This week has been a trip! And not to anywhere I wanted to go! We had a fiasco with our dd(22). She is currently living with her bf (and yes she was taught that God doesn't approve therefore we can't either) anyway... Her BF put on FB that he was fixin' to get married again and put her name as it would be if they were married. Yep. I reacted. Actually I put out a plea for prayer over the situation. And then she reacted. And he made sure to declare us hypocrites...again. It's his fave word for my husband and I. Often with GD in front of it. This man is violent. She fled once out of fear and frustration. Then went back the next day. He's an alcholic , has had several DUIs and now she's drinking with him. She has chosen all the family curses we prayed so hard against. We are heart broken. So here we are with an even further damaged relationship to our dd. I sure have cried a lot of tears over this girl. And she's so clueless and so absorbed in her lifestyle of sin she doesn't want a clue. Sigh. Now today I was out in the garden and piddling around with my plants when this horrible scream broke the quiet serene birdsong . Turns out my Blueheeler was trying to kill my chihuahua. (Never can spell that!) My DH had come up with a tie up to keep the little guy in the pen while we are working out there(he's quite the escape artist) But he stretched out his run and got in the shed to see what the min-pin was after (it's a chipmunk) but his runner got tangled on a maddox in the shed and spun it around which made it hit the Heeler in the leg. He must have thought that he had gotten bit. It is bleeding! But he slung the little guy around and had him pinned by the throat. Man, it happened so fast! I was able to get to them before it became fatal. Praise God ! (Cause I'd have lost 2 dogs in one day!) My ds did run out to help. With a gun (of course) Between my screams and the dogs screams all he knew was someone was in trouble! He was doing school work in the house, Poor guy must have thought that someone was trying to steal his mama! LOL....yea....NOT! Sure looking forward to a better new week!

I haven't been able to change the design of my header but I did not have to enlist kid-help to get the blog name swapped over! Lol. DH is home for a nice 3 DAY weekend! Yay! We do have a lot to try to get done though. I would love for him to get some ground tilled. He wants to go order glasses (he's worn only contacts for about 10 years!) We have partting to go participate in to honor some young friends who are getting married on our anniversary. Yay! They are doing their best to do it Gods way. Love that! There is a bachelorette party at a painting studio....perhaps I can post a picture of what I create....if it isn't too hideous! Have a good weekend y'all!

May first! Yay! I am so excited about our anniversary this year. 22 years with my love. God has done amazing things! When we married we were both lost and sinful and selfish. I was only 19with a wild side that won out more times than not. Ppm placed bets on how long our marriage would last. The most generous estimate given was 6 months. Really. We made a lot of mistakes.we hurt eachother alot.somewhere around year 8 9r 9 we were headed for divorcement. But God...that bears repeating ....BUT GOD...God stepped in. Through an inexplicable series of events I came to know Christ as Savior. I gave my life to Him and He truly made me all new. With in a few month my hubby came to recommit his life to the Lord. I will say it hasn't always been easy BUT GOD has made it so worth it...to God be the glory!

Name Change

So...I completely missed March! These last few months have been a blur!(Just a lot going on , just like everybody else!) Tonight I decided to change the name of this blog to "good home". There's a couple of reasons for this. One. I was loooking at a magazine and the title caught my eye. It's called Better homes and Gardens and I had this errant thought that to be on my coffee table it should be some thing like "good home and uninspiring gardens" Good playing on the old Good , Better , Best thing. And then also alluding to the fact we have 6 pets 4 of which "just needed a good home" LOL! Yep! Change is in the air. I am adding and taking away things in the house and my wardrobe. I have begun having that purging twitch. It is a needed thing for me. I have piles of stuff everywhere! Even pile that are supposed to be leaving! I had a huge e-bay pile ... but I am concidering renaming it the goodwill pile. It's really just gotta go! Sigh. I have 2 boxes downstairs that I have no idea what's in them and just tonight realized there's an anonamous box in the hallway too. Now just praying for the gumption to get them looked at and gone! Gumption translates to "get off your butt and do it". (In case you were wondering) Not everyone speaks Southern , sad , but true! Now to go see if I can figure out how to edit the blog name! Might have to enlist a kid to help....sigh....41 isn't THAT old ! LOL

past Valentines....

I missed NewYears and Valentines entirely! You see we moved our main computer up to our newly created office.My mom has had my laptop to help ease her recovery (bubble buster seems almost as good as a nerve pill for her!) I got an awesome Kindle for Christmas and it didn't occur to me until TODAY that I could use this device to blog! SWEET! I am thrilled!
SO.....you might be seeing a lot more of me around here....and less of me too...since I am trying to lose some poundage. LOL
Well,happy (almost) St.Patrick's Day. Just in case I don't make it back here before the...but I. Bet I will now! Yay!

Christmas!

Christmas was good. Not amazing , but good is good! LOL
I was thankful to have both my parents , so many don't have that! My mom is getting stronger (and antsy). It was the Princesses BFs first Christmas with us . Well , time will tell on that one. They seem to fuss alot ! But they also both seem to thrive one it : drives me crazy.
I got a Kindle ...which I am thrilled with ! It is just the basic model but I have already read my first book on it . It is easy on the eyes . I could make the font as big as I wanted. And holding it sideways made it really feel similar to holding a book. So far I have only put free books on it , but I did also get a $50 gift card to buy books with . :-) I need a cover for it and am considering making one. I found several good tutes on-line for free.
We went with a very non-traditional lasagna for Christmas dinner. I did make homemade rolls to fancy it up a bit . Had salad and lots of cookies ! Yea,it's a delicate balance.LOL
I do leave my decorations up until after the first of the year. My walking partner said she began dismantling the decorations as the last guest left ! LOL Different strokes I guess.
More soon y'all , I hope !

oh dear...

I have a really good reason why it has been almost 3 months since I posted! In around Oct. my mom got this crazy night vision. It was my brother telling her he's fine (passed away 2 years ago) and she needs to quit worrying about him and take care of herself. My mom testified to this in SS. She said she had cried every single day since he died. But since then she had not been teary. Not that she stopped missing him or anything it was just like a big weight lifted off her.
Then in just a couple weeks she developed a sinus infection,that went into bronchitis. That further developed into pneumonia. 4 antibiotics and a month later she went for a follow-up x-ray to make sure the pneumonia had cleared all the way. And there was a spot that had not gone away,and it was strangely up high in her lung  up by her shoulder. The doctor ordered a CT scan, then sent her to a lung specialist, who eventually sent her for a PET scan. Which did indeed show activity. 2 Biopsies later it was confirmed that she had lung cancer. Just a small tumor , the size of a golf ball.
The Monday after Thanksgiving she had major surgery. They removed 20% of her rt lung. And from there until now , it has been a journey! She is getting stronger everyday and I am so glad i can be there to help most of the time.
Anyway.....I really came on here to share this crazy recipe I made. I was reading The Pioneer Woman's blog and I ran across this recipe for Indian fry bread. It looked so good I wanted it RIGHT NOW! So I set about making some. Then I decided I was going to have to improvise the whole Fry bread taco idea to make due with what I had on hand (how pioneer of me , don't ya think!) Well I ended up with ground beef , taco seasoning, frozen spinach and canned diced tomatoes.Made the fry bread, covered it in my concoction, then smothered it in shredded cheese.....YUMMMMMMMMMM......
Poor hubby wasn't here to enjoy it, that's a great excuse reason to make it again SOON !
So.....next post....Christmas ! See ya'll soon !