I am still here!

Hello all. Hope everyone in blog land is doing well. I am doing fine, and am still around, just not online to long at a time because I am still helping my lady friends from church. I will have more time now though, since she is getting better and feels she can handle the evening business. I will still be helping a couple nights a week, but mainly just in the mornings helping get her mom's compression stockings on and stuff that is still a little harder to do. I know when she is healed completely I will miss helping them out and stuff. They are great women.

We had a great time a church tonight. We had a celebration and cookout in honor of the 4Th of July tonight. We ate together, socialized, and then had a fireworks show. The young men that did the fire works did a great job, and we all had a good time. It is great to be around my church family. Since I was not on duty with my lady friend, I helped with the twins of the minister and his wife. They are so precious, and I have missed being around them lately. I will be helping with them Friday after my morning duties, and I am looking forward to it. The twins are now a year old, and starting to "talk" more each time I see them. Too cute, I am here to tell you.

I guess you can see that I love my church family, and enjoy being around them. My husband and I are doing well, as is B.J. and we are just living life the best we can. Enjoying activities together, and just being a family. There are still things we are adjusting to, I mean after being up with John for all his treatments for almost a year and a half, it is like getting to know your home life all over again. They had their little way of doing things, then I came back home and I am having to get things back to my way again. You never know how many little quirks you have until you live through something like this. It is hard at times, but we manage and keep on keeping on, day by day, just like I know John would want us to do.

Well I will go for now, May God bless and keep you all safe, happy, and healthy.
Judy

Still around

Hello all. I am still around, just busy helping my friend. She is recovering well, she just can't take care of her mother, who will be 90 in October, so I am doing it for her. I enjoy it a lot, hearing the stories from this wonderful woman, it reminds me of my grandmothers and the stories I used to hear from them. I love both my friend and her mom so much and feel blessed to be able to help them out. I do not know how long I will be helping them, probably for about 4 more weeks I would guess. But until then I will only be online occasionally, and will post when I can.

B.J. had a blast at Church camp this past week. She came home with a 2ND place ribbon for memory verses, and 2ND place for biggest splash for the older girls group. She has been going to camp for about 5 years, and I think this year was her best so far. She actually made some friends from other places and hopes she will get some letters from them as well as pictures. She had forgotten her camera, and they promised her to send some copies. My little girl is growing up, and I am proud of her.

My husband and I are doing good, both busy, him with work, me with helping friends. We do take time to be together even if it is just while we shop for the things every family needs. He goes to work early so that they can get stuff done before it gets so hot outside, he works construction, so when it is hot they all get real hot, and when it is cold, I try to have coffee or something to warm him up when he gets home.

Well, it is about time for bed so I will close for now. May God bless you all,
Judy

It's been a little while

Sorry it has been a while, but I have been a little busy. We are getting B.J. ready for church camp and that takes a lot of time and packing. My parents have gone on a long vacation, and I am driving back and forth to their house and tending to their dog and watering their flowers. And a friend of mine from church had to have a hernia repair, and I am helping to take care of her mother, as well as helping her as much as I can and as much as she will let me. Can you say busy. I love it though. I think very highly of both these ladies, and it is truly an honor to help my sisters in Christ when they need me. So I am not online as much as I usually am, and I am a little more tired than usually as well, so blogging just isn't top of the list right now in importance. I really wouldn't even be awake right now, but my feet are a little swollen and hurting tonight and I am having a little bit of a hard time getting to sleep. I am hoping that they will quit hurting soon, and I will be able to sleep for a while. I will be helping my friends for about 10-14 days, and tending my parents place for another 4 days, so if you don't here from me know I am okay, and that I will get back to blogging when things are a little less busy.

May God bless you all

Live is good.

Things are going well here. Emotions have settled down, now that Becky has moved to her dad's and all. Finances still are tough, but that is every body's life it seems. B.J. has had a friend over since Sunday, so she has not been so "bored", now if her friend would just listen a teeny bit better, we would be great on that front. I sat with the twins today, and had a good time. They are so sweet, one year old now, and crawling all over the place. I took a bunch of pictures of them while I was there, they were so good that all I had to do is crawl after them and snap picture after picture. Of course with toddlers, about the time you snap the picture, they turn and the shot isn't to good, but if you take enough you get some real good shots. I stayed around after their parents and big sister got back long enough for them to download the pictures to their computer before I left. They are such great people, and I love kids, so watching their kids is fun for me every now and then. It is almost like therapy for me to be around the babies, I mean, how can the hardships of life get you down, when you are watching little ones just keep going and learning and developing? We should be like them, just keep going, after we vent, just keep learning. Learning what God wants us to do or be, what is our path in his eyes? You can learn a lot from watching children of almost any age. And I am trying to open my eyes, and heart for these life lessons that I am so blessed to have.
Count your blessings every day, and thank the Good Lord that he gave them to you. I know I am bless and thank God for all he has given me.
God Bless,
Judy