A Few Things and One More

First, my Son is still in the states.  After I posted the other night, he called and said that it would be any time but that he was on "stand by".  Well, he is still on stand by.  

Second, my internet was down.  We have three places connected together with several routers and well, when one goes down, they all go down.  

So, I wasn't able to get back on Saturday to let you all know the latest updates on where Jeremy was.  Thank you all for your prayers and please don't stop praying for everyone in Haiti working to make a difference and for the Haitians themselves.  I now we all are, I'm preaching to the choir here.  I'll let you know as soon as we know when Jeremy leaves, he's ready and sitting on go.

Third, my honey feels awful.  Today and yesterday and maybe even the day before, he has felt really awful.  They said this would be the worst one, they were right.  It's starting to get him down a bit and it's hard for me to watch, too.  I just keep telling him, tomorrow will be better, we will beat this thing and it's gonna be okay.  He knows all this, he's just tired really, he needs sleep desperately.  He has a hard time sleeping normally but right now he is going through a really ruff time trying to get sleep.  

It's gonna be okay, it will get better, we'll beat this thing.  

I guess I tell myself the same things sometimes.

Love to you all.  

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***UPDATE ***  7:50 pm

 Jeremy just texted me, He IS on his way to Haiti.

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Okay, so a little panic is setting in, I had gotten comfortable thinking that he might not go.  I like being able to call him and say "whatcha doing?"  He's ready to be there, to do what he does, I got that.  It's gonna be okay, we can get through this, God doesn't give us more than we can handle.

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.  I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.  Eph. 3: 14-21.

AND 

Phil 4:13  I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.  

 

Update on my Honey

We're struggling a bit.  I announced a while back that my husband had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.  We've had two chemo treatments and everything is going well but he is also a diabetic and some of the medications he was taking to control nausea causes his blood sugar levels to rise.  Dramatically.  So we've been struggling lately.  The doctors have put him on insulin shots, he was on pills before, to control his blood sugar. 

 His hair is falling out.  We've had many conversations about the fact that he does not have much hair. I tell him he looks good to me. Mainly, he has conversates, I listen.  But I like it that way.  I like listening to him talk.  Might as well, that's how our relationship started out.  He talked, I listened, he thought I was the smartest thing he had ever ran into.  There's some wisdom for you.  Silence, be fluent in this language it'll take you places.

  But still I know he is surprised by what he sees in the mirror.  I am encouraged to be able to say that he still has an excellent attitude.  It snowed this morning and we still haven't melted the snow from a week ago so he is burning brush piles.  The man is right in his element.  Set him free, put him in the back pasture and he is a happy man.  

So this is just a little post to let any of you who know, who stop by, where are with his treatments.  Cause you asked and as weird as it seems to others outside blogland, it matters to us.  We're friends.  When we are away from each other, we wonder.  We start looking at our lives differently and think "ooh that will make a good post", we need the rest of the story.  

Maybe someday I should tell you more about how we met and the things he has taught me.  

Not today, though sorry for the tease.  Company's coming and I have got to finish cleaning and get some supper cooking.  

:) 

Salty Christmas

I want to tell you, before I go into the candle tutorial that I have planned where I have been for the last month.  My honey has been diagnoised with NHL.  Life happens and sometimes sitting in a room in front of the computer by yourself just isn't the place to be.  

My plan was never to be absent from daily posting, as you can see by having a professional page designed just for me.  This cancer is treatable and we can live with that.  One thing that has always been consistant with us is we don't give in and we don't give up.  Give me a fight and fight I will.  I'm not pretending that at times tears don't stream down my face as I look at the path set out before us, they do.  But God quietly assures me He is with us and not be afraid.  A beautiful friend of mine has been texting me my "Do not fear" text for the day.  Her Mom points out that the phrase "do not fear" appears in the bible 365 times, that's one for every day.  So obviously God knew we would deal with fear.  

I do not intend to turn this page into a daily blog about our ups and downs, but then I never really had a plan except to see if I could write, so maybe it will be what it has always been about - our daily life.  

So all that to say this - Our God is Big.  Really Big.  and His world is beautiful.  Tuesday I took some cool pictures that I will put up tomorrow (frozen spider webs on a fence), if I can wait that long.  It looks like I may need to have a little planning and have some post ready to go ahead of time as we deal with the doctor appointments and treatment day and meal planning and just hanging out together.  

And so ... "Our Salty Christmas."  With the affairs of the day, I have decided not to put up a Christmas tree this year only because, I'm tired and I don't want to.  But the Nester's Christmas tour and my desire to participate has encouraged me and given me the energy to push through and get it done. 

Here are some candle sticks that I have had for a year and never put a candle on. Why, you ask?  The reason is simple - they have one of those big 'ol spike things coming up out of the middle  and most of my candles had that metal thingy so it never worked.  This year, determined to make it work, I picked up some candles without the metal piece.  

However when I plunged them down on that big 'ol spike thingy, they broke.  The picture isn't very clear but they just cracked right up the side.   ( ? hum sounding a little like life - cracking up the side)

What is a crafty girl like me to do?  Put a little paper on it.  I love scrapbook paper.  

Sealed those cracked candles right up.  

And that's it for my first installment of our Salty Christmas decor.  Thank you very much.

Seriously, this is a beautiful time of the year and the reason we celebrate is The Beautiful One.  Merry Christmas everyone.  I love you.