Friday's Fave Five

 Hosted by Susanne!

This has been a so-so weak,  but I am trying hard to be positive. 

Sunday  was  a lovely day,   I always enjoy church.  I love our pastor and the people a re  very friendly.  Lynn and I are finding our niche, and   church is a joy. We are  really  excited about Sunday night teaching on Praying the Word from which I had  been using  the concepts  in some of my weekly posts..  I am hopeful to start  in the Ladie's  Bible Duty this next week.  The weather was terrible last week.   Everyone it seems in our age bracket are very faithful to attend and participate in the church offerings   which is  really a  marvelous    thing but one we  have to  get  back into the groove of doing.  So many things are offered,  I do not want to burn out,  but  to really feel a part of things  I think we need to try to do our best  and not  look at  attending as a chore but as a n opportunity for fun and fellowship, as well as,  learning!

Monday, I call my fun day..    I slept in   till 10:30,  then  just took my time  organizing my day.  I had several phone calls to make to rearrange some  things on the calendar.Then I just watched  quite a bit of  tv and   did some reading..  I was determined to just do my thing, not much on Monday....and Lynn  cooperated. 

Tuesday, I slept in as well,  knowing that  I would be up all night  that night. I really dont remember much about Tuesday except it was a cold dark rainy day.  At 2   I started my prep.  We mixed up my  prep juice. (BLEH)! and  I read  and  just passed the next for hours  fleetingly knowing the next 12 hours  would be  ferocious and they were!  I started drinking the cold mixture  every 30 minutes  til 9:30  and  I daresay I  visited the bathroom about 40 times    until 1am when I drank the rest of the mixture   and started over  drinking my bit  a bit every 30 minutes.  I really got to know the bathroom  well  about 80 times over all,,    and I was  exhausted. OH, how I wanted to sleep,  but  at 6 I had to get  dressed and in the car by 6:20 am to go to the hospital.   I was the first one of the day,  thank you Lord.  There is my praise!   Everything went well I thought.  But  when I spoke to the doctor there were more polyps and one He was unable to extract... so I come back in 6 months  for yet another  colonoscopy !  Not what I wanted to hear. I pray I forget how  horrid  this prep was. The procedure is a cinch.  At least I get to sleep!  Another praise  Thank you, Lord!

I wasn't worth  much   the rest of Wednesday,   I did write in my journal under gratitude.  Thank you, Lord for my wonderful husband.  He takes such  loving care of me....God bless Him and keep him!!!  I am also thankful   that medicine has progressed where we have  the opportunity, as  icky as it is, to be tested to keep us in go repair and good  health!

Thursday, I did some catch up, I had some  correspondence to catch up on..  I  wrote  several cards to send out, and I did some calling, as well.I did miss my allergy shot and Bible Study   which are my Wednesday activities.  I really hate to miss the Bible Study.  It is  very  deep and intensive and I love it..  I hate to see what all I missed!  But it  was  great to get my to do list accomplished and I am thankful  to feel well and in good spirits.  I am taking  the poor news from the doctor in my stride.  One thing is God  never tells us to worry,  but to  trust Him in all things. SO I am trusting Him for  the  testing results of those pesky polyps and  the outcome of what  may come of the next colonoscopy  this spring!Resting in His hands is the very best place to be!!!

Today I just returned from Walmart where I shopped for Valentine goodies and ingredients for a Tea Party I am hosting early Feb. I really need to stay on task to get the house cleaned and the decor that I have in mind accomplished.   I used to host tea parties  pretty often and  as I am feeling better in my arthritis and am  more able to  get around I think this tea party is going to give me a jolt of  joyful enthusiasm and vitality I am very excited about it.  I found some cute things at the store today to create some  darling  favors and decor ideas. One thing I will do in a while is  go on line and find vintage valentines  to print out   cut and  glue on tag board to stand up  on our table and   perhaps   glue to  doilies.   I cut some and made standup   valentines to  decorate the mantel last year  and I have a great idea for using them  on the mantel this year.  Time to  really take down winter!!! Just writing about is getting me all excited!  But really those vintage  cards you can find are just like the ones we  sent back in the 50s and I think they were the best!