♥: November 2016

Thursday, November 24, 2016

WOW can it be I haven't posted since Sept?
Things have been a bit crazy.

Let's see if I can catch up a bit.
I turned 57 in October.
Can't believe it hah

Then we celebrated 9 years married !

We have been busy searching for a new apartment.
But now we think we may look to purchase a condo.
Still waiting on the Lord's leading.

I had a vacation week so Hubby and I drove to
Fishkill NY to look at the trees one of the days.

I love the fall . . .

Castle way up high on the mountain

We stopped at a beautiful park

Then we had some sad and challenging news.
My dear mother in law Mary had a stroke and
needed surgery. Thankfully she survived
the surgery she is 91. She is in rehab trying
to recover. We are praying for her.

This was her last year when we celebrated her
90th birthday in the Catskills in upstate NY.

Then during this trial my husband has had a cough
that won't quit. We went to the doctor and
ended up in the emergency room. They found
nodules on his lungs ( no he has never smoked)
He has an appointment on 12/07 to find out
what they are consisting of. We are praying
for him as well. We trust in the Lord and
know He has both of them in His hands.

Last week I went on retreat with
my Aunt for her church GBF.

The retreat was at Harvey Cedars in South NJ
It is a summer town so it was quiet in November.

We were blessed with warm weather
even though it is November.

Sunrise !

Here I am outside our room

Sunset

It is just plain gorgeous there

Here is our group

This is Darlene our speaker & Laura our worship leader.

Darlene is a Potter and spoke to us on the

bible regarding God is our Potter and

we are the Clay.

Here I am with Aunt Rose and dear friend
Marianne

Oh my gosh we laughed the whole weekend !

Here are some other dear ladies from the retreat

Our friends Kelly and Denise they are sisters

This is Trish, Pastors wife, friend Karen, Joan and Cheryl.

These ladies set up the whole retreat and did an awesome

job. Karen is our bible study leader on my Tuesday study.

This is Lorraine who is a riot, Marilyn who's son is an
amazing missionary in Japan, Joyce who is a fellow dog
lover and Helene who I just met a recent widow and
a kind lady.

On our free time we drove down to the Barnegat
Light House

It was a blessed, blessed retreat.

Today we had Thanksgiving !

We spent it with my mother-in-law
at the rehab. His cousins brought
the full turkey meal and we
enjoyed our time with her.

I baked some pumpkin cookies
using my temptations cookie sheets
which I love they don't stick and
my cute cat spatula my hubby bought me.