JanaBi

That's how "talk to text" writes my dear friend Jana Bacon's name.  I think we met shortly after I arrived in the neighborhood twenty years ago.  I remember her calling my name from her front porch as we were walking around the block.  

Jana's having her fourth brain surgery today to remove a tumor.  It was supposed to begin at 7:30 a.m. and when Russ texted me at 6 p.m., she was still in surgery.  It's been a long, hard day for me and I'm not Jana-having-the-surgery or Russ-in-the-waiting-room.  

I've spent the day "praying without ceasing" and trusting God that He will bring Jana through.
  

Thankful Thursday!

Twenty years after moving into our house, we finally put up new lights!  I AM SO THANKFUL!!!

Gone on the gold bar lights in the bathrooms!  Gone is the gold chandelier with missing glass in the dining room!  Gone is the gold chandelier with the broken glass in the entryway!

I should have taken pictures, but since I didn't, you'll just have to stop by and see the upgrades that have me so thankful this Thursday . . .   

Beware of the Bees

Monday night's storm brought a much needed 4.1 inches of rain along with a lot of downed tree branches.  We noticed neighbor Jill had lost a rather large branch on her apple tree and might appreciate some help cutting it down.  Normally, her husband would have dealt with it, but he went home to Jesus in January.

Sam went up to her house with his chainsaw.  Jill said, "Just put the branches back in the woods."  Little did Jill know that where Sam put the branches were a bunch of honey bees!  Thirteen stings later, he had no reaction beyond burning pain at the sting sites . . . 

At 6:15 a.m. this morning . . .

My friend Laura sent me a text yesterday asking me if I wanted to go swimming with her this morning OUTDOORS at Lifetime.  She'd even pick me up - an offer I could NOT refuse!

It was beautiful swimming outside - watching the clouds, the birds, the other people (Ms. Jiggles!), the sun come out . . . Thank you, Laura, for an amazing swim!

Thankful Thursday!

I was so thankful that when I got home from work yesterday that Matt had ordered us dinner from Cane's.  (Sam and Micah were in Iowa at his dad's.). I did not have to do anything but eat!  Unfortunately, he had ordered it for RIGHT NOW!  So we had dinner at 4:30 p.m. last night because HE was hungry! 

What a wonderful Wednesday!

There were sixteen people in my CPR class this morning so I figured after work this afternoon, I would be staying late to clean sixteen adult manikins, sixteen baby manikins and sixteen face masks, followed by putting new lungs in thirty-two manikins.

Anya and I finished up in the pool at 3:45 and walked back to our classroom to start cleaning manikins only to discover Teija had cleaned them ALL!  We were free to go!  What a wonderful Wednesday!

Toddler.

One of the staff I'm working with this week at ISD 196 is named "Todjer".

I send off a text yesterday to someone regarding Todjer.  His name was autocorrected to "Toddler".  We've been having fun with that ever since . . .