New Blog

I have posted my new blog   HERE  if you would like to keep up with me and my crazy life. :)     I went ahead and made it public and will be writing about different  places right here in East Tennessee and of course a few things that are going on with me and my family. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

The End..

I cannot believe I have had this blog for 3 1/2 years.

It started as a blog for my Sunday School class that evolved into my personal blog.

I have felt for a few months that is was time to bring this blog to an end.

I have another blog that I have been working on pertaining to the area in which we live.  I am not sure that I will launch that blog or not but to everything there is a season and all seasons change.

I am looking forward to the new thing or the new season that God will bring into my life.

It has been a joy to me for all the people that visited this blog.  I appreciate your prayers for me and my family when we needed it AND getting to "visit" with y'all.

Y'all have a wonderful and fun Summer and I will be by your blogs to keep up with you!

Remember..... GOD is ABLE....
Love,
Patty

Monday Mania

I am so relieved that our CH&A unit is fixed!!  The man didn't show up until the middle of the day and it was plain miserable for us and our dog.  Praise God it is fixed!  Air never felt so good. ;)

These are the things we can take for granted. 

While I was waiting on the repairman to show up, I started on my group's Summer Bible study, Breaking Free by Beth Moore.  This is my second time to do this study but I am excited to be doing the study with  our small group.   Are you all going through a Bible study this Summer?

We are meeting in each others homes and I love that so much more than meeting at church in a classroom.  It's always a fun time when you get together with girlfriends and study God's Word. :-)


Tonight has been relaxing after the mania of the heat etc.... and we grilled out hamburgers. Let me pass this yummy product along to you just in case you haven't tried it.

This makes the best hamburgers!  I love all of his spices.  The chicken and steak rub are also very, very good. 

Now I am ready for dance mania...Dancing with the Stars!  Do you watch it? Who is your fav couple?   I like Max and Erin.

Time to get off here and watch the dancing but before I go let me share a verse I discovered during my quiet time:

In my devotional book Life Walk from Lifeway..we are reading Ezra and today was chapter six.

Zerubbabel and his countrymen were restoring or rebuilding the Temple of God.  Resistance came from their enemies and they tried to stop the rebuilding of the Temple.

Moving forward, God gave them favor by changing the heart of the king of Assyria and they were able to continue the restoration with the king's help.

They were so excited that they celebrated for 7 days.

It was verse 22 of this chapter that made me smile.   "God had plunged them into the sea of joy : he had changed the mind of the king of Assyria to back them in rebuilding the Temple of God, the God of  Israel.  

I don't know who needed to hear that but remember this, no matter what you are going through or facing, God can change other people's minds if he needs to in order to lavish you with His favor. God has the final say!

With that I pray each of you will be plunged into a sea of joy this week! 

Same Ole...Same Ole

Just checking in after I realized that I had not written in a week.  Nothing major going on but just babysitting my great nephew and we seem to be busy non-stop and we needed a day like today to relax after church. That is what me and my fam have been doing all day.

My heart goes out to my friends who live in West Tennessee and Middle Tennessee.  I cannot believe the flooding and I can't believe that a year ago we lived in that area.  I am thankful for living in East Tennessee but my thoughts have been filled with my friends who still live there.

We did have a few hours on Saturday where my friend Georgia and I went to a few yard sales, just messing around on a pretty day. One local church was having a yard sale and breakfast and we bought homemade sausage and biscuits that were really good.  The older people of their church were cooking and let me tell you they threw out a breakfast spread like no other and it smelled so good. 

We had lunch(Zaxby's) with my parents and then I came home and crashed on the couch the rest of the evening.

This is where I will insert that our air conditioning quit working last night.  This is also where I will tell you that it was 90 today and will be over the next few days.  UGH!   It is pretty bad when it's cooler outside than inside.

Someone is supposed to come tomorrow and look at it. I am praying that it will be fixed quickly.  This reminds me of when I was little and all we had back then was window air conditioners.  Back then we just had to deal with the heat.   I must say that is was nice sitting outside on the front porch and the wind was pretty strong and it was very relaxing. :)

I am working on a new blog look..big surprise... I hope it turns out pretty..Something for the Summer. 

BTW...I cannot believe it is May!   May is a big month in our family.  Mother's Day,  Parents anniversary, Mother's birthday,  Memorial Day.  Two friends have a birthday this month. All the above within days of each other. 

One last trivial thing...I look forward to the first day in May....to the Kentucky Derby.   I never bet but I like to look at the horses and pick the horse I think will win.  I am pretty good at it, except this year, my horse came in 8th place.  I would love to go to the Derby ..that would be on my bucket list.  I love the BIG hats and dressing up etc... It was such a great race and  the horses are just gorgeous.   I lived in KY for 5 years and we never got to go but one day I may be there sporting my BIG hat. lol

I promise I will be back with something better to read than  this post. ;)     Just wanted to check in...how are you??