Deb’s Journey

I just continue to feel all things are changing about me. Thinking on my feet, I’m just a little slower and driving, my reactions are a little slower. My hubby has noticed it in my driving and he has started to drive more. On the trip to NC, he drove the almost the whole time. I’m misplacing things more often and that drives me crazy. So my production jobs are not so productive, I have to work a little bit more. And maybe slower is better, maybe less mistakes will be made in that movement.

Now it doesn’t drive me mad, my trust is in the Lord, He is my joy, the One I depend on, my peace in found in Him, so thats where I just try to abide in…………….HIM.

So we’ve been in our new house for 2 weeks……..it seem to be a better week for the boys and getting adapted to their new school. My youngest boy was acting more like himself this week and the oldest, he was just acting like a typical 14 year old boy who thinks he knows everything.

In gas last week, I only filled up the tank one time from Friday to Friday, and I still had 1/4 of a tank left. Yeah!! That part is great.

On Sundays, it’s just alot nicer, we are at home relaxing until the evening service. I made dinner and even made a vegetable, a well balance meal complete with an dessert, now thats what I’m talking about. Our friends now have a place to go, which I’m very glad to oblige.

I’ll take pictures this week.

So we left after the picnic around 5pm…….our plan, (which wasn’t our plan until Thursday) was to only drive 5 hours and spend the night with friends in Nashville. We hadn’t seen them for a couple of years and they had moved there only one year ago. They were thrilled that we were coming and this made the trip back much easier.

Now the drive there we ran into a huge Designers Fountain Lighting storm! Once again a wonderful display of fireworks going off!

We left the next morning after having breakfast, a time of catching up, and just a few more memories of our trip. It broke up our trip quite nicely.

We are back from our visit with my side of the family………it was a wonderful time!! We really made the most of this trip, spitting our long trip.

On our way out we stopped in Cinncinati, stayed with friends and went with them to the Creation Museum. The place is beautiful, very family friendly, and does their purpose very well. We really needed two days there, but if anyone ever has a chance to visit, it is well worth the time!! We were blessed by having free tickets but we made sure we had lunch there and I purchased some books and wholesale apparel, a creation shirt, which all were very reasonable.

My hubby, friend of my oldest son, and me.

The boys need room (like the area on their body)………..have you ever heard that boys should not wear pajamas to bed?? I haven’t but I’m not a boy, my husband told me and the boys this. I wonder if its true, its probably something that he heard once like bacon causes cancer or cucumber is good for acne treatment which is probably true.

When we were away last week at SMI, I told a boy that he had the rest of us in stitches and then noticed a strange look on his face. I then asked him if he knew what I meant, he didn’t and I quickly explained to him. Really thought it was funny that he didn’t know.

It’s reminds me of when I told my youngest to “shake it off”……….he had hurt his foot. He got up and started shaking his foot, then I proceeded to tell him what I meant. Cute.

My oldest gets his braces off next month……..it’s only been 8 months. He’s really excited about it and it will be right before school.
But we will still be paying the bill quite a bit longer. My hubby said, ” so now the payments stop”! Such wishful thinking. His teeth look great.

We will be moving by the beginning of school too. We will now be in the same town that our church is, we have alot to do in the next month. But the main thing right now is getting the boys register at school and fall baseball for the youngest boy. As far as moving we will do a little at a time all month. I told the hubby not to buy anymore groceries besides the necessities and definitely no new school furniture.

Our garden is doing well………..we even have a watermelon!! Hubby is so proud!!

Sunday and Monday, we had some bad storms and some hgh (hugh) wall clouds that look like they could swallow up earth as we know it. It got so dark today around 11am that it looked like night time. But we survived and no tornadoes were spotted, thank God!

My hubby was up at 6am on Sunday taking pictures, he’s crazy. He woke me up to show me the sky, I went back to bed. I love the scenery and all the pictures God paints but I need my sleep. I haven’t been sleeping good the last week. I can’t fall asleep and if I wake up in the middle of the night I can’t get back to sleep. Yeah I’m sure it has to do with age!

Oh what a weekend!! From ballgames to Pig Days with our teen group……..anyone have a used rvs for sale, cause could have really used a few this week.

Pig Days with the teens was a hour away from church, we drove the bus up with 16 teenagers and our purpose was to canvas that perticular area for VBS that we will put on in that town. So we had a big tent and free games with lots of free candy! It was a long day but the teens did a great job, then Tuesday we go up again to stay until Friday. This is our 2nd year doing VBS….the cool thing is that our teens are doing everything. I’m loving it, watching our teens grow into adults.

I normally wear my contacts everyday, (taking them out only at bedtime), but lately my glasses have been working for me. Usually by the first few hours of wearing them I have a headache. Thats why I believe its due to my menopausal state of body, yeah its in my mind too but mostly my body is going crazy.

Also theres the cheapo glasses that we found out about………….Zennioptical, where you can buy glasses for $8.00 and up. It’s great, and you don’t have to be confined to one pair for the next 10 years. So I can’t help you with all clad copper core but to let you know about menopausal stuff and how to still feel good about how you look…….I can help!

My hubby is almost finished with the house out here…his first in this area. It has been exciting and just happy for the opportunity. Still somewhat stressful just because of having to find new subcontractors to do details items of the house. But all has went well…no metal buildings he used wood for the frame. I remember out east that was going to be the way to build a few years ago………using metal framing, but that has past. It would actually be good for here with all the tornadoes.

He also has a couple of projects in the town 30 miles from us. Yeah, he wants to move closer to that town, which is the town we
go to church at and I work at. But I really don’t want to move but will be his decision………..God please show us!