The Precious Hound of Heaven

Oh, it has been WAY too long since the last time I blogged! So much has happened! But we have to be organized or I will have a scatterbrained blog as much as my thinking is!

Thanksgiving:
This was our Thanksgiving spread. Mom and I started about 9 the eve before and baked, and baked and baked. Then I got up early the next morning to put the turkey on. Then the ham. Then the fixin's. It was quiet fun! Hadn't prepared Thanksgiving at my house in . . . yep, that many years! The girls were so small then!

This is our 'kiddy' table. Dink, B-bug, Bubs and Matthew sat here. Aren't they getting so precious?

When I was young, my mom and dad (the one that passed last month) adopted a girl. Matthew is her boy. She, her son and fiance joined us for Thanksgiving. So we had food out the whazoo! Where were you all? I could of fed each one of you and had some to spare!

This was our 'thankful heart'. If you wanted to eat, you had to write down two things you were thankful for. We found people added and added and added to it. I caught Dink adding to it still last night. I can't seem to find a reason to remove it when we keep finding things to thank God for! How blessed of a family we are!

When we opened the whipped topping for pies (and we had three), we found our lid with the 'fishers of men' sign on it. Ah! See, even God showed up to our table!

Then later that week an amazing and wonderful thing happened! We signed all the necessary papers on the house! Yeah for us! We can now put nails through the walls! (I'm getting a railroad spike!)

This is the house from the front. See that beautiful paved, blacktopped driveway? (and that little grey van that likes to run into fences?)

And here is where I have to start singing that song I was asked if I had made up: "It's a big, big house, with lots and lots of room. A big, big table, with lots and lots of food. A big, big yard, where we can play football. A big, big house, it's my Father's house!" See that chimney over to the top left, that's been repaired and ready for burning. See that hottub to the right, that's already been tested and let me tell you what.......hottubbing in the winter time is an experience that EVERY good person should have. Who has swimsuits?

I had a day recently where I was so down I just couldn't drag myself out of bed. Honestly. I lacked the physical strength to get out of bed. I was certain I was ill. Later that day I was in the back yard looking things over and praying. I looked up at the house in awe. "Dear Lord," I said out loud, "that's a big house. That's MY house! Oh, you are so good to me!" as tears streamed down my face in gratitude.

So many things in this house that I have wanted for a long time. Carpeted stairs, finished basement, (blacktopped driveway), neighbors but not too close, close to but out of town, beautiful views, birds, the girls all have friends thier own ages to play with - makes finding each one a bit time consuming, it's a big, beautiful house! I love it!

Dad and Bubby raking leaves. Now tell me how cute this is? I looked out the window and Bubs was studying the leaves. I couldn't understand what he was looking at till Dad came jumping up out of them! It was so adorable! The rake is so much bigger than he is!

This is the sunrise out of the window at dark-thirty. I do wish you could have seen it in person than throught he picture cause it just doesn't give justice.

This looked just like fire in the sky at this point. I was awe-struck with it's beauty.


What a beautiful beginning to a lovely day. Now, for what reason was I up this early? Oh yeah, I had a job interview this day.What a pretty smile. I normally get many of these to start my day off.

How precious. It's so quiet when he's sleeping. BTW, I made that blanket. We refer to it as "Big Blue".

Dad asked for his back to be massaged. Mom was using my PamperedChef roller for that till Bubby took over. Isn't it amuzing? So here is Bubby 'rolling' Dad's back.

So now we get to the Christmas. This week we've been making cookies, cakes and candies. Here is Bubby holding up his cookie. Yesterday we were decorating gingerbread cookies. Oh how much fun was this!!

Bubby's cookieThe cat's favorite sleeping place.

Our gingerbread cookie villiagers

B-Bug had to do a presentation on Finland (and Mom was invited to give a bit of information as well, with a powerpoint presentation). My mom and I put this together last night. Boy did we have fun!

Talking about fun! A little angel came along and dropped a bit of money off for me to go shopping for my kids. It was unexpected and emotions flooded over me. I cried and cried. Mom and I went to the mall and had the BEST time ever! Oh my goodness! I kept jumping around and sliding up to Mom, "I get to buy Christmas for my children!!!!" She and I would laugh and laugh. Oh, it was the best!

Then we went to this one store and were trying on dresses. Oh, this one golden dress with matching golden shoes looked so lovely on mom! It was so flattering. We took pictures with my phone. (I don't have the cord to put the pics on my computer) I tried on a green one. We had so much fun!

Lately my favorite song is one from SuperChic. Stand in the Rain. (in case anyone is looking for a Christmas gift, hint hint) My second is What If.

Stand in the Rain,
Stand your ground,
Stand up when it's all crashing down
Stand through the pain
You won't drown.
And one day you'll finally find
You can stand in the Rain.


Precious Hound of Heaven - the One that will chase you all your days till you either harden your heart against Him, or give in and turn to Him. With as good as He is, why continue to run from Him?