Common Ground Coffee House #106

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How happy you must be!! I remember when my son-in-law adopted my granddaughter, The judge allowed both grandmothers in the courtroom. It was glorious to see my granddaughter get a dad that loved her. My son-in-law was beaming 'cause he got a daughter (he has 4 sons). May God truly bless your family as he has blessed ours. One thing more, my granddaughter and her dad celebrate the, "doption day"as they put it, more than her actual birthday. Dad takes her all day and does special things with just her. My granddaughter looks at that more than her actual BD....May our Heavenly Father bless you and yours! raying:

leenies :flower: /COLOR]

 

Good morning, folks!

Poured during the night and sunny now with more clouds on the way.

Barry's sick today -- has been for a couple of days. Been sleeping for hours each day as well as all night. So he won't be going to church today and since it's my Sunday to stay home with Chris so Gina can go to church, that effectively grounds all of us!

Other than that, all is calm. Crocuses are crowding around the mailbox, looking wonderful in the middle of gray days. Buds are showing up on things and bulbs peeking up out of the ground. Promises of things to come. Geese honking overhead more and more now as they start to return north.

Maybe it's just me who's having trouble getting going this morning! All of nature seems to be doing just fine!

Ann, hope your graphics go well, and, Sue, I'm so sorry about Brent. Give him our best and I'm glad he has you to take care of him. God bless you all.

Breadfast is on. Hay in the bale and grain in the bin....oops that's for the horses.

OK, for you folks the grain has been fixed into oatmeal and toast. :laugh: Fresh fruit on the sideboard and bacon and sausages warming in the chafing dish.

 

Hey Everyone!

Must be sick week at the BB. All three of mine are down. Cass has a migraine and Chris and Jenna have whatever the doc treated Jenna for last week that didn't go away like it was supposed to. Blech! Those two keep coughing and generally feel bad.

Today was my and the preacher's wife day to do children's church. It's a good thing when the children don't want to go home, right? One new little boy went flying over to his parents when they came in and said "I want to go to church, HERE! I had fun." Pretty good for kids who had just had a very serious lesson on salvation!

Tonight our choir is joining with the choir from one of the Nazarene churches and we are have an old fashioned singing. Lots of hymn's and "southern Gospel" music. It's gonna be fun.

I have to cook supper and be at church in just one hour so my break is over! See ya'll late or tomorrow.

 

Good morning all:wavey:

I might as well join you sickos!:laugh:
I've had bronchitis for two weeks. Sure has knocked me on my tail. I can't quite kick it. No energy and funny feeling in my chest and head.
Sounds like every other third person here is battling some kind of sickness.

Helen

Hi Helen,

Crocuses? Ah...spring is on the way.
I've got daffodils poking their heads up checking for warmer weather. Spring seems to be starting early. Hopefully not a false start.

 

Good Morning Everybody,

Did I hear you right Sue?, Did you say 50 degrees?? :applause:

No sickies around here [ I'm saying this quietly too. ]

I brought in Omlettes, Bacon, and Biscuits & Sausage Gravy. Enjoy.

My Wife says I should give up cooking for Lent.
I think I should give up something else like pizza,or hot chocolate. If I give up cooking people around here are going to get cranky, and unhappy real quick.

Yesterday my Wife and I had a long discussion about Church, and I'm going to call the Pastor to set up a time that we can come in to talk to him. I think we've found our new Church home.

Well it's time to get the chores, and the meals done.

 

Good Monday Morning, folks!

Sorry you're sick Oasis! We have found that taking vitamin D in the winter tends to ward off the worst of the bugs and shorten the life of the others. I think Barry is sick because he simply does not take time off and so his body runs down. I've told him I'm really going to nag about taking one day off in seven. For me it is Thursdays. I know that sounds funny, but the week is as under control as it is going to get at that point and the weekend activities have not yet started. So Thursday, for years now, has been my traditional day of kicking back, napping, reading, taking it easy and letting my body catch up. Because of Chris, our retarded son, we can't both kick back on the same day that thoroughly, so this last week, Barry slept all day Friday....and Saturday....and most of Sunday! I'll see if I can't get him down next Friday, too, to just rest for a day.

Some folks seem to think 'rest' is a four-letter swear word!

Sue, how is Brent this morning? It's seven in the morning here, so you should be at somewhere around nine? He should be awake soon.

MK, your kids are really going through it this season, aren't they? That means you are, too, taking care of them. Please take care of yourself in those odd moments when you find yourself bored, OK?

Ann, about Christianity and schools -- my Dad gave me an excellent picture of what the world was like once. He told me to imagine all kinds of poles, or sticks, stuck in the ground in a field. All but one were stuck in at some kind of angle. One was straight up. All the angled sticks considered the straight up stick to be weird, proud, out of place, wrong, judgmental (pick your adjective). So Dad's question to me, his challenge to me, was "Are you going to be bent and crooked like the rest of the world or straight up?" I never forgot the picture. I wasn't able to live up to it as a teenager, but I never forgot!

I think it holds regarding Christianity today. All the other bent religions are fine -- they can all agree than an 'angle' is the best place to be and thus can all accept each other to one extent or another. But straight up? No, Christianity is totally unacceptable. These crazy people think they are right to the exclusion of all other religions! How proud! How judgmental!

How right....


God bless you all.

 

Good Morning Everyone!

Helen, December - March for the upper respiratory stuff and any time school is in session for the stomach bugs. I have seriously considered homeschooling for just this reason. Thing is, I was exactly the same way when I was a kid. I caught everything that came along. Did that until I was in my early twenties and then all of a sudden my immune system kicked in and I rarely get sick anymore.

Jenna is running a fever this morning. It got up to about 102 about 2 o'clock this morning, but a little tylenol brought it right back down. Right now it is hanging at about 100. I'd take her into the doc's but I keep getting a busy signal. That is not a good sign! It's almost 9:30 and if their lines are still busy, then they are going to be CROWDED! Jenna's doc is not in on Monday's so we were already going to have to see someone else. I may just make an appointment for tomorrow.....if I ever get though(beep...beep....beeep.....beep...beep....grrrrr!)

Chris may have more of a sinusy thing going on again. I'm thinking he needs a visit to the ENT. He's had this sinusy thing for a long time it seems. Cass isn't awake yet so, I don't know how she is. She ran a low grade fever herself yesterday but can't tell me that anything more is wrong than a migraine. Migraines do not cause fever!

Bored, Helen? That is soooo last week! I don't get to be bored this week and wasn't going to be so even without sick kids. There are 18 pageant dresses and a smocking class(or two) to take up my time! And I have a project or two of my own I'd like to work on. (like that is going to happen!) I am taking care of myself, though cause mom's don't have time to be sick!

Rob, you can give up cooking for a week, next week, not this week. I don't have time to take your place this week.

Ya'll have a good day. I'm going to go get started on mine as one of those dresses is hanging in my closet already.

 

At least you are getting to see the nurse practitioner today. I just now got through to our doc and Jenna has an appointment for tomorrow at 11:45, with a doc we don't usually see.

The other two have decided that they are still alive! PTL! Chris is working on the two projects that somehow got missed in the last couple of weeks while he was suffering from gunk and migraines. I've decided that maybe he just has a cold. Claritin and Robitussin CF have made a big difference in how he feels today. He's been out spray painting the poster board for these projects(his solution to not being able to find "cool" colors ready made.)

Cassie finally rolled out of bed ready to go to the mall, , not that I plan on taking her. She's busy on the phone talking to her friends. Even before they all got puny, I decreed this to be a kid free weekend. (all part of taking care of myself. ) She is now complaining about how mean I am, in front of me no less. :laugh:

 

Sue,,Not playing the role of medical doctor, but we always used some vinegar in pan on stovetop and gently inhaling the steam to resolve a sore throat problem. Always worked for us. Do, however, be careful with the inhaling cos too much at once can cause one to faint..........

Cheers,

Jim

PS, Vinegar was among the first medicines used in ancient times, and even mentioned in scripture as such.

 

Sue, try alternating tylenol and advil every two hours to keep that fever down(makes for four hours between any two doses of the same med). Febrile seizures are scarey! Jenna used to hallucinate when her fever went above 102 and that is what the docs recommended for her.

Well, we have one of Chris' projects done and have made good progress toward the second. We are waiting on the paint to dry and one of my uncles to wake up so I can find out some birthdays and death days of my dad's parents. (family tree project) Of course, this project was assigned just when my parents are in Florida. Neither set of my grandparents celebrated birthdays and Dad couldn't tell me off the top of his head. Said his mother used to tell them that it was none of their business how old they were getting! :laugh: Sounds just like I remember her. She had her own ideas and stuck with them.

I have to call one of my aunts and find the same info about Mother's parents. I hope I don't scare her to death. Us cousins almost never call each other's parents unless something is wrong. Matter of fact, when we do call we have to identify who's kid we are because there are so many of us.(well over 60)

 

Us cuzzn's don't call each other neither do we cuz?

BTW my cuz 'an I ain't hillbillies neither.
No Maam, we's hillwilliams...we's edddicated hillbillies.

 

Hey cuz, I thought we wasn't hillbillies cause we was born in the north!

LOL on the cousins calling. I only know where a very few of my cousins have ended up. There's just too many to keep up with and a good many of them either live in other parts of the state or in other states! Neither my mother's or my father's families were particularly close when we were growing up. As far as I know, you and I might actually be cousins. I have relatives in Holland, Grand Rapids and Prudenville(where is Prudenville, anyway? ) Have an aunt in Pontiac. Have some great aunts and second cousins that I barely know exist (may have met them twice in my life) in Detroit/Royal Oak. Hopefully, somewhere this is all written down.

I did frighten my aunt a bit. Bless her heart, I think she had forgotten where my folks have gone and I know she didn't remember right off who I was. Unfortunately, she didn't have the information I needed either, so I relied on my own memory as to when my grandparents died and her memory as to how old they were and extrapolated the year of their births.

Now, I need to head to the sewing machine. Chris is studying for a test he missed in Social studies.

Sue, I hope Brent does NOT have strep and that you don't spend four hours waiting to find out!