good evening, loved ones!  wanted to check in and say "howdy!" -- also to let y'all know that my hotmail account got hacked, so those weird and "urgent" emails are NOT from me.  i won't be using that account anymore.  will get hooked up with another account one of these days...   seems like i shoot in here and out in just a few minutes now and then, eh?  well, at least i'm not wasting time playing games and snacking.  lol  maybe good for some weight loss?  i can hope. 
rea's at basketball tonight.  they have practice mon, wed and fri.  jen got her transcripts from pnc to take to ivy tech and prayerfully, she'll stay on it and get herself enrolled.  yeah!!!  very proud of her for this and she'll feel better doing it, i'm sure.  baby steps, baby steps. 
as soon as i get the disabilities info from our dept and the schools...i am DONE with the CA!!!  (hallelujah!!)  it's over 120 pages now and a project i'm well satisfied with. so i'm much thankful.
actually, i've been really focused on being/staying thankful.  we all have so very much to stay thankful about and these small, fleeting troubles will soon pass.  the Lord saves us and keeps us.  He does not save us to toss away later (as we humans might do..?).  the nurse at work is down in lafayette with her oldest son - he's been battling cancer - a rare form and not much known about it.  but he's been doing well, tumors started shrinking and he was getting better and we were all praising the Lord for it.  he's not doing well and now has 18 tumors.  praying the Lord's will in this at this point.  so glad she went down to stay with him.  i urged her yesterday to go, so as not to have remorse for not going, kwim?   sadness.  but still we rejoice in our knowing He holds all of our days and has ordained each one of them before it ever came to be!  i think that's in isaiah somewhere?  that's one of those verses i read only once and remember, but for sure can't say where it is!  duh?!?!?
so thankful for each of you here... prayers that all are ok, doing well, staying blessed and with much to be thankful for.... (((((hugsnluvyas, all)))))

luvyas, pika
Peridot Parables (release date May 15, 2006)
ISBN: 1-4241-2691-6