Sunday Dinner, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads in my life and who read this. More on that later, as it does pertain to my Sunday Dinner choices this week.

Because Sunday is Father's Day, and I'm not sure what everyone's plans are for Sunday Dinner this week, I'm in a bit of a quandary as to what to do about Sunday Dinner.

There's a chance that Lamar may go out to eat with his Mom for Sunday Dinner, but no word for sure on that yet.

There's a chance that JESSICA and Jason may take Lamar out to lunch for Father's Day, but that's still up in the air as well.

So that leaves me with no idea who may or may not be here for Sunday Dinner this week, or if we'll all end up eating out somewhere.

Here are my plans as of right this moment: I'm going to cook some boneless, skinless chicken breasts tonight. If I cook dinner tomorrow it will be HOMEMADE CHICKEN POT PIE, so I can throw it together at the last minute and stick it in the oven. A quick, one dish meal, and if I don't use the chicken for pot pie tomorrow I can always use it later for another meal.

What's the plan for your Sunday Dinner this week? I know a lot of Dads will treated to lunch out, which is no burden for the Moms who don't have to cook! Share your plans in the comments if you'd like.We still haven't heard anything from Lamar's blood work and lab tests. Lamar called the specialist's office on Friday and left a message with their answering service, requesting they call him back, but it's nearly 9 pm on Saturday night, so I think it's safe to say we're highly unlikely to hear anything from them before Monday morning at the earliest, if then.

His eye remains the same, with only half vision in that eye and we don't hold out much hope that it will ever improve.

A little news now regarding JESSICA, Jason and Emmy, which directly relates to me.

First, Jessica took and passed her test and now is a licensed Certified Nursing Assistant. Praise the Lord that's done!

And Jason now has a job, praise God once more! He's working again for Rent*One, delivering and picking up rentals. There are opportunities for him to move up in management, but he just started last week so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Jason is working days, which means that there's a gap from the time Jessica goes to work and when Jason gets off work. This past week I've been keeping Emmy for several hours in the afternoons and then Jason has picked us up and we've gone on to Vacation Bible School at our church.

Jason had to work late Friday so he missed Emmy's graduation and program, but it happened that Jessica took some time off so she could be at Emmy's VBS program, so that worked out well.

But soon Jessica will start working 16 hour shifts, so I'm not sure what they're going to do about child care. Jessica will work three 16 hour shifts one week, then two 16 hour shifts the next week, to total 80 hours over a 2 week pay period, but with more days off per week.

I told her that's a lot of time to be on her feet in a shift, but they're going to try it for a while. We'll see how that goes, and we're just grateful that Jason and Jessica both have jobs now. We can work out the details as they become apparent.

For any of my readers who use Blogger as their blogging platform, are any of you having problems with Google Ads appearing in your sidebars or between posts when you haven't enabled them?

I've had a problem with this at least 3 times this week with my main blog, and when I visited MY RECIPE BLOG just now so I could link to my chicken pot pie recipe, I found that there were Google Ads on both the sidebar and between posts. I've disabled the ads every time but they keep showing up when I don't want them there.

Besides the fact that I don't like the look of them on my blog, I'm disabled, so any income from the ads might be a problem for me and count against my disability check. The government is very strict about that, and I don't want it to become a problem, especially since it's being done against my wishes to begin with.

As I mentioned earlier, we've had Vacation Bible School this past week at my church. I was the secretary, in charge of keeping the records and counting the offering each night. Jessica and/or Jason brought Emmy every night, and let me tell you, that little lady had herself a ball this week!

I finally got a video uploaded to my Facebook which you can see HERE, and I'm going to post a few pics here as well. I thought about uploading a video here, but it takes forever to upload, and I've already spent 1.5 hours uploading a 1 minute and 30 second video on Facebook.

I also uploaded a lot more pictures to MY FACEBOOK which you can see HERE if you'd like to click over to view them.

I'm not going to label these, so here they are in no particular order.Summer has arrived in Arkansas, just in time for VBS, of course. We've been under a heat advisory all week and our highs have been in the upper 90'sF with heat indexes into the upper 110'sF at times. The humidity has been brutal and smothers you as soon as you step outside away from the air conditioning.

Just a note:

Dear Air Conditioner, I love you. Please don't ever leave me.

Sincerely,

Your Biggest Fan

I've been tagged for a meme but this is already long and I'm running later than usual getting my Sunday Dinner post up, so I'll try to get the meme done early next week.

As I said, I want to wish a very happy Father's Day to all concerned, and I want to remember my Daddy, George Franklin Cook, September 26, 1923-December 19, 2004. I love you and miss you, Daddy.Y'all have a blessed and wonderful Father's Day and Lord's Day. May God bless you with all you need and may you have enough to share.