Monday, 2/10/25, Slept in til 8:45, 7 degrees and windy when I got up, filled bird feeders, BFF Vikki called me, Got things done that needed to be done

The blossoms on the Crown of Thorns just keep getting bigger and more keep coming.  So fun to watch

Strawberry Greek Yogurt and granola for breakfast.  

Made a yummy Cappuccino this morning with peppermint and chocolate drizzle on top.  It tastes so good in my Kimmy mug.

I didn’t wake up once last night.  It was 1 am when we went to bed.  I woke up at 8:45 and  checked my phone to see if Maddy was still coming over, but she let me know she was coming down with a cold so we are waiting until next week.  I went back to sleep for a while and still got up before Bill.  I took a nice long shower and played amazing worship music.   

I went out and filled the bird feeders that needed filling.  I sent Lourdes a picture of the Bird seed the cardinals like.  She had asked me to yesterday.  I texted with her and Fred for a while, and thanked them again for the fun time.  

Bill and I had left over pizza for dinner.  We also had left over banana cream pudding dessert.  Nice not having to cook tonight.  I ordered a watch band for my friend Cathy.  I let her try mine and she could get it on herself with practice.  

I texted with Maddy for a while.  She sent me a cute video of her kiddo’s having fun.

In the evening,  my BF, Vikki, called me.  She had lots to tell me about her dad passing away and how God moved.  

Melissa called so I talked to her for a while.

 

Sunday, 2/9/25, went to prayer, then in to church service, went to Fred and Lourdes’s for Super Bowl party

Cardinals were really pretty in the snowy branches

Hailey, Bruce, Bill, and Lourdes at the table!  Melissa and I were on the couch 

Abi and Jacob

Jacob, Abi, Fred, Evan, Eli and Adam

Fred and Adam

Eli and Fritzy

Evan and Eli

Evan and Adam
  

We went to prayer, than into the church service.  Worship and prayer were awesome! Pastor gave a great message on family and how God has to be at the center.  We prayed for people at he alter after service.  We went to Taco Nell after church.  Bill had a gift card.  I hadn’t been there in a long time so it tasted really good.  We got our free senior drinks.  When we got home I made brownies and two banana cream pudding desserts.  Bill and I read our Bibles, then he plowed the driveways and shoveled sidewalks and the deck.  

We went to Fred and Lourdes’s house for Mexican food Lourdes made and for pizza,  We all hung out, Jacob went and picked up Abi, and then we ate.  We sat around talking until the Superbowl started.  Hailey, Lourdes, me, Melissa,  and Bruce sat on the sectional couch downstairs.  Their dogs sat with us too!  They are sweet dogs.  Kimmy, Jared, Jacob, Abi, Adam, Eli, Evan, Bill and Fred were watching in the family room upstairs..  The Chiefs didn’t start off well.  They ended up being beat 22-40.  The Eagles played amazingly.  We all had a really fun time.  Fred made up two game sheets so the kids and then us adults could initial 10 squares, more than that for the kids.  All the kids but Adam won.  They sure had fun.  We all left after that.  

 

Sat.,2/8/25, Went to Faith Riders Meeting, Went to Melissa’s, went to Kroger, went to Vikki’s, Bill went to Jackson,

Jack at play practice

Barb’s birthday is this month so she got to wear the birthday hat while we sang to her

Evan....he’s outside without shoes

Rehvyn was so cute today.  He sure is saying lots of words now

Nana and Rehvyn

 

It was so much fun watching all of these Cardinals today.  There were at least 18. The last picture has 13 in it.  They were so beautiful!

Evan sent this video to me.  He sure is amazing!
 

We got ready and went to Faith Rider’s Chapter meeting.  We had a good breakfast and wonderful fellowship and a great meeting.  I am so thankful for all of the kind and loving friends that belong to this chapter.  I put Abi on the prayer list.  Bill shared his vision this morning.  He had to leave earlier than I did because he had to take a USB drive to Jackson for them to use for their officer’s training today.  I stayed home because I’ve been gone so much, I needed to get things done.  Wes told me he and Gayla were headed to Vikki’s to have Rody help him with his phone.  

I went to Kroger and got the stuff I needed to make Banana Cream Pudding Dessert for at Fred’s tomorrow for the Super Bowl party.  I stopped at Melissa’s to drop off canning jars for Bruce.  I talked to Jack and Evan for a few minutes, and remembered to take a picture.  I went to Vikki’s after that to visit her and see Rehvyn.  He is just the cutest!  He smiles so much, plays so cute, and talks so cute.  He held his arms up right away for me to pick him up.  I got to see my sweet Peyton too!  She didn’t want me to take a picture because her hair wasn’t done. 

When I got home, I read my Bible and worshipped to great worship music.  I enjoyed watching the birds after that.  There were so many and I was amazed at all of the cardinals that were here at one time.  I wish I could have gotten all 18 in one picture, but the most I could get was 13.

When Bill got home, I made eggs, potatoes, sausage and toast.  Later on we had banana splits with hot fudge on them, plus other toppings.  Yum!  I made the pudding for tomorrow’s dessert.  It is snowing pretty hard outside and we already have 2 inches.  It will be a beautiful sight in the morning.  

 

Friday, 2/7/25, Went to Cathy’s, Cathy and I went to Brittany’s, had a Zoom meeting with CMA Michigan area reps/goodie reps

Brittany’s chicken coop....Her hubby has cut lots of wood from trees that fell in their woods.

                                                                                     

Beautiful eggs from Brittany

Tim put a pipe around their bird feeder to keep squirrels off. It was working.  There were three Blue Jays on this feeder at the same time.

I got ready and went to stay with Cathy again today.  I’ve bern praying that God would help her do something better that she couldn’t do well.  Yesterday it was getting up off from the couch by herself three times.  She didn’t struggle with it either.  She just gave the right push up with her legs.  

I made us toast with avocado spread on it for our breakfast.  We watched the 700 Club and prayed with them when they were praying for the sick.  We decided to go to Brittany’s to visit and get some eggs while we were there, because Brittany said she had lots.  I needed to help her get in the car at her house.  When we got to Brittany’s house, she got out of the car really well other than needing me to pull her up.  It was nice seeing Brittany and her two daughters.  They were really cute.  Her 3 year old, stood on a stool and rinsed all the dishes and handed them to Brittany to put in the dishwasher.  She did it carefully and well with a smile on her face.   Her other daughter, drew pictures and did some work on writing letters.  She did a great job too.  When Cathy was ready to leave, we said goodbye to the girls and Britt, a. gave hugs and headed back to Cathys.

Cathy wanted me to come down to the basement with her.  Today she walked down the basement steps ahead of me so well and went up again well too.  I was amazed to see the difference from the day before. She wanted to give me some salmon they caught when Salmon fishing in the fall.  They have given us some before and it is so delicious.  Looks like this will be delicious too.  We made spaghetti sauce with venison and mushrooms when we went back upstairs.  I am so thankful for this dear friend who is family in our hearts.  Before I left, she asked me if I brought my Bible again and when I told her yes, she asked me to read it to her.  It was a very blessed day.

We ate when I got home, then we had a zoom meeting with all of our Area Reps and our goodie reps. It went well and we are sure thankful we have such great friends that do so much to help out.  Dave and Chrissy, our prayer leads, were able to join us too.  He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer throughout his body back in early summer.  He is doing good and will also be coming for our Seasons of Refreshing for 2 days.  We are thanking God for this amazing miracle.  God is so awesome!

We had tangerines for our snack tonight.  They are so good and so easy to peel.

Kimmy let us know Jacob was at the ER with Abi.  She was in a lot of pain and they think it is another cyst.  They gave her medicine and and will be doing an ultrasound to check for cysts.  We are all praying for her and waiting to hear updates.

Thursday, 2/6/25, Went to spend the day with Cathy, snow covered slippery roads, 35 degrees as a high, very windy

 I got ready, then left early to go to Cathy’s.  It’s a good thing I left early.  I slid in places, but was going very slow.  Cathy and I ate toast with Avocado oil on it for breakfast.  It was so good.  We did some cleaning, and I put all of the pictures she had in a box back out.  She had packed them away in order to put her Christmas decorations out.  I read the Bible and she asked me if I would read it out loud.  Of course I wanted to.  We read John 9 and John 10.  I prayed over her afterward.  We had good talks and had some laughs.  We did a big load of laundry and got it done before I left.  We had cabbage buns for dinner.  She really liked them and was happy she could hold them good.   She was able to get up from the couch almost every time today.  I only had to help her a couple of times.  She wasn’t able to do that yesterday.  God is answering prayer.  

When I got home, Bill had the dishwasher all emptied for me.  I made him a couple of cabbage buns and he had some Oreos.  

I talked to Melissa a couple of times today.  Bruce’s hand is painful when it is in the splint, but not when it is out of it.  I will be happy when he is pain free.  

Wed., 2/5/25, Kimmy and Vikki came over, Marie and Roy came for dinner,

Vikki sent me a picture of the cabbage buns she made. They look so good.  

Vikki came over to drop off lids to some totes she gave me.  She said hi to Marie and Roy and then took this picture for us

I got up early so I would be ready and have the coffee made when the girls came.  They came a little later today.  We visited, drank coffee and ate blueberry muffins.  Vikki brought some storage containers for Bird feed I asked her to pick up for me.  She and Kimmy have some like it.  I filled those while the girls looked for Bill’s dog tags with him.  I found my dad’s, but we haven’t found Bill’s yet.  We ate veggie Lasagna and Mac and cheese for lunch.

After lunch Kimmy started cleaning out one of my kitchen cupboards with mostly canned goods in it.  Vikki and I assisted in getting rid of stuff and bagging up what was going in the trash,  Lots of stuff went bye bye.  Kimmy pulled the slide out shelves out and washed them, then organized the cupboards nicely when she put the stuff back in.  Vikki helped me make Cabbage buns.  I spread out the dough and she put the spoonful of burger, cabbage and onion on.  Then I wrapped the dough around it.  We made 2 batches. I told Vikki she could take the extra meat mixture home and make some.  She stopped at Good Times Pizza and picked up dough so she would have everything she needed.   Vikki said they were so good.  Kimmy cleaned out the pantry cupboard while we baked them.  She organized it so well and also got rid of lots of old stuff.  I will have to do better at keeping up with using things before they expire.  I sure appreciated those sweet daughters today and all they did for me.  

They left early and went to some stores and also picked Peyton and Isaac up from school.  

Marie and Roy came over around 3, after her doctor appt.  We visited, then we ate cabbage buns, salad, applesauce and then had banana cream pudding for dessert.  Roy and Marie brought the pie.  It sure was yummy!  We sat and visited lots afterward.  Before they left, we prayed over Marie, then we prayed over Roy, then Roy prayed over Bill and I.  He’s 89 and sure is a prayer warrior.  So is Marie.  They are huge blessings in our life.  It was cute when Roy said a couple of times to Marie that they should leave, and Marie said we aren’t in any hurry.  Then Roy would just laugh so cute.  He reminds me a lot of my dad.  So easy going and a fun personality.  Roy took Marie’s wheelchair out, then I walked next to Marie so she could hold on to my arm if she needed to.

It was a fun day and with the girls here, lots got done.  I am blessed with family and friends who are like family.

 

Tues., 2/4/24, Bill had 8 a.m. dentist appt., I picked up sample med from my doctor’s office, I had dentist appt. at 1,

There were five cardinals sitting on the branch that has two on it in the picture.  They moved when I took this picture, but are still 5 in the picture.  One is behind the Gazebo and you can only see a little spot of red.  

Bill got up early and went to his 8 a.m. dentist appt.  I got up shortly after he left, and went to my doctors office to pick up a sample of eczema medicine they are giving me.  I came home and read my Bible.  Then I filled the bird feeders.  It was pretty cold out with the wind.  Bill came home from the dentist and said he ended up having a tooth pulled in the back of his mouth.  He can only have soup, jello, and other soft things for today.  I went to my dentist appointment at 1 to get my teeth cleaned. I had a different lady that was covering for the other girl, who went back to college to finish her training.  She will be back in June. We talked about our faith and being born again.  She was quoting scripture as she was cleaning my teeth.  She was sweet and also funny.  I got compliments on how I was taking care of my teeth from her and from the dentist.  I love good reports.  I went to Walmart and the bank after my appt.  

I came home, and I made soup for Bill and he made the dumplings for it.  I also made him some jello.  I talked to Vikki a couple of times and also Melissa.  Kimmy didn’t answer her phone today.  I will be seeing her tomorrow though.  Relaxed in our recliners in the evening.