Meet Me In The Garden

Those where the words I heard from the Lord this morning. I am a worrier as hard as I try not to be, I worry. We have bills, who does not, but some are not getting paid off as quickly as needed to be. Medical bills have added up as well and now I am facing surgery, two surgeries to be exact and things are looking worse on the financial end.

A phone call yesterday made some of needs even greater.

Now what? Fret kicked in and upset along with it. Fear banged at my door big time. Sleep was broken and I was up by 3 AM.

Then I heard it.” Didn’t you learn anything?” How soon we forget. God reminded me of how, after my first husband died, I had nothing. No income, no job and needs. I watched Him provide over and over again. No Life insurance, yet HE provided for the funeral and burial of my husband.

When God provided by not giving me a job, not letting me get housing, not letting me stay where I wanted to stay (yes, provided by NOT)  HE took care of me. I had more than I could have imagined and with no full time job was also free to go to see my  daughter several states away. God provided the money to go. Luxuries I could not have provided myself.

HE has promised to supply our needs, not perceived needs, not wants, but our needs.

I know that there have been financial failures with our money. I know that we, like so many, waste money on things we think are needs or are just wants. I know this and this morning confessed my failures.

I am asking for a renewed mind. Renewed in trust and faith and renewed in knowing needs from wants from wishes. Renewed in priorities so that the spending can be in the order God wants and trust HIM to provide for all that is before us right now.

How soon we forget HIS faithfulness.

I do not usually ask for others to help with needs but I am going to ask at this time. Not for me, but for someone I know from a yahoo group.

I say know, but let me explain. She has an embroidery design site as well as a few other groups and I have come to like her and her work. She is not pushy, but offers great bargains if you machine embroider especially.

This last week an email came from her with a tremendous offer for those that machine embroider, almost giving away a bunch of designs.

Her reason?  Here is what she wrote to me:

I am not sure how much information I can give out. I was told that its best never to give out where he is stationed and where he will be deployed to for there protection.

We are a family of 4 trying to get to see him off before he is deployed the end of this summer.
We can not fly because we have an autistic child and a dog being trained to protect him (I am training the dog to search for him  in case he should ever wander off).

So we have to drive which will take a couple days. This will cause a huge financial strain on our family since my husband is the only one that works and we are barely making ends meet.I am hoping to raise money from this sale to get us there to say good bye to him and let him know that we love him and that we support him.

I have not told my son that we are trying to come up with the money to see him off. I am really scared we will not come up with enough and don’t want to let him down. I am really hoping that this sale will get us there.

OK, what do you do with a 3 year old that very definitely needs a nap but is refusing? She is so tired but will not lay still long enough to fall asleep. When her eyes get heavy, she wiggles all over, gets up, runs around the room etc.

After trying many things I finally thought of something I used when one of mine  got that way.  A Kitchen timer.

I set the timer and told her that if she did not lay there I was going to reset it every time I heard her or caught her out of the bed. The first day it was reset a zillion times. She was upset about the resetting but would not stay in bed. This was not working.

Next day, I tried a different approach. I told her if she did not lay still with her eyes closed I would reset it. She did not want me resetting it! So, she stayed there with her eyes closed. Several hours later woke up and stayed in bed waiting for the alarm to go off!! Finally she called me and asked if it was time to get up since it was on the zero but not ringing.  She then asked if she took a nap!

Yesterday, forget it. Nothing worked again, she was not falling for that trick again. The resetting did not phase her, she just wiggled and got up every time she felt she was falling asleep.

No naps and we have a real grump and nasty little girl by the time her mom comes.

Any ideas?

I love to go see Grandchildren perform. I do not live close to most of the grandkids, but this last weekend I had the pleasure, enjoyment, laughs and pride of seeing two of my granddaughters perform in their first dance recital.

Both girls are three years old and leading up to this recital one of them took the whole roll very seriously. I watch her every day and when I had a doctor appointment about 65 miles away my husband took the day off and we spent it in Austin with her.

Hubby likes fabric stores as much as I do so we were having fun going to the stores and looking around. Scout’s mother had sent a cute jumper for her to wear and she looked adorable. One problem was, she would not keep it down but kept pulling it up over her head. After the umpteenth time of telling her to keep her dress down I finally said “put your dress down. It is not the proper thing to be walking around with your dress over your head and your panties sticking out” She obey and pulled it down, ran her hands down it straightening it all out and remarked “It is tough being a princess”. (All this after she was told to not look under the bathroom stalls and watch other people going to the bathroom, to which grammie said “Stop that, young ladies do not peek under the door and look at other people” . Her answer? “Well, I am NOT a young lady”.

Here is the “princess” getting ready for her performance.

Watch both performances below! My Two granddaughters are the 3rd and 2nd from the right.

I have been so overwhelmed with things that my blog writing and reading have gone to the side for some time now. One day I was not feeling well and just sat here at the computer and did some blog reading. One link led to another and then I ended up on a blog named Maggie Makes I love blogs or sites that give tutorials and other info for sewing or embroidery and spent a bit of time hunting through.

I saw this:

Then I see that there is a giveaway! Loved it! Not only that, but if it comes in time I can take it to PA with me when I will .HOPEFULLY.. hint hint dear daughter… be going to a flea market to really make use of it!

If you go to her site you can find a tutorial to make one for yourself. While there, look around she has some really great tutorials for other things as well.

Thank you Maggie Makes!! I can’t wait for it to get here!