Christmas pics part 2

My sweet little home all decorated for the Christmas season! I just love my
small little home!! We could move into our bigger home that we inherited
in 2004 when my brother -in-law passed away. But, I love this little house
so much! We have spent 29 years fixing it up and it does not even resemble
the way it looked 29 years ago!!There is still things that I/we want to do
to do to our home and we will get it all done eventually!
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We did! It was a very
different Christmas this year. Just my hubby, the furkids, and me! No kid
and no Mom this year. They decided they wanted to do something different
this year and that is ok! It was hard but we had a good day anyways. I still did all my baking and making treats and I decorated my home. Hubby and I did not exchange presents as we buy what we want all year long! Santa
Paws spoilt the furbabies as usual and they were thrilled with their treats,bones, and toys!!

Well, I tried posting this twice and blogger lost it twice so I hope it
works this time! I will be back tomorrow to post swap goodies and blog
wins that I received this month!

I am hoping to get my stove board, sink board, and bath board made today!
Got to print the pictures out so hubby can see what I am wanting and
then create it for me! I also am going to try to make some salt dough
ornies! I will let you know how they turned out!

These pictures were taken in the Master bedroom! I just love snowmen!! I will keep my snowmen out until it is time to decorate for Easter!

These were taken in my kitchen! I found the Happy Holidays from Sunbeam
at a new little antique store in early Dec! Is it not too cute?

I just love my tiny bathroom!! I so did not love it when we moved in
our home 29 years ago this week!! The bathroom was trimmed in hot pink paint and the wallpaper was yellow with hot pink cosmetics all over it!!
Can I say ugly! I want to put bead board up on the upper part of the walls
where we have wallpaper now and paint it all white and then decorate it
with more primitive accessories and a few outhouse theme items. I want a
primitive style shower curtain put do not want to pay 50.00 for it! If
someone knows where to find one for a more reasonable price let me know!

Merry Christmas!! (finally got pictures posted)

grab a cup of cocoa or coffee! Lots of pics!
These are of our family room where we hang out most of the time.
Merry Christmas!

Santa mug and tree was a get well soon gift from Shirley at Zetta's Apron!
thank you Shirley!

sitting room mantle

guest bedroom

Feeling better

First I want to say a huge thank you for all the sweet comments, words of encouragement, and prayers that have been left for me the past few days! It has meant so much to me! I really feel the prayers working and the hematoma seems to be shrinking! I hope so and I hope that it will continue to go away. Like I said before I prayed and I am claiming and believing that this hematoma is going to heal before my appt on 1/4/2012!
Thank you ladies again, your friendships have been such a blessing this year and your sweet gifts have filled my heart and home with the joy of the Christmas season!! The gifts I have received have all been wonderful and special, items picked out for me because I love those items or made for my home because I admired items that you girls have made!! Amazing that ladies that I have never met know my taste in decorations and items that I love and collect more than close family and friends! Thank each of you for making this year very special for me! I ask that you please continue to pray for me and our family. We are having some rough times but I don't like to talk about that stuff, hey I whine enough about my health issues don't need to whine about the other stuff too!! Please just ask God to take care of it He already knows what it is! Merry Christmas!



Had a wonderful Friday! Hubby and I drove up to the Blowing Rock/Boone area of the North Carolina mountains to get our Christmas tree when he got home from work around lunch time on Friday! We got to the tree farm that we have been going to for the last 3 years. I called the number on the sign and the gentleman answered the phone. I told him we were there to cut down our Christmas tree. I said, it is the lady with the back surgeries and he said oh yes, I remember you but I am in Florida!!! I said oh ok, we will have to go somewhere else! He said wait a minute is your hubby with you, I said of course. He said there is a chain saw in the orange truck, just go cut down your tree and leave the money (20.00) in the truck when you leave!! He has this truck thing without a body on it to go up and down the side of the mountain on his property to get the trees. Hubby has always wanted to drive it! Well this year he got too! He took off up the side of the mountain on this primitive truck thingie, found the perfect tree, cut it down with the chain saw and loaded it on the primitive truck thingie, came back down the side of the mountain, loaded the tree in our truck, put the chain saw and money in the truck, ( we gave a little extra for the fun of driving the primitive truck thingie), put the primitive truck thingie back in the barn, and down the mountain we headed! We did stop in historic Vilas Cruz to visit the original Mast General Store! I was so disappointed, I found a cute dachshund dog toy, some wonderful primitive style Christmas ornaments but when we looked on the tag it read MADE IN CHINA so I put them back on the shelf! We are trying very hard not to buy Made in China but it is so hard! It is so hard to fing things made in our country. We bought two sodas in glass bottles which taste so much better than soda in the plastic bottles! I wish we would go back to glass bottles. I remember taking the soda bottles back to the stores when I was little to get the deposit money back!!Why couldn't we do that today?? We bought a jar of local honey, a fresh baked fried apple pie to share as a snack, and that was it! I just was so upset that they were selling the stuff made in China. They do have replicas of the vintage Fisher -Price toys for 10.99-19.99, but again made in China!!! I am going to try very hard to get my pictures uploaded and posted later today!
Merry Christmas!

I am a mess now

Hi. I have a huge hematoma under the bottom inicision! That is what the knot is. The dr is hoping my body will just absorb the pool of blood that is there. Worse case is that it comes out the opening from the staples and causes a huge open wound! They don't want that to happen!! I am praying and believing that God will help my body to absorb that blood before my appt on the 4th of Jan. If not, they will have to do surgery so my battery will charge. She the charger is on the outside of my body and it is a magnet that finds the battery and then charges it. It can't find the battery thorough the blood and swollen skin. If it can't charge it is useful to me so they will have to move it so it can be charged. It is more than I can take right now! I am just a mess. They took the staples out and my upper incision is giving me a fit. I can't understand how this happened. As after surgery it was all black and blue and that has healed. I have not hit it or anything like it. but, I am trusting the dr,if it doesn't look better by Tuesday they said to call the office. I have a ton of stuff to do but at this point just don't give a hoot about it right now. We always go to the moutains and get our big tree. We decorate it on Christmas eve but I am not sure I want to that this year. We will decide tomorrow. Please keep me in your prayers.
Lynn

URGENT: PRAYERS NEEDED ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please take a moment and lift me up in prayers. I have just gotten off the phone with one of the physican's assitants at my surgeon's office! My hubby was checking to see if my charger for the battery in my back would find the battery and begin to charge. It hasn't happened yet and the remote is showing that the battery is going down. Anyways, he said, Honey, your incision doesn't look good today, it didn't look like this yesterday. Girls, it is so swollen that you can tell it from the back of my pjs!! That is how far it is sticking out!!! It pushes my pj top out!!!! OK, I am scared! I called the dr on call and he told me to call the office in the morning to be seen. It is not painful, just really swollen but it is not draining!! I am so afraid that my body is rejecting the battery implant, you know that can happen! I know I am thinking the worse and it is just an infection. I am not running a fever and like I said, nothing is draining, Hubby says that it looks red around a few of the staples but that it is just really swollen and doesn't look good to him!!! So, I am going to call in the morning. Pray that it will be ok and I will be ok! I am just so tired of all of this you know!!! I just want to be well and normal again!! I am so tired of whiney about being in pain!!! I want me back! I want do to the things I used to, I want to be a good wife again!!! There is so much I can't do anymore and it isn't fair to my hubby at all, he did not ask for this life and me the way that I am now! He is soo good to me and spoils me all the time! I do not know what I would do without him. It has not always been a bed of roses and we have had our share of fights and troubles but we decided a long time ago ,29 years ago, that we were in this together! We got married young, I had just turned 17 and he had just turned 18!! We were parents a short 7 months later after we got married in Oct of 82. Our parents said we would not make it! But make it we did. My marriage has lasted longer than all 3 of my Mother's and my fil passed away a few days shy of their 39 wedding anniversary! So, we are good! We took our vows seriously, for better or worse, in sickness and in health! And boy, have I been sick!!! If you can live without it-I don't have it LOL except tonsils LOL \ok nervous rambling here! The more nervous I am the more I talk! Pray ladies pray! I will update when I know something tomorrow. I was suppose to get the staples out on Friday!
Hugs

Are you ready?? I am so Not Ready!!!

Hello and Happy December 20th!!! 5 More Days to Christmas and Santa Paws comes to visit!! I tell the furbabies everyday only _ days till Santa Paws comes to visit!!! They know who Santa Paws is LOL He comes to see them each year for their own special holiday photo shoot. He always leaves them lots of presents and treats on Christmas day!!
I am slowly but surely getting there. I got all of my private swaps done and sent out in the last week and yesterday! I have been so blessed this year with wonderful new friends in blogland and they have filled my home with the Christmas spirit!! I need to take pictures of my decorated home and get those posted. I read Vivian's post Saturday from Viv out on a whim and boy did I feel like a slug!! I read it Sunday and the post encouraged me to attempt some baking and treating making! So, I made two batches of chocolate nut fudge and one batch of peanut butter cookies! Hubby had to go fill up the propane gas tanks and when he got home he asked what had gotten into me?? LOL He was happy with the cookies and fudge he was begining to wonder if he was going to have any treats this year!! I just finished 3 more patches of peanut butter cookies and I have plans to make batches of rice krispie treats and peanut butter fudge later this afternoon. Then I am making sugar cookies tomorrow and while I have the cutters out, I make may some salt dough ornies!!!! I have been meaning to make them all month!!! I have been reading blogs and gasping over the beautiful decorations in everyones home! My favorite prim tree can be found at Carmen and the Primcats blog. Oh my goodness, her decorating style is amazing. The most amazing finds she gets at her local goodwill. I have asked her if I send her money each month for shopping and shipping will she shop for me too? She finds crocks and jugs at her goodwill can you image?? Oh my!! I joined 3 Christmas craft swaps this year. Cindy's at Rick Rack and Gingham home ornament swap!! Oh my, was that fun and the wonderful ornaments I got. I joined a Christmas tag swap with Elizabeth at Creative Breathing and made 22 Christmas tags to swap! I got my tags on SAturday!! Oh my, little works of art each one of them!! I joined Susan at its a Cherry World for a one on one tag swap and my pal was Mary Jane Hutchins!Oh my, she made me an adoreable dachshund tag!!! I hung it on my pet theme tree that stays up year round in the sitting room. I had two Christmas swaps and boy did I get spoiled! I do not know the name of my Secret Santa but she spoilt me good. I got Vintage Christmas cards, two Christmas dish towels, a primitive birdhouse, a patriotic Snowman ornament,a cute Christmas baking set, some chocolate kisses, and an adoreable dachshund sign. My stocking pal was Wendy and she sent me a bunch of vintage collections such as Valentine's, old pictures, vintage ornaments, and owls. I have taken pictures and hope to get them posted soon.
Keep me in your prayers. I can't tell the device is doing much good so far. But, I still have a lot of pain from the surgery so I am hoping that the new year will bring relief and the device will work!!
I plan to be back before the big day to show you how my house looks for the holidays. I am so happy with my decorations this year! I was inspired to decorate my kitchen more this year and hubby loves the new look!!
Have a wonderful day!!!
Hugs,
Lynn