Celebrate the HEROES in your life....

Hello everyone! Hope you are celebrating any war heroes that are in your family today or thinking of the memories of ones who have come before you and fought for your freedom to just be.....

I remember growing up in IOWA......on this holiday we would take our half gallon milk cartons and cut the tops off, fill them 1/4 of the way with sand and water, and then cut many of the peonies from our yard and fill them in the cartons, then off to the cemetaries we would go in search of our relatives and leave the cartons at the graves.

It's funny what you remember....that was always so important to my grandmother, who I lived with most of my life. Marnie always had a way to make things like going to the cemetary so neat and important. I miss her.....but she's in heaven looking after us....with God.

John has an interview at a local Bible college tomorrow. I'm praying for good results. Now I need to find something....God will provide if we are to stay here.

Keep praying for us.

being jobless.....

well all, we are officially jobless. Now the good thing is that we get paid thru the end of July....the bad thing is....we don't have jobs yet but we know that we serve an All-Mighty, All-knowing and All-powerful God who has our lives totally in HIS control.

But don't you think that sometimes it would be totally cool for Him to tell us though??? Today was officially our last day at school, so leaving my friends was not very fun. John's day would be much tougher....he had to tell his volleyball girls today. He told them at practice and then they were to have a team dinner, which John actually said went much better than expected and they responded better than he thought they would. John handled it quite well, but I know deep down he's quite emotional about it.

Now, God does have some plans though.....John has an interview for a college position at a local Bible college for the Financial Aide Director position that is open there. It would be ok, not great $$ though, but at least get him started in a college position, which is totally why he got his Doctorate in the first place! I, on the other hand, have had several interviews, but have come up short on all occasions. We'll see what happens with me.....I can only think that means that God has something bigger and better than the two or three that I thought I REALLY wanted! Ok, God....sign me up! I'm all for bigger and better!

PRAY for us as we seek God's plan for our lives. We do have an interview in Albany, GA next weekend.....HS counselor for John and 1st grade for me. Not that we want to move or anything, but we do need jobs. We'll see where the doors are open and see if God puts the puzzle pieces together for us.

Feeling somewhat emotional, so I'll sign off for now!

Love to all!

I'm here....really

Hello there friends and family who ck this blog only to find that I haven't written in a month.....but I'm here again. I'm terribly sorry for the over sight, but I have been extremely busy keeping up with all of my grading and such this last six weeks of school. Plus, since we are on the job hunt again, I've been filling out apps and sending out resumes' and going on interviews, which makes one extremely tired. PLUS, it is Stanley Cup Hockey season and my team, The Detroit Red Wings are still playing, so I've been watching that as well. Oh, and JEB has had two rounds of strep throat and now is going thru his third antibiotic with a sinus infection!! YIPPEE!!

I promise that I will seriously try to keep up with writing something down every couple of days....to keep up with Mackenzie!

Love to you all,
deb

finally.......I'm back

Hello all....well the play went great and we had a great turnout. When I last wrote, I was languishing about JEB being sick and John being grumpy....well, that wasn't the end of our play production issues. Friday was going well....then the bad weather came in. Tornadoes and strong thunderstorms were coming our way....only to be in the middle of getting makeup on and getting them dressed for the afternoon matinee performance and then the city and county schools decided to dismiss by 1:30 pm, which meant we would also follow suit. So, that meant all activities would be cancelled including the play. What a GOD thing though.....the place doing dinner let us change it to Monday, the tux place said we could return them on Tuesday, even the curtain rental place changed return to Tuesday, oh, and the chairs/tables we borrowed from the church across the street from us said we could bring them back on Tuesday!! Definitely a GOD thing!!

Saturday evening's dinner and performance went great, the kids had a great time and the audience enjoyed it, too! Several lines were dropped but they covered for each other quite well. Then Monday's matinee and evening performance went well. I was so proud of them! Thanks for all of your prayers and support. Oh, and John's back to normal.....yay!

I promise to keep up with blogging. Thanks for listening!

deb

what a week!

Well my friends, its been a Satan Week....that should describe it perfectly! Monday and Tuesday weren't too bad, but its play production week and that alone makes it hectic! Then I had a sub for Wed-Fri. to get ready for production! First, John has not been himself lately which stresses me out totally, and on Wednesday morning JEB woke complaining of a tummy ache and being very whiny, which meant he was not going to school but coming with us. This would've normally been ok, but I had scheduled a day of running last minute play errands with one of the other directors and we had our day pretty well laid out. JEB could have come with us, but it definitely would be easier to leave him with John. We did that, but he wasn't exactly happy about the prospect....and since he was in a rotten mood to start with, that pushed the button that said "EXPLODE"!!! He got his classes covered and headed home, calling me to tell me that he was leaving the tickets in his top desk drawer. Ok, I said....what about the $$ I left with you? He said, "What money? I didn't see any money." As he was saying this to me I was quickly beginning to hyperventilate in D's car as we were going to pick up some things......since this was serious money.....several hundred dollars worth of ticket sales that I couldn't replace.....well, he called back and said that it was there and gave it to the other play director who was still in his classroom! WHEW! I was panicked!!

All went great with rehearsal and we were set for a Thursday matinee performance. Got to school on Thursday, got rehearsal going and I took one of the make-up people to WalMart for a last minute make=up pick up for the play......only to get back to school and see one of my actors in the office crying....a guy, no less which did not spell a good situation. Got to the rehearsal to find that he decided it would be hilariously funny to take one of the play guns that is a prop and go in the hall and jump out at whoever happened by.....which happened to be two third grade girls and he consequently scared them half to death, made them cry and scream and things quickly went down hill from there. Now, in a public school that would automatically get the cops called....ironic, that his character was a cop........and he would be hauled off to the pokey, but it got him suspended for two days, which meant we had to come up with a back-up plan. Got the acting all rearranged only to have our Friday matinee and evening dinner theater cancelled and reschedule for Monday because of threatening tornadic weather!!

So, we are on for our Saturday performance with every thing still on for Monday! I'll post some pics when I get them from my photographers. It's really going well and very funny!

Pray that all goes well. Oh, and then JEB wakes at midnight last night throwing up everything he ate yesterday!! Yeah, way fun! All is better, he's keeping food/drink down and all the laundry is done. Ok, maybe we'll get thru today after all!

later,
deb

scarlet fever....oh my!

Well, what a difference a day can make! My little angel did not get better on Wednesday, and in fact, started breaking out with little pimple-like bumps on his face/mouth area. He did sleep somewhat better on Wednesday night, but woke up feeling as bad or worse than the previous day and with several more bumps. Listening to him breathe very rapidly and soundly quite grovely.....I called the dr. and got him in by 2 pm. Got there and waited for her to enter, all the while JEB was being an angel sitting on the exam table waiting. She came in and listened to me describe what had been going on and looked in his ears/throat and said that it looked to her like scarlet fever! AAAAHHHHH! She said actually all scarlet fever is .... is strep with a rash. Ok, that sounded a little better! Of course, then we continued to discuss how in Little Women one of the girls gets scarlet fever then rheumatic fever and dies from complications to it and that Mary on Little House on the Prairie gets scarlet fever and goes blind eventually because of it. Yeah, that made me feel better!

Anyway, she said nothing to worry about....that's what we have antibiotics for!! So off to WalMart we went and did our bi-weekly grocery shopping and spent too much money. It seems we have this issue when Daddy goes shopping with us.....I try to stick to what I have on my list and Daddy doesn't shop with a list......enough said. He's feeling a little better today....had two doses of meds already, but I think the Easter morning pics are out! He has quite the blotchy, spotty face! Maybe we'll do Easter next wkend! At least the egg hunting part and pictures!

I'm on a cleaning gig today.....tried to get John out of the house and out with one of his coaching buddies, but to no avail. Such is life.......

Back to cleaning.....

not too bad....

Well, JEB wasn't too bad last night, which translates to the fact that I actually did get some sleep! He's taken two naps today, and been sort of whiny which is actually very unusual when he's sick. I'm afraid that he's got some version of the flu. He's been warm to the touch off and on, but not burning up. So, he's getting a regular dose of Tylenol/Motrin which ever I have at the time, and tonight some strong cough meds to help him breathe easier and sleep better.

Only 7 days left of break.....how many hours??? While my paper grading stack is dwindling slowly, I'm beginning to be bored and tired of being in the house. Oh well, such is life!

Talk to everyone later,
deb