Fiona: What a beautiful story. Clearly the Lord is sending you a special blessing of love which links the generations at this significant time in your family's life.

JustMe and Fit and Trim: Thanks for the birthday cake (really cute), and the birthday wishes and blessings.

Have to get back to painting and priming. We're in the midst of a kitchen remodeling project; doing it ourselves. Fun, but busy!

Fiona, that is a wonderful blessing bestowed upon you. I also had the same problem when growing up with my parents. When my mother divorced my papa she threw all his pics away, and the ones with the family in them she either would cut him out or ink pen him out. When he passed away a few years ago, his sister sent me all kinds of pics of him and me and his family. I was so thrilled about it. Since mom lives with me though I just down loaded them and also put them on a CD. I look at them when she is not around. It upsets her to this day having his pics around.

Deb: How wonderful to finally get a picture of you and your dad. I recently went to a church seminar where they suggested that the way we saw our earthly dad, was the way we saw our heavenly father in many cases. Know that your heavenly father loves you very much and is proud to have you as his daughter.

Shalizbet: I have never been to the Canadian Rockies. I would love to. I did grow up at a fishing resort my parents operated in Ontario.

Only 3 more hours till my Gma gets here. I have to clean like crazy! I spent my morning vacuuming the pool and mowing the back yard. What a glutton for punishment!

My twin 5 year olds woke me up this morning and gave me the most darling birthday cards they had made. My little boy had written the word "WOW" and said, see mom, I spelled "MOM". Then they both proceeded to get the lotion and lufah and rubbed my feet. (Made a mess, but I will never forget their looks of pride.)

Have a great day!

P.S. - I don't know if any of you take any kind of medicine, but my family started a website that offers 90% off prescriptions. It's amazing when you see the mark-up on medicine! My husband has to take coumadin for blood clots in his leg. We save a bundle! Anyways, let me know if you're interested and I'll give you the web address.

Dear Cleanheart,
Happy Birthday to you. It is so great that you saw past the mess. I'm sure your childrens hearts were just so full of love for you. Most of us would probably love a foot massage. God Bless, Maureen

Kim: Would love to have the website address, but would also like to know the source of the drugs. How do you manage such a tremendous markdown! I actually had to go to Canada and have a doctor there prescribe for me in order to afford a drug that my insurance company wouldn't cover. I sure wish our government could help solve this. I'm afraid to think about retiring someday, 'cause I have to provide medical care for both myself and my DH (who is 75% disabled and takes a lot of meds). It's a scary prospect.

It's great to see all those little light bulbs on this evening! Do you think the song "This little light of mine . . ." applies here?! I hope we shine!

Thank you, Kim. I checked it out, and will have check it out also.

His meds just continue to skyrocket. This month, of all months, they came to over $1200.00, and that at Costco. Have to find something different, 'cause that's too much work time for me. Since he's fully medically disabled, he'll be eligible for medicare soon, but they don't pay for everything he needs either.

Thanks 'sis' for the site!

Hi all - nothing really to do with lowcarbing, except that I had my bacon and eggs before church - but it has been SO HOT here in Alaska. Was 82 yesterday (27 for you Canadians) and this morning it was over 70 already. We had all the church doors open, a fan going, and still people were fanning themselve with the service folders. Reminded me of when I was little, we had fans in every pew, usually provided by some funeral home, with scripture and garishly colored scenes from the holy land. Ah, like the song says "Precious memories" Bill

What no air conditioner?
Is it true that in Alaska a dozen eggs cost like $5.00?

Actually a lot of public buildings DO have ac, tho it seems a bit silly since there are usually only 15 or 20 days a year when its really hot. And eggs are not that expensive, at least not here in Anchorage - more like 1.19 for the Safeway brand and 199 or so for the trick Naturally Nested organic ones. Out in the bush, or maybe out on the chain(Aleutian Islands) that might be closer to the truth. When I was a kid, that was more like the truth, and the main thing was, they were so awful. They had sat in some funky warehouse all winter and picked up all kinds of strange smells/tastes. Some people I know from that era still won't eat eggs. I'd be in a bad way without them, I get the best ones I can find now and really enjoy them. Bill

No kidding, that is very interesting. So do you live in the country, by water, or in town?

Hello everyone,

I feel a bit like a lurker these days. I've been so busy that I haven't had much time to participate fully.

I'll be praying for all of you. I'm thankful for your prayers, too.

I took 24 hrs off and ate nothing but pure junk. Went up 7 pounds and still haven't recovered. DH and I think it's still ok for me to have my breaks, but that I sure need to limit myself instead of slipping completely into sinful gluttony.

I getting ready to join a regular Tuesday prayer meeting that is centered around lunch. A local food ministry hosts it and feeds us, so my suspect is that the foods will be quite high carb. Think I may have to eat on my way to the meeting each week.

My anniversary is Saturday and I love any excuse to eat high carb. The timing is bad since I just did that big break last week.

Pray for strength for me to stick to my WOE all week in spite of these temptations.

I get great encouragement reading all of your posts. Its great that so many peope really love the Lord and are living their lives in a manner pleasing to Him and different from the world. Keep running the race that God has set before us. Eternity is just a "vapor" away.

God's blessing to all,

AKman,

I'd sure love to hear about Anchorage. My dad lived there and Iceland. He would have gone back to live permanently, however my mom is a "weenie." DH and I have thought it would be a place that we'd be happy living.

I live in North Carolina now, but was born and raised in Minnesota. I never minded the snow and cold, it's so beautiful that is was worth putting up with some inconveniences related to the cold.

Good morning everyone,

What a lovely weekend it was. Lots of blessings from the Lord: great service at church, one of my closest friends arrived for the wedding, and I lost a few more pounds

AK Man, Alaska is really beautiful, but the cold and dark in the winter were too much for me. We're trying to buy a house on the coast here in Oregon just because we like temperate weather. NO SNOW! We also don't like heat at all, so the few days it's in the high 80's over there would be perfect. I think all of you are truly brave and wonderful to put up with the weather and the mosquitos up there.


Randisue, this is a hard week for me to stay on plan, but I really want to, the weight loss has been gratifying, my clothes fit better, and if my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit then I'm pretty sure God doesn't want me to yo-yo my body chemistry all around. When I cheated, it did weird things to my system, and mentally I wasn't nice to be around either, just because I knew that I had strayed off of a path that God had directly led me to. The wedding dinner on Thursday has been planned long before I went to low carbing, and there is nothing but one of my own salads on the menu that we can eat. We're thinking about having some salad, then all the remaining 'adults' going out afterward for a steak. This is just MHO in the matter of 'cheating'. I'm still trying to figure out how not to have a piece of my son's wedding cake

See all of you later ~