Prayers. Appreciated

Dear blog friends, I've not felt well since my gall bladder surgery. I thought I was just slow pouncing back, but I was wrong. I got an infection in the gall bladder area. They call sepsis. It caused my liver to get infected and abscess.I am very sick in the hospital. So far only my liver is infected but other organs can get involved, please pray for me. Thanks with hugs, Lura

February Feelings

I do love February but so far I have not been up to doing many loving things. I haven’t made a single Valentine yet. It has been a month today since my surgery but I am still really tired all of the time. I feel like my veins are full of lead.  I make myself walk 7 – 8,0000 steps each day but every step is a big effort. I hate feeling like this. I have many loving things that I want to do for others but I just don’t seem to have the energy.  I hope that I will snap out of this soon.

I’ve been spending hours making my 2012 and 2013 digital scrapbooks with Heritage Makers. I have one finished and one 3/4 done. I will lose $100 if I don’t finish by next week.  I need to get busy and work on it because I will be gone some of  this week and the next.

Johnny is flying down this week and we are taking him to one competition in CA and one in Vegas. That will be exciting. I hope I find a little extra energy.

I am not complaining….. I’m just tired. 

I hope that you are going well.

Hugs, Lura

February 2nd smiles from the beach

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Hello dear blog readers. I hope that you are doing well. I have several good friends who are sick this week… some with serious disease…. some with flu. My prayers are with them.  At my age I am finding more and more of our friends are facing serious health problems. That makes me so sad.  I dread the time when I start losing dear friends. I guess I just have to treasure each friend while I have them and be thankful that we know life is eternal.  I need to cherish each day and document the smiles that fill them.

One thing that makes me smile is it is February. I just love this month of love. Of course I know that we should fill every month with love but having a month dedicated to love is special to me.  I love everything about Valentine’s Day. I love making Valentines, expressing my love to family and friends, hearts,flowers, lace, candy and  pretty tables. I just love  it all.  It has been 3 weeks since my surgery but I still don’t feel too well. I am so tired all the time that I haven’t really got started on my Valentine stuff yet.  I need to get busy!!!

I want to finish up some of my January smiles that I wasn’t up to posting before now. As my readers know, I had a completely unexpected gall stone attack less than 2 hours after our daughter, Erin and her family arrived to visit us from Utah. I did not feel very well the rest of that week after my surgery but having them here brought me lots of smiles. 

Our CA weather was warm and sunny which was a great contrast to the freezing Utah climate they had come from. Seeing them basking in the sun and enjoying the pool made me smile.

One day they talked me into going to the beach with them. I was hesitant at first but it turned out to be a great day.  I was amazed how nice it was to get out of bed and enjoy the fresh air and beach.  Smile….Smile

I just sat in my lounge chair and enjoyed watching the family playing… digging in the sand…

Feeding the sea gulls….

and just enjoying the scenery.  I loved watching them play in the waves but I didn’t get any cute pictures to show you.  Sorry about that….I did some walking but mostly I just rested in my chair… I guess I was slipping a bit …( I’ll blame the pain meds I was on.)

They packed up and headed home exactly one week after they had arrived.

My surgery completely changed the things that I had intended to do that week…. but as you can see, I still had fun with my kiddos…. and lots of things to smile about.  I was sorry to see them leave but I was very grateful that they were here to bring me smiles that week.
I have several more smiles to share with you but I am weary and will wait until next time. I want to share the musical smiles that Claire and EJ are bringing me. I’ve posted them on Face book but I intend to blog about them too.  I am going to another one of EJ’s concerts next week so I will have more pictures from that.
Have a good week…. and remember the scripture I shared will you last week and

“Rejoice evermore”

Hugs, Grammy Lura