A Steal of a Deal

We go through tons of flax seed here. I use anywhere from a quarter to a whole cup of flax a day in the twin's shake, in cooking and sprinkled on the twin's food.  It's full of Omega 3 and it keeps their bowels moving.

I was paying $2.99 for a pound of flax meal at the health food store, but the already ground stuff evaporates some of the oils where the Omega 3 is found, and it has to be kept in the freezer to keep from going rancid, however for convenience sake....

Well, no more convenience. I went to the feed store and bought a 50lb sack of whole flax.  It worked out to 47 cents a pound. Then I went and bought a coffee grinder for $12.99. We are grinding our own now and we shouldn't run out for a long while :-)

Do you know that I am saving $2.52 cents on a pound?

If I would have bought that many seeds at the health food store I would have paid about a hundred and fifty dollars!

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Well, I might "think" Missy's not progressing, but according the speech therapist she knew all her shapes today. She asked if we had been working on them. "Ahhh.... well, uh... maybe once or twice..."

(Would someone please tell me how in the world am I suppose to do everything, eh???!)

Therapist says, " I asked her three different times and she got them all right each time and so I crossed that off our list". 

Well now, isn't that nice. I guess I failed to see just how important that skill was, but hey, she's got it.

She's suddenly taken to coloring!!!!!

That is something I can get excited about.

She will actually go and sit at the desk in her own room and color in her coloring book for up to an hour. It's even great when she's struggling to be happy, because she enjoys coloring and I can use this activity as a diversional tactic.

It's a GOOD Morning!

I just want to thank everyone who has been praying. It's been the roughest three weeks since the potty training days.... We aren't probably over the hump, but we are enjoying a reprieve from the control battles.

Missy woke up angry and lying and controling first thing yesterday. I did not allow her out of her bed. I stayed right by her and prayed and read scripture promises and sang songs and continued praying for a couple hours. She was combative. She wanted her way and she wanted to be in charge. Over and over I gave her a chance to give her heart to Jesus and her answer was an emphatic "no" every time. She did not get close to me or join me in singing for the longest time. Slowly, slowly she crept closer and pretty soon her foot was on mine, pretty soon her hand was on my leg.... eventually her head was on my lap and she joined me in singing, "Into My Heart." I didn't know she knew the song, but the words were stored up somewhere in her mind and she sang the entire song with me... I capitalized on it and we sang it over and over! 

I have no doubt that this was spiritual warfare. Satan isn't giving up his subjects easily. He claims her and Jesus claims her and she has a choice to make. Eventually she realized breakfast was going on upstairs and she wasn't getting anywhere. She had softened enough that when I asked once more if she would give her heart to Jesus she said yes. Her demeanor changed, but I was skeptical!! LOL! I figured she was doing what I asked to get what she wanted. However, throughout the day I kept bringing her to the point of surrender to Jesus and she was pleasant all day.

Missy woke up cheery this morning and I again brought her to Jesus and asked her to give herself to Him today. We sang "Into My Heart" and she's off to a good start.

I'm praying and praying that today will continue positively while we are in town. I noticed that the past few days the more she regressed behaviorally, the worse she regressed on all the things we had been excited about her learning lately. She stopped speaking the long sentences and coming up with new words. She could not do her speech homework - probably mostly because everything I asked her to do she did wrong on purpose. I had to stop trying.  She also caught a cold and her articulation went downhill to the point I had to have her repeat nearly everything she tried to express because I could not understand her. I think it must take a lot of brain power to maintain that kind of a combative spirit. It's draining of all physical and emotional reserves.

Don't stop praying for us. We need God's power and love in our lives. There are moments when I fail and despair that I am not cut out for this huge job, but then I am reminded that God would not give me more than I am able. I just need to depend more on HIM.