Fast forward

Man on man, I feel like I have been in fast forward for the past two weeks, I cannot believe how these weeks have just come and gone, for that matter the whole year has come and gone.  On Wednesday I had five, yes, five offers to work, plus we had our office annual Thanksgiving lunch and had about 300 people in the office, I could not find the time to even go to the store, when I got home that night I was so tired and still had work to do on paper work, finally I told Steve I have got to go get a Turkey and things for dinner, this was on Wednesday afternoon:)  of course the Turkey was frozen, I did not even think about that!  It all worked out just fine:)
Having so many offers at once and so many commitments it put me in over load in my brain, when you get a offer you add several phone calls, a lot more people in your day needing answers and negotiations.  A good problem, but my poor brain about had it.  Finally got alone in my home office, took one file at a time and worked through each one before I would let my self get side tracked, ADD does not help in paper work, it does help in doing multi task, I think it is why I can do so much at one time:) 
I was thankful we decided to have Thanksgiving DINNER at 5:30, even though I was starving by then, there is no way I could of done it by noon, went to bed early Wed. night and got  up Thursday with Steve's help got it all done:)

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Hannah and Mark could not come down, Mark worked Wed. and Fri., so she had  a family over and they did their own Thanksgiving meal, so proud of her, she did her first Turkey!  I missed them all but they will be here Christmas and I can always go there to visit, remember my camper is set up:)

 

I will have the best November and December in Real Estate that I can remember, will make for a fun vacation after Christmas, I am so ready, Since mother's passing all I have done is work, work, work, but have about four Million in closing, will end being a good year, my production has been low for me these past few years, but I have dug in and have some good business, I love being at the TOP of the Top in Real Estate, yes I am competitive, had lost that for awhile but it is back:)  Plus I love helping people find the homes they love or sell their home and go forward with what ever plans they may have, I meet all kinds of people in all kinds of situations:) It is rewarding to help them.

 

Yesterday while cooking, I thought of so many times when I would call mother to tell me how to do the dressing again, one thing I did remember is always get new sage:) I was doing a offer while cooking and totally screwed up the dressing, I was making the cornbread, which I usually do the night before,  so I had it all mixed up and ready to go in pans, when I realized I had put in the onions and celery and sage into the wet cornmeal mix:(((  I bet mother chuckled in Heaven, did not have her to call but could feel her with me as I did the sweet potatoes and dressing, yes, the dressing turned out good:) Now I am ready to do my tree and get my Christmas all done, have not shopped but never do too early and I do it all on line and have it delivered:)  I just do not like to shop, sometimes I do like to just go look in stores and if I find something that is wonderful:)  Hugs and pray you all had a Happy Thanksgiving now it's Merry Christmas to you!

 







Loved this when mother saw Santa she was so excited, she still believed:)))

Winning

Read this today and it hit home, enjoy:)  I struggle with cussing, I feel it really does not matter to the Lord becasue I do not htink He think's cuss words are cuss words, some Cultures say the cuss words I say as real words, BUT it does matter to the people I am around and they see it as cuss words and unwholesome words coiming right out of my mouth, so with that said, I pray for the Lord to help me, this reminds me I need to be more discipline my self:) God is doing His part:)

 

Winning into Freedom

“If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).

God pays no attention to our natural individuality in the development of our spiritual life. His plan runs right through our natural life. We must see to it that we aid and assist God, and not stand against Him by saying, “I can’t do that.” God will not discipline us; we must discipline ourselves. God will not bring our “arguments … and every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)—we have to do it. Don’t say, “Oh, Lord, I suffer from wandering thoughts.” Don’t suffer from wandering thoughts. Stop listening to the tyranny of your individual natural life and win freedom into the spiritual life.

“If the Son makes you free … .” Do not substitute Savior for Son in this passage. The Savior has set us free from sin, but this is the freedom that comes from being set free from myself by the Son. It is what Paul meant in Galatians 2:20 when he said, “I have been crucified with Christ … .” His individuality had been broken and his spirit had been united with his Lord; not just merged into Him, but made one with Him. “… you shall be free indeed”—free to the very core of your being; free from the inside to the outside. We tend to rely on our own energy, instead of being energized by the power that comes from identification with Jesus.

 

 

Branson real fast but so Christmas there

  Hotel so Christmas!

The Legend's

 Crab legs from Big Ben's :)

Well as you know me I do things on the spur of the moment, got the opportunity to go to Branson and we did!  We went so see the Legends, which had Liberace, Whitney Houston, Elvis and the Blue's Brothers. It was really good, we stayed at the Clarion, it was a fast trip but a fun one! We did eat at Joe's Crab Shack, did not have crab legs, we split a shrimp plate, they had appetizers for five dollars:) we did boiled shrimp and Calamari, it was all good, we just walked around the landing, trying to stay awake until eight for the Legend's:)   Steve had been a Hannah's for the week, so I took Luke home and picked Steve up, it was a long day in the car but I enjoyed it, when coming home Steve drove and I caught up on Real Estate, we are both hooked up this weekend working, although Steve did start his morning at 4am at the Full Throttle Duck Club, the fields were flooded and ducks were in:0  Sean put together a group of men and they leased some land for their Duck Club, he is real excited about it, he as well as I did not think Steve would get up, we have had some fun days but we stayed in high gear, on the way home we went to Big Ben's which is a Seafood Place in Vilonia, it was good, I did not get that big plate of crab legs, actually that is next to the small plate size, I did get the sm. plate and buffet, for 23.99, the crab legs were real good! The buffet was ok. They have all you can eat but it is 49.99, but you get a pot load and can take what you can not eat to go in a huge to go box.  This am I had a listing appointment, I will find out if I got it on Monday, I hope:) It is a referral and they interviewed three agents, so we will see.  Then showed property, then came home and finished up the paper work for the listing interview which took FOUR hours.....ugh I have got to get faster, it is doing a complete appraisal for the referral company, I am not an appraiser but you do all the same work when you accept to interview for their business.  Steve got all my Christmas things out but I was to tired to do anything with it, I was trying to have a migraine but think I nip it in the bud!  Steve is going hunting in the am then to church then we both have open houses, I am getting up early to fix chicken and dumplings for our dinner and Kay's, she has not felt good, she had a real hard day Wednesday and sees her Dr. Monday, hope it just some new heart medication being the problem. Pray for her.  Going to be a fast paced week, our McKimmey Thanksgiving is this Wed. from 11-1 so if your in the area of my NLR offie, 5217 JFK come by and get a bite to eat I would love to visit, then Thursday we will go to Alicia's for Thanksgiving dinner, so ready to get some energy to get my house in order, I have never got all my Christmas boxes out and tree and just let them sit in the floor and not go through it all and decorate, maybe tomorrow, just not sure when, after open house I take pics of one of my listings then show property so will not even be home to seven or so, maybe Monday...who knows, one thing for sure it will be here waiting on me:)
Best go get in bed so I will be ready to start my day, Journey Church then off to work...just pray my head will not be hurting......hug and love and nite

Gratefulness makes us happy

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. Brother David Steindl-Rast. Austrian-American


I read this the other day and it so spoke to me, I shared in our sales meeting this quote and how it had applied to my life concerning mother's passing. After mother first past, when I read her bible, I smelled it and was sad missing her, when I looked at her tea pots, I was sad missing her, when I saw a favorite shirt she loved to wear at Christmas it made me sad missing her, I thought I have got to some how pull through this part of grief, I can not stay her stuck, I need to move to the next stage, what ever that may be for me;) then I read this, it is gratefulness that makes us happy, it changed the way I looked at things, I became grateful for her bible, I saw it in a different light, I saw where she had written in it and enjoyed her studies, it made me happy to know she was so fulfilled in reading it, as I looked at the tea pots, I could remember some of the times she received some and how she loved them, it made me happy, I began to be grateful for the sweet memories I was having, my sadness turned into gratefulness and it brought me happiness inside my heart!

I shared that when we are just not happy it may be because we forget to be grateful, that this is a hard time of the year for a lot of people, there is more depression this time of the year then any other, if you have grateful thoughts you have no room for unhappy thoughts no negative thougths, so I encourage you to look at your thought pattern, if there are areas you are struggling in then see if looking at the situation with a grateful attitude will bring you happiness, help you re focus, we all have so many many things to be grateful for, most of us have so much more then we need, we have family, we are loved, we have friends, we can worship freely, some of us have good health, some of us have health problems, if you have health problems, then be grateful that it is not as bad as it could be, even in death, there is eternal life. Man oh Man our perspective has to change so we can be grateful in all things and happy.  What is true happiness?  If you do not know then make a decision to start being grateful.....you may find it!

I decided today would be a smile day, so I decided to began this day off with a smile, and pass it on to others, I was sincere in it, it is amazing how many people need a smile, so brush your teeth real good and have a smile day too, you will be smiling that you did~it may change your day and for sure will help someone else's day.......hugs and nite or should I say morning?

Stinking Thinking.......You are the one who changes that!

This is so true,  take time to read it and think about you, what takes up your thoughts, and change if need be, life is to short, we do not know what tomorrow holds, so live each day like it is your last!

As We Focus
My Joyce Meyer reading for the morning. Get rid of that Stinking Thinking!

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Years ago, I learned an invaluable lesson: Whatever we focus on, we become. That simple statement taught me a great deal. Wherever we put our energies or our attention, those things will develop. Another way I like to say it is, "Where the mind goes, the man follows!"

If I begin to think about ice cream, I will soon find myself in my car pursuing ice cream. My thought will stir my desires and emotions, and I will make the decision to follow them.

If we focus only on the negative things in our lives, we become negative people. Everything, including our conversations, becomes negative. We soon lose our joy and live miserable lives--and it all started with our own thinking.

You might be experiencing some problems in life--not realizing that you are creating them yourself by what you're choosing to think about. I challenge you to think about what you're thinking about!

You might be discouraged and even depressed and wonder what caused it. Yet if you will examine your thought life, you will find that you are feeding the negative emotions you are feeling. Negative thoughts are fuel for discouragement, depression, and many other unpleasant emotions.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them. We can think about what is wrong with all the people we are in relationship with or we can see the good and meditate on that. The Bible teaches us to always believe the best. When we do that, it makes our own lives happier and more peaceful.

Pray: Dear patient and loving God, I ask You to forgive me for focusing my thoughts on things that are not pleasing to You. I pray that You will help me fill my mind with thoughts that are clean and pure and uplifting. In Jesus' name. Amen.

From the book Battlefield of the Mind Devotional by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2005 by Joyce Meyer. Published by FaithWords. All rights reserved.

Deer Camp, Cat came home, Luke spending the week:)

Yea!! My kitty did come home, she was gone for two days!  Steve has gone to Hannah and Mark's for the first part of the week for deer camp. I went up with Steve to help Hannah finished getting settled, we got a lot done, the little three wheeler is Blake's and he pulls that little cart which Olivia and Luke will ride in it, of course he is supervised as he pulls them and the three wheeler has a govern on it or something so he can not go fast:0  Steve and Mark were working on a cutting thing for the fields, they were doing something and Steve saw the gas was doing something wrong and it was going to explode so he pulled the gas line loose, which made gas go up his arm and it caught fire, mark through dirt on it and Steve immediately cover it with his shirt, needless to say NO ONE told me, I saw Steve having a big baggie of ice on his arm as he mowed, watched him for awhile wondering if he cut it:( it was blistered with all the hair singed......I went to the Dollar Store in Centerville, Population 1334 people, I was going to go get dressed since I had on Hannah's PJ striped bottoms, pulled up at the middle of the leg, with my socks and pink and black stripped house shoes and a red t shirt that was her ball playing shirt with no bra, my hair had not had anything done to it, and she said no mother just go you will fit in, well wouldn't you know it, I went and this man said I looked so familiar, did I sell real estate?  I said me??? I  just have a familiar face.......still can not believe I went looking like that but I did.
His arm is ok and it did blister but is better, he is doctoring it.
I brought Baby Luke back with me so they could hunt and get some things done, Mark is off and the other kids will be in school:) Tonight I had the Averitt girls next door come over and play, we had a pizza picnic:) of course watched a Barbie movie! Luke is fast asleep and I am on my way to, he will get up early:)  Tomorrow I have a open house and work and Victoria will watch Luke then on Monday and Tuesday Heather will watch him while I work, I have a pretty busy week, I will miss Steve's help but glad he has some time off:)
I have Journey Kids in the am at church, JC is having a pot luck and I can not go:((( but maybe I will get my open house sold:)
My sister Kay is healing from her heart attack and stints, keep her in your prayers, also keep April in your prayers, I understand the family she lives with which is her boy friends family will be moving soon to Iowa.  I know this will be hard on April, have not spoke with her to know what she is going to do, if she plans on moving I will need your prayers, it will be very hard on Steve and I. If she does not go it will be very hard for her............so pray:)  hugs and nite

Forty years ago today my daddy went to Heaven:) for those that did not know him,he was hurt on Oct. 27th in a construction accident, he would of been 99! Which is so hard to believe, he got saved while he was in the hospital, God touched him, did not heal him on earth but totally healed him for eternity!!

Migraines...................UGH!

For what ever reason I woke up with a migraine, such a drag, it did not hurt as bad as last Wednesday's did, but I was way more nauseated:( the worst part is we had gone to to condo last night to turn the heat on, Alicia is having a women's retreat there this weekend so we wanted it in order, it has been months since we have even been.  Nothing to take, some Tylenol but that did not phase it, Steve went to Pharmacy and got me something that did knock it out, but it took me most the morning till afternoon to quit being nauseated.  I guess I will go see my Dr., I have not had migraines in  years and years and I have had four in the last month, they are on the right side of my head, like I can draw it off the right 1/4 of my skull.......I am a little anxious about even going to sleep for fear of waking up so sick.  It leaves me weak, so I best I get to the bottom of this asap! Could just be the stress of the past few months.

My cat, in which I do love, is missing, I am not a avid cat lover, but Nala nursed 10 orphan kittens after nursing her two, so after all that I said I would keep her and got her spade, she was in a foster home to nurse the baby kittens, they were suppose to find her a home for her, when they did not find her one, she came back to our home and we have had her for a couple years, so pray we find her, mother even liked her!  All the grands love her, she is sweet and loveable.

While driving to Fairfield Bay we loved the trees, and this am while I laid of the couch with my eyes having a hot cloth on them, when I got better I laid there looking at the tree colors, so beautiful!

Beautiful day, I began to feel better about 1ish and we headed home, had some real estate to get done:)  We will go to Hannah's once we are finsihed with work tomorrow and I will leave my sweetie pie there, I have work all weekend and week, he will stay and hunt and help them get things done, I get to bring my Luke man home with me:)  Sweet Heather will keep him while I work!! Excited to have him spend some time with Nana, he has never spent the night at my house without his parents here too!
I am so ready to put the fall things up and get Christmas out, I am going to do it next weekend when I get Steve back to help, Hannah and Mark will be here the weekend of the first till that Monday night so I want it all up for the kids to see! I just love love love Christmas, and guess what we may have a white Christmas this year, I feel it!  After Christmas we do a family week of fun and games, the Haley's Mcgills and who ever else will all be together, just hanging out, Hoping the others can take a few days to hang with us, we eat a lot, play alot and laugh a lot, and shop a lot:))) To me Christmas is a time for family, friends to love on each other and share the love of Jesus in every way we know how, from giving of ourselves, our finances, our time, and being together! Just can not wait!

 

As you can see, I am so ready to Celebrate the Birth of Jesus and share His love with others, we do it all year long, but I take time out to actually make goodies for some, stop and go to dinner with some, renew long time friendships, that pick up right where you left off, just slow down and enjoy life!  I hate to shop so I don't, I do it all on line unless I just want to go to a store and look, I took that stress out of my life years ago, its not the gifts that are important, it is family,friends,sharing the love of Jesus!
Hugs and Nite....OH YES< A PRAISE, Gavin does not need eye surgery and will not lose his eyeball!!! Thank You LORD!!