90th BIRTHDAY

 

FORGETTING WHAT DAY IT IS!

I FIND MYSELF HAVING TO LOOK AT THE COMPUTER TO LET ME KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS!  Tis Monday.  I knew that I would be getting up early to watch a grand baby today.  Baby Time for the day is quiet now.  I know that I got to entertain this lil guy until he fell asleep.  In between, he was fed, diapered, and visited with.  A few smiles in there and some tears.  He has a very healthy appetite and doesn't like having to wait for nourishment.  

When he is older, little finger food can be given to him to tide him over until a bottle is ready.  He's drinking mother's milk for now and when it's in a bottle, the bottle has to be warmed.  He doesn't like waiting.  Gently bouncing doesn't take his mind off of not having a bottle.  I tried oatmeal and this was a no-go.  He was a happy camper when the bottle was ready.  I was too. 

Granny Nanny here. 

Hubby and I have been visiting about my Mom's living situation where she needs to go into ASSISTED LIVING.  Isn't simple at all.  Places around here have no beds, not enough staff, no new clients.  There is one place that has a bed and I think we had better jump on it.  Now to have a pow wow with my siblings and my MOM.  

I believe I need to get on top of the rules and laws about when going into a nursing home or long term care for myself and my husband as well.  At 66...I think it's something to kick around to where we have some ideas what we need to know about when the time comes if it comes knowing that things can all change with what's the norm at the time may not apply in 10 years.  So hanging loose, flexible, but hopefully better informed about this getting older.  

Mom's little dog was going to have to go to another home or have to be put to sleep.  We received a phone call today telling us that ELLA has a new HOME!!!  I cried tears of joy.  Mom has had Ella for nearly 15 years and is well loved.  We are extremely HAPPY that ELLA is going to be taken care of so Mom can be at ease about her puppy.  My Dad has been gone 5 years already and he so loved her.  She'd lie on his legs for naps.  Ella loves to nestle in beside my Mom's hip and leg when she is sitting in her recliner.  Mom can no longer take care of Ella since Mom has broken her hip and still in the Hospital.  Ella having a new owner makes me very HAPPY.  A sigh of relief!  TIS GREAT NEWS.

I'll be away from BLOGLAND for a few days as I will be occupied taking care of my MOM and think it best to take a few days off.  One day closer to nicer weather.  One day closer to knowing what to do about my MOM's living situation.

The days may run into a big blur.  This will be a good time to eat soups and salads plus some fruit.  Drink bottled water and take some time to pray to my Heavenly Father for guidance, wisdom, favor and health.

Blessings to you,

~d

 

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THOUGHTS ON DINING...and thoughts on the slap heard around the world

WHAT A GREAT RELIEF TO HAVE THE DINING ROOM IN ORDER.

I can celebrate and relax about this project being COMPLETED.

After a short reprieve, there are more things to do to be better organized and in order throughout the house and cottage.  

Praise God, this Dining room is DONE!

For now, our DINING ROOM is a DINING ROOM and we will continue to use it as such until we turn loose of this big house.

The color is a neutral and lighter than the dark blue that was there.  I enjoyed my dark blue Dining room for almost 5 years.  Now I will enjoy this Benjamin Moore Baja Dunes color while we live here.

I have downsized the pieces of furniture and dishes that were in this Dining room.  I have to maintain this as eventually we will be in a different house and I have no desire to have as many Dining room pieces of furniture in it as we age.  I want to keep my crystal pieces which will be in a Kitchen cabinet and the Blue Willow China will be in the antique china cabinet that once belonged to my Mom.  Everyday dishes will be housed in the Kitchen.

Dishes that I have boxed up and stored in the basement will be turned loose of within the next year.  Not only the Dining room needs downsized, the basement has to be cleared completely out.  Only a small fraction of belongings will be kept.  Good-bye this and that.

So as I thin things out at our main house, I have to take into account what will be relocated to the COTTAGE when the time comes.  I believe I can do this and be alright.  I am attached to my dishes and furniture so very much, but in order to MORE CAREFREE I have to not be so sentimental.  Yahoo.

I know that each person adjust to moves in their own way.  Depending on the age of each person with their needs determines much.  Financial dynamics contributes to the reality of a different location.  Where do we go from here?  If grieving too much for too long then what?  It steals the present day.  I cannot enjoy LIFE to the fullest when grieving day after day.  The 'I WISH SYNDROME' gets in the road of a HAPPY LIFE.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

TIS APRIL and we're inching our way to milder temperatures.  I was in Marion working in my Mom's apartment when we woke to snow covered automobiles.  The roads were good so we were able to return to Newton to see my MOM in the hospital who is recovering from surgery for a hip fracture.

She'll turn 90 on APRIL 9th and we will celebrate.

Sister and I will take turns staying with her as we transition her to either Assisted Living or LONG TERM CARE which is a fancy name for a NURSING HOME.  No longer will she be living on her own in this apartment.  I pray she will be able to get a single room without a roommate when she settles in the next location.

I get the feeling she will not go very easily.  I talked to her last night and she said, "We shall see."

I have some HOMEWORK TO DO as well as my sister and brother are working at figuring her new living arrangements. Mom will have to downsize, downsize, downsize.  If she is fortunate to settle in Assisted Living, some of her furniture will go with her.  If she settles into a Nursing Home, the furniture will have to go except perhaps a recliner and chest.  Some wall space for hanging some pictures and some framed pictures on a nightstand.  A few nick-knacks.  

Mom has many Nic-knacks at this time.  Her small apartment is overflowing with Nic-knacks.  The tops of end tables are completely covered.  Her clothing closet is crammed full with her lovely clothing, boxed shoes and purses.  Her coat closet is crammed full.  The kitchen cabinets are crammed full of dishes, glasses, and cookware.

If MOM goes into a Nursing Home, the furniture will not be needed.  If Assisted Living then only a small amount will be allowed.  

Truly, I am thinking about her situation which is contributing to my own thoughts about what's needed to live well as I am elderly as well.  I can honestly say...I am doing far better about turning loose of much as we continue to downsize.  Being so sentimental about wedding gifts given to us 48 years ago needs to be held in perspective.  The gifts helped us start setting up our home way back when and served us well.  I have very fond memories of loved ones and friends that helped us.  Now, I have to turn loose of so much that we have purchased along the way....and the neat thing about this is.....I can do this and am ready.  Away I go.

Yes, there are many papers to look at, shred, pitch or file.  I am doing it.  Now I desire to work even faster getting it done.  You go girl.  When I get to say,  I did go girl, it will be a Hugh accomplishment for me.  HUGE.

Now, what's for dinner in the Dining room?

I have to get back to eating SALADS, so I will fix 5 Bean Salad on a bed of Spring Greens with Grapefruit being dessert for SUPPER.

Lunch was BRUNCH.  Scrambled eggs, diced potatoes and bacon.  Getting ready for a HOT MATCHA TEA.  Yummers.

Resting more today after spending time with my 89 year old Mom in the Hospital and a full day at a TRACK MEET.  Granddaughter participated and she placed!  Got a sunburn and walked about throughout the day where my feet don't want to work today.  Very proud of her winner or not.

LAUNDRY is calling my name so I will work on it this week-end.  Washy washy wash in the new Blue Cheer.  Rinsy, rinsy, rinse in the water over here.  Smell that.  Doesn't that smell good?  haha.  Hubby will recall this joke. 

 

This past week I have thought about the slap heard around the world dealing with the Academy Awards Ceremony where actor Will Smith went to the platform to slap presenter Chris Rock for what ever reason Smith thought was a good reason to slap him.  After Smith slapped Rock, Smith immediately turn around and strutted back to his seat with a smile on his face knowing that Rock would not attack or put up a fight with him in front of television cameras.  Smith sat down and began yelling profanities at Rock.  

Several things I saw awkward was that no one came to Mr. Rock's help after being assaulted in front of millions in the television arena as well as those who were actually physically present.  Mr. Rock continued to present the Oscar to the Academy's choice of a winner.  Where was security?

Instead of Mr. Smith being escorted out of the ceremony, he was allowed to stay without consequence at the moment.  If Smith wanted to assault another person near by, he could have and I suppose there'd be no security to protect the victims for that as well.  He was asked to leave?  He refused.  He was allowed to accept his Best Actor Oscar in a motion picture.

I listened to a program about this and it was said that Smith was awarded an Oscar for Best Actor in a motion picture and the other incident with Rock was after being the winner of the Oscar.  He should receive the Oscar, but should be banned from ever attending another Academy Award Ceremony.  He has his Oscar and will probably be allowed to keep it.   

Smith resigned from the Academy.  I suspect he was given the option of RESIGNING or charges would be presented against him and off to court he'd go?

As for Chris Rock, he is not pressing charges at this time for assault and I suspect he won't as there's a bigger agenda to all of this HOLLYWOOD stuff where there is a cabal that runs things and you do not get to be a part of this HOLLYWOOD THING unless you participate with their guidelines and rituals.

When thinking about the movie studios I understand that in the beginning of the big motion picture studios they were owned by godless people that promoted what they foresaw would sell to the masses. They referred to these people as dogs because they were not of a certain ethical heritage and because the owners of the studios were of a certain ethical group, the masses were at their disposal to do what ever they wanted to them.  Getting sexual favors from the actors and actresses was the norm.  The owners either took others by force or the people wanting to be involved in the movie industry freely gave themselves to the owners of the studios.  Sexual favors for the big whigs was the price to pay to advance their careers.  Including the underaged.

The sexual appetites of the ungodly owners of this ethical group were fed.  Sodom and Gomorrah?  Even if one was of this ethical group, ungodly sexual favors were and still are given to advance careers or get immediate gratification for personal desires. 

Ungodly actions to get their faces on the screen or be a part of the action putting on the show?        

As the years passed, the next wave of weirdness came and the godless owners continued to dishonor a holy God's instructions about godly living.  The subject matters of the movies became more graphic or suggestive for the viewing public whether they were from the same ethnic group or those they considered to be dogs. 

Whether the actors or crew members were willing to do whatever to stay involved with this capal has not changed.  They were and are still willing to participate in ungodly practices so their faces are on the screen or they are involved in the nuts and bolts of the industry.  

Same thing has happened for television.  History shows that the same ethical group runs the shows.  The show must go on at the expense of goy/goyim. 

So if a Will Smith decides to punch you in the face, you may be at the mercy of the ones running the show.  You may be instructed to be punched in the face and not press charges to raise the ratings or encourage the counter culture.  The companies that are supporting the movie industry may be telling you that you will do this or you'll do that because it is good for the ratings.  The wife of the one that committed the assault may laugh at you with delight for making her dreams come true.  

So was Will Smith a part of this well thought out drama to raise ratings, was he a part of being brain washed by his present squeeze, or was it something else altogether?  Are we being manhandled by the movie industry by way of an assault?  With Pfizer coming out with new medicines for Alopecia patients, is this part of the plan to give Jada Pinkett Smith attention about her supposedly Alopecia where she is losing hair and medicines for Alopecia?  After all Pfizer is one the companies supporting the Academy Awards.

I'm not making light of anyone who truly suffers from Alopecia.  BUT Jada still has a fine head of hair even if she has it shaven off.  Where are her large bald spots where the Alopecia is attacking her head hair?  Even with her head shaven, there are no known huge patches where the hair is completely missing and skin showing.  Her five o'clock shadow doesn't show bald patches at all, but a fine head of hair stubble.

Viewing photos of others with Alopecia, they have huge patches of hair missing to where you see hairless skin.  Not Jada.

Chris Rock's GI JANE joke was about Jada appearing in a GI JANE 2 movie.  Jada's shaved head looks just like Demi Moore's character in the GI JANE movie with her shaven head in which you can still see a full head of hair stubble...looks very similar to Jada Smith's shaven head.  Hair stubble is still noticeable all over Jada's head.  All over.  There are no ugly bald patches at all.  So does she actually have bald spots?  If so, where are they?  Maybe a thin, narrow line on the top, but no ugly patches.  None.  Nada.  

When looking at the top of Jada's head where she once pointed out a thin, narrow line where she had lost her hair, could not be seen the night of the Oscars.  Zoom in on the videos when she is looking downward. No hair loss.  Say what?

Jada and Will are multi-millionaires.  The movie industry has been very good to them.  Very good.  Their marriage is not a christian one and their children have not been reared in a christian home.  A Hollywood one for sure.  With adultery concerning Jada's extra marital affairs, they refer to this adultery as an entanglement and not adultery at all.  As for Will's extra partners is what if not adultery.  Their marriage is not a godly one.  Perhaps a business arrangement?

It's one thing to get on stage when it's not one's time slot to slapping the presenter and turning around with a smile on the face before returning to their seat THEN getting hot under the collar yelling profanities at the presenter with no security showing up on the scene to protect the presenter from further violence or ushering the attacker off the premises to where the wife of the attacker is laughing at the presenter AFTER getting slapped.  That's one thing, but the drama continues as the attacker apologizes on social media and resigns from the Academy.  WHO's running the show?

When being consoled by fellow actors during station break, Will Smith has a look of sorrow on his face.  He looks zoned out.  How much mind control does the Academy, the motion picture moguls, the cabal have over Will Smith, Jada Smith and Chris Rock?  Who pays their bills?  Who pulls their strings? 

WAS THIS A SLAP RITUAL SEEN AND HEARD AROUND THE WORLD part of a humiliation ritual that members do in order to increase their power when being a part of the 

ill um in at i  kingdom??? 

Jesus came for the sick.  Jesus came for people like Jada Smith, Will and Chris.  He is available for all.   Entanglements, adultery, liars, the capal, the ungodly...HE came for the broken hearted and the sick.  He is the great physician, the great I AM.  HOLLYWOOD and their delusions is not the great I AM.

That little statue called OSCAR is not going to save anyone's soul or heal their diseases.  When a clique hands out awards to those in their club, it's patting each other on the back time.  No one has their soul's saved by Oscar.  No one.  What ever their industry deems as proper, is what they will do.  Hello Will.  Next time it will be someone else by a different name preforming a ritual.  Same agenda.  Different name.  They rule the industry, but they do not own everyone's soul.  They can contribute to mind control over the everyday person and are successful in suggesting ungodly values to the masses.  

Very successful.  

The different avenues of the media is extremely powerful and entertaining.  I love watching a great movie and spending time in front of the television.  Can I turn a blind eye to the actual character of the actors, the industry moguls, the cabal where ugly rituals are preformed on a daily basis to empower themselves or brain wash others?

Then there's the church industry.  Another post for a different day. 

Whether or not Will Smith will slap me and walk away with a smile on his face then yell profanities at me while sitting in his seat where no security guards assist me....I don't foresee this happening.  What I do see happening with the movie and the television industry, is a type of slapping by their ungodly suggestions in the movies, television programs, computer blurbs, newspaper articles, murder, violence, stealing, adultery, bed hopping, fornication presented as an attractive lifestyle, homosexuality as a norm, sexual perversion as a acceptable lifestyle, sacred body parts being exposed to all, gender confusion, you can be whatever you want to be, you can do whatever you want including promoting a counter culture whatever that is.

I do not have to watch their suggestions.

Can I still have an opinion?  Is it possible to have an opinion?  

Do I have to ever watch another movie or television program again?

Do I have to believe everything I read?  Do I have to believe everything that I have been told?  No.  So simple.  No.  

AS FOR MY 'LIL DINING ROOM ON THE PRAIRIE...I am blessed to have one where I do not have to entertain any of this information or a slap heard around the world.  Please pass the butter.  

~d

   

   

 

SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE and WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

IN A SMALL COMMUNITY NEAR BY, they have a TULIP FESTIVAL.  Each year tulip bulbs are planted in their City Park and in their downtown sidewalk containers.  Usually in the month of APRIL, the community celebrates by having venders in the park with other activities to usher in the SPRING.  I'm looking forward to seeing the colorful tulips in bloom.  

This image was found on the internet and isn't from a previous festival.  Still the white, pink and purple blossoms are beautiful together.  Nice selection of colors.  

Spring, where are you?  Just around the bend.  I remember one year where it hit 100 degrees on April Fool's Day.  Jump right into SUMMER for the day.  I suppose it could happen once again. Today's forecast says it will hit 83 degrees.  I'm saying whattttt?  Scattered thunder storms and rain later today.

SPRING:  Looking forward to Spring's milder weather.  Warmer days and cool breezes.  Time to be outside and see nature.  Admiring Nature's flowers and plants in a world full of chaos is a blessing to my soul.  Yard work continues.  

HEALTH JOURNEY:  I won't be having a personal garden this year, but I will strive to eat better by purchasing organic and non-GMO foods while deliberately eating more veggies and fruit. Five servings of vegetables a day and four fruit servings a day is protocol for nutrition.  I have missed the mark when following this advice.  When evaluating what I do eat, I overdo the protein, don't eat enough fruits and vegetables, have done well with lowering dairy intake and grains.  Sugars have not been completely taken out of diet.  

I am more cautious about what I do stuff in my mouth though.  I pay more attention to the added chemicals in highly processed foods then do my best to avoid eating them.  Smaller portion sizes and eating slower do not always take place though.  I'm trying.  Using extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil instead of crisco, sunflower oil, etc.  Grain oils are a no-no.

Drinking spring water, eating soy-free eggs, grass-fed beef, variety of nuts.  Need to add seeds. No coffee and no soda.  Some green teas.      

I will continue taking supplements for a healthier me.  Working hard to lower blood pressure in a natural way.  Same with lowering bad cholesterol and dealing with high blood glucose/diabetes. Lowering weight is a very slow process for me.  Sigh.  Knowing what I am eating will be a conscious decision from here until I eat no more.  Old age should not be a time to downsize the nutrition.  Eating nutritionally dense foods throughout life should be the norm, not the exception.  

Life isn't all about food, but I don't see how I can ignore it when I know that eating poorly adds to health decline.  Poor nutrition, poor choices, poor morals all add up to poor health, poverty, heartache and pain.  

PLANS TODAY:  After a good breakfast, I plan to take a short walk.  Thinning out good 'ole paperwork.  Hubby plans to switch out a switch in one of our cars so when driving the blinkers and brake lights work.  Important to have.    

This week, I will continue going through papers, tidy some on the Junk/TV room and gather items to purge from our home.  Lord, HELP ME get this completed.  No trip to Topeka today as I believe we will stay close to home. 

MEALS ON THE PRAIRIE:  I am so very blessed to have never starved.  Yes, a blessing.  To purchase healthier and better quality food is necessary.  A different variety of foods is educational.  There's an adjustment when switching the types of food I eat that has been ongoing.  Retraining my habits is doable.  It may not be a walk in the park, but doable.

When being informed about how to lose weight, I have been told to eat less and exercise more. Personally, I now know that one should eat MORE, not less of nutritionally dense foods AND stay in motion, rest well, stay well hydrated and stress less.  Hormonal imbalances can be part of the reason weight gain happens.  When one is malnourished, weight gain can happen.  Eating too much protein CAN cause weight gain as the body cannot process it which causes the protein to turn to sugar which turns to fat going to be stored.  

I can eat LESS of the wrong foods.  Portion control.  Eat slower.  Savor the flavor.  For a woman, it is recommended to eat 4 oz. of protein per meal.  Men, 4 to 6 oz.  5 vegetable servings and 4 fruit servings per day.  8 to 10 cups of water a day.  Little dairy.  Little grain.  The food pyramid has changed from what it was in the 1950s.  The food pyramid was deliberately designed to put weight on people so we weren't so skinny.  Things have changed and now peeps are to eat to slim down hopefully be healthier.  Many people that are slim still have health issues.  This isn't right and that isn't right.  The truth of the matter is that in order to be a healthier person we must take action being a healthier person.  Make sense? 

Life isn't all about food.  Healthy lifestyles are important and that involves healthy relationships and choices as well.  Too much stress is never good.  The Holy Spirit will help us in making healthier choices and being better informed.  We must ask for help.  God will see us through.  Our earthly lives do eventually come to an end.  The after life should not be ignored.  There is LIFE in the Lord Jesus when HE is our savior.  Amen. 

MEALS ON THE PRAIRIE:  

Meatloaf with Baby Carrots and Green Beans.  

Used grass-fed beef for the meatloaf topped with organic ketch-up.   Organic veggies.  The portion sizes is good.  No fruit though and there should have been.  Maybe I should think of fruit as the dessert and eat more dessert.  Sorry, but ketch-up/catsup is one condiment I over dose on.  My favorite. 

Meatloaf, Boiled Potatoes and Broccoli.

Pita Bread with Cheese, Red Peppers and Onions.

Popcorn with Seasoning for snacks.

Beef, Rainbow Carrots and Asparagus.

Baked Potato, Cottage Cheese and Side Salad.

Turkey Patties topped with Ketch-up, Boiled Potatoes, 
and Green Beans.

Chicken Breast with Salad.

3 Egg and Vegetable Omelette with Bacon.

The soy-free eggs have been a nice addition to have in our food plan when subtracting other eggs.  I am striving to NOT eat bacon and other pork products, but so far I have only cut way back.  Complete absence from pork hasn't happened yet.  Seldom do I have ham, pork chops or bacon.  Seldom.

Here's to a healthier LIFE.

Blessings On The Prairie,
~d

 

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Weather will be nice today and turning off cooler 

with rain this week.

The skies are grey overcast.

I am blogging and doing paperwork.

I'm thinking about all that needs done to completely be decluttered and organized.

HOME MAKING TIP: Have fun when cleaning the house.  The work is there because it is our HOME being lived in.

I am tired, but have hopes of going for a walk to take in some fresh air while exercising.

No Breakfast this morning.  Fasting.

My reading pile consist of books about health.

TV TIME: movies such as Robinson Crusoe (2011)

 

Call The Midwife (2022)

American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story (2021)

Menu this week:  Once again it will be lots of veggies, fruit, protein drinks, egg omelettes.

Camera shots and looking around the house:

TO DO LIST:

Stay sane 

Stay simplistic

Purge items to free up space

Prepare for mom's 90th birthday

Start on Grandchildren's Easter Baskets

Thin out paperwork

Visit my elderly mom in the Hospital

DEVOTIONAL: memory verse.