Accident

First of all, if you haven't take a look at my earlier post this morning here.  I was talking about what a wonderful morning it was.  Well just a short time after finishing that post.  I received a call from Kelli who had just left for school.

She said "Mom, I slid off the road."

"Are you alright?"

"Yes"

"Where are you?"

"Just down the road."

"Can I walk there?"

She laughed, "Yes."

Sure enough I walked to the end of the drive and there she was about 2 houses down.  We are the 2nd house on our street and she had slid through the stop sign and over into the ditch.  See what I mean?

So I walked down to check things out and then we came back to the house.  I had to figure out what to do.  Remember hubby was already gone on a hospital visit.  So I called work and told them I'd be late and then called the Sheriff's Office for a report and then finally called AAA for a wrecker.  Of course I did call hubby and get input from him as to what to do too.  We walked back to the car and waited for everyone to show up.

Finally they did, and we got the car towed and the report made and unfortunately a ticket written.  I was sure hoping that wouldn't happen.
After everything was over, we walked home and Tracy came in just a short time later.  We let Kelli stay home from school and we took Kerri in and I went to work.  Got there about 11:00am.  One of my bosses came in later with a Bike Officer's Helmet and gave it to me to take home to Kelli and tell her she needed to start wearing this when she was driving.  As you can see, she was willing to model it, but I think if she sees my boss anytime soon his life won't be worth spit.  lol

Kelli's ok, just a small bump and abraision on her forehead and she had a pretty bad headache this afternoon.  But she's feeling better and we ordered in pizza for supper.  So I think she feels a little pampered and she's recovering nicely.

Mom, on the other hand, is exhausted.   I don't like my kids to have accidents.  But God I know you knew what you were doing this morning when you let me have such a relaxing time, because you knew this was going to happen and if I'd already been rushed, I probably would've gone off the deep end.  Thank you for knowing me and what is going to happen to my family and taking care of us Lord.  As I've said before, you are totally amazing and awesome!!

The Sun is Shining!

We received 2 phone calls this morning telling us both girls' schools would be closed for the day. Yes, that's right. You guessed it. More snow! Yuck. Again, I had to get up and everyone else could stay in bed. I really don't like that. I know I've complained about that before. Anyway, I made it to work safely, with no problems driving. Thank You, Lord.

So, now I'm eating lunch at my desk and I have a window in my office (which I'm so thankful for) and it's beautiful outside now. It's no longer snowing. The sun is shining and the sky is so blue! I love it like this. I don't even mind the snow on the ground or the cold when the sun shines! I don't even mind that I'm at work and everyone else is home. My whole demeanor changes when the sun shines.

I think I need to work on remembering that even when the sun isn't shining, the Son is shining! Then maybe I wouldn't be so moody on a day like this one started out to be.

Thank You Lord for the reminder.

Winter Brrrrr!

I went to work today, but after we got there the City Manager sent out a notice that non-essential employees could go home at their supervisor's discretion (and not be charged holiday or vacation time) because of the Level II (which changed to a Level III before I left) Snow Emergency in our county. My boss, the police chief, felt we were emergency personnel and should stay. Later he said I could leave at noon as long as it stayed quiet. I had hubby come back and pick me up at 1:00 and now I'm home for the day!!! See how good God is! From my previous post you can tell I was working on having the right spirit because the rest got to stay home and I had to work. Then God turned around & blessed me and let me come home early. I just so love God!!

I took a few pictures (about 55) today and thought I'd share a few!

This is our house

This is our street (I think it's so pretty in the snow)

Look at our poor little bird feeder

This is out the side door the police department where I work. That's the fire department across the street. I love this little tree (I can see it from my office window). I don't know what kind of tree it is, but it has little red berries on it, even now with all the ice and snow. I just opened up the side door and stood there an took this picture. Look how hard it's snowing!

Here's the same tree, except I put my coat on and went outside to take it. Yep, still snowing hard and I looked like a snowman when I got back inside.

Stay warm and safe everyone!

Busy Day!

This has been a busy day. We woke up to snow on the ground and a lot of schools in the area on delay, but alas, (sorry girls) not ours. KLS woke up with sinus headache, so got her to eat something & take some medicine and by the time her sister was ready for school (she goes an hour later), she was feeling better and ready to go to school. I dropped them both off and then headed to work.

Work was very busy because there was a major electric outage in the city and believe it or not, everyone in town calls the police department when their electric is out. So we were flooded with calls and I do mean flooded!! Anyway, they finally got it fixed and things got back to normal there.

Then after work, I ran home and picked up hubby and KLS and we went to the school to watch KJS play basketball (by the way they won again). Left there and had to go to the high school to a meeting for KLS's College Life Skills Class. Got a lot of good information here for her future. Only a year and a half to go and she'll be heading off to college (where has the time gone?)

After that, we went out and grabbed a bite of supper and finally got home around 8:30 or so. See what I mean, it's been a busy day!! But it's been a good one! I don't mind busy, if everyone stays in a good frame of mind and that's the way today has been. Even though it's 11:00, I'm going to try to do a lesson from the Esther study and then hit the bed. I'll try to catch up on everyone's blog tomorrow.

Goodnight!

Blessed - That's me!

Finally, I'm feeling better, almost back to normal. Of course, now hubby has the cold. I hate that I passed it on to him, but honest, it wasn't on purpose.

The first day back at work wasn't too bad. There are lots of month end and year end things still to do, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. Thank you Lord for that and for co-workers who kept up on the entry work so now I can do those reports that need to be done! It's so nice to have co-workers that go the extra distance for you and do things they don't have to just to help you out. God has been so good to me and given me good friends at work. Some are christian, some are not, but they are all good people.

Today, I'm just feeling that my life is so blessed. Again, I say thank you Lord!

Today has been a Great Day!

1. I got to sleep in. I got up around 8:00am. While that's not really late, it was when I woke up on my own and not with an alarm clock. That is always good.

2. I spent some time doing a Bible Study about joy and found some really good stuff. I mentioned some of what I found in the previous post.

3. We went to Red Lobster for lunch. I had shrimp and it was really good!

4. My daughter got a lot of books for Christmas this year. One she got was Tilly by Frank Peretti. I had read this book many years ago, but couldn't exactly remember the story. I borrowed it from her this afternoon and read it and it is so good. It's sad and sweet, but most of all it reminds me how much God loves us and He forgives us for the mistakes we make. God is so good and merciful. If you get a chance, read Tilly. It's very short, but very good.

5. Santa brought our family the game of Life for Christmas. We just played and it took us about 2 hours to play. Hubby won (as usual), KLS came in second and KJS and I tied for third place. Oh well, it was fun anyway!!

6. Now I get to blog and read or watch TV or whatever!

Definitely my kind of day. I love this vacation so far!!!

Just the Two of Us

Since yesterday was Columbus Day, I didn't have to work. My husband took the day off too. The girls still had school as they get a fall break this coming weekend. They are off Friday and Monday. Anyway, since it was just the 2 of us we decided to do something a little different than normal.

We took a drive up north to Young's Dairy Farm. This was so much fun. We walked around and looked at the animals and just enjoyed being together. We ate lunch at the "Golden Jersey Inn" which had homestyle cooking. He ate beef and noodles and I had chicken and dumplings. Man were they good. Definitely, good old-fashioned comfort food. We then walked back to the Dairy and had an ice cream. Really good.

After we left there we went to John Bryan State Park and looked around for awhile. We haven't been there for probably ten years. We made plans to go back soon when we have time and are better dressed to go hiking. I can't wait. We used to spend so much time walking there and making plans and dreaming of our future. It was so much fun to be back.

We had to come back early to pick the girls up from school, but it was such a nice few hours with just him and me talking and spending time being together.

Queen Esther

I just finished watching the movie "One Night with the King" with my daughter. I love this movie so much. It's about Queen Esther in the Bible. Esther is one of my favorite books in the Bible, along with Ruth. I just admire both of these women so much. They have such courage and faith.

Esther seems to be popping up in my life a lot right now. I'm currently reading the book "Hadassah" by Tommy Tenney, which the movie is based on. Then my husband talked about Esther in his sermon on Sunday morning, which was about having courage and not fear. Also, our Women's Bible Study Group has been talking about doing Beth Moore's newest Bible Study next spring which is on Esther.

I think maybe there are some things I can learn from her to help in my life.

Homecoming Continued

We went to the parade. Of course when the Junior Powder Puff Team came by KLS was on the opposite side so I couldn't get her picture. But it was fun to watch the parade anyway. Finally we made it through all the traffic to the game. Took awhile to get there, but the game hadn't started yet. The girls looked cute out there playing. Unfortunately, the Seniors won 28-14. But at least it wasn't a total wipe out. KLS did pretty good! Just wish she could have played a little more, but then probably every parent was saying the same thing about their kid. It was a fun night and I'm glad we went. By the way Cathy, if you read this, I saw your son there tonight and tried to get his picture. I haven't downloaded them yet, so I don't know if I got a very good one of him or not.





I just checked and I got one of him that wasn't too bad. I'll e-mail you a copy.

Here's a pic of KLS

It's Wednesday

It's been a good day today already. I finished a book I was reading and I started it's sequel. (it's a series about Homecoming Heroes) I also took KJS out for breakfast and quizzed her for her History test. Seems she knows her stuff and hopefully she'll get a good grade. We had fun at breakfast and then I took her to school and I came to work. Hope the rest of the day goes this well.

My Day

Tuesday's are extremely busy for me right now. I got up this morning and took KJS to school and then I went straight to work. I got off around 5pm and then went to WW and left there and headed to church for Bible Study. I got home around 9:30 tonight. It's been a long day, but it's been a good day.

Bible Study was awesome tonight. I'm facilitating a Women's Bible Study Group at my church. We are doing the Beth Moore Study "Believing God" This is one awesome study. We're learning to actually believe God and not just believe in God. It makes all the difference. If you ever get the chance to participate in this, it is well worth the time and effort.

I've got to end this now and go to bed. Goodnight!