9/26/18...Thought the workers were coming, but they didn't show up like they said. Took Melissa to therapy, Went over my lesson for my class, Took stuff and dropped it off at His Restoration, Taught my Class

Jacob texted me this picture today.  It is so beautiful!  I love how he sends me texts.  What a great kid he is!

Hailey....#4.  Way to Go Hailey!  Keep winning those games!

Hailey in the center

I got up early and got ready.  Bob said the guys would be hear to put grout in the shower where they missed a couple spots, but they didn't come.  I took Melissa to therapy at 8:15.  Came back home and got some stuff done around the house.  Picked Melissa up from therapy.  At 1:30 I went and picked Hailey up from school.  She volunteered in Sebewaing so those kids got to leave school when they got back at 1:30.  She washed windows inside and out for her job.  They ate at a Chinese restaurant, but she ate American....a hamburger.  Went to Salvation Army on my way home. I was looking for a leather jacket, but didn't find one.  After I got home, Lisa from His Restoration called me back, so I took the baby stuff Vikki Eddy had given me to donate there and dropped it off.  I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and exchanged your soap dispenser because it leaked at the top.  Made chicken noodle soup and sandwich for lunch for us.  Went over m lesson again. Bill went to Hailey's game, but I couldn't because I had my class to teach.  He sent me his pictures though.  She and her team won both games.  They are doing great.  They played Hemlock tonight.  My class went great.  Love my kiddos.  No more surprise box this year because I am rotting teaching and only teach every 4th week.  Sure made it easier and the kids didn't even care when I told them.  That's the first thing they had asked me about.  Great kiddos! Sure seems funny not having and grandkids in my class this year.  Nice seeing Peyton and Isaac in Large group and in the hallway though.  Kathleen Cronin was my helper and did a great job.

9/25/18...Went to our breakfast, Came home and made chicken noodle soup, Melissa and Vikki Eddy came for lunch, Bill got our helmets hooked up so we can talk to each other, Went to Rescue Mission Dinner, Ron Wells was speaker

Peyton, Evan and Isaac

These three being silly

Playing with legos

Giving me nice smiles

Peyton being silly

Cheryl and Elaine in picture.  Charlie, Sue, me, Wes, Gayla, Don,  and Mike were all at a table together.  

Ron Wells who wrote the book, Same Kind of Different As Me, was the speaker at the Rescue Mission Dinner tonight.  He did a great job.  I had just watched the movie for the second time a couple of nights ago.  

Went to our breakfast at Sullivans.  There were nine of us there.  Came home and made chicken noodle soup and then went to Melissa's to pick her up and bring her to my house to have lunch with my best friend, Vikki Eddy and I. We had the soup and turkey sandwiches with bread I picked up from the Mennonite Store that was delicious.  We had a nice lunch and a wonderful visit.  She brought a gift for Melissa from her and Terry, Shane and Shannon.  Lots of cleaning supplies, lots of beautiful towels and a $50 gift certificate to Meijer's.  Melissa was so happy.  I gave Vikki the dryer balls Kimmy had made for her, and she was very happy.  She had a surprise bag and money for the dryer balls for Kimmy too. She brought some things for Vikki to use in her jewelry making and a fun flower punch out book for her and Peyton to do. Vikki left to go to her brothers at about 2.  I called her to tell her I forgot to give her a piece of pie and told her she could come back.  She was thinking it was going to take longer to get to her brothers house.  It was only 5 minutes away though and when she got there she had forgotten to give me some things she had for me and some bags to draw pictures on and color.  She came back and had her pie and stayed for a while longer to visit with us.  She sure is an amazing friend from the Lord to me.  Bill worked on putting our headsets in our new helmets for the motorcycle.  It will be great to be able to talk to each other while we are riding and also listen to music.  Vikki came with Peyton, Isaac and Evan and then she and Melissa went to visit , Lynn, a friend of ours in the hospital.  I watched the kids while they went.  They had a wonderful visit and came back and picked up the kids and left for home.  I got ready and went to the Rescue Mission Dinner.  Bill was supposed to go, but messed up on the dates and though he had something going on, so cancelled.  Then he found out he had the dates wrong and could have gone.  No more tickets at our table though so he stayed home.  We all had a great time and it's such a great cause.  I was happy the real life person, from the movie, Same Kind of Different as me was there.  I had just watched the movie for the second time.  Someone played his part in the movie, but at the end it showed the real people.  He had such a great story and lots of amazing things to share.  There were 9,000 people there and they streamed it also.  We had delicious food and fantastic dessert.  So nice to be there with such great friends.  

9/24/18..Took Melissa to therapy, found screw in tire so got new tires, Went to Hailey's Volleyball game in Frankenmuth

Found this in my tire when I picked Melissa up to take her to therapy

Hailey on the left at her volleyball game in Frankenmuth

Hailey in action

Valley won both games

Went to Melissa's at 8 to take her to therapy.  When she was getting in the car, I saw a big screw in the tire.  I took her to therapy and then went to Discount Tire.  I called Bill because they measured the tread and said I needed new tires.  It was going to be two hours and I needed to pick up Melissa from therapy, so Bill came and waited for my car while I took his truck to Melissa's house and got her van to pick her up.  It would have been really hard to get her in the truck.  Bruce told me to take the van whenever I need it when I called him.  I picked Melissa up, and when we got to her house, Bill had dropped my car off and picked up his truck.  Yay, I love my car.  I took back some things I needed to return to Walmart, Hobby Lobby and Michaels.  Bill did lots of trimming in the back yard and mowed some of the grass. I picked up Max and Evan from school.   Bill had an elder's meeting at church and I finally got to go to Hailey's Volleyball game.  She and her team won both games and played great.  I got some great deals on candy bars at Krogers today, so took Bruce an Almond Joy and Melissa, Evan and I Milky Ways.  Watched a Hallmark Movie.

Went to church, Hailey and I went to Coco Loco's for lunch, Went to Walmart and covered the money collection while Bill took a break and checked on the guys at the other doors.

Max, Hailey and Evan

Hailey eating our appetizer at Coco Loco's

Hailey after our food came

Went to church.  They sang "This Is How I Fight My Battles" with words from Psalm 23.  Our worship was amazing.  Also Sang "I Will Trust In You" which was amazing too.  L.A. Joiner was there today and gave a wonderful message. We had a meeting for our Wednesday night teachers with Joan after service.  I picked Hailey up after church and we went for some Nana time to Coco Loco's.  She's been so busy with School, Volleyball Practice and games that I have been missing her.  Hailey got her usual Nacho Bell Grande and I got a fajita platter.  Their food is delicious there.

We had a fun time visiting and watching the soccer game on the TV.  We came back to my house and then she helped me take my pop cans in on the way to take her home.  What a fun granddaughter and very helpful too.  Went to Walmart after I took her home, so I could sit by the collection bucket for Bill while he took a break and checked on the guys collecting at Sam's Club and the other Walmart Door.  It got pretty warm and very sunny.  He came back to bring a pop and let me go to the car and get my sunglasses.  I left and went to get a small fan at Best Buy.  Watched the Movie, Same Kind of Different as Me.  

9/22/18..Finished shampooing the stairs, Took Max to his appointment, Hailey and her team took 1st place in the silver bracket in the volleyball tournament.

Peyton playing at the park

Peyton

Peyton

Peyton at McDonalds....she wanted me to send this picture to Papa because of the word cheese on the wall

Peyton at the top of the big slide

My view from my hammock

Peyton and Max

Max the banana

Hailey, Jack, Max and Evan

Hailey in the back closest corner in her volleyball game

Hailey and her volleyball team.  They got 1st place in the silver bracket

We ate our oatmeal for breakfast and then Bill went to collect money for the Marine Corp League and I finished shampooing the carpet on the stairs.  I got ready and went and picked Max up for his appointment in Cass City.  We picked up Vikki and Peyton on our way.  Stopped at Tim Horton's and Vikki treated me to a French Vanilla Ice Capp.  I signed Max into his appointment and then Vikki, Peyton and I went to eat at Nick's Country Oven.  She had a Texas burger and onion rings which she said was the best burger she's ever had and I had the Turkey Slim Jim and Fries.  Peyton had breakfast.  We went to the Mennonite Store after that.  On our way, we saw a mennonite farmer with his horse, working in the field.  Peyton thought that's pretty cool to see.  We got to the store and it's always fun to walk through the store.  We both found a great round steak.  Happy I had a stay cold bag from Aldi's and an ice pack.  

I got a few other things too and we each got a plastic little dish scraper.  Peyton got tic tags and one to take to Isaac.  Went and hung out at the park by where Max's appointment was after that.  We hung our hammocks up and relaxed while we watched Peyton play.  She came and got in Vikki's with her after she was done playing.   We had an hour before we had to go pick up Max.  After we picked him up, we went to Good Will in Caro.  We had fun looking, but didn't find anything.  Max tried on a banana costume.  Peyton tried on angel wings.  

9/21/18...They got the cabinet in the bathroom, Took Melissa to therapy, Went to dinner at Bob Evans with Rich and Pat and then to a movie

So happy our cabinet is in and the bathroom is finished!

John was very happy when I went to visit him today.  Family was coming to take him to the Olive Garden.  He was sweet and invited me to go too, but I couldn't

This morning when the workers got here at 7:30, I was prepared and ready.  They filed on the cabinet.  Rick yelled, Oh no Penny, you better come her quickly.  I hurried thinking something awful had happened.  When I got in the bathroom, they said, It's all in and showed me that the cabinet was in.  They got a good laugh.  It looks beautiful and sure holds lots of stuff.    I made Bill his oatmeal and then made mine.  I was carrying it into the dining room, and I dropped the bowl.  It went flying and there was oatmeal, raisins and nuts all over the table, all over the chair and on the carpet I had just shampooed yesterday.  It was almost as bad as Bill's chili spill on the carpet.  I scraped it up with a putty scraper, then wiped everything down and shampooed the carpet in that spot again. I used my spin mop and scrubbed the kitchen and utility room floors.   I ended up skipping breakfast and making lunch after all that.  Then I went to Melissa's to take her to therapy.  Did a few things at her house for her and then we left.  I went to Menard's, The $ Store and Walmart while she was at therapy.  Went to see John at the rehab too.  Had a nice visit and took him for a walk around the rehab.  Sure is a big place.  Came home for about 10 minutes.  Put chairs, etc. back in place since the floors were dry.  Picked Melissa up and took her home.  Came home and started shampooing the steps so I could get whatever was tracked up the steps out.  Got half way done and had to quit so we could go meet Rich and Pat at Bob Evans.  Ate and then came home for a little while because we had time before the movie started and they wanted to see our bathroom.  We went and saw Unbroken, Path of Redemption.  It was a true story and was very good. 

j9/20/18...The workers surprised us and came at 7:30 this morning. Went to pick up Melissa to spend time together, Shampooed carpets, Went to help residents Community Village play Bingo

The first time I used the bowl holder was this morning and it worked great.  How easy to get it out of the microwave

Yay, I shampooed the living room carpet and our bedroom carpet.  Sure is nice to have all that powdery dust from them working out of the carpet.  It cleaned up so nice

Couldn't sit outside while Melissa was here because it was raining, but it  sure was nice later in the afternoon.  Love sitting outside!

Siting under our pergola

Bill calling the Bingo numbers.  I purposely didn't take pictures of the residents.  There were quite a few there, but not as many as usual.  I guess word has to get out again

I got up before my alarm went off.  I shut the bathroom door to our bedroom so the light wouldn't get in Bill's eyes.  I just washed my hair, had my pj's on and I heard a knock at the back door.  I looked out and saw the workers, Rick and his brother.  Couldn't believe they were here that early without calling.  I unlocked the door (they were by the garage door by then so I unlocked the porch door, and headed upstairs quickly so they wouldn't see me.  Rick kept talking to me.  Good thing I had clothes upstairs to change into.  Then he wanted me to come out to the garage to show him where I wanted the knob to go on the cabinet.  I told him I had to rinse the cream rinse out of my hair first.  I wrapped a towel on my head and went out.  They couldn't even get the cabinet in because a couple of the tile edges were cut a little crooked.  They needed a sander, but they left their sander at home.  Bill didn't have an electric sander for them to use so they are coming back tomorrow.  They did get the hinges and knob on the cabinet and it looks beautiful.  I will be up and ready super early tomorrow.  It should be their last day!  After they left, I ate and then went and picked up Melissa.  We listened to some worship music and then went through some old pictures.  So much fun doing that.  We used to always do that with my mom when we had printed pictures.  What a great memory.  We ate meatloaf sandwiches for lunch and then I took her home, so she would be home if Vikki stopped over after work.  I came home and shampooed the living room and our bedroom carpet.  Love having clean carpets once again and having all the powdery white dust gone.  It sure cleaned up great.  So thankful to have my own shampooer.  Ate dinner and then we went to Community Village to help the residents with Bingo.  So much fun for us and for them.  Wes, Gayla, Luis, Eva, Mark, Bill and I were there from Faith Riders.  Came home and Kevin Beemer came over to take to Bill about joining CMA.  He stayed for quite a long time.  I watched a Hallmark Movie.  Melissa just showed me Hailey and Mia's text to each other.  Mia was testing Hailey to pray for her dad because he was in an accident.  She wanted Hailey to face time her but Hailey was at a game and couldn't and when the game was done Mia was at the hospital and couldn't.  Love that they know how important prayer is..  Please pray for Mia's dad.