Friday’s Fave Five

 

Hosted by Susanne

I guess many folks are experiencing these above average temps.  I have to say, I do not like them.  I think they carry viruses and disease. I know I have been  having a wicked sore throat and raspy cough the last couple of days.  Tonight it included a runny nose.   I just remember my granny saying hope we get a hard winter to kill off all the germs.  I started to stay in bed today, but when the bed starts to make me ache all over it is time to get up and move.  I know when I am really ill, like when I had covid, I was in bed for about 3 days and never thought about achy bones!  Anyway, there are things to be thankful for so let’s get started!

On Sunday, Lynn and I got to dine out after church with our dear friends, Gerri and David.  Both of them have had physical issues that have been concerning, but praise God things do have normalized and they are doing quite well, again. We enjoy palling around with them, so much!   

On Monday I was awakened early with a phone call from the young lady who does the Chalk Talk in Lancaster, Pa. I had a phone conversation with her a few months ago about ordering a series of her children’s books about life on an Amish farm.  Our grands had a couple of the books and loved them so much.  Anyway I had left a message on the Chalk Talk phone last week as I was trying to schedule a show for our family with our grands , and the artist herself called me back.  I am so excited that everything we want to do and see is panning out so well.  Also, thankful for google map.  I was able to locate the Amish store where our senior tour bus stopped to purchase warm butter pretzels a few years ago! Soooooo delicious!.   

 I am so grateful for renewed strength and initiative to get some things done that had gotten out of hand.  Firstly, I was able to completely clear out the file drawer in my desk that had gotten horribly stuffed with so much junk!. I mainly just pulled it all out and unless it was vital information, it was trashed!   I love it when I get  in a purging mode. The next day I took the guest room apart. I had clothing from our Christmas trip still stacked on the bed.. well, the cleaned items, and Lynn had been bringing  cleaned and folded items up from the laundry so the bed was basically covered! The other tops of things like the padded chest and end tables were covered with items from our trip.  It all got put away and I reclaimed the guest room once again!

I am so excited with my renewed point of view and strength I have decided to  give  a Valentine Tea. I ran across the darling vintage valentines I printed from online and cut out hearts that I used on my seasonal tree that has been I un decorated since Christmas. I found the valentines in the table drawer where I keep the white snowflakes for the tree. That put me into a valentine mood and I sort of owed a dear friend an invite. She invited us to Thanksgiving dinner.  So I have invited her and her lovely daughters for tea.  I have a total of 6 attending and everyone can come…so now I get the joy of planning food and activities.  I love doing this … I used to do it quite a bit.  This has given me a new leaf on life.. to some degree!🥰

I never want to take things for granted.  I have been taking part in a Wednesday morning Bible Study now for almost 15 years.  We meet at Jim and Nita’s home.  And in the great scheme of things we are all getting older.  But Jim is about 8 years older than us.  Jim is a super athletic guy. Running, swimming, exercising.  But he started having heart issues. Wearing a monitor he noticed his heart rate going extremely low.  When he asked the doctor he was told God was keeping him alive.  That rate was way too low I mean like 12 beats a minute. So he got a pace maker this week… in our prayers for him we cannot help but thank the Lord for keeping him going, but we know all too well, even though Jim is an amazing Bible teacher, we have no guarantee, any of us  of being here next week.  So I am trying to relish every second, every visit, every friend and family member. 6 years ago I had a mother and 5 aunts. I now have 2 aunts.  We lost a precious one last week!  It still breaks my heart to think she is gone, but the Lord took her so easily.  Praise His holy name!