God's Beauty around us.

Today I just want to go sit on the bench and enjoy the weather like these ducks were enjoying it the other day.

Listening to the water falls.

Maybe even getting just a little wet.

Oopps I almost missed her sitting here.

Watch out..... These honkers don't look before they cross the street.

They appeared to be dancing across the street before they flew off.

This is a beautiful day that the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it.

And here I am stuck behind this desk wishing I could be outside enjoying this wonderful weather.

Top 10 Predictions for 2010

As we begin the year 2010, with all the problems that we and the World are facing, can be unsettling to the mind. Today, I will share with you tenpredictions that are sure to come true this year!

Top 10 Predictions for 2010
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still be the most powerful thing on Earth...
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still honor the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost when they come to Him.

Isn't It Great To Remember Who Is Really In Control,
and that; "the Word of the Lord endures forever."
( 1 Peter 1:25 )


NOTE:
I got this in a e-mail this morning. I like it so much that I wanted to make sure I could find it whenever I wanted to read it, and also share it with my few readers.
I am so glad God is in Control!

My past week.

Amidst working---or at least putting my time in, I took the Thursday off as a vacation day.
Wednesday evening after work I headed my car north, bags packed.
Had a wonderful evening with my daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.

Thursday morning, out of bed for a different adventure...a day with Kenley without Mommy around. :)

We had a good day together. She also didn't want to be put down at nap time, and this grandma didn't want her to cry, so when nap time came. I was pleased to hold her so she would nap and not cry.

Her left eye watered a lot. Never did find out why. Was it an eye lash or had she bumped grandma's glasses or poked here head into my shirt collar? I'm glad it wasn't pink eye!
After a chicken dinner from KFC grandma headed back home, since I was to work on Friday.

Friday--- a day that I actually knew I would have some work to do... I was actually able to have something on my desk all day, and a bit left over for Monday morning. Since it is very slow at work, This makes me happy to know that there are things for me to do in the morning, and not just sit....Sitting at a desk all day long with nothing to do makes for a very, very long day.

Almost closing time on Friday I knew I was in trouble, and like normal, when things come up and you need to see or consult your doctor, it is a Friday late p.m. and they are not in the office.

So on Saturday morning I decided I really needed to take care of the issue so I carted myself to the DMH Express Med (Like urgent care). I knew what the problem was, but also knew that I needed a very strong antibiotic to get it out of my system.
A simple urine test confirmed what I already knew.... A monster of a bladder infection.
I am grateful that I only was charged a office visit and they were able to give me prescriptions so I could get the meds I needed. Dr. informed me had I let it go till Monday to see my own MD I would have landed in the hospital. That is how bad the infection was.
I sure am glad I didn't wait!

What causes a bladder infection? What contributes to it? His answer to me was "Stress, will bring it on rather rapidly. Guess the stress from the past number of weeks didn't help it.
There had been signs earlier in the week, but I really didn't realize that it was there and my ignoring the signs only let it get so bad that I knew what was wrong.
He also stated that we women were more prone to get them then the men were. (That hardly seems fair).

Just two more weeks then we are off to Texas for vacation.

I am looking forward to going. CAN'T WAIT....oh but guess I have to.

I must get all the bills paid at the office and the month of March closed before I can go. (:

Vacation planning.

Vacation time for us is fast approaching......April 10, will be here before we know it.

Two years ago, we went to New York City, N.Y. and loved every minute of it...Would go again in a heart beat if money would allow us to.

Last year we went to Arizona to see Bud's sister and husband and to the Grand Canyon and Sedona.

This year we plan on going to Texas.

San Antonio to be exact..... People who read earlier blogs know in the past months I was plagued with ANTS here in the office.

I had to laugh--- I sometimes have to associate things to names so I can remember how to spell things...

San ANT ON I O ...... that is what I felt like when the ant crawled on my arm.

Oh, bad joke I know. But it worked for me.


So here it is, we know we want to go see :
l.) The Alamo
2.) We have booked the Hill Country Magic Tour (which covers the life and cattle-ranching times of America's 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, and includes a tour of his still-working LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas on the Pedernales River. Also stops at the German town of Fredericksburg, and visit to the Admiral Nimitz Museum and Historic Center.
3. The Riverwalk. Both in the day time and at night time (Providing I can get Bud out in the evening time. And a tour of the city.

SO Now my question to all you people out in blog world.....
Do You have any other suggestions? Anything special we should definitely not miss in and around San Antonio, Texas??

Other things that have caught my eye on line are:
Cascade Caverns
Natural Bridge Caverns
Japanese Tea Gardens
Zoo
Tower of the Americas
Sea World
Frontier Times Museum - Bandera, Texas (and I'm not sure how far that is from where we will be.
Crockett County Courthouse - Ozona , Texas ?
Devil's Sinkhole ? And if we go there I will have to watch it (Bud may try to push me in).

We also thought about taking a scenic trip down toward Laredo, Texas and perhaps going over into Mexico.... But with all the drug problems is it safe to go into Mexico?


So if you have been to Texas or live in Texas ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Comments

Looking at the settings on my computer and on my blog, I have come to the conclusion, just to address the issue in a blog post.

I love getting comments, but if you choose to leave a comment, I must be able to read it.
English....so I can understand what you are commenting on.

Therefore, if I cannot read and understand your comment...WELL, this is my blog and I most certainly will delete it.

And if you are leaving a comment on a older post I do have my blog set that I must either accept or reject the comment before it posts.

Thank you in advance.
Have a great evening.

Screenings

The American Red Cross had a flyer in the local news paper on

Stroke Detection Plus Prevention through early detection scrreenings.

There are 4 life saving screenings listed:

Stroke Screening
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Osteoporosis

All Four full wellness profile for $ 125.00

And if the tests were done in a hospital setting they would be $ 300- $700 per test.

On the back side of the flyer it said if Two or more conditions and You are at risk!

1.) Over 40 yrs. old ...... check

2.) More than 20 lbs. overweight....check (Hate to admit it but I must loose about 30 pounds.)

3.)Family history of strokes.....check.... (My dad had over 7 of them).

4.) High cholestrol.....check.....but I do have it down again with meds.

5.) Cigarette smoking.... no not me.

6.)Diabetes................... no

7.)High blood pressure...... Check at least at some times. not always. Am on meds tho to keep it under control.

8.) Inactive Lifestyle.... no I'm pretty active.

9.) Heart Disease......not that I know of.

10.) TIAs- Minor Strokes.... not that I am aware of....

Oh, but let me count....that means I have checked 4 and it said if 2 or more conditions then you are at a risk.

So I have made an appointment to get these screenings done. And I should have the results of these screenings by the time my physical comes around on the Wednesday after we get back from vacation in the middle of April.

I, just visited my mother-in-law at the nursing home at noon. Seeing how she is it makes me think of what my dad went through when he had all his strokes. And IF I CAN PREVENT ANY OF THAT....then I am all for doing these screenings.


After all, I want to be able to enjoy my granddaughter and not be sick to where I cannot enjoy her. So the last of this month I will take 40 minutes of my time and get these done, and hopefully everything will be okay.

Eliminate Stress

Eliminate Stress----this is what the chiropractor told me yesterday when I went across the street to see him. I had 7 out of 12 vertebra's out of whack in my upper back/neck area.
Not a bad ratio is it? Now I know why I had and have been feeling so lousy at times.


STRESS--- JUST WHAT IS IT? ELIMINATE IT? Well, then I guess I will have to quit my job and go be a hermit somewhere where some of my family cannot find me.

I tried to eliminate some of the stress last night when I went to Guadalajara Restaurant in South Shores for dinner with the church girls.
There were 10 of us gals around that table last night and we all had a great time.
Sorry no photos of us. One of the gals did borrow my camera and took a photo of a lady she knew at another table. She was really celebrating...... If I had drank what she did they would have had to carry me out of the place.

Our evening friends

As she left the area she was going on 3 legs only. Left front one was being carried.

These guys were out behind our apartment building this evening. Between Christine Drive and Brentwood Village back parking lot.

I think the are so pretty, but they are in the City with very little woods around here.

If For Grown Ups

(Since I am busy this morning and not able to finish the post I have started I believe I will share with you a e-mail that I received this morning from a friend of mine.
It made me smile.)



Inner Peace: This is so true


If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment ,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,







Then You Are Probably ......

The Family Dog!





And you thought I was going to get all spiritual.



(Thanks Doris for making me smile this morning. On a day when I would rather have stayed home not come to work.)

Tuesday's pains.

Kenley with Great Grandma Jean

Kenley with Great Grandpa Jerry.

4 Generations - Grandma Jean, Son Forrest(Bud), daughter Kimberly and her daughter Kenley.
These photos actually should go at the bottom of this post, but this blog entry has a mind of it's own tonight. OH, WELL.

There has been so many ill people around us daily. Seems like everybody we know is either sick or has been sick recently.


People say they would like a day in bed just to rest.... YAAA RIGHT...Not all it is cracked up to be.

Last Tuesday March 2, 2010) A.M. off to work like normal ...well not exactly normal..... I had a monster


HUGE---HUGH head ache. One that I felt like the top of my head was going to fall off at any moment. Making me sick to my stomach also.


In all the 30 years of employment, I rarely if ever go home sick. Normally the only thing that normally makes me stay home or go home is if the bathroom calls my name way too many times in a day.

The phone rang and the man wanted a filter, I could not concentrate on even answering his questions and finding out what kind of filter he really needed. That is when I decided that I would go across the street to the chiropractor, then I would go home.

I arrived at home before 10 a.m. and crawled into bed... Got up long enough to eat a bowl of cream of broccoli soup from Panera Bread (Which I requested my Bud go get for me for lunch), then slept until 3:30 p.m.

I stayed up till 9:30 then went back to bed and slept all night....

So, staying in bed is not all that it is cracked up to be.

The next day I went back to work, and did what I could, but Well, I sure didn't push myself and overwork. (OOPS don't tell my boss that).:)

IS THIS GOING TO BE A TREND FOR MY NEXT TUESDAY TOO?

I most certainly hope not.


This past Tuesday - March 9, 2010, I am in the midst doing checks for the 10th payment when my phone rings and Bud says, "Do me a favor. Run down to Mom's and see what is up. " Jerry (Grandpa had called him and wanted to talk. Bud told him well, we can talk I'm on the road but that's okay...... "NO, When can we talk here?" Did not tell him what was going on.

The minute I heard this I knew it had something to do with Bud's mother, 10 days before they had let her go home from the nursing home, much to the displeasure of some of us. We knew it wouldn't last long. When she gets home she really doesn't follow instructions. Not enough therapy and does not take her meds or eat as she should.

When I walked in and saw her sitting on the chair... Confused about life in general, and Jerry sitting on his chair, him telling me "She's lost it, shes nuts. She had me up all night the past two nights. After seeing the situation I knew something had to be done.

My assessment just confirmed itself when she wanted to go to the bathroom. Shuffled to the bathroom and helped her there. Came back to the chair and she decides to sit----BEFORE she was in front of the chair to sit back.

SO, SHE ALL BUT WENT DOWN FOR ME.... Grabbing her so that she didn't fall---- OF COURSE I COULD FEEL MY UPPER BACK GIVE....MAN this is not good...Why oh why did they think she could come home and take care of herself? And he definitely cannot take care of her.

She informed me she just simply didn't feel like taking her meds that morning. I Shook my head and called my husband relaying to him that we probably needed to get her back into the nursing home or into the hospital for evaluation. He made a couple phone calls to his sisters.

One was coming over (The other so far away she doesn't have to deal with it).

I called 911 told them it was not an emergency but I needed a transport to the hospital. She was partially confused.

At ER, her youngest daughter and I went, we told grandpa he would need to stay home, we would keep him informed. The last time he went when she went for xrays. He had a seizure in the ER and landed up in ICU for the night.

The ER doctor was a bit nasty with me, but soon found out that he could not push me around, that I needed their help, and they were either going to keep her in the hospital or put her back in the nursing home.

By the end of the day, they had transported her back to the nursing home. The same bed that she had just left 10 days ago. I had to go get her meds and her clothes for her. She was not happy about going back, but knowing she is not eating, taking her meds properly and that none of us can physically care for her, this needed to be done.

The only thing the ER could find was that her oxygen level was at 88 - then down to 86 and it is to be over 100.... This alone can make her loopy.

I Looked at my sister-in-law...and said, "You know every time she has a set back she looses ground. They gave her that medicine a couple of years ago that is doing this to her, and if you ever think about taking her home again, I WILL KICK YOU IN THE ROMP."

Her mother had begged to go home, yet in 10 days she is back just as bad as she was.


The only good thing about her being at home was that Kim and Clay were able to bring Kenley down on Saturday and see them at the house. Kim really didn't want to take Kenley into the nursing home to see her great grandmother. And we were able to get some photos.
(SEE THE ABOVE PHOTOS).

If she ever gets to where she can we are allowed to take her out to eat if she feels up to it. Therefore, we can take her to DQ or anywhere and family can meet her there to visit too.

SO NOW MY QUESTION IS:

Will next Tuesday March the 16th be as bad as the last two?

I HOPE NOT!