tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22891630487242013222024-03-13T14:10:41.892-07:00The Scrappy AppleyardJohn'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-38088840106916602922018-04-12T12:31:00.003-07:002018-04-12T12:31:56.017-07:00NEW ONINE 'CREATIVITY' CLASS STARTING TODAY!<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">HAPPY APRIL EVERYONE!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">If you are at the point in the year, where you are wondering where oh where did all of that spunk go that you had at the beginning of the New Year, when you were determined to get a bunch of projects accomplished this year, then this class is for you!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">I am not only going to show you what I do to get myself motivated once again, I'm going to take you along on my Artist's Dates as I am determined to get that 'umpf' back! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">I have been trying really hard to get back into quilting for some time now, and this is it for me! This month, I am going to get my new Block of the Month started for ya'll! So one of the Artist's Date I will be taking you on, is the PADUCAH QUILT SHOW! And there will be others too!</span><br />
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-29694456262715842332018-02-02T13:25:00.000-08:002018-02-02T13:25:02.730-08:00A NEW ONLINE CLASS IS STARTING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, 2018<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Are you looking for a way to be inspired creatively? Do you journal or want to find a new way to journal that will keep you inspired? Come sign up for my online journaling class (JOHN'ALEE'S JUBILEE: FINDING JOY THROUGH JOURNALING) that starts next Monday, February 5th, and join a bunch of Christian ladies, who love the Lord and have bonded over journaling and being creative. Most of them are quilters too!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Some of the comments from January's Journaling<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> class:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">" I'm loving this journey we are all on! Our guide is amazing!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">" John'aLee, I think you may be stuck with us until the end of time...<span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fbd/3/16/1f60a.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">😊</span></span> I really do enjoy your videos and your great ideas. It’s only been two months, but I don’t know what I’ll do without your class to look forward to every day!!! I hope you have classes planned for a long time!!! LOL!!! <span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/fe/3/16/1f602.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">😂</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f6e/3/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">❤️</span></span><span class="_5mfr _47e3" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/f6e/3/16/2764.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">❤️</span></span>" -Mary</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">"I am in the class....and so looking forward to another month!!"<br />" I just watched budgeting. That's the best advice I have heard in years! I'm the worst! The best at numbers but when it comes to my own money....I am the worst. I am going to actually take your advice for myself! On to the next video!-Tina</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">"Thanks lovely! I’m really enjoying my journaling life, it’s been made richer by this class. I’m looking Forward t seeing the rest of the course when I’m home. Xxx" -Cheryl</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">"of course I am looking forward to the February class and any other you have.....John'aLee Johnston Burk you are such an inspiration and I really enjoy all that you have done so far!"<br />-Caryl</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">"I'm just finishing watching this one....it's the BEST! Thank you for being so open...what an encouragement you are. I desperately need to lose 50 pounds and I'm thinking going off sugar would help me too! This video is very powerful...God has certainly been sending angels and I think you are mine! These topics are so hard to discuss with people and we barely know each other but yet your message spoke volumes!!!!" -Kim</span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-88666168250531227992018-01-24T18:58:00.000-08:002018-01-24T18:58:07.145-08:00Hi Sweet Ladies,<br />
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I posted a new video on my YouTube channel about my favorite reads of 2017. In the comments let me know what you are reading, and what your favorites books were of last year. I'd love to hear all about them!<br />
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<br />John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-83699267988389090552018-01-16T17:37:00.000-08:002018-01-16T17:37:00.704-08:00Can you Believe it is already the Third Week of January?!<br />
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I'm giving you a free peek into one of the video chats from my January Journaling/Planning/Scripture Writing Class, JOHN'ALEE'S JUBILEE that is going on now. It's not too late to join in on the fun!<br />
We have an active Facebook Group to go along with the class with some great Christian ladies in it that has been an added bonus to the whole project! So if you would like to be inspired to get your New Year off right.....even a few weeks into it, COME JOIN US!! WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU!!<br />
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<br />John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-147610988172001212018-01-01T15:42:00.001-08:002018-01-01T15:42:22.317-08:00Are You Needing Some Motivation to Get Organized this year?..... I have the perfect class for you!!<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Happy, Happy New Year Everyone!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Can you believe it is 2018?? Want to have your best year yet?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have an awesome class (JOHN'ALEE'S JUBILEE) I have been putting together that I think you ladies will be thrilled with!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">For several years now, I have been fine-tuning my process on how to get organized, my paperwork under control, and how to live a more fulfilled and intentional life. And I wanted to live more joyful!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I've searched and searched for a class that would help me to do this, and couldn't find one, even though I paid for and completed several classes. So this is what spurred me on to create one myself. I realized all the thousands of hours I've put into research over the years has done one great thing for me. I've taken bits and pieces from here and there, fine tuned them into what I needed, and then came up with my own system. And this year, when I was reflecting back I realized I lived my life with so much more JOY in it than ever. And that was because I journalled, I kept a Bullet Journal, I tracked things like my health, moods, activity etc, found out what was working and what wasn't, and changed my life!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">This month I am sharing all of my secrets! The class is $35. But I have an Early Bird Special of $10 off if you sign up before January 15th, 2018. Use the Coupon Code: JUBILEE and get the class for $25!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">We also have a private Facebook group where everyone can interact and show their progress and get to know one another. I did this for my Christmas Class and what fun we had!! I sure hope you will join us! Come spend January with us and get your New Year off the ground in style!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">HERE'S THE LINK TO SIGN-UP:<a href="https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/25884/enroll">John'aLee's Jubilee!!</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Welcome you are going to love this place and what </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2-comment" class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A%22739102559623208%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gc&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=ufi" rel="dialog" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">John'aLee Johnston Burk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> has to share with us. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22dti%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gs&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">John'aLee Johnston Burk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for doing this I’m so glad I joined. I’m thinking that when my children go through my things years from now I hope they enjoy reading all the journals I intend to make especially the Christmas ones.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">After watching the rest of the videos, I can share that I also have been scripture writing with Sherry Hefner (The Homespun Wife) for the whole year and it really is a wonderful blessing. It was through that activity that I started following </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22dti%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gs&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">John'aLee Johnston Burk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. What a blessing! Two very special women! I also bullet journal and that has been a thrill for me. So, as you can see, this Christmas journal project is right up my alley!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thank you </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22dti%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gs&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">John'aLee Johnston Burk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for all your time sharing and inspiring us with this journal project! I’m having so much fun</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I can’t say enough how excited I am for this to start. I’ve never journaled tho have tried and John’aLee I’m so loving your journaling style. So many times I’ve saved things from places we’ve been or just a momento of something and they always end up getting thrown away because I don’t know what to do with them...Now I do. I’ve watched all your videos and plan to watch them again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thank you again </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2-comment" class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A%22739102559623208%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gc&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=ufi" rel="dialog" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">John'aLee</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! You really don't know how much I needed this little project this time of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I would be happy to take any course from you to organize my life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’m going to sound like a broken record but thanks again </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=739102559623208&member_id=1639218388&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1639218388&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22dti%22%3A739102559623208%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnalee.burk?fref=gs&dti=739102559623208&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">John'aLee Johnston Burk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for doing your class and I’m enjoying each video you do and I’m really loving the scripture writing as I’ve never done it before so thank you from the bottom of my heart.</span><br />
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I've been MIA for quite awhile! But I haven't been sitting around eating bon bons and twiddling my thumbs. Well, maybe a little. I started examining why it took me so long to get my umpf back. Let's see? Traveling all over the country 30-36 weekends a year for several years, all the while running a quilt shop, designing quilts, making those quilts, quilting those quilts, 12 grand babies being born, a kid in jail 3 times, actually all 3 daughters doing a little stint in the county jail, coming home from a quilt show only to have a kid and her truck wrapped around a tree and the jaws of life trying to get her out, the economy crash, closing down the shop, moving all the way across country to get our daughter straightened out and away from the crowd she was running with, only to have her fall in love with a soldier, whom she became engaged to, only to lose him in Afghanistan 15 days before they were to be married, and during this I was robbed twice and the final blow, a flood that completely drove me out of my home, and made me lose the few things of value the thieves managed to not get because I came home upon them.</div>
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So I've licked my wounds, and am trying my best to get back into 'quilting'. But during my sabbatical I found something that has brought me a lot of pleasure. Journaling. And not just 'writing' journaling. But Creative Journaling. And I'm here to share it with you.</div>
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I now have a YouTube channel where you can follow my endeavors. And right now I am offering an awesome little Christmas Journaling/Planning/ Scripture Writing class that my students are loving. It is only $25, and I promise you, it will add a depth and joy to your Holiday Season. Not only do I show you how to plan and organize 'All Things Christmas', but I'm showing how to do it creatively. And to make it really special AND to remember the whole reason for the season we are writing out the Christmas Story. I've also set up a private Facebook Group where the students are having a ball sharing their work and inspiring and encouraging each other on.</div>
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And that's not all!! To get my "Quilting Grove" back, I am taking a Christmas Quilt Along from a few years ago, and am breaking it down over the month of December to show you all how to fit in a project for yourself over the busy season!</div>
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So I hope you will join us!! Come have some sweet Christmas Fellowship!</div>
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Hope to reconnect with some of you!!</div>
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Happy, Happy Holidays!!</div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">and whiled the afternoon away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hung out at Bookstores together</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even got the adults into journaling out in the beautiful Spring Morn...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walked the Streets of Boise...stopping for Lunch here!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Played Scrabble With the Kiddos....Lots of Scrabble...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Went for Long Walks in the Park...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solo Lunch Trips....with Time to Sit and Read....</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lunches with My Darling Lil Ashley!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">More Journaling out on Ashley's Front Porch! Loved her darling lil house...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was like a little paradise....</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her Iris' were in Bloom!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lil Heston and I spent a lot of time out in the yard reading....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Eating Strawberries! They had never had Fresh Strawberries from the fields before!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;">While out on a walk in her neighborhood,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Is that not just the cutest?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: large;">5 of the 13 Grand Children!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a ball they are! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was gone for several weeks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Denver, North Dakota, Las Vegas and Boise Idaho</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whew!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Glad to be home!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">But I did come home so inspired!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">P.S. The sewing machine got fired up this evening. First time in 11 months! Actually since the flood. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">Nope....wasn't me. It was Tory working on a 4th of July Tablecloth out of red/white/and blue bandanas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">I'll show the finished piece next, plus my fabrics I picked up on my trip,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">the skirts my bestie and I made for our lil girls and future sewing projects.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hello Everyone!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes...I know it's been way too long!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm still alive and kickin'!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am loving the online journaling class I have been taking since the first of the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">I look at all I have created, and it makes me realize what a blessed life I have.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">We take so much for granted, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">You won't be sorry!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Trying to get my oldest daughter in line while I'm here too! Ha!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm doing the loop....here, Las Vegas to see my bestie and my son,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">These trips are hard on the ole back, but the memories and good times are priceless!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have a lovely, inspired and creative month of May my friends!</span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-18061976164284029302014-02-24T22:14:00.003-08:002014-02-24T22:19:08.655-08:00Tory's New LIttle Baby Boy is Here~<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">~Whew~</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm so glad he is here safe and sound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I told Tory while she was in labor that her hubby and I couldn't take </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And she retorted,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Oh I am just soooo sorry for you two!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just don't know how you guys are going to be able to do this!!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even in great pain, that kid can split my sides!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once again it took my breath away</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">to see a new little soul being born into this world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Lord for bringing him safely here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">May his life be blessed!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">before I take big brother Kash to see him in the morning...</span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-27848214820671979162014-02-14T22:17:00.001-08:002014-02-14T22:18:54.519-08:00Tell Me What Your Favorite Books Are!! <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have 4 minutes left to say....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Valentine's Day!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And then the clock strikes midnight!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sounds like a fairy tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">So speaking of that,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a question for you all today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is your all time favorite book? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">The book you swoon about?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">The book that has influenced you the most?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">The book that you can't quit thinking about?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or what is the best book you have read of late?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe we can all gather here,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">and suggest some new reading material for each other!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">My all time Favorite Book</span>: The Bible</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Book I Swoon About:</span> Gone With The Wind</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Book That Has Influenced Me The Most: </span>(Besides The Bible) The Power of a Positive Mental Attitude</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Book I Can't Quit Thinking About:</span> Simple Abundance</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">The Best Book of Late That I've Read:</span> The Book Thief </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Guitar Man came home for Valentine's Week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"> See...I don't believe in just celebrating for a day....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">a whole week is more my style.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">He took me out to dinner,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">bought me roses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">and then at my request,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">sat at the bookstore with me for hours...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">with the cherry on top...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">a load of books to carry home!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">So let's all be book buddies!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"> What are your favorites?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">Really....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;">I want to know!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Happy Monday to You All!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought you might need a dose of color and inspiration....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">so I thought I'd share some pics of what has been filling my heart, hands and life in general!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been having a ball playing with the colors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many years ago Sea Foam Green was an 'in'color,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">and now it is back, but they are calling it 'Mint'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">It goes so well with hot pinks, reds, yellows, other playful pinks,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">polka dots, stripes and touches of black.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yes, I broke down and bought a Raskog Cart from Ikea...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love, love it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm still working on organizing it.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's so much more fun to create when things are in order....</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Tory saw the box sitting, waiting for the hubby to come home and put it together. But what a sweetie, she grabbed it, 8 1/2 months pregnant and all and was determined to put it together for me. I hate doing these kinds of things!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course Little Baby Boy thought she needed help, so Gama went and got him his own set of tools....</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Then her Soldier Boy came home, and things really got down to business....</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">WaLa....</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">So in Love....</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part of my plan this year is to get organized in all aspects of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have two words this year:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">One is <span style="color: #e06666;">Organization</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other is <span style="color: #e06666;">Heal</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">So we are well on our way....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have a Happy Week Girls!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Toodles of Love...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is going to be a year full of 'ART' for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am determined.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artful Sewing...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artful Blogging...</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Just look at this lov-er-ly mess....</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artful Living...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;">You get the idea.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">I for one am joining </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Artful Readers Club on Facebook.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/539659289378783/">Click Here to Check It Out</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The way it works is:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">You commit to reading 12 books this year,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">and you promise to do not only a short review on each book,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">but a piece of art revolving around it as well. Then do a blog post about it and link up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">So My List:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Night Circus </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Happier At Home</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Creative Journal</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Sketchnotes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Dollmaker</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Housekeeping</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Rebecca</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I Like To Make Things</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Jane Eyre</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">A Writer's Book of Days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">"S"</span></div>
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The other thing I am doing this year is the online class:</div>
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<a href="http://rhomany.org.uk/">When Frogs Sing</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do I dare share some of my pages?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't laugh...girls and boys....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am trying to get my <span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"mojo"</span></span> back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very Merry Christmas</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">to all of my fabulous followers!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">You have enriched my life beyond words,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I thank the Lord for you today!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Can 'Christmas' be organized?" You might ask.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, this year I did it better than I ever have before....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And started sectioning it out:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Most days I would go in and journal at the end of the day</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">to record what was where: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each night I would sit down and decorate a few more pages</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">getting them ready ahead of time to inspire me...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has not only helped to keep me on track,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">the little book has enhanced the Christmas Season for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">I found myself looking forward to the time of day that I could just go sit down for a spell, decorate, ponder and write away!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hope you all have a very Merry, Merry Christmas!!</span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-45427058349926755212013-12-08T06:57:00.000-08:002013-12-08T09:22:02.361-08:00Planning Organization for Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">December is slowly ticking away.... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's what I have been working on to get myself organized for this busy holiday season....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am frantically trying to get things done for an early Christmas with the whole family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">all of my kids and grand kids will make it for a much needed family pic!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm sure you women out there know what I mean when I say...."This is a hard thing to accomplish!!!" </span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-18583252556360167382013-12-03T14:51:00.001-08:002013-12-03T14:51:09.911-08:00Christmas Chronicles 2013!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's all about getting organized for Christmas,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">keeping a journal,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Loving it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Go check it out <a href="http://rhomany.org.uk/2013/09/13/christmas-chronicles-2013/">HERE!!!</a> </span></span></div>
John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-6614626277500863182013-12-03T14:43:00.003-08:002013-12-03T14:43:45.280-08:00Snowed in in North Dakota....BRRRRR!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I'm snowed in with this dude!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">All flights have been cancelled....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">not sure when I am going to get out of here!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I need to be back in Nashville by next Wednesday,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">because I am supposed to fly out of there to go be with all of the grand kids for an early Idaho</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I'm having a ball here though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Hard to leave this ole man of mine anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">We have shopped, hung out at coffee cafes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">visited thrift shops, used bookstores,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">got lots of snuggle time in with the ole teddy bear.</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: Game day, go outlaws!!! #20" class="img" height="125" src="https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s320x320/1458634_1460022527557882_923663914_n.jpg" style="left: 0px;" width="205" /></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I made cinnamon rolls with my oldest grandson Cole...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mom was in the booth working the clock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Pop was able to come too. Little man was thrilled.</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: Grandma and Cole Monger cooking for Thanksgiving. I'm so looking forward to my mamas cookin" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="222" src="https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/s320x320/1424422_1458908847669250_737977610_n.jpg" style="top: -16px;" width="166" /></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">He stayed by my side the whole time I worked on Thanksgiving dinner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">My little ... I mean big helper.</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: Mom/grama is here:)" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="381" src="https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q77/s320x320/1475905_1458371667722968_514564559_n.jpg" style="top: -65px;" width="250" /> </div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though he's 10...he still likes to snuggle with Grams too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where would we all be without our grand babies?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love the holiday season. This is truly what it is all about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Loved being with my oldest daughter Brooke too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">You all have enriched my life so much over the years,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I thank the Lord for all of you too at this time of year!</span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-66908926231758117172013-11-13T03:00:00.001-08:002013-11-13T03:00:21.025-08:00A 'HAPPY' post Linkup Party...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://ricki-treleaven.blogspot.com/">My Happy List</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">Check out this great Link Up Party!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Here's my short 'Happy List' for the day...</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="background-color: white;">Beautiful Fall Days...</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Finding a local Tea Shoppe called The Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland Theme)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">That I didn't burn the house down! Am I the only one that does this?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">So what all has made you happy lately?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Good Morning!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, I know....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">really....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's been way too long I know!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actually I couldn't believe it when I saw the last day I posted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">So forgiveness is in order.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">You know....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">the good book says,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">that's good for you to do!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cleanses the soul!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">So some pics of the new digs...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">The start of my studio... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">I work and read a lot out here...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Still trying to find room for dishes...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Thank goodness they don't mold!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is gorgeous here in the Fall....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was out when I was yard salin' last Saturday....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course I had to meet up with baby Kash and treat him to Starbucks...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I truly do have a lot to share with you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've really been trying to get moved into my new place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">This pic was taken sitting out on my new little stoop... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've been wanting one for years!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">Been workin' in my journals....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I take my art journals and writing down there and hang out...</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">This is the dog that our Lost Soldier boy and Tory picked out at the pound 9 months before he was killed.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">She's pretty special</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Met a fellow blogger....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hi Betty!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can't wait to catch up again some day soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://samplingsfromspringcreek.blogspot.com/">Check our her Blog here!!</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">So this post is getting a little bit too long....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">so I will write more later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for not giving up on me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm slowly getting back to my old self.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hugs!</span></span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-65867214694747978082013-09-12T09:44:00.002-07:002013-09-12T09:44:36.898-07:00Just to Let You Know I'm Still a'Kickin!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d;">Hi all my gals and guys!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">First of all thank you ever so much for every one of your emails, comments,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">prayers and good wishes you have sent me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Some days....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">that was the only light I saw!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I haven't written you all back, but please know how much they meant to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So here's the update.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Had to walk away from our home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Basically a match needs to be lit to it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And it looks like I am going to settle in Clarksville, TN</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">down where my daughter lives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We've rented a house,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and now I am just waiting for my stuff to come from storage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I have to go through each and every thing to see what can be salvaged.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Hmmmm....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I hear garage sales a'callin me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Hey....I'll just call this my 'Thrift Shop' house!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I will post pics when I can. I'm still without a computer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">One of my friends rebuilt one for me, I just need to go to Nashville to pick it up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Where would we be without friends?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">For now, while I am waiting for everything to come together,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I am spending a lot of time at Starbucks working on my memoirs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And I am hoping to be back in the saddle with:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Thanks so much for your patience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So for now, </span></div>
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John'aLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745376345664784698noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289163048724201322.post-65283010083381147202013-08-26T02:08:00.002-07:002013-08-26T02:08:29.408-07:00Trying To Get Over The Devastation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Rancher's Daughter...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">is at The Rancher's house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mom happened to call in last week at a time when I couldn't hold back the tears,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and was just feeling so lost and not knowing what to do and where to turn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">That ole Rancher daddy man of mine and her put me on a plane</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">to come out and see them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">They told me it might clear my head and maybe they could help me to figure out a plan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">So let me go back and tell you all what happened since the morning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> I woke up to sloshing in water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I do believe I was in shock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Most of you know my hubby is living and working 1800 miles away in North Dakota.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> I didn't have him to lean on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I called Tory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Her and her soldier man immediately drove down,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">as well as another young soldier and his wife.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">My son in law walks into my house,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">looks around and is completely stunned and says,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"John'aLee it will take me 3 weeks to get all of this water out with the shop vac I brought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This is a major job. Pack your bags, your going home with us. We can't do anything until it stops raining."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">As I got in the car to follow them home, Steven said to me, "Where do you want to go to lunch? You name it. We're taking you out!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">(I can look back now and see that this is when all of the little miracles and blessings started to take place.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The next day the kids thought I was crazy when I told them I needed to head back to the house to get orders and Block of the Months out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I said, "I will just have to slosh around in the water and do the best I can."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But that is what I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> I arrived at the house, unlocked the door, opened it, and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">a wave of terrible mildew smell hit my nostrils making me feel sick at my stomach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Had mold already set in?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I went to the very back bathroom of the house, the only dry place to sit and think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I couldn't think. All I could do was start to bawl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I called my best friend Nancy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It took her an hour to try and knock some sense into me. She realized I was in shock and not thinking straight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"John'aLee," she says firmly, "you have to get help!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"No Nancy, we were taught to take care of our own problems. Clean up our own messes." I respond in between tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It wasn't until she told me that I might be hindering the work of God, that I started to listen to her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">She knows my new son in law isn't a believer, but he was drawn to Tory who is and married her, so she continued with, "John'aLee you have to call your church family. That is what they are there for. You would go and help them if they needed it. And maybe just maybe God's plan is for Steven to witness them coming through in a time of need and helping you. Are you going to not let them happen?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">What if there is someone there who is needing to give, that God is working with. Are you going to deny them that?" She continues to plead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Man these were hard things to hear. She knows that if God lays something on my heart,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">anything,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">no matter what that I will do it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Okay, Okay, " I say giving in, "I will call for help."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I hang up with her, and my daughter Brooke calls in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">She's never heard her mother in a state like this. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">She is used to seeing me strong, always fixing things. Never needing or asking for help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I can hardly speak to her. After my call with Nancy I felt so helpless and defeated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I knew with my back that this mess was not something I could take care of by myself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Brooke takes charge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Mom, give me the name of just one person in your church. One name is all I need.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Still trying to hold out, I say, "No Brooke I can't do that!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">This after I told Nancy I would.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Brooke gets a little emphatic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Mom, you know I will find a number. You know I will call Grandpa or find out who </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the ministers are there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">You can save a lot of headache and time for me </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">by just giving the number!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">So softly I did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I gave her the name and number of a 76 year old widow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">who I have become good friends with. Who had kind of taken me in when I started going to church here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But as I did, I felt like every bit of my being was broken. Completely defeated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">An utter failure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> I can't explain it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">A few minutes later, Brooke called back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Mom, Labenia is on her way with help. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Also, I have paid the deposit on a storage unit right down the street from you. It was the last one available. They said down there that they have been inundated with flood victims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">So go down there, finish the paperwork, and put it in your name."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The day before when Steven had walked in, he told me that everything was going to have to go in storage before the house could even be dealt with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I hope I never forget the scene that played from that point;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Labenia walked in and took charge. She told me later that she could see I was in shock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">She started directing people. She went to Lowes, bought piles of bubble wrap, tape, tape guns, boxes etc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The church people showed up in droves. Immediately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Even the dear little 4 foot something 85 year old lady whose house we go to bible study at on Wednesday nights. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">She was hauling in boxes, packing up my china. There was no way she was going to be left out!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">And they worked, and worked and worked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Tory, Steven and baby Kash showed up too with the crockpot of beans and ham hocks </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I had put on at their house before I had left that morning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">They brought loaves of my homemade bread too.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">You talk about 'breaking bread'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It was a true picture of that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In amongst all the turmoil, people were dishing up themselves bowls of beans,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">toasting bread, slathering it with butter,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">laughing, happy, cheering me up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">There was not one unhappy person there!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Guitar Man flew in the next day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Over $700 for a one way ticket!</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I told him I didn't care what it cost. He had to come and NOW!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">And that's the way things went until the very end. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Until everything was in storage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I'm going to lose about half of all my belongings if not more.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I was talking to a man yesterday who knows a lot about mold.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">He told me everything needs to get thrown out except for things that are very dear keepsakes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The spores will not go away. And that actually the house needs a match lit to it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It's very serious business. Nothing to be messed with.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I asked him what he would do if he were in my situation, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and he said walk away from it all!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So as of now, we are just trying to come up with a plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Being here at Mom and Dad's,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">getting some godly counsel, options, looking at things with a little clearer head,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the Guitar man and I are getting closer we hope to figuring it all out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It's 3 in the morning and I need to get some shut eye, so I will write more later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">For all of my faithful Quilt Along followers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I will get back to the quilt just as soon as I can.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">My life is upside down, and it is very hard for me to disappoint you and let you down with something I started.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But please know I will continue and finish this quilt with you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Promise!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Just give me a little time to piece my own life back together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">And oh yes....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">prayers are gladly and humbly accepted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thank you from the bottom of my heart....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can't believe it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm flooded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Woke up, stepped out of bed...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">slush, slush....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">My whole house!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tory, her hubby and another soldier in his unit</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">and his wife hurried down to help me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">But when they got there,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">they realized how hopeless it was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's still raining....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">had to walk away from it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">and come down here to stay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hmmm...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">trying to see the good in this...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nope....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">still can't see it....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">looking...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">looking....</span></span></div>
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