Well my sister is basking in the Florida sunshine right now while we are shivering in our boots up here in the cold midwest! We are ready to hop the next flight down there and join her on the beach!!:) But my school starts in two days so I had better stay here!

Hope all is well with everyone!

Ohh the weather has turned cold again! I was enjoying the warm sunny weather, but what do I expect?  After all, it is winter.

Nothing real interesting has been going on at our house. Mom is doing errands today and has a Dr. appointment, Mandi is at work and Dad is doing something outside. I have to go to work in about 30 minutes . This afternoon I started to work on organizing our recipes. We have a stack that we have not tried yet, some we are going to try and then all the ones we tried and like. I am going to try to get all the recipes we like into Mom's two recipe books and reorganize them. I tried a recipe last night that I have wanted to try for about a year now, it is called Baked Cherry Pudding. It turned out pretty good! It would taste wonderful with Cool Whip or Ice cream!  Then I made Applesauce Bread today, it is not too bad, I think I will keep the recipe but next time I make it I will add a little more spices. But it will be very yummy as something to eat for breakfast or a snack! I also made Meringue Coconut Brownies last night-ok lets just say that I will be keeping that recipe! Yes I have a confession, I am addicted to sweets!!! I never use to be at all before I had these stomach problems but now I could eat sweets all day long and for every meal!

Please pray for our family, we are each going through some rocky times right now and I know that God is allowing this for a reason but it is still hard. Thanks so much.

Well I need to go, gotta go to work.

God is faithful!

Beautiful weather we are having here! Warm sunshine and a bright blue sky!! I am ready for spring to come!

We have a new addition to our family- Max. He is a almost 2 month old black Lab/border collie puppy and he so soooo cute! I was not sure I really wanted another puupy so soon after our dog Ellie was killed in December but Max is a gift from God and I think this is the right time for him to join our family. God's timing is best! Right now Max is inside(which my mother is not happy about) and he has Mom cleaning up behind him as he goes along and chews on everything but the oven. He is so adorable!

My health has not really improved but I have been able to to gain some weight back and I can eat more things then I could before. I just have to make myself eat enough even though it makes me feel bad.  I found out the the meds I was on(Nexium) had terrible side affects and I did not even know it. I went off of them one week after reading in a magazine that they can have mental side affects on people and boy what a difference it made in my life!! I will never again use Nexium again!! I don't care how much I have to suffer from heartburn or whatever as long as I do not have all those mental/depression problems I was having! I missed out on like a year of my life because of them I think. Thankfully God intervened and brought that info about the meds to my attention otherwise I would still be were I was before! Sisters, never ever doubt that God is faithful to his children, He IS!!! Even when we can not see the light and have lost sight of Him, He is still there to carry us through the dark times of our lives.

Our family has really been going through a real trying time lately. God is teaching us SO much and I just pray that through this time God will use it to bring us each closer to Him. At first it was really hard because I could not control the situation but then I had to give the situation to God and let His will be done. It is hard to watch someone you love and are close to kinda swerve off of God's path and I had no one to talk about it too which is hard. But through all of this God has been teaching me to find all my comfort and contentment in HIM ALONE. I am the type who likes to run from scary or bad or stressful or painful situations but God has been teaching me not to worry or fear but just to give all my problems to Him and rest in His love and care and let His will be done. It is SOOOOO hard to trust Him! But God is good and will give me grace as I seek to trust Him more.

God is faithful!

It has been quite a while since I wrote an entry here. Life has been crazy and good at the same time. There has been joy, thanksgiving, confusion, pain , sorrow, hope and love in the past months of my life. God has been working on me and has brought me to a new place in my walk with Him and I am so thankful for His faithful love and comfort He gives to me daily. Hopefully I can start writing here again even though we still don't have internet at home but when I get time I can stop at the local Library and use their computers. Hope everyone has been well and growing in the Lord and walking with Him.

God is faithful!

Lindsay- Here is my email address if you would like to email me heartburn84@hotmail.com . I don't really have the time right now to write anyone but feel free to email if you would like. Maybe if I have some time once a month and enough of my friends or whoever would like email addresses I can write out a mass email about my health and such. My computer is dying and so we cannot get online anymore, I am having to use the computer at the Library. And Mom is going to cancel our internet service since the computor does not work anyways so that is part of the reason I cannot email oftenor update on here anymore.

Does anyone have any info about any kind of work out of home job ideas OR caretaker/nanny for christian families or missionaries job info? Do you know of any websites or organizations that would have that kind of info? Thank you for any help!! Also please pray that the Lord would show me His will concerning my life right now and what path to take. I really really really need to earn more money as my parents are really really struggling right now with the bills and such and I feel bad for all the money I have cost them with my health problems and I would like to pay them back all of what I cost them but with the job I have now I am not even making enough to pay for clothes or food so I really need to find another job. But most importantly I want God's will done in all of this so please pray that God would direct my steps in the right way and that I may glorify Him in all I do and say!

Thank you all so much, you have such sweet godly hearts!!

God is faithful!