A Day in the Life of the Watsons!

Gallbladder!

2011-07-28T17:59:00.003-04:00

Oh my, facebook has taken over my blog, I post all my updates there, and hardly ever blog anymore. But decided in case someone who likes to read my blog that does not have facebook, that I would update.

Preston had been having pains in his side for a while. We knew back in SC that he had gallstones. So a while back we had exrays and a scan done on his gallbladder and they couldn't even see it. Now we know why! Well, about a month ago, the pain got worse, and for 2 nights he hardly slept. The dr. did blood work and it showed an elevated white blood cell count. The pain subsided but then came back and the dr. had a CT scan done and they saw an abnormal gallbladder. So the dr. sent him to a surgeon and she set the appt. for him to have it removed. She hoped she could do it laparoscopic but alas, she couldn't. She came out of the OR to tell us all the scar tissue from previous surgeries were giving her a fit and she couldn't even find his gallbladder or liver, and had to cut him open. Well, she did that, and his insides were smashed together, and the gallbladder when she found it, was real thick and inflammed. She tried to remove it but had to leave a small piece and also the duct. That means he could get gallstones again. We pray he will not. The surgery took about 6 hrs. She stitched the end of the duct closed, but didn't know if the stitches would stay or not. She put a drain coming out of his tummy into a little bag so she could watch the fluid and be sure it wasn't bile. Well, when he went back for his post op appt. there was some green fluid and she was afraid it was bile. Preston wanted the drain tube OUT that day, and she was afraid to take it out. So the next a.m. he went to Indy and they were gonna put a stent in. Well, they put him to sleep and got down in there and realized he didn't need a stent, so he didn't have to have it. Anyhow, he was a bit disorientated and confused while in the hospital and didn't hardly get any sleep, so they let him come early and he did much better. He is doing so well, and bouncing back. He has lost about 17 lbs. since it all started. I am glad it is over, just hoping new problems don't arise in the future due to the piece of gallbladder and the duct that couldn't be removed. But I have to leave it in God's hands.

We love our new home, it is such a blessing. We are so thankful for the job Jr. has now and our new home. God has been so good to us. We basically had to start over when we left SC to move up here, to have a holiness high school for Missie. She only lacks 1 credit to graduate from high school, and she was even behind when we moved up here. She has applied to UBC in Westfield about 45 min. from here to finish her high school, and take college courses as well, starting next month. She is very excited about this. She will live at home this coming school year and drive back and forth. She wants to get her Missionary Nursing degree (missionary & RN). She has such a big heart and loves people and has helped take care of Preston since she has been old enough. She will make a wonderful nurse. She currently works at Dairy Queen and loves her job! It is hard to believe she is 17 years old now.

So that is the latest from the lives of the Watsons. Hope things stay calm and Preston will stay well for a very long time.

No home internet

2011-05-26T14:40:00.002-04:00

Hello friends!

We got moved; what a job, mostly unpacked, just don't have all the stuff hung on the walls yet. I will be getting that done soon.

Missie is finished school for the year, thank the Lord. She is officially a senior in high school, where has the time gone? She was entering 9th grade when we moved here! She turned 17 on May 24th! On May 22nd, she was sick, but she wanted her and Connor to go out as planned, so I took them to Steak N Shake, it was her choice where we went. She had to have oral surgery again earlier that week, cause the one spot did not completely heal up, and got food and debris in there and it started hurting and was infected. Antibiotics didn't clear it up, so they had to open her up, clean it out and sew her back up. Well, the infection spread and got into her lung and she had what the dr. called "infection induced asthma." So she was on 3 medications for that, and is now doing better. We go back tomorrow to have it checked. All this was happening while we were moving. It was so hard not having her help, she helps me so much, but she was so sick, she couldn't help. Anyhow, on Sat. I took her and Connor out for her birthday, and got her a DQ Cake! I wish she could have felt better but she and Connor had a good time anyhow. He got her a hat, and she loved it! It was a perfect gift for her! We got her a book she asked for, and some other items. We are going to repaint her room and help her decorate it too.

Well, yesterday was a bad day! Preston has a hospital bed, therefore the mattress is foam. The plastic covering on it had cracks and splits in it. Well, he wet the bed! I used a fan and thought I had it dried but when he sat down last night, he got wet and it had soaked through the mattress clear to the bottom and was dripping on floor. Well, I had bought a drop sheet of plastic, and wrapped his mattress in it and he was able to sleep without being wet. Today Jr. and I took the plastic cover off and are trying to get the mattress dried. That was the beginning of the bad day. I went to clean the church for prayer meeting and the tornado siren went off. I knew Preston was home alone, so I paniced! I called him and told him to go inside and shut the inside door. He did that, then he called my mom and told her he wanted to warn her that we might be having a tornado. It scared her, of course. I called Missie at school and told her she had to leave as I didn't have a vehicle, and come get me and take me home. She did that, and by the time we got home the cloud had passed. I went back and finished the church, only to have the prayer meeting cancelled due to the weather. When this 1st siren went off, Jr. was at work and had to go to their storm shelter. Anyhow, it rained and hailed, and was windy and at 10 p.m. the siren went off again, as well as many other emergency vehicle sirens. So! I was at least home with kids, and Jr. once again had to go into their storm shelter. Preston was asleep and I knew I couldn't get him awake and up to go into the bathroom. The lights went out twice, but came back on, and we got quite a storm. At Jr.'s work, they were in the storm shelter this 2nd time and couldn't leave until it had passed. So we waited on his call telling us he was on his way. He made it home, and we tried to get settled down for the night. Well! Jr. came in bedroom with a container of water that he was drinking out, and the cat was laying at my feet on the bed. He reached down to pet the cat and spilled the container of water. He and I had to strip our whole bed, and by then I was exhausted! I slept fitfully all night, and am still exhausted today. I have been in pain too, this weather is bad for arthritis and fibromyalgia. Today has been much calmer, and maybe one day I can look back on this and have a good laugh ??? Not sure, lol

I only have internet on my phone right now, and it is hard to do much with such a small screen. But anyhow, this is the update for now. We are alive, and hopefully things will calm down now?? The tornados are not over though, I don't think. It hit close to Bedford, IN last night and damage was done. My brother saw it on TV and was so worried so he and I and mom and I talked a lot while we were waiting on Jr. to get home.

Hope you are all doing well!

It's May!

2011-05-03T17:25:00.004-04:00

It is already May, and we get possession of our house the week of the 16th and will be moving that week. I haven't done a lot of packing yet. I have done some, but can't pack Preston's room til the day we move it. We have to keep his life as normal as possible til moving. Jr. has 2 vacation days he is gonna take off that week. We found out that we don't have to pay any deposits on gas or utilites. That is a huge plus, and we are so thankful. Jr. is losing some of his overtime, maybe all of it, but 40 hrs/week is more than some people are getting! We are thankful he has a job!
I am posting some pictures of our house. It has lots of room! We are hoping we can get some more furniture and replace our couch from yard sales hopefully. It will take time, but we don't have to rush.

Missie is working at DQ and loves it. She got her first big paycheck and was so thrilled. This summer she will work a lot more hours. This week she works 4 days instead of 3. She got this job by putting in applications and then checking back on her application. She is becoming a responsible young lady. She is almost at the end of her junior year. Unbelievable. She is dating Connor, who goes to our church and he attends our school too. What is really hard to believe is that his last name is Watson, too, but believe me, he is not related to us, lol.

Preston is doing great, not really keen on moving, but not going to pieces over it, either. The new meds. are doing so well for him. He is gonna love his new room, it is so big and has 2 windows in it! He is still collecting VHS. He has enough to open a little store, lol He also likes to buy computer games if he finds any he doesn't already have.

I will certainly take pics of it when we get in! Pray for strength and energy to get moved!

Long time!

2011-04-04T19:55:00.002-04:00

So much time has passed and so many things have happened.

We are still waiting to see if we will get the house. It has been such a long drawn out affair I almost wish we had never started the whole process. Closing is supposed to be April 11. Steve from bank called me today and said we are still shooting to close that day. Not sure it will be that soon.

Missie is so excited. She is to get her license soon and has an interview at DQ on Wed. She hopes she can get a part time job there. I hope she can handle it all but she is afraid if she doesn't take it now, she will not get a job for the summer. She is so grown up now, it is so hard to believe. She had all 4 wisdom teeth cut out a week ago tomorrow. She did really well. I am glad that is over for her! She

Preston is doing well. Hoping it will soon be warm enough to ride his bike. He has had a few days to ride, and it is so good for him.

Jr.'s job is still doing great, 52 hrs. one week, 40 the next. So thankful he has a good job. Even though it is a Japanese company, their work is not slowing down at all. Hopefully it won't. It seems some of the men in our church will have a problem and have their hours cut.

Missie and I plan to go IHC for a day at the end of this month. I have never been to IHC. I watched the services livestreaming and also the archives and have been so blessed. Last year the services were tremendous! And I will get to see some friends and family that I haven't seen in a long time! We are gonna leave early Thurs. a.m. and come home that night after the evening service. Jr. is taking that evening off to stay with Preston. Then he will take the other 2 days off that he has ahead, if and when we move.

'til next time...

It's been awhile...

2011-01-24T10:32:00.002-05:00

since I posted.

We got through Christmas. God was good to us. We don't have a lot of money to spend at Christmas, but the children are thankful for what they get! When our taxes come back we usually get them something that they need. Missie needs a new laptop, and Preston needs a new recliner.

It has been quite a winter here! Wow, lots of snow. Cold cold weather. I have lived down south to long, to really enjoy this. I miss South Carolina. Preston has been asking to go back down there and live! We will see what happens when Missie graduates, and moves away from home. She is in her Junior year and doing great! I am so glad she is a good student! It lightens my load a lot.

Jr. is still working 2nd shift but got the promotion and likes the new job at NTK much better. He works in quality control lab. He has about 5 people under him. I am thankful he was able to get this promotion!

So we are doing quite well. Time marches on so quickly. Missie wants to go to UBC at least a year, and then wants to also get her RN degree, too. She feels called to be a missionary, and a missionary nurse is even better! We are so thankful for our daughter; she is just a joy to our lives.

Preston has been taking buspar for years, for anxiety. Well, they quit making namebrand, and he has been taking generic. Lately, he is still nervous even with the buspar. We also have xanex for when he needs it, and it is working a lot better for him. So we are probably gonna take him off buspar and put him on the xanex. Yes, it is habit forming, but he will have to be on meds. the rest of his life, so I can't worry about that. He needs his anti-anxity meds. to cope. When he is not nervous, it helps us all!

So that is about it for this time!

November!

2010-11-11T22:34:00.002-05:00

Is it November already? Hard to believe.
Missie and I flew to Canada and spent 3 days with my mom, & stepdad. My brother was on holidays, so he drove us everywhere we wanted to go! We had a wonderful time! The only problem we had when we got back to Chicago they had canceled our flight to Indy. They said we couldn't fly out until the next day. Well, I asked them about rerouting us and they were able to do that. But we had to fly to Washington, DC and then to Indy, it was a very long day and we got home about 2 a.m. on Thurs. morning! I will post a few pictures of my mom, etc.

We got a perfect report on Missie today, at her school. She is on track or ahead in all of her subjects. We are so proud of her. She loves her school, and studies hard. She is such a blessing to us. She feels called of God to Christian service, and that will please us! At this point, she wants to go to Bible College and major in Missions. She is also debating going through to be an RN as well. So we will see what God has for her!

Preston has been having headaches for a couple of weeks so he goes to neurosurgeon on Tues. in Indianapolis. I think he probably just needs his shunt adjusted; so thankful these shunts can be adjusted without surgery! Hoping and praying that is all he needs. He has been enjoying these beautiful warm days and sitting outside in his swing on our front porch.

Junior is busy at work. He likes the newest job he has at NTK, in the lab. He enjoys it much better than being out on the line. I am so glad he was able to get this job in the lab. He and Missie were planning to go to NC for Thanksgiving to his parents, but the trip is over 600 miles and it is too much driving for such a short time. So they are staying home for Thanksgiving.

So that is about all for now. I post all my pictures and updates on facebook, and don't blog as much as I used too.

September!

2010-09-19T16:46:00.002-04:00

September is fast getting away from us. Unbelievable!

I will try and recap our summer.

Missie enjoyed being off school, and I did too, so we could get some extra rest! She attended 2 youth camps - one being right here in Frankfort at Pilgrim Youth Camp and the other being Athens in MI. One of the highlights of her summer was flying alone to Boise, ID from Indianapolis. She went to see James and meet his friends and family. She loved them all, and everyone was so sweet to her and gave her a wonderful vacation. But James and Missie don't feel they are the one for each other to spend the rest of their lives with. We have always taught Missie to not date anyone she doesn't feel she could marry. They just didn't seem compatible, so they mutually agreed to break up and remain friends. It hurt me and his family as well, but we want God's perfect will for both of their lives. She is in her junior year and this is her busiest year, even busier than her senior year. She has a heavy load. I am so thankful she is smart and gets good grades. But she works hard at it. She is very studious and we are so proud of her.

She and I are flying to Canada to see my family for Canadian Thanksgiving. We are flying out on Oct. 9 and staying until Oct. 13. It will be short but Junior can't take any more days off work to stay with Preston. Preston doesn't know yet. But he and his daddy will have a good time here. I haven't seen my mom in over 3 years, so I want to see her so bad. Pray for our safety.

Missie had a couple of bad weeks with her stomach. I took her to dr. and he said it could be an ulcer, or heartburn/acid reflux. He put her on meds. and she is doing much better. We are thankful for that. She missed 2 days of school from it. Her hypermobility is pretty bad if she does anything unusual. She went on a canoeing trip yesterday and both shoulders have been in extreme pain. I think I may take her back to Riley and see what they see. I also wonder if it might be more than hypermobility.

Preston has been riding his bike in this beautiful weather. He has ridden 5 days this week! I am so glad he can do that. It helps him feel better mentally, and helps his depression. He sleeps better at night, and the fresh air does him so good.
He is doing real well right now! We are thankful for that.

Junior got a new job within his company for $2/hr. raise. He is still working 3-11. Missie misses him cause during week she doesn't get to see him. They are so close, she is a daddy's girl. Preston and I get to see him a lot, but she doesn't. But we are thankful he has a good job.

So that is the update for this time!

Missie!

2010-08-08T22:36:00.002-04:00

Missie flew out yesterday from Indy, landed in Phoenix, had about 2 1/2 hr. layover there, then on to Boise, ID. She is still trying to get caught up on her rest and has been suffering from jet lag. She is with James and his family until Aug. 21st! I have posted some pictures from today that James uploaded to his facebook page. We miss her, but felt she needed this time with James. It is hard to live 1,800 miles apart and be in a relationship. This is the farthest she has been away from us and the longest! I imagine she will be ready to come home on the 21st! School starts on the 27th, a short day. So she will have a few days to catch up on her sleep.

Hopefully there will be more pictures to come!

Latest News!

2010-07-23T23:05:00.002-04:00

Jr. is going back to his job here in town, and we are gonna stay here in Frankfort, until Missie graduates in 2012. So we don't have to move right now, and I am so thankful. We just didn't have enough time to plan it all and get Missie enrolled in UBA nor did we have the money to do all of this stuff. So we are here for a couple more years unless the Lord changes our minds.

Breaking News!!!!

2010-07-20T22:41:00.002-04:00

First of all, Junior has a new job. He is now working days at Indianapolis Woodworking, the downside of this is, he has to drive an hr. each way. We will probably be moving down that way next year. I just can't see us moving much sooner than that unless the Lord opens the doors. I am concerned about the winter weather.
He is so happy to be back into woodworking and on days!

Secondly, I got my CANADIAN PASSPORT today! I can now go home and see my mom. We are sending Missie's application off next week, and are planning to go around the end of August to Canada! James is hoping to get his passport, and fly up here and go with us. I hope he can! It will feel safer to have him with us on this road trip.

Posting latest pictures of us and James. James and Missie are trying to coordinate clothing for their date when she is in ID. She flies out from Indy on Aug.7 and flies back on 21st, and hopefully he will be flying back with her, as we plan to leave for Canada the following Friday.

Just had to share!

Few new pictures!

2010-07-05T15:25:00.001-04:00

We got a family plan now and have unlimited texting, and also have camera phones. I love it!!!! I took several pictures and then put them on the computer. Enjoy!

Wow, time flies!

2010-06-29T23:29:00.002-04:00

It is hard to believe the month of June is almost gone! Where does time go?

We are enjoying sleeping in this summer! With Jr. on 2nd shift, we all sleep in.

Midwest Pilgrim Camp just closed out here Sunday night. I enjoyed it so much, the services I was able to attend. The Lord moved and came in the services. A backslidden holiness preacher that had been out of the fold for 27 years came back to the Lord. Some were saved, sanctified, and encouraged. It was a great encouragement to me!

Junior got the job!!!! He is very happy. He is now training someone to take over his job. Then he will go on days while he is training for his new job within the company, and then back to 2nd. That means he gets $2/hr. raise! We are so thankful to the Lord. He will also be working in an air conditioned lab! God is so good.

Missie is flying to ID for a week, to meet James' family and be there for his high school graduation. Then she will leave ID and fly to SC to spend time with Kellie, her best friend, in Six Mile for at least a week or so. She is excited but I am nervous about her flying alone, but hope she will have assistant since she is just 16. She is a little nervous too. She has 2 layovers from ID to SC. One is about 3 hrs. That will be the hardest one. I won't rest easy until she reaches her destinations!

I have sent off for my passport - hoping that comes in, and am gonna get Missie's too. James is also getting his, as we are hoping he can fly up here and go with us to Canada. He can help me with the driving and get to meet the family up there. If it all works out, we plan to go over labor day weekend. He really wants to go, and I really want him to go! So we will see what happens with my passport, hopefully there won't be any problems. I did finally get my driver's license, so thank the Lord for that.

Preston is doing great! He has been riding his bike. He really enjoyed campmeeting. So glad we have a good campmeeting in our town. But it won't always be here because they are building a new one somewhere else. They rent the facilities here in town now for the campmeeting. Bro. England and Bro. Noel Scott were the evangelist and Paul Gray and family were the song evangelists. As I said, it was a wonderful campmeeting.

So that is the latest for now!

Wow, It's June!

2010-06-05T01:36:00.003-04:00

Where did this school year go? Missie is now officially a Junior! Unbelievable.
She did so well this year. She got the most 100's in the upper learning center, completed the most paces in the upper learning center, and got a medal for scripture. We are very proud of her work! Her courses for her Junior and Senior year are already laid out, and her Junior year is going to be very busy! She is not going to play volleyball this coming school year. Her hypermobility and her heavy school work load would make it just too much. So she is gonna concentrate on her studies and do her best.

Another big item of news is: MISSIE AND JAMES are now a couple again! They took a few months off, but they never stopped caring for each other. They are not going to get serious at least until her senior year. They are very happy! Missie is flying out to ID in July to go to his youth camp, and get to meet his family, etc. We are very happy for them! I never felt they were over. I knew God had brought them together, and Missie needed some time to grow up so more, and was stressed because she had so much on her plate. She is much more relaxed this time, at least during the summer, and they are much better at communication! She is also hoping to go to SC for 2 weeks later this month, to see her best friend, Kellie. Her mom and I have to work out the details, they have said they could probably meet me 1/2 way, and that would help so much! Missie is very excited because she has been asked to sing at a Nazarene Church on Sunday night in Indy! She and I are going over to our friends' home - Greg and Cathy Patterson, and go with them. Greg is doing a concert and has asked Missie to sing. She is nervous and excited at the same time! I'm going to take a video of part of the song so I can post it on facebook.

And yet another big event in Missie's life is that she is driving now! She got 100% on her test and is driving. She is very careful and is doing great. It doesn't seem possible my baby is driving! In less than a year, she will have her driver's license.

Preston is doing great! He has been able to ride his bike the last 3 days due to the cooler weather. It helps him so much to be able to do that. He went to psychiatrist and everything stays the same as far as his meds. I cut back on his sweet intake and he lost a few pounds. He loves those sweets! Eating is one of his joys in life and it is hard to say no to him. While Missie and I attend campmeetings, etc., Junior and Preston stay here and go to our own church. Preston doesn't like to travel much, and now that we have 2 vehicles, we can split up so Missie can attend special things.

Junior has applied for another job within his company. He would get $2/hr. raise and be in air conditioning! We are praying he will get the job if the Lord wills.
He has had $1.00/hr. raise lately, and we are so happy he has such a good job now! We are currently trying to pay off some bills that we want to clear out of the way, and only have our van payment. We want to get out of debt and when Missie graduates, try to buy a house. But right now, we are concentrating on getting her through school.

Well, I guess that is most of the news this time!

Missie made the local paper!

2010-04-29T21:34:00.002-04:00

Missie and some of her classmates made the local paper! Our school had its first ever craft bazaar/bake sale, car wash, all taking place at our school, and raised $1,400! The proceeds go to the students who are going to International Competition. Junior and I let Missie make the decision to go or not to go. Due to some health issues, she decided not to go. Also, she hated to be gone on her 16th birthday, but the main reason was her health. She has been having a lot of fatigue! Then she got a severe sinus infection! She is currently on 4 medications for that. She was supposed to go to UBC for preview days today, but she didn't get to go. She missed 2 days of school due to going to dr. and being sick, and was only able to attend about 3 hrs. yesterday. She has her goals set until the end of the school year, in a couple of subjects, and she wants to be done in 4 weeks and get the last week off - early achiever's week. She has done so much pace work this year, and played on the volleyball team. Because of her hypermobility which affects her joints and muscles, she suffers a lot of pain. Chronic pain causes fatigue, but the dr. mentioned thyroid too, as she feels hungry all the time, as well. But right now we are concentrating on this sinus problem. She may end up having allergy testing done, as she does have a lot of allergies, and this spring has been bad! Anyhow, she is not going to KY for International Competition. When I told our principal, Bro. Coleman, he was so understanding and kind about it, and assured me she would not get ridiculed about it, and she hasn't. He also told me that she had told him that she suffers a lot of pain and that people do not understand. Only someone who suffers pain on a daily basis, can really understand. I do, with this fibromyalgia and arthritis so I understand. But she has done wonderful this year, and we are so proud of the work she has accomplished. She is already doing 2 subjects from her Junior year and she will finish one of those subjects in the next week or so.

Preston is going outside on these beautiful days for 5 hrs. some days! He rides that bike, then will rest a while, and gets up to 8 and 9 miles/hr. Then he usually sits in his swing on the front porch for most of the evening. The fresh air is so good for him. He likes to eat out still, when his check comes in we always take him out, go to goodwills, and go to church on Sunday nights. He went to bed before dark tonight, because he was so tired from being outside all day. He is sooo much better since the new shunt was put in in 2007! We almost lost him then, but he is such a happier person, and he brightens our lives so much! He is quite the character and has a wonderful sense of humor. We never know how long we will have him, so we will enjoy him as long as God leaves him with us.

Junior has his review at work, and they are very happy with him and he got a good raise. We are so thankful that the Lord gave him this good job. We wish he was on
1st shift sometimes, but we are so thankful for this job, and for insurance. He gets tired the weeks he has to work 56 hrs. but it is only every other week, so that is good.

Missie got to see some of you at IHC. She gave us your messages, and was glad to see you all. I hope, Lord willing, that she and I can go next year. I watched a lot of it online, and it was wonderful. The service Thurs. night (closing service) was a great move of God's spirit. UBC choir was singing, and God moved in a tremendous way, people were shouting, running the aisles, then people started going to the altar. People were delivered and got back to God, it was one amazing service. I got so much encouragement from the services watching them livestreaming, I can only imagine how blessed I would have been to be there in person!

Well, I guess this is all the news for this time!

Spring!

2010-04-06T09:17:00.002-04:00

Spring has Sprung!!! We are all happy. It seemed like a long winter.

Easter was this past Sunday. We have a wonderful day. We had a wonderful crowd at church, over 300! We have 13 people from a brand new family in the service! Hoping they will continue to come. We had the children's choir sing, chapel choir sing, Keith and Sharon Waggoner sang and I LOVE to hear them sing. We had a special violin instrumental along with a sound track. It was a wonderful service. Bro. Mowery preached our Easter message. I had invited a couple that I meant once here at church, who live out of town, and they came for the service and home with us for dinner. We had a great time. I fixed spiral ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, homemade rolls, frozen corn, tossed salad. I made deviled eggs and forgot to serve them, hahaha. We had cheesecake for dessert. They want to come more often to our church; they feel at home there, and Greg is seeking God's help for problems in his life. I hope they will attend at least on Sunday mornings! I had gotten to know them better through facebook.

Sunday night we had a singspiration. Missie was in a trio (they sang at the Good Friday service) and they did a wonderful job on "Broken and Spilled Out." What powerful words that song has, and she and the other 2 girls did a terrific job. If yuo would to see them and hear them, go hear and then click on view,

http://www.fbhc.info/audio.html

The school was having a car wash on Sat. and got rained out. We are trying to raise money for our high school to go to the International Competition in KY in May. We have a bazzar/bake sale coming in a week or so. I have been crocheting and making cards for that. A table is $20. Thankfully, Junior is off that day, so after I get Preston bathed, I can go over and work the table. Missie will do it when I can't be there.

A girl came to church Sunday that hadn't been there in a while, and Missie befriended her. They swapped cell phone numbers and last night, she asked Missie how to get saved. Missie walked her through the steps and she prayed and Missie was so excited. This girl says Missie is really the only friend that she has. So Missie has a ministry. She feels the awesome responsibility, and is awed by the fact that God used her to help someone get saved!

Preston is out riding that bike on these beautiful days. Last week he flipped the bike, and part of it was laying on him. He couldn't get up. He was yelling for Missie and blowing his horn, but she heard nothing. He was in the alley out behind our house. He was scrapped up in places, but he and bike are ok. He wears a helmet, so that was good. So he is slowing down more now when taking corners.

Junior is working overtime just every other week now. So every other Sat. he has off. We are so thankful for this! It is much easier on him, and we love having him home every other Sat. We are thankful he has a good job now.

So I guess that is all to update for this time!

March!

2010-03-18T19:31:00.002-04:00

Well, it is over a month since I updated my blog!

Missie's high school went to ACE competition which was held at Ball State University Campus in Muncie, IN! She had 7 entries, and won in 6th of them. We are so proud of her! She won: 6th place for her short story, the small emsemble she was in won 2nd place, her duet won 2nd, her quartet won 3rd, her Bible bowl team won 5th and her volleyball team won 3rd. Our school did great! We are so proud of all of them. They are now planning to go on to international competition which is in KY in April. So we are working on fundraisers, to try and help the students raise the money to go. Each student needs close to $400. Missie will be gone for her 16th birthday to KY! I don't like that, but I plan to have her party before she leaves. 16 is an important birthday!!! I can't believe our baby is almost 16. And she is such a good girl, and a great student! She is doing work for next year, because she has completed a lot of her work for this year. She is working toward that college prep graduation in 2012, to go on to Union Bible College! She plans to attend their welcome week when it gets here! Missie decided to get contacts, but took them back and got new glasses. She couldn't handle the contacts; her eyes were irritated and she couldn't get them out. I think she would have gotten more used to them, but she didn't want the bother of them. So she is very thankful to be back to wearing glasses, believe it or not!

Preston is out each day that it doesn't rain, riding his bike. He loves being able to get outdoors and ride that 3 wheel bike. The exercise is so good for him and the fresh air as well. He has been staying out 3-5 hrs each day. He is doing so well; loves to go to goodwill once a week, and we take him out to eat sometimes, since he gets a disability check. He loves going to church on Sunday night and talking to lots of people.

Junior is still working the equivilent of 7 days a week, for 2 weeks, then only 40 hrs. the 3rd week. So we make the most of that Saturday that he is off, every 3rd week. He doesn't really like the work but he is thankful he has a good job. We have insurance too, and that helps.

So overall, things are good here. Spring break is next week and Missie and I are glad we can sleep a little later!

Valentine's Day!

2010-02-14T20:22:00.002-05:00

Today is a day to honor the one we love! I am so thankful for a husband who loves me! We have been together almost 30 years and it has been a happy 30 years. It is true that Preston's special needs and illnesses have been hard on us emotionally and physically, but that doesn't change our love for each other. I had Missie take some pictures today, so will post some of Junior and I.

Jr. has been working a lot. I miss him being around home! 7 days a week is mandatory but since he doesn't work on Sunday he has to work the 8 hrs. during the week. So he has been working some 12 hr. shifts. That is quite hard on him. 56 hrs. a week is just too much. He went to work yesterday and had to come home. He was lightheaded and had a headache. He is not lightheaded today but said his head doesn't feel right still. It kind of worries me. He is going to dr. on Wed.

We got our tax refund and were able to buy new tires for the van. That is such a blessing! 2 of them kept losing air and we had to continually pump them up. We knew they were worn out so Jr. didn't try to fix them. I took the van yesterday and had the oil changed and new tires put on it.

Missie is excelling in school. She got to go out and eat with the principal and his wife for getting the most 100's in the upper learning center. She also completed the most paces in the upper learning center for the quarter. She is on the A honor roll and had the highest grade point average for 10th grade. She didn't have enough subjects to do as she has gotten so much done, so the teacher gave her 2 more subjects; one from her junior year and one from her senior year. She was so happy! The school is so happy with how hard she works. We are so thrilled, too, We are so proud of her! She is doing great with her piano lessons and in a couple of weeks she and our teen pastor's wife (also her piano teacher) are going to play a piano duet during prayer meeting. She is enjoying her lessons too, and enjoying learning to read notes. I told her learning to read notes and not just playing by ear, would be beneficial to her in the Lord's work.

Preston is doing well emotionally! He has matured and is very conscientous if he gets cross and will say he is sorry. He is having bowel problems, and also has started having trouble getting to sleep at night again. He goes to dr. on Thurs. about these issues. He doesn't like the cold weather very well or getting out in the snow. He loves to sit and watch it snow outside, though. But we take him out usually once a week, and then to church on Sunday nights. He can't wait until spring and he can get out and ride his bike! I will be glad for him, too. It will be good for him to be out in the fresh air and to get the exercise.

I am doing quite well. Missie and I got the job of church custodian, and it is a big job. Missie does a lot of it, and we split the money. It is an income for her as well as me. I also sit with the pastor's mother-in-law if their regular lady can't be there. I have been crocheting again and really enjoying that. I have been making afghans. I still make cards, too.

So that is the latest from the Watson family!

Wow, it's almost Feb!

2010-01-28T18:46:00.002-05:00

Time sure is flying by! And every day we are one day older and one day closer to eternity. The Lord has been helping me lately. All last week I watched UBC's revival every night and heard some wonderful preaching. Then our revival started Tues. night and I have been watching it every night! What a blessing livestreaming is! I have found that emotional, physical and spiritual problems can be all intertwined! It is so hard sometimes, because the devil preys on my mind, and lets me see all of my human faults. I want to be sensitive to God and His Spirit and the devil uses this against me. But I love the holiness way, irregardless of many hurts we have suffered. It is the Bible way. It is the true way. It doesn't matter how people act or don't act, it doesn't excuse us from following the Lord in the holiness way. It is the only way to Heaven. I know people are human. I am human! I make mistakes; I have to apologize, but I am glad I am able to do that. It is not always easy and people don't always forget when you have hurt him (many times unintentionally) but when you humble yourself and ask their forgiveness, you have done your part. And I pray for the Lord to help me in that area. I am doing much better emotionally. The dr. switched me to cymbalta and it has made a big difference in my life; thank the Lord. I don't know if I shared this, but back before Christmas I almost had a nervous breakdown. Everything tore up my nerves so bad and I would cry and cry and I knew I had to have help! I prayed for God to please help me and He did, and then went to the dr. and she changed my meds. I feel so much better. I feel I am always falling on my face. But I am glad God knows my heart! Many times my heart is in the right place, but my brain doesn't work very well. Anyhow, having said all of this, will update you on our family.

Missie is doing great in school. For the quarter, she got A honor roll, most 100's, highest pace average for her grade, and most paces completed in the whole school. She was proud of herself and we are proud of her. She works hard to achieve so she can go to UBC. She said UBC is right there in front of her and she can almost touch it, lol, and she is sooo excited. She has had a dream to go to UBC for years. Mark Heskett is one of her good friends and works for the school, and we saw him Sunday night. He told her not to forget him and we told him he had better still be working there in 2 years when she arrived and he said he would still be hanging around! She is going to major in missions!

Preston is doing very well! He is much happier and calmer, and I understand that because I am now on cymbalta and so is he. He is having some bowel problems, not sure what all is causing that. I have figured out part of the problem, but not the whole problem.

Junior is working a lot of hours. I am praying it will slow down a little; he doesn't get to do much of anything but work and sleep. I am glad he has a good job, but he needs some rest. This week it was 7 days manatory, and because he won't work on Sunday, he has to make up the 8 hrs. before Sunday, so 2 of these nights he has to work 12 hrs. He works from 2:50 p.m. to 3 a.m. and gets very tired. I told him for Valentine's day I just wanted him to have a Saturday off so he and I could have a date!

We are filing our taxes on Sat. via the computer. We plan to use some of the refund for a 2nd vehicle; just a cheap 1,000 vehicle for Jr. to drive back and forth to work. Also we are buying a piano or keyboard with a pedal, for Missie. She is taking piano and doing great! She is actually enjoying it and Jody has already asked her if she would play on a Wed. night. I am so glad she has a ear for music.

Until next time...

Little late with Happy New Year

2010-01-09T18:47:00.002-05:00

Well, I am a little late wishing you all a Happy New Year. I hope 2010 is a wonderful year for you and your family! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Season; we did for sure!

We are sooo thankful now that winter has arrived, that Junior has a job close to home! God is so good to have given him this job! He had a few days off the week of Christmas and also the week of New Years. This work he has worked 6 evenings. He gets very tired, but maybe it will slow down later and he will be off on Saturdays.

Preston is doing so well. He wrote a love letter to a single lady at church whom he says he loves. He wrote, "I love you." "Don't tell my mom Gwin about this." Then he signed it "a man." Well, when she walked in church he told her to come over there where he was sitting on the back bench and handed it to her. He told her if she couldn't read it, he would read it to her. She told him she could read it! I could not believe he did all of that without our knowledge! He confessed it all to us on the way home from church. We were flabbergasted! He told me today he thought of giving her his valentines (some he kept that we given to him in the past) and I told him no, they were used. I told him I would help him pick out a nice card for her and he could sign his name and give it to her for valentine's day. He said it took a lot of concentration and 3 tries before he got it right. Then he hid it in his pant's pocket. He said he knew if he told us we would tell him to not give it to her, lol What a character he is! He is not near as stressed as he used to be, even with taking the generic buspar! God is so good! He has a wonderful sense of humor and the people around him love him to death!

Missie is working hard on volleyball, school work, piano lessons, and working on a short story, solo and also a couple of duets for ACE competition. It will be here before we know it. Last year, she was all ready, and was too sick to go. I hope she will be able to go this year. She has a very busy life here but loves it! Tomorrow after morning worship, the upper learning center kids from our church are meeting at the school to eat lunch, then go on to the nursing home service to sing their songs, as a practice for the competition. Then we have church again tomorrow night. She went sledding today with some kids and young people from the church and met up with the youth group of another holiness church in our town, and had a wonderful time. She has bruised her tailbone though, and has been in pain. At least we think it is just bruised. Last night, she traveled with her volleyball team to Beech Grove, IN to play volleyball. They lost last night, but had a great time playing anyhow! She enjoys it so much! It has actually helped her hypermobility to be so active in volleyball. Running laps does bother her though, since she is not supposed to run at all. But so far she does it without complaint to her coaches. She is a busy girl and loves every minute of it!

We have had lots of snow this week! It is very pretty! We have not had any trouble getting around; you just have to go slow. Our tires are not the best on the van, so we just drive slow. Looking forward to our tax refund to get new tires and get Missie a new keyboard that has a pedal for her lessons.

So that is the latest from the Watsons!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-17T16:22:00.001-05:00

I can't believe how close it is to Christmas. Where has 2009 gone? It has sure flew by!

Preston has done soooo good this year. His gifts were even under the tree for quite a while! But yesterday I could tell he was starting to worry about it a little. Today he was a little irritable and I told him I thought we would change our Christmas plans. He asked what I meant. I said instead of us having our Christmas gift opening on Christmas Eve I thought we would do it Saturday. Well, he said, "I can't wait that long." So at 12 noon I went to school and got Missie. We had our Christmas (not the meal, though) and he will be fine now.

Missie got me a beautiful card, the front said: With Love From Your Daughter. Inside it says, Time spent with you Mom, reminds me how special it is that life made us Mother and Daughter...but love made us friends. I don't know what I'd do without you. Merry Christmas. Then she wrote: "I really love you mom, Merry Christmas" and signed her name. It really touched me. She told me the other day that I was her best friend. I love my daughter so much! I didn't really want to have a girl, for some reason. When I found out I was pregnant with her, I wanted another boy; I thought it would be easier since we already had Preston. But every woman needs a daughter! She makes our life complete! She is really close to her daddy, too. Sometimes he understands her better than I do. She is a gift from God.

Here is what the children got:

MISSIE:
from Nana - MP3 player
from Grandma/Grandpa Watson, grey hoodie
from Preston: 2 spoons for her spoon collection: teacup spoon and a Australia spoon.

from me and her daddy:
1. Avon perfume/shower gel that she asked for (Bond Girl 007),
2. another avon plastic case with stuff to put her soap in etc. to take to youth camps
3. 3 dvds: Dirty Jobs (this guy does the dirtiest jobs you can ever imagine, she asked for them, lol
4. 2 books: She Said Yes (girl from Columbine school who died for her faith) & another one about young woman who accomplished daring things like sky diving etc, which by the way Missie wants to do, lol She is a tomboy!
5. Aaron McCarty cd, she heard him at youth challenge and loved his singing!

PRESTON:
from Missie: handheld Connect 4 game

from Grandparents in NC - $10 McDonald's gift card

from Nana - Vtech computer

from me and his daddy:
1. 2 Avon Wild Country shower gel
2. Toothpaste dispenser that you can use with 1 hand since he has a crippled hand and makes a mess when he tries to get toothpaste on his brush. Came with battery operated toothbrush
3. Dvd with animal rescue stories on it
4. Little House on the Prairie VHS, has more than 1 story on it.
5. 2 Magic School bus computer cds - rainforest and ocean.

Missie got me a plastic container with 3 drawers in it, to put stuff in, and stocking with Bath and Body Works stuff in it: warm vanilla sugar hand sanitizer, shower gel, and lotion. Preston got me a cat rubber stamp I have been wanting. My mom gave me $50. My inlaws got me a nice pottery dish - blue.

Missie got her daddy a pair of warm pj's for winter, and the Guinness Book of World Records 2010, and Junior's parents got him a nice coat to wear in the winter to church. My mom gave him $50.

We may still receive a pkg. in the mail but we have received enough if we don't. God has been so good to us to give Junior this job right here close to home. We are thankful for His many blessings. I praise Him. I told Jr. I really enjoy the Christmas events at church! Sunday night Missie's class preformed their play again and then the choir sang. Missie and I both were in the choir. This Sunday a.m. is the children's church program in a.m., and Sunday night is a service with communion, carolling after the service, and we all eat together at the Pitts Building! Preston is so looking forward to this! It is great to be part of a big church with lots of activities. Missie has a friend whose dad pastors another church in our town, and she invited Missie to their school's Christmas program tomorrow night. So Missie and I are going there and Preston will stay here. He does fine for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow is Missie's last day at school until after the New Year. And it is party day! She and I will be baking cookies in a while for her to take. She has all of her teacher's gifts ready to go, and the girl's gift (they draw names in her class.)
So it is an exciting time.

God bless you all, and I hope you all have a wonderful Christ-centered Christmas!
Merry Christmas from our home to yours!

Wow! It's Almost Christmas!

2009-12-09T22:23:00.002-05:00

It is hard to believe how close to Christmas we are!
I am glad my shopping is done, gifts to relatives have all been mailed. And I even sent out Christmas cards this year with pictures! I am getting good, aren't I?

Missie and her class did great at the school Christmas program. She was sad that Junior had to work, but guess what? They are doing it again at our church on Sunday night, so her daddy will get to see it and see her perform. She had a main part in the program and did super! Our daughter is talented in sooo many ways. They are having to leave out a couple of scenes due to space, but I don't think she was really very active in those scenes anyhow! And she and I are in the choir and we will be doing our presentation after the play on Sunday night! She is doing super in school, and her volleyball team won 2nd place in the tournament they played in MI. She is so happy to be in here and in school for her high school years. She attends special events at UBC with a family who live in Frankfort and who have a son attending UBC. The mom teaches at our school and Charles graduated from our school last year. With Jr. working 2nd, I can't take her there anymore for special events. She loves UBC. She can't wait to attend there when she graduates from high school. She has started piano lessons again, because she wants to learn to read notes. I encouraged her to do this because I wish I didn't play so much by ear and more by note. I am not knocking the gift God gave me; but it is easier if you can read notes as well. I am glad she has a ear for music and also a good singing voice.

Believe it or not, after we took Preston off the klonopin, he is doing so much better and the generic buspar is working for him! God is soooo good. He was having trouble falling to sleep at night so the psychiatrist upped his bedtime medication. He is doing great this year and not worried about gifts, and told Missie we were going to open our gifts this year on Christmas Day. Usually we have to open them early so he can relax but so far so good! We are so proud of him. I feel God knew we needed a calm peaceful Christmas. When Missie was courting, she had planned to fly to ID for Christmas to spend it with the Giffords. But since they broke up, she will be here with us! I wanted her to have a wonderful Christmas with James and his family, but we would have missed her. So we will all be together for Christmas. Next year, Lord willing, I plan to go to Canada for Christmas if the weather permits. Preston is enjoying watching Christmas vcr's and dvds this year. I get them for him at the library. I found him a TV with a VCR built in, the TV doesn't work much but the VCR works great, for $5 at the Salvation Army. So now he has a bigger screen to watch his VCR's. He still loves his computer games as well. We take him out at least twice a week usually, one of those times being to church on Sunday night.

My step-dad was shoveling snow and had a weak spell and felt he was going to fall, so he went down on one knee to prevent falling completely, which was very good thinking on his part! So us kids, his and moms, have put a stop to his shoveling. He is, after all 82, so it is time for someone else to do it! He loves to keep active, and he walks a lot, but that is too much we felt. He and Mom are going to go to Jim's son's with he and his wife and Jim's daughter and husband on Christmas Eve. Then mom and Jim and Myles and Carol will spend part of Christmas day together.

Junior's job is going well. We are soooo thankful to the Lord for this job. And it is close to home! We are so thankful for God's faithfulness. It seemed for a while we had made a mistake by moving here, but God has been with us and kept us alive, and things are looking up! He seems to enjoy it pretty well. They did his 30 and 60 day review all in the same night, and are happy with him and his work! He is currently working 6 days/week. He had to get a letter from our pastor as to why our church stands against Sunday work, so that he wasn't penalized for not working on Sunday when they told him he had to. So the Lord answered prayer in that area. Another man from our church works there too and had to do the same thing. So they are willing to work with them on their religious beliefs.

Well, it is time to sign off.

You all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year if I don't get back here before then.

Holidays!

2009-11-28T16:03:00.002-05:00

Wow, how quickly time is passing!
It will soon be Christmas!

Our pharmacy informed us that the manufacter was no longer making name brand buspar. Buspar is an anti-anxiety medication that Preston has been taking for years and it has worked so well for him. Well, the psychiatrist wanted to try klonopin, along with the generic buspar. Well, it did not work well for him at all. I called the dr. but he wouldn't help me at all. He said he would address the problem at his next visit. I told him I didn't think we could wait that long! So I just weaned him off of it myself, and he is doing so much better. He is taking generic buspar and xanex as needed. It has made such a difference to get him off klonopin.

Missie has been overwhelmed at times with all that is happening at school. She is in the school play and there is much practice for that. She feels stressed because there isn't a lot of time to get her pace work done. The holiday weekend was so good for her. This next week will be kind of hard too with play practice, and everything else, but soon the play will be over and it will get easier. She already has completed 39 paces, so she is ahead! We are proud of how hard she has worked.

Our school's ladies volleyball team won 2nd place in the championship at Bird Lake, MI. They played hard and did great! It was a very tiring day and Missie was very sore as well. But they all had a wonderful time.

We had a quiet but wonderful Thanksgiving. I fixed sweet potato casserole, ham, brocolli & cauliflower with cheese, rolls, sliced cheese, pickles and olives. We had lemon meringue pie for dessert. Then in the evening, Missie and went to the Fry's house and she played games with their family. She really enjoyed that. I also let the children open their gifts from Nana, as well. Missie got a MP3 player with a nice sized screen which she loves! It was a surprise for her! Preston got a VTech computer with mouse and mousepad. He loves it too! They were excited to open her gifts.

Missie put our Christmas tree up today. So that is done. I have most of the children's gifts, some still have to arrive in the mail, and I have one to get in town for Preston. I do most of my shopping online; it is so much easier than fighting the crowds and many times gets things cheaper, as well.

It is busy during this season with school and church activities. Missie and I are in the choir at church, and have been practicing for the contata each Sun p.m. Junior was asked to preach tomorrow night at our church. It has been quite a while since he preached. And we have quite a large church, too! He may be a little nervous but will do great, I am sure. You can always go the church's website and hear him if you wish, or watch it livestreaming on Sunday p.m. Service starts at 6 p.m. http://www.fbhc.info/

Junior is doing well at his job. We are so thankful for this job! God surely gave it to him. He has to miss a lot of activities especially this time of the year, working 2nd shift, but we are thankful for the job. Missie is disappointed because he won't get to go to the school play and watch her perform. She is playing the part of one of the main actors in the play. But we have to do what we have to do. I will go. Preston can stay alone for me to go.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and wishing you all a very wonderful Christmas season!

Correction on number of paces

2009-11-12T10:07:00.001-05:00

I made a mistake on the number of paces Missie has completed since the beginning of this school year.

She has completed 34 paces so far! She is doing great!

Parent/Teacher Conference

2009-11-10T14:45:00.002-05:00

Today was our school's parent/teacher conferences. It is great to have such a wonderful daughter! She has completed at least 28 paces already! She is almost finished her elective for the school year, and Science. We were told by her teacher that she is one of the more spiritually stable students in the upper learning center. She has her struggles, but she is maturing spiritually as she is in every other way. She has been through a lot of emotional and physical pain, in her life, but God is using it to make her a better person. Many of the students; boys and girls alike, confide in Missie and tell her their problems. They trust her and have confidence in her. We are so proud of her! She was behind in Math when we moved here, but she has worked hard and is on track now. She is still working to catch up in English, but we feel sure she will be caught up by the end of this school year.

She is so excited about Saturday. They are traveling to Michigan to play their first game of volleyball! She will have a long day, but is so looking forward to it.

We are so thankful for our school. No, it is not perfect; but overall it is wonderful. She is so happy to be in school. It has helped her emotionally so much! It has lifted some of my load, too, as homeschooling was a heavy load the last couple of years that I did it, with Preston having that long hospitalizion and his extreme illness. So God has certainly helped us find a school for Missie. It has been hard financially since we moved here, but the Lord gave Junior a good job now and we thank Him for that!

Just had to share!

November!

2009-11-10T08:22:00.003-05:00

Fall is one of my favorite seasons! So far we are having an unusually warm fall. But I won't complain!

It is a month to be thankful. Yesterday in my prayer time I decided to not ask for anything; I decided to thank the Lord for all His many blessings. I will list a few!
I am so thankful for the Lord; and all he does for us! We are very blessed.

1. thankful that we are not homeless.
2. thankful for a wonderful husband.
3. thankful that Preston is not lying in the hospital suffering as he did in 2007.
4. thankful for such a wonderful, beautiful daughter that has a heart for God.
5. thankful for my mom and stepdad who have helped us in so many ways.
6. thankful for our church, and both of our pastors.
7. thankful for a christian school to send Missie to.
8. thankful that I never have to send my children to bed hungry.
9. thankful that the Lord gave Junior a good job right here in Frankfort.
10. thankful that I was raised in a Christian home, and in the holiness way.
11. thankful I never got out into sin, as a young person, but have served the Lord.
12. thankful for my good friend, Janet, who goes to church with me.
13. thankful for my internet friends; I have many!
14. thankful for God's strength when my strength has failed.
15. thankful for thrift stores (that is how we survive).
16. thankful for sunny days.
17. thankful for birds & butterflies.
18. thankful for a washing machine.
19. thankful that Missie has a nice bedroom here (she didn't in SC)
20. thankful that I never gave up on Preston, and he is still able to live with us.
21. thankful for good inlaws!
22. thankful for a cooking stove; I went weeks without one when we moved here.
23. thankful for a warm house when it is cold.
24. thankful for the free clinic where we can go and get our meds.
25. thankful there are people who care about us!

I could go on and on. But these are just a few.

Today Missie is home and Junior and I go to a parent/teacher conference at 10:40, so gotta get around and ready for our day. Junior likes his new job, we are so thankful for it. God is so good!

Have started Christmas shopping. Have to get most of Preston's off the internet and hope to do that soon. Mom sends us Christmas money so that helps a lot!

You all have a great day and count your blessings today!

Flu!

2009-10-23T20:50:00.002-04:00

Well, the flu has hit Frankfort. Some have the H1N1 flu, and some the stomach flu. At least I think there are 2 kinds of flu. Missie got sick yesterday evening and threw up all night. She was feverish during the night. Today she is very weak, and has had a headache but no fever. So we don't think it is the H1N1, but a stomach virus. But some schools have already closed to try and slow the epidemic down. It is a possibility that our school will be closed too. There are students in our school that does have H1N1. We are praying Preston won't get the stomach virus or the H1N1, both of which would probably land him in the hospital. We hope no one else in our family will get either one.

Missie and James have broken up. He is unable to attend UBC in Jan. They are 2,000 miles away and long distance relationships are hard. He is a wonderful young man. But Missie stays so tired from school and volleyball, she doesn't have much energy left to work at a good relationship. So they have parted ways. It is sad, but Missie told him if the Lord wants them together, He will bring them back together. James agreed. Pray for James. He graduates from high school in Dec., and is praying for leadership as to what to do next. He will be 18 on Monday. I pray that the Lord will work it out at least by next fall for him to attend a Bible College. We want God's will in His life and hope someday our paths will cross again. He is the kind of young man we want for our daughter. But we want the one God wants her to have.

Jr. is doing well with his new job. We are so thankful to God for this job! He is drawing a decent paycheck finally, and we praise the Lord.

So that is about all of the news for this time!

Busy week!

2009-10-08T20:11:00.002-04:00

This has been a busy week!

Missie of course has had school. She got her new volleyball shirt today and was thrilled about that. She is so excited to be on the volleyball team. Her mouth is fine from the root canal. She talks each evening to James, and they usually see each other on the web cam. He is such an encouragement to us. Last night he and I were chatting on IM after Missie went to bed. We got to talking about prayer, and it really encouraged me. James was telling me that each day he writes down everything the Lord does for him, even the small things. Missie was still awake and I shared with her what he was saying. It encouraged her and she got up to look for her gratitude journal that she had started this summer. Today she posted it in again; her first fall posting. James is not going to be able to attend Bible School right now, close to us. It was a disappointment, but it is expensive and he needs to work and save some money. We understand that fully!

I have been working this week. Our pastor and his wife take care of her mother. Well, the pastor had gallbladder surgery on Wed. and was supposed to go home that evening. But he is still in the hospital. So I have been staying some with Grandma Fry. This week I have stayed with her about 15 hrs. She is a very sweet lady. But she cannot walk and sometimes it is hard to get her transferred from the wheelchair to the potty, etc. I had to call someone today to come and help me with her. Anyhow, Preston told me today that he just might get a new mother since I was working so much, lol. I have to take Missie to dr. in a.m. and then hopefully tomorrow afternoon clean my house!

Junior is working 6 evenings this week. So I know he will be tired out. Thankfully he can sleep on Sunday afternoon. But the overtime will really help! He seems to enjoy his new job. He has uniforms too, which the company pays for. We are so thankful for this job! God is good!

Preston has been doing well. We switched his medication so that I am giving him the new medication at night, except for 1/2 pill in evening. That way he is not so tired during the day. I am looking into getting home health to come in and shower him etc. He has suggested it himself several times, since my back hurts, etc. So I am gonna ask the nurse about it when I take Missie to the dr. tomorrow.

So that is the latest on the Watson family!

I want to add part of my gratitude journal here! I would love to hear yours too!

season of fall
good church family
my wonderful husband
answered prayer this week
work for me this week to make some money
my washer and dryer
my children
cup of caramel hot chocolate

this is just a drop in the bucket! I have so many blessings.

Root Canal!

2009-09-30T18:37:00.002-04:00

Well, Missie had a root canal today. In July when she was at Santoy Youth Camp in OH her one front tooth that was injured several years ago became abcessed. She took antibiotics which I had sent and was able to get it better until yesterday. Yesterday it started to throb and she knew it was abcessed. So I called the dentist this a.m. and took her in and yes, it was abcessed. So they said they could do the root canal right then and it would take 1 1/2-2 hrs. and I could go and run errands if I wanted to. So I went to goodwill, got something to eat, and to Great Find which is another thrift store. Then I went back and got Missie; took her prescription to the pharmacy, stopped by library and came home. Then I remembered I needed cat litter so ran to IGA and got a few things. Then I got Jr. off to work. I then washed/dried 2 loads of clothes and folded 2 days worth of laundry and got them all put away. I cleaned up the kitchen and am so tired. I am not gonna do anything else today. But now both of Missie's front teeth that were partially knocked out with the pool ball back in 2004 have had root canals and I am hoping they will last and we can save those 2 front teeth. Thank the Lord we have medicaid on her right now, to pay for today's root canal. She is taking pain meds so the pain hasn't been too bad. We did get to clean out her clothes and see what she has to wear this winter, and what she needs. So I am glad that is accomplished. It is unbelievable how much she has grown since we moved here a little over a year ago. She has matured into a lovely young lady. It makes me sad sometimes because she is my baby, but she is quickly growing up. It is hard to believe she will be 16 on her birthday and I plan to have a nice party for her. She is working hard at school, has done a lot of work since school started! We are so proud of her! I am glad she has help with algebra, so I don't have to worry about helping her. My brain is just too tired to have to do algebra.

Preston is doing good. Seems to be doing well with the new medication along with 1 generic buspar. He goes back in Dec. to psychiatrist. I am currently working on trying to get him a flu shot. His dr.'s office has already run out of it??? Can you imagine, this is only September! They ordered more and said to check back at end of week and see if it has come in yet. I wanted Missie to get one as she gets sick every winter. James does not like flu shots and promised he would keep her well this winter if I wouldn't make her get the flu shot. There is something he is sure will work from the health food store. So I hope it does. It is not an option for Preston not to get one.

Junior is enjoying his new job! Last night he ran the machine all alone and did great. He enjoys running machines, so he is happier with this job than he was at the warehouse, and it is soooo close to home. We can go all week on $10 worth of gas. It is wonderful.

I am doing pretty well when I don't forget to take my meds. I don't forget very often but I can tell when I do as I have a lot of anxiety. Also, the increase in the effexor has helped my anxiety and getting back on my night time meds. that I had run out of. I can't live with having extreme anxiety about everything, every day. I can cope if I can keep my anxiety at a minimum.

James and Missie talk a lot; use web cams, write letters, etc. He misses her so much since he went home. Missie misses him too, but her life is so full with school, school activities, church, etc., that it is easier for her. But she can hardly wait until he moves to IN. They will get to see each other every weekend, unless the weather is too bad. We know that is a possibility in IN. He says she is the most beautiful girl on the face of this earth. She has never thought of herself as pretty, or attractive, so it is so good for her to know James thinks this of her! She feels so blessed that God brought them together; it is not a burden on her at all, as was suggested by the anonymous lady, it is a blessing to her. For some reason she never thought a guy would love her that much. She told me Sunday it felt so good to be loved. Also, he loves her as she is. She wanted someone to love her who didn't want to change her, but would love her as she is. He does just that. He said she is perfect for him; he told me and her, that she doesn't know how special she really is. He had prayed for years for a girl like Missie, and then the Lord brought them together. God doeth all things well!

Please...............

2009-09-26T23:08:00.003-04:00

please send me a private email at normagwen2@yahoo.com if you were the anonymous person who wrote the message on here. I would like to know who you are. Because the devil can use my not knowing. It is better to know than wonder. I put a request on facebook and no one owned up to it. Maybe you are not on facebook. But I am asking you to be woman enough to come forward and let me know who you are.

Junior started his new shift - 2nd shift this week and did ok with that. I end up getting to bed too late, though. I cannot sleep until he comes in there and goes to bed. I get up to help Missie get a decent breakfast and take her to school. Sometimes I nap when I get back from taking her, but it is not a good rest. Preston has been going to bed earlier, so he gets up earlier. Anyhow, this a.m. I got some extra rest, which I needed. He got his first paycheck yesterday and was pleased and said it was the best one he had gotten in almost a year! We are so thankful for this job, and so close to home. God is so good.

Preston is sleepy with the new medication. We hope he will get used to it, though. I hate changing his meds. this time of the year. But overall he is doing great! He is a stinker! He loves to weigh himself and see that he has gained weight! He is one of the few people I know that actually likes to gain weight!!! I try to make him understand he doesn't need to gain any more weight! It is hard on his lungs and heart to be too big! He does admit to being shorter of breath when he is bigger.

Missie is doing well in school. Algebra is a challenge for her! But so far she is making it. We appreciate Mr. Coleman taking time to use a white board and work with her when she needs help! He helps several of the students with math. She has joined the volleyball team. I would rather she didn't, but she really wanted too, and her daddy made the decision that if she wanted to, she could. She spends a lot of time talking to James in the evening, and missing him. They do use web cams so that helps some. But it won't be long until he will be in IN.

So that is my update for this time!

Just a note!

2009-09-21T09:53:00.009-04:00

I have had to change my settings, so that you cannot post on here without my authorization. It is sad I have to do this. But I will allow comments that are nice, friendly, Christ-like, etc. If you think I am wrong about something, then the Christ-like way is to come to me and tell me, not make it public for everyone to see. It is easy to get on here as anonymous and accuse me rather than facing me with what you want to say; that is a coward's way out. To post it on here for everyone to see without your name is not a nice thing to do. That being said, I will continue blogging as I see fit. You may or may not agree with us on various items. That is ok; that is your privilege. My husband, Junior, says the anonymous writer is probably jealous, and I think he is probably right! I have a wise husband!

Just to clarify: My daughter is in a relationship! She is 15, and James is 17 but we give God all the glory and honor for this relationship! God brought them together, via facebook, and whether or not anyone likes or dislikes it, it is still a fact. We are very protective over our children. My husband is allowing Missie to be in this relationship because he felt she was ready for this. He is the head of our home and makes these decisions. He wanted James to come so we could meet him. James did this, and we liked him! So they are continuing their relationship with our blessing. Both sets of parents feel happy about this relationship! James had been praying for a holiness girl that believed in the holiness doctrine as he did. If this relationship does continue and God leads them to marry each other; it will be received with great joy on the part of both families! It has been my desire, that Missie court, fall in love, and marry the same guy. It is wonderful if young people can marry their 1st true love. It doesn't always happen, but when it does, it is a wonderful thing! Missie is James' first love, and James is Missie's first love. I asked them point blank when James was here and they were together, as this subject came up.

James is moving here in Jan. to go to UBC. So he will be attending church with us every Sunday; Bro. Whitaker already told me he could. He loves our church, and is happy that he can be with Missie and attend our church.

You all have a great week!

Labor Day!

2009-09-07T23:07:00.002-04:00

Well, this is one of the best labor days we have ever had. Missie was kind of sad on Sat. because she said every holiday is lonely for us, because we never travel or no one from our families ever come. But today we went to our church picnic at the Wilhelm's farm. We had a wonderful time! Preston enjoyed it so much. He sat in a swing and watched everyone else! He watched the volleyball games, and various other activities. Missie played volleyball for hours and her feet were killing her when she got home. We are sunburned but had a happy day.

It is nice we can do things as a family again. For a long time, due to the stimulation, Preston could not attend things like this. I praise the Lord he is able to, now, and he did great!

I am so tired, but wanted to share with you all about our Labor Day.

Sad news!

2009-09-03T09:22:00.003-04:00

Jr's sister Pam, was married to Greg and they had a daughter. They are divorced but Ashley was close to her dad and has been living with him for the last several months. Well, they found him dead in bed this morning. Ashley is taking it very hard, of course. We are asking prayer for Ashley. She is 17 and will be 18 later this month. He was about my age, around 52, and as of yet, they don't know what caused his death. Please just remember Ashley in your prayers.

Missie and James are counting down! A week from today he will fly in! We are so excited to meet this young man! They have been using web cams and it is so neat that they can see each other like that. They seem to enjoy looking at each other for some reason, hahaha. They each have AT&T Go phones and can talk any number of times/day for $1/day. So that helps a lot too. They are 2 hrs. behind us in time, but he sets his alarm at 5:30 each morning so he can call her before she goes to school. I am so thankful God brought him into Missie's life!

Preston is really excited to meet James! I know he will tease them! But he is anxious to meet him. They have seen each other on the web cams. He was interested in what Preston's condition involved, so I was able to share Preston's problems with him.

Junior has a physical today for his new job. Then when he gets home we are taking Preston out on his outing since his check came in on Tues. We are taking him out to eat and to a goodwill right beside the restaurant, in Lafayette.

So that is the latest, just wanted to ask prayer for Ashley!

It's Monday!

2009-08-31T08:09:00.002-04:00

It's Monday! This is going to be a busy week.

Tomorrow night we start revival with Bro. Rowan Fay. He is an wonderful man! He loves to say "Wow" and I like that word too, lol.

Junior went for job interview on Friday. This afternoon he goes to take some tests. It looks like he will get this job, and it is here in Frankfort!!! He starts off at $2/more per hour than where he is now, and we will save about $35/week in gas! We have been praying he could get a better job! He will be running 3 machines, and working 3-11. Missie won't get to see him during the week, when she is in school. But maybe later he can get on days, after he has been there for a while.

Missie has decided, with our permission, to join her school's volleyball team. So she was trying to make some money to buy her uniform. She was asked to babysit on Friday evening and then she babysit on Sat. for the photographers of a wedding that took place at our church. She made a good amt. of money. She bought some minutes for her phone, knee pads for volleyball and this evening we will order her shirt. She is excited! She is working hard on her paces, and I am so thankful she is so smart and studious! She is very happy with her new boyfriend and loves spending time talking to him, either by phone or on instant messanger. He will be flying in, in 10 days! They are both very excited.

I just have to share what James said to me last night. I am not bragging when I say this; but I have put a lot of prayer and effort into teaching my daughter how to be a godly young woman. James told me last night what a good job we have done with our daughter and he said, "Thank you." That was soooo uplifting and amazing to me. For him to thank me, it really touched me. That makes all the time and effort worthwhile. I am proud of our daughter too; and Junior has surely helped in the making of the young lady that she is. We have so wanted a young man like James when it was time for our daughter to court! It is so wonderful how God brought them together when they both needed someone! God is faithful.

Last week was a hard week. I was in a lot of pain and lost a lot of sleep. Some nights I just can't sleep. Anyhow, I was kind of down. Well, our pastor has had hip replacement, and last night was his first time to open the service since surgery. He just lightens the whole atmosphere. Well, He was telling us that our congregation has 12 preachers in it and my friend sitting beside me, said loudly, "Awesome." Well, Pastor Johnson had preached about the awesomeness of God and made a statement that the word awesome should probably only be used when referring to God. So without even thinking, I looked at Janet and said, "Only God is awesome." Well, all those who heard me cracked up and we had a good laugh. I told Junior it was worth it to go to church to have a good laugh (there were more laughs as well) as I really needed that. What a wonderful church we have.

Pastor Johnson preached last night about when we are storms in our life that we need God's people and not to hide ourselves away and withdraw from people. Well, I do that. Depression causes a person to not want to be around a lot of people, especially when you are in a period of depression. But I do need God's people. I just have felt the last few years that I really didn't have energy to put into friendship. I feel spread so thin emotionally sometimes. But I am going to try and do better about this. He mentioned doing something nice for someone else when you feel down. So I am gonna try and do that!

You all have a good week!

More news!

2009-08-27T00:30:00.002-04:00

We had the most awesome prayer meeting ever! Bro. Travis did the lesson on prayer (how to pray) using A C T S tonight.

A - Adoration - scriptures were read, a song of adoration sang, someone led in a prayer of adoration, then testimonies of adoration were given.

C - Confession - scriptures on confession were read; we sang "Cleanse me, O God." we all got on our knees and confessed to God where we needed help; then if anyone wanted to confess publicly, they did!

T - Thanksgiving - scriptures on thanksgiving were read, song was sung, prayer of Thanksgiving was prayed, then testimonies of thanksgiving.

S - Supplication - scriptures read, song sang, prayer requests given, we all knelt and prayed for the needs of our people!

It was such a heart warming time; God's presence was there; I was truly blessed. We start revival next week, so we are getting prepared as a church.

More breaking news:::: James is flying in on Sept. 10th and stay until the 14th. He called Junior last night and talked to him about liking Missie and wanting to get to know her better. We are very impressed with this young man. But Junior and I felt they needed to meet in person before they get more emotionally involved. So! Needless to say, they are both very excited. I am sure their feet won't hit the ground for a while, lol. We are going to take him to UBC to see the campus and all while he is here, as he is graduating in Dec. and planning to go to UBC in January.
His mom called me this a.m. We had a nice long visit. We feel God has brought James and Missie together. It is truly amazing how they met on facebook by accident, but God makes no mistakes. Missie has grown so much spiritually since we have moved here and physically. She is a young lady now and it is so hard to believe! She is a strong and loving girl. We are very proud of her and her zeal to serve the Lord.

So wanted to update for those who are not on facebook.

Back to School!

2009-08-24T21:48:00.002-04:00

Well, Missie had her 1st full day of school today, for the school year of 09-10! She is happy going to school. I am happy for her!

Well, we got the news today that the anxiety medication that Preston takes is no longer being made in name brand. The generic doesn't work as well for him. But lately he has been telling me he is so nervous even with the buspar so I guess it is time for a change anyhow. The pharmacy called the psychiatrist and told him but I am going to call him myself tomorrow and ask what we can try instead of the buspar. He does have xanex but not sure if the dr. wants him to take it full time or not. So we have to switch meds. and also the coming of the fall is always hard for mentally ill people. That is why I dread the holidays every year! It is much better than it used to be before his shunt got fixed, but it is still a bit stressful!

Well, Missie had a new friend! They met by accident on facebook. Apparently there is another Watson girl whose name is Missy (spelled with y) and James found her and thought she was someone else. Well, they got to talking and talking and talking and today he told her he is interested in her and wants to get to know her. She is so excited. He is 17, will be 18 in Oct., striving to end his senior year of homeschooling by the end of December and coming to Union Bible College for the 2nd semester. The first day they talked they discussed their beliefs and they agreed! And the fact that Missie doesn't dress immodestly attracted him as well. It pays to not let your daughter wear every fad and fashion that comes out. I have taught her modesty and a lot of the modern day clothes even in the holiness churches are not modest. If you bend over and people can see down your shirt and see things that aren't to be seen; that is not modest. I will get off the soapbox now. But a good spiritual guy wants a good spiritual girl with the same values as he has. Anyhow, he is Bible Missionary and his family is friends with some people from Bible Missionary that we have known for years! It really is a small world. But I was praying for someone to come into Missie's life. This summer was a hard experience for her in the fact someone showed interest and said all the right things, but when it came down to it, told her he only liked her like a big brother would. So that was hurtful, but God knew what He was doing. I really hated that Missie had to go through that experience at the age of 15. I could say a lot here, but I won't. I pray for him daily, and have no ill will against him. But James is just what she needed right now! The big problem is there is 2 hr. difference in the time. They are 2 hours behind us, so that is hard at night. But they get to talk when she gets in from school and throughout the evening. They are getting to know each other, and will have more time together when he gets to UBC, for sure!

Junior's hours have changed from 7-3:30 to 8-4:30, I like it better him getting off at 3:30. But we are still praying he will get the job here in town where he has applied. God knows all about it. We have to have more income. My having to work in the evenings, if I have to, only complicates our lives even more and causes Preston anxiety. I just couldn't do it every night! But I am taking what jobs I can get on a part time basis. I also hope he has a local job before winter.

So that is the latest! Will post a picture of Missie's fair-haired boyfriend!

Tomorrow is school!

2009-08-20T11:25:00.003-04:00

Missie starts school tomorrow at 9 a.m. and goes until 12. She is happy, and excited! She misses being with her friends during the summer. But she did attend 3 youth camps so this has been a good summer for her. She got sanctified this summer, too. She said it has made it so much easier for her to mind the Lord, since she has been sanctified. We are so thankful for such a special daughter. She is on her way to being 16 years old; it is hard to believe. She has been through a lot of trials, but last night the Lord met with her in personal devotions and she said she realizes how easy she has had it. What a blessing she is! She is growing up much too quickly. It is hard to believe she is going into 10th grade. Soon she will be graduating from high school, and what a sad/happy time that will be. Pray for her this school year; she will have a heavy load. She did so well last year and got so much accomplished!

Preston is doing well. He hasn't ridden his bike this week because of the heat/humidity. But he is doing well otherwise. He has been fishing on his computer, and catching lots of fish!

Yesterday was a wild day around here. We were able to help some people have a good laugh, who needed it, and you all know that laughter is the best medicine! I will tell you what all happened.

1. When I went to pull the mini blinds up in the kitchen which I do every a.m. because I love as much light coming in as possible, the one fell and broke. Thye end of the top piece broke completely off!

2. I decided to clean the window the big air conditioner was in. I know, I had a blond moment, Missie said. I folded the window in and washed it, so far so good, but when I went to fold it back up to close it, the air conditioner flew out of the window. I screamed for Missie and we were able to get it back into the window. But it was not working.

3. I fixed me an ice cream cone and on the way to put the waffle cones back in their place, I dropped the box and broke them all to pieces.

4. While putting away clean dishes, I dropped a big knife on my foot.

5. While ironing, I burnt my hand, not bad, just hurt at the moment.

6. I turned the oven on to cook, and when I went to put the food in, it was not working. None of the burners were working either. We have gas. So I wondered if they had turned our gas off, couldn't imagine that as I just made a payment a couple of days ago, come to find out, the plug wasn't in good in the wall. So I had to start all over pre-heating the oven to cook corn muffins and brownies.

7. While we were eating, I picked up Preston's fan to move it so I could get some air and something happened to it and a piece came off and was flying around inside the fan and I had to turn it off.

8. While we were eating, I got choked on some corn muffin.

Now Missie sent a text to one of her friend before #6, 7, 8 and told him what had happened and he wrote back all worried and asked if I had cut myself and if I was ok. Well, this struck us funny and Missie laughed until she cried, and I laughed as well. I was thankful he at least was concerned about me! LOL

Well, at the supper table when the stuff happened to me, she once again laughed until she cried, and Junior and Preston were laughing too! Then we put it on facebook, and gave some people some laughs that needed a good laugh. So it was all worth it.

Update on the above situation: Jr. fixed the air conditioner, thank the Lord, it was our best one and cost us $250 last year. It was just the fan had gotten stuck! I taped the blind and have it up temporarily. I didn't cut myself, nor burn myself real bad, thank the Lord. Jr. was also able to fix the fan and it is working fine. The choking wasn't nigh unto death, so all is well! LOL

Then we went to church last night (Missie wasn't sure if she should ride with me) and I wasn't sure if I should drive even the few blocks to church. But we made it safe and half way through service our assistant pastor said there was a tornado coming and he had men watching the doors. Well, I knew if we did get one and I couldn't get home right away that Preston would be upset, and I always want to be with my family if something like this happens. I told Missie I would rather die with Junior than be safe and not with him. She seemed to understand my reasoning. Someday she will fully understand :) So we came home early, and didn't get a tornado, thank the Lord, just a thunderstorm and some much needed rain. Then when I was getting Preston's meds. ready for him to go to bed I realized I had forgotten to go to the pharmacy and get one of his meds. and he was totally out. So Missie and I got dressed and away we went to CVS. But around midnight, God met with Missie and blessed her and showed her some things and it was so wonderful! So all in all, it was a WONDERFUL day because God was with us. If your life is dull and boring, come stay with us for a few days and you will be glad to go back to your dull boring life.

Junior got a call from a temp. agencey about a job. We thought maybe this was a GOOD job, but needless to say, it wasn't. It was a warehouse job where he would make $8/hr. I don't think so! He is making more than that now, even though he has to drive. We will keep praying and trusting the Lord to open up a better job closer to home!

So that is a day in the life of the Watsons!

52 years old!

2009-08-11T18:32:00.002-04:00

Well, today is my birthday, I am 52. It is hard to believe I am 52. Time passes so quickly. i was able to sit down and relax today and made 7 simple flower and hummingbird cards which are pictured on my Norma's Creations blog. I had a wonderful chocolate cake for my birthday and chocolate chip ice cream!

Missie has been helping me clean for the fall. She has done the kitchen except for the 2 little windows. We plan to start on our bedroom tomorrow. Soon she will be back in school so i am getting it done early while she is here to help me.

It has been hotter again this week. But overall it has been a much milder summer here than it was in SC. It is drier here, too. I am glad, since we don't have central air, but window units. We stay reasonably cool with the window units.

Please remember Junior's Grandma Holland. She was found on her apartment floor. She has been in hospital, but cannot eat or talk, etc. They did a CT scan but can't see where she had a stroke. They think it is just old age. She was moved to rehab today to see if they can teach her to talk, eat, etc. again. We are not sure if she will ever be able to live alone again. She is such a sweet person! I wish Junior could go and see her but we don't see any way. She is in VA. He spent a lot of time with his grandparents when he was little, and has been close to her.

Not much other news today! You all have a good rest of the week.

29 years!

2009-08-08T16:05:00.002-04:00

Well, this is our 29th anniversary weekend. Tomorrow we will have been married for 29 years. It doesn't seem possible. A lot has happened during those 29 years but this I can say: "We are still in love." I am so thankful for that! God is so good. We committed our lives to each other on Aug. 9, 1980 and we are still committed to each other and the Lord.

For our anniversary we couldn't do a whole lot. But we did go to LaFayette by ourselves, relaxed by looking in a few stores, and then ate at Dairy Queen. It was enough for us to just be together alone. We really would like to spend a night away soon but money is a big issue. So I am happy we just got to go out alone today. Missie vacuumed, swept, finished washing/drying/folding laundry and hung up all the clothes that needed to be hung up. She put away all clean dishes and washed what few dishes there were to wash. It was her gift to us for our anniversary. And she stayed with Preston. So it is nice they are old enough that at least we can go away for a few hours alone.

Missie is very ready to go back to school! Her school starts on 21st, for 1/2 day then the next week it will be in full swing. She gets lonely here at home. She has attended 3 youth camps this summer which she really enjoyed. She enjoys texting friends every day, watching dvds, and reading. And she is helping me do my fall cleaning. Yesterday she worked for 2 different people for 7 hrs. babysitting, and made $62. She was so thrilled and used her money to buy a new phone that would send pictures. Her other phone quit sending and receiving pictures. Her and Jared wanted to send pictures and couldn't. So now they can, and she is very happy about that. He is still one of her bestest friends! He will be going back to Penn View this month also, and continue in the ministerial course there. They have a good, close friendship. She needs that. She also has her friend in SC, Kellie and they both have AT&T so they talk, and then she has friends here. She is so happy here in IN. Friday night was a end of summer youth party and also a send off party of one of the youth who has left to attend Hobe Sound Bible College. It was a great party at the Wilhelm's farm and she had a blast.

Junior has put in an application to work at a place here in town but it is 2nd or 3rd shift. He is going to try for 2nd shift to start off with. He will make over $2/hr. more and not have to drive so far. We pray if it is God's will he can get this job. We cannot keep living on what we bring in now. I am going to have to get a job in the evenings or something to supplement our income. We only have one vehicle, so that makes it hard too. We cannot afford another vehicle right now. I wish we didn't have payments on this van; we could do a little better if we didn't have the van payment. But we have to have 1 vehicle. He is working right now 40 hrs/week at the warehouse. It is better than nothing, but not enough income. Even with Preston's check we cannot make it. But God knows all about it. He will have to work it all out.

Preston is doing great! He is happy here. When it is not too hot, he rides his bike. He loves our church and has a lot of friends there. He is pretty well recovered from this last illness and the infection in his brain. I still have to give him his showers, but he is not real steady on his feet to get in the tub alone. We have a shower chair so that helps a lot. So we are hoping and praying this shunt will do good for many many years. We sure don't want him or us to go through what he did in 2007.

So I guess that is the latest for now!

July 27th!

2009-07-27T22:34:00.002-04:00

Well, as of yesterday my sister and I are the same age. We are just 11 1/2 months apart. So until Aug. 11 we are the same age. Isn't that neat?

Well, things are better today. We have had a problem for about a week and it has resolved today, thank the Lord for that. I wanted it resolved the day after but God has His own time.

Missie got home from camp on Sat. evening. Junior went to OH to the Bell's house and got her. She had a fabulous time but was so sore and tired! She is still playing catch-up on sleep! She met a real nice girl who was at the Bell's house as well, that also goes to Penn View. Bro. and Sis. Bell were so sweet to her. And she loved the youth camp. She said it is the best one she has ever been to!

Tonight, a young lady in our church took Missie out for the evening. They had a blast! Missie relates better to older young people than the ones her age. She found Lyndsey someone that she could talk to about her feelings, etc., and Lyndsey understood. Missie has been through much in her 15 years. But she really has grown up in the last little while. I can hardly believe it. I am so thankful that Lyndsey is taking an interest in her. It means a lot!

Preston is doing great! If we invite people early in the week to come on Sunday night to eat, it makes him worry. So last night after church he was visiting with one of his favorite couples at church. So I mentioned them coming over to eat and visit. He rode home with them and he did great the entire time and after they left. So I guess this is how we can do it; it is nice to have fellowship sometimes. It gets pretty lonely sometimes. I told someone last night that I have more friends online than anything. But being homebound a lot, it has worked out this way, and I do not like talking a lot on the phone! And I am not a good texter! Missie said I am getting better at it, though, LOL. When she was gone this last week, we texted a lot! But I still don't like it much. Anyhow, we had such a good time last night and Preston really enjoyed it.

Junior is working 40 hrs/week, not making a lot of money, but better than the weeks we had no income. Anything is better than nothing. He is just putting a lot of miles on the van working out of town. But so far he hasn't been able to find anything in this town. But maybe eventually he will.

Well, our church is in an exciting time. We put an offer in on the Wesleyan Campground here in town. The offer was accepted. We raised almost $25,000 yesterday to help with some of the costs, and we will be moving our church and school over there. There is so much opportunity for more ministries too! It is exciting!!! Our church can't grow anymore until we can have a bigger church. So now we will!

Pray for our pastor; he is having hip replacement tomorrow. We are trusting the Lord to bring him through with flying colors and a swift and easy recover. We don't want him out of commission too long! His name is Bro. Mark Mowery.

So that is the latest from the Watsons!

Update on Missie

2009-07-20T13:24:00.003-04:00

Missie was able to sleep all night and was pain free this a.m. I praise the Lord! She took mega doses of antibiotics and people were praying for her. I wanted her to be able to stay and enjoy her week. Jared and Missie love playing jokes on each other, and he is like a normal big brother she never had. They are NOT in a relationship, just great friends. He calls her his little sis, and he is a protective, encouraging big brother to her. Missie is not one to talk to people about her feelings; but she is able to share with Jared and he is a big help to her.
Just to clarify that, because they get tired of answering the same question over and over again about their relationship. She is too young right now to have a steady boyfriend, anyhow. No way would her daddy let her date anyone right now! Missie is afraid he will never let her date for years and years, LOL. I appreciate his carefulness with our daughter. She is a precious girl and we want God's will for her life. It is too soon to know what that is yet. She has 3 more years of high school! She has to concentrate on that right now! So, the way it looks now, she will be able to stay at youth camp and have a great week. Continue to remember her in your prayers when you think about her. I am going to post a picture of her and Jared at another youth camp.

Sunday, July 19th

2009-07-19T14:02:00.002-04:00

Well, I did a whole update and it disappeared. So I will start again.

Missie is at her 3rd and last youth camp for the summer. Jared, her new friend, invited her to go to this one, it is his home church's youth camp and his parents basically run the camp. So I took her over 1/2 way up there yesterday and Jared and his mom met me and took her the rest of the way up. They are a nice family. But the problem is, she is in pain with a tooth. Most of you will remember she had an accident a few years back where 1/2 of both of her front teeth got knocked out with a pool ball. These were her permanent teeth too. They were repaired, but a little over a year ago, she had to have a root canal on one of them. Well, the other one is getting abcessed, and she is in OH. It was acting strange before she left, and feeling funny, so I sent some antibiotics I had here and she takes tylenol arthritis anyhow for her hypermobility. The tylenol isn't helping much today, though. I hope she can get the pain under control and enjoy the camp. A lot of people are arriving, and they have begin registration today. She met a girl who goes to Penn View (as Jared does, too) and they have become friends. They went with Jared's family to their church this a.m. and to their house for dinner. Anyhow, she is in OH and hopes to be there until Sat. On Sat. Junior will go up and get her. She gets so lonely during the summer when school is out, and loves youth camp. She sold her Ipod to be able to go to this one. Please pray the antibiotics will help so she can stay.

Junior is working 40 hrs/week, but the rate of pay is lower than he has made in years, and he has to drive a little distance to work and back. I so wish he could get a job in this town with a little higher hourly wage. But we are thankful he has a job at all. Even if he worked here in Frankfort, for the same hourly wage, he wouldn't have to spend so much for gas. He is working in warehouse driving forklift, packing and shipping orders. They ship a lot of brake drums sometimes. He likes it better than the job he had working all night. We like him working days better, too!

Preston is doing about the same. He is doing well. It has been cooler here and he has been riding his bike almost every day. And he likes to sit in his swing in the evenings. He gets out once a week to the goodwill usually, and goes to church on Sunday night. He loves the church, and the people.

So that is about all I have to report this time.

It's July!

2009-07-08T22:17:00.002-04:00

Time is swiftly passing. It is July, and soon will be August!

Missie has attended yet another youth camp. This one was the hardest on her physically of any she has ever been too! But she did have a good time. There are 2 youth camps in OH that we are praying about her attending. They are back to back at the same campground. That would be 2 weeks she would be gone. I worry that she won't get enough rest and be sick like she was at the last one here in IN that she attended. I am asking the Lord to show us His will. Her hypermobility is a tiny bit better. She was to go back to Riley's Children's Hospital tomorrow in Indy, but I didn't have a way to get her there. Junior cannot take off work for us to go, and he would need to be here with Preston as it was an early morning appt. She did have her eyes tested and she has new glasses ordered. Her eyes were a little bit worse this time again but the eye dr. thinks in the next couple of years, it will level off. I sure hope so. We are thankful she has her medicaid back!

Preston went to his new dentist today. He didn't have any cavities. He enjoyed flirting with the hygenist, LOL. People get quite a kick out of him and his antics. But I am thankful he doesn't need any dental work, as he has to be sedated for that.

Missie and I went to a nice park here in town last night and had a relaxing time. I will post some pictures. Sometimes I feel sad that we can't do a lot together as a family. That is one of the crosses we bear. I am considering looking into respite care of something like that here, through medicaid. Preston is doing so well right now. Once he got used to a person staying with him, it would be ok. His favorite place to shop is still goodwill! He is building quite a library of VHS. And he always looks for computer cd games, and that is all he looks at. He never goes through the rest of the store. But that is ok, LOL, we spend less money that way.

Junior is working through the temp. agency at the shipping place. Thank the Lord the work is holding out. It looks like the economy is slightly improving around here. I wish he worked in town here, maybe soon he can get a job here. With only one vehicle is it very hard because it is too far to take him, and have to pick him up. We use a lot of gas as it is just getting him back and forth to work.

So all in all, things are good with us! The Lord has been so faithful. I am so glad we know Him and can trust Him. Until next time, toot-a-loo!

Wow!

2009-06-30T10:48:00.002-04:00

It's almost July 1st! Where is the summer going? School will soon be starting. We are not ready but God will provide.

Missie is once again at youth camp. Her teen pastor is the evangelist. She loves these youth camps! I am so glad for the privilege she has to attend. Someone came to our home and gave her the entire amt. of money she needed to go! God is so faithful. She is growing up so fast. She is our sunshine, in sometimes our dark world. Everything in her life is an adventure; and it is so refreshing! She can turn the simpliest things into fun! I miss her when she is gone. But I am so happy she has a heart to serve the Lord, and she said she wants a godly young man! I have encouraged her to settle for nothing less than that in her life, as she grows up! She is more mature than a lot of kids her age; I think the hardships with Preston's illnesses, has caused her to grow up faster. She has a heart for people and their problems. God will use her I know in the future. She has 3 years of high school left so I know I will have her at least 3 more years, thank the Lord!!!

Our van is needing some work. Junior has already replaced the front brakes and found something broken that has to be repaired. And he thinks we need a new battery too. So thankful he can do the repairs. We also will soon need at least 2 tires.
I am so thankful he has a job right now. But money still isn't plentiful. But God always supplies our needs.

Preston is doing great. He was outside most of the day yesterday. It isn't as hot this week and he was riding his bike for about 5 hrs. Then he sat in his swing. Junior took him to his new psychiatrist here in town, and Preston really liked him. He asked Preston a lot of questions of course and one of them was, "Do you ever feel unloved by your family?" Preston told him no he didn't, he knew he was loved. I thought that was sweet. The new dr. gave him an extra medication for stress, but so far he hasn't had to take even one of them.

I looked out my front window earlier and lo and behold, someone had planted 4 tomato plants in buckets for us and left them on our porch. We have so overwhelmed at the kindness of the Frankfort church people. It is amazing!!! It never seems to end. God is so faithful. I am so happy we are here in IN!

Campmeeting was last week (Midwest Pilgrims) and I received so much encouragement and help! I wish I could have gone every service, but couldn't, of course. But I was so blessed and encouraged. Then we had GBS group called "Faith" on Sunday a.m. and they blessed me so much too. I have listened to them every day so far from the archives. Those young people really knew the Lord and sang with the anointing. Tears flowed all over the church. Some of the lyrics were, "Over and over again God is faithful." "Hasn't He done enough, don't you think it's time we trust?" On and on I could go, but I was so encouraged. I guess you can tell that by now!

So wanted to check in with everyone.

Hello everyone!

2009-06-16T11:29:00.002-04:00

Well, it's been 10 days since I updated! So here goes!

Missie is gone to Friends Youth Camp in Munsey, IN. She was so excited. One of her friends spent Sunday night with us and they left on Monday. Our teen pastor drove one of the church's big vans to take the youth, and his wife had to drive their mini van to take their luggage, they had so much! Anyhow, she is gone. Have only heard from her once so far. I am so glad she has the privilege of going to youth camps! I grew up in Canada and we had VBS at campmeetings, but I have never had the privilege of going to a youth camp.

Junior was off for a few days, then got called back. He is back working in the warehouse. He is currently working 10 hr. days, 6 days/week. We are thankful for every day he gets work. Also, SC unemployment ruled he can still draw unemployment even though he refused to work on Sunday, due to his religious beliefs and the fact he didn't know when he started that they would ask him to work on Sunday. Thank the Lord for that! So he still has some unemployment he can draw if he gets out of work again. You never know when you work for a temp. agency how long your job will last.

Preston is still Preston! His side is better; we never heard a word from the gallbladder test, and he is doing better with taking gas x in a.m. so we are just leaving it for now. I didn't want him to have to have surgery unless it was completely necessary because of him being so high risk of infection and the shunt.
He is doing so well; very happy and relaxed for the most part. He loves riding his bike, and this is the perfect place to ride; the alley beside our house. He loves going to church on Sunday night and talking with everyone. He will be 21 on Sat! It is hard to believe! He has matured in many ways. We are proud of our son!

I am doing well; selling lots on the internet; the Lord helped us raise money by selling stuff to send her to the youth camp! God is good. Some gave extra money so she could go. I am so thankful we are in Frankfort, IN. This was a good move; Missie has flourished and is so much happier. The young people here are friendly and the boys talk to the girls; everyone has fun together! This is what she needed. Having her own teen pastor helps her a lot too. Bro. Travis has done so much for her spiritually. He is the reason we are even in IN! His wife Jody is such a blessing and one of the sweetest people I have ever met.

Our pastor has to have hip replacement close to the end of July. He has suffered a lot the past few months. I will be happy for him to not be in so much pain. He doesn't shirk any of his duties, though, let me tell you! He is a very active and caring pastor! We are so blessed.

The devil has really fought us about moving here; but the Lord has never failed us, and we love the school and church, and watching Missie grow in the Lord, and loving her school, etc., is worth every problem. We did it for her and it has paid off. Nothing is more important than our children's souls. She loves being around other youth that is like she is! She is 15 now; very hard to believe.

So that is my update for today!

Update!

2009-06-06T20:22:00.002-04:00

I fall behind in updating this blog. Sorry about that. Those of you who are on facebook as my friend probably read my updates there.

Preston had a hide-a-scan on his gallbladder and we haven't heard any results from it. But the pain is better, and I don't think he will have to have anything done right now. We praise the Lord if he can avoid any surgery right now.

Junior got another job through the temp. agency. He worked about 9 days and was told he wasn't needed any more. So he was off for a few days but they called yesterday and said for him to go in today. So he went in and he is supposed to go in next week. So we will see. You never know from day to day if he will have a job the next day. But we thank the Lord for each day that he does work, and for the weeks that we have an income. When he gets a decent check I try to buy extra groceries so that we have enough in case he doesn't get a check the next week.

Yesterday was a very stressful day for me. My mom and step-dad were on their way to my cousin's garage in Napanee, where their car was. Dad was driving my cousin's car. He pulled out in front of a car; neither he or mom saw it coming. Mom always helps him look. Anyhow, it basically totaled my cousin's car. She called crying and told Junior she had had a wreck but he didn't know any details. I was on my way to get some groceries. So I didn't know any details for a while, and that was hard. I was very worried about them. But my cousin went to the scene of the accident and took care of having the car towed in, etc. and took them back to his shop. They stayed there until Myles got off work and picked them up and took them home. It was a hard day for them. Mom said it happened so fast! They could have been killed but they weren't and for that, I praise the Lord. I don't know how I would stand it if something happened to my mom. But I am thankful I still have her!

Missie finished summer school yesterday. She did 9 paces in the 2 weeks and is catching up on what she was behind in! We are so proud of her. She will miss her friends and going to school.

We plan, Lord and weather permitting, to have a yard sale next weekend. Junior won't get much on his check, and we are hoping to make some to put with that. Missie will be here to help me have it. It is a big job but we have stuff we need to get rid of and make a little money too!

So, overall, we are all doing good. Missie is still having the muscle/joint problems, but she can't take therapy right now because they took her medicaid away and we are having to reapply for it again and then maybe she can go back. But she has exercises to do at home, so she can continue that. She ripped a muscle in the back of her leg a while back, so that leg is weaker. Sometimes when she is on her knees and tries to get up, her legs give out. But we hope the exercises and therapy will eventually make the difference.

You all take care until I get back with another update!

Memorial Day!

2009-05-25T22:04:00.002-04:00

Well, Memorial day is about over. I wanted to do a quick update before I went to bed.

Friday night was the school's award night. Missie got a medal for the A Honor Roll. She was on the A honor roll all year! She got a trophy for learning all of her scripture on time, too! We were so proud of her. The picture of her on stage didn't turn out :(.

Missie had her 15th birthday on Saturday! I can hardly believe she is 15. She was so sick, though, and spent all day in bed. I felt so sorry for her. She overdid it at a friend's house on a slip n slide and then at fun day at FCA. She ached all over and was sick. She was supposed to sing in a trio on Sunday a.m. but wasn't able to go. She did get to her FCA's graduation at 2:30 yesterday afternoon, and the reception afterwards. I will post some pictures of her and some of her friends.
It was a wonderful graduation service. Each of the graduates (Kindergarten, 8th grade, and 12th grade) presented their mothers with a rose; many tears were shed. Altogether there were 13 graduates! Preston was able to attend and we all went to the reception afterwards. It was a hot day, though, and by the time we got home, we were all hot and tired. But I am glad Missie was able to attend. Now today she has a cold. It was starting yesterday, but now she is blowing, blowing, blowing her nose. She gets so tired of being sick!!!

For her birthday, Missie wanted a glove and softball. So that is what we got her. A lady at church made her a cake! Then she got money from both sets of grandparents. She wanted cheesecake on her birthday as the birthday cake was already gone, so we got cheesecake for her. Hopefully next year we can have a party for her when she turns 16. She is just growing up so fast.

Junior is working for the temp. agency again; we are thankful for that. We still haven't received any unemployment from SC for the weeks he had no work. We are praying it will come through. Someone graciously paid our van payment, our light bill, and phone bill for this month, so that is a huge blessing. We are hoping this job will last for a while!

Continue to pray for us, when you think of us!

Latest news!

2009-05-18T21:58:00.002-04:00

Good evening. I have some news tonight!

Junior got a call this evening from Employment Plus about a job. So he went and did the paperwork, and he starts in a.m. at NFI in Whitestown! We don't know what NFI stands for yet, LOL, but it is a shipping company. He will be driving forklift. He doesn't know how long this job will last, but he will take as much work as he can get. And it is day shift! I wish he could get a job in Frankfort, because it is very hard for him to work out of town, when we only have one vehicle. Missie has 3 appts. and I have no way to take her. Right now it is not an option to buy another vehicle. We don't have the money to do that right now.

Preston's ultrasound really didn't show them anything and they wanted him to have an IV and also drink some stuff and have a CT scan. He said no. He is sick of having to go through all of this stuff, and I can't say that I blame him. He wants to be anointed, but last night we had UBC choir, and the next 2 Sunday nights we don't have church, so it will be a while before he can do that, as he doesn't go on Sunday a.m. He still has pain some; but he wants to live with it if possible, but it may get so bad he won't be able to. Time will tell. Please pray that the Lord will touch him and take this pain away. It would be beneficial to all of this family if he didn't have to go into the hospital ever again. I know that is probably unlikely, but we can always dream! And pray.

Going to bed now. Wanted to let you know about Junior's job!

Long overdue!

2009-05-10T20:39:00.002-04:00

I know! This is long overdue.

And there are new developments in our lives, as usual!

1st of all on Monday a.m. the phone rang and it was Employment Plus, the temporary agency that Junior was working for. They said ASI had changed the hours that he would be working, to 6 nights/week. Junior said, "that puts me working on Sunday and I don't work on Sunday." So they said that they would call ASI and tell them. So in a few minutes they called back and said they were sorry but ASI needed someone who would be available to work on Sunday. So that was the end of Junior's job. We did not see this coming! Even though he didn't like the job nor did we like his working all night, we were thankful he had a job. Well, no more. We are back to job hunting. We still have some unemployment left, but when he called in today, they said he had to call the office in a.m. I just hope they are not making us wait another week; we have already had 2 weeks of waiting period already! But we will find out for sure in a.m.

Many of you know Preston had gallstones in SC but since they weren't bothering him, they said they would leave them alone. But now every day he is having pain. So Tues. he is having an ultrasound. Please pray they can see the problem or the stones when they do the ultrasound so he won't have to have any more tests. I hate to think of his having surgery, but if he has to, he has to, and we will just pray he has no complications this time. I don't think any of us can spend another 9 weeks in the hospital.

We didn't get to go to Canada because by the time we figured it out, we realized it was too far for one day's journey and we didn't have enough days to go. Missie is trying to finish her school year out and we just couldn't be gone that long right now. But the problem is, after June 1st, we can't cross the border without passports. None of us have passports. Mine has run out years ago, and we all have to get them. I am not sure when we will have the money to do this. Mine is the most complicated one to get. Anyhow, that is why I wanted to go in May. But it doesn't seem to be working out. I want to see my mom so bad. But we talk every day on the phone which I love and Preston hates, LOL. If I can't see her at least I can talk to her. I hate talking on the phone overall, but I am so glad we have this means of communication.

Today was a wonderful Mother's Day. We had over 60 mothers at church this a.m. We had a wonderful Mother's Day service. We could chose a flower or a candle, and guess which I chose? Yep, the candle! Junior took me to Cracker Barrel Friday for my favorite meal of chicken and dumplings. The children each bought me a rubber stamp that I wanted to use on my cards. So it has been a happy day for me.

Will try and let everyone know when I get the results of Preston's ultrasound.

TGIT

2009-04-30T20:28:00.002-04:00

Thank God it's Thursday! This is Junior's last night for the week! We always love the long weekends.

Lord willing, we are leaving a week from tomorrow a.m. for CANADA!!! I will drive the 1st few hours and Junior will sleep as he will just be getting home from work after working all night. We will get up there by bedtime. We are staying Saturday, Sunday and coming back Monday. Junior won't go to work until Tues. evening. I will get to be with my mom on Mother's Day! I am excited!!! Preston is wanting to go this time, so I hope it all works out. I haven't seen my mom for almost 3 years. I just have to see her this year.

School is winding down! I have 20 graduation invitations to make by next week from one of the girls who is graduating from high school, and attends our church.

Haven't heard anymore on the medicaid deal. Missie has therapy tomorrow. That muscle in her leg seems to be better; it hasn't happened again. We are thankful for that.

So that is about all the news for this time.

Medicaid!

2009-04-25T12:36:00.003-04:00

Well, we got a letter today saying Missie's medicaid was ending on May 31st because we make too much money???? Oh me, it never ends. I took 4 check stubs of Junior's in yesterday so I hope that will help. He is only a temp. right now, but getting some overtime. I guess that will hurt him. We can't win for losing. Please pray this can be resolved, because with this muscle condition that she has, we need medicaid. The other option would be to go to Shriner's in Cinni, but that is about 6hrs. of driving, plus the appointment, etc. It will be another added burden to my life; because with Jr. working nights he gets so tired, and he can't do it; and Friday is the only day I could go up there, because that is the only day he doesn't have to sleep all day, and someone has to be with Preston most of the time.

At school on Thurs. Missie kicked a ball and something happened in her leg and she had excrutiating pain and could barely walk for a while, or sit, it hurt so bad. She has pain meds. at school and took those but she said it took about an hour for it to kick in. She was crying and shaking, both which means she is in a lot of pain. Well, it is still giving her trouble. She was walking this a.m. and the same thing happened. We don't know if she tore a muscle rather than pulled it or what. I am going to have to take her to the rhumatoid dr. if there is not a big improvement over this weekend.

You know, sometimes I question! I am sure everyone does sometimes! But our plate is full with Preston and all of his many problems since birth in 1988. Missie came along 6 years later and was so normal and fun, and could do everything he couldn't do and brings us so much joy. Why this? She wonders too, and our plate is full and running off the sides. But!!! We have the Lord to help us through. Otherwise, I don't know where I would get all my strength. Even then, emotionally I get so exhausted sometimes, and in every other area of my life. To see your child in pain, hurts. Especially one like Missie; she was so active! She loved to be outside, riding her bike, running, etc., now can hardly do any of it. But we just have to leave it in God's hands. That is all we can do.

If you haven't heard the testimonies in the "Building for Keeps" service at IHC, please to their website and click on archives and listen to it. A man told of his young wife having a stroke because of malpractice 14 yrs. ago. They had a 3 yr. old son, and he was a farmer. He became the bread winner, cook, mom and dad to his son, on and on, and taking care of his wife. He was told to put her in a nursing home so he could get on with his life, and he won't do it! We have basically been told the same thing. Anyhow, I couldn't help but weep! He called her up to the platform, and she has a crippled arm and hand like Preston and uses a cane. But she was able to sing the chorus of "Because He Lives." It was awesome! They have been through so much but he said he is not angry with God. God is His strength. That is the way it is with us!

Please pray about the medicaid situation when you think of us. Thanks so much!

Back already!

2009-04-21T20:41:00.002-04:00

I just have to share how God used a man in our church to minister to us, especially Preston.

In SC, we attended church with Kendall Stetler (David and Marsha's son)and now that we are in Frankfort, IN, we attend church with Kendall's brother, Brent. Well, Preston instantly took to Brent; I think he felt a connection because of having attended church with Kendall.

Well a while back Brent asked me about taking Preston out. Well, I wasn't sure about it; not sure how Preston would do, etc. But we decided that today was the day we would try this! Well, Brent came about 4:30, and took Preston out for 2 hrs. When they pulled up Preston was smiling and was soooo happy. He was telling Missie and I where all they had been, and it really helped him!

Thanks Brent, for taking time to do this and make a "special boy" happy! As I told Missie, everyone needs a friend. Preston never goes anywhere without Jr. or I, but it was really good for him; good for him to have his own friend! So God sent Brent Stetler to minister to Preston.

It is so ironic, because we were in Bible College in Thomasville, when David Stetler was the principal and Kendall and Brent were little boys. Then in the last couple of years we have been attending church with them!

Just had to share.

So sorry!

2009-04-15T12:43:00.003-04:00

To my blog followers, I am sorry for this long period between posts. Sometimes I forget to blog!

Life here is about the same. Junior is working 12 hr. shifts 4 nights/week at ASI in Whitestown. My brother says he is too old to be working all night, LOL. He sleeps most of the day. He goes to bed as I am getting up. It is a different lifestyle for us, but we are just thankful he has a job and this week he will get his 1st paycheck with 8 hrs. overtime! For that, we are grateful! We are just thankful he has a job. And praying Junior's health will stay well enough for him to continue this until something else comes along.

Easter was good. We don't do much for Easter except go to church. It is our Lord's resurrection. We celebrate that! I was able to attend both services on Sunday. We had 353 in attendance Sunday a.m. We were pretty full! It was a good time of celebration to our Lord. Sunday night we had communion and Junior was asked to help with that.

We have finally talked Preston into dressing casual for Sunday night, instead of dressing up. It was either that or not go to church. And he is so happy that he has decided to do this. Sunday night he dressed himself and came out and said he didn't feel as nervous as he usually does and was able to attend church and did fine! So ties, belts, etc., are done away with for now. Pants he can just pull up and over the head t-shirts with 3/4 length sleeves without a bunch of buttons to do up, is the way to go for him! So that has solved a big problem! Thank the Lord for that.

Missie is taking therapy at least again this week. She has exercises she does at home every day. We will see what happens with therapy after Friday. The dr. can appeal so hopefully she can get more therapy. It does seem to help. She can't stay on her feet a lot, though, or run or ride her bike yet. The part about her legs going numb is something pushing against a nerve. So! We are still trying to get her help with her hypermobility! She helped at the school Mon. p.m. with "Spring Fling" for all of the Sunday School children. She loves Frankfort, her school, and all the activities when she is well enough to do them! And she loves having friends!

So that is about it for this time! I will try to do better with blogging!

It's Saturday!

2009-04-04T10:43:00.003-04:00

Well, we are glad it is Saturday. Junior started working 12 hour shifts Tues. night, so his hours are now 5 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. and he gets home around 6 a.m. It is hard to work all night, but at this point he doesn't have a choice. And we are very thankful he has a job. And the overtime will be much appreciated!!! Hopefully the company will hire him on full-time.

Missie is gone to a teen girl's retreat; left yesterday at 4 p.m. and will be home tonight, not sure what time. She was so excited. It is called "Outlook Makeover." Her best friend from school, Britnee, went too, so she was very happy. She is so happy in Frankfort, IN! And she is the reason we are here!

Last weekend was kind of rough for us. Last Sunday night was our 5th Sunday night singing and our pastor opened the altar for those who needed to bring burdens to the Lord. Missie and I went, and I sobbed my heart out, and that really helped me. In the last few years I fully understand what the scripture means when it says that "He hears our groanings." Sometimes that is all we can go, is weep and groan. But the Lord did lift the burden and I have felt so much better. We have met a lot of problems since we moved here, and it has been hard, but we are so thankful for a church family that cares and prays for us.

Missie told me the other day that she stays strong for me. I thought that was so sweet and mature of her. She and I have become so close, especially since Jr. is gone at night, and she said she knows I need her and she stays strong for me. What a blessing we have in Missie. Life for her is an adventure; she finds excitement in all that she is involved in, and it is soooo refreshing. On the other hand, Preston worries about everything and makes things so complicated that her outlook on life is such a blessing. Missie was not planned; we didn't plan to have any other children because of Preston's many mental and physical illnesses. But God knew we needed Missie. It has been very hard for her; but hopefully she is a much stronger person because of all we go through as a family, having a special needs child. Needless to say, I am proud of them both.

So that is the update for today!

God Answers Prayer!

2009-03-24T15:19:00.002-04:00

Missie is so happy today; God has answered prayer on her behalf.

SHE DOES NOT HAVE ARTHRITIS! She was so happy when they told her today at Riley's Children's Hospital! 3 people looked at her and examined her and all 3 agreed. Her muscles around her joints and her joints are too loose, causing them to move too much, and sometimes slipping in and out. Physical therapy can help this diagnosis! So we are in the progress of getting her set up for physical therapy! We are not sure how long it will take to correct this problem, but at least someone finally knew what the problem was and how to fix it! God is so faithful!

Just had to share!

Preston is loving the nice weather and riding that bike! He is out today, just riding up a storm, and loving every minute of it!

Junior still is working his 2nd shift job, 10 hrs/day Mon-Thurs. He loves having the long weekends. We are thankful he has a job right now! It doesn't pay enough, but some money is better than none! We are thankful for any work he can get right now! He is still a temp. but maybe that will change.

Wow! It's Saturday!

2009-03-14T12:38:00.003-04:00

Time goes so fast. Enjoy each day because we never know when it will be our last.

Well, Missie did not recover to go to the ACE competition. She was so sick! I took her to dr. on Tues., and they said it could be pneumonia but the dr. didn't bother to take a chest exray. The reason for this was that Missie's regular dr. was not in and she saw someone else. She at least had asthmatic bronchitis with possible pneumonia. So she gave her antibiotics, a new asthma inhaler, 2 kinds of cough meds. She is not coughing at much; the antibiotics are helping. But she is having a hard time getting her strength back, and she is still coughing some. She was very disappointed but she was so happy because she got to talk to some of the girls every day via telephone or texting. Someone called her each day and a bunch of them would holler in the background, "We love you, Missie" and it made her so happy. It was so sweet of them. She loves her school and youth group friends. She can hardly do anything without having to lay down. If she is not a lot better by Tues. I am taking her back to her own dr. on Wed. a.m. This really hit her hard! She hasn't been sick with this lung infection since she was quite young. I put her on vitamin c and for years she didn't have it. But she got it this year. Continue to pray for her recovery.

Preston is loving his new bike. He is out riding as I type this. He rides for hours and it is so relaxing for him!

Junior is glad to be back at work. He worked 10 hr. shifts Mon-Thurs., from 3p.m. to 1:30 a.m. and gets home about 2 a.m. I don't sleep too well going to bed alone. But we are soooo thankful he has a job! Hopefully he can be hired by the company itself and not be a temp. for much longer. It would be nice to have medical insurance again for him and I.

So that is the latest! I guess we have a touch of spring fever. Even though it is just 44, I opened windows for a few minutes to get the house aired out and maybe get rid of the sick bugs that might be in here. We are doing some stuff around, and enjoying this cool sunny day!

Until next time!

Sickness!

2009-03-08T13:27:00.002-04:00

Well, Missie started getting the flu on Thurs. p.m. while at bus convention. She was in a lot of pain and texted and called me from there. Well, she had a fever by the time she got home, and had the chills. She is trying to recuperate by Tues. a.m. That is when they leave for ACE competition. Another girl in 2 of the singing groups also has it, so they cannot do their songs tonight at church. I was looking forward to hearing them all sing, and Missie's solo! But they are hoping and praying they will be well by Tues. a.m.

Well, we got the van tags switched over and Jr. got his IN license, to the tune of $259! It took almost all of our love offering to pay for this, but at least it is done. But we couldn't have done it without that love offering! God is so good.

We had a good service this a.m. Tonight we start practice in choir for something for Easter. So I have to be there at 5 p.m. It has been thundering, lightning, and pouring rain. It has stopped now and sun is trying to come out. But Preston doesn't want to get out in this weather tonight, so I told him that was ok. Hope the sun shines tomorrow so he can ride his bike. Junior goes back to work tomorrow afternoon.

Just wanted to give a quick update and let everyone know Missie will not be singing tonight, but you can still tune in on our service!

Good News!

2009-03-06T17:33:00.003-05:00

Good news from the Watson family!

Junior got a call last evening from Employment Plus, asking if he could go back to ASI on Monday, 2nd shift, same as before! Of course, he said, yes!!!! We are so thankful to the Lord. We will just take it week by week and be thankful for every week that he works.

We needed over $250 to get our van registered in IN, and for Jr. to get an IN license, and guess what? We received a $300 money order from an anonymous giver and the envelope was postmarked Greenville, SC. This is the 2nd $300 money order with no name or address on it except ours. We think we have an idea who it might be, or who is responsible, but we are not going to try and find out. We just trust the Lord will bless them for supplying our needs! God is so faithful, and so good.

I still have to get my IN license. I have to take a written test. Also, because I am a Canadian citizen there is more red tape. It took me several times in SC to get my SC license, I hope it is not that way here.

Missie has the flu. She has fever, and shaking with chills. She is in bed. She is to leave on Tues. for ACE competition. She sings a solo and is in 3 other singing groups. It will be hard on the rest of the girls in the singing groups, if she cannot sing. She aches a lot too whenever she is sick. But I have good news about her new doctor. The rhumatologists at Riley Children's Hospital in Indy have accepted Missie as a patient, and her first visit is March 24th. We are so thankful for that. Maybe we can get find out some answers now about her arthritis.

So that is the latest, but wanted to let everyone know the good news!

Preston's Bike!

2009-03-04T21:04:00.002-05:00

Wow, Preston has had a wonderful day! Junior got Preston's bike finished with the speedometer and mirror put on, and Preston sat on it. He was nervous at first, and didn't think he could ride it. But we got him headed down the alley beside our house and he took off. He was moving slowly at first, but gradually got up more speed. He ended up riding 3 hours! He was so happy and loves his bike. He has had a much better day today! Depression is an awful thing; if you have never had it, you don't know how to understand it. I have, and it is awful. Anyhow, after he rode his bike all that time, he said he didn't want to die. Life seems hopeless for him sometimes, but this bike will give him a new lease on life.

Missie is gone with her school to Bus Convention and will be home late. I have watched it both nights so far on live streaming. The sermons are such a blessing.
Union Bible College's choir sang tonight.

I am posting pictures of Preston riding his bike!

News!

2009-03-03T14:07:00.002-05:00

Well, there is more news from the Watson family.

Junior worked 3 weeks at ASI, and found out they were closing down 2nd shift and thought he would be going to 1st shift. Not so! Friday the temp. agency told him that ASI got rid of all of the temps. Junior was one of them. He was disappointed. He really liked that job, and thought he would be able to stay there.
It has thrown us for a loop, again, but all the changes are especially hard on Preston. It has thrown him into depression. He has been worrying about his daddy not having a job, and asking how we will pay the bills. I have assured him he won't have to worry about it. I told him he gets a check and he will always have food to eat, and a roof over our head. Plus we told him that Junior has unemployment he can draw. He has only drawn 1 week so far. So we are trying to rise above the problems and keep on living! God knows where we are, and all about the situation. The temp. agency told Junior that he will be the 1st one to be called back to ASI when they need someone. I know when they put everyone on 1st shift, their regular full-time people had to be placed first. We understand that; Junior just had hoped he could continue working there.

Missie is going to be done all day until late tomorrow night, to Bus Convention, near Indy. The school is taking a van or bus load. Then next week she goes with her high school, and chaperones, to Muncey, to the ACE competition! Sunday night she has to do all of her songs at church. We have livestreaming, so if you would like to hear her, tune in! It starts at 6 p.m at http://www.fbhc.info/ There are 6 singing numbers to be performed and Missie is in 4 of them! That is her entries for this year's competition. It is her first competition, and actually, it is our school's first time to participate too! So it is new for all of us.

Preston has cheered up considerably today! Junior has been putting together his new bike. It is sooo pretty! Tomorrow he plans to go out and sit on it at least so Junior can adjust the handlebars, seat, etc. He has decided he doesn't want to die now, since he has seen his new bike! I know his joys in life are few, and he tends to be a worry wart. I will be glad when it does warm up so he can get out each day and ride it. That will be so good for him!

So that is the latest! Maybe next time I will have better news.

Asking for special prayer

2009-02-23T17:49:00.002-05:00

for Bro. Terry Going. He is once again coming to IN to preach Brent Bigger's funeral. The tragedy of this precious family; Brent, Patricia, and their children has been hard on him; he has known them for several years. Please pray for added strength from the Lord, and safe traveling mercies to and from IN. We love the Goings! We still call them "our pastor." And Bro. Mowery is "our pastor" too. We are doubly blessed to have had 2 pastors like these men. They are some of God's finest. Their wives are equally wonderful, as well.

An update on our family is in order I guess:

Junior started his 3rd week today at his new job. He likes it pretty well. He is working in the "decorative metal" dept. He works from 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. We are adjusting to this shift. I don't get out at all during the evenings now, not even to prayermeeting. I miss that. But if I need to run to town or something I do it in the mornings now.

Preston has had a cold, and is still battling it. He is feeling a bit better today. He has not had the influenza with the high fevers; we are thankful for that. Missie too is still blowing her nose. She gets so sick of it! I try to get her to take her vitamins and vitamin c, but unless I get it out, she forgets, so I am trying to help her with that. She is doing great in school. Friday night is the high school play. I know it will be good.

The kittens are getting so chubby and so cute! Kids are begging to keep them, giving us 5 cat? No way! We have to get the mom and Preston's cat fixed to prevent this from happening again!

So things are pretty good right now. Our church is praying about something exciting. I can't elaborate right now; but it is sooo exciting! We are all praying for God's perfect will in this situation.

Tomorrow is Brent's visitation and funeral in Terre Haute from 11-3. We are unable to attend, because of the distance, and Junior having to work. But please pray for his family, and friends. It will be a sad funeral I know. It is just so unbelievable that the entire family is gone, just since Christmas. You might think this is crazy, but I had the feeling there would be a tragedy before this actually happened. I thought it would be concerning us. But it was the Brent bigger family, and my heart aches.

That is all for today.

Sad Hearts

2009-02-21T23:00:00.002-05:00

http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/man_commits_suicide_after_wife_children_die_in_accident/14875/

Ours hearts are once again saddened by the death of Brent Bigger. The above link is our pastor in SC talking to the media about the Biggers.

Please pray for Brent's parents; they are suffering so much.

Valentine's Day and more....

2009-02-18T10:47:00.002-05:00

I realized that I had forgotten to tell about our Valentine date.

We spent 4 hours away, and it was great. We went to Lafayette and ate at my all time favorite place, Cracker Barrel! And yes, I got their chicken and dumplings which is my favorite. It took us about 20 minutes to get a seat, so we enjoyed looking at all the goodies in Cracker Barrel. We enjoyed a leisurely meal and finished it off with blackberry cobbler and ice-cream.

We stopped by CVS for some needed items, then my wonderful hubby took me to Hobby Lobby; my all-time favorite store! He dropped me off and he went to Meynard's. We both had a great time shopping! I, of course, bought some more card supplies and some supplies to make scrapbook pages to sell on ebay. I haven't done that since we moved. Animal scrapbook pages sell good! Well, while we were in Hobby Lobby, Missie called. She had a terrible head cold again, but she said she had a pain in her side. So I envisioned appendicitis maybe??? So I called Junior and told him, in a few minutes to come and get me so we would go home. Now it is very nice that our children are old enough to stay alone! We don't have to pay a babysitter, and it gives us time alone, which we desperately need. If you have a special needs child, you will understand. Even if you don't, all couples need time alone some times. Anyhow, we looked a little while longer and then came home. The pain was not in her appendix area after all, and surprisingly? we didn't hear too much more about it. I guess she just felt like it was time for us to come home.

Anyhow, we had a lovely time! Thank the Lord we had some money to go out; due to our tax refunds, otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to do it.

Preston's bicycle came yesterday; he is so thrilled about that. BUT he is sick with this sinus mess. I hope it is a mild case; I just don't think I can stay in a hospital right now with a sick boy! If it turns into pnemonia as it has for some others, he would be in the hospital. He keeps saying, "I'm sick," and "I hardly ever get sick like this." And normally he doesn't even get a cold, but has gotten it this time. Many in our church have been, and some are still, sick. Missie said everyone in the high school class had colds and she was listening to sniffling and coughing all day every day. She has gone through sooooo many boxes of kleenex since we have moved here, we must surely own stock in them!

Well, I gotta run to town and then pick Missie up at 12:30, and still have to get my hair fixed.

You all have a good day.

Monday again!

2009-02-16T21:11:00.002-05:00

Well, it's Monday. We had a wonderful weekend! When Junior got off Friday a.m. at 1:30 he was off until 3:30 this afternoon. We so enjoyed having him home! And school was closed today for President's day, so Missie got to be with him today and she was happy about that. They took a trip to Walmart to get him some steel toed boots for work.

I felt better today. Not sure what was wrong, but the aching was much better today and I have more energy. I vacuumed and mopped floors after Junior went to work today. Tomorrow night my job is to work on mending and ironing.

Preston has a bit of a sore throat, but otherwise doing great! Missie feels much better today, too, she has been sick since Thurs. with this sinus mess again! I am going to be pumping her with vitamins, calcium and echinacea. I forgot about echinacea, and will be giving it to Preston and Missie for about a week, to get their immune systems built up! Then I will just give it once a week after that for a while. I think part of Missie's problem is she is not used to being around people all of the time, since we homeschooled in SC. Also, the change in the weather from SC to IN has played a part in it I am sure.

Her school (high school)is going to the ACE Competition in March. It is in Muncey, IN. There are 6 singing groups and she is in 4 of them! Singing is her talent, and I am sooo happy. Anyhow, she will be singing a solo, is in a duet, trio and a quartet! Isn't that wonderful? They may not win this year, but it is a wonderful opportunity for them to really try! They will be gone about 4 days or so, I think. The big problem that the girls are not happy with, is that they can't wear any jean skirts. But they can uniform skirts and dress skirts. I bought Missie some shirts today that were reduced for $3 each at Walmart that she can take and got her a couple at goodwill, too.

We are so thankful for our tax refund! It helped us get caught up on some things and Junior and I both an appt. to get our eyes tested and we both need new glasses. We neither one can see very well with the glasses we have. So Sat. we both go to Walmart and get our eyes tested and pick out our new frames. These frames I have now have really been sturdy and held up for years. But they are needing to be replaced.

Well, this is our 2nd week for Junior to be on this shift, and it seems a little easier, for us. By Thurs. he gets very tired. Thankfully it is over 4 days/week.

Oh, we have ordered Preston a 3 wheel bike. He cannot balance or ride a 2 wheel bike. He is sooo excited. It will be so good for him to get back to riding a bike. He used to ride for hours in TN, but then in SC he didn't have a good place to ride, and then was so sick. But it is relatively flat here and he is going to get back to riding. It will arrived fed ex sometime next week, unless it gets here earlier. He is so happy and excited. We got him a helmet, because he doesn't need to have any brain injuries, should be fall off. We told him he had to wear a helmet! He asked for a speedometer, a horn and a mirror so he can see who is behind him. We have all of these things, now we are just waiting for the bike. It will be such good exercise for him, and help him a lot! We have 2 way radios that he and I will use while he is riding. He won't venture very far from home. He was teasing at first and said he would ride to Missie's school and eat lunch with her. He would have to cross a busy highway to do that, and I told him no way! He would probably get killed on that highway. Then he said he would ride to goodwill, even to South Carolina! He was having fun teasing us! I guess knowing he would have a bike gave him a feeling of freedom. Sometimes he says he wishes he could drive so he could go someplace when he wants too. But his eyes are not good enough to drive nor are his reflexes fast enough.

So that is the latest for this time!

It's Wednesday!

2009-02-11T16:54:00.002-05:00

Well, Jr. started his job on Monday afternoon. Tonight is his 3rd night. His hours are from 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., Mon-Thurs. He gets home about 2 a.m. or so, showers and goes to bed and gets up between 10 and 11 a.m. I get up and take Missie to school. I have been sleeping at night even though he isn't here. I am so thankful for that, because I cannot function without good rest.

Missie really misses him the most because she doesn't get to see him very much during the week. She wrote him a note on Monday, and he wrote her back. On Wednesdays she gets off at 12:30 so they had some time together today. We actually all got to eat lunch together today. She was so happy about that. We are such a close family and don't have a lot of outside friends, and Junior said we have only have had each other to depend on throughout the years. So we miss our evenings together.

We have 3 baby kittens. They are so cute. Missie absolutely adores them. Her cat snuck out the door and took off and came back pregnant. We have managed to keep Preston's cat in so far! Anyhow, she had 3 baby kittens. Missie has named them all, of course, all names starting with K. Don't ask me what their names are, LOL.

Well, wanted to update. Preston is doing great with Junior's shift. We are so proud of him. Missie was concerned he might not do well, but he is doing great!

Tonight will be the 1st prayer meeting I have had to miss since we moved here I think. I hate to miss, but such is life. It is windy here and chance of thunderstorms and wouldn't want to leave Preston alone.

This is all for now!

Good and bad news!

2009-02-08T22:15:00.003-05:00

Good news: Junior has a job; starts tomorrow.

Bad news: It is from 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Good news: In a couple of weeks he will be moved to 1st shift.

Bad news: We are not sure how Preston will do with this new routine.

I am sooo tired, and have a headache so can't write anymore tonight.

I have to share!

2009-02-04T22:53:00.002-05:00

I can't help it, I have to share this.

"A man got up and testified that he was glad everyone wasn't like him, or EVERYONE would want his wife.

Another man got up and said he was glad everyone wasn't like him, or NO ONE would want that man's wife."

We heard this at prayermeeting and had a good laugh over it. Thank goodness for "light" moments in our lives. Laughter is the best medicine, for sure.

Well, things haven't changed much here except Junior may be getting a 2nd shift job, which we are not happy about. It will be from 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. and it is about 35miles from here, 4 days/week. I am praying the Lord will help him get a day shift job before they call him to this other job. But I have to leave it in God's hands; to work it all out. He definately needs a job, but 2nd shift will be hard on our family. Supper is our family meal, but it won't be possible with this new job. Now you all might think that is a small thing to worry about, in the light of his getting a job. To normal people it might be. But we are not normal, LOL. And you already knew that, didn't you! For Preston that would be a disaster. He has been brought up that supper time is very important; that we all eat together as a family. So it will be a big change for him to not have daddy home in the evenings. But God will have to provide the grace if Junior gets this job. I don't want him out in the wee hours. But I have had to put it in God's hands.

Hoping to hear tomorrow about the next step for Missie. Talked to Stacey the nurse earlier this evening, and she is to get back with me hopefully tomorrow. She has to have help. She deals with so much pain!

So I don't really have much news, but will update as soon as I know something about any of these situations.

It's Friday!

2009-01-23T11:56:00.002-05:00

Missie is so glad it is Friday! We have been in revival since Tues. night and she is wore out from school, and going to revival every night. But she does not want to miss a night. Junior and I have been taking turns going. John Parker, from our home church in SC is the evangelist! He is Missie's "mentor" so to speak and her "hero." I am so glad there are still some godly people for her to look up too!

We are very proud of Missie. She made the A honor roll, had the highest grade point average for her grade, and her and Ray tied for the most number of paces completed for the quarter! She is doing so well. School is EXACTLY what she needed. And you know what? John preached Tues. night that just because you have "storms" in your life, doesn't mean you are out of God's will. That made me feel so good. Because I think some people think we made a big mistake by moving up here. But Missie is so happy; and we needed to have her in a holiness school. God opened all the doors, and here we are; so all we can do now is trust Him to provide everything we need. He is on His throne. We ended up getting $360 in love offerings in the last 2 weeks. God is so faithful.

Preston had a good cry last night. We think John being up here might have helped him to realize how homesick he was. He cried and cried and begged us to move back to SC. He said he was going to see if John would give him a ride back to SC. He was also worried because of the problem of getting doctors for him; but that is working out. It has just been harder than we expected to get all the medical stuff worked out in IN. Missie went to the dr. about her arthritis. He is getting rest of records from SC and go from there. And hopefully he can help us get a rhumatoid specialist for her.

Junior and I are getting our medications from the Open Door Clinic, which is free for people without insurance, and some of the meds. come from the companies who make them, so we are so thankful for that!

Junior has worked 3 days this week for Mike. We are so thankful for every day he can work. We just live from week to week, trusting God to supply our needs.

So I guess that is it for this time! Keep praying for us, please!

Update

2009-01-17T20:59:00.003-05:00

I guess I need to update about our family.

Our hearts have been crushed about Patricia, Caroline and Anthony going on to Heaven. We are especially concerned about Brent; the one who is left behind. I know without God's help; he couldn't make it. Anyhow, we have been trying to comprehend all of this; and it has hit us hard. Missie has cried a lot about it. Anyhow, please continue to pray for Brent. We didn't get the funeral in Terre Haute on Friday. Junior had the chance to work so he worked. I would have loved to have gone, but with it being about 120 miles according to mapquest, Missie would have been alone with Preston for several hours, and we weren't sure about that.

Monday is the day when Missie goes to the doctor. Thank the Lord. She has got to have help for this arthritis and it has gotten to be found out exactly what kind she has, and what they can do for her. Last night her knees were so bad, she could hardly walk when she got home from school. So we are excited about this Monday appointment. He is a great doctor. Preston and Junior really likes him, and he is helping with prescriptions for all of Preston's medications because there are hardly any psychiatrists who take medicaid, and right now, we do not have the money for one. Eventually we will have to go to one, I am sure. He is able to get a nerosurgeon in Indy that takes medicaid. Thank the Lord for that.

Last week and this past week Junior has only had 2 days of work. So it is slim pickens around here as far as money is concerned. We are hoping to find out more about Junior going back to school to get his certicate in auto-cad. I hope this works out for him, because having the certificate would look good on his resume!

Preston is doing well. He has decided he wants a wife. Well, we have had so many laughs today over this and some of the things he says, I have laughed until I cried. I needed that good laugh. Laughter is the best medicine for sure! He has had a super good day today even though it is Saturday. Sometimes he gets a little stressed on Saturdays, with knowing the next day is Sunday. But he tries so hard and is so proud of himself when he does so well. And I just remembered he didn't take any anxiety medication this evening!

We are supposed to get more snow tonight, and I am aching like we will get some precipitation of some kind tonight.

Well, that is all for now.

Keep praying for us concerning our financial situation! God has taken care of us this far and won't forsake us now.

Video & update

2009-01-12T22:29:00.003-05:00

Here is a video clip of our church in Easley, SC; Patricia's parents and Bro. Going the pastor. Thought you might want to see it.

http://www.foxcarolina.com/video/index.html - you will have to clip on videos and find the one that says: Family Reacts After 3 Die In Van Crash

There is a viewing in IN on Friday, from 11-1 and the funeral up here is at 1. Junior and I are going to try and go.

I called Bro. Going tonight and it was so good to hear his voice! I guess I have missed Easley Bible Methodist more than I realized. Anyhow, please continue to pray for Brent; he is really suffering as anyone in his shoes would, and there is a viewing and memorial service in Easley tomorrow evening.

Bro. Going told me this evening that our current pastor, Bro. Mowery, would be a good pastor, as we probably already had found out. I told him we had found that out! We love Bro. Going, and we love Bro. Mowery. They are alike in many ways. We also love our associate pastor and his wife; the Johnson's. They are such sweet people!

Yesterday Bro. Mowery preached about helping each other. It touched my heart; because we are so struggling financially and I didn't know if I had anything I could give. He said if each family gave 2 potatoes (not a whole bag) to a family who needed food, then there would be enough potatoes for that family. I am paraphrasing, but this is what I got out of it. We all do have something to give. It may be small, but we can help someone. He said we will share in this economic crises; cut the meat in half if necessary. Isn't that wonderful?

I received a call this evening asking if we needed money. Of course, we need money, and they asked how much, and I said I was not saying. Whatever they wanted to give would be very much appreciated. God is taking care of us. We haven't missed a meal up to this point. We are still eating meat from that big bag of meat that was given to us on Christmas Eve. Junior went to a temp agency today and they had NOTHING! Some people like to remind us sometimes that Junior left a good job in SC. But it was already slowing down there before he even quit. So he doesn't know if he would have a job if he would have stayed there anyhow. Oh, and we found out he may be able to go to school and get paid for it. He can continue his education in the auto-cad, etc., and get paid for it. We have a man in our church who is a professor at a school pretty close to us; don't know the name of or location right now. That would great on his resume if Junior was actually certified in this area! So we will see what works out.

Keep praying for us.

Funeral arrangements and donations

2009-01-11T23:27:00.002-05:00

For those interested in helping with the expenses of this week's funerals, a fund has been set up through the Hobe Sound Bible College Alumni Association, PO Box 1065Hobe Sound, FL 33475.

Funeral arrangements:

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Park Street Baptist Church - 114 Robinson Avenue, Easley, SC 29640 (can hold much larger crowd)
Visitation 5pm - 7pm; Memorial Service 7pm

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Fitzpatrick Funeral Home - 220 N Third Street, West Terra Haute, IN 47885
Funeral time to be announced.

Continue to pray for Brent! And the rest of the families involved.

Tragic News

2009-01-11T09:37:00.003-05:00

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=38123077254&h=m7gnC&u=MAppv

Please pray for Brent Bigger, the Miller family and Bigger family through this tragedy. Also pray for our former pastor, Bro. Terry Going, as he tries to conduct services today at Easley Bible Methodist. It will be a hard day for everyone.

All the arrangement haven't been made yet; pray for Brent and the families as they try to make difficult decisions.

Only God can see Brent through, and keep him in the coming months and years.

It's Sunday

2009-01-04T22:20:00.002-05:00

I had thought I would do a run-down of 2008 but so far haven't gotten that done. Anyhow, here we are in 2009, and a new president about to take over. Many are skeptical, myself included, about his leadership, but we have to rely on the fact that God is still in control and running this world. God gave the American people a choice, and the American people voted him in; I still can hardly believe this. I can say this freely since I am a Canadian, ha ha! But I feel American since I have lived here almost 30 years.

Missie went to the youth scavenger hunt last night, which I felt was a mistake, but she wanted to go so bad, but it caused her to have a relapse. She woke up sick again and had diarrhea and could hardly walk all day. So she has been in bed most of the day again, and has eaten very little. I am worried about her. I am glad we are going to the dr. on Thurs. If they can find out exactly what type of arthritis we are dealing with and can help her get it under control, it will help so much. She is very discouraged from being sick, and cried because she cannot go back to school in the morning.

Junior has to work for Mike in Indianapolis tomorrow. I dread it, it is about an hr. away and he is always late getting home. Preston sits and worries because he is late; it is stressful. But we have to do what we have to do. He cannot work for our pastor anymore for a while because 10 of his rental places are not rented at this time, and he cannot afford to hire him anymore right now. A week from tomorrow he plans to go out and try to find a job. He will go to the temp. agencies and see if anything is available.

Thank the Lord our church lives streams our services. It is such a blessing. I was unable to get to sleep last night and was so tired this a.m. I went back to bed but got back up in time to hear part of the service. Tonight Junior and Preston went and I watched the sermon live on my computer. Bro. Mowery preached a tremendous sermon. It encouraged me to keep on doing what we are doing! My main goal in life is to get my children to Heaven. We gave up comforts to live in IN and have Missie in a holiness school. But it is because she needed a holiness school and we had to give her this chance. It has not been easy since we moved here in some ways; but our church is wonderful, and the school as well, and God is taking care of us; so we can't complain. We just have to keep trusting Him!

You all have a good week. We will try to do the same. I will update after we take both children to the dr. on Thurs.

Happy 2009!

2009-01-02T12:05:00.003-05:00

I hope each of you have a wonderful 2009! I am a bit skepical about this year, as most Christians are, due to the election. But one thing we must remember is: GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL! People have choices and many make the wrong choices. But we who know the Lord and do our best to live by His Word, and trust Him, can rely on Him to see us through whatever comes our way.

We are getting back to normal from the holidays. Our normal is somewhat different than other's, but it feels good to get back to our normal. Missie has been very sick. She spent a lot of her holidays in bed. First she had a horrible cold and used several boxes of kleenex, then got the stomach flu this week, and whenever a person with arthritis or fibro gets sick, it causes much more pain. She has been in tremendous pain. Thankfully, on Thurs. we go to the doctor. I have felt so bad for her; but she was glad she was sick when school is out so she didn't have to miss all this school.

I got some money for Christmas and got me a paint spinner! It makes wonderful backgrounds for cards! I am going to my creation blog and post some pictures of my latest cards using the paint spinner. I was so excited to get this! My card making keeps me sane!

Junior has worked for the pastor this week. But we are not sure how much longer he can work for him; as Bro. Mowery has 10 places that are NOT rented out right now. Please pray the Lord will send him some good renters. The apartment Junior is working on was trashed; it is so sad that people destroy other people's property. Junior is enjoying the remodelling. He was showing me what he did in the bathroom. I am so glad he is so talented, and can do most anything!

He plans to go to the temp. agencies one day and see about jobs; and see what is available, if anything. This coming week he has to be off to help me take both children to the doctor in Lebanon. I so wish we had a doctor in Frankfort. But none were here that would take medicaid; they were full up with medicaid patients.

So that is the latest! God is on His throne. A little later I will try to do a run down of our lives in 2008. It was a big year for us.

Saturday!

2008-12-27T21:25:00.004-05:00

Well, it was a good day. After I got Preston showered, Junior and I went to town, all by ourselves. We hit Dollar Tree, 2 thrift stores, and Walmart to return something. The lady in front of us was returning several of her little girls gifts. The poor greeter was having a time with all of her returns. I had to use the bathroom so Jr. waited in line. Well, the man printed out the return sticker but didn't put it on the tag of the boots we were returning. Junior handed me the bag with the boots in it and the sticker. Well, I didn't know there was a sticker and got the bag only. So when the lady had checked the item in and gave me a gift card then she asked about the sticker. So I must have left my wallet out laying on that little spot by the debit/credit card machine and went back to find the sticker which was on the floor. I came back and gave it to the lady and went on my merry way. When I got ready to check out, I didn't have my wallet. I about paniced! So we went to the office and as I thought, I had left it on that little shelf and the girl had turned it into the office. Whew! Sure did scare me! I was so afraid someone else had found it before she had. But all is well that ends well, I guess, but I think it took a few days off my life! Mine and the children's SS cards, all my ID, bank card, etc. would have been gone. Anyhow, thank the Lord that it was safe. Anyhow, we just enjoyed looking around and being alone. It is nice now that the children are older and we can do that.

Well, Christmas is over and I am so glad. Don't get me wrong; I love the reason for the season, but it is so over commercialized and a very hard time of the year for anyone with mental illness of any kind, including depression. So it can get a bit stressful for us. The day after Christmas, Missie and I took down the tree and packed what little decorations I had out, away. Now as my cousin's wife remarked on facebook, we only 364 days (363 as the time I write this) left until we do it all again. LOL

Today is my inlaw's 50th wedding anniversary, and can you imagine that I forgot to send a card? I am glad for the example they are to us; 50 years and hopefully many many more. Junior did talk to them on the phone.

My brother was talking about how much he spends at Christmas and has gotten me wondering what we spent. He thinks maybe $400-500 but I don't think so! I am going to figure it out! It will be interesting to know. But I know we didn't spend much, because we didn't have much to spend. He was talking about the gifts. Other than the children, we didn't buy for many. I haven't sent my mom or step-dad anything yet, and we sent my inlaws $25 Walmart gift certificate. I have to get something sent to my parents soon. They are so good to us.

So that is it for now! Tomorrow is the Lord's day.

Christmas!

2008-12-25T20:00:00.002-05:00

Well, it is Christmas Day!

Yesterday Junior and I were away for several hours; just us! It was very nice. Our church gave us a love offering and we were able to buy a few more gifts for the children, and what a surprise it was! They were sooo thrilled. We got Missie a phone card and also a card for texting for her cell phone. She was so happy! I was able to get some VHS for Preston at the goodwill! Our church has been so helpful and supportive of us since we have been here; they are wonderful people. We are so blessed.

Anyhow, we shopped yesterday, went out for lunch, and went to visit another pastor in town whom we knew years back. We had a great visit with them; it was so relaxing.

Today we had steak and shrimp for dinner; fries, slaw, pickles, cheese and for dessert I had made custard and chocolate pies, and had bought some cheesecake. So we had eaten good today; an untraditional Christmas meal. And we have played games. Junior and Missie played Monopoly (electronic banking version) and had a blast with that. Missie got it for Christmas from us. Then we all played UNO attack; I like that game! And we relaxed! I did wash some clothes and did some work in my craft room (which is part of the utility room) and organized it some.

Here are some more pictures!

It's Christmas!

2008-12-20T21:21:00.002-05:00

Well, we had planned to have our Christmas this weekend because we had planned to go to Canada. Well, Preston has a HARD time waiting for Christmas. He is much better than he used to be, though, and didn't worry every day all day. So we had 2 evenings of opening gifts. He thought he had gotten them all the 1st time, but in a round about way found out he hadn't and I had hoped to wait until Christmas Day, but we didn't make it. So we opened the rest up last night.

Preston got: Shower chair with back (one of his favorite gifts)
3 Talking Mister Ed dvds
4 Adventures in Odyssey VCR's (I got these for .99 each at Goodwill)
4 McGee and Me VCR's (also Focus on Family and from goodwill)
1 pr. of flannel sleep pants
John Deere calendar and $15 Burger King gift card from Missie
$15 and chocolates from his grandparents
another box of chocolates from his great MawMaw Watson

My mom sent $50 for him and I found a portable VCR for $50, I had never seen one like it, so I got him that, from her. A guy in Indy had it and Preston and I went and got it.

Missie got: Electronic monopoly game
Love Comes Softly latest dvd, (she now has them all)
Laptop desk to use in bed or in a chair
2 extension games for the computer game she got from my mom
new backpack for school
Handmade beautiful wooden box made by her grandpa and chocolates
Ear muffs from her great MawMaw Watson
$15 from Preston
Bath set from where she drew names at school
Ornament with candy inside from her teachers

My mom sent $50 for Missie too and I got her a set of Hogan's Heroes dvds and a computer game she asked for.

So overall, they got enough! We cannot spend a large amount of money at Christmas and that is not the point of Christmas, but they were happy!

Missie babysit tonight for the Durgan's from church, they have 4 children, and she enjoyed it and enjoys making some money.

We decided to have shrimp for Christmas Day. They had the round trays with sauce on sale at Walmart for $5. It was the medium sized trays. Missie has been wanting some steak so I got a small pkg. of steak (Preston cannot chew it) and she and Jr. will grill it to their liking and we will have it and shrimp, fries, coleslaw, chocolate and custard pie for dessert. We had all the traditional food at Thanksgiving so decided on something untraditional! I did get a turkey ham for one other day, though. We had to eat the turkey hame because of Junior's blood pressure.

I made several loaves of pumpkin bread today. I had found some small loaf pans at a thrift store back in SC and got them, and used them as well as 2 regular sized loaf pans. I took a regular sized loaf to the pastor tonight with a card. They weren't home but someone was there so I left it for them. I plan to give some to our associate pastor and family, and Missie's teachers. I didn't have anything to give them yesterday when they had the party. They turned out sooo good. I was so pleased.

So that is the update for this time!

I'm back!

2008-12-15T20:58:00.002-05:00

It is amazing how the days fly by, and I don't blog! If you have a facebook, you can see my updates quicker there.

Anyhow, plans for our Christmas have changed. We are not going to Canada to be with my family. The weather is just too cold and unpredictable, and Preston has to be bundled up every time we go somewhere and it is just too hard. So we are waiting until spring when it will be nice and go. Junior and I both have colds or sinus problems. I just don't have the energy to go on a trip right now.

So we plan to be here in our own home for Christmas. We are still trying to decide what we will eat that day. For Thanksgiving we had a big meal at the Fry's home, then I cooked a small ham and small turkey here for us, so we are not sure if we will have that again, or what. One year we bought lots of the good cheese and lunch meat, and all the fixings for subs and we enjoyed that.

Wed. afternoon both children go to the new doctor, so we can get referrals for both children. Missie needs a rhumatoid dr., she is suffering a lot more since we have moved. Preston needs a psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, & gastro-interologist. Preston is having a lot of pain and nausea in his side again, so I am going to request another ultrasound to see what is happening with the gallstones they found last year in SC. Anyhow, Jr. is getting off work at noon to take us to Lebanon to the new dr. A man in our church knows him and he is very nice! So that is a nice thing to know!

Sunday a.m. was our church children's program. It was very nice. I forgot the camera so didn't get any pictures. Tonight is the church Christmas supper and Missie went with the Johnsons, as the rest of us didn't feel like getting out. It is cold and everything had turned to ice when we got up this a.m. Missie was amazed that the leaves were even frozen, that were in our yard. The doors on van were frozen too. I was so sick, but had to go to bank and make a deposit.

Jr. is working every day, either for Mike Peck or our pastor. Last week he worked 32hrs. for our pastor and only 1 day for Mike. But today and tomorrow he is working for Mike.

Friday is Missie's Christmas party, and she will be off until after the new year. So now we can sleep in for a couple of weeks, yah!!

So this is the latest update!

Busy!

2008-12-06T21:46:00.002-05:00

Well, it has been a busy yet good week.

I took Preston out to eat pizza, then to goodwill, and to the Health Dept. to get his flu shot. So we have that taken care of. He enjoyed it so much; the time we had out together.

Missie has been busy with school, play practice, performing in the school play last night, and being in the Frankfort Christmas parade tonight. Preston and Jr. went to the parade, and I stayed home. I didn't want to get out in the cold! We have snow and it is quite cold here. The pastor's wife said it is not usually like this here until January. So I guess we are getting January's weather in December. Hope January isn't much worse. But we enjoy the snow. Preston loves to sit on his chair in front of the window and watch it fall. She almost froze though, and was glad it was a short parade. She did great in the school play. It all turned out well.
She also sang in the missionary service on Wed. night. She and I have been friend's of Jessie Hales for a while, and she offered to sing for his missionary service, and he said that would be fine, and thought she did awesome.

Junior's c-pap is on its last leg; we are not sure it is even working to its full capacity. He is snoring too much, and that indicates it is not doing all it should. We were able to buy a nice used one for $75, and order the clinical manual for it off of ebay. It tells how to set the machine to his level of 18. This one is set at 10 or 11. It only has 70 hrs. on it, and is a newer one. So hopefully it won't take but a few days to get the manual in and he can have it set to 18 and start using it. Without insurance right now, he cannot afford to have another sleep study done here and get a new prescription; unless the free clinic would help him with that.

I have all the gifts ordered for the children that I am getting. As I said before, we don't go overboard in spending; it is not the reason for the season to lavish our children with lots of things they don't need. One of the things I got for Preston is a new shower chair with a back on it. He will be tickled about that.
I still have to get a gift card or something for my inlaws and get Junior's 2 grandmothers gifts sent out. I remember them every year, even if it is just a little something. They have been good to us over the years.

We are planning, Lord willing, to leave here Christmas Eve morning and travel to Canada, and be there Christmas day and Friday, and come back on Sat. My sister's whole family will be in on Christmas Day and we will get to see them. We haven't even met my nephew's wife. We are hoping the weather will be a little clearer when it is time to leave. It has been at least 10 or 11 years since I have spent Christmas Day with my mom. Missie was just tiny. The children already know they won't be getting any gifts that day; because Mom already sent the money and that is part of what I have used to get them what I have gotten them. We will probably have our family Christmas the weekend before we leave.

Well, wanted to write an update. Catch you later!

Singspiration

2008-11-30T20:51:00.003-05:00

http://www.fbhc.info/archives.htm

Click on 5th Sunday Sing and you can hear and see our beautiful daughter sing! She sang, "I'd Rather Have Jesus." The 1st mic wasn't working right as you can hear, so she had to switch mics but she did great. She got so many compliments after the service. We are so proud of her. I am soooo glad she can sing! I have passed my singing ability on to her. My voice is about worn out from singing all the years I sang. Anyhow, we were so proud of her tonight. We have to brag on her some!!! She does everything Preston can't do. We are proud of him for what he can do, don't take me wrong! Missie just found out today that literally about half of his brain is gone. She was quite shocked. She gets so aggravated at him sometimes, but I know she loves him. He gets on my nerves some, too, LOL. It is normal. But like I told her, if we don't love him, no one will. I will make sure he is taken care of as long as I possibly can.

We woke up to snow this a.m. The children loved it, and frankly, I did too! It was so pretty. Missie and I went to church as usual. We are to get more snow tonight.
We will see!

Junior is working for Bro. Mowery tomorrow and probably Tues. Thank the Lord he has some work. God has been good. I haven't had much money to even buy anything for the children yet. But mom has sent $50 each and that will buy them something nice, and I have one gift for Missie and 3 dvds for Preston. And really they don't need much, but I know as children they love to get Christmas gifts and that is normal. But I am glad that over the years we did not spend a lot of money on them, so this year won't be much different. Missie has asked for a study Bible. I have to get her to show me on the internet which one she wants. We stick with the KJV. She wants to be able to understand it better when she reads the Bible. Isn't that awesome for a 14 yr. old to ask for a study Bible for Christmas? We are so blessed to have her for a daughter! Preston loves the Lord with all of the mind that he has. You know, I almost got up at the end of the singspiration. The last family that sang was the Campbell's. They all looked so nice up there, and I almost got up and said that is the result of going with God; not going the easier worldly way, but going the Biblical way. Once you start down the lesser road, you never know where you will end up. That family is a testimony of God's grace when we chose to follow Him wholeheartedly.

That is about it for tonight, almost my bedtime.

Cold!

2008-11-22T17:25:00.002-05:00

Well, IN is cold! My brother is worried because he says we are not ready for winter. He says Junior needs long johns, gloves with fur in them, etc., but Junior doesn't feel he needs these items, LOL. It was 18 this a.m. when we got up. It never got past 33 today.

Well, Junior worked Monday and Tues. this week, could have worked the rest of the week: Wed. for Mike and Thurs. and Fri. for Bro. Mowery, but he was sick. He has had a terrible cold and fever, and slept a lot. But at least he worked 2 days this week; next week he should be working 4 days.

Mike and Bro. Mowery and going to keep him busy. The days that Mike need him, he will work for Mike. The days that Mike doesn't need him, he will work for Bro. Mowery. So thankfully he should have work 5 days/week! Thank the Lord. That will be such a blessing.

Missie's school had a field trip to a dairy farm yesterday. She enjoyed that. This week they only have school Mon. and Tues. Then she will be off the rest of the week. She is almost ready to retest and see if she can move up in Math and English. She has been doing so well on the make up paces but she gets nervous when she had that testing online. Pray for her that she will remember it all, so she can move up. She has tried so hard, and it would be discouraging if she didn't do well.

Preston has had some sinus problems, but otherwise doing well. He is happy that Christmas is almost here, but not worrying about it like he used to, since he has a good working shunt now! That is a relief! LOL

Not much other news; but wanted to update everyone!

Sunday!

2008-11-16T15:08:00.004-05:00

Well, how time flies. Junior has feverishly been putting in applications, and so far only has had one call. It looks like he will be getting a 3rd shift seasonal job at Walmart, but since the turn over is quite high there, it might work into something more than seasonal. He also can get unemployment if he doesn't work at Walmart. Either way the money is low, but it is much easier to stretch some money than none at all. It is hard not having any income at the moment. I don't know how we will ever get out of this financial valley we are in, but God knows! It is hard to catch up when you get behind, with the economy the way it is. But one great thing is that gas has really come down! Praise the Lord for that! Now if groceries would come down, that would be even better!

Missie went roller skating on Friday with her school for PE and has been in a lot of pain since. Every time she does something like this she suffers days afterwards! We do have a family dr. for the children and as soon as the children are in their computer, we will go there and Dr. Wright will help us find the specialists we need for both of the children. Missie wants to get help so bad, so she can live a more normal life. The prescription pain meds. hardly do a thing for her now, concerning the pain.

Last Sat. p.m. we had a GBS rally and we kept 2 of the girls here for the night, from the choir. One was Katie Kaufman: Jr. and I both went to Bible school with her parents. And we also kept Aleena Smith. They were both very sweet girls. Missie enjoyed it so much. Tonight we have UBC quartet and the youth are getting together after church at the school for a meal and fun time. Missie is excited about that.

Our pastor's parents celebrated 75 years of marriage yesterday! Isn't that wonderful? Preston loves the older Bro. Mowery and loves to hear him testify! He will be 95 this month. He also loves our pastor Bro. Mowery. He takes time to sit down and visit with Preston at the back of the church. After the service on Sunday nights, Preston likes to sit down on the bench at the back and visit with people who come by. I have seen Bro. Mowery sit down there and visit with Preston. Preston loves our church and the people; everyone has been so good to him!

It has been snowing here this afternoon, and it looked so pretty falling! We still get excited when we see snow as it was very rare to see it in SC.

Missie and I are in the contata for Christmas so we have practice every Sunday p.m. at 5. So Jr. takes us and comes back and gets Preston ready then they come.

So that is the latest. Should have more news this coming week, concerning a job. I have been praying something would work out so Jr. doesn't have to work 3rd shift. A day time job would be better for him. But he has to has some job, so at this point has to take what he can get, even though the pay is soooo low, only 1/2 of what he made in SC and $5/hr. less than what he made at Laminque. Oh, the guy from Laminque came by and visited and wants to hire Jr. back if they can get some jobs in that they have bids out on. But so far none have come in. A lot of places are slow right now.

Until next time!

Tuesday!

2008-11-11T08:43:00.002-05:00

Well, it is Tues. Jr. has not had any work so far this week. But Walmart called him yesterday, they are calling his references, etc. If he gets this job he will be working 3rd shift. That will be hard for him, and hard for me to get a lot done during the day when he is sleeping. But it will be a job, and he has to have a job! We are just living week to week, not knowing how we will pay our bills, but so far so good. Bro. Mowery preached about trusting the Lord Sunday p.m. and how well we could relate to that! Junior also applied for unemployment from SC and if he gets it it will be $261/week. That would barely be enough, but I will take it. It is much easier to stretch some money than none at all, LOL. I learned a long time ago how to get the most out of a little money! So far my mom has been paying most of Missie's school bill, so thank the Lord for that. God does supply!

It is cold here now, and we have had to turn on our gas heat. Have no idea how high these gas bills will run; our hot water heater and range (stove) is gas too. Time will tell.

I will give Preston his shower today, and then he is riding with his daddy to put in some more applications for jobs. He enjoys just getting out and riding and seeing things.

So that is all I know right now; will post if and when Junior gets a job! God is in control.

Thursday

2008-11-06T10:53:00.002-05:00

Well, this week is almost gone. Jr. has worked every day this week for Mike Peck. He has an interview at Walmart at 9 a.m. and there a couple of jobs in Lafayette that came through Careerbuilder. He will probably go there after his Walmart interview in a.m. One of the jobs is at Caterpillar. They have great benefits, but it is 2nd or 3rd shift. But we will see how happens.

Tonight is our school's soup supper and silent auction. We have lots of baskets up for auction. You can see these and bid on them here: www.frankfortca.com

Preston couldn't get to sleep last night. It was 2:30 a.m. and he came in and woke me up and I gave him another half of a pill. I hope we are not starting that problem again. I am letting him sleep late today as he is so excited about going to the soup supper. He is enjoying getting out a lot more since he has recovered from this last illness. So that is good. Missie and I are serving soup from 7-8 and then cleaning up from 8-9. Preston said he wants to stay until the very end. So we will see if he really decides to do that.

Gotta run and give Preston his shower and wash his hair and get him dressed for the big event.

Hello on Monday!

2008-11-03T16:58:00.002-05:00

Well, it's Monday again. It was quite a busy weekend.

We had a wedding at our church on Sat. After over a year of waiting, (due to the bride not being from US) Bradley and Elizabeth were finally able to have their wedding. It was beautiful with a big crowd!

Sun a.m. was Pastor appreciation service. I am so thankful for our pastor, Bro. Mowery and for our associate and teen pastor, Bro. Johnson. Bro. Mowery is a very caring pastor. Our pastor in Easley was very caring too, so we have been blessed!
Bro. Johnson and his wife, Jody, have done a lot for Missie. They are a blessing! We are privileged people!

Sun p.m. was a service about the Reformation with communion. It was a special time during communion. I am so glad for the Savior who died for our sins that we might have life everlasting. The time of communion was very meaningful for me last night.

Junior hasn't been able to find a full time job yet. We are waiting to see if he can draw unemployment off his SC earnings. We pray he can for the winter. Today he is working with Mike Peck, a man from our church who is self-employed. Preston started to worry about 3 o'clock, because he was not home from work. When he worked in the wood working shop, he was home at 3. Well, it will be about 6 this evening before Junior will be home, and that bothered Preston for a while. He is ok now. He missed having his daddy around, too, as he has been going with him every day when he applies for jobs.

Thurs. is our soup supper; fundraiser for our school. We are going to that, and Missie and I will be helping to clean up after it is over. We also have a silent auction. We are looking forward to going.

I put several auctions on ebay today; praying I can sell some stuff; we just need the money with Junior not working. My ebay link is:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/homeschoolmommyof2

Well, I did a big laundry today, vacuumed and mopped the floors. So I was happy with what I got accomplished.

Until next time!

2008-10-31T14:13:00.002-04:00

Missie is selling her gameboy - Ninendo Game Boy Advance SP, case, charger for car, plug in for in the house, and 12 games- asking $125 for all: games are:

WarioWare TWISTED (this is a neat game where you have to move the gameboy itself when you are playing,

Life/Yahtee/payday all on one cartridge,

Super Mario Bros. 3,

Shrek Super slam,

Nicktoons Unite!,

Super MarioWorld super mario advance 2,

Crash, Pokemon-firered version,

Hey Arnold,

Mario Kart Super Circuit,

SpongeBob Super Sponge/Nicktoons Freeze Frame Frenzy/Fairly oddparents shadow showdown/Rocket Power Zero Gravity Zone all on one cartridge

Yoshi Topsy Turvy

This would make a wonderful Christmas gift for your child. Let me know if interested at hnwatson@bellsouth.net
I will be putting it on ebay if no one buys it.
Missie is selling it to buy some computer games for her laptop.

I am.....

2008-10-29T17:05:00.002-04:00

I am: blessed

I think: God is awesome!

I know: Jesus Loves Me!

I have: everything I need

I wish: I was 40 lbs. lighter

I hate: anakes

I miss: my mom

I fear: not being able to take care of my special needs son

I feel: tired

I hear: Preston's chair squeaking

I smell: lotion

I crave: chocolate cake

I search: for new craft ideas

I wonder: when Jr. will get another job

I regret: not being able to visit my mom more often

I love: Jesus, my family, my church

I ache: when I overdo it because I have fibromyalgia

I am not: a big money spender

I believe: God doeth all things well

I sing: a lot of the time in my head and heart

I cry: rarely

I don’t always: go to bed early enough

I never: give up on Preston

I always: like to kiss my hubby before I go somewhere

I confuse: my family sometimes

I listen: to Preston talk a lot

I can usually be found: at home

I am scared: of snakes

I need: daily strength from the Lord

I am happy about: having a good school for Melissa and that she is doing so well!

I imagine: having a screened in front porch

I am wearing: jean skirt and black/white striped turtleneck

I look forward to: the weekends

Medicaid!

2008-10-29T14:09:00.002-04:00

Well, Preston is NOW ON MEDICAID! So we don't have to buy anymore of his medication. CVS tried to get us reimbursed for the meds. we did buy, but are having problems with the cymbalta so we are not sure if we will get that back or not, and that is the one that was between $80-90/week. We sure could have used that money with Jr. not having a job.

He is putting in lots of applications; but so far no good news yet. He put in one at Walmart too as they are hiring, he won't make much money, but stretching some money is easier than stretching no money. He will take anything he can get right now.

I am headed to clinic in a few minutes to sign papers so I can get my medication. It has been a real blessing to have this clinic.

Missie has small group teen meeting at 5, then if I feel up to it, she always goes with me to mine at 7. But I don't feel the best; I have drainage down my throat and feel blah! So we will see how it goes when I get home from the clinic. Jr. is fixing supper tonight, so that will help.

'Til next time!

Bad news!

2008-10-25T22:36:00.003-04:00

Well, when it seems things couldn't get a lot worse financially (with having to buy $90 worth of medication every week for Preston) Junior arrived home on Friday and pulled up to the garage. When I went out he was unloading his tools into the garage and I asked him why. He said, "Guess." I said, "You got laid off." The only problem is, we don't think he can draw unemployment, but he will find out for sure. So after Oct. 31st, we aren't sure if we will have any income, except for Preston's SSI and that doesn't go too far, but is better than nothing! Monday a.m. Jr. will be out looking for jobs. He and I may both have to work different hours at Walmart or somewhere. We will see what opens up for him. When Missie found out she said, "We won't have any money to buy Preston's medication." Bless her heart! Hopefully it will soon come in to the clinic! So that is the latest. It seems there are sooo many problems in life these days. It will be hard I think for him to get a good job due to the economy and the upcoming election. But God is able to work it all out.

Missie arrived home from youth challenge, and what a wonderful time she had and was spiritually refreshed. We are so thankful for the sacrifices of our church to take our youth there and back in that big bus! Thanks to Kevin Wilhelm for driving them, and Travis and Jody for helping to watch over them, and being there as well. It was a privilege for her to be able to attend. Preston and I watched the service last night, and saw Missie up there singing in the choir, and we enjoyed that. I told Jr. if we have to eat bread and drink water, it is worth it to see her so involved and happy! She has gained a lot of ground emotionally, and spiritually. And that is the reason we are here in IN, for her! And God has blessed her tremendously, so we just have to trust Him to take care of us.

So wanted to tell you all the latest.

A Whole Week?

2008-10-19T22:15:00.002-04:00

Wow, I haven't blogged in a whole week.

We are all alive and well here! Missie finished her 1st 9 weeks and even though she was 2 weeks late (actually only had 7 weeks) she did 15 paces which is what she was supposed to do in 9 weeks. So we are so proud of her. She got to go to the Sarah Palin rally on Friday with friends from school; then after church went to a family's farm for a youth get-to-gether and got home about 12:30. She really enjoyed it all.

Revival ended tonight; it is kind of sad. But it is tiring to go almost every night. We can actually afford to go to revival here every night, if we want. I only missed 1 night. I enjoyed the Tillis' ministry. Listening to them sing was like being back in campmeeting. I love the old time singing with the spirit. They are precious people.

It is almost bedtime, but wanted to check in. The Lord is helping us buy Preston's meds. A man at church gave us $40 on Friday night, and the meds. were $84. That helped us to be able to buy some groceries. God never fails. I will be glad when the meds. arrive at the clinic and we won't have to buy it. I go to the clinic on Wed. to see about getting help for me to get my meds. Mine is over $300/bottle. All of Jr.'s is $4/bottle. I have 2 that are not. One is an arthritis medication and I am not sure how much it will cost.

Jr. will have insurance around January 1st at his job. They pay all of his except $1. We may not add Missie since she has medicaid. He is hoping to get a raise then too to cover the cost of insurance for me. So we will see.

Hope you all had a wonderful Lord's day.

Hello on Sunday!

2008-10-12T19:52:00.003-04:00

Well, I didn't make it to church today, but I enjoyed the services via internet! What a blessing that is! This a.m. we had a wonderful service, and there was no preaching, and I sat in my living room with tears running down my face, enjoying the service, even though I couldn't be there.

Missie has been so sick. She thought she was feeling better and then yesterday afternoon started getting feverish again, and is very weak. She has a lot of drainage in her throat, that goes along with this head cold. Junior and Preston went to church tonight, and I watched it on the internet. I could see Preston sitting in his pew rocking, it was so neat! Our pastor preached a wonderful sermon. Tues. night we start revival, through next Sunday. I plan to attend this as many nights as possible. The teen church sang tonight, and Missie and I both hated that she was not there for that. But there will be another time.

Well, since the cymbalta was so expensive, we decided to try paxil again, but it didn't do well. Preston started getting irritable, and we just had to go and buy 17 more pills to do us until next Friday. It was $75. We will have to buy 21 pills/week until they arrive at the free clinic. That will probably be about $100 a week. I don't know how we will do it, but God does. God is able to speed the delivery of this medication up, and have it arrive much sooner at the clinic, or speed up the medicaid! Something has to give in this area!

I have been working on some baskets with handmade cards in them to donate to our school for the silent auction. I hope they sell good for the school. We are having a soup supper, and silent auction on November 6th. We are hoping to do well, and raise lots of money for our school.

Hope you all had a wonderful Lord's day!

You won't believe it!

2008-10-10T23:16:00.002-04:00

You won't believe what I am going to tell you! So fasten your seat belts and hang tight for I have some astonishing news!

Missie received her medicaid card today! She is now on medicaid. But Preston is not; and it will take a while for him. Does that make sense? Don't they realize a disabled person NEEDS it quickly??? I just couldn't believe it when I got the card for Missie in today's mail! I am thankful she has it, for now we can get help for her arthritis, unless it is hard to find a rhematologist who takes it. That is the next step to find a family dr. first who can refer us to a specialist.

Missie is sick again with cold, fever, etc. She has laid around all day. I walked and got her paces and she has worked some in them. It is like she has a relapse now. I hope she gets better soon. Several people around here have this cold or flu.
So far Preston has not gotten this. Hopefully he won't.

Please keep praying for Preston's medicaid to come through and/or the meds. he needs arrives quicker than usual. God is able to speed up this process.

Bedtime, so will go for now.

What a week!

2008-10-08T21:33:00.003-04:00

It has been quite a week, but we are getting things moving concerning Preston's medicaid and medications! When the caseworker put in all the information for regular medicaid for Preston, it came up that they wanted to see about disability medicaid for him, so that is the route we are going. She has to send paperwork to SC to his doctors, so that could take a couple of weeks. Never again will I take medicaid for granted!!!

Yesterday Junior took Preston to the Open Door Clinic - free clinic - and they saw the nurse practitioner and she couldn't believe his history! It is a lot to comprehend when you hear it for the first time. He truly is our miracle son! He is so cute because he doesn't want to be called a "boy" anymore, but a "man." I told him he is not a girl, so he is a boy, LOL. He thinks it is something wonderful that he is a 20 yr. old man now! It is truly a miracle that we have him, and that is he sooo sweet. God has been so good.

Well, anyhow, the clinic got things moving and gave him 2 bottles of medication that he takes, and some samples of a 3rd. We temporarily put him on paxil which he was on before cymbalta (for depression) until we can get the cymbalta in. It is $485 a bottle. Today I had to go back to the clinic and sign all the papers. Then she told me it would take 3-5 weeks for the meds. to get here. We are ok for a couple of weeks. Our pastor told me to let him know if we needed help financially to buy some before the free meds. arrive as there are people who would be more than happy to help us buy it! What an awesome pastor we have. Our church here has really stood behind us through all of this and prayed. It means so much to us.

I guess Missie will be the next one to go to Open Door and see if we can get her on some arthritis medication. She did get some better, but tonight is in quite a bit of pain and didn't get to prayermeeting.

The boss told the guys where Jr. works that they could start working some overtime, but there isn't enough to do for them to work much overtime. But we are so thankful he has a job, and in a month he will get insurance on himself which they pay! I may go to the clinic too for my meds, we will see how much the insurance will cost to put me on it. He hopes to get a raise then too.

So things are somewhat better, as we have meds. for a couple more weeks. And the Lord is able to speed up the medicaid process and also the arrival of the medications to the clinic. God is in control!

So that is the latest chapter in the lives of the Watsons!

Awesome Sunday!

2008-10-05T22:07:00.002-04:00

It was an awesome day today, on the Lord's Day.

Junior and I attended church this a.m. as Missie has a cold and had a headache.
Bro. Mowery preached a wonderful message and some went to the alter.
This evening we had another great service, and then after church we had Travis and Jody Johnson and their family over for chili! We had a good time of fellowship.
Our church is praying for us concerning Preston's medication. It has caused me much anxiety wondering what we will do if the clinic does not give us the meds. Bro. Mowery preached tonight on faith; I needed that sermon. I don't have the faith I should have. I need the Lord's help. Only God can work this all out. I will be so glad when Tuesday is over and we know something. Not knowing is harder than knowing, I think.

We might get to go to my mom's for Thanksgiving! She and my stepdad want to pay our way for us to go up. We will be there about 1 1/2 days but that will be better not seeing them at all this year. I haven't seen my mom since August of 2007. I would love to go and see them, if the weather is ok. If there are snowstorms, we won't go. It is in the Lord's hands.

'Night all!

Awesome church family

2008-10-03T21:58:00.002-04:00

We left an awesome church family in Easley, SC and moved to IN and found out they are awesome as well. I requested prayer Wed. night about Preston's medication and not having medicaid, and they rallied to help us. We ended up getting a big food pounding and over $100 in cash. Isn't that amazing? I have more food than I do cabinets now! Thank you all soooo much!

Wed. p.m. we had a wonderful prayer meeting. God came and it was such a wonderful time of prayer for needs. I was so discouraged over this medication. We bought 17 pills for Preston and it cost $85. Another of his expensive medication is running out this week. But we go to the clinic on Tues. and will see what they can do to help us. Please pray they can give him the meds. until we get medicaid. Anyhow, Bro. Steve Gardner handed out paper at the prayer meeting and people gave a lot of requests and we wrote a lot of them down so we could use the list in our devotions. He was so passionate about each request; it was so refreshing! Then Bro. Mowery asked if anyone wanted to pray at the altar for our needs; and many went up front and prayed. It was close to 9 p.m. before we got out of the service. But it was so worth it.

Just had to brag on our new church and how they have helped us. Jody Johnson told me that the Lord didn't bring us up here to forsake us now! How true that is. Missie is doing so well and loving school. I know it was God's will so we just have to trust Him!

Back already!

2008-09-30T13:37:00.002-04:00

I am back already. I called the free clinic today, "Open Door" Clinic and Preston has an appt. a week from today. So I hope they can help with the medication until he gets medicaid.

It is cool here today; Preston went out and sat a while. I am posting a picture of him in his swing.

I have all the air conditioners off and the windows opened. Maybe the air conditioner days are over for this year.

Got all the wash/drying done and have showered Preston. I swept and mopped the utility room, kitchen and bathroom, so that is done for this week.

Also put some auctions on ebay. You can take a look if you wish.

http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=homeschoolmommyof2

Medicaid and more

2008-09-29T22:21:00.003-04:00

Well, I had my appt. today for medicaid, for both of the children. Believe it or not, because Preston is disabled, there is more red tape for him than there is for Missie. But because 2 of his diagnoses are cerbral palsy and asperger syndrome, she said they usually get passed quicker, and get the medicaid quicker. So we are praying that this is the case, and that he won't have to have a physical by a dr. here. Please help us pray about this!

Another good thing is that Junior can get some overtime! So he is going to be working some 10 hr. days. It will help a lot! I love having him home by 3 in the afternoon, but no overtime hurts! So some days he will work overtime. They have lots of work right now, thank the Lord.

Our pastor is on vacation, and we really missed him yesterday, but last night Bro. Travis preached on prayer. I think a lot of us struggle with this issue. Being able to keep myself focused is a problem for me. It is also a problem for Missie. Our minds are so busy, that it takes more discipline for people like us to really have a good prayer life. I am asking the Lord to help me.

So that is the news for this time! Tune in another day to see what is happening in the lives of the Watsons!

Thursday

2008-09-25T11:08:00.002-04:00

Well, I had a mishap last night (nothing new for me). Missie and I went to a small group prayer meeting at a home, and I backed into a car sitting along street. Missie nor I neither one saw it. The man came out and I offered my insurance information but he wouldn't take it. He said it was a work car and that I really didn't hurt it, and that he was more worried about my van. My van has a dent in the fender, which Jr. can probably pop back out. The man of the house where the meeting was, came out and he is friends of the guy whose car I hit. So it all worked out. But I felt so bad. I told Missie maybe I had better stick to going to the church for prayer meetings, but she loves to go to the small one as one of her friends is always there with her family (Sara Dershied's dd). Missie actually went to 2 last night. Travis J. has one at 5 for the youth on the 3rd and 4th Wed. night of each month, then he does another adult one at 7. She enjoys Bro. Johnson so much! He has made such an impact on her life since she has met him.

Happy Bunny, thanks for saying our house is beautiful and homey looking. I try to make our homes homey inside and out. We are just renting. Our house in SC was rent to own and when we moved we just gave it back to the landlord because it was still in his name etc. We have been told by Johnsons that they would like to sell us this house, but we will see. Right now we can't afford to buy much of anything. I can't wait until Feb. when we get our tax refunds back and we can get some things we need for the house. We need more mini blinds, doors for the children's bedrooms, trash cans, curtain rods, curtains, etc. But these things can wait except for the doors, we feel those are a priority. We are getting a stove, and just need the line to hook it up to the gas. It will make cooking easier, but I have managed.

Well, I went to the local office to apply for medicaid yesterday, and I have an appt. on Monday. So we will see how that goes. I have to find some papers that I need to take with me. Jr. is having to get off 1 1/2 hrs. early to come and stay with Preston while I go for that. He will work an extra 1/2 hr. the other days to make it up to 40 hrs.

Today is Preston's shower day, so waiting for him to get up and around so I can get that over with. He just seems to tired. I think it is everything catching up with him; the emotional and physical part of the move, as both is hard on him.

I had thought maybe in a month we could put Preston on our insurance, but because of his age, we are not sure if that will work; but Jr. will check it out at work.

Until next time.

At last!

2008-09-23T22:27:00.002-04:00

We ended up having to get a new modem from the AT&T guy, not sure what that will cost! But we are online! Hoping to stay online now.

Tomorrow in a.m. I have the interview about Preston's medicaid. So we are praying it won't take long, and that he will get it.

Today was Missie's school picnic and she had a wonderful day! This is the best situation for her! She is thriving and doing well.

On Sunday, we had Bro. Hedstrom at our church both services. He preached the a.m. service. John Parker had told him about us moving up here and he didn't figure out who it was until he saw Preston on Sunday night, and then came and talked to us. It wasn't too long ago he was at our Easley church. It is really a small world after all.

Preston still mentions that he misses SC; and his church; but I think he will fine. Change is harder on him than the rest of us.

Last night Missie and I went to Women of Worth. We are so close to everything here; it takes less gas since we moved here, because everything is so close, except Jr.'s work which is about 30 min. away. Anyhow, we enjoyed the meeting; one of the ladies from a pregnancy center spoke to us and we had a baby shower and she took lots of goodies back to the shelter that we donated. One meeting we are going to get together and make handmade cards! This will be lots of fun. We will send them to shut-ins, sick people, absent people, missionaries etc.

Union Bible College is having Old Fashioned Day in a couple of weeks; and Missie plans to attend. It is nice to live where there are lots of activities for her, and people she can go places with. She is excited about going as she has friends at UBC.

I found out about a clinic in town, that is donations only. They have a couple of drs. that come in and they give meds., so I may take Missie there about her arthritis. She has good days and bad days. But she needs some arthritis medication instead of just pain meds. But she hates to have to go; but she does hurt a lot more up here than she did in SC. So we will see how it goes. I may end up taking Preston too to get guidance about where to take him for his specialists. Until we get medicaid, we can't take him to any specialists. We don't have the money to pay for the visit. We are really broke now! Jr. is making less money and we have a school bill; although my mom is helping with the school bill, thank the Lord. She is also buying us a stove! We did get a refrigerator, and the same people have a stove, and Mom wants us to have it. My mom is so good to her children; she is a precious mom. I hope I have her for many many more years. Missie would love to get a job to help out, but it is hard to find someone to hire 14 yr. olds. Someone told her of an icecream place that hired but when Jr. took her there, she had to be 16 to get a job. It might be too much on her to work very much and go to school, until we get the arthritis situation under control, but she sure would like too.

It is my bedtime, so I will go for now.

Old Friends!

2008-09-18T21:15:00.002-04:00

I guess next to family, the greatest thing would be "old friends." Some old friends have left lasting impressions on our lives. Well, we happen to live in the same town of some of these "old friends." When we pastored in TN we had them for a revival; worshipped with them at Knoxville camp etc., and they loved us, and loved our children. They were never blessed with children. Anyhow, when I told one of my best friends that we were moving to Frankfort, IN, she said, "That is where the Wrights live." I couldn't believe it! Well, it is true and tonight we were privileged to have them for a visit. They are dear, and wonderful people. I meant to get a picture, but failed to do so. We planned to visit them soon and will get a picture of them then. They have been a blessing in our lives. It was wonderful to hear him pray again, before they left. We plan to go to their church when they have revivals, etc.

It is nice to be online again! And be able to blog and read other's blogs, too. I had a lot to catch up on!

I am tired, but wanted to tell of our wonderful visit this evening. It sure is nice to be with old friends when you get the chance.

I finally outwitted my dear husband.....

2008-09-17T21:35:00.002-04:00

and we are online at home! I had to reset the broadband connection and now we are online! He couldn't get it figured out; for once I have outwitted him! That is hard to believe. But I am glad to be back online!

Tonight Missie and I went to Angie Davis' for a small groups meeting, and it was wonderful. We are studying, "If You Want To Walk On Water; You Have To Get Out Of The Boat." I enjoyed it. One of Missie's friends from school was also there so she had a wonderful time too. This girl found out she could sing and has asked her to be in a quartet, so that is wonderful. I am thrilled about that.

I am so tired, so it will be short and sweet tonight.

Tomorrow I have to shower Preston, and clean the house; we are having company tomorrow evening, that we found out lived in this town and pastor another church here. We were close friends when we were pastoring, and haven't seen them for a while. It will be so nice to see them again.

'Night all!

***A Day in the Life of the Watsons!***

Gallbladder!

No home internet

It's May!

Long time!

It's been awhile...

November!

September!

Missie!

Latest News!

Breaking News!!!!

Few new pictures!

Wow, time flies!

Wow, It's June!

Missie made the local paper!

Spring!

March!

Valentine's Day!

Wow, it's almost Feb!

Little late with Happy New Year

Merry Christmas!

Wow! It's Almost Christmas!

Holidays!

Correction on number of paces

Parent/Teacher Conference

November!

Flu!

Busy week!

Root Canal!

Please...............

Just a note!

Labor Day!

Sad news!

It's Monday!

More news!

Back to School!

Tomorrow is school!

52 years old!

29 years!

July 27th!

Update on Missie

Sunday, July 19th

It's July!

Wow!

Hello everyone!

Update!

Memorial Day!

Latest news!

Long overdue!

TGIT

Medicaid!

Back already!

So sorry!

It's Saturday!

God Answers Prayer!

Wow! It's Saturday!

Sickness!

Good News!

Preston's Bike!

News!

Asking for special prayer

Sad Hearts

Valentine's Day and more....

Monday again!

It's Wednesday!

Good and bad news!

I have to share!

It's Friday!

Update

Video & update

Funeral arrangements and donations

Tragic News

It's Sunday

Happy 2009!

Saturday!

Christmas!

It's Christmas!

I'm back!

Busy!

Singspiration

A Day in the Life of the Watsons!