Checking In....

Hey guys...gosh it has been so long...I miss my blog time! Sometimes I think the older I get the faster the clock turns...all last week I was so drained..I just had no energy..it was all I could do just to putter around in the house and keep it maintained..come to find out my blood pressure had dropped to 90/56...I called the doctor and he said to cut my blood pressure medicine in half..if I continue to lose weight I will no longer need it...yahoo! But I have lost 60lbs and that number is sticking to those scales like a girdle on a fat lady! It won't budge lately..but I am determined to get this off...
Been slowly making different vignettes for Fall...love the old shadow box with my little Hulls pitcher and old utensils...also added my check napkins to the cabinets...love the bigger print in there...if I ever put 'curtains' in the cabinets again I think I will make some burlap ones...yesterday was such a fantastic day...went to visit mama & daddy....stopped by Publix and got a bucket of their fried chicken from the deli....cost of the chicken...$8.25...the amount of joy it gave me to spend time with them....there are no words...the fact that I am blessed to still have both of them...priceless...

Now y'all should know now what a pair of characters my parents are...you never know what will come out of their mouths....just a few weeks ago they were down and we were all in the living room...me.mama & Jen were just talking away and laughing...now daddy is alittle hard of hearing..so he yelled out"speak up I can't understand what y'all are saying"...Mama calmly turns to him and yells 'we're using code words...you're not suppose to understand!"So yesterday daddy opens the door and I nearly faint..."Uh daddy...did you lose your razor?" He rolls his eyes at mama and winks..."she likes me this way!" Oh my word!!!! Remember last year when daddy was in the hospital and I was staying with mama cause she had fell...daddy had called and was saying he needed to shave before he came home and mama said no...I like Mountain men...and daddy said when were you ever with a Mountain man and mama answered 'I can dream can't I" ...lol

So anyway we have our lunch and talk and laugh and after a few hours we decide to go on a road trip to Youngest Burly's house up at the lake...usually mama doesn't like to travel but to our surprise she jumps up and says 'Ok... let me go put on a depends!' At that moment I needed a depends cause I bout fell off my chair laughing....ahhhh senior moments..gotta love em...

Oh a different note...last Friday my sister's little 80 something yr old neighbor passed away...the day before she had told her family that she had had a vision...God had came to her and showed her all of her life from the day she was born until that moment....He told her He was there in the beginning and all the the middle and that He would be there with her in the end...That day she told her 91 yr old husband that she was alittle chilly so he went and got her a blanket and she was gonna take a nap in the recliner...she was not sick...no disease...nothing....she closed her eyes and went on to be with the Lord....we all should be so blessed when our time comes...but one thing her precious husband said has just stayed on my mind all week...he was crying and so heartbroken and he looked at his son and said "she's gone...but we hadn't finished talking"

I wonder how many of us will think those same thoughts when our loved ones pass on...will we have told them how much we love them...how blessed we are to have them in our lives...will we truly ever 'have finished talking to them"...give your love while it is still yours to give...Jesus told the story of love...you can have love FOR someone all day but until you have love ONE TO ANOTHER it benefits nothing...in other words...you could be hungry...I could have $100 in my pocket for you..it's yours...no other purpose...but until I actually GIVE you that $100 it profits you nothing. Have a great week you guys..enjoy the last days of Summer...love ya....Picket