Looking forward to next week!

Well I have not blogged for a while, so I thought I should put another entry in my blog. the reason that I am looking forward to next week, is that I volunteer at Rest Haven and next Thursday they are taking the volunteers to Bear Creek for dinner and a concert. I think it will be a lot of fun.

We are required to take a PTO [PaidTime Off] day on Friday so I will have a long weekend, last year if was difficult due  to the first everything without my Mom, but this year I am actually looking forward to it.

On Monday I am having some good friends over for lunch, I need to get busy and decide what I am fixing, I am making carrot cake for dessert, but  have several ideas floating around my head for the meal.

I really enjoy cooking when I have the time, so I am very much looking forward to having my friends here on Monday.

This weekend is kind of busy, on Sat I am volunteering at Rest Haven I will help get patients to the activity of the day, and then after I am going to sit outside with patients that can not sit outside by themselves, they might wander off etc. And the staff is so busy and short handed they don't alway have time to sit outside with the patients that need it, and I really enjoy it. I can't do things for Mom anymore, but I can and do enjoy doing it for the patients at Rest Haven. I also really enjoy seeing the staff, I really got to be friends with  them when Mom was there, so I enjoy catching up with them as well.

Where is the Lord taking me?

There are two possible paths my career could potentially go at this time, neither one will happen quickly, and the Lord has taught me one thing in the last five years, and that is that I must follow my life verse and wait on Him, he knows where we are headed and I for sure do not. I have a plan of where I would like it to go. But......I know the Lord knows best! and so I must just wait and be patient. But.....being patient is really hard for me to do, I am the type of person that wants a plan and to follow the plan to the letter with the expected result. I work with supply Chain users [Inventory systems] and I believe God is a "just in time" type of person, he does not always give us the plan up front, and then execute the plan the way we would like!

I would appreciate everyone's prayers that I will wait on the Lord and not get ahead of Him that would not have good results!

"My Baby"

I forgot to mention "my baby's" name it is Sparky, he sure is a spark in my life! He is a pound puppy, he was one year old when I got him, I had actually went to the pound to see another dog, but the dog I went to see, was wild and out of control, but when I picked up sparky he just clung to me and that was it, he has been "my baby" every since! and he is a real "Mama's Boy"

Some things I enjoy doing

I enjoy doing crafts, working on the computer, helping people understand and use their computers, crocheting, and always learning new things, my boss at work told me I have an an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. That is true I don't  care how old I live to be, I will always want to be learning something new.

Here are some pictures of the baby afghans I have made, I made a lot of them while I was sitting at Rest Haven with Mom, it is very hard for me to just sit and not be doing something! And she slept a lot.

 Below are  some christmas crafts that I have  made from Plastic Canvas:

This is a tissue box, I also made one for a friend that is a school teacher that was a little red school house.

I have also done a lot of Christmas Tree Skirts, I have also made a lot of crocheted Christmas Trees, I will try to get a picture of one and post it on the blog.

Also as you can tell "the baby" was curious about all the picture taking when I took the picture of my aghans!

Begining Thoughts

I had mentioned to a friend at church how much I enjoyed reading the blogs of some ladies at church, and how because of reading their blogs, I felt like I had come to know them so much better, her comment to me was “now you need to start a blog so we can get to know you better.” I don’t have funny stories of my kids to tell as I have no kids, but I do have a four legged Kid, my pooch, whom is such a good companion and gives so much love! The picture below is a picture of “my baby” just after I first had gotten him! But now the light brown is almost all white, he is 9 years old.

When my Mom passed away he handled it pretty good, but Mom lived with us when I first got him, and he would sit by her, and if he wanted something I would not give him because it was not good for him, he would just look up at her like “tell her yes I can have it!” after she first went to Rest Haven he would not eat, and I had to take him to see her, then he started eating again, the same thing happened when she and I were not able to make the transfers from the wheelchair to the car by ourselves and so she was not able to come home on the weekend afternoons.