Good Monday Morning

Did I mention that I have this week off? whaooo....I think we may have decided to go forward with plans to have Thanksgiving here maybe...lol...where's that indecisive blinkie when I need it!!....I'll still need to watch the weather because there is a chance of rain/snow on Thursday...and that would not be fabulous if the roof still leaks....I can deal with the house not looking cosmetically at its best...but if the wall fountain started to flow and the ceiling caved in...that would be awful....but it would make for a really funny story years from now...right? lol....I think that husband and I are being too uptight about this...but it's normal....woldn't you be? lol

well speaking of good holiday stories....our preacher told a copule of doozies yesterday...he is just a funny sweet man....I really like him....anyway....a bunch of them went to Gatlinburg over the weekend and it sounds like they had a hoot...I probably would have signed up to go, but I knew it was the weekend of husband's families' Thanksgiving and we both really look forward to that...anyway...the stories...

The first one he told, they ate a Cracker Barrell and there was an old fellow that he got to talking too....he was really down and Preacher P asked him what was wrong...the guy said well his grandmother died last week....and Preacher P said he was sorry to hear that...how old was she? The man said 105....Preacher P said well thank the good Lord that she had so many happy years here on earth...the man said, yeah he was thankful for that...he said he was also thankful for another thing...Preacher P asked what that was....the man said...well they were able to save the baby....

now that joke is sort of a thinker...so not a lot of people laughed...and I don't find it entirely hilarious...but when he told it he got so tickled it was funny....he said he told that joke to the people in the van about a hundred times and didn't get much laughs from them either...lol....

so then he told this story....a father and mother living in Arizona had two grown children and the son lived in Chicago and the daughter lived in New York, with the respective families...well one year, the day before Thanksgiving, the father called up the son and said son...I know this is awful news the day before Thanksgiving but I've had it...after 40 years of being married to your mother I can't talke it anymore. We are getting divorced...I"m tired of being miserable, we're going to go file today....and another thing I'm tired of talking about this so I'm leaving it up to you to call your sister and tell her....the son was devastated but immediately called his sister to tell her the horrible news....the sister was irrate...she said no they are not getting a divorce...I'm going to take care of this right now!! So the daughter calls the father and screams at him...you are not getting divorced...over my dead body...don't do a thing until I get there...me and my family will be on the next flight out and I'm calling my brother and his family...and we're going to have a family meeting to talk about this....aftert he father hangs up the phone...he turns to his wife and says.......well honey that settles it...the kids and thier families will all be here for Thanksgiving....hehehehe

after Preacher P told that story...he got big laughs and we even clapped...then....he tried to tell the other story again...he is goofy....

but the best part of the sermon yesterday was...well I don't know if you've gathered or not...because I've been journaling here there and everywhere...but just for recap....last weekend it was settled that we'd have Thanksgiving here...I was sooooo excited....then Monday we had like six inches of rain and a wall downstairs is ruined because it suddenly became a fountain...and we discovered that the leak in the yellow bedroom has not been fixed for sometime...so we're doing all sorts of scrambling to fix those....meanwhile we have tornadic like weather on Tuesday...more rain....more water coming in....then....last weekend in anticipation of having Thanksgiving I ran the self-clean cycle on the oven....and we didn't discover until Thursday that the oven no longer worked....aghhhhH!!! Friday night I had total melt down....I was blubbering and crying uncontrollably and I even said that nobody cares about us...we're just muddling along all by ourselves...why is this happening to us...ya know...all the things you say and think when things just seem to be going so terribly terribly wrong...so, I"m sitting in church yesterday...going through the motions....and the put the scripture on the screen that Preacher P was preaching from...tears immediately came to my eyes and I leaned over and told husband...if this sermon wsn't meant straight for us, I don't know who it's for....the scripture..."Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice" and that passage goes on to talk about dwelling on good things, lovely things....his sermon was about looking at the things that we have to be thankful for rather than the negative...the good always outweighs the bad...it was a wonderful Thanksgiving sermon...but it was soo totally appropo for us at this time...my toes totally got stepped on...because when things go bad I really do think of all the negative thoughts...and that's what I did Friday night and why I was so upset....I know that we are loved...people love us...but most importantly GOD loves us...and His hand is on us even in the midst of bad goings on...the water leaks are bad...but it could have ruined carpet and furniture and it didn't...it's all fixable...and thank you Jesus...He is making a way for us to be on the way to fixing it....

so that was church....it was very uplifting...God met me there and spoke to my heart...that's a precious gift....also a teenager was baptized....hallelujah!!

so then on the way home...there is a primitve arts store on the other end of our road....kinda out in the middle of nowhere...I knew they were having an open house, so I told husband that he got the privaledge of stopping there with me! lol...and he did....we went in...I want one of everything! lol...but we got to talking to the owner and they know tha Amish in our area pretty well...we found out that there are currently ten Amish families in our area right now...and growing...they are out of Indiana...but are apparently marry in to some of the Ohio Amish...but it is a growing community...I"m fascinated by the Amish...but husband is FASCINATED by the Amish...he is so funny...anyway, the lady mentioned that you can hire them...and so husband is going to go visit them tonight and ask them about helping to put our new roof on...how cool is that?!! I also bought some of thier baked goods for our Thanksgiving dinner...yum....I had to try the bread already though...it is so delicious! I am going to have to remember that I can go up there and buy that....

well...I've journaled enough....I need to get some stuff done around here....I've been experimenting with this journal site...and I think I'm digging it....change is always hard lol...it would be nice to be able to reteieve past journals off of moj...but I guess those memories will have to stay in our hearts and our heads...lol...guess that this shows the importance of still keeping a paper journal...

well toodles....