Casting Crumbs

I know that many of you want to continue to hear about Mom’s progress and look on this site to see updates. So here is the latest one.

Mom went to see her Oncologist yesterday. He is amazed at her progress and where she is; he has told her that she is in remission. She continues to get better all the time and is enjoying getting back into life and being able to do the things she wondered if she would ever be able to do. She’s even been going up to the track and walking a mile and a half several evenings a week!

She will be making a visit to the Urologist to be checked out. They had put some stints in when she had surgery and they will be checking that. I know she would love it if anyone would pray for her about that.

Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ who has extended Mom’s life and has really blessed us all through this miraculous touch.

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy- – to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore!

Amen.

My Friend Jeanette sent this to me and I had never read it before. I made me laugh and I thought I would share it with you today. Have a happy Friday!

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road…?

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on “THIS” side of the road before it goes after the problem on the “OTHER SIDE” of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his CURRENT” problems before adding “NEW” problems of roads.

OPRAH:
Well I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So to help him get on with his life, I’m going to give this chicken a car and a driver …so that he can just drive across the road and realize his dream of becoming superchicken.

GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here…

DONALD RUMSFELD:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong
road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am for it now, and will remain against it.

ANDERSON COOPER/CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JUDGE JUDY:
That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level.

DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
but why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.

BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first
time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together – in peace.

ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2006,which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet explorer is an integral
part of eChicken. The Platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^( C \….. reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?

“Hey, Jaden. . .see that big bubble up there?”

“Whenever anyone flushes it all goes up the pipes into that thing. Yup, there’s poop and toilet paper and little bits of potato chips up there.”

(Random thoughts from Julian’s 6 year old perspective!)

You will rarely find me giving a book review on Casting Crumbs because I find reading one of those scarce pleasures that I seldom have time to do these days. However, while en route to Vegas I found myself with some heavy-duty time wasting on my hands and so I indulged in a book. I have found Don’t Make Me Count to Three to be a valuable book that is changing the course of my relationship, discipline and training of my three lovely little offspring and so I thought I would share it with you.

I give Don’t Make Me Count to Three a two-thumbs up. Give it a read, I think you will find it very helpful.

Today is a big day! School has started once again and I shed a small happy tear as my firstborn son walked the path up to school for 1st grade. I’m glad that school has started again but then I already miss him. These moments of our life make us step outside ourselves and look at the whole picture. Our kids are growing up into their own little personalities. We want them to change and grow but then when we stop and see how quickly it happens it surprises us.

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The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children– from Psalm 103
. . .think on this. . .

Yesterday we spent a very enjoyable evening with the family celebrating my Mother-In-Law’s Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Rita!!

We met at an Italian Restaurant called Cinzetti’s. Tom and I had never been there before and were pleasantly astounded at the wonderful Italian fare. If you have never eaten there – you MUST try it! It is set up like a market place with many buffets to choose from.

They have everything from pizza, spaghetti and lasagna to pollo penne with gargonzola, fried cheese, zucchini, eggplant, calimari and much more. The salads were awesome and the bruschetta. . .mmmmmm delicioso!!

One of the favorite parts were the desserts! They had hand-dipped ice cream in several flavors, tiramisu, these wonderful raspberry thingies and CREPES! I had never tried a crepe before, so I indulged in a strawberry, banana and cream cheese one. It was pretty good.

Here’s the room that we all crowded into to enjoy our vittles. Can you find Elizabeth?

Thanks everyone for a fun family night together! Blessings to you, Rita, may your year ahead be a wonderful one!

For the last several months Julian has been asking for a cat. Tom and I have talked all along that we could see a dog in the future for us. Kids just can’t grow up without an animal to love, but we wanted to wait until Evely and Jaden were a little older. However, Julian kept talking about wanting a cat and had told Tom the other day that he was ready for a kitten and he wanted it to be all black.

Julian always draws a picture after something meaningful happens in his life. Here’s his drawing of him and Maxy.

OH! And did you happen to notice what color this thing is? Hmmmm. . .just like she was ordered!

Right after returning from Vegas, we packed up the van and headed to Moberly for Tom’s niece’s wedding. I had the opportunity to take the wedding photos – something that has had me a little stressed out over the past weeks. (You know your nervous when you start dreaming about it every night!) Jaden was also the adorable Ring Bearer (Ring Bear as Julian would say).

If you would like to view the rest of the wedding pics click HERE.