117th HODGE

1. Do you play games of luck/chance for money? rarely
Have you ever played bingo for money? nope

...Visited a casino? yep, in las Vegas but didn’t bet…and on our honeymoon cruise…I lost $5 at the nickel slots 

...Placed a bet on a horse? nope

...Bought a lottery ticket? I put scratch-off lottery tickets in hub’s stocking @ Christmas

2. Will you be preparing and/or dining on the traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage meal this St. Patrick's Day?  no, hubs can’t eat corned beef..I’ll probably make pork something

Mashed-baked-hash browned-French fried...your favorite way to have potatoes? waffle house scattered, smothered, covered, diced & capped hash browns

3. What's the last thing you felt 'green with envy' over?
2-acre lake lot with four-bedroom/four-bath ranch home in the north Georgia blue ridge mountains

4. What's at the end of your rainbow? walking/talking with my family and Jesus in his garden

5. March 12th ma: anniversary of the death of Anne Frank ). Anne's diary details her time spent hiding from the Nazi's ranks as one of the best selling books of all time.
Besides your blog, do you keep any sort of diary or journal? no
6. What's an item in your home or closet containing every color of the rainbow? an old clown wig we used at Halloween, birthday parties and dress-up play dates

7. Write a limerick with you as the subject.

YOUNG SWEETIE, OLD HOTTIE

As a mom, young life was so sweet

God’s love made her life so complete

Doctors saved her one day

"Hysterectomied" baby-making parts away

So, she "fans" seeking cure from the HEAT!

8. Insert your own random thought here. we celebrated one of my prayer sister’s birthday last night with s surprise party…

she liked her new garden knee pads…

come on over to Joyce’s

MONDAY MADNESS...getting by with a little help/fun

 in honor of what would have been John Lennon's 71st birthday yesterday as well as Paul McCartney's wedding day, this week's "BFF inspiration # 131" is:

"I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends".

I get help from Minnie Pauz...

I subscribe to Minnie Pauz News


...and it's nice SHARING some menopausal 'fun'...go here for more 

There is 'FUN' in knowing you are NOT alone when enduring and praying for the 'end' of all the side effects.  

A "sister menopauser" was going to be outside mowing the grass
Her husband calls her daily, and she wanted to leave an answering machine message letting him know her whereabouts.

She was closest to her cell phone (that was in her car), so she made the call to the machine.

Suddenly hearing the house phone ringing, ran from the car to answer it...quickly becoming angry because SOMEONE hung up after only one ring.

Going BACK to her cell phone in the car, she called again...

THEN...it HIT her...WHO was calling!

HAHAHAHAHA

SHE so sounds like ME these days...

What adventures have you had recently fighting the "menopausal spirits" ?

Jer. 33:3  "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."      Blessings,

ELMO'ish AM I...ben's favorite

At the end of this clip, Elmo looks like I do after a night of 'struggling' to sleep, hahahah!
Love the chemistry between these two.
LOVE me some ELMO...

I used to 'talk' Elmo to my little Ben when I kept him...
he would giggle so loudly any time I did Elmo's voice or laugh
...sweet memories. 

He was almost 1yo in this shot...

'My little Ben' is now 5 and getting ready to start kindergarten--time has flown, hasn't it?!  
Congratulations, big boy; I'm so proud of you (and your li'l sis who you take very good care of)...


Jer. 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you

and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." 
Blessings,

ICE IZ MY FRIEND

                                                       BIG THANKS to SWEET TEA for posting this appropriate representation of my 2-year seemingly bottomless abyss ofhysterectomy and bilateral ophorectomy...when they say "ooph", they mean it.

"Ooph" is an appropriate response to:

• being 'punched' with extra 'downs' after nights of NOT sleeping
• enduring the lid while lying in the chest freezer 
• 'knife-digging' migraines
• trying to fan 'just me' when hubs is 'cold' in the air-conditioned church.

THANK GOODNESS humor helps
'cause you have to laugh!


Jer. 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." 

Blessings,

SATURDAY CENTUS...dear meany

So...Jenny has done some vicious word slashing this week. She's given us instruction to use only twenty-five words to express ourselves about the following prompt:

"The End"

So I will try to regale everyone with my writing...not gonna call it a skill yet.

Dear Meany Pause,

Invading our core without asking permission

Literally 'boiling' up massive contention

Continual rude demanding, immensely vain

Send now "the end!"

please NO MORE refrain.

Jer. 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

Blessings,

MY 'HORRING -MONES NEED A RENFROE FIX... ANYONE W/ ME?

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THERE'S SOMETHING THERAPEUTIC IN KNOWING OTHERS RELATE TO MY DAYS, NIGHTS, THIS OBLIVION CALLED MENOPAUSE...

Jer. 33:3

"Call to me and I will answer you

and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Blessings,

Friday Fill-Ins #89

1. I enjoy praying with my accountability sisters...lifting our deepest concerns together and sharing God's presence...peace comes even in the midst of turmoil and He reminds us of His promises, and many times gives us hilarious things to laugh about because they are so outrageous!

2. "Her-opause" definitely has my attention these days...(this word is so mis-named, what do "men" have to do with it other than tell us we "don't have it". Being slapped by this sudden onset is daunting to say the least, and I ponder just how bad it must have been a few decades ago when women didn't have today's modern medicine in dealing with the all-encompassing side effects that arise monthly, daily, momentarily, second by second...it is truly something I wonder about lately.

3. In my heart, I know my Mother and Daddy loved me, taught me right from wrong, instilled the importance of conscience and telling the truth...and said "I'm sorry" when they felt they had made a mistake.

4. Take iced tea, add a little Tropicana Pure/Raspberry- Acai and get ready to enjoy a cold drink that calms the hot flashes...you'll want to suck on the ice cubes and get every drop...then prepare yourself to say, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, don't it make you feel good?!"

5. God has gifted me with a brain and heart that believes He said it, and BANG it happened!!

6. Going to the nail salon, sitting in the vibrating recliner as my feet dangle in the deep pool of wonderfully warm, air-jetted, swirling foot bath and having a pedicure/leg rub....aaaaahhhhh--especially when the pretty, Korean girl with the delicate, yet powerful hands like a vice grip, dips into the gel salt rub--then slathers it on my shins, feet and ankles. Long strokes up and down the sides of the shins, rotating around my toes and behind my heels, buffing away those rough places I can't seem to get smoothed no matter what I do...aaaaaahhhh, yes, that is an instant vacation. After she smooths on the orange-almond lotion, it makes me want to go find a friend and let them smell my feet!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to "hearing God turned or slowed the storm and our friends in Texas are AOK,

tomorrow my plans include cleaning out another closet

and Sunday, I want to learn more about my new class of 9th graders in our small group during our youth program at church...they're amazingly funny and like to share their understanding of life. They give me energy on days when I think I've run out of it...that "her-opause" thing again!

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