He delights in blessing His children

You never know what a day will hold for you. But God always knows! We don't know if it may be our last day on this earth, or if we will win the lottery! I woke up yesterday morning to a rainy Wednesday. We had swimming lessons planned, and church in the evening. That's it. Nothing special about this day. But God knew!

We came home from swimming lessons and there was a message on my answering machine. "Hello, this is Sharon. Just want you to know that Sonja is in town, and we'd like to know when you are available to get together and spend time with her." WHAT???????????? My niece from Florida is in town?????? How cool is that? I had no idea she was planning on coming! YAY! We ended up spending 8 hours with her, and getting the thrill of taking her places and surprising others who had no idea she was coming either! How fun! I never knew a rainy Wednesday could turn out to be so fabulously special! Thank you Jesus! I believe He delights in surprising His children this way. I love you, Jesus! Thanks for the incredible blessing!!!!

What a great God we serve!

The whole stolen dinner thing last night SO aggravated me, that I knew I could not go to bed last night without working through it. So, I found a GREAT NEW PREACHING SITE, found a good message by Rev. Tim Pedigo, and when it was done, I began to pray. I prayed, I danced, I spoke in tongues, I worshipped with all my heart! When I was done at 2am, I went to bed. This morning, I felt so great in service! Thank you Jesus for the gift of forgiveness. Thank you that we can come boldly before your throne of grace and ask anything in your name. You are awesome! I'm going to church this evening expecting GREAT things from my GREAT God!!!

THIEF!

Well... tonight was a first for me. I had to work from 2-11 at Hannaford as I always do on Saturdays. I have worked there for 15 months, and this has never happened to me until tonight. I went on my first 15 minute break. I had a soda and I took a couple bites of my mac and cheese I brought for dinner... there was a lot... I brought a whole BOX. Anyway, 2 hours later, I went up for my meal, and MY ENTIRE CONTAINER of mac and cheese was GONE! Someone ate ALL my dinner and neatly returned the empty tupperware container to the fridge. AHHHHHHHH!!!! What am I supposed to eat for dinner????? I'm here until 11pm, and I am hungry NOW... at 6:30pm! I was not impressed. I went downstairs to file a complaint. The evening manager was kind enough to give me a $5 gift certificate so I could eat. THANK YOU ERIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I appreciate you! I feel so bad that the store had to give me a five dollar gift certificate to replace a meal that cost me 33 cents! I hope whoever ate it really needed it and appreciated it..... I am not impressed. Hard to trust your co-workers when that kind of stuff happens.

Well, I'm done venting. Work was fun tonight other than having my dinner stolen from me. I love working with Ashley and Kate! We always have fun! It's good to enjoy your work! Have a lovely evening! We are taking our little upstairs neighbor Taylor to Sunday School with us again tomorrow! Praise the Lord!

Quick post

Hello all! Just a quick little note. The boys and I went to my mom and Ray's camp today to visit with my sister and her family. They are here for the weekend from Maine. It was so nice to see them, and the boys had a great time together! Unfortunately, it POURED and THUNDERED and LIGHTNINGED, and POURED and THUNDERED and LIGHTNINGED, and POURED some more..... yeah. It was definitely an indoor occasion. The boys were a little bummed... but in between the lightning storms, they ran out onto the dock and caught fish in the pouring rain! They had fun!

Tomorrow is the big plane crash drill at the airport... I believe my husband will be one happy and relieved training coordinator when it is all OVER! Talk to you soon!
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God answers prayer...

I just have to share this with you all! I went into the kitchen to make breakfast for my boys this morning, and flicked on the radio as I do every day. Just as I turned it on, I hear Karlo (the DJ) saying, "We have on the line with us Jim Rubinate from the Barre United Pentecostal Church". COOL! Seems that YESTERDAY, Jim called and spoke on the air about their need for a new meeting place. They have a daughter work in Chelsea, and the building they WERE using is no longer available because it is about to undergo major renovations. So Jim asked the listeners to pray and ask God to provide a building for them to meet in. Jim came on the radio TODAY to announce that in less than 2 hours after the broadcast, they received a call and had a place offered to them... it's a huge warehouse type building...PLENTY of room for the work to grow! Is our God awesome or what???? I'm thrilled I got to hear that testimony on the radio!

In other news, my husband and I are struggling with an error I made regarding cub scout camp. I told him that camp was Aug. 3-7.... turns out it is Aug. 7-12. This is BAD. My husband is going as a chaperone. Aug. 3-7 was his short week at work, and he only needed to use ONE vacation day to do it... but Aug. 7-12 is his long week. Now he has to use FOUR vacation days, and THAT means we won't have enough vacation days to go to Maryland to see his dad for Christmas. This is not good. We are discussing and praying, wondering if it will be possible to go or not... we are really bummed about the prospect of not going. We shall see.

Well, my boys are begging me to go drain the pool, which is full of grass and beetles. So, duty calls! Have a wonderful weekend! I am going to visit my sister at our mom's camp this weekend, so I likely won't be blogging until Sun. or Mon.! Blessings!

Watching the cousins

Hello! I am watching my niece and nephew this evening, and my boys are thrilled to have their cousins hanging with them! Meghan is 5 and Michael is 2. We went in the kiddie pool in the backyard (which is c-c-c-cold!!), and Mike had blue lips and chattering teeth, but REFUSED to come out of the water! They had a blast! Then we came in and danced to our neighbor's vacation bible school CD! Now, we are watching a family movie from two years ago... Michael was just a baby! So cute! Life seems to go by so fast..... Here is a picture of Megs and Mike taken last week...


Meghan and Michael by the campfire.

I really need to go watch the kiddos.... have a great evening all!

New School

Today, the boys began swimming lessons... level 3 for Nick, level 4 for Adam. They had fun! After their lesson, we decided to go visit Adam's new school. I don't know anyone over there, and know nothing about the layout of the school. So, we went exploring in the school! How fun! We found his classroom, and important places like the nurses office, library, cafeteria, music room, etc. Then we went upstairs and found his best friend Josh's classroom. Then out to the playground! They have a very old playground, but will be putting a new one in soon! I am so nervous about sending him to school with older kids... their was profanity graffitied on the pavement of the playground, so my son and I had a talk about choices, and being a good influence on others, not letting the bad kids influence him to make wrong choices. I think we have done a fairly good job raising him so far, and I trust him to make right choices.

On the way home, we stopped at the library for some books and a couple movies. Looking forward to a nice relaxing afternoon. I love being a mom!