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...
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Little late with Happy New Year
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!
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!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Merry Christmas!
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!
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!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Wow! It's Almost Christmas!
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.
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.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Holidays!
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!
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!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Correction on number of paces
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!
She has completed 34 paces so far! She is doing great!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Parent/Teacher Conference
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!
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!
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