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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/26/2008 9:16:16 PM
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Ginny, I think that was quite proper. The only time they should be able to legitimately object to you talking about God is if you are having the conversation with the students in the line of advisement to them. And yes, IMO, our faith should come up in our daily conversations with ppl.
BTW, I need to talk to you when you have time . . msn is fine.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/26/2008 9:20:02 PM
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I think it's awesome that you said what you did, Ginny. I was reading a book by a Christian leader in China and he said that persecution never comes to Christians minding their own business. It is when Christians begin to speak out to others about their faith that the government gets concerned. We always say that we aren't persecuted here in North America for our Christian beliefs. If that is so, then we should be free to speak up as you did. And if it's not true, your speaking up was STILL the right thing to do. (Did I make any sense?)
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/27/2008 12:36:48 AM
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God is working on me about the worry wart in me. Tonight I've been feeling a bit anxious and spent time in prayer concerning the source of the anxiety. While praying it became clear to me some things I needed to do at work on how to solve some problems. I went and wrote them down and will work on them tomorrow.
My experience with God is if you pray for patience he will give you opportunities to practice it until yep you've got patience. I've been praying about worry and asking for poise and confidence and yep sure enough I've been given opportunity to show poise and confidence despite circumstances. Time in prayer, time in reading the Word and meditating on it all help.
Been reading in Judges. Was thinking about believe it was Gideon who ask God to reassure him with the fleece. One night for the fleece to be wet and all the ground around it dry and the next night for added assurance for the fleece to be dry and all the ground around wet and sure enough God reassured him just like he asked. The commentary said that doubt is not unbelief but asking and having questions and seeking for answers and to grow in faith. Unbelief is when you have your mind made up and aren't asking the questions.
In my times of doubt I always prayed the prayer the guy in the New Testament prayed about Yes I believe forgive me my unbelief. This guy definitely showed he WANTED to believe, had doubts and didn't want unbelief.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/27/2008 12:43:19 AM
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The will of God will never take you,
Where the grace of God cannot keep you,
Where the arms of God cannot support you,
Where the riches of God cannot supply your needs,
Where the power of God cannot endow you.
The will of God will never take you,
Where the Spirit of God cannot work through you,
Where the wisdom of God cannot teach you,
Where the army of God cannot protect you,
Where the hands of God cannot mold you..
The will of God will never take you,
Where the love of God cannot enfold you,
Where the mercies of God cannot sustain you,
Where the peace of God cannot calm your fears,
Where the authority of God cannot overrule for you..
The will of God will never take you,
Where the comfort of God cannot dry your tears,
Where the Word of God cannot feed you,
Where the miracles of God cannot be done for you,
Where the omnipresence of God cannot find you..
"Everything happens for a purpose.
We may not see the wisdom of it all now but trust and believe in the Lord that everything is for the best."
The way to be anxious about nothing
is to be prayerful about everything.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/27/2008 12:49:32 AM
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I love this poem!
In otherwords:
God's grace keeps
God's arms support
God's riches provide
God's power endows
Spirit of God works
Wisdom of God teaches
Army of God protects
Hands of God molds
God's love enfolds
God's mercy sustains
God's peace calms
God's authority is perfect
Comfort of God assuages
Word of God feeds
Miracles of God exist
Omnipresence of God surrounds all
When we are in the Will of God
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/27/2008 12:55:19 AM
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Yes Maggie you made sense and I want to thank you and Leah for posting in my thread and viewing it.
You two are special.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/28/2008 6:18:53 PM
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Marsha, I reached James 1 last night in my regular Bible reading. I've read it many times but it really spoke to me in a very special and comforting way last night for some reason.
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. ... Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him." (vs. 2-4, 12)
I've got all sorts of notes in tiny, tiny writing in the margins and every empty space there is, with all sorts of thoughts God has given me when reading this. I added to that last night. I made a little diagram:
Trials-->Perseverance-->Maturity/Completeness-->Crown of Life
We NEED these trials. They are what leads to us being complete in Christ and are part of the path to that crown of life.
< Message edited by magdaleine -- 3/28/2008 6:26:27 PM >
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/29/2008 8:30:20 AM
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Marsha,
Thank you for sharing about your panic attacks and what the underlying cause was. It is news to me that a heart problem could cause panic attacks. It figures that when the body is ill in some way it can affect our mind and our emotions. And I quite agree that God may be working on you in this particular area. I know he has with me. From my experience God will keep bringing up what we are weak in until it is no longer a weak area for us.
Maggie,
Our trials are blessings! What a way to look on it. Attitude is a good part of the victory in perseverance. Another important part is to "Lean on the Lord and trust not our own understanding." I am finding that as I lean on HIM I am growing in HIM and growing means maturity.
Thanks Marsha and Maggie for posting and sharing.
Ginny
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/29/2008 8:32:36 AM
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Here is something I found that I thought was insightful and good to read.
Intimacy of Relationship in Christ
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)
We have begun to see that the new covenant of grace is a covenant of relationship. The simple phrase "in Christ" indicates the extent of the intimacy that is available by grace. "In Christ" is where we live spiritually. It is also how we live. As sure as a fish is in the ocean and lives on the resources of the ocean, we are "in Christ" and live on the resources of Christ. As sure as a unborn child is in the mother and lives on the life of the mother, we are "in Christ" and live on the life of Christ.
We who believe in Jesus are not only "brought near by the blood of Christ" (Ephesians 2:13), we are joined to Him in a "united closeness," like a body is to its head. "He is the head of the body, the church" (Colossians 1:18). We can relate to the Lord Jesus more closely than the members of our physical body relate to our physical head. We can look to Jesus for direction and coordination. We can depend upon Him for planning, guiding, and timing in our entire lives. We can anticipate that He will monitor, maintain, and adjust our situations.
This union of intimacy is also like a vine and its branches. "I am the vine, you are the branches" (John 15:5). We can look to Christ for our very life source. We don't have to produce a life on our own. We can concentrate on abiding (depending) on Him. He makes our lives fruitful and effective.
The intimate relationship the Lord wants to develop with us is also likened to the joining of a husband and a wife. "You also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead" (Romans 7:4). We can count upon Jesus to love us faithfully and sacrificially. We can rest in His constant companionship, never leaving us for any reason throughout our pilgrimage here on earth.
What blessings are ours for time and eternity "in Christ." Joined intimately to Christ, nothing can separate us from the love and kindness that He has for us: "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:38-39 and Ephesians 2:7).
Lord Jesus, I am overwhelmed by the intimacy that is available to me, now that I am united to You. Lord, I want to depend upon You as my vine, follow You as my head, and love You as my bridegroom. Lord, please continue to reveal to me the implications of being joined to You for all time and eternity, in Your holy name I pray, Amen.
God bless all in Lord Jesus ,
By His Grace,
Faisal John,
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 1:35:56 AM
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Attitude is a good part of the victory in perseverance.
Ah attitude. My attitude is so much a measuring stick for me. This is a definition of attitude:
A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.
When my beliefs and feelings are in line with who G~d is then I can tackle anything. But when I let other things get in the way, like being self focused, things get out of wack and I loose my perspective.
Today at synagogue the L~rd reminded me of just how Holy He is and how deserving of respect and awe. He reminded me how much He cares for us when during our time of prayer there were so many requests for healing and restoration and some situations seem so hopeless. And yet interspersed thru those requests were reports of physical protection (one lady was saved from being robbed at knifepoint) and material protection (all the cars around were vandalized but this lady's car was not touched) and it redirects my focus...at least until circumstances throw the focus off again. I'm so thankful for the L~rd's mercy and compassion!!
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 6:16:36 AM
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A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.
Marsha,
I believe this is where God molds us. He takes where we are in our life and grows us from there. The beliefs we have, our feelings, the values instilled, and our dispositions (temperament) and the Holy Spirit works on us to be conformed to the Image of God. How we help? Input the Word of God so this inputing can renew our mind, transform our feelings, create new values and steady our dispositions.
The trials that come up as we face them with the knowledge given in the Word, our prayers to God, our willingness to GIVE them over to God these trials are our opportunity to practice what we are in Christ.
And you are right. God does protect us. He disciplines us but he is there in the midst of all we go through.
I have been reading in Judges and I believe it was Gideon who took on the Midianites with 300 soldiers. He started out with thousands but God told him that was too many. The reason? God wanted the victory to show forth as impossible without HIM and not man's victory. True victory comes when we turn things over to God and let him show us he is God. All he wants from us is to trust Him, have faith in Him and keep our focus on Him.
The early Christians died in many ugly ways but they also had a complete trust in Jesus. They looked at the Kingdom of God and not the world of man as the victory they were seeking. Their trials many times took their life or cause them to suffer many physical sufferings yet over and over the attitude they had was godly simply because they knew life here is not the end circumstances here are not the focus.
And they were used by God for His will to be accomplished.
Ginny
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 4:31:48 PM
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It's 65 degrees. Yeah. I am ready for Spring weather. Tired of all the cold we've had.
My daughter is fixing me, my oldest and youngest son and her children steaks. Yummy. Hubby stayed home. Today is the day his mother died. It has been several years but he is remembering her and wanted to stay home and call his sisters and have time at home by himself with peace and quiet.
Have to respect his space.
A member at church whom I met with last week about my court trial and finances talked with me after worship service. He went to his lawyer and hire him to represent me and the lawyer will try to get an extension on my court appearance. He will call me when his lawyer gets back to him.
I really love my church and I am happy I decided to become a member. The pastor talked today about knowing God how we can know of God, know about God but we need to KNOW God. He said God wants to know us intimately and he seeks us first. I had been praying to know God the Father, the son, and the holy spirit to really know them and for them to know me so that when I am in front Christ he will not say to me "depart from me, I never knew you." From the message today I have reassurance God will answer my prayer for it is HIS will too for me to know him. This makes me so happy and increases my trust that all the trials facing me will be used for answering prayer and going through them with God at my side will increase the intimacy of our relationship.
Maggie knew me before I went into the bipolar phase of my life. She knew how erratic my thinking became before I got the help I needed. Leah became my friend when I first came home from the hospital after the electric shock treatments. Leah and Maggie have seen me change and have seen God's work in me. Their friendship supported me and provided a base for me to extend friendship to others. They offered acceptance and from the love given I grew. My life with God has taken off from there.
I believe someday God will make use of me in helping others. It is possible that one day I will be a missionary. This call to become a missionary was on me when I met my husband. My pastor then wanted me to go to a missionary college to finish my college years. My dad said he would not support me in this road. My husband was putting pressure on me to marry him. I gave in to the pressure and didn't follow what God was calling me to do. I have traveled on the road taken that wasn't God's best for me and I don't to ever take such a road again. I want to be where ever God wants me to be.
I know he will use us even with our mistakes. He makes good out of our messes. However, I dearly want to seek His counsel in the decisions I make and be in His will. It is the best place to be.
ginny
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 8:14:42 PM
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Yesterday my daughter had a good heart to heart talk. DD told me her dad, my hubby, told her he hurts bad all the time but doesn't want to complain about it. He said he wakes up to go to our youngest son's baseball practices and he goes to the games that he is living and soaking it all in because he knows he doesn't have a lot of time left on this world.
DH is bleeding rectally again and leaving blood on the toilet seat and on the sheets and of course his undies. There's no way to stop the bleeding.
I asked DD if she and her brothers my 3 sons would still visit me when DH passes away and she said it would be hard because their dad is their best friend and visiting me would remind them of dad. She said she would make sure though that her brothers keep in touch with me and we keep having the family get togethers we have every month.
I told DD that I am planning to go back for my master's degree when her dad is gone to keep my mind occupied and help with my grief. I want to either get a masters in counseling or religion. We talked about me perhaps becoming a missionary and DD said she might become one too. She's a radiologist technologist and could be used that way.
My dad might pass away around the same time my DH does. Dad has cancer and is 84. Mom plans to move here. I believe it would be good for both of us. My mom has grown a lot in her relationship with the LORD and I know she will like the church I've settled in and I know there are people there who will be friends for her.
It hurts and I'd rather keep these things in the background and not think of it much yet at the same time I know that now is the time to plan for the inevitable. My deepest desire is to see my husband attend church, read the bible and grow in Christ to see him transformed by the renewing power of the holy spirit. And to see him have a godly influence on his 3 boys.
Ginny
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 9:56:29 PM
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Am here, where are you Leah?
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 9:58:07 PM
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O.k. I am going to go fold the clothes in the dryer and put another load in the washer.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/30/2008 10:34:32 PM
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Ginny, so sorry I'd not posted in here all day. I've been really out of it all day. Didn't even make it to church. I think they may have forgotten what I look like there, it's been so long since I've been. Well, really only 2 weeks, but I've mised 3-4 Sundays in teh last 6 weeks.
Anyway, I"ve really enjoyed your posts. I know you have a lot on your plate right now, and I'm so happy to see you growing stronger in the Lord, trusting him for your strength, and to guide you day by day.
I'm honored to be your friend {{{{{{Ginny}}}}}}}}
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 3/31/2008 6:24:24 AM
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I'm honored to be your friend Linda.
You've had a lot on your plate this month. Sure hope you are feeling better soon. Would you be interested in attending my church sometime? I would like to share my church with you. Understand if you are not interested as I've never attended yours and you do have your own place of worship. This Sunday the sermon was on knowing God next Sunday it will be on Love One Another and then on Service and then on Why become a church member.
My daughter was going to attend and bring all the grandchildren but she ended up sleeping in. I visited her after church and had a great afternoon of fellowship with her and my oldest son and the grandkids.
I woke up at 4:30 am this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. I should visit my neighbor tonight. She has breast cancer and it has gone into her bones. She is in the hospital and they have told her there is nothing they can do to stop the cancer. I believe she is in a lot of pain. She is a Catholic but doesn't attend the church and I have no idea where she is in relating to the Lord but soon she will be facing judgment and I am concerned. How do you talk to someone you do not know where they are in their spiritual walk. She has always been reserved and we are only acquaintances but I've known her as my neighbor for 12 years. She has preferred to speak with and talk with my husband more than me but my hubby has no interest in visiting her and he wouldn't understand anyway why I am concerned for her soul.
Ginny
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 4/1/2008 6:16:06 AM
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I belong to Jesus;
I am not my own;
All I have and all I am,
Shall be His alone.
I belong to Jesus;
He is Lord and King,
Reigning in my inmost heart,
Over everything.
I belong to Jesus;
Blessθd, blessθd thought!
With His own most precious blood
Has my soul been bought.
I belong to Jesus;
He has died for me;
I am His and He is mine,
Through eternity.
I belong to Jesus;
He will keep my soul,
When the deathly waters dark
Round about me roll.
I belong to Jesus;
And ere long Ill stand
With my precious Savior there
In the glory land.
Amen
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 4/1/2008 11:44:38 PM
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. He went to his lawyer and hire him to represent me
WOW!!!!! Now he is an Acts 2 Christian! Good for him! And God, please bless this man for his generosity!
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I had been praying to know God the Father, the son, and the holy spirit to really know them and for them to know me so that when I am in front Christ he will not say to me "depart from me, I never knew you." From the message today I have reassurance God will answer my prayer for it is HIS will too for me to know him. This makes me so happy and increases my trust that all the trials facing me will be used for answering prayer and going through them with God at my side will increase the intimacy of our relationship.
YES!!!!
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Maggie knew me before I went into the bipolar phase of my life. She knew how erratic my thinking became before I got the help I needed. Leah became my friend when I first came home from the hospital after the electric shock treatments. Leah and Maggie have seen me change and have seen God's work in me. Their friendship supported me and provided a base for me to extend friendship to others. They offered acceptance and from the love given I grew. My life with God has taken off from there.
The change has been remarkable, Ginny. You've grown so very much. You're a completely new person, full of a confidence you didn't have before you got sick.
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I believe someday God will make use of me in helping others.
Ginny, that day isn't far away. I believe he's already started to do that.
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It is possible that one day I will be a missionary. This call to become a missionary was on me when I met my husband. My pastor then wanted me to go to a missionary college to finish my college years.
That would be WAY cool! I had wanted to be a missionary growing up. I read every missionary story/book I could lay my hands on and spent what little money I had as a pre-teen buying them. I too wound up taking a different road that led to much pain but I know this road I've been on has also been used by God to shape me into who he wants me to be.
I'm so sorry that Dave is so sick, Ginny. Perhaps your daughter, since she seems to have his ear, could start being a missionary by asking her dad if he's ready, spiritually, to die.
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I asked DD if she and her brothers my 3 sons would still visit me when DH passes away and she said it would be hard because their dad is their best friend and visiting me would remind them of dad. She said she would make sure though that her brothers keep in touch with me and we keep having the family get togethers we have every month.
I sure HOPE your family stays connected to you! That sure must have been hard to hear that visiting you would be hard because he was their best friend. On the other hand, it would be nice for you to have your mom nearby.
{{{{{{{{Ginny}}}}}}}}}
I know all these things are painful for you. You're really being very brave and your faith is growing. I think it's cool that you're concerned for your neighbour. Why not just go visit her and just be friendly, with no mention of Jesus at first. Begin to build a friendship and ask God to tell you when the right time is to talk about him. I know he'll tell you and you have developed some good listening ears.
Sorry I've not been here a couple of days. Dh and I went away for a bit. We had a marvellous time.
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RE: Ginny's Place: Life, Struggles, Joys, Praise, Thoughts - 4/2/2008 3:33:57 AM
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Maggie you are back! So very glad to see you sis.
That would be cool, you being a missionary too. Course your book will start you on a missionary journey by its very nature.
Yesterday was my doctor's appointment. When he asked how are you. I told him about becoming a member of a church and some about why I chose this particular church. My words got all jumbled up and I felt I was not that articulate. Also told him about the bankruptcy and how the church member hired a lawyer to help me with the court trial.
The doctor talked about me being in another phase. He explained that I've been going in phases of healing and this is another one where I am filling the gaps of my life. Not sure he understood about my faith and I felt disappointed in myself in how I shared because to be honest I truly believe that God is doing the work and it is Christ in me that is giving me strength and healing me.
Yes Maggie, Dave is not well healthwise. He ended up not going with me to the doctor's appointment. It is a drive I do not like going on by myself as it is 2 hours away and in a highly congested city. I hate traveling in metropolitan traffic. But hubby found a replacement. My daughter took me.
We had a great time. Normally I take a book and read on the way there and back but with DD going I knew we would be talking and we did. After the appointment we found a Red Lobster. DD and DS2 had given hubby and I a $25 gift card to Red Lobster and shame on me I used it without hubby.
Hubby did get my leftovers. By the time I ate my salad and the stuffed mushrooms (I always get the stuffed mushrooms) when the entre arrived I was already full. I did manage to eat 3 of my jumbo coconut shrimp and a few of my shrimp scampi but most of the shrimp I brought home to hubby and 4 of the delicious biscuits Red Lobster is famous for.
First thing hubby did when DD and I got through the door was ask, "When am I getting fed? Do you have any food?" so of course I felt obligated to give him my leftovers. Have no idea what my DS3 got to | | | |
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