LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW....The sun has set. It was another hot, muggy day in Kansas. Now the stars are shining and the temp is beginning to some down. Boy, I'm telling you, July is hot here in Kansas.
AS I PONDER....
On Saturday I un-followed all news feed on Facebook. It is sickening to see what is happening in our country. Which, I feel, the news medias across the USA are largely responsible for. No longer does this country believe in due justice. I am praying for peace soon. If we, the people, do not get a grip on it soon I am afraid there will be a huge race war.
WHAT I AM LEARNING...
Psalm 1:3
"He is like a tree that is planted by streams of waters that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers."
I am creating a peaceful environment for my grandchildren and I to live in right now. We have to talk about what is happening in our country but we do not have to participate in the hate.
WHAT I'M READING....
I am currently reading a book which was recommended by a fellow blogger, Modern Mrs. Darcy, You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt. She had many very positive things to say about this book. So far, I am not very far into it. It hasn't grabbed me yet.
WHAT I'M WATCHING...
I enjoy watching the TV reality show, Return to Amish. Do any of you watch? I have often wondered how much of it is true. And how much is scripted.
WHAT I'M HEARING...
I have the TV on in the background! Not really listening!
Pictures I want to share...
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| My Paige-er-roo |
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| First debit card |
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| What she spends most of her time doing!! |
WHAT I'M DRINKING....
I have been drinking my coffee iced! Iced French Vanilla coffee is such a treat.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE KITCHEN...
This week my entire menu (almost) is coming from one of my favorite food blogs, Life in the Lofthouse. The reason I like her blog so much is because she shares recipes that my family will like. And I almost always have the ingredients on hand. The recipes are simple and delicious!
Monday...Cheeseburger Lettuce Wraps
Tuesday...Taco Potatoes
Wednesday..Turkey Ranch Club Wraps
Thursday...Baked Hawaiian Chicken & Rice
Friday...Honey Lime Chicken Tacos
Saturday...Easy Beef Stroganoff
Sunday...Eating out!! (If we follow the plan and eat all of our meals at home we are going for a treat today)!
A QUOTE I WANT TO SHARE...
LOOKING FORWARD....
When I selected my word for 2016, "forward" I was thinking in terms of my recent widowhood and how I needed to be able to move forward. I never thought how much this word would be affecting everything in my life. And in my world. We all need to move forward. So many people are living in a "long-ago" world. It is time to stop. We all have to live in this world together. Blacks, whites, Asians, Mexicans, Latinos.....all of us!! So if I can only do one thing right TODAY, I am going to move forward with my way of thinking about the races. I am going to quit classifying and dividing them in my thoughts. We are all humans. Part of the human race. We need to let go of the titles that separate us. Will you join me?
Happenings in my backyard...
It hasn't been happening in my backyard, but I have a mole/gofer in my front yard. This past week we sat in the bay window and could see the little devil throwing the dirt up into a mound. I went out and put poison pellets down his hole. Did he go away? Nope, soon was throwing up dirt in another spot. More poison pellets. The next day we watched as he threw up more dirt. I tried to smack him with a shovel to no avail. He ran away into his tunnel. With five new mounds of dirt and half a container of poison pellets dumped in now I will just have to wait and see if he is gone. I hate those critters!! I apologize to all animal lovers out there who might be upset with my "getting rid of the critters" technique!
A peek into my week...
Back to work week for Harley. Swim lessons start up again so she will be working Monday through Friday. I am not yet sure of Darian's schedule. Sunday is National Ice Cream Day so I will be taking advantage of that! What does your plans look like this week??A final thought...
I have been thinking about writing some care-giving posts and sharing some of my memories of being a nurse for 25 years. What it was like when I first started in 1983 as a brand new graduate nurse. What I learned along the way. Memorable patients (identities protected of course) What do you think? Would that be something you, my readers, would be interested in??
I would be interested in your care giving posts. I find things like that fascinating to read.
ReplyDeleteI will join you in not labeling others but having us all be the same in the eyes of God, which we are indeed.
I truly agree with you too about the media. They need to fill in the news for 24/7 and they look for things that are sensationalism items. I blame the media and technology for a lot of our recent problems. Media needs to fill in the hours of news, technology makes it easier for us to access it. I think they need to report every single person shot by a police person or no person shot by a police man. There just as many or more white people shot by them, but yet you only hear of it when it is a person of color.
I think I'll have to make sure I celebrate National Ice Cream Day :)
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I am going to have a new feature, here on my blog, called Nursing Rounds. I hope you will enjoy it! Let's hope we can all join together and help to get rid of the labels. I don't know if it will help. But I know it is a start. Hope you will celebrate National Ice Cream Day!!
DeleteI'll try, Paula. Growing up in a largely prejudicial home ... an all-caucasian community, I was late arriving at the Table of Acceptance. But, by breaking us all down to individuals v. races, feels right. It feels good. God knows, our children, our grandchildren and yes, our peace officers deserve a little respite.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sad to witness what's happening to our Nation, and how the sensationalist media is fanning the flames on behalf of market share and what they hope to achieve.
OK, I'm gonna say it out-loud: I've begun to wonder if a CIVIL separation (v. war) isn't in our country's best interests; the chasm's simply become too wide. Let's agree to disagree and go our separate ways.
Oh! To answer your question, I'd really enjoy 'hearing' a take on a health provider's (your) reflections. Gosh knows, I've spent too much time in hospitals watching and drawing my own conclusions. 'Twood be nice to hear the other side.
I did not grow up in a home with prejudices but I grew up in towns with few black people. The town where I went to middle school had NO black people. In fact, they were discouraged from moving there. And this was in the 1960's too. I think it would be good to agree to disagree. But since we all have to live together in this world, lets agree to disagree and figure out how to live in peace. Together. I hope you will enjoy my new feature called: Nursing Rounds!
DeleteThoughtful post. I would be very interested in hearing your care-giving reflections and stories about memorable patients.
ReplyDeleteThank you Frances. Stay tuned!
DeleteI love how you put each week into perspective and wrap up the last. I used to do more of that when I had family at home and worked. But now I rarely plan ahead more than one day at a time. I'm not a news watcher but do hear more than I want. Praying always for peace in our world. Being a nurse is something I admire and always have. I don't think I could have ever been one, but as a mom I did a lot of nursing. I would like to hear your perspective. Hope you have a wonderful new week!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ma! I am happy to have you along for the journey. I don't know how much planning I will do once Harley leaves home. But I will still probably write like this. I hope your week is awesome too!!
DeleteYes, I will join you in your 'forward' thinking regarding race. It is, after all, the only thing we can change - ourselves, and hopefully by example we will change the way one other person thinks and the spread of improved race relations will continue to spread one person at a time.
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear about your nursing experience. I got so much out of my own sharing of caring for my mom - the looking back and starting at the beginning! I look forward dot it.
I told my grandson that just this morning. The only person we can change is ourselves. It is a good place to start.
DeleteHitting with a shovel only works on the young 'uns cause they move slowly. As for the big guys, I have to hire a company to trap them. Tried on my own to no avail. My neighbor has a groundhog under her deck. One neighbor had his porch collapse thanks to the tunneling. As for the moles that stay underground, poison worms seem to do the trick. I hate animals digging up my yard!
ReplyDeleteHitting it with a shovel didn't help at all because he was far back into the tunnel before my 'whack' hit the ground LOL. We paid a guy to trap them too. But they just kept coming and by the end of the year I had paid out way too much. It is driving me crazy!!
DeleteI would love to read more about your nursing career and get some care giving tips.
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy for all of your encouragement!!
DeleteWould love to hear your stories. You know I'm already with you on humans.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are all humans. Why can't everyone figure that out and just leave each other alone.
DeleteI would enjoy your stories, and someday your grandkids would too.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid we tried to drown some gofers in the yard, a hose in their holes...collapses their soggy runways...as I recall it worked, either that or we got it in a trap. I am certain I could still set a trap, it isn't hard. I bet you could do it!
We had one in our wildgardens a few years ago, the neighbor kids trapped it...cost me $5 what a deal!
We don't have many people of color up here, but we do have some Native Americans. Seems the Warrant List is full of them, but they never spend much time in jail.
I think our Judicial System is corrupt. If I did what some of them do I would be in jail and they would have thrown away the key...it is not fair.
I thought the protests in the Cities that closed down the hwy was in REAL bad taste...I would have sent in the snowplows to move them off the roads. But then I can be harsh some times:)
Those traps are really had to set. I have tried it. All last summer and every single one of them outsmarted me. Devils!! I don't understand all of the protests either. I don't even know what they are wanting. I don't think they know either. It doesn't seem to me that either side wants to give.
DeleteIn the forties and fifties I grew up in a color blind neighborhood, except we had to say if we were going to black Sanders house or white Sanders house, so mom knew where we were. It left me truly unprepared for becoming an adult in the sixties, and landing smack in the middle of prejudice and race riots. I remember telling a black secretary at work she could find an apartment in my suburban town. She said No, I said yes. Finally I said Why? and she said My color, and walked away. I still believe in minding one's own patch of earth first, and I raised my girls to know equality. My granddaughters learned, not from their mother, who married into a cult, but from school, and from being separated from their mother. I don't know how to make the rest of the country figure out we're all in this together.
ReplyDeleteI think teaching the kids equality is a good place to start. Unfortunately there are so many that don't want equality they just want to point fingers and blame the other races for their problems. The blame has to stop. I have done nothing to a black person to deserve their hate. And they have done nothing to me. The finger pointing has to stop. Everyone has to take personal responsibility.
DeleteSo will you continue to read the entire book if it doesn't grab you? Curious. I'd pay to watch from the back fence when you try to whack the moles! What a bother, right? We didn't have moles. We had voles. They ate my tulip bulbs and they don't burrow as deep as moles. They're a bother, too, but we haven't seen them since before my husband passed away. Glad I don't use FB or have a news feed. I would have had to turn it off too. (I have still not heard a single word about the MN woman who did not even assist or comfort her dying boyfriend. That just breaks my heart.) Loved what Far Side said about the snow plow on the interstate here to remove the protesters. Problem is that MnDOT probably doesn't have a budget reseve for removing protesters from the Interstate with snowplows. Probably only for snow removal. Just going into semi-hibernation, I think. Don't know about the icecream yet, but tomorrow, July 12 is IHOP's birthday and they are serving a short stack of pancakes for $.58! I think I'm up for that one! Hope it works for you to eat out on Sunday. It's good to get out of the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteI haven't yet decided what I will do about the book if it doesn't grab me. I have had people suggest that if I am not interested in 50 pages just to move on. Don't know if I can do that!! We had voles one year too. Richard put a fine mesh wire under where we planted the tulips and they quit eating the bulbs. I'd rather have them than these darn moles I have now. I think, given enough time for all the facts to come out, we will find more to the story of the woman who ignored her dying boyfriend. I'll have to look into those $.58 pancakes!! Yummy!!
DeleteYes, definitely write about your caregiving career. Although, with patient privacy laws, is it legal to do so? Even keeping real names out of it?
ReplyDeleteAs for the other stuff, I read a great article on Slate over the weekend. We're not heading into some sort of race war. There's two sides, but they're not the ones you think. There are those who want to start a race war. And those who don't.
Hooray for those who don't. I think we'll prevail.
I think Hippa laws allow you to write about something as long as the person cannot be identified by the circumstances. I'm sure I'll be able to keep them safe!
DeleteI envy your planned out meals for the week. My husband started working nights, so now we really only eat together on the weekends. And I was unaware of National Ice Cream Day! I have been doing almost entirely without sugar, but may have to cave on Sunday!
ReplyDeleteI consider myself fortunate to live in not just a diverse neighborhood, but even my building! The guy across the hall is a single black man, and downstairs are a Chinese family and a Hispanic family. We've talked most to the Chinese family downstairs (and yes, they are Chinese specifically). The Hispanic daughter has been in our apartment, and we drove her to a laundromat once. I've seen several mixed-race couples, and an older, white couple goes on walks past our back balcony and often stops to talk. Race truly doesn't make any difference.
I started faring better when I began to plan meals. We save money and I always know what to fix for dinner. There are times we sway away from the menu but not often.
DeleteI would enjoy hearing your stories about being a nurse. I love reading your blog posts already.
ReplyDeleteGreat! And thank you
DeleteI think your nurse stories would be very interesting posts.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your "Looking Forward". We all need to remember that, quite technically, we are all kin. All brothers/sisters or cousins, at the least. We all have the same forefather - Noah. He's your grandpa, he's my grandpa, he's grandpa to us all. Why would we want to hurt our family members?
Looking out the window....Our heat index made it to 115 degrees today! How hot is it there?
Have a blessed day. :)
Today our heat index is 102* Hot!! We've stayed in all day. Now I have to go our and take the teens to work. Ugh! Thanks for reading.
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