Surgery Update

Everything went well. I will be in a half cast thing and sling for 10 days and no driving. I hope that is all I have to wear this thing. Thank you all very much for your prayers and well wishes. You all are great. He said all looks good after he removed some scar tissue from the nerve and cleaned the bone and burried the nerve. I have been doing pretty good so far, I haven't had any pain meds except for a headache. Maybe it wont hurt that much. Keep your finger crossed. See you all tonight at VBS.

Tagged by Teale
Tagged by Kim
The jest of it ~ This idea came from the book by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book is a compilation that is based on the story that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his entire life in just six words. His words? For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Here are the rules:
1. Write your own six word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.
4. Tag five more blogs with links.
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!
My six words: Take care of those you love!
I feel that I am one who tries to take care of others before myself. Partly because I have lost some very important people in my life at a young age and I have tried to make sure that those around me know how much I love them and how much they mean to me, because we do not know how long they will be with us or us with them.
I tag:
Bethany
Lori
Heather
Belinda
Katie

On with the busy Summer

We have now finished our wonderful Gospel meeting with John Daniels from Sevierville, Tn. It was a wonderful meeting and week. It was so busy and I wans't at home much, so I haven't had time to do the daily cleaning and straightening that needed to be done. Since the gas prices are so high the children and I would go to the morning services and then spend the day at my grandmothers or Barry's mothers house until the evening services. This has been hard on my weight watchers plan since I wasn't in controll of what we had for lunch and dinner. I am glad I can be at home now during the day so I can control the meals better and maybe get myself back on track.
The meeting as I said was great and he had great lessons that I believe we could all use in our everyday life. We had great crowds even in the mornings. I think this was one of the best we have had at Adamsville in a while. He kept your attention and made you think, at least he did for me. I needed that and I believe alot of us probably did as well.
Here we jump into another phase of this busy Summer. We are now getting ready for our VBS on June 22-25 or 26th (not sure since we have 4 lessons so far instead of 5) We are working on writing our own lessons on the Parables of Jesus. They are the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Parable of the Sower and the Soils, The Kingdom is liken unto..., and The parable of the Friend at Midnight. This is tough for me since I have the baby class (3 months-2 years). I have been trying to come up with ideas and I have some great helpers that are working on this as well. We would love for any ideas from you guys if you have any for us. We need ideas of how to write the lessons for that age group and also for handouts and visuals for them. If you have any ideas feel free to let us know or if you want to help(those who go there and will be there especially). I believe it is going to be another great week and VBS, but we have to get busy with it, since it will be here before we know it.
We also have a Sunshine girl project this Saturday to do something for the daddies of the congregation. We are looking forward to this and the girls love to do for others, as you all saw when they gave the Gospel meeting/ coming home day. They really loved giving it away. These girls are great and showing their love for others. Thanks to Carla for heading up this group.

Gatlinburg get away

We went to Gatlinburg this past week. We had a lot of fun. We went to Cades Cove and saw all the homes of the early settlers and took pictures. The kids had a blast seeing all the turkeys and deer. We didn't get to see any bears, but Christopher and I almost got bit by a snake. We walked right up on him and I jerked Christopher backwards away from it. It about gave me a heart attack. It raised up like it was getting ready to strike, but we got away and it went back into the woods. That was all of the woods business for me. I told Barry I wasn't walking back into the woods any more that day. Luckily that was the last one in the woods. Also for all those scrapbookers I found a big scrapbook clearance center and bought lots of stuff. Yes I can find scrapbook stores anywhere I go.

Locks of Love

As most of you have seen, Mary got her long hair cut off this past Friday. She decided she wanted to get it cut and donate it to Locks of Love. Her hair is so thick that they had to seperate it into two ponytails instead of one. She gave between 10 and 11 inches. Maybe two girls will get her hair. The lady said she has good hair and it will be great. She looks older to me with the short hair, but I think it is so cute. She says she wants to let it grow again and give again. So here we go again with the growing out hair. At least it is all one length, a little easier to take care of.

YES!!!!! She is done.

Well second grade is finally over, now on to third we go. I never thought that just because you have a child in school that you would be going back to those grades as well. School sure is getting harder for these young ones than it was when I was their age. It seems like they are being taught things we weren't taught until at least 5th or 6 th grade. I am so glad for they summer. Mary needs a break and so do I. She had her awards day yesturday and she got the award for most determined. She will finish the year with an overall a and 2 b's or 2 a's and a b. I am not sure yet since we have not gotten her report card yet. We have also been told to work on multiplication for te summer so they will be ahead or at least not have as hard a time next year, since this is what they will be working on in 3 rd grade. I don't remember doing times tables in the 3rd grade, do you? They are really being pushed hard these days and not given much time to master the concept before moving on to something new. Those of you who do not have children or they are not in school yet, watch out you will be going back to school as well. Good luck.

Well also we are Gatlinburg bound. We are leaving Sunday after our team meeting. I cannot wait. We will be back sometime on Thursday. I will post more then. Have a good week.

Mother's Day and a little news

We just went to church for Mary Elizabeth to do her Sunshine Girls Mother's Day project. The girls did great and they will hand out the items to the mothers tomorrow. It is very sweet....I really mean it is sweet. Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers out there and also to those of you who are expecting... Belinda and Teale. Hope you all have a great day.
I also wanted to let you all know that I went to my orthopaedic doctor las week and he said I need surgery. So on June 24th I will be having surgery on my elbow...the same arm that a broke almost five years ago and had to have surgery. This surgery has nothing to do with my plate and 6 screws, but it just so happens it is the same arm. I have a pinched nerve in my funny bone... not so funny. This has been happening for about 6 months or more and it causes my pinky and ring finger on my left hand all the way up to my elbow to go numb...you know that tingly dead feeling you get sometimes. Well I won't be able to use it for about 1-2 weeks after the surgery. That is going to be tough with two children at home. But we have to do what the doctor says...I guess. Since he also said if I let it go then over a long period of time I could completely lose the use of those two fingers permenantly. So surgery here I come.....yeah!
Hoep everyone has a great week and see most of you at church tomorrow.