YAAAAAWN again

So, it's another one of those nights when I woke up and can't sleep even though I am very sleepy.

I'm with Michelle. on you girls posting more often. It's hard when I have nothing new to read. K, I have nothing new to say either.

Oh yeah! We have been thinking of buying more food storage with our retirement money and it seems more a good idea than ever before because of the hyper inflation that is coming up this year or the next. Brigham Young said the time would come when a bushel of wheat would be worth a bushel of gold. I think that that time may be coming up soon.

Girls when you say that the prophet would warn us if that was going to happen, you are wrong. They didn't warn us of the depression of the 1930's. I think I will suggest to Joe that we fast about it. I feel that strongly about it. What good is cash going to do us when it will take a billion dollars to buy a loaf of bread... ? We are going to see such economic problems from these bailouts its hard to even imagine. If you can't get food storage for some reason at least get out of debt if you can.

On a brighter note.... It has been a month since I've been on a walker so only a little more than three weeks and I will graduate to a cane. All ready I can feel it easier to stand on my bad leg.

Well, don't forget to go back and comment on my last two posts.

Lub - Lubs,

Mither

Mistake

I don't know how "craisins crossings" got in my last post but it was supposed to say just "craisins" and since I don't know how to edit my posts after I have published them I have to correct the this way. Sorry but it comes with the territory when you read what I write. Be sure to go back and read the post before this one so this one will make sense.

Sorry again.

Mither

So here goes another boring post.

Michelle, Karla and Stace, I didn't read several of your recent posts until this morning. So look back on your last three posts and see what my comments were if you're interested.

Well, in the last book I read the strong, silent type of hero won the girl and lived happily ever after, after saving the world. (Louie La' More)

I did finish a baby blanket for Janice's friend who brought me a good book while I was in the hospital.

One high spot... My sweet daughter, Emilee, brought in a dinner on Tuesday that was delicious. It is so nice to have something different to eat than what I ask Joe to fix. I hate to put him to the trouble of cooking something different every night so we got into a rut eating the same few meal that were easy to make and became very boring and not so nutritious. Emilee fixed cheese ravioli, a yummy salad that had a special dressing on it with almonds and craisens crossings in it, with corn and garlic bread. Doesn't that make your mouth water. And Karla made the most delicious chicken enchiladas last week that tasted just as good the next day warmed up as when we first ate them. I am trying to ask different children to cook a meal for us so it doesn't put a strain on anyone. I hope you girls don't mind but this long recovery is really hard on Joe and if you help out it takes some of the weight off his shoulders. Thanks again, you are angels.

Well I am getting a crick in my back from sitting so long so that's all for this post.

LUBS to everyone,

Mither

Just Checking In With Ya'all

My sweet DIL brought dinner over Tuesday night. She cooked delicious chicken enchiladas. The kids played with the Tinker Toys and the the Magnetics. We enjoyed visiting with them and the kids seemed to have a good time so it was a successful evening.

Joe took me for a ride last night which was a really nice change from the four wall of my bedroom. It was great that is until I started feeling sick from the fibromyalgia again. I guess the stress of the surgery and the physical therapy finally got to me and pushed me over the edge of my tolerance. Thankfully when I got home I took my medication and all was well.

I slept soundly last night. It was one of those rare times when I was glad my kids were raised and my old age insomnia took leave. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sleep how sweet you are. I slept in until 10:20. There are some advantages to being old enough to have raised all my children. Your time will come, never fear.

Loves,

Mither

Yawnnnnn ....Ho hum

Well its another one of those nights when I can sleep as much as I want but I can't sleep because when you get old you have nights like that for no good reason. I might as well have kids waking me up.

Don't have much to say this time but my last post should make up for it. The fear is gone now thanks to prayer and the passage of time. But I still hope you all will get your food storage started.

Pt still remains hard to do but I am making good progress there. I 'm going stir crazy staying home alone all day and night. But my hair looks so bad and I can't do without my walker yet so I guess it will be a week or two before I get out. I don't know what it is but the thought of going anywhere on a walker is embarrassing to me. I know it's silly but there it is. Silly me.

Well no great thoughts for this post. Just know that you are loved....

Mither

Well Joe and I woke up at 5:00 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I came in to the office to read all the new posts. I loved all those tag posts. I still can't see anyway to "cut and paste" on my tool bar so how do you do it anyway?

My hip is feeling much better this morning. Course I haven't done any pt on it yet so maybe I should wait to report on that. I got grilled chicken salad after my doctors appointment yesterday. Yummmmmm. I wish I didn't feel so funny about going out in public using a walker. I would like to have gone to Costco. I guess it's just as well. By the time my pt therapist came I was hammered and could hardly do the moves she taught me. Some of the moves are so hard to do. I can only raise my leg a couple of inches in some directions. I wonder if I will ever get back to my old self at this rate but she (pt therapist) said it will come. Its only been two weeks so maybe I am expecting too much.

Joe, who said only a month ago that he decided not to buy a gun, went out and bought TWO rifles while I was in the hospital. I need to go out on the firing range to see if I can even use them. The one with a scope was really hard for me to get the cross hairs positioned until Jonathan came last night and showed me how to do it. Even knowing how to do it, it is still hard
to get it right.

Ems I didn't answer your comment about our talk about buying wheat. I know you are repeating yourself with the same answer but don't think they aren't appreciated. I just get so bugged about the way things are going and want to find some relief from the fear. It does help to have someone help me get my head on straight but I sure hope everyone is right about not taking our retirement money to buy wheat. Again, I will pray to have my heart be calmed about all this.

About listening to Glenn Beck, I know it would be better for me not to listen but I can't stand not knowing what is happening in the world so it is a "catch 22" for me. If I don't listen I am concerned (read freaked out) about what is (or might be) happening that I don't know and if I do listen, I get scared and want to do something tangible about it (like buying more wheat so we will have some to share with my children who don't have the money to buy it for themselves.) Try to put yourself in my place, Ems, and think of what you would want to do if (as adult children) Emma had all her food storage and Matthew didn't have any and you could see the world falling apart around you and you still had time and money to make a difference. Can you even imagine that??? Well, even if you can only imagine a little about how that might feel, that's how I feel magnified by 10 times.

Think how I will feel if the world does go to hell in a hand basket and I didn't buy wheat when I could and then all I had left was $25,ooo in worthless paper dollars. Yes, I do think how I would feel if I went out and bought a lot of wheat and then, though things get worse but the worst doesn't happen, and we end up not having any money to get us through our old age. Don't think I haven't thought about that. That is what is stopping me from buying it right now. I hope with all my heart that the worst doesn't happen or I will probably go nuts when it does. My sanity is in question right now, I know, so praying is all I can do at this point.

I sure hope you kids who don't have any food storage can find a way to buy SOMETHING right away, maybe for Christmas instead of toys. It is that important. It is like Noah being told to get on the ark. Don't put it off. The way will be opened up if you really commit to finding a way to buy something. And you can always find some way to store it if you're determined. I bet Emilee might even let you store it in her basement if you asked.

Well I didn't mean to get into this at all when I started writing, so sorry everyone for bending your ear (or your eyes as the case may be) ;)

May God bless us all to be as ready and we can,

Loves,

Mither

Wishes ...and thankful

I wish you would all write a post more often. I wish I could get around easier. I wish I didn't need to have someone get me back into bed when I need to rest. I wish I could fix my own food. I wish I would hurry and get better from this surgery.

I'm thankful that you write whenever you can, as it gives me something to look forward to.
I'm thankful I could have the surgery so I will eventually not be in pain anymore. I'm thankful for people who have helped out and visited. I'm thankful that I don't have to go out in public with my hair looking so stunning. I'm thankful for having a husband who is so willing to put up with doing everything for me. I'm thankful to be doing a little better and that I can get up out of bed myself now.

I could add more to each list but my hip is hurting from sitting this long, so

bye now,

Mither

So, here I am in the dark trying to cment on ather people's blogs and I can't see the letters on the keyboards plus I am using our laptop which means the keys are a little different. I should have had Joe help me into the computer room as it is taking me twice as long to write anything. ;[

I've commented on a couple of your blogs but ti was so hard to do it that I will do better just commenting here.

Michelle and Karla I loved reading your tags. Since I don't know how to cut and paste yet, I'll just have to forgo doing a tag, sorry.

Ems, your pictures were darling, course I am a little biased. I'm glad you wrote that comment on me being an Orge grandma. It does make me feel a little better.

One good thing. I am laying down writing this post on the laptop and I have to use a pillow to prop it up so I can use it. My stomach isn't big enough to prop it up at the right angle. Yay for relatively small stomachs. :]

luv luvs,

Mither

Ogre Grandma

Poor little Emma got her feelings hurt the other day when I asked her to stop galloping around the house. I didn't want to encourage her to think it was all right to run around grandma's house but maybe I shouldn't have told her she couldn't gallop. It was really so cute and I felt bad about it when she started to cry about it. And I hate to think of myself as an ogre grandma. I wish it didn't bother me so much to have the little ones run in the house, but that's how it is for me. :(

I am doing better since my surgery. I'm s till not able to get around by myself, make any meals, or do any housework or laundry but I am so grateful not to be in the nursing home that I can wait for that. (Who would have thought I would wish to be able to do my housework.) I hate to ask Joe to do anything for me since he has all the responsibility of caring for me, but I am so embarrassed to have anyone see my messy bedroom that I can't stand to have anyone come in the bedroom to visit. (my immediate family excepted as they already know how it looks)

Well enough for now.

Oh yes, if anyone has any really good books I could borrow it would be greatly appreciated.

Love to all,

Mither