Wed., 1/8/20...Read through some old journals of mine, taught kids at church in the evening

Very cold and windy day.  Walked 2 1/2 miles in the morning.  After reading the Bible, I cleaned the rooms and put away all the Christmas tubs and wrapping paper.  Nice to have that done.  In the evening, I taught my kids class at church. They were so good and it was a great lesson on the armor of God.  The kids each made a shield of Faith.  So much fun.  They are cute, because they don't want to go home when their parents come to pick them up.

Oh no....my very favorite slippers are wearing out.  I wear them all the time so I'm surprised they lasted this long.  I will be ordering a new pair for sure!

My kids with their shields.  They turned out so cute!

Tues., 1/7/20, Went to our breakfast, Went to Melissa's to visit her, Had small group tonight

We went to our breakfast. I went to visit Melissa afterward.  We had a nice visit and she showed me where she hung her metal flower wall decor I got her for Christmas.  It looks beautiful.  She also got a beautiful wall hanging from Bruce's mom and hung it in her kitchen by the table.  It looks beautiful too.  I left there and went to check and see if Kroger still had the game Ticket to Ride for half off.  They didn't.  Bummer.  I will have to keep checking.  I was going to pick one up for each of the girls and their family.  I was happy to see they are working on the stoplights by Melissa's.  They are putting one where her road comes out and also looks like they may be putting turn arrows up at the lights that were already up by the other road.  Yay!  Got home and Gene was over, and put a light in where we go down the basement steps.  He also put a light in by the back door.  There has always been a switch there that didn't work.  Come to find out, they had the wire tucked in and ready for him to hook up.  It goes off at dawn and comes on at dusk, or we can just turn it off.  Very nice! Cancelled spectrum today.  Not any channels I want to watch anymore.  Had 13 here for small group tonight.  We just had a meet and share testimony night and went over guidelines.  So touching to hear what God has done in their lives. We all prayed for Rich who will be having cancer surgery on the 15th.  God has already done so many miracles for him!   Eli texted me and told me he won at Ticket to Ride.  Way to go Elijah.  I texted him back quick while group was going on because I was so happy to hear from him.

Mon.,1/6/20, Walked 2 and 1/2 miles, Cold and windy morning,

I walked 2 and 1/2 miles.  Praying Bill starts walking again as it is so much healthier for him.  It's hard when you get out of the habit.  He took the Christmas tree downstairs and I vacuumed all of the needles that fell off from it and all the other garland we had used for decorations.   Cleaned the house and it sure feels good to have it done.  Bill went to Trinity Rider's Chapter meeting and wanted me to go, but I have something going on every night this week so just wanted to stay home and relax.  I had to call people on our small group list and let them know we start back tomorrow night.  Some I haven't met, so wanted to contact them before they came tomorrow night.  I talked to Melissa today to catch up with her, and also got calls from Peyton and Isaac letting me know they had blogs now.  Talked to Vikki too.  Got on and checked out their blogs and left them comments.  Cute kiddos!  Adam sent me a text letting me know he was home from school.  He said played Ticket to ride today and came in second.  Love that he sends me texts.  Started reading my book for this small group season's lessons.  Don't have to do a lesson until next week.  Drank some hot tea I got at the Mennonite store and is is so good.

Sunday, 1/5/20...Went to church, taught Sunday School, Went to Coty's for lunch

Snow we got today

I left early for church so I could set up my  Sunday school classroom and pray before I went to pray in the prayer room.  

Worship was great and one of my prayers this morning was confirmed in worship.  Love it when God does that.  Charlie and Sue visited a church this morning. After church we went with them and Roy and Marie to Coty’s Landing for lunch.  A lot of our friends from church were there, so we added a table to theirs so we could all eat and visit.  I kept looking at a kid with a hat on in the restaurant and thought it might be Cole.  He had a hat on, so I asked Bill if it was a CMU hat. He didn’t think so. Vi finally went up to the kid and it was Cole.  He gave me a big hug. We talked for a few minutes and he said he going into the Police Academy on Monday.  He is such a nice person.  I sure was happy it was him.  When we got home, we took a short nap in our recliners.  We got about an inch of snow, so everything is white now.  I talked to Vikki for a while and texted Adam for a while.  They sure are having fun playing Ticket to Ride.  Watched America’s Funniest Videos.

Sat., 1/4/20...Went to Sandusky for Chapter Meeting, Went to Mennonite Store in Snover,

Charlie, Bill, Isaac and Peyton made the Saginaw Township Community Schools Paper front page.
They honored the veterans on Veteran's Day this year!

My three 8 year olds plus Lucy and Lenny.  Evan got his turn to stay at Aunt Vikki's.  She said he was so good and so polite

Some of the good deals I got at the Mennonite Store in Snover.  This was a big package.  I split it up and got four nice size packs for the freezer.  Wonderful for $3.03

Another Great deal...precooked frozen chicken breasts.  Put these in ziplocks too.  We got other amazing deals.  Love going to Amish and Mennonite stores.

Charlie and Sue came over at 7:30 this morning and we left to go to Bikers Across the Thumb, our CMA chapter we are State Reps for in Sandusky.  What a wonderful group of people.  It was a small group, but they are doers.  Loved their outreach ideas and how kind they were to us. We had breakfast with them.  They took care of it without us knowing until it was done.   Praying for new members who love the Lord to join them.  We went to Snover afterward to the Mennonite Store.  We all did lots of shopping and got lots of deals.  We were going to eat there, but it was super busy, so we ate in Vassar instead.  We ate at a little Cafe right downtown.  We came home and took naps.

Then we watched some television and read our Bibles and did our lesson for Tues.  Adam said Jared loves playing Ticket to Ride too.  I figured he would.  

Friday, 1/3/20....Another fun family day, Kimmy came over, Vikki, Peyton and Isaac came over...I picked Jack up to come over

Jacob, Adam and Max eating lunch

Jack, Eli, Peyton and Isaac eating lunch

I got up early and got ready.  Adam was up when I came out.  We watched worship on the TV.  I read my Bible and prayed and by that time Max and Jacob were up. We ate breakfast.  I went to pick Jack up from Vikki's because she didn't have enough room in the back seat because she was bring Eli.  We stopped and got creamer.  I had called Kimmy to bring some, but since I had to make a trip to town, I got some.  We had a fun day...finished our 3-13 game and Peyton won.  We all watched a movie, and then ate lunch.  Then Vikki, Kimmy and I played Ticket to ride.  Then Vikki, Kimmy, Jacob, Adam and I played another game. Melissa, Bruce and Evan came to pick Jack and Max up and stayed for a short time.  Bruce had to go to a retreat at Bay Shore for the Board of Directors.  After they left, and we finished our game, everyone cleaned up, and then left.  Bill had to take Max to basketball practice, so I took the tree down while he was gone.  We watched the movie, The Ugly Dashund.  

Thurs., 1/2/20...Yay Kimmy and the boys came over. Jacob and Adam are spending the night and Eli is going to Aunt Bippi's

Kimmy, Jack, Bruce, Me, Max, Jacob and Melissa playing Ticket to Ride.  Melissa was the winner

Jacob and Adam

Me, Bill, Adam and Jacob at Tony's

Jacob with his hot fudge sundae.  Wow and these are small hot fudge sundaes.  

Adam

Papa with his hot fudge sundae

This is the final picture...Bill ate all of his, Adam ate most of his and Jacob had plenty left. So much fun with these grandsons

Jacob, Adam and Max

Bill, Max, Jacob, and Adam watching movies

Peyton, Lucy, Eli, Jack, Lenny and Isaac at Vikki's (I forgot to take pictures of them at my house today)

Isaac, Eli, Jack and Peyton

Eli

 Got ready and went to Aldi's to pick up pizza's, breadsticks, lunchmeat and salad stuff. Came home and Vikki, Peyton and Isaac got here.  Right afterwards, Kimmy and the boys got here.  What a fun day.  We played 3-13 and Melissa called and said they wanted to teach us how to play Ticket to Ride.  Melissa, Bruce, Jack and Max came over with the game.  Melissa, Kimmy, Me, Max, and Jacob played.  Bruce explained the game and dealt out the cards and handed them to us as we need them.  It was such a fun game.  Melissa was the winner, and Kimmy and I tied for 2nd place.  Max had to go to basketball practice for 2 hours.  He is spending the night here with Jacob and Adam.  As soon as he gets here we are going to teach Bill how to play Ticket to Ride.  Jacob, Adam, Bill and I went to Tony's for dinner.  We were so stuffed when we got done.  The boys were really happy when Max got back here.  They hung out in the family room for a while, then we played Ticket to Ride. Papa was the winner.   He got 5 more points than I did.  They watched movies after that.  Such great boys!  Love having them and watching them spend fun time together.