Monday, September 16, 2024

 


SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
THE WHOOPS MOMENTS

Tuesday4


Here we are back for another Toni Taddeo Tuesday 4.   I hope you find them fun, thought provoking and interesting.

Have you been in trouble or had some Whoops/oops moments  in your life? Let's talk about it.

1.Have you ever felt like the dog in the picture? Yes! In fact I was cleaning the shredder when I dropped confetti like bits all over the floor!

2.Did you ever cause an embarrassing or inconvenient incident? What Opps moments were your fault? Too many to tell on myself. It seems like there is always something to make a mess of. Once I did throw out something in the fridge that I thought was bad, with a second opinion from my husband. Oops!

3. Tattle on your family or pets.. what funny incidents did they get into? Finn our youngest pup, he is actually just like the dog in the picture. But this weekend, I caught Loki one of the other boys going through the trash. He is our daughter's favorite and I busted him cold. She has a bad habit of dumping leftover food scrapes or whatever in the trash and of course, there is Finn or Loki to go through it like they are being starved!

4. What was the funniest moment in your life? There are many but as a small child, who was painfully shy, I was in the kindergarten and I didn't like something the teacher was saying. I thought I cupped my hands over my mouth as I stuck out my tongue. But because I was a little kid, I did not closed the cupped hands together. The teacher sent me to the corner. Boy was I mad but glad I did not have to look at her face! 2nd grade, the nun wanted me to stop using my left hand. I told her she was scaring me. she said I am not. I said I am going to throw up. She said no you are not! I did, all over that little religion book. She never asked me again to use my right hand. finally, also the 2nd grade. Someone had their milk money taken. Sister Caroline said we must bow our heads and pray to St. Anthony. No offense to anyone who believes he answers prayers but he sure never answered that one! It was then I realized that our parish priest was right. Jesus Christ hung on the cross for the sins of the world and if we prayed to Him He would help us. I never forgot that and it was the day I knew I belonged to Jesus. I am forever grateful for that day a long, long, long time ago.

Aw...Mondays


hahaha...I love these webbed footed friends of ours.


I'll say this love is...has not failed to make me smile since 1971.

Shout out to Sandra at the Pulmonology office. If she hadn't picked up that phone today we would never been able to  get the appointment with the Dr. tomorrow.I hope God does something beautiful for her today and I told her so.

Shout out to Sandra who asked about the protein powder. I have Nature's Bounty and before I bought it I looked at all the ingredients at amazon. I am not a huge fan of stevia (aftertaste) and others that have other sugar alternatives. So this one does have some sugar but I use it three times a week. I am not a gym rat so I do not need to drink a smoothie 7 days a week twice a day. I do what works for me. I also spent a lot of time reading reviews. Plus I needed something affordable. I tried Orgain but the Stevia was chalky and left an aftertaste for me. My youngest daughter took it. I was grateful because it was more expensive than the Nature's Bounty. I did purchase Nature's Bounty in Vanilla and chocolate. They make a nice smoothie and when we had peaches still in season it was delicious with the vanilla, a fresh peach and a couple tablespoons of Plain Greek Yogurt.  I hope you find something that works great for you! Thank you for stopping here too.


I am going to pose at my other blog about the mourning doves and the squirrels. I am going to try to catch a few photos though. The squirrels are hard to catch but the doves often sit quietly while their one baby learns to fly.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Tuesday 4 Happy Tuesday love is... Maxine Cracks Me Up

Tuesday4       AUTUMN READING 

 



Welcome to  Toni Taddeo's Tuesday4 which is hosted by Annie. Thank you 

Happy September friends and welcome once again to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4. 

The Autumnal Equinox is September 21 and it is the actual beginning of Autumn. Many, however, consider Labor Day as the unofficial opening of the Autumn season of the "Ber" Month

1. What's on your reading list for September? Life is Hard, God is Good, Let's Dance! by Brant Hansen, Jesus Christ, The Truth by J John and Chris Walley, 15 Summers Later by RaeAnne Thayne, . My list is short. We started a bible study with the five of us one night a week. So we have homework to  study for and notes to take. We started out slow, my husband Avery is so knowledgeable and lives  the Word of God  as best he can with his fearless heart. The world is so topsy turvy that I am wanting to try to solve things myself and it never works! So it is good we are revisiting so many books in the bible that are speaking out about today's world. It is my top priority.


2. Does your favorite reading nook look anything like the one in the picture or do you wish it did? I wish it did! I often read in bed because we have an adjustable bed and our model is a split king. So I am able to not disturb my sleeping husband when I can not sleep. I would love to have a nook with a window and even an outdoor one in the warm weather providing I could be screened in away from the wasps!

3. Can you name some books you've read many times? To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Good Earth, The Count of Monte Cristo.   Also any books by Fiona Valpy Do you recommend them? The first three are classics and yes I highly recommend them. The Fiona Valpy books are set during WWII primarily and I wish everyone would read these books to know  what could be in store for the world.

4.   Which of the classics have you read?  Good Reads offer a list of classics they recommend here. I have read all the classics that were required reading in my Catholic school days. There are too many to list but:  Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice , The Catcher in the Rye, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights and  also anything by Ayn Rand. I am grateful for all the books I was required to read because it expanded my knowledge of a world I otherwise would know nothing about. 

Happy Tuesday

This is a good day for me to catch up on Augusts. Nick celebrated on the 20th along with our friends Richard (also 8/20) and Sherrie in California and my niece Katie as well as my dear sweet friend Sharon who is celebrating in Heaven .Nick is blessed with a good bunch of August 20th birthday pals.

The 19th celebrated my favorite Aunt Ang - from here all the way to Heaven where she has been for many years. It is also the birthday of my niece Amy.  I checked in with Jeremy, our oldest son on the 9th already and our son-in-law Zach on the 13th. 

Noelle and Roger would have celebrated 24 years of marriage on the 27th but Roger left us way too soon as well.   The losses we have experienced in our phamily has never been easy and it never will be. Our sweet Alastor Avery went to heaven on the 4th of August when he was just 7 months old. He would be 5 today. So many hard tears fall for those no longer here. But many happy memories are closest to our hearts.

August was not the happiest month with the loss of my boy Tiger a/k/a Mr. Kitty. But I did not think September 1 would give us such a scare! Avery, my husband had been complaining of an eczema breakout. But it was hurting him and I wanted him to call his doctor. Then his asthma flared up! Sunday morning he woke me up to say he  had a very hard time breathing and  wanted to go to the emergency room. Rebekah and Zach drove us and off we went. They believe he had a viral infection because all his labs were excellent and the lung x ray only showed a slight inflammation. After a few hours there they sent him home with some meds and orders to follow up with the PCP and a Pulmonologist. So, please do not be offended, but when people say to me, trust the Science....sorry no! They are only human too and sometimes they do not know everything. I worked in the medical field for 35 years. I worked with research docs in a teaching hospital, I worked in an Admissions office and the emergency room. I learned so much and one thing I learned, on this earth, we are all human and no one knows everything! That in my opinion, is God's job!

We saw this with Nick in 2020 when he was deathly ill. The hospital Er that saw him wanted to write it off as CV19! Nope his blood count was too low. So in came an infection disease guy.. At least the meds he gave NIck worked until May 5 2024 when Nick had a blood count so low that the hospital who tried calling him in the middle of the night had the police come to our home to tell us he needed to go to the ER ASAP! They thought he had leukemia, brought in the old school expert who found he suffered from anemia with a blood count circling the drain! So this older and much wiser doctor solved Nick's problem and two years later, he is staying healthy! 

I am a little slap happy from lack of sleep, lack of relaxation, lack of getting through the day without a crisis. But it is how life does go  sometime.  Plus I am H A P P Y I am here with my people!

Icing on the cake, Zach waited in the car while Rebekah and I took her dad to the ER. Zach had the car on charging  his phone  and checking different videos out and dozed off. When he attempted to start the car it had a dead battery. Thank goodness Nick to the rescue. As he brought the portable battery charger to us so we could all go home. We all had a decent night's sleep on Saturday night.  We are all human and we all make silly mistakes and sometime giant ones.

I bet you are glad you are not me! But the prayer warriors came out in full force and prayed as they always do. I spent the better part of Sunday afternoon sending over 50 messages to everyone who prayed. 

I plan to continue my August saga on my other blog but for now, a quick visit with love is... and Maxine Cracks Me Up:

No other words required.....

Maxine, well, Maxine has opinions on everything!