Tuesday Treasures and my Mother's Day Gift......

 Now I have photos!

This is the Mother's Day gift I opened up at On the Border on Sunday afternoon.

It's a Photo Share and displays pictures on a slideshow.

The special thing about it - all my children can send photos to it.

Every time someone does, it gives a little 'ding' and a new photo shows up and is added to the slide show. This way I get to see what's going on with everyone....not just posed pictures but what they are doing and seeing.

I smile every single time this photo of my brother Buster comes on!

You can see it's a good sized screen and I catch myself standing at the kitchen counter just watching the photos slide by! Such a super cool gift and from all four of my children.

Look at how sweet our Tabitha is!

They have free run of the house these days - and nights - except when we are going in and out a lot and then they 'go to their room.'

Summer arrived here yesterday and she brought me a perfect coffee cup - all the way from Puerto Rico!

I drank my coffee from it this morning......

and fixed a late breakfast of fried potatoes and sausage with toast and jelly and fruit.

Summer and I both love Goodwill hunting - and since this was Tuesday - that's what we did!

As soon as I walked in the door, I spied these six dining chairs.

So did another lady but she saw them first. We visited together and then she said, "You go ahead!"

So I bought them! Six chairs for $50! Then with my senior discount - it was $35!

They are NICE!! A big larger scale than what I had and Louis Dean is putting slide things on the legs so they pull out easier. No more chair covers!

I really made a haul today!

It was like old times!

I love the dishes and have a lot of this style already.

That candle smells wonderful and the cute garden tools are hanging on the wall outside my front door.

That's a brand new set of flannel sheets from Target for the twin top bunk in the guest room - matching the double bottom set I bought after Christmas.

Logan and Trystan want some things to make their bedroom cozy......

I think they will like these!

The Be Still and Know sign is for Lillian's room at the nursing home.

These photgraphed gold but it's plain glass.

Louis Dean breaks glasses on a regular basis and that's okay since I can get them for a song at the Goodwill.

Lillian was missing a few of her wall plaques so I am finding some others to replace them.

This is already hanging on our bedroom wall!

I do love these coasters and I love the brand new autumn runner.

I scored on some new pants, too!

There's actually two pair of black ones and one of those is for Lillian.

It was a rainy cold day for May!

Perfect for a movie!

And this was a good one.

I had one fire log left so we lit it up and celebrated our last fire of the season.

Then Louis Dean joined us for our second feature.....

I think Summer knew he would love this one!

Dinner was easy tonight.....

sweet and sour chicken (using a bag that you just heat up and add the cooked chicken which I had cooked all afternoon in a small crock pot), rice, Asian vegetable medley and fresh cantaloupe.

Summer is going to be staying here for a few days and she is asking for prayer.

Things were looking better for a bit and then tonight they look pretty black.

Sometimes life feels like a roller coaster.

It's going on 5 years now since she had that birth defect that affected her back and ultimately caused so much nerve damage while they were trying to find the problem. By the time the birth defect in her spine was finally addressed - the damage had already been done to her nerves and - a few years later - the Spinal Cord Stimulator has helped her in controlling the pain so she can live and function better. But she's still seeking disablility due to the fact that her health is so compromised. Tonight she and I were both crying and down our knees on the dining room floor begging  God to work a miracle. Things look very dark right now. Summer has been through so much. People often tell her she is so happy all the time - and she is because she chooses to be happy. It does not come easy and there are times when she simply breaks down and falls to her knees crying.....as is what happened tonight.

So we cried and prayed together and then washed our faces and claimed God's promises.....

quoting scriptures to each other and choosing faith over despair.

God can and will 'perfect that which concerns Summer'.....just as he will perfect that which concerns me.....and he will perfect that which concerns YOU, as well.

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities....

brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

Charles R. Swindoll

Let's all hold one another up in prayer tonight......