Update

The brain scan came back and Mom did have a stroke. She is talking better now but she is very slur and has a hard time getting her words out. She is unable to eat or drink correctly so they are going to run a swallow test on her. She has lost strength in her right arm and leg and is unable to walk Dad was told that she ould be in the hospital awhile but they are working to get her in rehab...The Dr told Dad she could bounce back from his with lots of work. Pray for my Mom and Dad.. Decisions and Peace will need to be made.

My head is spinning

What a week My Mom is in the hospital. Has been there since Sunday night. Allyson showed me a swollen lymph gland in her neck Drop-off starts next week for my sale. Mom is OK... She has been in bad health for quite a long time . The woman is a ox. You think this might be it and she bounces back. Sadly though it looks like she might have suffered a stroke this time. They took her for a brain scan this morning and hopefully we will hear something this afternoon. I am trying to talk my Dad to move here with Mom after she gets out of rehab. He keeps turning me down but in teh same breath he saids I just don't know how I can handle her. Please pray for parents. Allyson swollen lymp gland turend outto be a infected SPIT gland ... She will be on meds for a fews weeks. If it does not go down I was told to take her to a ENT. The sale is going great.JUST BUSY. I hope by the end of the month to become a regular blogger I will try to keep everyone updated on Mom

Urgent prayer Request

http://caringbridge.org/visit/billrich Our friend from Church Bill Rich just went through a blood marrow transplant 9 days ago. He has develop a serious fungus pneumonia since his transplant. This morning he was being a placed on a respirator. The battle with the pneumonia is not going well. Please take time to pray for him and Sheri immediately. God is the great physician Bill is 45 and has 3 boys. 19,13,6 His wife name is Sheri. He is at Duke.

The Election Again

NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION... TOP 10 PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION 1. The Bible will still have all the answers. 2. Prayer will still work. 3. The Holy Spirit will still move. 4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people. 5. There will still be God-anointed teaching and healing. 6. There will still be singing of praise to God. 7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people. 8. There will still be room at the Cross. 9. Jesus will still love you. 10. Jesus will still save the lost. ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL?!!!

Our Next VP

Come on American Women . I feel like I am hearing something from the 50's These concerns and question about having a pregnant teen or how many kids they have would not be asked if this same thing happen to a man who was running for President or Vice President. Men SHOULD and do have the same pressures of being a parent ( no matter how many children they have) Men SHOULD and do have the same pressure of being a husband Men SHOULD and do have the same pressure of dealing with serious issues that effect their families. So what makes it different for a WOMAN When I read these concerns and questions it makes me think that the majority of being a parent rest on the woman's solely on a shoulder. What happen to equal partnership in a marriage and being a parent. Every candidate that is running for a office is married and has a family. It really hit me this morning as I was listening to a radio station. There were callers were saying she would make a irresponsible VP because she had a baby at 43, had five kids, carried a special need baby to term and her teen daughter was pregnant. Here I am a mother of five, had a baby at almost 44, carried my son who is mentally retarded and I am labeled irresponsible and should never be considered running for a important office or have a important role in society. I actually cried all the way home for this biggest reason I THOUGHT when we nominated a black man for president and Mrs Clinton almost won that just maybe we have started taking off blinders that all men and women are equal no matter what! I was wrong especially after what I have been reading on the liberal left wing websites and what I heard on the radio this morning....

PARTY TIME

Today we are celebrating Caroline's 10th Birthday Party a month early. Her birthday is actually Sept 29th. She wanted to have a swimming party and here even in the South can be "iffy" So today we will have 10 ( maybe more) screaming silly wonderful Caroline's girlfriends here. I have games, crafts , Hannah Montana and a extra dose of Tylenol ( for me) plan today! More later

1st Grade Language

Elijah's teacher came around the driver's side of the van yesterday and said I need to tell you what Elijah said.. I thought of dear what has he said now ..... She shared that a little girl at school had to have surgery the first day of school . She told the class that they needed to pray for her. Of course the kids had question why she had to have surgery. She said Elijah raised his hand and she thought he might knew her and why. He said... Mrs Brown. I sure hope it is not that plastic surgery. That sure would be terrible. Mrs Brown said it took everything in her power not to burst out laughing... I told her LOOK at me it is obvious I have not had plastic surgery and I have no idea where he has heard of plastic surgery! LOL.

Glorious!!!

We left last Thursday for a long weekend of camping with two other families. We camped near Grand-Fathers Mountain. The camp ground we stayed at was VERY nice and you really did feel like you were in the mountains. We went to Grand-Father's Mountain and the swinging bridge! We also went hiking to the Linville Falls. We had a great time! My friend Renee brought her parent Along . ( Grandpa Chuck and Grand Maw Ruth). What a blessing they were to us and the kids this weekend. Allyson, Caroline and Elijah just took to them immediately. They both took the time to play , talk and making them feel special. Grandpa Chuck is 79 and Grand Maw Ruth is 76. You would never know it though. Grandpa Chuck went hiking with us and hardly loss his breathe. ( unlike me) Grand Maw Ruth was always doing something around the camp . What a busy bee she is. When we left they both compliment how well behave our kids were and how much they enjoyed being with everyone. I was so touched! Yesterday was a glorious day I was very sad but the kids started school. But it was glorious that they privilege too attend a private school and have great teachers that love the Lord. I got to eat lunch with my husband We also close the deal on a great location for our consignment sale. God is good always!

One more thing

To add to the stress Robert went to buy lunch and our credit card did not go through... Called the credit card company and someone got hold of our our cc # and went on a shopping spree in FL. The cc company actually notice all the charges in FL and stopped our card.No we did not lose our card No telling how it happen but our guess someone hack a site that we have used our cc on. We are not going to have to pay all the charges . We will have to contact every billing agency we used Can anything else happen this next week????

Do you feel the heat????

I know I have been a bad blogger but I have a good excuse. It is a 4 letter four.... BUSY! As you know we came back to air conditioning problems after our vacation. You ever heard of air conditioning drama??? Well we have experience it. A friend of a friend came to look at it . To make a long story short this guy has not follow through . The person we wanted to work on it was actually doing contract work out of the country. The freon ( sorry for the spelling) is now gone again and the system is not cooling. The good news the person we original wanted to fix it is back and we will have it fixed hopefully by Sat. The bad news we have to put in a whole new cooling system at $2,000. We are now even broke because I had to pay school tuition this week. The kids this week have been at music/ drama camp a the Cove Church. They have had so much fun and made some new friends. Tonight we will be going to see a musical presentation. They are pretty excited and the kids say it is really cool what they are doing... This past week I have set at my computer for at least 6 HOURS a day working. I am getting ready for my consignment sale in September. I am using a new and very cool system called My Consignment manager. The consignor tags their items on-line and then we upload the information into our computer. We have scanners that will scan their own personal barcode as the items sell at our sell. They can also set up their drop-off and volunteer time in my system. This is saving me a ton of work. That is what I have been busy doing all week setting up the system. I am finally finish and will be opening up links for them to get busy this coming Monday. We are having a pool party this Sunday with friends. One of my sweet adopted daughters ( Rachel) is bringing her boyfriend over to meet our family. I have know Rachel and her family for many years. ( The Robbins). They are actually our family too. I hear wedding bells in the future very soon! Morgan is coming home this weekend for a visit. I need to post about my special son. He is such a blessing and actually he brought me closer to God. I will do a post on my man Morgan soon Well Later! Have a great weekend