Facebook Rocks!

Thanks to my son Andrew, I've discovered Facebook! And I'm having a great time finding old friends and re-connecting! I really meant to keep up with my friends over the years and then I let the all the "busy-ness" of children and home and work crowd out something I wish I had made time to do. So before I lose any more time, I'm going to try to re-kindle some of those friendships. Relationships are the really important part of life. At our small group tonight, we all realized that even though we meet on a regular basis - we still could pick up the phone through the week and stay more connected than we do. God has put us in communities for very good reasons - One is that we NEED each other! We are not meant to go through life alone.
Well, that's my thought for tonight - hope to do some more updating tomorrow. I need to get my gardening blog up and running again for the Spring and tomorrow is Opening Day in Cincinnati so - GO REDS!

What a nice Birthday!

Had a great 51st yesterday! Lots of sweet smelling,pampering products from my sweet sister, Jacque! John gave me matching earrings to the necklace he gave me for Christmas. Another bath-time goodie from Monie - Lime Coconut Body wash - it smells yummy! Michael got me a gift card to Archivers (Yippee!) and Andrew gave me one from Caribou! I just love gift cards!! Lots of beautiful cards - everyone must have spent alot of time picking them out - they are on my mantel, cheering up the family room! My dear Mommy sent a check - which I will have fun deciding what to get with! John took me to TGIF for steak. The boys treated me on Wednesday night to lobster at Longhorn's!!!
And Daniel, who works at Blockbuster, brought me a movie that hasn't been released yet but I've been wanting to see. Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp! It was a perfect day!

Highway construction brings unexpected results

We got to spend an extra day with Andrew! Due to a horrible traffic jam and construction - he was unable to make his flight yesterday. So we ended up with everyone home last night - so guess what the boys did? They took John and I to Longhorn steakhouse for an early birthday dinner! So wonderful because on my actual birthday only John and Michael will be home in the evening. I had delicious lobster! And we came home and watched "Enchanted" which was a very cute and well-done disney film. Andrew flew out this morning and we just got a call that he's arrived back in Cedar Rapids to more snow.

Monday

Hope everyone had a nice Easter! Ours was very nice with all three sons around the dinner table. And it was a great Round One and Two of the NCAA tourney. At work I'm in third place with my bracket. Some interesting upsets. Glad that Xavier is hanging in there - on to the Sweet Sixteen. My big surprise of the day was my package arrived with my Stampin' Up order from my cousin! I am so glad tomorrow is my day off so I can play with my new stamps and markers! Check out my recipe blog for this week's new recipe - Corn Casserole! It was a hit with us.

Happy Easter Weekend!

We had a very nice Good Friday service yesterday at noon with each of our pastors and church planters speaking briefly on one of the last words of Christ from the cross. I was able to attend as we closed the office during the service.
Looking forward to a busy day getting ready for Easter - low-key celebration. Can you believe I still have Valentine decorations up? It seems like all the holidays have merged together this year...leaving very little time in between to get ready for the next holiday. Anyway, I'll probably just decorate the table. Andrew will arrive by dinner-time - so I'll also need to quickly convert the card-making room into a bedroom again.
Happy Easter everyone!

Updates

New posts on my Recipe Blog, Works in Progress and Prayer Page. Scroll down to links to these on the sidebar.

Snowing again in Cincy

Well after many days of rain and flooding in our area - it is snowing tonight! Hard to believe tomorrow is the first day of spring!
Not much news today - worked an extra hour at the church getting some 3rd quarter budgets out to the ministry leaders. I am excited about my day off tomorrow - it is the first time in many, many years that I haven't had to work on the first day of the NCAA basketball tournament! So Daniel and I are ordering a pizza and watching basketball all afternoon! Guess I'll also spend some time figuring out meals for the weekend.

Anyone still out there?

Well I'm going to giving "blogging" one more try. I'll probably have to email everyone to let you know I'm posting again, because I'm sure you've all given up on me. I think I'm going to work on just keeping up with this one blog for awhile and figure out what to do with my specialty ones. Just so little time anymore for being on the computer.

What have I been doing, you ask? Well - working lots of overtime at my bookkeeping job for the church, and also transferring all the Deaf Ministries data into a brand new program has taken many hours. Then my other new passion is card-making and I've spent many hours reading and learning how to do rubber stamping and card-making. My cousin Mary has a great blog on her card-making and is a big inspiration to me. If you are interested check it out: www.creativejuicesbymary.blogspot.com

My health has been up and down. I am really struggling getting all my medications co-ordinated and staying on track with my diabetes. Been trying to attend water aerobics classes as I can. Sometimes just getting out of bed is a chore.

Ranger, our cat, is having a spell of bad health also. He has an enlarged heart and we are trying to treat that...but this morning he got chilled out in a rain-storm and has been shaking all afternoon. We've been holding him wrapped in a blanket and trying to raise his temperature.

It's March Madness, so I've set up a bracket challenge group over at ESPN for all of us basketball fans at work. It's NCCC Hoops - if you want to check it out. Can't believe Easter is this Sunday - I am definitely not ready for it and haven't even thought of food! But AJ is coming home, so I'd better think of something!

Well, that's it for tonight...I'll try to post again tomorrow. Here's a picture of my latest card creation (borrowed the idea from my cousin Mary)