Gratitude to the Lord

Blessings from God
Despite the fact that I have mountains of schoolwork to figure out, I have to stop and witness to my Heavenly Father the many answers to prayer that I have been given this week.
Jeffrey and I gave talk in Sacrament Meeting in another ward and of course I prayed that we would do a good job. My ideas flowed and I didn't get stuck - thank you Lord. Jeffrey sounded polished and reasonable - thank you Lord. He accidentally left his scriptures on the stand. He didn't discover the fact until we arrived at the Singles Ward to listen to Andrew speak. I prayed for Andrew and he gave a wonderful witness of the Savior and in the last efforts of his mortal life - thank you Lord. I gave a silent prayer that Jeffrey could find and get his scriptures efficiently as we drove back to the other chapel. A man at the door of the Sacrament meeting waited between ordinances and retrieved Jeffrey's scriptures - thank you Lord.
I have prayed recently to not be in an accident or cause an accident. The car coming as Rachel and I pulled out missed us entirely. Thank You Lord. All summer daily prayers have been answered daily.
In the Philippines it is Family Week that is sponsored by the church every year there. They have family parties, activities and events. The wards and families will post and witness the goodness of the family unit. Here is a clip of the Bishop's family in our Philippine ward. Anya is the oldest son who has developmental challenges since birth. He used to sit by Jeffrey in church. Shoti the little boy in glasses asked us to sit with their family and we love them and miss them so much.
My adopted grandchildren reached out on facebook messenger this week. The oldest son who was serving a mission the same time we did said this, "My mom told me that she miss you. And every night i hear my brother and sister always pray for you and elder adam.
Jeffrey and I are humbled that a family who has so many needs of their own would pray for us every night and we have so much abundance already.  Have I been protected, blessed and aided so quickly because of the prayers of young children half a world away?

My adopted grandchildren September Family Week

Comm 102 Welcome

I have posted this here so I can "un-private" and share my intro to my class.........let's see if I can figure out how to get it back on my school page.........

I JUST LOVE THIS LEARNING CURVE...........OH SO PHUN!!

It has almost started........looking for that important piece of paper

There was a commercial with a woman peering into a store window. She is pacing around saying, "Open, open, open." She comes back to look in the window every once in awhile.  I can relate to that feeling.

I'm excited to begin classes again in my quest for a college degree.

So I'm not sure what my immediate future holds besides lots of work and something that will expand my mind and stretch it out of shape. One teacher has already written to us and told us some of the things we need to take care of ahead of time. One of them is to open a blog and write out assignments on it. She wants us to use WordPress - too bad, as I am so familiar with Blogger, oh well, new learning curve in store. Just in case you want to know what I'm doing here is the address: https://mediacomm130byui.home.blog 

I have a few fragile ties with my friends in the Philippines and this is one of them. One or two people still read this blog so I will try hard to write something at least once a month. Feel free to contact me on Facebook, gmail or text. I don't want to lose any friends I still have!!

Thanks for the support and encouragement!

Waiting for classes to open, open.......

Newborn love

Last week I visited with Julia and Michael to see our newest grand baby Makynlee. She was born big for an infant, but holding her she is just little.  Julia is a devoted mom and Michael has bonded with his daughter. They share her care and love her very much. Michael will be heading back to school, so Julia will have the lion's share of the effort of taking care of Makynlee very soon.

This is Makynlee's favorite place to sleep. 

Julia held the baby in the bath, washing her all over and transferred her to Michael to take out of the bathroom and then they both dried her off and dressed her. They share a lot of the labor.......at least until Michael goes back to school.

We visited with Grandmama and showed off her newest great-granddaughter

Michael and Julia are great parents and are happy and doing well.

Susie, I and Michael looking over the building he works in.

Susie came to visit and I was grateful she made the effort when I came to Utah because she is so busy in her work travel and taking care of her grand babies that is was really a labor of love to come down and visit with me and Michael's family.
I really enjoyed my visit and loved watching the love Michael and Julia have for each other and their new daughter.  My heart is full of gratitude for the many blessings I have from the Lord.
I realized that I am not a working mother anymore and I don't have the muscle set of an active mom. I had forgotten what it is like to hold a baby for long periods of time. The rocking, soothing, patting and just plain holding 10 pounds in your arms works out muscles. I am tired, happy and love being a Nona.

Makynlee and I