Sick!

Well, every day I make sure all my family gets vitamin C to keep them well, and guess who gets sick? Me! But I have to confess I don't take vitamin C. Vitamins mess my stomach up and I cannot take them. But I have been drinking juice every day and getting some C from it. Anyhow, I started getting sick on Sat. I had a terrible sore throat from drainage, now I have a cold or sinus infection. Tonight Preston said his throat is sore and for the past 2 days he had taken a nap in the afternoon because he is so tired. I am hoping he will be ok by morning! We cannot afford to let him get very sick. I hope and pray Missie doesn't get it either, because she always gets it so bad! So I have been drinking a lot of decaffinated Cappachino the last few days. I am headed to bed with more cold medication and my regular meds. to try and get some sleep.

Just wanted to let you all know what is happening.

We have a very special unspoken request too if you think of us, please pray about it. God knows all about it.

Twice in one day??

Actually my other posts for Saturday were at 1 a.m. this morning. I had drank a small cup of holiday peppermint coffee yesterday a.m. and I couldn't sleep because of the caffeine. I am hoping to get to sleep much earlier tonight.

29 cases of whooping cough have been found at BJU. Students will be leaving Fri. to go home; a week early. It is highly contagious. I had it when I was a child. You don't hear much about it lately; but there is this outbreak now. Hoping we will stay clear of it, for sure.

Today has been quite a good day. Preston got up himself out of bed, dressed himself, then undressed this afternoon and got in his pj's. He is improving! He is so sweet; that is one of the best parts of his recovery. Usually every year he worries every day about Christmas and getting gifts, but not this year. He has hardly mentioned it.

I have a splitting headache tonight. I worked on altering a tin this evening, will have to take a picture of it. It is a tin I found at Salvation Army with a snowflake on the top. I used paper, ribbon, rubber stamp, and snowflake stickers and decorated it, leaving the white snowflake on the top of the tin. I am making (I have 5 done) a set of snowflake Happy Winter greeting cards to put in it. I will either sell it or give it as a gift.

Both kiddos are in bed, and I am about done my work for the night. So I am going to try and relax a little bit.

You all have a blessed Sunday.

Prayer

I just read Martha Castle's post about whooping cough at BJU. I am asking for prayer that this does not get into our church. We have some BJU students that attend our church, and we are so thankful for them! But God is able to keep this germ from spreading among our people. It concerns me about Preston because he could not have the vaccine for the whooping cough because of his seizure problem. But he is in God's hands, and I have to trust the Lord to take care of Him. But prayer never hurts in a situation like this. We don't need any thing else to happen to him after all that has happened this year. And with his lung problems it could be fatal.

Thank you for praying.

TGIF!

Thank God it is Friday! I have been running around most of the day, and it is past my bedtime, and I am glad I don't have to go anywhere tomorrow. Preston's aide came from 11-2 so Missie and I went grocery shopping and did a little Christmas shopping, came home and got most of the stuff put away, then had to go and get Jr., then home and get the mail and Preston, and to Easley to take Preston to a thrift store and out to eat. He really enjoyed it. He was happy to get out. So I have been gone a lot and that wears me out more than anything!

It has been a pretty good week. Schooling is doing good; Missie is buckling down! Thank the Lord she seems to now see the importance of getting her schooling. She is sooo excited about the prospect of Penn View. We are too! I met a lady on myholiness and she gave me the name of 3 places for Jr. to try and get a job up there. Now that the word is out among the holiness people through myholiness we will get some help with job prospects and maybe a place to live.

I have sold quite a bit of stuff on ebay this week. Missie cleaned out her stuff, and I have made enough money over the past few weeks to buy the kids Christmas. I am done shopping now, and have to wait the arrival of 2 gifts that are coming through the mail. I did the majority of it online which was a big help to me.

Gotta get to bed.
Wanted to check in, and let you all know we are doing well.

Where to begin?

The days fly by and sometimes I don't take the time to blog.

Homeschooling is just part of it; caring for Preston; trying to make some $ by selling on the internet; keeping up a house; sleeping when I can; making Christmas gifts as an alternative to buying them because of lack of $, need I say more? My life is full and by early evening I feel so exhausted. Then to top it all off, Preston has been having trouble getting to sleep. I wait to be sure he is asleep before I can go to bed; but one good thing is he does sleep late in a.m. and I couldn't survive if he didn't. One night he was awake most of the night and tried to wake us up and couldn't; so I have to know that he is asleep before I can relax and go to bed. At 2:30 Sun a.m. he did get me awake by blowing his whistle. Thank the Lord I heard it. I guess I need a baby monitor again; I am just afraid every time he moved I would hear it. I just cannot function without sleep. I know part of it is my age, my fibromyalgia, just the wear and tear on my body with having a sick child, etc.

On another note, I called to see about getting 100 gal. of propane for our gas tank to heat with. We do not have natural gas here, but propane. I said to the lady that it probably had gone up and she said yes, it had. I wasn't prepared for the total she gave me for just 100 gal! $323 and some odd cents!!! It blew me away. I thought it might be cheaper to get a kerosene heater and use it, but guess what? Kerosene is higher per gallon than gas, so we are hoping 100 gal. will last a looonggg time!

I made a loaf of cheese bread today in the breadmaker. It was loved by all at supper tonight. I really like having a breadmaker; as you throw everything in there and it does the work. I got it for $2.50 at Salvation Army!

So not much more to say this time. Try to check back in later in the week, Lord willing.

My blessings!

"Count your many blessings, see what God has done."

Today is Thanksgiving. I have so much to be thankful for.

I am thankful for Preston; he was supposed to have died this last time in the hospital, but God spared his life.

We have a home, food, clothing, a car, and each other most importantly.

And above all, we know JESUS in a real way; and He has blessed us in untold ways that I could never recount in this blog.

Hope you all are thankful today and have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Sad day

Both our children, Preston and Missie, have been crying. Our family pet, Scrappy, died today. He has been sick the last few days and we didn't have money to take him to the vet. But he is gone now, and we are sad. I know animals are not as important as people, or to some people, but Missie especially has a way with animals and she had gotten Scrappy a few years back. He was one of the best dogs we ever had. He has been deaf for a few weeks now so we kept him in as much as possible to avoid his getting run over. We are not sure what happened to him; but Jr. and Missie has buried him. Preston had a good cry and then he felt much better.

I have taken a picture of Preston since his fall. He said his nose hurts, but overall, we are thankful he is ok.

We had invited a family for Thanksgiving but found out today they are not coming. So it may just be us for Thanksgiving, but we are sooo thankful we are not in the hospital but at home. We have so much to be thankful for. We are used to not having family for holidays or hardly ever going anywhere, but I still tend to feel a little sad on holidays when everyone is so far away.

I hope you all have a good weekend.