SLEEP OVER AT GRAMMYLAND THE NIGHT BEFORE

Grammys dad, Oldtimer eating watermellon July 4th, 08
This pix has nothing to do with this post, just thought it was cute


Grammy and Papa plan to have the boys sleep over Monday night. They haven't been in quite a while. They get to come more when school is not in session. The girls are planning to come after school and stay until bedtime. Susannah is not yet able to spend the night. Caroline is coming to be with her until bedtime. They all love to come. There are many things to do here. Their favorite things are playing with toys in the basement and riding go carts.

We went to church today. It was a real good service. We did a good special music piece. Four of us had solo parts. We all felt the Lord in that place today. We also had a real good bible study following the morning worship service. Our pastor M. is a down to earth guy. He is a really good man. He and his wife adopted five children in the same family ranging from four to twelve. They have had them a year now. The children have adjusted really well.

Black powder hunting season opened for deer November 1. I have not gone yet but plan to go before it closes Nov. 8. I would like to see a big buck. Only a hunter would understand hunting deer. It is a good sport and people do eat the animals. I usually give them to people who really like deer meat. I am not real fond of it.

I will go for now and will post again after the sleep over tomorrow. They will go home on Tuesday afternoon. I will take some pix of them. Papa

Leslies dinner party (by Grammy)

We ate at Leslie's tonight with her and Susannah and other family members. Grammy had made some soup from Leslie's left overs. It was very good. Everyone was amazed by Susannah. She entertained everyone. She was not in the very best mood. Her brothers had gone somewhere for a little while and she missed them. She gave most everyone hugs and kisses though. She played the piano too. She was turning flips and everyone was scared for her until her mom said she does it all time. Not bad after heart surgery.

We went to two of our grandchildren soccer games today also. One g'child won and the other lost. Not too much fun when you lose. Everyone had fun though. It was a little chilly at the fields. I hung some sheet rock in the garage between games. I also fell off a short stool and wrenched my neck and hurt my back. I have found out the older you get the more accident proned you are. I was being very careful too. My friend C. has agreed to help me hang it on the ceiling. That is a very hard job. We will be going to church tomorrow. Hope to see you there. God is good and we love Him. Thanks for your prayers for Britney. She is better but still has a way to go. She is at home from the hospital.
Papa

Britney

Britney is better today. She is still very sick. She is still in some danger but I think not life threatening. I appreciate all your concern and prayers. Continue to pray for her and her family. I will update when I get more information. My brother said thank you also for your prayers.

Grammy and Papa

URGENT PRAY REQUEST

My brother called today to tell me that his daughter-in-law is in the hospital with eclampsia. Her name is Britney and she is only 19 years old. This is a condition that can occur during pregnancy and after delivery of a newborn. She is very, very ill. This is a life threatening condition. She is in a hospital in Tennessee. Please pray for her recovery from this very serious condition. She is young and very scared. She has two children. One is one year old and the second is nine days old. I know God answers prayers. He answered many in my granddaughter Susannah's case. Please pray hard for her. She needs to know his presence very badly. Pray that she will feel his hand on her tonight and tomorrow. Thank you all. Papa and Grammy

ANOTHER VISIT TO GRAMMYLAND

Leslie and Susannah came over today to play on the playground and go into the playhouse on stilts. It is not a real tree house but is very neat. She played on the merry-go-round that was built by her great granddaddy for her mother when she was a little girl. Lisa and Leslie played on it at our second house. She didn't stay very long. Leslie had to go home to meet her brothers. Before she left though, I made her mad by taking a little truck from her to show her how to run it down the see-saw, and then she got mad at everyone here. It doesn't take much to set her off.

We are going to church in a few minutes. We eat supper there go to prayer meeting and then I go to choir practice. I love to sing. Grammy comes home because she does not sing much. I do not have much interesting to write about today. Not much happens when you are retired unless the kids come over. I am however sheet rocking the garage. I have to have something to keep me busy and out of Grammy's hair. She insists on that. We do however do lots of things together.

Must go will blog later. Papa

Susannah's first tea party at Grammyland

Leslie and Susannah showed up at Grammyland today, and we were not expecting her. It was a pleasant surprise. Before long Granddaddy showed up and went across the street to get M.J. our neighbor and his friend that he does things with to pass the time.
A little while later guess who else showed up? You guessed it. Aunt Sissy, Leslie's sister. Then everyone was acting crazy and making over her taking pictures and called our next door neighbor and asked if she would like to see her. Of course she did and she came over also. You never know who will show up at Grammyland. When our daughters come over it is not too long before they say we haven't eaten yet, are you all hungry? So you guessed it again we fed everyone, well almost everyone. Granddaddy and M.J. had already gone and eaten. Before long Granddaddy showed up again. He visited a while and left. Papa was going to work in the garage hanging sheetrock. That went by the wayside. I didn't mind. I love my new granddaughter. I am going dove shooting this afternoon though. I will write more later.




This is Susannah's Granddaddy, and his friend from across the street. Her name is M.J. She is a very nice lady. Granddaddy went over to get her on the golf cart to let her see Susannah.





This is a video of her first tea party at Grammyland.

This is a slide show of her tea party.



I will update you later on the activity at Grammyland.

Papa and Grammy

MIRACLES, MOUNTAINS AND MORE

From Papa and Grammy in Tennessee.

While Leslie, Charlie and Cindy were in China awaiting things to be done and things to
be worked out by God clearing the obstacles in their path, miracles were also happening in the USA. Grammy and Papa were in constant contact either by phone or email with them.

We knew things were not going as planned. We also were fearful for them. It is hard to have your loved ones so far away. We trusted God to watch over them while they were there. He did. Prayers were being circulated all over the USA and other countries. We know without a doubt he was answering them.

Let me tell you some things that were happening here in our country. First of all after we knew that things were very complicated. Leslie said we need help from our officials. We went into action with our local Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s office. A case worker named S. went into action for us. She wanted to know how she could help.

We told her Leslie needs help with many things I will not go into. I will share some of them with you readers. Les said she desperately need Susannah’s visa by a certain time. S. was in contact with many people to make that happen. It was not an easy thing to get accomplished. God worked that out at the exact time that it was needed. We know he uses people every day to accomplish His will. That mountain was removed and cast into the sea.

Another mountain Leslie needed removed was when they arrived in Chicago they need someone to take them through customs quickly because Susannah was very ill. She had just been on a sixteen hour flight from China and was on oxygen all that time. Her heart was very sick and her body was very oxygen deprived. S. went into action and contacted whoever needed to be called and when they arrived at O’Hara airport in Chicago someone met them and took them through customs immediately. They did not have to wait one minute. Another mountain cast into the sea.

One particular airline would not let them have oxygen on the plane from Chicago to Nashville so Charlie called me and asked if I could pick them up in Louisville, Ky. He was going to drive from Chicago to Louisville and be picked up there because no one would rent one way from there to home. Grammy was on the phone with another dear friend to our family and she said to her, Lisa and I are holding out for an airplane. There was dead silence on the other end. S.B. said I know someone who has an airplane. Let me call him. She did and called back and said he will fly up to Midway and pick them up and fly them to John Tune airport in Nashville. We called Les and Charlie in the middle of the night in China and told them about this miracle. Les was a little reluctant to get on a single engine airplane but Charlie got on the phone and said I think she is still asleep and not thinking clearly I will make that decision, we will take that offer. Another mountain cast into the sea.

That was worked out with the pilot B.S. that God had sent to our family. We firmly believe that. The next hurtle was that she had to have oxygen on that little plane for the two hour flight to Nashville.

The next miracle. A prescription had been written for the oxygen by Dr. L. from Vanderbilt. I took it to a place after calling and confirming that they had an oxygen generator. I immediately went to pick it up for I had to get it to B.S. by noon. I got there about nine AM. I was doing well until she came out and said we thought we had one but we do not. We have one in Springfield. My heart sunk and I said God please not another mountain to climb. We do not need this one. So I said I will go and pick it up, I have to have it by noon. She said well there is no one there right now. They were desperately trying to figure out what to do for me. During all the conversations another lady in the office over heard the conversation and said, oh I have one of those in my trunk. Can you believe that? I said Praise God, and another mountain was cast into the sea. I felt so relieved. I got the device and took it to the house of the pilot. He took it and flew to Midway airport while our family was being driven to Midway. Oh I forgot our other son-in-law got a limo and had them picked up at O’Hara and drove to Midway. Leslie, Charlie and Susannah and our pilot arrived at the same time at Midway, coming from two directions, another mountain cast into the sea. This man who flew to pick up strangers who he did not know sacrificed something scheduled that night for his child which he missed. That is true love for others that only God can instill in people.

In closing, I just wanted to let the readers know what miracles and mountains were being moved in Tennessee by God's helpers. I did not always buy into God intervening into situations. I have no doubt that GOD orchestrated everything that happened from September 11 to the arrival at their home at 8:30 PM that night to a yard full of friends who had been waiting a long time to welcome them home.

Papa and Grammy