Give Thanks

Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving week . . . 
                               
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Have A Good Weekend

Hope your weekend is beautiful 
I'll be up and around soon . . .

Wit/Wednesday Team Linda Kay

Welcome to my week long Thank the Hostesses Party. 
Today I am featuring Linda Kay at Wit and Wisdom.  
 
Linda Kay hosts a unique party.  I love it!  I'd love you to visit some of the wonderful links at her past parties. 

And if your a creative writer join her and link up.  

Just choose a great photo or picture and write a story.  Its a simple as that.  

Click here to visit Linda Kay. 

Please leave a comment here to enter Linda Kay in the give a way.

Umbrella Day

Hope your day is warm and dry . . . 
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                        Have A Good Day

Tuesday Linky Parties

It was totally my intention to continue the week featuring some of my favorite parties and asking you to comment on your favorites. 

                               I've run into a snag though.  

Two of my favorite Tuesday parties are soooo hard to load on my computer that I'm not going to be able to give them the same kind of love the others will receive!
                                    
For this I apologize!  I love visiting these parties and the links but they are getting so slow to load that I just don't have time to wait. 

I'd love you to visit anyway and check out the cool links at each party!    

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                    Darlene and Kim have wonderful blogs.  
           I'd love you to visit them if you haven't already!

Blue Monday-Team Sally

Welcome to my week long feature party.  This week I'm featuring my favorite blog parties.    
In the spirit of Thanksgiving I want to Thank these lovely hostesses.
Today I'm featuring Sally at Blue Monday . . . 
                    

Sally gives us a great place to share anything and I mean anything we find that is Blue!
A few of her recent posts included:
Creepy, Crawling things . . .



Interesting things animals do . . .


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Cool sites from around town . . .

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      This Sweet Smiling girl has 372 Blue Monday posts!  That's a lot of Blue.
I love joining Sally on Monday.  
You can join today here

To thank my favorite hostesses I'm having 
a give a way.  Please leave a comment to vote for Sally. The hostess with the most comments 
will win a prize!   
  Please leave your comment here
            Team Sally

A Llittle Under . . .

                                       
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The weather and the covers.  Buried under a pile of Kleenex's.  I'll try to be back later tonight to begin my week of Gratitude and Thanksgiving for the blog party Hostess's.  

Before I go back under the covers I have a job hunt update.  I have two interviews tomorrow.
Say a prayer for me please!

Oh almost forgot I borrowed the above image from Boston Magazine.  There is a real interest article about exercising when your sick.  Check it out here.
Hope your day is Blessed.  

Wednesday Filled With Words

Forgive me friends for being a little AWOL this week . . . 
                                   
            My week started with 'Winging It' on Blue Monday.  
                          Click Here to visit my Blue Monday post.  Click Here to visit Sally at Blue Monday.
                                                     

             Which went real well but it went downhill from there.
                                        
Basically I was just really, really sad because I got word that I didn't get a job that I applied for a few weeks ago.  

I had been really, really hoping and praying for this 'office' job. 
I'm just really worn out from teaching preschool.  


And I was looking forward to Alot more money and wearing fun 
clothes again.  I'm a bit of a clothes horse and I've really missed 
being able to wear nice things. 


I was so hoping that I'd be able to work in an office again.  
I really needed the less physical demanding part of office work as opposed to working full time with preschoolers. 
Then on Tuesday I find out that the new insurance we had to get will cost us $200.00 a month more than what we were paying.
  

So I've begun looking again for a job.  


Typing my resume and looking for anything that I can find.  Mostly in daycare because that's about all I can find.  I'm checking 
Craigslist hourly almost.  And a local church has a job board so I'm keeping an eye on it. (that's where  I found my last two jobs)

So I'm working as many hours as I can get.  And looking again 
When all I really want to do is this . . . 

And this . . . 

                                          
                                              I love cake!   

I hope you'll say a little prayer for me so I can get out of the Blues 
and back to me.  

All the graphics in this post were free at The Graphics Fairy.

'Winging It' In Blue

Well I am calling this 'Winging It' week.  Because it seems all my plans have gone asunder. 
Starting with this . . . 
                   
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. . . old news. 
Then I decided that I wanted to join an old friend and post plans for my week.  
And well.  As of 5:00 on Monday evening that still has happened. 
So.   I'm calling this 'Winging It' Week.  Just for Sally a few in Blue.
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I may be 'Winging It' this week but we can be confident God isn't.
He has it all under control.  Just look at his beauty . . . 

                                                    
The above photo's were found at the following sources:
Cornell Universtiy-NeoTropical Birds, WikiPedia, Vriginia Blue Birds(dot)Org,Rainforce Alliance,
Houston Museum Of Natural Science,Golden Gate State Park Butterfly Habitat

Linking with:
Blue Monday, Mosaic Monday, Camera Critters, Eileen's Camera Critters

May Your Day Be . . .

. . . Filled with Joy and Praise 



                        

Good Fences

                           Welcome
         
    Ocassionally we are met on Sunday by this sweet guy.
He lives across the street from the boys prison unit where we 
serve. 
            
He's a little scruffy looking but he's a sweet guy.  He makes me 
smile.  

                                    I hope he makes you smile.  
I think he might make Tex smile today.  
Linking with Tex at Good Fences.
Linking with Camera Critters, Eileen's Critters and Make My Saturday Sweet

                                                                                   
                               

Book Review

                                  
I was excited when offered this book to review.
                  I want to care like Christ 
The first thoughts I had when I received it was 'Deep' and 'Text book'. 
Before the book arrived I did a little research and found this on Amazon . . . 
How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community.
The following is an endorsement found in the front of the book . . .
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Gospel Conversations is just what pastors, local church leaders, and compassionate laywomen and men need as we serve and minister to those God has placed around us. We come in contact with people who are suffering and struggling each and every day. Gospel Conversations by Dr. Bob Kellemen will equip us all to better speak both truth and love in a way that is winsome and wise.” —Dr. Steve Viars, Senior Pastor, Faith Church, Lafayette, IN; Author of Putting Your Past in Its Place 

For me this book reads like a text book.  I think for a lay person it is a very, very deep read.  
With my highlighter in hand and notebook I am slowly delving in chapter after chapter.
The author suggests using the book in a group setting.  I tend to agree that it is much better suited for a group study.  

This book is available at Amazon and received great reviews

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4.7 out of 5 stars 

5 star		73%
4 star		27%
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Click here to read more reviews.

This book is available at the following retailers . Click the bold for a
direct link.
Amazon , Christian Book (dot)Com, Barnes and Noble
This review is also posted o Shelfari

This post is linked at the following blog parties  . . . 
Titus Tuesday, The Art Of  Homemaking,  Favorite Things Blog Hop,  Here's the fine print . . .
I was offered this book for review from Cross Focused Reviews.  This book is part of a blog tour.  
Click Here for more reviews

What Should I do Today . . .

 What Should I do Today . . .

Let's see . . . Maybe a little house cleaning. 

Or maybe go for a ride? That's sounds like fun!

                                  Or maybe spend some time getting some work done.

                                                                                        Nope don't think so.

Or maybe get caught up on some reading

So what do you think. What cha' doin today?

One Word Blues

A collection Blues with one word captions . . . 

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                                 Dreamy

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       Yummeeee

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                               Breathtaking

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                                 Big
         
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                                                           Cozy
                      What would your captions be?
Linking with Sally for Blue Monday

A New Month, A New Day . . .

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                                       Have a good day.  
                                       Enjoy your week.   

Dinner With Jack

I'll be a little busy today.  Jack is coming to dinner . . . 




                            Hope you have a good day. 
                                 I will.  (insert wink)

Fall In Texas/Dallas Arboretum

                           A walking tour of Fall in Dallas

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That a lot of pumpkins.  Wanna know how they did it?
                                                        

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A beautiful place for a fall wedding . . . 

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Fall in Texas is Fabulous!  Do you have Fabulous places to visit in your 'neck of the woods?'

                  Have a Fabulous Weekend