Piddledeedoo

"Operation Zip tie"

2010-06-02T09:13:00.003-06:00

I'm a lifetime member of the chub club. I've fought and given up. I've settled and I've come to terms, but always thinking about what life could be if I was just a member of "life".

So I took a chance on me and the rest of my life and had gastric banding surgery.
I started the process in January and May 28th I had surgery. I'm recovering at home with a day left of the school year, and whole lot of ambitious ideas and thoughts for the future.

God's grace and mercy never cease to amaze me. When I wasn't sure he nudged me along, and allowed everything to go well and is so good to me. I'm looking forward to living a new life.

Exhale!!

2009-11-14T12:58:00.006-07:00

So I discover mouse doo-doo last night.
DECON to the rescue. I set up the decon with some cheese and when I get up this morning bamo the cheese is gone and hopefully we won't have anymore issue.

*YUCK*

So I bust out the bleach and through down with some seirous deep cleaning.
I even pull every kitchen drawer out and scrub-a-dubba, that's when I find a momma mouse and her walmart sack full of babies. Good times

SOOOOO I wrangle the babies into another bag and decide that I should move the decon to this area since I thought the chances of momma coming to look for her babies there was pretty high. I strategically place some laughing cow cheese in the middle and slowly easy it into the drawer-less area. I end up dropping the tiny poison box in the area I had hoped to place it. I flip the box over and some is spilled and some isn't but I decide the sprinkled bits won't ever be touched by anyone but the darling mouse that I'm after in the first place.

I realize that the wiggling bag of mouse babies needs to be tended to and I run to my bedroom closet to get my shoes. When I return to the kitchen my baby boy Pete is inside the drawer-less area EATING THE FREAKING DECON. After I scream and get his attention, and he's licking his chops.
I look to see the damage. a small area where he had been licking, not to big, but the terror and understanding that I had walked off and let Pete lap up DECON was slapping my in the face. Called my vet and they said bring him in. Two jugs of peroxide and five minutes later he threw up all the way to his toes.

My poor baby. Pete and his grateful mom are at home now well and recovering.

Thank You Lockwood Vet team.
Be Well
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Sing your Praise to the Lord!

2009-03-16T19:52:00.003-06:00

Whenever you sing praises to the Lord, He hears only hears perfect pitch!

Soundz of Spring

2009-03-03T16:38:00.002-07:00

From the moment I stepped outside this morning I could smell the spring coming. It's as if it's a million miles away and yet somehow has sent ahead of it a soft scent of what is to come.

A distinct flavor of newness, moist earth and certain lightness in the air that drifts by you as you move through time rather than the heavy, overhanging cling of winter.

I said aloud to know one but the spring "I smell you spring" and smiled.

In spite of the gray clouds and the 5 minutes of sparse rain, the afternoon glided into perfection. Bright wonderful sunshine. So warm and tender to the skin. For a moment I heard birds, for the first time in months.

Thank You Dear Father in Heaven, you are so so perfect. Another Blessing.

A few of my favorite things...

2009-02-28T14:16:00.004-07:00

White Flowers I buy myself as much as I can.

Saturday quiet time alone with a chick flick and a bottle of Late Harvest Riesling.

Happy Day

2009-02-16T12:28:00.012-07:00

Presidents Day @ The Morgan house means happy babies content that mom is home for the whole day with them.

Life is good-GOD IS GREAT!

Happy Birthday Dad!

2009-02-10T08:33:00.006-07:00

It's hard to believe that you've been gone for 1 year, harder still to believe that today is your birthday and death day combined, but then again that was your way. Your way all the way. I miss you all the time, with every breathe, every thought of you, and every moment still. I miss everything about what we shared together, everything that was just me and you. Thank you dad for all that I got from you, all that you left me with, all the encouragement I still keep with me. Thank you for trying many times as hard as you could. I wish I had tried harder, and more so I wish I had understood how I could have been more of a help to you. I love you so much.

* Bill Murphy Clark

A year ago I could not imagine my life without either of my parents, it was incomprehensible. There was simply no way to wrap my head around it. In a blink of eye my father was gone, and although the pain of having lost him in just a seconds time is severe, I am truly thankful for the love and mercy of GOD that it was quick for him, painless and without the drawn out measure of approaching the end. It was just as he would have wanted it. No more, no less. He always said, "I am what I am." Even though my earthly father has left me, I will always have my heavenly father. How great is GOD that he will never leave me? Love your parents every moment you have!

Be Well A

Parties and painting and teeth oh my!

2009-02-01T07:35:00.000-07:00

The past week has been so busy for me. Finding a quiet and immediate end on Saturday morning where I heard my lungs and mouth meet together for a long and truthful exhale. My little way of letting go of all that I had accomplished, completed and made it through.

I painted the living room. Something I had wanted to do for a long time, but the fact that I was throwing a party on Friday was what got me motivated.

Last Sunday Bub had all his teeth pulled and got his new choppers. Poor baby was all I could think of while I nursed him back to health..... the thing is the better he feels the more naughty he becomes..... go figure. It's time for him to go back to work. *I feel like the lady who chases the mouse around the kitchen with a broom* OUT YOU GO!!! Some of the naughty probably comes from the fact that he is quitting smoking too, but it's naughtiness all the same.

Hosted a little jewelery party on Friday night. I love to party, and even more I love to host parties. I wish I had the space for bigger parties, but I do what I can I hope others enjoy my kind of hospitality.

So it's been busy and it's been new and improved, it's even been delightful. Praise GOD for my home, praise GOD for the ability to get Bubba the medical help he has so needed. Praise GOD for dear friends and the pleasure of their company. Praise GOD for each moment I'm given to sit back and exhale, to marvel at all I have, to be gracious and recount all the details that make up my life.

Be Well
A

Got Jesus?

2009-01-18T17:35:00.000-07:00

What a weekend of renewal.
Renewal of my of heart and mind on Saturday with our church's Women's Day Out.

A great day that began with nervous energy and excitement and ended with a feeling of peace and joy that the day had brought us all. We came, we listened, we ate and we scrapbooked!

Another renewal came at worship service on Sunday~ Seems we are getting a whole church renewal. Renewal of focus that will help us do the work that our Dear Father in Heaven wants us to be doing.

It made me feel good to know that this renewal won't only come in the form of cleaning out closets and making use of certain areas, but it will renew the sedentary worship life that I have seen since I started going to our church. Our church, our congregation and our community will finally receive the attention by leaders and others that they so deserves.

RENEW your spirit, by the Holiest spirit of all. Renew your heart by the one and only true God.

Have you loved your LORD today?

Be Well!
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