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Entries Tagged as 'Tom & Me'

Texas Spring Beauty

May 25th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Humor, Photos, Videos, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who are regular readers know I was wanting to go out to Texas to see my mom & sister in April so we could take a little three day road trip down into the hill country of Texas to see all of the bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush in bloom.  Alas, Tom having [...]

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God’s Beautiful LITTLE Things in Life

May 22nd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Inspirational, Perspective, Philosophical, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

This has been a most stressful week for me, with no modem/internet for four days, my blog host moving all of us TheoBloggers over to a new server, with us having some down time here on my blog, and assorted family emergencies and crises.  Being an in-betweener, with my mom still with me, having grown [...]

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You’re Part of An Experiment – What Say Ye?!

May 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Blogging, Tom & Me, Uncategorized

Those of you who have been following my blog or who have dropped by at all and remember what it has looked like for more than five years will see a drastic change in it the past couple of days.  As I suspected, a lot of my readers and followers are just like me and [...]

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God’s Glorious Handiwork – And Some of Man’s Creativity

May 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · A Home Complete, Creating A Home, Inspirational, Reflections, Tom & Me

Our spring has been beautiful beyond description. And since Tom’s been home since his surgery a month ago, we decided to brighten up our back porch and deck with some hanging baskets of flowers, as we sit out there several hours a day, some days.  This is our view from our old white wicker furniture [...]

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Season of Prayer: God, Indeed, Knows The Details

April 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Families, Perspective, Reflections, Spirituality, Tom & Me

Tom & I are in a season of prayer for several people very close to us. Some are family members and some very good friends.  The relationships run together, which is as it “should” be in the life of a Christian, I think.  Don’t you? I’ve not slept well the past couple of nights after [...]

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Back Home; Long, Slow, But Full Recovery Expected, So Far, A “Bit” Better Each Day

April 9th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Health, Medical, Reflections, Tom & Me

After eight long days and seven even longer nights in Louisiana Heart Hospital following what proved to be five heart bypasses, Tom was given the release to come home.  We got here about 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, with his best friend Ron here to greet us and help Tom get into the house from the [...]

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Rough Ride;Hope For the Best

April 6th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Health, Tom & Me

Tom is still in the hospital seven days and nights after five heart bypasses, several complications and complete debilitation, but hopes to come home tomorrow, on the eighth day after. Please keep him  – us – in your prayers.  It looks to be a long, slow recovery, but God holds all in His hands and [...]

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