Kentucky Changers

This week some delightful young ladies and their adult leaders have been at my home putting up a new deck. These girls are from 12 to 17 or so. They are learning how do do this work and are doing a fantastic job.
Yesterday, they were so busy trying to take out a concrete stoop and the concrete steps that led up to my door. You know, we sing the song On Christ the solid rock I stand. Let me tell you it must have been my steps. The used sledge hammers. No luck on the steps. They got an electric jackhammer. One step removed and a partial removal of the second step. All of this from about 10 A.M. to quitting time at 3;00 P.M.

Today they were told that they would have to get the step removed to allow a post to be put on the corner of the house and they accomplished the task after my brother brought over a drill with a concrete bit and drilled some holes in that second step. The corner post is in place and the frame and joists are up. It has been a wonderful experience to see these young ladies work and lead in the devotionals at lunch.
Today's devotional was taken from James 3:6. Attitudes was the title. The young lady who led the group is just 14 years old. Marvelous insight into how our attitudes need to be positive and our tongues held to the highest standards of speaking positive thoughts. God bless you ladies as you serve the Lord with your volunteer work with Ky. Changers

Selling for school

Why can the school not provide enough money for our kiddos to experience things fun activites without it costing us an arm and a leg? My GS sold a product to help with a graduation bash for after graduation at his school. He picked up his product bag and when he got home he discovered that he had not gotten all he the things he had sold. We have been trying to reach the sponsor for 2 1/2 months about this fact. I gave my phone number to the school office and requested that the teacher contact me about this problem. No word, nada, nothing. Common courtesy would suggest that at least I deserved a phone call to discuss the problem. This has been an ongoing mess since the middle of March.

Well yesterday I had to see the assistant principle who works with seniors. He took my name and phone number and I thought just another run around. He promised to check out the problem and see how it should be handled. I told him that it should be either the 4 gift certificates or my 24 dollars. That was the only solution I would accept.

Was I upset? You betcha, I was upset. I don't generally make a ruckus unless I feel like I am right about a problem. Well, about 2:30 0r 3 I got a phone call form the AP and will be receiving a check in the mail for the 24 dollars. Why did I pursue this for such a small amount? It is not easy to live on a fixed income these days. Why did I have to get really mad for them to take care of this problem? I guess they thought I would just go away and let that money be a donation to the seniors. Please teachers extend us the courtesy of at least a call back to address a problem. Don't let it carry on for 10 weeks. Don't talk to the kid who sold a product. I was the complaintent not my GS.

Thank you AP for taking care of this for me. The teacher should have called.

God's accuracy

I did not compose this blog entry but wanted to share this with my blogger friends. I would like to give gredit to the one who wrote it because it is a wonderful explanation of God's plan for us. So to the author: Great Job!!! I hope if you read this you will know that two people have at least passed it on. Read abd enjoy. I did!

God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.



For example:

-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.
(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days
in a week!)

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for
His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life. If you try to
regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One
Who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable
end.

God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant... The four legs of this
great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is
so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to
live on two legs... For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can
rise from the ground easily.

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A cow rises
from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all
His works of creation!

God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as
well as in the number of grains.

-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and
each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next
row an odd number.

-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds
of weather.

All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified
thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold - all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the
day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a
conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he
could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those
that were closed!

Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted
to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and
will be fragrant with His presence.

Only the God-planned safe life is successful. Only the life given over to
the care of the Lord is fulfilled.




I HOPE YOU FIND THIS AS FASCINATING AS I DID.....WOW!!!!

Adoption for grandparents

I have not been very good about things that are special to me or things that are deeply emotional. I just read a blog from an adoptive mother and it made me think. Saturday is Birth Mother Day for adoptive mothers. I am not the one who has adopted a child but I have adopted two granddaughters. I know what it is like to have biological grandchildren and love each one of them because of who they are and what they will become. However, to know that two little girls came to our family from a mother who loved her child so much she left her where she would be found,is mind-boggling to me. My daughter has become a mother two times over because a mother or rather two mothers in China put their precious little baby girls where they were found quickly.

Now the reason for this blog is that two sets of grandparents in China have an empty place in their hearts while their granddaughters are filling the empty places in the hearts of two grandmothers and a grandfather in America. God has blessed me and the other grandparents exceptionly by the girls who have come to us by way of adoption. I am amazed by the hugs, kisses, and smiles on their faces each time I go to visit them. That these two precious girls call me Grammy is a blessing from God.

Sunday is Mother's Day for my daughters and so I will be thinking of the mothers who gave up their children so my youngest could experience motherhood. God bless these two mothers and give them comfort as they face another year without their little girls.

Posting

I am still not getting this blogging down pat but I will continue to try to make it interesting. I received two letters this past week from my Lexington grandkids. If you haven't written to your little grandbabies do so. They get really excited to get mail and they will answere when Mommy has time to help them. I love to receive their letters. So all you grandmothers and grandfathers, take time to write a short note to the little ones. I would love to watch their faces when they get that mail. Mail that is just for them. I really am bad about writing because of e-mails and facebook. I can keep in touch with the older ones that way but the little ones don't have e-mail or facebook. Just remember how you felt when you got that card or letter when you were little and make your grandkids day a little brighter and fun. My children used to carry their mail around all afternoon when they got it. I had forgotten how much fun it was to go to the mail box and there it was. A letter from my Grandma Lanham. She did not write often but I loved getting that letter.

I remember the day I got a package from her. I was so excited because we did not often get gifts from Grandma. In the package was a sweater for my doll. My grandma took the time to make me a doll sweater. I still have that sweater from sixty or so years ago. So I am trying to give my little ones the same excitement of receiving mail from someone they love. If you haven't tried it you are missing a blessing. I know we can talk to them on the phone or send them a message through Mom's e-mail or facebook but it is not the same as getting that letter with their name on it and it is just theirs, no one elses. It doesn't take much time and it brightens someones day.

additions to the family

The first of the week I called my youngest daughter for some info and was asked if I had seen her fb page. I hadn't so she let H, the four year old, tell me the news. She told me they had gotten a puppy. Then she said they got 2 puppies. I asked her what color they were and she said they were red and pink. I was floored because I don't know any puppy that is red or pink. I asked her again and she handed the phone to her mother. K wanted to know what I had asked and when I told she was laughing and said their colors were red and pink. They have added two Siberian huskies to the family and one is a boy and one is a girl.

Maybe I will get this blogging right

I started this blog to share some of my beautiful grandchildren with you. I am very bad about writing down my thoughts so I hope you will bear with me as I have decided to try to do a daily journal.
I have 7 grandchildren. I also have 4 step grandchildren. My oldest grand child is the mother of 3 beautiful children, Nathan who is almost 6, Haley who will be 5 in August and Carter who will be three in July. I also have 2 beautiful step-great- grandaughters sho have presented me with a great-great granddaughter and a great-great grandson. These two little ones are the newest in my little ones. God has blessed me greatly with the 3 children I have and all their little ones.