight to God, determined to get to know Him even better, and as you do, His goodness just spills over.

Snort, I just typed "Anne of Green Bagles". Now I don't know about you, but personally I do not like Green Bagles.

I do not like them Sam I am.

I keep asking, "will it stop, will she stop, will I have the stamina to survive this?" ............. I will try harder to be good. I'm just tired, right?

Usually these feelings are the precursor to some kind of turning point. The devil leans on us hard when we are under stress. If we make it through the worst of it, it always gets better, and it always strengthens us for the next time.

Remember that all of us go through this same process, and we understand. (This means you too Cinderella, we understand.)

It's not the same problems we face, but it's the same feelings we overcome.

One of the things I liked best about "Peter" is that it discusses these feelings, and their source. Once you recognize them for what they are, it's easier to deal with them. I think Neak did a good job on many things with that book, but that is one I really liked.

If Aussie is coming home FRIDAY then he may very well be home. I hope we don't see AW on here much the next two weeks.


Neaksis is almost finished with her set of 10 children's stories, tracing the geneology from Adam down to Moses, to give a sense of how all the families and stories fit together. Very cute stories! Except she keeps wanting these detailed reviews from me, and is not satisfied with, "Yup, I like 'em."

I wondered what she was working on. I mean, for a while, it was the house, the roof and so on, but then I didn't hear about any projects. I can't imagine her not having a project.

There are probably more things she keeps busy with, but I wondered.

Hi CC !!
Still thinking about you, and wondering, and hoping.
The girls are well?
( I assume you are well, unless you tell us you are not.)

Hi T&L !
It was just about a year ago you were here visiting. We enjoyed your company. I still worry about your health, but all I can do is pray for you. I hope H is well.

Neak, if you scared the night livinglights out of him at the same time as the day livinglights, would he expire?

You haven't said much lately about how the boys are doing. Are they OK? (Do you think?)


I spent much of last night in the hospital with the parents of a little girl born last week. She is only about 1 lb and 6 oz, and she struggles. The parents struggle. It got me started thinking about the things I said in the opening of this thread. We all have our own cross to bear. Sometimes more than one. It's hard to trust that "All things will work together for our good" when we are in the middle of them. If we turn our faces to God though, and trust in him, he makes it turn out that way. He never makes mistakes, though sometimes we don't understand his methods, or his timing.

Kimmy, I know you'll get help. Just continue to do your best and hang on. We pray for you too.

Cinderella, it must be especially difficult to do it alone. I have a partner to help me, but you don't at this point in time. He is aware of your dreams too, and he wants your happiness as much as for any of the rest of us. I'm glad you keep on going, you are a good example to me. (Actually, everyone here is a good example to me, and I am thankful.)


IN closing -
Green Bagles?
I could go for that -

Pistachio?
Green Chili?
Spinach?

Now I'm hungry again.


Happy weekend everyone !!

SS

Actually, my project right now is to go online and blissfully brouse the online tours of local bed and breakfasts. My children--sniff--have been saving for months to send me on a mini-vacation. Working and earning every penny of it, and all for me. Sniff, sniff.

I can hardly wait to leave 'em.

LOL!!!

The donut shop where my daughter works has spinach parmesan bagles sometimes. I like those things. I bet green chilis in a bagel would be good. I know sun-dried tomato bagles are good.

She makes it sound like they've given her money out of the goodness of their little hearts. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> One of the many unattractive traits of attachment disorder children is their compulsion to steal anything that isn't nailed down, and some things that are. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> For every theft, they are required to work to earn money to pay back double what they stole. If she'd just wait a little while longer, she could go to Hawaii, but a bed and breakfast in the hand is apparently worth Waikiki in the bush. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Oh, a vacation for Neaksis, and Aussie coming home. Life is good.

Hi, Believer--I think I still have your address. You want Neak's new book? It's a sequel, of sorts, to the one you've already read. As far as Neaksis' vacation goes--let's just say that babysitting while she gallivants was NOT why I thought I was going off on disability!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l