WONDERFUL WEEKEND

These past 3 days have been some wonderful days of summer for me. I have been under stress from a recent financial crunch, yet the Lord has provided some joys and simple pleasures in my life recently. I got to spend most of the day holding my grandson and granddaughter on Friday. On Saturday, Autumn (my 7 year old granddaughter) and I spent the whole day together making memories of a Gammy/Autumn day. We went to the movies and saw Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosauers in 3D, rode on the carousel in Riverfront Park, then cooled off in the water works at the park near my house, and then onto my house where we watched Madagascar 2 and had dinner and strawberry shortcake. Autumn was still going strong when she left for home, and grandma climbed into bed at 8:30. It was a great day!

On Sunday, my friend from college, Kurt took me out to lunch at a restaurant here in Browne's Addition. We walked over to the park and watched kids playing and talked, then we attended my church service in the early evening, which they held in the park. Later that evening, some friends from my church spent some time visiting with me. Overall, I had a wonderful and very blessed time. God is good when you rest in his peace though there are stressful things going on around you. Tommorrow I go back to my practicum with the preschool children and that evening some church friends are having a BBQ in the local park.

I feel very blessed and am resting in His peace and believing in His answers to prayer.

HELP!!!

This is a very stressful time for me. I recently found out that my usual financial aid for summer is not going to happen. I will not be receiving financial aid until September 21st. Until then, I am not able to pay for August and September rent, no Internet for my summer class, no phone, no laundry, no bus pass to get to school and around, etc. I pray that the Lord lays on someone's heart to loan me a temporary loan to help get me through this time. It would be a loan, since my large sums of monies definitely comes on September 21st. Please pray God helps provide for these basics, so I can concentrate on my schoolwork and be at peace, as I find myself not sleeping well and very depressed over this situation that has just recently occurred.

4TH OF JULY!

It was a grand 4th of July! I did something different this year. I went out to dinner with 3 of my girlfriends to the Sushi-yaki restaurant. No, I did not eat raw fish...ugh. I did eat a great shrimp tempura dinner with a Japaneses style salad and rice and noodle soup. The food was very good and a nice change for me. All 4 of us girls walked two blocks over to the cement steps in front of the water by the Opera House and watched the fireworks. We had the best seats you could have gotten. There, the fireworks looked like they were coming right at us. They were quite a show, as Spokane has been doing for several years. One of my friends sitting near me had never seen the fireworks in Spokane. At the end, she was so touched that she cried a few tears of joy Then of course, she got me started a little, and we both agreed that in spite of our nation's problems, we are grateful that we were born in America. We both remarked how we could have had the misfortune of being Iranian or Afghanistani women. Anyway, we enjoyed them a great deal. To avoid the traffic jams right after, we all went back to the restaurant to get something to drink and laughed and talked. I do have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed and had a wonderful 4th of July!

Today, Sunday I am working on some schoolwork before school starts again tomorrow, as I spend 3 days a week most of the day at the Early Learning Center. Looking forward to the children tomorrow. The sky is looking like our sun has left us, and we are going to get some thunderstorms. Catch all of you next time.

FIRST DAY OF SUMMER SCHOOL

Today was the beginning of summer school `09 at my college, and it was a very good day. I started this morning at the local college's Headstart program for preschoolers for my field site hours and go to class on Wednesday's. I got to meet my new instructor and we set up my schedule. I will be there from 10:30 AM till 4:30 PM three days a week plus the class time on Wednesdays. I will be busy doing this for the next 8 weeks. I was very pleased with the center and program, as all the teachers and staff were wonderful people to work with. The children are great and very smart and well-behaved for preschoolers. I love their very well put together learning centers and curriculum. These kids will be more than ready when they enter Kindergarten. I am going to really enjoy working with them. The staff were very welcoming to us students doing our practicum there.

The lines were long and the books were expensive--I spent $100 on one book! Wow, I should go to Amazon.com next time!


This day also, brought me to run into an old friend while I was standing in a line at the college. He was actually an old chum of my daughter's--Jeremy from Life Center and LensCrafters. He was there to take classes in Small Business Admin. and Audio Visual. He told me he has been busy raising 3 children and attending college since I last saw him. It was great to see him!

I like this preschool program at the college so much that I am going to apply to take several more of my practicum hours there. Starting in the fall and the rest of the year, they will be enrolling special needs children, which is my major and will be great experience for me. I am looking forward to it!

VISITING FRIENDS

Yesterday was a good day. During my school break, I was able to have lunch with and visit a college chum and share our hopes and dreams of where our education is taking us. It's great to share with a friend who can relate to what you are studying, like educating children and various ideas. It was also a great day for a walk in the park, as we visited the park in Browne's Addition. I am now on my way to visit my favorite bugs--Autumn and Isaac!

POEM FOR ISAAC

THE CUTE BOY

There once was a little boy who was born teeny tiny. He was so tiny, his mother could put him into her blouse like a little chihuahua. He was so cute.

He had tubes coming off from his body just about everywhere, and one had to untangle most of them in order to cradle the boy, but he was cute.

He got sick and made several trips to the hospital, and kept getting pneumonia and infections. He had to have assistance in order to breathe at times. But, he was still so cute.

He had to remain on oxygen and have a tracheostomy. He then began to roll over from being on his stomach, and seemed so cute.

He began to learn to smile and wave at everyone. Then he learned to sign "Mama," and his toys became his main focus of fun as he played and played, which was very cute.

Two years later, he responds to his family members talking to him with his great big smile. He also, gets fully engrossed in his children's videos, and tries to clap his hands to them, and it's soooo cute.

Cute is clever, cute is adorable, cute is attractive, cute is precious, cute is ISAAC!



By

Gammy

OUT OF SCHOOL!

Well, school is out for another week. Yeah! It's nice to have a break for awhile. Now, I can do things I normally don't have as much time to do when I am in school, like spending more time with my two cuties (Autumn and Isaac), create a blogspot (like this one!), write some poems, do more of my laundry, enjoy the summer outdoors, visit friends, make creative projects, and watch some good movies. At the moment, I am making a creative surprise for my granddaughter. It is so much fun to do!

Hope to begin hearing from some of you soon, as this is my very first blogspot and post. My daughter, Colleen got me started on this new adventure. See `ya later.

Debbie