Whoo! Hooo!

I don't ususally post on Monday's BUT I have some news AND it is REALLY EXCITING!!!! It involves the one below:

A little background for some

of you.

Two years ago Mr. Ken was laid

off from the job that he had been

doing for 20 years!!! This brought

stress, fear, anxiety and a lot of

sleeplees nights, we spent a year

looking and being rejected for job

after job.

Many prayers were said by family

and friends and Mr. Ken was able

to obtain what we thought would

be a great opportunity. This was

ALSO about the time that Mr.

Ken came down with a blood

clot in his leg and we also found

out he had kidney stones.

Needless to say holding a job was

hard to say the least and his very

uncompassionate boss let him go!

We were back on the roller coaster

from you know where. Back to

hunting and being rejected---

he did have more interviews this

go around though. This phase has

gone on for almost another year!

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To save gas, Mr. Ken has been taking

and picking me up from work.

I got in the car today as usual to go

home and after we had visited for a

moment Mr. Ken passed me his phone.

On the screen was an email stating

that the company he had interviewed

with several times and said company

had requested permission for a

background check and drug screening

was offering HIM A JOB!!!!!!!!!!

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More prayers have been said by family

and friends AND now they have been

answered!!!!

My husband is GOING BACK TO WORK!

No start date yet but soon.

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If this seems to ramble, please forgive

me---I am soooooooooo excited!

I am also sooooo very proud of my

husband and how he has handled

all this stress, rejection, fear and

anxiety. He has been a trooper!!

I am also VERY proud of both of

us--we still have our house, both

vehicles, bills are up to date AND

the very best item----WE ARE STILL

MARRIED. We are tough and have

made it through a tough 2 years.

NOW we can start fresh with a new

month, a relatively new year and

a brand NEW JOB!!!!

YEA!!! Praise God!!!

Thanks for bearing with me on this very long post but I just

had to share our wonderful

news with our blog friends !!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

A Simple Uplift

I have these--they sit on a "side shelf"

in our dining room. I like the black

"legs" because I feel they have a

simple elegance to them. But I was

ready for something a little

different for this area. SO....

These were in the closet and I thought

"Why not paint THEM black ?" The

brass was a little much for me--I

guess I'm not is a "brass period"

anymore.

Off to Ace Hardware where I picked

up a can of black glossy paint and Mr.

Ken did the spraying for me. (He's in

a spray painting mood right now.) :)

We also put a clear gossy finish on

them.

Here we have an up close look. I

really like the way this turned out

and I put a votive inside instead

of a taper--not much into those

anymore either.

TA DAAAAA!!!!!!!

Here are the beauties now. No

regrets in painting them. Hope-

fully they'll get more use now.

I'll put the others up for now

and they may come back in the

Fall.

Easy Peasy!!!!!

~Keep on Dreaming~

A Thought from Pooh

"Sometimes, said Pooh,

the smallest things take

up the most room in our

heart."

~Keep on Dreaming~

You Deserve a Break Today....

Did you know?????

**McDonald's sell more than

1/3 of all the french fries

sold in restaurants in the

U.S. each year.

**They will buy 54, 000,000

pounds of fresh apples THIS

year. Two years ago they

purchased NONE.

**Nearly one in eight workers

in the U.S. has at some time

worked at a Mc D's.

**Salen in Sweden opened the

FIRST ski-through Mc D's in

the world.

**More than 50,000 students

from all over the world have

graduated with the "Bachelor

of Hamburgerology" degree

from Mc D's "Hamburger

University."

**Since it's founding in 1955,

Mc D's has sold well over

100 billion hamburgers.

~Keep on Dreaming~