The adjuster came to look at the car today. He is working very hard to keep the repair estimates lower than the car is worth! My car totaled by a snow plow? Say it isn't so! Our insurance company is working with a local collision repair business and I hope that they can locate some used parts. Everyone I have worked with concerning this 'accident' has been very cooperative and understanding. I really just don't want the car to be totaled...
I think that I am to learn patience and reliance on God...but I wish the lessons were easier. I am such a slow, (and resistant) learner. Get out that pray rope Mama J!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
It is just a car...part two
I have been a total bear to my family since the plow hit my car yesterday. I have to apologize to them...really...I have been nasty.
Once again I have been shown how attached I am to nice 'stuff'.
The car that was hit was my father's. We had to sell his home and the business partnership that he was in had to be dissolved in order to pay nursing home costs, but he got to keep 'the Chevy'. Dad always kept it in his heated garage and he washed it EVERY week. IT was his baby, and he only had 26,000 miles on it, (not bad for a 10 year old car.) Even when he was in the home and dementia had claimed his mind, he would still say, "Don't sell my car..."
I didn't-and this past August when Dad died, 'the Chevy' became my baby. (We have no garage-so it has learned how to brave those cold PA winters now.) And to a bit snarky-it is the newest (and nicest) car that my husband have ever had. I has been nice driving around in a newer car!
So I was really bummed when it was hit. I was too bummed actually. It is just a car-but I put to much sentimentality and worth into a piece of metal. At this point we don't know it because of the cost of repairs, if it will be 'totaled' or not.
So because of my pride, pettiness and my impatience I am being nasty to my family and being an all around schmuck! It is amazing at just how little I have learned and how slow I am in making this journey to holiness.
Lord have mercy on me a sinner.
Once again I have been shown how attached I am to nice 'stuff'.
The car that was hit was my father's. We had to sell his home and the business partnership that he was in had to be dissolved in order to pay nursing home costs, but he got to keep 'the Chevy'. Dad always kept it in his heated garage and he washed it EVERY week. IT was his baby, and he only had 26,000 miles on it, (not bad for a 10 year old car.) Even when he was in the home and dementia had claimed his mind, he would still say, "Don't sell my car..."
I didn't-and this past August when Dad died, 'the Chevy' became my baby. (We have no garage-so it has learned how to brave those cold PA winters now.) And to a bit snarky-it is the newest (and nicest) car that my husband have ever had. I has been nice driving around in a newer car!
So I was really bummed when it was hit. I was too bummed actually. It is just a car-but I put to much sentimentality and worth into a piece of metal. At this point we don't know it because of the cost of repairs, if it will be 'totaled' or not.
So because of my pride, pettiness and my impatience I am being nasty to my family and being an all around schmuck! It is amazing at just how little I have learned and how slow I am in making this journey to holiness.
Lord have mercy on me a sinner.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe for Margaret
This recipe is straight from the Land O Lakes recipe box.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 3 1/2 dozen
Heat oven to 375°F. Combine flour blend, baking powder, baking soda, salt and xanthan gum in medium bowl. Set aside.
Combine butter, brown sugar and sugar in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Continue beating, scraping bowl often, until well mixed.
Reduce speed to low. Beat, gradually adding flour mixture, until well mixed. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. (DO NOT OVERBAKE.) Let stand 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets.
Gluten-Free Flour Blend: To make Flour Blend, combine 2 cups rice flour, 2/3 cup potato starch, 1/3 cup tapioca flour and 1 teaspoon xanthan gum. Store in container with tight-fitting lid; stir before using.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 3 1/2 dozen
| 2 1/4 | cups Gluten-Free Flour Blend (see below) | |
| 1 | teaspoon gluten-free baking powder | |
| 1 | teaspoon baking soda | |
| 1/2 | teaspoon salt | |
| 1/4 | teaspoon xanthan gum | |
| 3/4 | cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened | |
| 3/4 | cup firmly packed brown sugar | |
| 1/2 | cup sugar | |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 2 | teaspoons gluten-free vanilla | |
| 1 | (12-ounce) package (2 cups) gluten-free semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips |
Heat oven to 375°F. Combine flour blend, baking powder, baking soda, salt and xanthan gum in medium bowl. Set aside.
Combine butter, brown sugar and sugar in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Continue beating, scraping bowl often, until well mixed.
Reduce speed to low. Beat, gradually adding flour mixture, until well mixed. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. (DO NOT OVERBAKE.) Let stand 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets.
Gluten-Free Flour Blend: To make Flour Blend, combine 2 cups rice flour, 2/3 cup potato starch, 1/3 cup tapioca flour and 1 teaspoon xanthan gum. Store in container with tight-fitting lid; stir before using.
My car was just hit by a snowplow!
A snow plow just crunched my car!!!!!!!! Parked in front of my house!!!!! Tell me it is just a car...
Snow Pictures Your Want...Snow Pictures You Get!
Our Beagle's 'privy path'
View down the street
View up the street. Hubby's station wagon is up there as well as Junior's van-both are totally covered!
Somewhere under all that snow is a 1999 Chevy Lumina!...and the snow is still falling!
You could go snowblind just from the pictures!
SNOW!!
I refuse to post pictures of all this snow-because I just want it to become an undocumented bad memory!
Scary and bizarre! I don't know how much snow we have, but it us up to hubby's knees! ...and still falling! I know this because I saw him walking away from the house this morning on his way to meet a co-worker who has a 4 wheel drive...that is is only way he'll get to work. He has to get to work because there a viewings today. (Even snow can't stop funerals!) So Hubby will be traveling the roads all day...
Junior has been out to shovel a 'privy path' for our beagle. The snow is way over her head! But a doggie's gotta do what a doggie's gotta do-if only she can get there!
I am making GF chocolate chip pancakes for the snow shoveling/cleaning team aka my children. And just for a bit of the bizarre I turned on the Christmas lights, (that are still up on the front of our house-because every time we plan to take them down the weather goes wonky!) Might as well make a fun as well as a hard shoveling day of it!
Spring is only how many days away?
Scary and bizarre! I don't know how much snow we have, but it us up to hubby's knees! ...and still falling! I know this because I saw him walking away from the house this morning on his way to meet a co-worker who has a 4 wheel drive...that is is only way he'll get to work. He has to get to work because there a viewings today. (Even snow can't stop funerals!) So Hubby will be traveling the roads all day...
Junior has been out to shovel a 'privy path' for our beagle. The snow is way over her head! But a doggie's gotta do what a doggie's gotta do-if only she can get there!
I am making GF chocolate chip pancakes for the snow shoveling/cleaning team aka my children. And just for a bit of the bizarre I turned on the Christmas lights, (that are still up on the front of our house-because every time we plan to take them down the weather goes wonky!) Might as well make a fun as well as a hard shoveling day of it!
Spring is only how many days away?
Thursday, February 4, 2010
My clouded mind...
"...When I was born, according to Thy mercy Thou madest me worthy to become a vessel of Thy grace. But, after I received this gift, I who am weak and sinful was in my slothfulness
disinclined to offer recompense for it.
Thus, falling down before Thy kindness, I pray Thee, O Only-Begotten Son, our Savior: sober me and raise me up, and shine Thy grace upon me again, that it might illumine my clouded mind as behooves Thy grace. May it remain with me, and through its invisible guidance may it make me worthy of the heavenly kingdom...."
The Spiritual Psalter #39 by Saint Ephraim the Syrian
****disinclined to offer recompense for it.
Thus, falling down before Thy kindness, I pray Thee, O Only-Begotten Son, our Savior: sober me and raise me up, and shine Thy grace upon me again, that it might illumine my clouded mind as behooves Thy grace. May it remain with me, and through its invisible guidance may it make me worthy of the heavenly kingdom...."
The Spiritual Psalter #39 by Saint Ephraim the Syrian
I am guilty of a clouded mind.
My clouded-ness is a filling of things that are not God. I will think of anything before God. I can fill my day and my mind with so many things that prayer becomes foreign to me.
My clouded-ness is also lack of desire-not wanting to understand the things of God. The life of grace and love is hard. If I can plead ignorance, I can excuse myself from not loving, not giving, not emptying myself for God and others.
My clouded-ness is also weakness. Living a Christian life is hard. How can I really be expected to follow Christ and actually become holy as He is holy? This is all just too hard...
My clouded-ness is also sloth. I am just too lazy.
My clouded mind is darkened because I am depending upon me...MY clouded-crowded-ignorant-weak-slothful mind and will....
Shine THY grace upon me again,
Illumine me with THY desires, THY wisdom, THY strength.
Illumine my heart, my will, my soul with THY life.
My clouded-ness is a filling of things that are not God. I will think of anything before God. I can fill my day and my mind with so many things that prayer becomes foreign to me.
My clouded-ness is also lack of desire-not wanting to understand the things of God. The life of grace and love is hard. If I can plead ignorance, I can excuse myself from not loving, not giving, not emptying myself for God and others.
My clouded-ness is also weakness. Living a Christian life is hard. How can I really be expected to follow Christ and actually become holy as He is holy? This is all just too hard...
My clouded-ness is also sloth. I am just too lazy.
My clouded mind is darkened because I am depending upon me...MY clouded-crowded-ignorant-weak-slothful mind and will....
Shine THY grace upon me again,
Illumine me with THY desires, THY wisdom, THY strength.
Illumine my heart, my will, my soul with THY life.
****
But Thou, Who hast resurrected the dead, raise also me who am deadened by sin. Thou Who hast healed the blind, enlighten the clouded eyes of my heart. Thou who hast delivered Adam from the mouth of the serpent, pull me out of the mire of mine iniquities; for I too belong among thy sheep, though I have been by my own free choice become food for lions.
Spiritual Psalter #50
Spiritual Psalter #50
Great Lent can't get here soon enough!!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
My 'early' Valentine's Day gift from Hubby
This is where I used to store my jewelry. I am not a real 'jewelry' kind of girl, so everything fit...for a while. I have taken a liking to earrings over the past few years and things were getting crowded in the old jewelry box. I did NOT take a picture of all the jewelry stuffed in there , but it was not a pretty sight. I was damaging some nice pieces and I couldn't find other pieces; so I let hubby know that if there was ever a gift occasion and he needed an idea...a bit bigger jewelry box would be appreciated.
That's Part One...
One afternoon, post Christmas, the kids and I were walking around our local Pier 1 store and a reduced price jewelry box caught my eye. It was more a piece of furniture than a jewelry box, but I didn't think that I needed one that big.
That's Part Two...
Here comes Part Three:
Princess and I came home from church last evening and I was in a hurry to make dinner. Hubby was home from work and Junior was doing homework. After dinner I had laundry to finish and my fitness walking time, so I didn't get upstairs to our bedroom until bedtime. What did I see when I entered the room?
Yea, Hubby and Junior didn't mention it all evening. The men in my life are sneaky...and so thoughtful and lovable!
I moved my jewelry into this new home and needless to say there is still so much room. The abundance of drawers is wonderful, and they make excellent headcovering/scarf storage space! If I would have been thinking more clearly, I would have taken a picture with the doors open, so you could see all that room!
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