So here I am with my balloons on my bday.
We saw Annabelle. I posted it on prayer as answer to prayer.

Not sure why but my phone with my fitness pal was going to some other account with same I’d picture but not me Paraeast. Some letters & numbers. ID.
Took a hour or so to get it straightened out. So now iPad & cell on Paraeast me. Yeah.
My iPad had me but not my cell go figure. Technology I just don’t understand it. Technology.


Sorry for the heat Susan. Summer is a long time as January & February yet. Which month is the hottest for you?

Have a blessed lords day all.
Prayers for all especially Judith and her health.
Pearl.harbor day for USA today too
🙏🏻

Linda, that sounds like a lovely event, 'A Visit to Bethlehem '. Sorry for the loss of a good man from your congregation.

Barb, happy birthday for real. Those balloons look amazing. Glad you got to meet Annabella. She looks so cute. Yes, summer is barely started. The hottest time is usually Jan/Feb.

Judith, sorry to hear you have lost weight. I hope you can get it back in coming weeks. The treatments you are having would be affecting you, I am sure. I hope you feel more like eating soon. 🙏

It's cloudy and dark but also several degrees cooler today, thankfully. I need to get my day started and have some breakfast. Enjoy your days, everyone.

Judith praying for you that you can gain & not lose weight. ,albeit pig out on some cookies? Many prayers.

Linda the visit to Bethlehem sounds neat. I’ve heard of churches doing it.

Annabella is still in NICU but breathing & eating in her own. Pray that HH can get more milk so,they don’t have to use bottles, like they did, for Mariposa. They say Annabella is a preemie. I think being 6 lbs & 3 oz is not a premie. Maybe tonight or tomorrow and she may be able to,go,home with a bottle plus nursing.

Sorry Susan about the heat.
Cloudy here but nice temps the cold temps come Tuesday.
Hoping my packages get delivered. We got our tree up but 1/3 lights not working so wondering how to, find the light that not working or get a new tree? Or wait till after Christmas.

Hi everyone. It's cloudy and muggy here, definitely summer just without direct sunlight. Yesterday it was stifling even at midnight so I put the air conditioning on before bed. It was hard for me to breathe in the high humidity as I have the type of asthma that is agfected by temperature and humidity. We had turned the ac off around nightfall but it was not long before the house heated up and got humid again. It's definitely not cool today either.

Judith, I am glad you have gotten back to 94lbs. I hope you can get even higher. It is hard when you cannot chew anything and have to stick to liquids. Do you add any healthy oils to your shakes?

Linda, the potato scallops were probably yummy but what a lot of extra trouble you had to go to to get them done! I agree, our head recipes are often better than professional written ones. That's interesting that Glenn is affected by the seasons too. Yes, our days are longer it being summer now. It's just the heat and humidity that gets to me over summer. Summer started Dec 1st and our summer solstice is Dec 21st, the longest day of the year.

Barb, that's good news that Annabella is getting stronger. I hope HH can feed her more easily than she could with Mariposa. How was the rest of your birthday? I hope you got spoiled.

Marilyn. You can do, it with no pop. I hardly drink any I prefer water it does take some getting use to. Sparks got me started & I’ve kept it up, now for 10 years or more now. I carry water every where. Prayers.
Prayers on your appendix has healed.

Susan sorry about your breathing with the humidity & all. Do you have any ceiling fans? I find that they can help a room house be cooler with them on. Prayers.

Linda glad your potluck went well trust all going well with you.

Judith so glad you are back to 94 lbs. maybe you can get to 95 lbs. prayers. Plus with your new lump and all you go through with your mouth and all. That maybe why it’s hard to eat. I thought of that when I went to bed. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Annabella went home today. I guess Hong has to nurse & use a bottle like they did with Mariposa. Praying that she can skip the bottle but drs really like heavy bottles.
I’ll send 2 pics of the sister Mariposa is ready for Christmas the 2 pics are not of them together. I’m sure my son will send one some time after he takes one. Prayers they get some sleep. At least Amy is there to help.

I’m not sure about the tree, as it could be a long project checking lights one at a time, so I may look into lighted tree. Mean time pray & look.

What a nuisance, Linda. Glad you were able to get your discount in the end. Yes, the air con makes breathing easier for me. Today Humidity will be in the high 80s and 90s a lot. It's at night that it is usually highest. I usually manage with our ceiling fans but when it is hot as well, the air conditioning is a big blessing. The air con has a function that takes moisture out of the air so we use it too. I remember you saying how dry the weather is there and having to use moisturiser every day. Ugh.

Barb the girls are beautiful. Annabella has such a serene expression in that photo. How wonderful that she could go home! Mariposa is such a cutie. I hope you can find the lights that aren't working on your tree. Yes, I do use our ceiling fans constantly in summer. We even sleep under one as it is too hot here at night. The air conditioning takes the moisture out of the air when it's too muggy to breath normally. I try to only use the ac when necessary due to the cost of running it, but this week we've had a heat wave across the country so it has been on a lot.

Marilyn, it's good to hear how you are doing. Glad you figured out the soft drink/pop is a problem. I gave it up many years ago. Did you know pop also draws calcium out of your bones? You can do it!

Judith, I like Linda's suggestion of extra butter for you. Can you tolerate it? I hope you can. Thinking of you as you deal with pain every day and sending prayers and hugs.

This morning I had my last physical therapy session until after Christmas since we are leaving tomorrow to go to Westminster and celebrate Christmas with family. I took a test to see how I feel I am doing. It compared what I was able to do at my first appointment and how I feel now. It showed that I am doing better than just the "average person" with the same age and diagnosis. The therapist also did several tests by having me push against his hand to see how strong my muscles are. He said I am doing well too. It had been hard work and a lot of sore muscles but I am seeing improvement.

I am cleaning and doing laundry today to get ready for our trip. While we are gone, the church will meet at our house for a men's midweek worship time. I figure if I get only the parts of the house that they will see, I do not have to have the bedroom spic and span. I will do what I can but I also have a Christmas party to go to tomorrow morning before we leave. I will find out at 6pm if I have to be at the court at 7:45am for jury duty on Thursday.

Barb - that is interesting that Harry is a pharmacy tech. Glenn worked with a lot of good ones and was glad if someone told him something that did not work wrong. It is a team work to make sure everyone is safe with their medications. I hope Hong Hong and baby are doing well. It is hard having a surgery as well as having a baby. I am so glad that her mother is with her. I am glad that you were able to get a new tree. It is frustrating to have a string of lights not work. Does this tree have lights already on it?

Susan - I pray that you will have some cooler weather so you can breathe better.

Greetings to the rest of you! It's time for me to get back to work cleaning.

Judith, it's good to see you feel well enough to post today. It does take some concentrating to do that and if the body is uncomfortable, the brain can't think! I hope the butter recipes help you. Do they recomnend you add eggs to your smoothies? There are many whole foods that can be blended up, right? I remember my Mom having to have all of her teeth out at once because of gum disease. She couldn't chew for months while she healed. She blended all sorts of things. She even tried blending up steak but she said it was yucky! I am thinking chicken liver pate would be high in calories, nice tasting and full of good fats too. Hugs.

Linda, that's great news about your progress with your hip. You sure do sound busy and having to be on it cleaning and travelling. It's a busy time of year for sure! Thank you for praying about the temperature here. I guess it being summer, we will just have to adjust. The temp is rising again after all our rain the last few days. That's normal. I just prefer the cooler seasons and my body does, too!

Barb, glad you got a new tree and at such a good price. I'm praying for Annabella and HH. It must be such a concern we with the baby losing weight. My daughter was a premie and list weight too. So they sent us to bed for a week, with baby feeding on demand! It worked! Yes, we have ceiling fans that we use a lot. All houses seem to have them here and businesses too. They do help but on really hot days, the wind they produce is hot too. So we use the air conditioning when things get too hot. The electrical bill isn't too bad, really. We have some solar panels on the roof that offset the bill.

Hello everyone. We didn't have our friends stay overnight after all but we do have family staying tonight. I'm having a cooking day and am still making and writing out cards.

Linda it's nice you didn't have to do jury duty. Glad the drive up was uneventful.

Judith, praying for you as you face more medical procedures. I hope you find some things that help you with maintaining or increasing your weight.

Barb, I checked the prayer request thread. Praying for HH. Glad you got to hold baby Annabella and do something practical to help the family. They are having a rough time.

Barb - praise God for the weight gain for Annabelle. Every ounce is important when they are little. I am hoping that Hong Hong is feeling better also. I am glad she has more family to help coming soon. I assume that you are still involved watching Mariposa too. I have your recipe for the corn bread salad but I have not remembered to try it. Since your talked about it again, I will look up the recipe and see if I can make it soon. The Joy group sounds fun. Not many people play the accordion anymore. I am fascinated by them playing on the side of the instrument without not seeing where their hands are. I guess it is like when I used to play the organ that I did not have to check where my feet were on the pedals all the time. I am sure it takes lots of practice.

Susan - Your house is busy again with guests. You are very hospitable to many friends. I hope you are breathing better.

Judith - I hope you are resting today after your procedure. I pray that there will be a time when there is no more diseased tissue to remove by the surgeon.

I did some admission work for the school and got papers ready to file. I have not made it down to the basement to do that yet. I am trying to not walk up and down too many stairs on my first day here. I will gradually increase how many times I do it as we stay longer. I do feel that my leg is not as weak as it was the last time we were here which is an encouragement to me. I also took a long walk today and tried to keep my stride long to stretch the thigh muscle. We are alone tonight at home. Our granddaughter is babysitting our other grandkids at their house. My daughter is still at work and will not be home until 8pm. I need to start the chicken pot pie that she requested for tonight. I let her choose what she wants to eat and then I cook it so it is ready when she comes home exhausted from all the trauma she had heard during the day. She counsels a lot of troubled teens and have lots of strong emotions.

A quick check in from me. Younger son's family is here. We're about to eat breakfast then get in the car to drive two hours to our other son's place with heaps of food and our dogs. It's raining. Have caught up.on your posts and am thinking of you all.

I broke my daughter's coffee carafe last night when I was washing it so today we went to the store to buy her a new one and a few other things. We ended up buying a lot more than we had planned but they were needed - we had just forgotten about them until we saw them in the store. I guess that is what happens a lot. I do know that Walmart moves things occasionally so when people are looking for them, they see other things and buy them too. There is psychology involved in where things are placed on higher or lower shelves also. When I go to buy healthy shredded wheat cereal, it is on the lowest shelf and all the sweetened cereals are at a child's eye level so they will see them.

Susan - I am so glad that you are getting to spend time with family. It sounds like your vehicles were pretty full as you traveled.

Judith - Rest well my friend. I am sorry that you have to go back to the surgeon again next week to have more done. I hope it comes to an end soon that you need this debridement. I am excited that they will be trying laser the first of the year. So many health care providers have started using laser as a treatment option. It is even used for tattoo removal.

Barb - I am so grateful for the good reports we are getting from Hong Hong and Annabelle. I assume that she is enjoying being with family during this time. Has it been a long time since she has seen them? Are your knitting or crocheting your sweater? I have never taken on that big of a project. I am sure it will be beautiful when it is done.

Have a great weekend!

Hello everyone. We had a full day yesterday. It was fun but boy were we tired at the end!

Son 2's family came to stay with us overnight only. They live an hour north of us, and son 1's family lives 2 hrs west of us.

We all went in son 2s car yesterday. Son 2 drove us out to son 1s house, and DIL 2 drove us home at the end of the day. Son 2s family then drove themselves home. It was raining so I asked them to let me know they got home safely. They did.

Everyone had cooked something nice for our shared meal. Son 1 has 3 children ages 16, 15 and 11. Son 2 has a 2yo. The kids love seeing each other though the16yo went off with friends after saying hello. DIL 1 had decorated her Christmas tree beautifully. I enjoyed looking at it so much.



We have church this morning and it is church luncheon day do I need to go help pack up the food. Have a good day everyone.

We just got back from downtown Denver to see some Christmas decorations. The first one we saw was a drone show that had 400 drones making different seasonal moving pictures. It was amazing! The visuals were 400 feet across and 500 feet high in the sky. They had things from local Denver landmarks to Santa and sleigh to "Blucifer" which is a blue horse with red eyes sculpture at the Denver International Airport. The man who created it was killed when it fell on him as he was putting on the finishing touches. Our second stop was to see the amazing lighted Christmas tree across from the capital building. It is 110 feet tall and has lights that blink on and off make dazzling displays. There is a walkway through it where you can look up and see the light show. If what I say was confusing, I will say it is a metal frame that holds 100's of light panels that are synchronized to make the designs. It is not a living tree as most people think of when talking about a Christmas tree. Our daughter who does not mind driving in the dark or driving in Denver took us down so we paid her by stopping at a favorite frozen yogurt store on the way home. You can choose from 12 flavors of soft-serve frozen yogurt and then they have lots of toppings to put on it. You pay by the weight of the yogurt.

This afternoon we tackled cleaning the "toy room". It was the dining room originally but our granddaughter has so many toys she has collected over the years (especially Barbie dolls) that they have taken over the whole room. It looks so nice and organized now. We have the kitchen/family room to work on next then we will be ready for the early family Christmas party we are having on Tuesday. This same granddaughter, Aryn, just got her last acceptance letter from the five colleges that she applied for. Now she has to decide where she wants to go. Once she decides we can try to move forward in what to do with this house in Westminster. It is getting expensive to have two houses and we really would like to sell this one. As long as she and her mother are living here, we will not sell it. It is hoped that our daughter will move to Grand Junction with us but as I said it will depend on where Aryn decides to go to college. If she chooses a Denver based school, they will need to stay in this house for a bit longer.

Tomorrow we have the children's Christmas play at church. We are excited to be here to see our grandkids be involved in it. Our grandson has speaking part of an angel and our granddaughter is singing.