tis the season..............

it is quiet in the house as the girls are sound a sleep. today was a good and busy day. the girls had pratice at church for their play at church tomorrow, so i dropped them off at ten this morning and picked them up at four.

it was nice to have some time to get some christmas shopping done by myself. you know it is funny i have all these stores up here to shop in and i find myself going to the same old places. i needed a new pair of jeans because i can only fit into two of the pair i have, so where do i end up buying the new pair, target.

isn't that funny. however, i do love kolh's. that has become one of our favorite stores. anyway, i finished the girls stuff. i always save the best for last. my favorite part of buying for the girls is their stockings. i love buying things for their stockings. it is so much fun. i always try to put things in their that i know will delight them. it is so delightful.

i also found david this very nice casual fossil watch. its face is very unique. i hope he will like it. you can't imagine the lines up here. it is crazy. but it is also fun.

we have settled into a church finally. God is so amazing, but He is forever surprizing me. i would try to explain it, but i don't think i would do a very good job. i am praying that God connect me to some people, when ever He is ready. the girls really enjoy the childrens church. we are beginning to actually have conversations beyond the nice pleasentries. that is nice. it is very slow building relationships here. people are friendly, but that is about it. they seem to always have their arms extended so as not to get close. but maybe that is just me. i am praying that God help me be what they need.

it is so nice having david home during the week. he typically leaves on friday and gets back on sunday. sometimes he leaves on saturday and gets home on monday, but that doesn't happen very often.

we are gong to have our own little family christmas on the tuesday before christmas. we are going to have it just the four of us. i am excited about it. we are going to have it on tuesday and then go see a movie after the girls take a break playing with their toys. we are also going to eat somewhere that day.

then we will go home on wednesday for christmas. that way david will have a night home before he has to drive back for work on friday. but at least he will be home for christmas.

we have one more week before we get out for the holidays. i am so excited.

it is hard to believe that i have completed half a year here. wow.

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our house is decorated so pretty. i am really enjoying being in our new house.

My Wonderful Life.................................

My richest blessings

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggidy Jog...

* there is no place like home. there is no place like home. there is no place like home. i am so excited to be home. we came home on friday. had our pictures made by the ever so talented, jw. she is so talented. i can't wait to get the pictures. i will post some pictures later when we get them.

* we went to our home church on Sunday, and even though our favorite pastor was not preaching, it WAS SO GOOD TO BE AT OUR CHURCH. to hear our music, to be with my church family. i was so blessed. we then went to have lunch with our peeps. THAT WAS AWESOME.

* one of my peeps is leaving and i am so happy for them, but so terribly sad for me. however, i have never just let a friendship die, and this one won't either. even if i hae to travel to the ends of the earth for it. friends, true friends are too hard to come by, to just let them fall by the wayside.

* i have never been to that part of the country, so it will be an adventure to DRIVE TO IT. my peeps will understand the significance of that statement. they will definitely have to help me get there. hopefully i won't have to go through a.


* well i am so happy to be with my family. we have visited, eaten out, going to a movie. what a great time we have had. it has been so much fun. we are going to have such a great time this week. hey my hubby got a deer. i am so happy for him.

* tomorrow i am going to see my friends in miles. my great teacher friends, who i miss so much. the girls are so excited to see their friends.

* turkey day is coming soon. it will be so good. all of the wonderful food and family. tomorrow i am going to my sisters to cook. we always do that. cook the night before thanksgiving. we have been doing that for years. i make my pecan pies and she makes her cherry-o creme pie. she also asked us to make home made chocolate chip cookies. i love to make those. we have so much fun. there is nothing like my mothers dressing. she is such a good cook.

* what a blessed woman i am. i am sitting in my mother's house eating breakfast with my family looking at my beautiful daughters and feeling so much love inside for them. my hubby is with me and i have come to realize how precious our time together is. we are an incredibly blessed family. my oldest daughter is serving us. what a sweet young lady she is.


* HAVE A VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING. oh by the way i am making my blog un-private. what is the fun of having a blog if none of the people i love and care about can't share my life.

A Canopy of Love........................

Jesus reminded this weekend that HE is my covering. He not only reminded me, He took the time to literally show me with an amazingly beautiful canopy of trees. It was a magnificent display of love towards me. The tree were so beautiful. As i stood under the canopy of trees, God reminded me that there is nowhere that His arms do not reach. That there is no place I can't feel His arms holding me.

I stood under these trees looking up at amazement of His love. Looking up at the branches that stretch far and wide, I was reminded that Jesus had always been with me, will always be with me and that He is as close as the mention of His name.

The colors were spectacular. The trees with their painted leaves beckoned me to spend time with my heavenly father out in nature. As I sat in the stillness of the outside, the wind would create a musical with the leaves that were falling from the trees. Just as Jesus would whisper love to me , the leaves would sing their special melody.

It was a magical time. I so enjoyed seeing my church family. I so enjoyed just sitting beneath the trees. I so enjoyed sitting outside with my friends and eating lunch woth them. What a blessed time it was. This weekend was about rest for me. Just sitting and resting. I so needed this.

Thank you for your covering Jesus. Thank You that You see tomorrow. Thank You for setting my feet on solid ground, even when I don't recognize it. I am such a blessed daughter of the King.


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the sun is coming up over the horizon.........

well it has been a difficult adjustment, but i feel like i am beginning to see the sun over the horizon. week is getting better. not only has this been a test of endurance, but a lesson in computer skills. i have gain more computer skills in the three months that i have been at this school, but more than i have ever had in 42 years of life.

i was so focused on helping my girls adjust, that i TOTALLY underestimated the change for me. i never thought for a second, that a different school was require such change. i have felt all of the feelings of loneliness, left out in the desert, elation, fear, dred, and so many other emotions.

i knew there would be a difference between city kids and country kids, but i never dreamed such a difference. wow has it been a challenge. but i do feel like my class is beginning to come together. it does make me feel better that my principal, comes to us on a regular basis to sympathize about how difficult our classes are. it makes us feellike it is just not us.

we had a kid on friday get caught stealing from another students desk. it is our policy that wehn we sign a kids folder, they have to call their parents. a bit extreme don't you think? but these parents want to be super informed. well so the kid call his parent and the mother asks for the teacher to be put on the phone, the mother proceeds to gripe out the teacher!!!!!!

she sayes how do you know what happened, did you see it exactly? how do you know it wasn't his? my partner proceeds to tell her that she saw him. the mother is so mad that she had her son call home, she called to assistant principal. can you believe that??? of course our ap supported her. did i mentioned the parents are harder to deal with than the kids are?


but it is getting better.

did i mention, we found a church. yea..... it is such a wonderful GOD ordained occurance. my girls love it. there are actually kids in the childrens church that go to school with my girls.. it is such a down home tender feeling, real people church. it is not much to look at, but God looks to the inside of a man, so i decided to do the same. we meet in a storefront building. in this church there are such real people.

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND A CHURCH, WHEN YOU MEASURE EVERYTHING UP TO PERFECTION? WE LEFT NOT ONLY A CHURCH, BUT A FAMILY THAT WE WERE APART OF FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS. IT IS A PARALYZING FEAT.
I AM NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE ONE DAY OUR FRIENDS MIGHT STUMBLE ON TO MY BLOG THAT HASN'T BEEN UPDATED IN MORE THAN A MONTH.

WE LEFT A FAMILY. OUR FAMILY. OUR HOME. OUR HEART. these people will never measure up to our home church, but it is sure is nice to know that there are a few west texans up here. but God is faithful.

so for now, the sun is beginning to shine.

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TOO TIRED TO BLOG............

maybe toward the end of the year I will get caught up. oh by the way all I do is work. so you are really not missing anything.

YEA!!!!!! I'M COMING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tomorrow after school, well actually, around 2:30, we are leaving school to come home!!!!!!! i so need to see my family and sisters. i have missed them so. it is not going to be a working weekend. yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we are going to celebrate mine and amy's birthday.and i get to see my new grand nephew. yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know this sounds crazy, but i am actually looking forward to sitting for 5 hours. it has been sooooooooooooo hectic and busy up here at my new job, i am looking forward to just sitting and listening to good music. my feet have really been hurting me, because i stand so much and have put on so much weight, it feel great to sit.

on saturday, my precious dear friends are going to meet up with me for breakfast. i can't wait to see them. it will be so much fun. i am so blessed to have these friends.

so i am so excited. i am adjusting, but i miss my home!!!!

this last monday, i went out for the second time with the ladies from the new church up here. it was alot of fun. sometimes i am so tired, that i have to force myself to go out during the week. but i went, and had a great time. i had about twenty women just laughing, when i was telling my story anbout truong to find the restaurant that night. nothing like a country bumpkin, trying to find her way around the big city. it was quite comical.

oh and also we find out tomorrow if hannah makes the all city choir. i hope she does. she sure does want to.

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