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God bless you! having walked a similar journey for 14 years, i recognize what you are taking on. i am positive i made a difference and know you will too.

you would be shocked to hear how expensive that place has gotten! i was going to take my grand-kids there last month but to just get in the door for one kid was $70 -- before snacks and souvenirs! that is a huge increase. we used to love going there and walking around.

that was a direct hit at the jill duggar, if you ask me. that rant definitely was aimed at SHP but also at her. sad that no one gets any grace in jillR's life but herself. ...and in hindsight, implies that she saw the documentary! tv anyone?

i wasnt scared....it was daylight and lots of traffic on the highway. plus the AAA called me every 15 minutes to check on me. i just stayed in my car. if there had been no traffic and i was really alone out there, yes i would have been afraid of every car, wondering if they would stop to 'help' me.

on a different note, i just got back from driving to las cruces, new mexico to meet my girls and pick up the grandkids --- over 700 miles one way through the desert. left on friday morning and home late last night on sunday. had my first blowout so got the experience of sitting on the side of the highway for 2 hours in the morning heat (luckily as it got up to 105 later in the day) waiting for AAA to come help me. another 2 hours at a tire store and i was back on the road again. really set my day back but luckily it was the short day of driving. we drove all the way home yesterday in one trip and it was LONG! thankfully, God protected us and we had no traffic at all, no issues except lots of road trash to avoid. today, we are chilling and doing laundry. will be watching parts 3 and 4 of the documentary later this week when our house-guest gets back. gonna be a busy month!

oh we have the family calendar on the wall too! its a must-have visual reminder for me.

i do, sort of. i carry a small spiral calendar in my purse and live my life scheduled around it.

listening to WOACB right now and yes, that is the claim. jill/derrick never got paid. they finally filed a wage claim and got minimum wage settlement. they did not ever have a contract and yes, it appears that JB did forge her signature. and on and on...

ok, thats a BIG thought! who is holding out on us here???? spill it, friend!

he had an announcement that he gave a pre--announcement about (watch for further updates type-of-thing) and then just went off the radar. too much other news i guess that was more important than his.

i see at least two duggar looking guys inn the picture but i dont know how to mark the picture to locate them for ya'll. one is right above the grooms bent knee with a big lei around his neck and one is way in the back on the left side of the photo next to the guy looking down at his phone wearing a greenish yellow shirt.

never have heard the term 'sundown town'. need to google it, i guess. ~~~~ i did google it. i literally have never lived in a place like this. i can say that i have only once experienced even overt racism like this when i was a 16 y/o on a family trip to new orleans to visit an aunt and saw for my self the separate fountains and bathrooms. couldnt believe it then and still struggle with it now. it was so far out of my reality. just was not ever raised to accept that sort of stuff and always was taught that we are all that same so treat everyone the same. ...steps down off stool.

i actually like ezra james and levi jameson. those are normal names and will sound acceptable in society.

re carpal tunnel. i had surgery for it on my dominant hand -- awake! it was easy, painless (except for the first shot to numb it). the dr talked to me throughout the procedure done in a suite at his office. i then drove home just fine. it helped immensely. i still get the pins and needles in my other hand and suppose i will need surgery eventually but its not a priority at this time. yes, i slept with the braces on for a long time -- that helped slow it down. occasionally i do wear the braces now when my hands get tired. keyboarding so much doesnt help things!

mennonites wear prints all the time. the girls were dressed appropriately, considering what their options were.

not defending by any means, BUT, at my church and most around here, we wear jeans to church. john would fit right in. even shorts, in summer, have been seen. its much less formal than in my childhood. seen the movie, the Jesus Revolution? i think that is when things changed. i lived through that time period and remember the dress code well. i still see men is suits sometimes too, so dont misunderstand. its all a matter of preference of the person.

i mean this in all sincerity, as i dont live in the area of tornadoes etc. where does one find 'cover' in a theater? you are already in a room with no windows so are you to just get down on the floor?

hey ya'll, i made it home! boy was it a long 3 weeks but i enjoyed the time with my grandkids so much. my DIL is doing very well following a serious surgery and in fact is recovering very fast. i was able to come home much earlier than i expected. things i learned: 1. i am not a 'camper' type of gal, although i did enjoy it while it lasted. the trailer i stayed in had a few issues (one being it kept blowing the circuit breaker at inopportune times that left me without heat for a literally 36degree overnight once) and it had apparently had a pipe break due to a freeze just before i took possession of it that caused a consistant leak that had me mopping the floor daily, multiple times a day. after a week, i gave up, moved to a hotel and when the owner came back to town, i handed it off to him. 2. i was introduced to a new coffee in the trailer that was THE BOMB! it is called Berres Brothers coffee roasters ' cinnaman grogg'. omg, it was so smooth. i was able to bring the bag of ground coffee home with me and they gifted me another bag of a different flavor. i am going to research it online and see if it comes in k-cups otherwise i may have to break out my new keurig with both the k-cup and the brewer pot. it was just the best. 3. i dont do tornado/serious storm warning/watches/baseball size hail etc! i was glued to a storm watcher web site and following some really bad weather for a long afternoon one day. my DIL and grandson nearly got caught up in it driving home from baseball practice. they were literally like 10 minutes ahead of the southern storm driving north east to home with a storm right due north of us! they got home and it started to pour and wind and little bits of hail -- we did not get the big hail but the school they had just left most certainly did get the softball sized hail. 4. three weeks is a long time to not sleep in your own bed. 5. i can drive in snow!!! never had to before but one day on the road, woke up to snow, lots of it, and continued to be in snowy/rainy/icky conditions for about 3 hours straight. i was so internally stressed out. i am so glad to be home now. my internet usage was little to none, they had no tv, so i feel like i have been away from the world for so long. thankful for hotels along the way to hear nightly news and keep up with the crazy weather here at home. i am tired. gonna take me a few days to get my energy back, i think.

GEES! deleted my comment. not used to the laptop. i said i agreed regarding the cursive. mine is awful and i mostly print. . also, being a lefty was tough, when learning in the very early 60's. also, i am currently sitting in a trailer (pulled by a truck) in my sons driveway in texas. its my first experience and hasnt been all fun. lost power twice, once at 2:30 a.m. and it was freezing cold. had to wait till 10:30 in the morning for my son to wake and show me the breakers to turn on the power again. also, there is a leak in the roof somewhere and we have had lots of rain. so i wake up to water on the floor. i think it is tied to the heating system. the owner of the trailer is out of state and i dont have a phone number to call him. the good news is it is affordable, beautiful, new and very comfortable and has no animals inside it, which cannot be said for my sons place or my daughters! just caved in and turned on the heater -i was freezing again.

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sweet video.

i thought the picture of the boys on the trampoline thing was a babysitting explanation photo at the rummage sale they were at.

i get it. my last purchase was totally bought with grandchildren i mind. i wanted enough seats for all and also enough room for luggage should i happen to be bringing any home with me on a road trip. so for everyday use, its a little big, but i appreciate the safety of it and the extra space for hauling treasures i may find along the roadside (discarded furniture etc).

that is a shame. NO pastor should be caught in a lie.

all the time on the local news. its out in the boonies by magic mountain....