tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66659497246156505192024-03-13T05:01:05.060-07:00A Small Ray of Sunshine.Lord help me to inspire someone to step out on your faith.
That if they but have the faith of a Mustard Seed.
That they can do anything with what you would have them to do.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-19041810197764695532011-02-15T20:10:00.000-08:002011-02-15T20:10:54.826-08:00Someone Dear and New year goals.People know how special my grandmother was to me and still is. We had our Valentine's dinner on Sat Feb 12th at church and we had are niece Kara with with that night. I took my little girl Laci and Kara to the restroom and a sister that was close to my grandmother came in behind us and before she left she turned to me and said you remind me so much of your grandmother when I seen you come in tonight. All I could say was thank you. But to my self I was think what a great complement that was. And early that day my thoughts were on her when I was little all the kids were at my grandparents in the summer. Well kids being kids (we were mean to each other) one of us would have a nosebleed and my grandmother would all ways take us and tell us to repeat after her and we would she would read form the Bible (Ezekiel 16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou whou was in thy blood, Live: yea, I said unto the when thou wast in thy blood, Live.) it is a verse that stop blood she would have us say it with her until the blood stop running. Laci's nose was bleeding and I done this with her until the blood stop the whole time that we said it I just cry ed and cry ed just remember so long ago my grandmother do it with us when we were little. The small things is what I remember the most.<br />
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As for my New Year goal.<br />
Well just like everyone in the world the 1st thing is to lose weight. Well there is a program in GA called Thrive and all it does is teaches you to lose weight no pills. You go to class and they teach you how to eat and live your life but lose the weight at the same time. I joined the program for 3 months and have been on it for 7 weeks this far and I have lost a total of 22.2 lbs and 21 inches over all 15.5 in my core alone. I feel great and love doing it. There are times that I think to my self why are you doing this what is it for you will gain it all back when you stop. Well the number one thing they ask you to do is your why. I will tell you my why. I have a fear of dieing young and very over weight I don't want to wind up with sleeping disorders like my dad and brothers. Or have to control my sugar with med. And having my family but me in the ground with a Crane. No I don't think that I would have let myself get that big but what you don't realize is you do. By looking at me some people would say that I am not that big or that i am just big bones but bone has nothing to do with it I am fat and I know it. I have battled with my weight for years know when I became pregnant with Laci I lost 60lbs where most people gain. After Laci was born I gain 30 lbs back slow but I did gain it back. My grandmother was the one that asked me to get my weight under control just like she asked my aunt to do the same. Well this past year my aunt started taking control of her weight and I done the same but my heart was not in to it like her was she found a reason to lived she weighed almost 300lb and wearing a size 26 now she is down to 200 something and wearing a size 18 the last time I talked to her. With me it started for real at the 1st of this year when I decided to take my life back.. And I have my life and thank God for it each and everyday. When I don't have the strength to make it through the day I know he is there to guide me the rest of the way.<br />
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ShandaShandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-91770910059972704422010-10-18T19:51:00.000-07:002010-10-18T19:51:07.286-07:00I Just Won 10 Swag Bucks on www.swagbucks.com<a href="http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=2321689&cmp=7&cxid=11111-Search&fb=true&rwrd=10&curl=www.swagbucks.com&deno=10">I Just Won 10 Swag Bucks on www.swagbucks.com</a>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-74593195205983736432010-10-14T16:25:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:03:48.941-07:00Singer Sewing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJwmjS8I/AAAAAAAAAEU/pQ_R2NrVRdQ/s1600/IMG_0869%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJwmjS8I/AAAAAAAAAEU/pQ_R2NrVRdQ/s320/IMG_0869%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528055460565044162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Box from grandmother<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJhXXW3I/AAAAAAAAAEM/nb7Aj8UcyWM/s1600/IMG_0860%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJhXXW3I/AAAAAAAAAEM/nb7Aj8UcyWM/s320/IMG_0860%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528055456474815346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Singer 66 that I bought.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJlkgOcI/AAAAAAAAAEE/C3dGIPPajVU/s1600/IMG_0863%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJlkgOcI/AAAAAAAAAEE/C3dGIPPajVU/s320/IMG_0863%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528055457603664322" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The one I bought for 5.00<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJXtkc0I/AAAAAAAAAD8/WBZS91PNS50/s1600/IMG_0865%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/TLeZJXtkc0I/AAAAAAAAAD8/WBZS91PNS50/s320/IMG_0865%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528055453883593538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The One I got from Jesse<br /><br /><br /><br />OK I love Singer Sewing Machine's. I love them for the fact that they are built to last a long time and most have lasted a long time. My husband bought me a Singer about 4 years ago. And I have sewed a lot of thing on it. I have been wanting a older style machine for some time. You know the one that hides away and it looks like a table sitting there. Well I FOUND ONE we went to a flea market about 10 mile up from my house and I seen it in the back of a truck. Asked the lady that was sitting there with the table how much she wanted for it and she said the last time she talked to her mom she said that she wanted 5.00 because she did not want to take it back home with her. I want to talk with the mother just to find out how long it had been since it was used last ( the mom was in the restroom) she told me about 2 yrs ago and that it worked great then. So I gave her the 5.00 and brought it home with me took it out and went to sew with it would not pick up the bottom thread out of the bobbin. So I thought maybe it is the tension it was not after oiling and working on the tension and it still not working.Thought I would take it to a shop and have someone work on it did not know who to take it to. Remembered Val saying something on her blog about the guy that fixed her machine(lifeslittlegarden.blogspot.com) so since I go to church with her and we live in the same area thought I would call her and ask how the guy is and where his shop is. Did not get Val (haha) but did get her sweet husband and he told us where the was. Went to him and he FIXED IT. It was the time went out. While I was there I found a Singer c66 which I love and it was a great price so I bought it. It was not 5.00 but it was a deal he sold it to me for the parts that he had put in it. I love it. Plus there was a little box of sewing parts that my grandmother had gave me when Jesse had bought me my 1st machine she said that it had been to hers many years ago and that there might be some parts in it that I could use on my if something was to happen. Of course the parts don't work on mine but I did take it and ask what machine it works on he told me and he has one to SALE. I did not buy it but just maybe I will. Because it has all these little disk that goes with it and they make different stitches and I want to use them so bad.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-30854024401636772372010-04-18T13:46:00.000-07:002010-04-18T14:23:09.771-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/S8t4MFNtlII/AAAAAAAAADI/5IzpGTp6GFo/s1600/cchurchweb.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 311px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/S8t4MFNtlII/AAAAAAAAADI/5IzpGTp6GFo/s320/cchurchweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461591122070312066" /></a><br />I thought of you both today as I always do. I know you are with me as I go though my days. I feel you near me when I am down I can hear you both telling me just to push through. I know I don't all was do everything just right or say the right things all the time. But as you know from my last blog my faith has been down so much since my grandparents have pasted I have to say probably before they passed. I just have felt that no matter which way I turned that somethings was all was there blocking me from my move to get closer. I had to work Sat and I work with a person I go to church with they if I was going to be at Sunday School in the morning. I have not been going to Sunday school for awhile now. But I came home and talked to Jesse and told him I wanted to go that I was asked if we were going to be there so I told him I wanted to go. So we got up and got dressed and went the service was about prayer. I have been praying for the last month for me to get past things and start putting God first in my life and for me to feel him. Today I feel as if I gotten my answer. In church before the preacher got up to speak. We always have a group sing well they started singing and the spirit fell and I could feel the lord come over me and just started crying and have not since every time I think of that feeling. I have been also praying for me to do a small part in church to get involved in so that way my faith could build. Since my little girl turned 4 and stated do things with the little kids at church I have wanted to help with that I have helped with the little children before in the past so at Easter when I called a friend to let them know I wanted to help she told me that it would not be a problem it they could find me something to do. I told her that I would be there at 8 in the morning at the restaurant to help she said OK. (She had me do the cash register something I have not done in awhile at a restaurant I know now way I wanted to leave a restaurant.) Anyway maybe in someway he has been answering my prayers and I have not cared to really listen until know. For those of you reading this blog please keep praying for me and my family.(I know that this may look like ramdom thoughts but my fingers do not type as fast as my head thinks at time, if it did you would not be able to read it.)Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-16776977846756928092010-03-01T23:46:00.000-08:002010-03-04T04:13:43.821-08:00Happy Birthday Grandma<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/S4zQH394KqI/AAAAAAAAADA/6tPPV_tLhpg/s1600-h/Picture+785.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/S4zQH394KqI/AAAAAAAAADA/6tPPV_tLhpg/s320/Picture+785.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443954883285232290" /></a><br />Happy Birthday Grandma. I can see you now in heaven having the most joyfullest time today this is your 1st Birthday there. I can see you with all your loved ones having the greatest time I miss you more and more each passing day. The thing I miss the most is hearing your voice. At time's I feel so alone that all I want to do is pick up the phone and call you and talk. I go the the grave yard to just try to be close to you and try to feel you near me even though I know that that was a shell that held your precious spirit. I hope you knew hope much you mean to me even though you are gone to your home in heaven. You have been the greatest in pack on my life and always will be.I pray that I can get as close to God as you were that I can hand over everything that troubles me that I can one day feel his precious touch the way you have always felt when you prayed. As I am sitting here typing this I can just hear you saying trust in the lord and he will give you everything your heart desires. I am ashamed to say that my faith has not been that great. At time's I feel myself slipping away and feeling lost not knowing which way to turn or what to do I go though my day just hoping to get to the next. As Laci's Birthday nears I miss you more for I know the day after you will have been gone for a whole year. Laci is growing up so much and is so close to Hilda and Sonny that it make me look back each day at my childhood with you and grandpa. I was so blessed to have both of you in my life to show me how to live to be happy in what I do to never judge me to always encourage me to the fullest.I hope from this day forward that I can show Laci that. Again Happy Birthday Mamaw with love always Shanda.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"></span> And on another note please pray for my Aunt Venita she just found out that she has cancer of the breast and goes Monday for surgery.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-90082304775450533702009-06-16T05:33:00.000-07:002009-06-16T05:42:51.103-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSbOM2woI/AAAAAAAAAC4/AGgrdmgie08/s1600-h/IMG_0980.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSbOM2woI/AAAAAAAAAC4/AGgrdmgie08/s320/IMG_0980.JPG" border="0" Hair bows alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347904078891893378" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaxW0GTI/AAAAAAAAACw/UobkRBjhN74/s1600-h/IMG_0979.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaxW0GTI/AAAAAAAAACw/UobkRBjhN74/s320/IMG_0979.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347904071149033778" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSamPfGYI/AAAAAAAAACo/V8JKwdJzWZA/s1600-h/IMG_0973.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSamPfGYI/AAAAAAAAACo/V8JKwdJzWZA/s320/IMG_0973.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347904068165507458" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaXQVrzI/AAAAAAAAACg/_p_YRaMbCAg/s1600-h/IMG_0933.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaXQVrzI/AAAAAAAAACg/_p_YRaMbCAg/s320/IMG_0933.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347904064142552882" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaIyEQbI/AAAAAAAAACY/HX1a1O4l0_g/s1600-h/IMG_0917.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SjeSaIyEQbI/AAAAAAAAACY/HX1a1O4l0_g/s320/IMG_0917.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347904060257485234" /></a>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-53973914251623163442009-06-16T05:03:00.000-07:002009-06-16T05:32:54.642-07:00Where to StartOK let me start with VBS. This was Laci's 1st time to go to VBS. And really be a part of it.It started last Monday and went Thur Friday Night it took her until Wednesday to get the hang of it and the really understand it. But she was great and listened to what was said. Sunday morning was the ending sermonizes that is were Sunday is a children's service and the kids that were at VBS get to sing there songs in front of the church. When it came time for them to sing Laci did not want to go up there so I gave her my book to my camera so she would just stand there with it. Until Jesse Dad said something or made a face at her and then she made a face at him and he got her attention off of the singing. Then Brayden another little boy wanted to sit with her and read the book and when he would sit next to her she would move over so he would move over and by the time you seen them they were almost to the end of the riser. After the service was over the children has actives to play and do over in Ryman Hall which is our fellowship hall. They had 3 blow up things 2 slides and 1 that you hit people and knock them down. Then there was Mendy the clown and see painted there face & a magic show. There was a train that Bub and Reba done Laci just had all kinds of fun. And what did she do the min the car took off we were not even out of the parking lot and she was out. Ok that is VBS.<br /><br /><br />I have stated selling my hair bows and my I spy bag at a friends store at the mall.<br />I am just stating this so hopefully it will do good. He has been after me for about a year to do something with my talents. But I have to say I have been afraid to do it because I did not think people would like them but however people do like it. Laci wares my hair bows all the time and people ask where I got them. So I thought maybe I should stat making them to sell. Here are a few pic to leave you withShandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-40542744890183609452009-06-15T09:31:00.000-07:002009-06-15T09:35:04.464-07:00SorrySorry I have been on the Twlight kick. And have Been going to VBS. for the last few weeks. Know that everything is getting back on track I will be able to getting back to bloging. Right now I am at work.When I get home will post the pic from VBS and what I was working on until I started reading the Twlight Saga Books. Which were great.<br />ShandaShandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-79594183764679724452009-05-27T09:18:00.000-07:002009-05-27T14:37:31.768-07:00Test ResultsWell the test results are back and everything look's to be ok. I will share what has been going on before the accident of my grandparents my body has be acting strange to me. I have been bleeding off and on the the last month.I will go a week and off a week as the bleeding got worse I made appt and went to the doctor and she done a test it can back abnormal and I had to go back for another test the next went they went in and took some cells off. When she took them off she only found 3 and they were the size of a pin head. 2 days later the results came back and they were pre-cancer. She told me that it was a really low grade that I did not have to worry about it. I asked if the test would show a miscage and she told me no the reason I even asked is becouse a day after the fist vist I pass a large blood clot the size of my hand balled up. When this happed I was working and on my way home I called one of my cousins that is a nurse. I told her what happened and that is what she said it sounds like. Me I did not know what to think I have only had one preg. and it went fine. The doctor said that there was not anyway to tell if it had be a miscage that if it was it happened fast. So now you know more of what was going on and I think everyone of you that have been praying for me . Your friend ShandaShandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-59353971765412722392009-05-08T21:00:00.000-07:002009-05-12T14:25:33.506-07:00Burn's puls moreYou people will think I am crazy but here goes. Has anyone out there ever heard of talking fire out of a burn. Krista you can not answer this question. I know that this is a verse in the bible but have never found it. I know where the verse is to stop the blood in the bible but the one for the burn I have never found if anyone that reads this knows where I can find it please let me know. Or just knows where this started at..<br /><br /><br /><br />Ok I have found out that this is not ralley a verse in the bible. Still don't know where it came from do know that a woman can only teach it to a man and a man can only teach it to a woman. It can not be tought from woman to woman or man to man.<br />Know the reason I did not want Krista to answer this is becouse my Grandmother could do this she did not call it talking fire out of a burn but blowing fire out of a burn. The only reason I even brought up the subject is becouse my aunt asked me to write it down for her. See when Laci was 6 months old a iron fell on her little hand one night Jesse and I ran her to the calhoun E.R. On the way there I thought of my grandparents and thought that if they could pray that everything would be alright. They said they would and when they hung up my Dad called me to tell me the verse to blow the burn out my grandmother was on the other line telling him what to say and as the repeated it I would repeat after him. I dont know what it is but I know that it works when my cell cut off I just kept saying it over and over until we got ot the E.R about half way there Laci stoped crying and when we went in they took us right back and she was so calm the whole time. I guess I will never forget it my aunt Tiny asked me at for the verse and that is what brought up the whole thing of wanting to know where it is in the bible. I could not belive that is did not know it becouse of grandma doing it so much when I was little. She just said I always came to momma I thought she would be here for ever. My grandmother had a driect line to god that is why I all was called her and Grandpa to pray I asked my aunt who I could get to ask for pray now that they are gone. She just said that they are here with you just ask them. There has been some major problem with my body here lately and every night I have asked my grandparent to pray for me before I go to sleep. On Tuesday next week I have to go to the doctor to have some cells takeing out. For them to deturm what is going on. Please as you pray at night remember me and my family.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-74410420147490869692009-04-29T21:38:00.000-07:002009-04-29T22:32:25.135-07:00Grandpa<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/Sfk3pvlOYDI/AAAAAAAAACQ/aMR3sGFAOqs/s1600-h/tmp318.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/Sfk3pvlOYDI/AAAAAAAAACQ/aMR3sGFAOqs/s320/tmp318.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330352824256454706" /></a><br />What can I say about Grandpa. The thing that comes to mind is what Trev said at the hospital. That he is tough as nails that he get hit by a truck and keeps going (Trev was just trying to get us to laugh). It worked. My grandfather cut carpet for rugs, mowed lawns, and collected can's for the extra money in the summer the rest of the time he worked full time at a high school as a janitor. I was all ways with the both of them to me they were my 2nd parents even though they were really my dads parents. I remember the summers my papaw would take the boys out to mow yards and the girls would stay in the car or go to the store and get drinks it was not until later that the girls would get to mow the lawns to. See there was five boys and 2 girls (in the beginning) and we were always together in the summer. Papaw had a huge table that he would cut the carpet on and he would take and cut the carpet into rug's then sell them to a guy out in Murray co the guy would put binding on them and sell them. All the grandkids would help we would have to climb on the table to spread the roll of carpet out and he would take the cutter and cut it one of us would have to take the cutter in the middle and bring it to the end for him. He would teach us to be very careful with it to where we would not cut our fingers off. I am not the best person in the world and I have a temper that I got from my mother. As a child I showed my temper all the time my grandparents lived in Dawnville when I was little. One time my papaw was getting on to me for something and I ran outside to get away from him and he came after me I jumped off the front potch and he stop and told me to come there I told him no that just made him madder and he came after me and chased me down and gave me a spanking man he could run. Just think about a 7 yr old running around and a 51 yr old can keep up with her (LOL).At the time it was not funny but to think back it is.He has all was mowed lawns as the grandkids grew up they did not come around much but he still done it. I lived with them before I got married and there was time when he would come and pick me up from work and have the mower and I know that it was a job so I would just ask where we had to mow and would go and help him. Even after me and Jesse got married I would ask him to bring a mower over to the house to where he had a mowing job and would pay him to bring the mower over even though I was the one that mowed but he would weed-eat for me. Because as he got older he was not able to mow lawns anymore and the people that he would mow for were all stating to die off.(the people he had mowed for forever).There is so much more but for now this will do.Please remember me and my family as you pray .<br /><br />P.S.<br />Joe (uncle that was with them) got to come home today. We went to see him and they called and said that he was going to be discharged today that we could take him home.There is going to have to be some work done at the house so he can move around. But it is good for him to be home.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-84604012979419042802009-04-24T18:55:00.000-07:002009-04-24T19:48:31.927-07:00Life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SfJ4qwSG_MI/AAAAAAAAABo/0jaRznj5-70/s1600-h/Picture+784.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SfJ4qwSG_MI/AAAAAAAAABo/0jaRznj5-70/s320/Picture+784.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328453985043414210" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Sometime you never know when you will see your last day. As most of you have been reading Krista's blog you know how my family was turned upside down in a week. My Grandparents have always been there for me and anyone in my family in there on way. The thing I miss the most is hearing my grandmothers voice just telling me that everything will be fine. I miss talking to her at my lunch and miss calling in the morning and hearing my grandfathers voice. I would ask what are you doing and he would say just holding the bed down or holding down the chair. On Thursday I had planned on going over that night to see them and take some pic's of them with Laci for her birthday. Laci turned 3 on that Wed. The last time I really talked to my Grandmother was on Tues.<br /><br />There is many memories of my grandparents that I will always have. Like one time when my mom (Shelia) took me and my brothers to Kokomo to live. And it was snowing really bad I put on my coat and said that I am going back to Georgia to live with my mamaw , papaw and daddy. And here I went a little 3 year old girl out in the snow (did not get very far). When my mom called my mamaw that night she told me that it would be fine and that I need to be a good girl.<br />I just remember that it made me fill good. Just like when I use to stay the summer when I was little and later when I lived with them. I could not go to bed at night with out hearing my mamaw say "Good night sweet dreams and my God bless you" Later after I was married I would call my mamaw at night just for her to say those words to me and I would sleep fine at night as long as I heard them. About a month ago I started saying it with Laci at night. The first time my husband heard her say it he laughed and said it sounded like my grandmother.<br /><br />My next few blogs will be about memories of my grandparents. For you to better understand what these people mean to me. Here is a pic that was taken last year.Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-34318012035948908792009-04-01T20:16:00.000-07:002009-04-01T20:52:28.144-07:00What I have been up to<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I have been very busy with work and everything but I have also be doing small projects.</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:verdana;">1. I re-done my little girls room</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">2. Stated a quilt (yes a quilt)</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />3. painted my brother-in-law new baby girls room.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And 4. Mommy and Me aprons.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">People say it is easy to quilt. It is so time </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" style="font-family:verdana;">consuming</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> let me tell you . Cutting out everything and then when you get everything cut out you have to lay it out man it is just a bunch of work. But I like it. I have been looking at </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" style="font-family:verdana;">a lot</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> of things to re-do </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" style="font-family:verdana;">Laci</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> room and have been coming up with dead ends not knowing what to do. Well I found a quilt set that I like online and when I got it. It was a comforter set not a quilt like I thought. So I will post some pics and see what you all think. Of her room and of the quilt I am working on. As For the baby's room I don't have any pics of it. The room came out </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" style="font-family:verdana;">OK</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> but nothing to write home about. The Aprons I will have pics of later.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here is a list of things I still have to do.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />1. I say bags for Frankie's Store</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />2. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" style="font-family:verdana;">Curtains</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for living room</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />3. Dresses for Herbie and Shanda's BABY GIRL</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />4. Cutting out for another quilt</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />5. And Hair Bows.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />6. More blogging for </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="profile/10594313154015365616" rel="nofollow">Valerie</a> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Just six things but this is a lot.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1T9Xn8CI/AAAAAAAAABQ/c9aNRjTLgMg/s1600-h/IMG_0469.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1T9Xn8CI/AAAAAAAAABQ/c9aNRjTLgMg/s320/IMG_0469.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319935676838834210" border="0" /></a><br />The Quilt I am Making<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1TlMPc5I/AAAAAAAAABI/VMZDFh5ybcs/s1600-h/IMG_0457.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1TlMPc5I/AAAAAAAAABI/VMZDFh5ybcs/s320/IMG_0457.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319935670348641170" border="0" /></a><br />Laci's New Bedding<br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1UJQouuI/AAAAAAAAABg/GcbKhwywl1I/s1600-h/IMG_0450.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1UJQouuI/AAAAAAAAABg/GcbKhwywl1I/s320/IMG_0450.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319935680030751458" border="0" /></a><br />I also done this Laci calls it her color roll.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1UEqhcpI/AAAAAAAAABY/hf0aaF50st0/s1600-h/IMG_0446.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gxvYDhRP69w/SdQ1UEqhcpI/AAAAAAAAABY/hf0aaF50st0/s320/IMG_0446.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319935678797148818" border="0" /></a>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-76511718295674620472009-03-04T09:05:00.000-08:002009-03-04T09:59:48.161-08:00Hard times<span style="font-family:georgia;">I know that a lot of people don't really know me or my family. But I am asking for prayer for us.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Every time I read something Krista post or will just send sometimes for me to read it is like she kind of know what is going on with me even with out me tell or saying anything to anyone.,The post you made about submission hit when I read it last night. For I know that is what a wife is suppose to do. It is a hard thing for me at times because I am a very hard head to say the least. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">And I want you to hear what I have to say about things. My husband and I have been together for 9 yrs this year and is until we were married 3yrs that we were really married. In the beginning it was money we did not have any and there was so many bills. Well we still have a ton of bills and trying to work though them .The money is starting to come in a little easier to where we can pay things on time and get things payed up a little. But in the last year or so it is like our marriage is back to the way it was in the beginning again and we have been at the point that I just want to give up. We don't argue about the money. We fight about little things about me having to work late now and me not doing things around the house like i use to, not spending time with him, when he gets home it is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">ok</span> for him to take a nap to relax him but it is not <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">ok</span> for me to sew,read of something that I like to do to relax a little. And so on and so on. We know how to fake it well but when you fight in front of you child and they tell your In-laws then your in-laws say your child told on you on the way home what do you say to that. We try not to fight in front of or child but at time's our temper get in the way and we do.I have a frame with a poem we got from a friend at or wedding. It says </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Marriage Takes Three</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Marriage takes three to be complete;</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">It's not enough for two to meet.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">They must be united in love</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">By <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">love's</span> creator; God above.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Then their love will be firm and strong;</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Able to last when things go wrong,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Because they've felt God's love and know </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">He's always there, He'll never go.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">And they have both loved Him in kind</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">With all the heart and soul and mind;</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">And in that love they've found the way</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">To love each other every day.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">A marriage that follows God's plan</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Takes more than a woman and man.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">It needs a oneness that can be</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Only from Christ,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Marriage takes three.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:georgia;">This frame is next to my bed to where when I get up I see it. I would like to say if you are reading this please keep my family in your prayers and thank you for listen to my thoughts.</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-14829536440878357442009-02-25T17:10:00.000-08:002009-02-25T17:16:25.764-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today is the 1st day that I really get to start blogging. I have been reading my aunt Krista's for a while and my friend Valerie has been wanting me to do this for a long while. So here go. As the week go's by I hope to add things daily.<br />Your friend always,<br />Shanda<br /></span></span>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665949724615650519.post-72143181199173335072008-11-13T20:36:00.000-08:002008-11-13T20:37:55.692-08:00<a href="http://www.oldredbarnco.blogspot.com"><img src="http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/danabol/button3.jpg" /></a>Shandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05755393705022175340noreply@blogger.com0