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Wow, that is so beautiful. I love the windows and the base of that tower almost looks like mother-of-pearl. Oh my, that staircase. You'd feel like Cinderella going to the ball every time you walked down it! Glad you have time to go looking about!
Had a strong headache this morning. I've had about three in the past two weeks which is a lot better than three a week! They go away quickly once I get my Tylenol and Venlafaxine in me! Praise the Lord!
My Medicare stuff came yesterday. Information on the choices I have. Wade has been watching YouTube stuff to see what the best add-ons would be that will help take care of the stuff we'd have to pay. Who knows how long they are going to even make this available to seniors!
Have a blessed Lord's Day tomorrow!0 -
I also toured La Sagrada Familia. Beautiful architecture and an interesting story behind the designer/architect.
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I just kept saying, WOW! Amazing!
I think the biggest building calling itself a Church was the Duke Chapel, very beautiful!0 -
I hope y'all are doing well. Are you home yet, Cindy?
Another gorgeous day here in NC, 72 now and going up to just 75! So happy it's warm again! Now to find my summer clothes. I found a few things up in the closet!
Not much going on with me. Looking forward to Bible Study tonight! Love y'all.0 -
Oh I'm home and out again. 😁 I got home the night of the 14th and was on a 10 am flight to Charlotte for an event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. That event is tonight and I head home tomorrow morning at 6. 😲BUT... I have the next week off, work on Saturday the 27th and then another week off, so I'll be enjoying a little sleeping in and catching up with my hubby. 🥰
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Wow! Gorgeous pictures. Hope you get some rest and relaxation.
I've been trying to get a bunch of banking business completed to get Bill off as my beneficiary on my IRAs. He couldn't handle that! Also have forms coming for life insurance. Need to get TOD on house. I think my step daughter can help with that. Also, trying to get a new local banking account set up for mom. This is all just a mess. I've got the girl at the bank trying to get this all together...and it is all complicated with having to use POAs on both.0 -
It made such a huge difference because Mom had done pretty much all of that stuff beforehand. Her son Allen was named on her accounts, but when he passed away she quickly put Wade on those accounts - several years before she passed. I can't imagine having to do that stuff for two people. Again, you amaze me!0
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I'm back home from 18 straight days on the road. And of course I had gum surgery scheduled for 10 this morning. 😐
It went pretty quick - I'm back home already. Took 600 mg of ibuprofen and I'm sitting with a frozen bag of rice on my lip and a plastic palate bandaid on the roof of my mouth. I'm not in too much pain but I'm feeling a little blue0 -
Oh dear, I'm so sorry! Here's a hug for you:
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Thank you, Kim. My husband went to the store to get soft foods for me - no chewing for a week. I had a yogurt earlier and some applesauce with my second round of ibuprofen. If I'm feeling better, I'll make some chicken and rice soup. Soft food diet... no chewing for a week.
I hate this plastic mouth guard palate "bandaid". My gag reflex is really strong and it's constantly rearing its ugly head.
I'm praying that this healing process goes quickly and I can get rid of the palate thing0 -
Oh man, I feel for you Cindy. I couldn't stand to have those guards on my teeth to keep me from grinding my teeth at night! The palate would be far worse! Praying you do well and everything comes out right in the end!
I hope y'all did well during the storms. It came through here late last night and early this morning - what a gusher, lightning and thunder! It didn't last long after I got up around 7:30 though, I don't like lightning!
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Cindy you are in my prayers. That gag reflex thing would really bother me. Hope you get through it okay. I have to take mom to the dentist in May for 6 fillings! I'm sure she's going to be needing some serious soft food for a while, too! At least it isn't surgery.0
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Hope you're beginning to feel better by now, Cindy. I would also have a problem with the gag reflex.
I've taken a break for a few days because so much medical needs and paperwork hit at the same time. My son, Drew, got a bacterial infection in his good eye. He's on several kinds of drops and goes for rechecks every couple of days. Then last Monday, he had surgery in his bad eye, the one that diabetes affected the worst. His vision is still blurry and we won't know for a while if it helped or not. This is actually his second surgery, so the first one obviously accomplished very little. I just hope he won't lose his sight. I've also been dealing with paperwork that keeps appearing, this one that has to do with me getting a small lump sum payment from Dwight's retirement. It involved picking up court documents, signing and getting notarized, then recorded. If everything works out, it will be worth it.
I'm leaving in a few minutes to play for an ordination service, something I always enjoy. At the end, a Milligan college student and I are doing a clarinet/piano duet, a beautiful Celtic folk song.0 -
Oh, that sounds beautiful, Carole! My dad used to play clarinet, well, he could play a lot of things, he was a middle school band teacher; mom played violin and piano; my brother played piano and bass guitar; I played guitar; my sister played the coronet; my other sister played the flute! Funny thing, I have no memory of us playing together. I did sing while my brother played the piano though, but rarely at home, just for Church and a contest once - we came in 2nd.
Connie, Hope Mom handles getting all of those fillings in. Wade has trouble with cavities. I've had a couple last year, and I think three in about 20 years; but my mouth is full of caps and implants! LOL! I have one molar that isn't covered or removed, and my front teeth are all mine!
Brrr, the weather cooled down on me - thermals and sweats for a few days.
We had a good time yesterday. We had our morning Bible Class and then Worship Service and then we had a meal together. So much fun! Wade made a Corn Hole game and several of the guys and youth played that! I can play it when we play in our long hallway, but I don't think I would ever reach the hole at the 27' regulation length! Eek!
Love y'all. Have a great rest of your day!0 -
The folk song was called "Lough Erin Shore" and it was indeed beautiful. When she told me the title, I pulled it up on Spotify and fell in love with the instrumental arrangement. Now I want to go back and listen to the whole album. Who knows what new Celtic songs I'll learn! The college student is only a sophomore and is so talented on clarinet that I think she should be studying music instead of electrical engineering! She did a beautiful job. We had a meal after the ordination, but I was too tired to stay. Our fellowship meals are called "agape meals," a description which seems to fit perfectly.
I had the air conditioning on last week and now back to heat for a few days. Very nice here in east Tennessee, though. I love how Beth and Daniel have started coming over every Tuesday night and we eat together. Shopped today and plan to cook a beef roast and veggies in the crockpot.0 -
We did the same thing here. Air then heat. I have one Dr Heater in the house now, in the living room, my office one is put up so it's a bit nippy in here! How nice to have Daniel and Beth coming over regularly. I watch a lady on YouTube - Meme's Recipes - she has a couple of recipe books and the first one is full of Sunday Lunch recipes because she has her whole family over for lunch on Sunday's. She ends her show with - "Remember - shine for Jesus!" We make the chicken casserole with the corn bread stuffing topping quite often! It's so cute, her daughter - KayKay - does her video and you can hear her giggling in the back sometimes.
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Mom had a good birthday and we all enjoyed the visit. Tomorrow is the day that we are supposed to close on Mom's house. We have had so much paperwork! Now I am starting on trying to get the beneficiary changed on my insurance, new POA, new medical directives, new disposition of body (funeral plan), etc. I know that I have to get Bill off of all of this. It isn't probable that I will go before Bill, but you never know. My brain is spinning.0
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I keep you in my prayers, Connie, I can't imagine having to figure all of that out. Hope everything ran smoothly at the closing!
I think we are supposed to get a bit warmer today! We were able to sit out on the front porch yesterday, it was so nice. The sun was on us and we stayed warm and it's fun to watch the traffic go by. I feel like those old folks you see on their porches, just a whiling away an afternoon!
Have a great day. Hope you get a chance to be in Bible Study or Prayer Meeting tonight!0 -
My husband is watching the Supreme Court arguments right now. I listened in for a little, but it just makes me sad - what this country has come to - going after a man in this way. Praying for justice to prevail!0
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Kim, could you share that chicken casserole recipe with me? It sounds similar to one that my grandmother used to make and I've never been able to find her recipe.
Connie, I pray for you during all this. I had a lot to go through and Beth has been an incredible help to me. Three months later, things still pop up that I never would have expected. It's good that you're preparing things ahead of time, which is something we never did.
Cindy, we think alike! I have to keep reminding myself that God is in control, because I never thought things could go so wrong in these few years.0 -
It's amazing how fast our nation has plummeted! Can you believe the streets are full of people yelling for the death of America as well as the death of Israel? One news person asked two girls what river and what sea they were yelling about and they had no idea! Then another held a sign that said STOP GENOCIDE, while they are yelling for the genocide of Israel! For years we have warned people about what the colleges are trying to do, and it appears have successfully done, to the young people who go there. Sad, a little bit scary, but not unexpected since God told us in His Word what would happen in these last days.
Carole, here's that recipe:
This is from SUNDAY LUNCH AT MEME'S
2 (12.5 oz) cans of chicken breast (or 1.5-2 C cooked chicken)
1 can cream soup (chicken, mushroom, celery - your favorite)
Mix these two together.
In a separate bowl mix together:
1 pkg Cornbread stuffing mix
3/4 - 1 stick of melted butter
2 cans chicken broth (I use 2 C water with two bouillion cubes)
Place the topping over the chicken mixture.
We also add frozen veggies (peas and carrots or mixed veggies) to the chicken mixture.
The recipe has you put this in a 9X13 casserole dish, but we found it to be very thin so we use a 9X9 casserole dish. Preheat over to 350 degrees then back 30-40 minutes uncovered or until the dressing is browned and the sauce is bubbling!
We've also done this with turkey meat left over from thanksgiving. If you serve it with cranberry sauce you are able to eat Thanksgiving dinner all over again in just one pan!
Love and prayers!
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Thank you for sharing the recipe, Kim. It sounds like the one my grandmother used to fix that was SO good! She always said she didn't have an exact recipe, but rather made adjustments according to texture, etc. - yet she never showed me how to make it. All I knew for sure was that it had chicken, soup, and Pepperidge Farm stuffing. This casserole just might be my next Tuesday supper.
My grocery store had fresh, locally-grown strawberries today. They were beautiful, but I didn't get any because I couldn't use a whole basket. Maybe garden tomatoes won't be far behind.0 -
Wade wants to grow tomatoes, but neither of us really likes them! He occasionally likes a slice of tomato on his burger, but other than that - not so much! Me, I even pluck them out of my tacos! Oh, if you could see my face just talking about them -
We don't use the recipe much any more, we've made it so many times. She also has a Chicken Casserole with noodles and one with biscuits - we've just made this one. I add the bouillion water in two phases. You want your cornbread stuffing wet so that will run down into the soup so it won't be so thick, but you don't want it swimming either.
We made some split pea soup the other day. I didn't add quite as much water because it isn't thick enough that first day, but the next day it's super thick and I have to add water to make it soup again. This is a super cheap meal. Water, split peas and a ham bone! Yummers! I think it would be delicious with bacon bits mixed in as well.
Praise the Lord, no headache when I woke up this morning. I am praising the Lord that none of my headaches are as bad as they used to be and I haven't reordered my prescription migraine med because I haven't needed it since taking this new med. I think doing one in the AM and one at night will help! I really do not want to up the dosage though, so will work with what I have.0 -
Your recipe sounds good! I'm trying to learn 2 people cooking instead of 3. Bill isn't enjoying his normal foods, either. I am adding a bit more sodium into his diet out of desperation. He isn't retaining water, so I guess it's okay.
Say a prayer for wisdom for me. Without Kip, I have been leaving Bill for about 90 minutes several days a week and it makes me nervous. I have a camera and watch him when gone and mostly he sleeps. I'm going to try to start taking him, but it is really hard for him. I'm hoping that making it a regular occurrence that it will be easier on both of us. The girls offered once a week, but then haven't really followed through. I need to check on mom, and there is business that needs done. Insurance doesn't pay for Caregivers and locally they are $50 an hour with a 4 hour minimum. That can't happen on a daily basis.0 -
Daily I ask God to give you wisdom, Connie. I also pray for someone to step up and offer to help you!
I know that you make your own "cream soup" and thought about you when I put the recipe on. That is the saltiest or fattest thing in there. You can also make it without the dressing and put it over rice, noodles, mashed potatoes or a biscuit. The dressing does make it salty too! You'd have to add some of the water to the chicken mixture to thin out the soup though. I guess if you aren't going to do the dressing you could just to the mixture in a pot on top of the stove! I need to try it that way one time.0 -
I took Bill with me today! It worked fairly well. Mom was so glad to see him. He has been tired since getting home, but that's nothing new. Tomorrow he has an in-home doctor's visit, then we will try getting him out again on Wednesday. I need to do some banking for Mom, so it may be a bit longer, but he can sit in the car at the bank.0
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Sounds like it was a good day, Connie. Praying for more of those for you.0
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Continuing to pray, Connie. So glad it went well!
Well, breaking up my migraine med to 1 in the AM and 1 in the PM isn't working for my morning headaches, so I am going to try and take them both at night this time and that should help for the AM, now to see if I get evening headaches! EEK! If this doesn't work I'm afraid she will want to up my dosage - but if that helps then I won't balk. I really don't want to go very high though, just don't like pills that change my brain!
Well, I need to work on winter/summer clothes today. Y'all have a wonderful day. Love you1 -
I got a bit of my summer/winter change over, but didn't take the time to get rid of unworn stuff. I will get it finished sometime. Today I have been trying to list some of Kips furniture that he left, on Marketplace. As long as I was listing his cheap fake wood stuff, I decided to put one of our antiques that I need to move out of the bedroom...but it is WAY too heavy. We are supposedly going to get a hospital bed, and I am going to have to completely rearrange the bedroom and we have a marble topped wash stand and a marble topped dresser. They have huge pieces of very heavy marble. The wash stand isn't an exact match (but close) to the other furniture, so it's not as important to me.0
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Still healing from this gum surgery. I'm not sure what I expected, but the roof of my mouth is taking a while to feel normal. I'm praying that the graft takes and heals fully and I won't have to undergo anymore surgery for this. My teeth ache a bit.. not awful, just achy.0
