what a week!

Greetings! I have not blogged in a while, due to a serious migraine and just general busy-ness.
i missed work thursday my head hurt so bad, and i have had a chronic headache for about a week.
Bob wants me to go to the doc, but i think (hope) it's period related. i'm due to start pretty soon. at least that's what my boobies are telling me *grin*

Let's see.....what's been going on.....well, we are broke. but that's nothing unusual. bob has really been stressing the money issue, maybe getting a part time job. at least until Christmas. My feelings about our finances kind of ebb and flow. (is that the correct term???) i get stressed sometimes (like if i can't pay bills!) but for the most part i know God will take care of us.

I am trying to talk Bob into letting me change our food-diets, but he doesn't seem too receptive. I want to get rid of all the processed food we all eat, cut out sugar, caffeine, etc. i may have to just eat one way, and let them eat another. i get so freaked out over red meat, cholesterol etc! my mom's side of the fam has had so many health/heart probs, and my mom herself has had 2 heart attacks and bypass surgery. i don't want to end up like that! found out yesterday that my dad is starting to run again. i'm hoping he will run with me every once in a while; i get so bored on my treadmill and i don't like to run outside by myself. (i'm a chicken!)

Last weekend we went to Bob's sister's church for her and her childrens' baptisms. she goes to a lutheran church, and when we took communion they used real wine. i wasn't expecting it, and almost spit it back out! my face got real hot after also. fyi, bob and i are recovering alcoholics, so if we had known we prob. wouldn't have taken it. it didn't send us off the wagon or anything, but i think you can't be too careful.

we got to attend our church yesterday. i was so glad! i had missed it when we were at the other church. they don't worship the way we were used to, and the message was hard to relate to; they really just read out of the bible only. I LOVE our church. i always feel so uplifted and blessed afterwards. we also started our life group last night. our new pastor has intstituted these groups to delve deeper into the sermons, and also so we can meet in a small group and get to know people better. i really liked being able to get to know others and to share some of my own stories. i think bob was a little put off, (the leader of the group knows him, has been through a lot with us and kept "picking" on bob lol) the other people in the group seem very old testament knowledgable and bob is a relatively knew believer. i think it will be good for him; and everybody always likes him.

saturday was exhausting; i had 8 dogs to groom. that's really not an exceptional amount or anything, but the dogs i did were a struggle! behaviour issues, and fleas! i didn't get done till 2:30, and i am usually done around 1. then i get home, and the house is soooo messy. bob and gabby hadn't done anything all day, knowing we were going to have company. bob and his brother jake were going hunting, leaving jake's wife and 4 kids at my house. so i came home, cleaned a little, took a shower and headed to the store to get dinner cuz we had NOTHING. now, bob had been to the store the day before, but failed to pick anything up for sat. and this really annoyed me. *sigh* then i came home, cooked for all 10 of us. (i need to mention that their 2 boys are a little on the bratty side. ugh)
then bob calles around 7, he's in a crappy mood cuz he got a deer but lost it while tracking it. yells at me for not answering the phone the first time he called (excuse me, but i have 6 kids in my house, get over it) and that i made hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner. he eventually got over his mood, and us 4 adults played 5 hands of euchre and had a good time. i also need to mention that the men usually beat the crap out of us at the game, but Nikki and I won 2 of them, woohoo!!!
Gabby really showed her butt this weekend too. i don't want to seem like i complain about her all the time, so i won't go into it. but sometimes i wanna smack the crap outta her.

this week i am working an extra day to make up for missing thurs. it sucks lol. i love my days off! the kids at school, and bob at work, me by myself getting to do whatever i want. kinda-i still have to clean and stuff :-)

wow, this ended up longer than i thought it would. mmm....i also want to copy a prayer from Bob Greene's Best Life Diet book that Oprah put in her forward. i think it's a beautiful prayer:



Dear God,

I give this day to You.
May my mind stay centered on the things of spirit.
May i not be tempted to stray from love.
As I begin this day, I open to receive You.
Please enter where You already abide.
May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.
May i see the love and innocence in all mankind, behind the masks we all wear and the illusions of this worldly plane.
I surrender to You my doings this day.
I ask only that they serve You and the healing of the world.
May I bring Your love and goodness with me, to give unto others wherever i go.
Make me the person You would have me be.
Direct my footsteps, and show me what You would have me do.
Make the world a safer, more beautiful place.
Bless all Your creatures.
Heal us all, and use me, dear Lord, that i might know the joy of being used by You.
Amen.

OH!!! i published this without telling you about the missions dinner!!! we went to a dinner at church last week. the speaker was marilyn Lazlo, and she was great! she lived for 28 years in Papua New Guinea. her story was amazing, and we got 3 of her videos. basically her and another woman went there to an isolated tribe, not knowing the language, and lived with them. they learned the language, and gave the tribe a written language. then the translated the bible into that language for them. the trials, and culture differences were astounding. you should look her up online; very good story!!! it really made me think, do i still want to do mission work? she had to live in a hut, with snakes and cockroaches and rats; malaria was very prevalent there; they had no doctors etc. the stuff those people ate was disgusting looking-like snot! but i am pretty sure i still would like to do mission work. but nothing like that, at least until my kids are older!

have a great week :-)