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    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    So sweet to come in and see still another old friend posing an update. 

     

    Becca_Anne, I have wondered how you are, and I'm sorry you have had difficulties and worries, but  I'm happy to see your update.

     

     I continue to pray for everyone here, knowing  God has each of us in His hands, so we can leave the details safely with Him. 

     

    I can't seem to get the  Emoticons to work for me tonight, but please consider yourself  hugged and  loved. 

     

     

     

     

     

    Busy, busy, busy...

    in Where the Heart Is

    Posted

    *SIGH*  :behindsofa:    peekaboo!  

     

    Life just gets so busy.  Our youngest is getting ready to finish up her  university years, but I guess she still has one semester to finish after this next one ends.  She has an internship in a major company  up near Chicago coming up, but I'm not thrilled about it being so close to Chicago, even though it's only a couple hours away from us.  They have a protective, established program for their internships, but  you all know how Mamas worry. :shakinghead:  

     

    I'm not babysitting the three grandchildren as much these days.  The second-grader who I was with through most of his preschool years  even told his mom that he misses being with me so much.  Granddaughter just turned 5, and she's so much like her Mama (our older daughter).  She thinks she runs the family, sometimes! :o But her parents are good and deal with all the kids fairly and well.   And  sweet little  2-year-old brother  gets so excited  when he sees Grandma that he yells "Read Book!  Read Book!" and I have to tell him to go and get one for us.  :)  

     

    You'd think I'd have it all together, but I'm still struggling to do that.  With just DH and I at home, I'm not cooking those meals like I used to.  I'm forgetting recipes that I used to just know, as a result.  :shakinghead:  It gets so frustrating.    And now  DH is trying to lose weight, now, so it makes it more of a challenge.  

     

    I miss  keeping up with everyone here.    FaceBook helps, but it's not like it used to be here. 

     

    How can we get back what we had, with regular interactions and helpful info?   What do you need?   What would you like?   We have so much good information already here, that I wonder how I might  help, any more.  

     

    I do pray for all of us.  And I miss you all.   

     

    And here is where I break into song...    :o 

     

     

     

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    K-Mart And Sears Closing

    in Pinching Pennies

    Posted

    KMart was dying around here a long time ago, and they closed the last "close" one to us last year.

     

    Sears lost us a LONG time ago, so I'm not really sad.  It used to be the go-to place for good quality stuff, and you could count on helpful  employees who cared about service and quality.  They allowed this single female with a good job a credit account when it was still kind of rare, so I bought my first home's refrigerator there before I married.  

     

    And it was the ONLY place my husband's family would buy appliances  and other larger home products. Until they needed a new stove and couldn't find ANYBODY in the store who was willing to actually look things up and try to help them. My husband went with his Dad to help and came back very sad and upset, and told me how his parents and he would never again trust Sears for anything. And so it ended for us.

     

    Sam's Club was a surprise, though.  What I was told is that Amazon has taken so much of their business that they want to recreate a similar model that will be online order & then delivery to the home. 

     

    I refuse to allow home delivery of my food products.  I want to choose what I buy, myself.   I cannot imagine allowing a stranger to not only deliver, but enter my home while I am not there  to put it inside.  Crazy world.  :shakinghead:

     

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    Happy New Year, my friends!

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    I really do mean it.  :wub:

    Events of the past few years in my "real life" have shown me just how much this forum and all of it's people have filled my life in far too many lonely places.

    Before FaceBook, this place was a place to connect, even when it's with people I may never meet in "real life".  FaceBook now helps me by connecting old classmates and extended family  in sweet ways that help me to feel like I have "real life" friends, too.   

    I hadn't realized how lonely I really was, in my day-to-day life.  I can talk easily to strangers, but people I know 'up close" are more difficult.  Even church (a pushy female youth leader) hurt our youngest daughter, so we backed away from that church and tried to find another, but couldn't find one we  seemed to fit into. 

    Now DH and I  have returned to that church, and it is better for us now. I'm struggling to fit in, as I always do, but it is better.

     

    Each of you, whether we "connect" much or not, are important to not only me, but to many others here.  Don't ever discount that.

     

    :grouphug:

     

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    Happy New Year, my friends!

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    Time marches on, and I have less time to come here and just play.  :hi:

     

    But you are in my thoughts and my prayers,  and  I hope that you are in a place where you are safe, where you have "enough", and where you are loved.  :hug3:

     

    May this coming year bring you the things that money can't buy, the things that fill your heart with  joy and with peace.

     

    God bless you and your loved ones.   :grouphug: 

     

    You are loved.   :cloud9:  

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    Thanksgiving plans?

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    We are going to our daughter's home for lunch. She's doing the turkey and our traditional sides, but I'm bringing the home-frozen sweet corn and the pumpkin pie.  It's just easier not needing to take the grand-kids out of the house.  If they need a nap, time-out, clean shirt, whatever, it's all right there. 

     

    :)

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    He Proposed

    in Where the Heart Is

    Posted

    We celebrated our 33rd anniversary yesterday.   So many years there was no extra money for flowers and cards.  This time, he brought home a beautifully sweet card and a dozen perfect red  roses.   I am wonderfully blessed with this man of mine.  :cloud9: 

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    Are you missing your signature photo.

    in Announcements and Help

    Posted

    On 10/21/2017 at 8:57 PM, Annarchy said:

    Yes, I have noticed the PB issue. However, Snowmom, Darlene, Cat, and others are missing their sig photos. I will send a service request to IP after Sunday, (I'm gonna take a break from 'work' tomorrow).  

     

    Thanks for noticing, Jeepers. :thumbs:

     Did this get fixed, or am I just still able to see my own?  :shrug:

    HEY, I MADE IT BACK!!!!

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    I use my desktop.  It's all different.

     

    It's  harder for me to navigate,  it says that I'm not authorized to chat, everywhere I look it is another puzzle to figure out. 

     

    And I don't have as much time to play here, so it will take me a while to make it my new "normal Mrs S".   I'll get there, but it'll need time that I don't really have right now.

     

    But I still want to be here, to connect, to help,  to keep up with  everybody here.  :bighug2:

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    WormGuy??

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    Somebody here   was kind enough to get me the last phone number they had, so I called it.  I thought it was going to the message system, but then he picked up.  :o    

    So we talked for a while, and I hope he will find time to come here to update us.  I don't feel comfortable sharing what he  shared with me, that is for him to do.

    He is busy caring for ongoing medical concerns for his wife, and  has backed away from the internet world for  a while.

     

    Please continue to keep them both in your prayers.   :pray: 

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    WormGuy??

    in The Sunporch

    Posted

    Has anyone heard from our friend WormGuy?   I haven't seen him here or on FB. 

    Here, it says he hasn't been in since  March 24.  :(

    I hope he and his wife are doing OK.  :pray:

     

     

     

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