Bring On The Rain!

We have been sitting here enjoying the weather and had put the dog in the back yard... Then like usual Lilly starts to scratch on the door to come in. Well normally if we just ignore her she stops, not this time, the scratches started getting frantic..... Then I heard it.... THUNDER! LOL My dog is terrified of thunder! She hides in the bed and doesn't like to come out. Of course usually Ernie is in the bed because we are always up later than he is.

Tonight he's watching wrestling and * in case you couldn't tell* I'm on the web!
So poor Lilly is lying on the floor by my feet and Howie is in the chair with his daddy.
Well I better get off here.... Lots of lightning... God Bless!

Today we say good bye

to a local icon!
Casa Bonita came to Tulsa in 1972 and was Tulsa's first all you can eat mexican resturaunt. When you go in you order and go down a path that seems like you are walking in a garden.
When you get the tray with your food on it a hostess takes you to one of the Themed rooms.
This CasaBonita had a Court Yard, an Angel room (very pink with angels on the celing), a Cave, and a Tropical Waterfall room, there were also a couple of rooms I have never been because they closed them down. During the Holloween season they would have a haunted house in the upper level that you could tour. They also had a big game room at one end and a childrens theatre with magic shows and puppets.
Oh! and some of the best cheese enchilada's !

We will miss it because it is actually really close to our home and we loved going there! I was great. Well I guess we will just have to find another favorite mexican resturaunt to eat at.

So today the weather was superb!!!! I am so loving the fall temps.
Elise is praying for snow on Chirstmas day, which is rare in Oklahoma. I'm sure my big dog won't mind she loves the snow.. I'm not sure how Howie will like it. He turns one on Saturday and Monday we celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary! Not a big one but in a couple of years he is going to have to do something REALLY nice for me!
Last year he took me to Embassy Suites. It was wonderful.

well i'm actually getting sleepy so i better go to bed. Goodnight and God Bless!
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Starting Tomorrow

On Spending Time With God I will be posting a series on Proverbs 31.

We will be focusing on the last half of the chapter and How we can become the Woman of Impact God has called each of us to be!

 

Please join me. As always the blog is open for discussion! I welcome all feedback! So please if you stop by leave me a comment.

 

In Christ,

 

Mrs. Gidgit Graham
Tulsa, Ok.

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Today things seem

to just keep on going.... Elise is about the same, still won't open up and still afraid that something she has to say will hurt me, or make me not love her anymore.

I could never stop loving her! I am looking forward to getting the adoption finalized! All we really have to do is file some paperwork and set a date to see the judge. Then all we have to do is go before the judge pay our fee and let her tell the judge why she wants us to adopt her.

So anyway, we went to church tonight and Elise really enjoyed spending time with the youth group! that is the most important thing to me.
Well it is getting late and I need to get off here.
Good night and God bless

The only thing about

sleeping babies is that if you need to go somewhere and they just fell asleep and I need to go pick up Elise from school .. But since Ernie is here I'll leave them with him...

well i'll edit later... and add more!

5:55 PM..................

Well the so called naping didn't last to long for the girls. In fact as soon as Elise and I walked in the door S & M were both awake and ready to play!
Erine on the other hand, napped on... I decided that I was going to have dinner ready at 5 today so I got things gathered and defrosted so I could cook. * speaking of cooking. Last night I showed Elise how to make Stuffed Manicotti! It was so good! Ernie took some to his boss who thought it was every bit as good as what you could find at an Italian restaraunt. * But anyway.. tonight we had steak, left over manicotti, new potatoes and peas. So now we are all full and ready to relax!
The girls just left and we are going to watch some season premiers tonight... I want to see the new one tonight "Comander and Cheif" with Gena Davis.. I think it will be good... Well have a blessed night and I'll post again tomorrow!

Following God!

We have been praying for quite a few weeks now that God would show us what His will for our life is. We asked Him to put us where we could be used to glorify Him and to minister to others like us.

We prayed that if it were His will for us to stay at our church He would show us.

As we drew closer to God he began to show us that He had a different plan for us. He led us to a church closer to home that has a need for leaders as well as others to minister to the people in our age group. We started spending more time with the pastor and his wife as well as with the Sunday school class and the youth group.

Our prayers became where do you want us to serve Lord and he has revealed that to us.

Today we moved our church membership to Calvary Baptist church near our home and we are at peace and are in love with this entire church! Praise GOD He is Good!

We can't wait to get involved! In fact we are begin serving next Sunday.

Elise is fitting in so well in the new youth group. They are so very friendly! The youth have been to our house twice already and it is so wonderful to see them just scoop her up and love her! This is where we belong!

www.calvarytulsa.org

 

We ask that you pray for us as we try to walk according to God's Will for our lives. Pray for our new Church family as they work to help the church grow. Pray for the church family we are leaving, help them to understand why we are going and that they too can follow God's will in that church with discipline and hard work.

 

Well, Good night and may God Bless!

 

Mrs. Gidgit Graham
Tulsa, OK.
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Saturday Fun

We went on a Picinic with our new sunday school class yesterday and it was great! I don't know if I mentioned it but the pastor and his wife are the teachers of our class. This has really given us the opportunity to get to know them and pray with them about where God wants us. They have been very honest and real and have not tired in the least to sway our decission.
They did say " Now I'll be honest we'd love to have you, but you have to go where God leads you." That is just what we've been doing. Going where we felt led by God to go.
We chose to leave our other church because we truly felt God was telling us it was time to move on to someplace where we could be more involved. We really want to serve and be in some sort of acitve ministry where Ernie and I can both be involoved together. We feel that God is leading us here to do just that. We want to be involoved in growing this department into a ministry that glorifies God!

Okay off my soap box. After the picinic I called some friends that live close to the park we were at and they came over and hung out with us. Then we all decided to come back to our house and hang out, talk, laugh! We had so much FUN! Thanks M&M for coming over! This was actually our first time to spend any quality time with them and we enjoyed it so much! We decided we were hungry so we all went to one of our favorite little chinese buffet's and had a blast! it is so nice to find a couple that has so much in common with us and likes the same things we do.

We are definitely going to be spending more time with them!
Well I need to go get ready for church.
God Bless your Day!!

Prayer needed

I am asking for you all to pray for Elise's friend "L" * who will be 19 in two weeks* She received Christ as her personal saviour and she is afraid of her what her parents will do.

I don't see what the big deal is but aparently she doesn't want to hurt her parents feelings and she thinks that if she follows Christ in Believers baptism that she will make her parents mad.

Please pray that L will grow in her new found faith and that she will be able to be and adult and not feel like she has to be afraid of her parents.

Day's Go By!

So today has been pretty normal. We went to the bank and paid bills and then we picked Ernie up and waited for Elise to get out of school.
Then she calls me and says that she is at a softball game with the school, and that she doesn't know when she will get back to school.
That was cool... She got good and sunburned *well she actually just gets pink then tans* and looks funny!
We decided to lounge around at home tonight... I wanted to go see StarWars 3 * no I haven't seen it yet!*but we wound up sitting here so Ernie can watch WWE Smackdown... I HATE wrestling!!!
It used to be fun to watch back in the day but now it is such a soap opera!!

Well enough griping for now... The weather is good... my sister and neices are safely away from Hurricane Rita and I am praying that we get some rain.. my yard needs but I am praying that is doesn't rain until after 5o'clock tomorrow because we have a picnic tomorrow.

need to make phone calls so i'll post later....

Another Hurricane!

This time I could be personally effected by this hurricane!

My sister Kristina, her husband,

their kids and his family live in Houston!

I just called and they did evacuate but please keep them in your PRAYERS! Kristian and Shawn have 2 little girls and one on the way, His brother has 3 little kids,

and they ALL live with Shawn's parents!

Pray that things will go well I think they are going to stay with some grandparents or another brother but I'm not s ure.

Also pray for all those Kartina survivors who are once again looking in the face of death. Texas is emptying the Astrodome these people need our prayers for strength!

Father God, please watch over EVERYONE in the path of this massive storm. We love you and know that you have a reason for everything. Please protect my sister and brother-in-law, my neices & the whole Patterson family. God only you can truly make a difference, please protect those babies and the suvivors of hurricane katrina as I'm sure they are scared and tired. Thank you for your infinite wisdom and your mercy, and for the ability to have free will.

In Jesus name I pray AMEN!

Oh My Goodness!!

Tonight I watched the season finalle of CSI. I didn't get to watch it at the begining of summer so I just watched it!
OMG! I was so glued to the t.v.!! Man I can't believe it. I guess you could call me a CSI addict. I love to watch it and I prefer the original and CSI New York.

So anyway today was long and hot! I took Holly to a doctors appointment. I had a meeting with a teacher today and I had to take my little sister to get a check cashed and get insurance so she could buy a car. Well that took like 3 hours and we had a 2 year old with us and it was so very hot...
Well I droped S off and then Mary (my sister), then Holly and I went home!
I was so hot and tierd by the time we got home I was ready to just eat and go to bed... but I'm glad I didn't because at 8 O'clock CSI came on!

So tomorrow I am taking Holly to school coming home to play with S & M
and then going to pick Holly up.... then coming home and cooking a lovely dinner for my family and doing noting else!!!! I will have a long day on Friday agian so tomorrow I'm taking it easy!

I hope things are going smoothly for you and I hope God is Blessing you in big ways!
The party is still on but we have moved it to our home. I love entertaining, so this will be a blast for me. I have to go to Sam's Club so I can get Plates, cups, and napkins, and I still have to call about her cake.

goodnight all!

A Little bit of ??????

I never know how to start out ! I just sit here and think of something cleaver to put in the "title" spot and I always come up with something that either doesn't relate or is cheesey!

Okay "a litte bit of?????" I guess that is my way of saying that not much outside of the norm happened today and that I just felt like popping on to let you see just how crazy and totally insomina ridden I really am . No, I guess insomina is not quite right. I have actually been sleeping when I get to bed. I do nap with the girls and that could be a good thing because I can not seem to stay asleep once I go to bed. Well tonight I should be able to because it is early enough that I can go lay down *I'll have to clean my side of the bed off, because Ernie didn't do it when he went to bed;* talk to God, and drift off to sleep, just before the dog, jumps into bed.

Well now that I have produced a horribly long run on sentance I will leave you with a quote I found that I really liked!

" I LOVE BEING A MOTHER BECAUSE MY CHILDREN ALLOW ME TO LAVISH THEM WITH LOVE. ALL I GIVE THEM, THEY HAPPILY RECEIVE AND ENJOY. THEY HAVE BLESSED ME, PRAYED FOR ME, THANKED ME, APPERCIATED ME, AND OF COURES, I'M THEN ENCOURAGED TO GIVE MORE LOVE. ~MARIE CHAPIAN~


The thing about love is that is EXACTLY how it works!
I think the next subject on our other blog will be love.
We'll have something posted with in a day or two.

Love to all and God bless!

Obeying the Call

We have been collectively struggling as a family with being obedient to God's call on our lives. We have created a new blog page in order to be obedient and live our lives according to God's will.

Speaking of God's will. We have been trying to find the place God wants us church wise. We have really been trying to figure out where to go. God has reveled that to us and we are going to be going to a church where we will be serving Him regularly.
Please visit as the whole family will be posting whatever God reveals to them about whatever subject He lays on their hearts.

There will be a permanent link on this page as well as a link on that one to here! Have I confused you yet? Good!:)
Well Have a good night and I will be keeping you all in my prayers!

The Last Yard Sale of the Year!

Well Today was just that! I will never again have a yard sale! I hate it. We have been here since June and have had a garage full of yard sale stuff since. We didn't make much but since I am NOT keeping any more of it, we will donate it to Hurricane survivors. There are still people at Camp Gruber and we have lots of clothing that is in great condition.
Our internet is finally up and running again after a few days of being down due to bad weather. Our wiring for the phone line needed work because everytime it rains the phone goes out.
Well I'm beat so I am off to bed.

God Bless you all and Good night.

WEATHER!!!!!!!!

WE ARE HAVING SOME FUNKY WEATHER! MY DOG LILLY IS TERRIFIED OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHE IS HIDING IN THE BEDROOM! HOWIE IS SNOOZING WITH NO PROBLEM...

Okay I just realize I had caps lock on! :)) So anyway today was a fairly good day and I really need to get some sleep if I can ..I don't usually sleep when it is raining. Holly is doing well and we decided to scale down the birthday/adoption party so it will be here at home instead of at the church.

We are still praying about where God wants us. We really just have to let Him lead us a show us what to do. We don't want to jump into anything so we are trying to let him guide us to the right place and situation.

Well I guess it is off to bed... God bless you all and please leave any prayer requests that you might have I think we are going to find a place to do that on a regular basis... I am going to build a prayer support website for our friends and family so that we can lift eachother up in prayer and share Christ. As well as find out how others are doing in there lives!

I love you all and remember Jesus Died for YOU and me!

Following God's Will

There are those of you who attend our church, who may be wondering about us attending another church. Well I would like to tell you that nothing has happened that has caused us to leave. We are feeling called to explore evangelism in our neighborhood. We live a considerable drive from our home church and most of the people who live in this area do not have transportation or will not drive their children to church.

That being said; we are not at this time moving our membership from WABC. We love you all and are praying that our church grows by leaps and bounds. We have been praying about this for quite some time and I know this seems sudden, considering the resignation of our beloved Pastor. However Ernie and I do want more than anything to serve God and we are going to do what we can to abide in HIM.

Please continue to lift us up as I will hopefully begin Hebrew classes on the 22nd.
God Bless each of you as you truly are like family to us!

A diffrent Chruch

Today, we attended another Baptist church here in our neighborhood.It seemed to be a friendly chruch. They are more contemporary, and It was refreshing to be in a church who sang praise and worship songs that we knew and that we listen to on a regualr basis. The Pastor and his wife are in our age group and that was great! He brought a good message and it was easy to see that they are very frendly people. The Youth group was HUGE! We actually wound up sitting right in the middle of where the youth group sits so we got to see first hand just how many were in it. *around 50*. We were sitting here napping and there was a knock at the door. When we opened the door it was two gentlemen from the church. They brought us some information on the class for married couples and the youth group. We are glad that they did, it helped to answer some questions that we had. Holly and I are going back tonight so I'll tell about that later..

LATER:(9:14PM);
So we went to an evening service at this other chruch. The people were very friendly and didn't seem to be to nosey as to why Holly and I were alone. Then some of the girls from the youth group took it upon themselves to come and talk to her. NOONE had to tell them to come over they just did it . They talked about some of the evangelism things they are doing in the youth group and invited her back . I was really impressed. We are going to visit another church next week and then see where God leads us . I am hoping get started in Heberw class by the 22nd. I really do feel strongly that God is calling me to learn Hebrew and more about Messianic Jews. Well..... I'm off to check in on a couple of blogs... and then off to bed! I am leaving a permenant link to Jews For Jesus on this blog and I will be adding other information on my Jewish heritage. It is really cool to know that I have ancestors that are Jewish!

Good night and God Bless!

It's Saturday....

Well today we were going to spend the day at the movie theatre, then my grandpa called last night and said that he needed help fixing my Grandmother's car. So we got up and were getting ready to leave when Ernie went outside and the front driverside tire was flat! So Ernie put the spare on and we headed out. We had a good discussion on the way,*the drive is about an hour* we discussed visiting churches near our home, and I talked about going to the new Messianic church I found here in Tulsa. They seem really interesting and I still want to know more about my Jewish heritage.
So we decided where to go tomorrow and I will post about it tomorrow.

Holly went with my aunt and cousin to the anual Bluegrass and Chili Festival in Claremore. It is really fun, well I like it any way ! My mom's little brother's wife (Aunt S.) cordinates the whole thing. It is a lot of work!
Well I guess I'll go for now, Holly won't be home until after midnight and I still have to do some journaling in my hardback journal and I need to try to read this book.* Monster, Frank Peretti* it is supposed to be a good book. My Grandmother is an avid reader as well and we share lots of books! We have read many, many, books.
If you would like some recomended reading, let me know.

Something interesting

I found out a few weeks back that I possibly had some ancestors in Poland who were Jewish. So,last night I was talking to a friend in a chat room about it and he sent me to this really interesting web site. It is called Jews For Jesus, I found it rather interesting! There are loads of people of Jewish heritage who belive that Jesus is the Messiah! I was so glad to find that site. I Love my Lord and it is always a reason to rejoice when someone becomes a believer inChrist. To me it is even better when a Jew receives Christ because they are God's Chosen People. We as Gentiles were Adopted by God through Christ.
That is why Adoption is so special! Bet you never stoped to think about that! So I have been learning more about the Jewish traditions and such since I believe in their God the ONLY God. I don't see how it could be too much diffrent. Eventhough I don't know my heritage as a Jew I wish that if I did truly have Jewish ancestors that the one who converted to Chirstianity would have kept the Jewish traditions. That would have been nice. But I think I know why they did convert. They were Polish Jews in the age of Hitler and they knew they were going to be killed so they lied and changed their name. That is just my theory.!

Okay well that's it for now.... ttyl!

Neighbor issues.........

Let me see..... Today was much like all the rest except we have the new dog of course. Howie is faring well and adjusting to S&M much better today. Holly Elise is on an overnight feild trip with school so it is just Ernie, the animals and I. After dinner we disucssed things for the dogs, and he played video games wich is something he rarely does. I of course was online looking at pet supplies.

Then when Ernie went to bed 6:40ish. We all * us and the two dogs* piled into the big king sized bed and played and laughed and cuddled for about 20 minutes. Then the dogs and I went on our first walk together as a three some! It was interesting to see how well Howie and Lilly do together on the leads.
We had a good walk and the neighbor kids didn't try to follow after I told them I wanted to be alone with my dogs.
These kids are very nosey! I thought that kids just had a natural curosity but these kids are just flat out nosey! The were asking me how much I pay for my house and my animals and how much we spend on food. Very nosey kids. Of course I tell them that those things are non of their business and that when they grow up and get a life of their own they will understand why I don't have to answer their questions.....
The little girl Dawn says that I should have to answer her questions because that's what grown up's are supposed to do. I told her that if her parents hadn't taught her better than that it was not my problem but my finances were none of her, or her family's business!
I was so angry. WE have done loads to help this family since they moved in next door. We gave them furniture, dishes, clothes and have let them use our phone hundreds of times. They have no consideration for the fact that our phones are cell phones and that during the day we are paying for each minute they use. The mother makes 5-7 phone calls at a time sometime. So I started telling her if she needed to use the phone she had to be in the house and she had to keep it short.

Having neighbors that habitually try to take advantage of you is truly annoying! I am so tired of listening to them fight and then trying to be nice to them because I know that it is what's right to do.
I mean I am still nice to them and try to be a good Christian toward them by showing them kindness and hospitality, but my niceness only goes so far when I know these people are trying to use me!
For the longest time they treated us like we were Blockbuster video. The dad would send his kids over to "borrow" movies and tell them to pick them out. So when the kids would pick movies we suggested or that they would like he would send them back and say he didn't want to see that movie. So I finally told them that if their dad wanted to borrow a movie he needed to come pick them out himself. That stoped the movie borrowing!
Okay that is enought about my scarry neighbors. I'll get off that soapbox now! LOL
Well I guess it is off to clean the kitchen and them maybe a soak in the bath or even to work on my blanket for a while.
God Bless and have a good weekend!
Don't forget to keep praying for all the suvivors of Katrina!

XXXXOOOO

HOWIE....

ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF HOWARD (HOWIE) BRANDO GRAHAM!

Howie's birthday is October 1, 2004, he is 38.8lbs and about 36in. long.
Howie is a beautiful black, tan, and white, pure bread, Bassett Hound! He is enjoying his first night in his Forever Home.
Lilly ( our Lab/Dalmatian mix) didn't really know what to think of him at first but we put them in the back yard and they discovered that they like each other. We will have to watch them for a few days since Howie likes to bark at and bite her.
He did very well with the girls today and has been very loving. I have always wanted a Bassett Hound and I finally have one. I am so excited about the new addition to the family. We are dog people and have always treated our animals like children.
In fact we have decided to just raise Holly and our dogs. I don't feel like I'm really ready to have more children and I love my dogs, so I am happy being a dog momma.
Well I'll try to post some pictures of our 4 legged kids soon so keep checking back!

Looking For Another Dog!

So last night Ernie discussed getting another dog. I love animals and Holly Elise would like to have a dog. I have found at least 3 that I can choose from but only one was at home for me to talk to this morning. I'm hoping that when Ernie get's home he will let us go see the dog. Well baby M. has some kind of rash from the inside out. I gave her some benedrill like the doctor said and she and S. are sleeping in the recliners. So I'm going to do a couple of things that need to be done.

The wanna be runaway

Today I told Ernie I felt like running away. He was wonderful of course and just asked why and wanted to know what else I was feeling. He let me cry and whine and he just held me.
I told him about my confusion towards adopting more children and he told me we should wait. I said wait for what and he said until Holly is in college and we can have some time to ourselves. I told him I didn't feel like God was allowing me to have peace with the adoption and that I really just wanted to sleep again.
Maybe if I just focus on God and my family and my emotional health then God will show me what he has planned for me.
I don't want to stop keeping the girls because I know that if I go back to work in the outside world that I'll get to see my family very little.
Also we have some very mixed emotions about our pastor leaving and us staying but I really don't want to leave so we will probably stay.
All I know at this point is that I have been feeling very ALONE! I don't hear from my close friends much at all anymore and I am feeling very alone. I wish I could just find someone who understands where I'm at and can help me. I don't know...

Well I have alot to do tomorrow and I don't mean to through a pitty party here. So I'll pop off for now.

Please pray for guidance on my part I am very confused!
I need all the prayers I can get! And leave me a comment if you read this...
I'm not even sure anyone actually comes here....

WE ARE SADDENED

Our beloved pastor is leaving our church. We will miss him and his lovely wife very much! We have grown to love them a lot in the last 2 1/2 years at our church. They have been a blessing to us.

I know that they are doing what they feel God is leading them to do and I understand that being a Preachers granddaughter. I Know that when a man of God is called to do something he needs to do it. We will be praying that God will make it clear to them what He wants for their lives.

As for our church We need to pull together and find the right man God has prepared! I know this process will not be easy because we all Love John and Mary but We have to accept this new opportunity and move on to bigger things.

God Speed to you both! We will miss you and keep you in our prayers!

MADNESS!

I think there comes a time in our lives when we have to stand up for ourselves! I am speaking from experience here ( or lack thereof).
I know that as a married woman I should be able to express my self when it comes to telling certain people to mind their own business and stay out of mine. I just really have trouble doing that with ONE certain person.

I don't know why I let her get to me but I do . I have even been told that I am putting her feelings over that of my spouse. I really don't know what to do. I don't want to make him feel like I don't love him or value him! I don't want him to feel like I "take her side" on everything. They get into dumb fights and I try to stay out of it.
Like tonight, she came over and brought the man she has been talking to on the phone, whom she met on the internet, knowing that Ernie didn't want him to know anything about us. She didn't call and ask us if it were okay she just brought him over. No wait she did call and say she was coming over but she DID NOT tell me anything about this man!

It didn't really bother me, I guess because I have excepted that she will never change. But it really, really , really, bothers Ernie. I don't know what to do. She doesn't take anything serious! She makes everything sound like a joke. I am so tired of the laughing at everything. I don't know how to tell her that she is driving a wedge between my husband and me. I don't want to lose either my husband or her but I can't choose. At least I don't feel like I should have to. I feel like it will one day come down to that. He is going to tell me "it's me or her" and I know I couldn't handle that!
I really don't know what to do! I guess I just need to be in some serious prayer about this. After all She is a very important person in my life and he is my husband. I LOVE them both, just differently. I am quickly loosing respect for her, and afraid of him. Well not like physically afraid, just afraid that he will get fed up and will tell her to get lost and I'll loose her and loose his respect and love.

I don't know!!!!!!!! I just know it is night's like this that I DON'T SLEEP!

The Wonderful Mind of a Child

I was out running errands today( which by-the-way, gas is $3.19 per gallon) when suddenly S. starts yelling "Ernie, Ernie, Stop and see Ernie"
I was like "S what are you talking about?" " Look, it's Ernie gotta Stop and see Ernie!" So i looked to the left and that's when I saw the Borden Truck!
I hadn't even thought she might associate the Borden TRUCK with the fact that Ernie drives one. We have picked him up several times and even went to another town to meet him for lunch but it never even occured to me that S and M would think about that Truck .
Then we went to McDonalds and I put M in the high chair and S wanted to push her. So I told her to take sister to our usual table. Lo and Behold S took little sister M to the EXACT table we sat at the last time we were in that store! And it has been over 2 weeks since we've been anywhere near a McDonalds much less that store.
Isn't it amazing how well they remember things? She just amazes me!
I mean I know that when a child is little it is the best time to teach them things that require memory but I guess I have never had such a great display in one day!
So we are off again in a few minutes to take Elise to her first Therapy appointment. I am hoping things go well and the girls behave themselves.
I have told S what I expect from her in the past as far as behavior goes and she always complies so I'm praying this time will be a repeat.

New Orleans

I would like to share a prayer for the people in New Orleans and ALL the hurricane victims.

Father God in Heaven,

Please in the name of Jesus watch over these people who are stranded with out food and water. Deliever a miracle to them Lord. They need you now more than ever. Even those of them who don't choose to know them. Father only you can move the people of America to help these people! Father I pray for protection for the innocent. Lord there are babies there that are starving to death. Jesus I ask that you will put angels around each and every child and protect them and allow them some bit of comfort. God I know that things happen for a reason and God even though we do not yet know the reason I pray that this terrible disaster will bring us as American's and as humans closer to you. That it will bring us together as a nation and that we would rush to the aid of the vicitms of Katrina.

In the Name of Jesus I pray these things.

~AMEN~

Aid for Katrina Victims!

I Listen to our local Christian Radio Station every morning. This morning the "morning show" hosts were talking about the gas prices in the city reaching $2.99 a gallon. One guy says "I'm thinking about riding my bike to work tomorrow." Suddenly the other one is making plans for him to ride his bike to work and they have a woman who calls in and pledges $200.00 to the Red Cross to aid Katrina victims for his ride. Then there is an out pouring of calls and pledges. So Tomorrow Morning at 7am Mike K. From KXOJ here in Tulsa will ride his bike 6 miles to work and broadcast live on the air his journey. *** A man just called in a pledged $50 for the ride and $100 if he would drink coffee during his ride. His reasoning was you can't have a morning commute with out coffee.***

This radio station is amazing! They are always doing something to help the comunity and make life better for others.
Well I've got to take Elise to school so I'll post later!

A Very Funny Joke!

Should Children Witness Childbirth?

Due to a power outage, only one paramedic responded to the call.

The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Katelyn, a 3-year-old girl, to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby.

Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked.

Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while Connor was born.

The paramedic lifted him by his little feet and spanked

him on his bottom.

Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for her helpand asked the wide-eyed 3-year old what she thought about what she had just witnessed.

Katelyn quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place, smack his butt again."