Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day means so many things to many different people. It is a time to reflect on those who have served our country and fought for our freedom. Today, I remember both of my grandfathers. They are both gone now, but I live in a free land because of what they did for our country. Others are remembering loved ones who lost their lives in the midst of the battle. I am so sorry for those families and want to thank each of them for giving their loved ones permission and blessing to do what needed to be done for our great land. There are others who have loved ones still fighting the fight! Thank you also for your service as the one fighting and serving and the family left behind to carry on the battle of the home front ( which is not easy!!)

On a lighter note....

10 more things you might not know about me :)

1.  I am a student...Studying to become certified as a Medical Biller and Coder. I wish I would have done this years ago when my brain wasn't already atrophied!!!

2.  I used to live in Ohio. That is actually where I graduated from Circleville High School. I attended college there and met Myk there. I got married there and lived there for 15 years. I miss it there sometimes. I love my family there, but have family here too.

3.  My parents were dorm parents in the "Boys Dorm" when we lived at Circleville Bible College. Can you believe they would allow a family with 3 teenage girls to live in the boys dorm??? Me either!! But they did and I grew those few  years feeling like I had 40 big brothers!! Not 40 boyfriends...:(

4.  I have fibromyalgia. I know some of  you are probably rolling your eyes right now....but it's real!!

It is painful and I was told recently by the second rheumatologist that I might as well get used to living in pain and learn how to cope. He suggested that I need to eliminate as much stress as possible so there goes numbers 4, 5 & 6 from yesterday's post and number 1 from today's post!! Really, who can live with no stress? Which is also why he recommended that I might need counseling to learn  how to deal with stress. He said that I seem like a very unhappy person. WHAT!!!???  I AM THE HAPPIEST PERSON I KNOW!!!!

Just maybe I will take his advise. We will see. I am praying about what I need to give up on my part to eliminate stress because it does make the fibromyalgia worse!! 

5.  My St. Bernard has hurt me in more ways than I care to admit!! He broke my foot 1 month before going to Uganda!! He is such a big bully. I have fallen in his slobber!!! He sits on me and hits me with his tail. As I mentioned in number 4....I am in pain and he doesn't believe that fibromyalgia is a true diagnosis!!! But look at this face and tell me that you couldn't love him.

(by the way, Myk added the caption....not me!!!)

6.  I love reading. I love reading Francine Rivers specifically. I actually sponsored her as an author for my local library. I pay for every new book that is published by her so that my library will have a copy! I want everyone to read her books. I get to be the first person to read the newest copy since I pay for it. I am currently reading "Bridge to Haven". So good. Unfortunately, because I am so busy....I have an overdue, brand new library book!!! How embarrassing is that!!??? I had to ask the librarian when she was not at the library to please renew it for me. 

7.  I am reading through the entire Bible this year!! I have tried this in the past but never made it past Genesis or Exodus. My church did a challenge to read through the entire New Testament during lent. I did it!! I loved it. I feel like I know the characters in the Bible personally. So much so that I get  upset and cry when one of them dies or is hurt!!  I decided to get a new Bible because I needed large print.(No wise comments please!) But, because of number 4, once again it takes all of my strength to lift my new Bible!! It is heavy because it is so thick!! It is amazing how the size of the print changes the weight of the Bible!!

8.  I love to do dishes! It is the one household job that you can tell immediately that something was done and the whole room looks better because of it. (well, other than making the bed, which I don't like doing)

9.  I love the flylady. She is an organizing and life coach!! She gives you daily schedules for cleaning and doing things like cleaning out your car and your purse. She also tells you what days to return any borrowed library books!! Myk just asked me the other day, where flylady has been???? Whatevs!! I am looking for her!! 

10.  As I sit at my desk and look around to see what else that is interesting in my life that you might not know, I am reminded how completely blessed I am!! I might not have the best, or most expensive or nicest, or cleanest, or prettiest, or.....well anyway. I am blessed!!! I have more than many people and I recognize that without Christ in my life, none of this matters. All of this stuff....none of it matters if I don't have him!! If you don't have him, please find him. I will introduce you if you would like!! Message me....you won't regret it!!