Archive for December, 2011
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Happy Hanukkah… Jehovah Jireh
As the sun set on this first night of Hanukkah I was starting to prepare dinner. This is the first time in over a week I have felt well enough to even attempt this so it was cool! It’s been a rough couple of days outside of the sickness. When I went to the doctor for my follow up appointment yesterday my bank card was declined! Brian’s card was misplaced so we immediately thought that it was because of that! After a quick check of the account on his phone we were perplexed. We stopped at the bank after the appt. and found out the problem was with MY card and that someone had tried to access it and had pin errors so the bank shut it down. I reset my pin at the bank and then headed home. When I got home a voice mail awaited me. The bank fraud dept. had called. Someone tried to get money out of our bank account from Shanghai!
To top that off, our transmission in our van went. This has left us without a vehicle.. save the motorcycle. And with me being sick I haven’t gotten out to finish some necessary shopping!
I was mulling this all over, and decided to make a favorite dinner. As I got things out I realized I couldn’t find any butter. I searched the refrigerator.. nope.. the freezer.. nope .. the downstairs freezer.. there was margarine.. not really what I needed but it would have to do. Then I needed an onion.. looked in all the normal spots.. nope no onion. So I got the folding step stool out (yep I am short.. ) and got dried diced onions out of the cupboard. They would have to do.
But I found that God just didn’t want me to ‘make do’ this first night of Hanukah. So He went all Jehovah Jireh *on me! After I washed the skillet and had put a little margarine in it I happened to look up (remember I am short) and there.. up on top of the refrigerator was the EXACT amount of butter I needed. I hadn’t seen it there before… weird..
Then I stepped over to the pantry closet to get something and POP.. out falls an onion.. the EXACT size onion I needed. Well.. ok then!
On a day I am struggling to figure out how I am going to get everything done, pay for this car repair and if I am ever going to just get better and feel 100% God is showing me in his own little way that indeed he will provide what I need.
Thanks.. I needed that.
*The Lord will provide.
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Wordless Wednesday: It should all be over tomorrow..
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Wordless Wednesday: What’s Zat’ Claus? (my Christmas present!)
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Bookish Thursday: Stashbusting with Melissa Leapman
Well, part of the reason I have not been blogging lately is that I got a knitting machine and I have been unsuccessfully trying to use it to work down my stash. Needless to say, we did NOT get along and it was returned to the merchant on Monday. The same day the book Stashbuster Knits by Melissa Leapman
landed on my doorstep.
WHAT TIMING!
I love it there are 21 projects to knit down this stash have built up and I think I have enough odds and ends to make each project at least once if not more!
There are also handy guides to help you combine colors and to use multiple strands of thinner yarns together to make up larger gauges thereby using up that stash yarn even faster!
So many of them just scream out KNIT ME!!! My favorite is the Puzzle Play blanket! A super colorful blanket made of puzzle pieces! It’s so colorful and fun.
The book is divided up into three sections by general weight of yarn, thin, medium and bulky so you can just go to your stash, pick out the appropriate weight yarn and go!
I can see some stash busting in my future and a cleaner leaner yarn closet as a result! Thank you Melissa Leapman for writing this book just for me so I can get cleaned up!!
Paying the bills…
Coming April 13th
