Joy Dare 🙏 November 12-15, 2018

12th~ 3 gifts at noon.  .
  🏢 home  all day
   🙏 lots of prayer time
     🥗 lunch  w/Manicotti 🐱
@.@
13th~ 3 gifts behind a door  ..
    🚪cleaning  supplies
      🚪hugs
        🚪supper
\@/
14th~ 3 gifts  in silence  .   . .
           😊 peace
             🙏 prayer time
               🌫 God's presence 
'-'
15th~ 3 gifts  golden. . .
           👦 hugs from Matt
             📱chat with Mom
           👵 client hugs and giggles

Day 317/365

A bit of lite urbex with Matt.  Maybe it's urbex with a side of landscaping ?! A quick visit to the Toledo Botanical Gardens  was fun and brought pretty surprises around many corners! 

Joy Dare🙏November 12-15, 2018

12th~ 3 gifts at noon.  .
  🏢 home  all day
   🙏 lots of prayer time
     🥗 lunch  w/Manicotti 🐱
@.@
13th~ 3 gifts behind a door  ..
    🚪cleaning  supplies
      🚪hugs
        🚪supper
\@/
14th~ 3 gifts  in silence  .   . .
           😊 peace
             🙏 prayer time
               🌫 God's presence 
'-'
15th~ 3 gifts  golden. . .
           👦 hugs from Matt
             📱chat with Mom
           👵 client hugs and giggles

I & M Canal

This is the I & M Canal in Lockport, IL.
It's beautiful and near the Legacy Paint Ball Park. It's also where Chicago dumps all it's raw sewage. Yes, Chicago, an almost truly green city, has no sewage treatment plant but chooses, instead to float it's sewage downstream through Bolingbrook, Lockport, Romeoville, Joliet, etc.
Children and wildlife use this canal water. The children play in it and the wildlife raise their young on it and use it as a primary drinking water source.
This is happening because we have chosen apathy.
We could . .
~ start petitions
~ test the water http://www.watertestkitstore.com/watersafe-science-project-water-test-kit-4-pack/
~ call/write elected officials
~ tweet/facebook/blog it
It's beautiful and draws us to it.. It's full of all the viruses and bacteria Chigagoans flush every day.
What should we choose to do?!

  

Manicottis's November

"Do you even see how cute I am?!"

"Ah, my favorite channel.  . Hermit Crab Reality TV!!"

"Oh,  did you think this was your bed?!?"

Veggie Omelettes

A quick easy breakfast.  . Yummy  and filling! 

Good Morning!

Good morning!  How are you?  Blessed,  I hope! Glad  you stopped by for coffee and a chat. 
This morning God got me up early to clean.  Yeah,  seriously. .  to clean  . . well,  clean and sort.  But first to steam clean outside my apartment.  You can see the pretty antique wood floor outside my front door.  Isn't  it lovely?! To the right is the stairwell.  I'm  not exactly sure what the cleaning schedule was before I moved in one (1) year ago.  . more accurately I'm  not sure when it was ever cleaned  prior to my move-in. 
So,  I have been steaming clean (with bleach) my wooden landing and (sometimes all, sometimes 1/2) of the stairwell landing since I moved in.  This morning I only  did 1/2.   
Now I can say the owners just contracted a cleaning  company  last month and the girls who come out are fairly thorough.  . . They've  removed several layers/years of dirt already and the stairwell smells so much fresher after their visits (2 so far).  But years of neglect may be a long slow process  to remove.
Regardless,  I am up.   .  listening to YouTube   prayer  and  Because He Lives 🎶
And, as I clean  and pray, He is teaching and blessing me. It is so beautiful to be loved so dearly that He would wake me at 4am for this. 
How could I be so loved by someone as great as Him?!?! 

Blogging Updates 😊

Hey there  . . don't  want you to think I'm  sick or that something has happened to me.  I'm  actually doing really  well.  I've  been gone because God had my full attention for the last few days. 

But I'm back now.  .

I am slowly.  . Very very slowly transferring most posts from here to my other 2 blogs :

www.whatifweallcared.blogspot.com

www.patreon.com/karenjoyce

Blogspot is my original site from way back

Patreon is something I've  been playing around with  . . much of what I post will be free.  . . there will be previews 2 days early of some posts (that will appear on both sites after that for free)  for $1/mo . . the info on the tiers is a definite work in progress  (WIP) and will be changed soon. 

I'd  love to see all my followers at any/all my blog sites and appreciate any constructive and kind comments. 

Stop by for a cup of coffee and a chat.  . You're  always welcome!!

Blogging Updates 😊

Hey there . . don't want you to think I'm sick or that something has happened to me. I'm actually doing really well. I've been gone because God had my full attention for the last few days.

But I'm back now. .

I am slowly. . Very very slowly transferring most posts from here to my other 2 blogs :

www.whatifweallcared.blogspot.com

www.patreon.com/karenjoyce

Blogspot is my original site from way back

Patreon is something I've been playing around with . . much of what I post will be free. . . there will be previews 2 days early of some posts (that will appear on both sites after that for free) for $1/mo . . the info on the tiers is a definite work in progress (WIP) and will be changed soon.

I'd love to see all my followers at any/all my blog sites and appreciate any constructive and kind comments.

Stop by for a cup of coffee and a chat. . You're always welcome!!

Did You Vote?

I popped in and voted before a morning appointment.  I wasn't  sure I was going to have time  as my day was packed.  I was glad I could  vote.  .  . .there are so many issues that touch my heart.  Funding for the schools was  big one. 
If we don't vote then we are still speaking  out on our own future . . .by not voting we are voting for unadulterated  tyrany. 
I voted. 
Did you?

Wildwood

Veggie Omelettes

A yummy breakfast . . easy and filling! 😋

#whatif Prompt fir 11.11.18

Today's prompt:

     favorite pies

Feel free to respond in your favorite way whether it be a poem, short story, photo, video . . however you best relate to the prompt. Simply post your ideas, create a ping-back and use the hashtag #whatif.

Ready for Outreach?

A few simple  Pocket  Testaments tucked into my car door pocket in case I see someone  in need of Jesus. 
Are you ready to meet the need?

Harvest Time!!

#whatf Prompt for 11.10.18

Today's prompt:
    
    snuggle a squirrel

Feel free to respond in your favorite way whether it be a poem, short story, photo, video . . however you best relate to the prompt. Simply post your ideas, create a ping-back and use the hashtag #whatif.

It's Snowing!!

1000 Marble Challenge~ week 928-930

~ discipline in church

~ looking ahead together

~ working through learning greater independence

~ discipline at home
~ tour of University of Toledo campus
~ learning how to come home on time
~ watching movies together
~ cleaning the apartment together
~ hoping, praying, planning
~ watching Matt's relationship with God be restored

Cleaning Time

I seriously bleached out my fridge . .

But sorting out all this stuff from the house was my original plan!
Yes, I get distracted, but the fridge did also need help. Sometimes we have to change our plan. . and it is often for the best!!

Me Through the Years

Preschool days. .

1st grade . .

Approx 1992 . . 29 yrs old

Approx 9th grade. . . 15 yrs old. . .

March 2016 . . 52 yrs old

Today . . 55 yrs young . .

Today was my birthday. . best birthday in years!!

Day 309/365