Tuesday, 2/17/26, Shampooed carpet, went grocery shopping, made two batches of vegetable soup, went to prayer group at church,

Rehvyn played with playdough for a long tome

Above before picture, below after haircut picture

He sure looks handsome! Love how it looks styled now!!

I was so surprised when I saw these pictures.  Nicely surprised though

This is my friends Grandson Kyle. Doesn’t he look like Travis? 

I got up early showered and did my hair.  I shampooed the family room again in areas where it looked like it needed a second go over.  It looks much better now.

I ate a hard boiled egg and had a Paczky Sister Carol ordered for me.  It was yummy!  We read our Bibles and did prayer books after that.  I talked to Melissa for a while.  Wookie got in to some trail mix so Kimmy told her to give him peroxide till he throws up.  After 3 times he finally threw up.  She talked to the et and they had her bring him into give him charcoal to make sure everything was cleaned out.  Bruce and her picked him up later and he was doing fine!  Thanking the Lord!  Glad we have an almost vet in the family!!!

I FaceTimed with Kenzie and Rehvyn for almost an hour. It was so much fun.  Rehvyn played with play dough for a long time and made shapes, then he pretended a car got stuck in the mud.  He would get his wrecker truck and pull it out. It did that lots of times.  He never threw any on the floor. He played so nicely with it.  

Bill had to go for lab work and I went to Aldi, Jack’s and Meijer for some groceries.  I came home and after groceries were hauled in, I made two batches of vegetable soup.  I made one batch with stew meat in it for Bill and I and to take some to Sue.  The other is for Kimmy, Vikki and whoever else comes tomorrow.  I will spit the left over of there’s between them since I will be gone on Friday.  I had 10 minutes left to simmer them when I had to leave for prayer group, so Bill finished for me.  

Prayer group was awesome.  Stephanie made each of us a beautiful bookmark with a scripture on it!  It was so sweet of her!  We worshipped and prayed for our Pastor and lots of people, plus our congregation!

I ate a bowl of soup when I got home.  Then I worked on my blog.

I talked and texted with all of the girls today

Monday, 2/16/26, Kimmy, Arnie and Vikki came in the morning, Melissa, Hailey, Eli, Vader and Wookie around 11:30, Vikki came back after work, Peyton, Isaac and Lucy came later, we gave Max his chair, went and met Maddy’s baby

 

Lydia and Evan went tubing instead of skiing 

Sunday, 2/15/26, Went to both services, went to H2O Restaurant in Bay City, took naps, Kimmy sent me pictures of Jared’s birthday cake experience from yesterday

Beautiful Birthday cake Kimmy made Jared, covered with candles representing his age.  Whew!

Jared glowing and looking very warm by all of those lit candles.  Below it looks like they came close to needing to evacuate  

We had fun today with friends Merijo and Greg, Shiela and Andy and Dennis at H2O Restaurant in Bay City!  

We went to both services at church today.  Pastor Ken was sick, so he stayed home, even though he tried to make it.  He let Pastor Dan know last night, then thought he could come this morning, the realized there was no way.  Pastor Dan did a great job and the message was an amazing one from the Word of God.  We prayed for Shelly after the first service.  Then

no one came up after the second service, but I ended up praying over Debbie D with Denise before she left to go to St. Charles.  I went and talked to Merijo for a while, and ended up praying over her too.  Then she prayed for me.  I love praying friends.

We were going to go see Maddy’s baby, but then she texted me and asked if we could come tomorrow instead, so that’s our plan.  I called Merijo because Greg had told Bill what restaurant they were going to, so I called to let her know we were able to join them there now.  It was a beautiful sunny day and the temperature was 45 when we got there.  We had a table by the window, so we overlooked the river.  We saw an eagle fly by.  We had a great visit and the food was delicious.  For Greg’s birthday, they brought out an elephant ear.  It was huge and they had little cute piles of whipped cream and chocolate to dip it in.  Greg cut a piece for all of us and put some of the whipped cream on our plates.  All 7 of us got good sized pieces.  Bruce would love that place.  I’m going to tell Melissa.  He loves elephant ears so it would be fun to go there on his birthday.

We came home and took a nap.  I had just woke up and Kimmy called.  I had to walk back in and get my phone and try not to wake Bill up.  We had a nice visit and I’m happy she is coming over tomorrow.  Eli is spending the night at Aunt Missy’s with the boys.  They all are off school tomorrow for President's day.

We read our Bibles and did our devotions/prayer books.  We each had a bowl of orange jello with mandarin oranges in it for a snack.  We are both still full from lunch.

I made a couple of trips to the basement to take our step stool from the laundry room down and also my big box of Starbucks Dark Brew coffee pods.  We got a taller step stool like the one we love in our camper for upstairs.  I still need to take a big package of paper towels we got at Costco down.  That will happen tomorrow.  I fed my fish while I was down there.  

Worked on the blog and now going to work some on running off some prayers Vikki gave me so I can put them in my new Bible.  If I can’t figure it out, I know the girls will help me tomorrow.  They did Kimmy’s Friday.  Then I am going to worship to so good worshipful music.  

 

Saturday, 2/14/26, Happy Birthday to Jared! We love you! Happy Valentine’s Day, went to Faith Riders meeting, went to Costco, went to Scoops with Bill and Sabrina,

Jared after he opened his funny birthday present from me
Below is a video of Jared opening his gift.  It is a water storage container for their carpet shampooer.  It has a note on it saying, DO NOT PUT BOILING WATER IN ME.  I WILL MELT!!!!  He did that to their old one and it did melt.  Melissa and I read in the Manuel where it says at least 2 times not to put boiling water in it.  At least 

If you look at the bottom dirty water container you can see how dirty it is.  Kimmy only used water too.  No carpet cleaner.  WOW!  That’s how dirty my family room was too.  They are great shampooers when you don’t melt the parts lol.

Peyton and her friend Br having fun 

Vikki, Michelle, Bridgette, Peyton

Pretty picture of Kenzie with the rainbow reflecting on her

Isaac training for the video team at church.  He will be videoing the service tomorrow

Rody and Vikki celebrating their anniversary and Valentine’s day.  Their anniversary was yesterday, but they got too full eating here, so waited til today to go to Cracker Barrel.

Rehvyn really excited watching the paper Mache’ volcano erupt

We got ready, then went to Faith Rider’s Chapter meeting. We ate breakfast and had good fellowship first.  Then we had a good meeting with lots of sharing about upcoming events and a great message from Chaplain Elaine.  We sat by Wes, Gayla and Luis.  

We came home and got a Costco Reward check they sent us, then went to Costco and used it on a large box of Starbucks Keurig cups.  We picked up some other things too.  It was fun walking around and boy did they have the samples today.  Lots of good ones including amazing candy because it was Valentines Day.  Kimmy called me while we were in there to show me how much dirt she got out of the carpet now that they have the part they needed for their shampooer.  It’s amazing how much dirt comes out.

When we got out in the Jeep, we called Jared and sang Happy Birthday to him and wished him a Happy Birthday.  He sure is a wonderful son-in-law!  Sabrina texted me and they want to meet us for ice cream at 2, so we headed home, had about 15 minutes to rest a little and then left to meet them.  We went to Scoops and all of us except Sabrina had hot fudge sundaes.  She had a cup of Lemon cheesecake ice cream that she said was super delicious.  We had a great visit and stayed there over an hour.  We prayed for Bill as he is going to retire and has some anxiety about it.  Bill encouraged him about retirement too.  They are great friends.  We have had much answered prayer from the Lord praying in agreement with them.  

We came home and read our Bibles and devotion/ prayer books.  Then we took a nap.  That sure felt good.  After that, I warmed up my half of breakfast sandwich from this morning and Bill had chicken strips.  We weren’t too hungry after snacking at Costco and ice cream.

I did two loads of laundry.  I also organized the food storage shelf in the utility room.  We got a taller stool at Costco which works great for reaching high shelves.  It’s nice and light too.

Almost forgot....I walked a mile on the walking pad today at 3 mph.  Listened to awesome worship music while I walked.

Bill relaxed and I worked on my blog.  

 

Friday, 2/13/26, Baby Chandler went home today!!! Kimmy, Eli, Arnie, Vicki, Melissa, Wookie, came over, Rody came after he got out of work early, 40 degree day!,

Eli relaxing with Arnie

Melissa came over and brought Wookie

Wookie is sound asleep lol

Arnie is sound asleep too...These puppies are so easy to have around

Dinner tonight was chicken strips, baked potatoes and corn

Yay, so happy baby Chandler got to go home today.  3 weeks has been a long time for him and his family to have him in the hospital.  Here he is with his mommy

Here he is with his daddy

 I got up at 7:20.  Moved the furniture back into the family room and put toys and other things back where they go.  Got the dough going to make rolls for Sue.  The bread was on when I got up and it finished at 11:40 which is when I set the time for.  

Kimmy and Eli got here at about 9:40.  Arnie came with them which made us all happy today. Vikki got here after she dropped the kids off at school.  We drank our coffee and sat in the family room and visited.  We ate some Lorna Doones.  Arnie was so good.  He is definitely Kimmy’s dog, so Vikki held him and Kimmy left the room and he got used to Vikki.  I took him for a few walks around the house where he couldn’t see Kimmy and he did really well until he heard her talk.  Then he got excited and started pulling the leash.  I picked him up and carried him around a couples times.  He is such a sweet dog.  I made a pizza for Eli and the rest of us had homemade bread with chicken salad on them for our sandwiches.  They were big sandwiches so we all got full.  Rody got out of work early, so Vikki asked him if he wanted to come here for lunch too.  He did, so he got here right after we finished eating.  I had wrapped his bread in aluminum foil so it would keep warm for him.  I talked to him while he ate.  I put the rolls I made out of the dough on a cookie sheet to raise.  Then we all visited in the family room after Melissa came and brought Wookie.  The dogs did great together.  It was cute seeing them play with the toys.  Kimmy helped me figure out stuff on my blog that went wrong and got it working again and Rody helped me with another problem.  Yay!  Happy to have people in the family who know about computer stuff.  Kimmy and Eli had to leave at 2:30.  Jared had and appt. with Apple to return something he got that isn’t working, but he has to go to Lansing.  They are going to see Jacob to give him his Vallentine’s present.  They are probably going to show Abi the new puppy too.

Vikki and Rody left to celebrate their anniversary.  They have been married 23 years.  That sure went by fast.  It was nice getting to spend time with them today.  Happy Anniversary you two!  We love you!

Melissa left 15 minutes later to go pick the boys up from school.  We were all glad she could come over for a while today too.  We got some great news from Hailey.  As soon as I know she had told everyone herself, then I can share it.  

I baked Sue’s rolls and let Bill try two of them and I had one.  I wrapped up the rest and put them in a freezer bag and took them to her house.  We visited for a while and I was glad to see she is doing good.  Her niece and husband are going to Florida next week for a couple of months.   I told Sue I could help her get her groceries, etc.  They are always a big help to her when they are here.

I made chicken strips, baked potatoes and corn for dinner.  We haven’t had them for a while so they sure tasted good.  We had a zoom meeting with our Area Reps at 7.  Bill couldn’t figure out how to get the camera on his new computer to work for it, but he could use his phone camera.  Very weird.  The meeting went well.  After the meeting, he worked more on it and got the camera working right.  Yay!

I read my Bible and did my prayer books.  Bill read his this morning when the kids were here.

Thursday, 2/12/26, Bill went to meet Jim F. at the VA, I vacuumed furniture, dusted, and shampooed carpet in family room, Bill booked hotel for our State Coordinator weekend, fed the birds,

Rehvyn showing me how he rides is inside bike.  Kenzie FaceTimed me this morning.  It was so much fun talking to them both and seeing Rehvyn ride his bike, eat lots of good stuff for him, and watch him with Katniss.

Ready, set, go!

Such a cute great grandson

He’s holding Katniss and waving to me

Cutest smile

He showed me how he brushes his teeth.  He sure does a great job! 

I shampooed the carpet and it turned out so nice.

We got up at 9 again.  I love my new pillow.  I sleep so good with it.  Vikki is sleeping great with hers too and Bill just got one yesterday and he slept good with his.  Sometimes I wake up in the night and just thank God for how comfy I am.  I especially appreciate it after  and not being able to sleep good.  I had cereal for breakfast and my coffee.

Bill left to go meet Jim Flickinger for breakfast at  after Jim’s   He found a nice motel for a good rate and booked it today.  I listened to worship music for a while, then read my Bible reading for the day and did my prayer books.

I ate lunch after that.  Just ate a hard boiled egg, some cottage cheese and a couple of pieces of cut cheese leftover from the 

  After lunch, I got busy in the family room vacuuming the furniture, dusting, and moving stuff out so I could shampoo the carpets.  The carpet was really dirty and the water was black.  It cleaned up super nice. I also washed the outside windows again.  Happy to have one room really clean!  Now to move on to the next room.  We are going to have some warm weather which makes cleaning lots more fun for me.  

I went outside and filled the bird feeders.  I looked to see where the bird feeder Kimmy and family got me for Christmas was since a squirrel knocked it down earlier today.  I didn’t see it out the window, so I looked when I fed the birds, but somehow missed it.  I saw it out there when I got back in and looked out the window.  

I went out to the too, to find my for my friend, Cindy, so she can bling it up for me like she did hers.  I didn’t find it.  I have until Saturday.  It might be in the motorcycle.  Bill started the motorhome up and let it run for a little while.

Bill was reading his Bible.  I put my air buds in and listened to worship music while I walked a mile on the.  I went 2.8, and moved the speed up to 2.9 mph.  If I go three, my knee starts hurting a little and I am trying to get it completely healed up.  It’s a mazing one or two points makes a difference.  I will be up to 3 again soon.  

I heated up our last container of in the freezer.  It tasted so good.  I will have to make more and freeze it.  I put the ingredients in both for dough.  I am going to make bread to have with chicken salad tomorrow and also taking rolls to Sue.  

I talked to Vikki for a while.  Then Melissa called so I hung up from Vikki and answered her call.  I figured she was calling to do our and I was right.  We did it together again and it was so good.  It’s fun to do together and means a lot.  Jack was making his and Melissa was pretty excited about it.  She said he makes them really good.  

Wed., 2/11/26, Cooler day than yesterday, but still 30 degrees, Ate breakfast, did daily Bible reading, washed shelves on side of fireplace, called Sue,

Took everything off the shelves on the sides of the fireplace and washed off the shelves and washed the stuff on the shelves.  There was soot from the kernel burner on everything.

Gloomy day. At least it got up to 30

Kimmy sent me these cute pictures of Arnie today  

Eli with Basil and Arnie

Arnie sure is cute

Jacob and Arnie

Nana with Arnie

We slept in until 9 today.  I ate breakfast, some yogurt with granola and some toast and drank my coffee. Bill started reading his Bible right away.  After I finished eating, I read my Bible and then did my prayer books.  I put some good worship music on.  I decided it was a good day to take everything off the shelves by the fireplace and wash them and then wash the shelves.  I dusted them first and the swiffer duster was black.  Then I wiped them down with wet paper towels and they were black.  I am thankful to just have a clean easy fireplace insert now.  Tomorrow I am planning on shampooing the carpet in the family room.  

I saw there was a prayer request for Sue on our church prayer page, so I called her to see how she was doing.  She thinks she broke a rib trying to stop her washing machine from shaking because it was unveil.  She put her full weight on it, lying across it trying to get it to quit making so much noise while it was shaking.  She was in some pain, but is doing ok.

We are making plans to go out to lunch next week.  Bill and I watched Olympic Dance Ice Skating after I hung up from Sue.  There sure are amazing skaters now.  USA took the Silver!  The did a really great performance.  

I practiced saying my memory verse and got it down.  We went to Bible Study at 6:30.  It was a good lesson on the Holy Spirit.  Everybody in my group was there.  Bill had two people missing in his group.  

We came home and relaxed and I worked on the blog.