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Diane's Thoughts both deep and not so deep! - 11/4/2005 9:16:55 PM
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dianetavegia
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Welcome to Diane's thoughts,
both deep and not so deep!
Good Evening Everyone!
Well I've had another exciting day. LOL! I'm sure my mundane life must leave some of you shaking your heads, but I do get such lovely notes encouraging me to continue sharing my days.
Today was busy. The boys and I slept late and then rushed around. I had been given 17 Christmas tins by a disabled woman I'd given some yarn to and had to go pick them up in 'Winston, Ga.' I had a bill to pay a little further east so did it all at once. Then I was given a BRAND NEW car seat for infants 5 to 40 lbs. I'd loaned my infant seat out to the hurricane evacuees and never got it back. Mine was old (given to me used and dirty) and this one had been given to a mother when she had her child in her car without a car seat. Some police benevolent group.... BRAND NEW! The straps are still in elastic and the directions are still 'attached'. This is quite a blessing since I'll be keeping the new infant with Cystic Fibrosis and another infant a few days a week. Just in case! While picking that up, in the completely opposite direction, I took time to pay our water bill. Then there was the cleaners on the other side of town. LOLOL
To really add excitement, a trip to the dump was in order! I was in tan corduroy overalls and the old fellars were in jean overalls so we didn't match today. They were picking through the metal things someone had just dumped so didn't take time to visit. LOLOL If I take something decent or shareable, such as wheels and axle to a wagon, I'll sit it in the share area.
Tonight we went out for supper. We do many Friday nights. There's a family owned Italian restaurant downtown in historic Villa Rica that has GREAT food and low prices! I had a giant serving of lasagna for $5.00. The 3 of us shared an antipasta too. So Good! The family is a home schooling Christian family. We run into so many town or church friends and the atmosphere is one of hollering across the tables to joke or just chat. They serve delicious sweet tea too. Cannolis..... YUM!
After that, I ran to Wal-Mart to the beauty shop inside and got my hair cut. I'd started letting it grow over my ears like in my avatar but it's so flat! Baby fine! I had it cut back up over my ears and layered to give it some umpfh!
Hubby is supposed to have tomorrow off, but lots of weekends gets a call anyhow. We're hoping tomorrow is quiet so we can just rest and enjoy each other's company.
I've been working on knitting again. It's coming but too many years have passed and the tension is off, too tight, too loose, can't remember this or that.... A girlfriend at church told me to stop by the church library this Wednesday before AWANA if I'm still having problems. She could knit in her sleep!
Well, Scooter's down for the night and Patches wants more attention. Nick's eating Halloween candy and he and Jim have turned on some movie. They're going to see Chicken Little tomorrow at the new movie theater down the road a piece. We're moving UP in the world! Villa Rica is building a gold museum. I can't wait til it's finished. You can view our whole downtown at this link. View Diane's town here.
Wishing you a lovely evening and peaceful sleep!
Diane Tavegia
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RE: Diane's Thoughts both deep and not so deep! - 11/10/2005 10:43:56 PM
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dianetavegia
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Good Evening all,
Today was much better with Lexi. I also got to meet her 3 year old sister, Maggie. Lexi only cried a few minutes before falling asleep and then while I warmed her supper. She was here from 10:30 til after 8:00 p.m.
Tomorrow is the first day I'll be keeping baby Jeremiah who has terminal Cystic Fibrosis and one reflux kidney. I feel a little more comfortable after talking with the doctor at church last night but pray he doesn't cry all the time for me. It's such a sick, dying animal, sound. VERY sad...
I have come to realize that I get NOTHING really done each day in my house. I do try but I'll begin a deep cleaning chore and one or the other needs something or someone is napping, crying, wanting help on school work, etc. Hubby comes in and out all day and our almost 29 year old doesn't leave for work until 2:00. Some days he works really late and then sleeps a good portion of the day.
Hubby had to work until 8:00 tonight and then drive home (an hour away). Poor guy. He works so very many hours. He's such a hard worker too. Just a great guy.
So, our cold snap has arrived. Our low tonight is to be right at freezing. It's down to 46° already. I turned on the heat in case the temp falls in the house. Our house is well insulated, thank the Lord, so that's a blessing.
Well, Jim's asleep on the sofa, Scooter is asleep in the master bath for the night and Patches is asleep on Nick's bed. Nick's playing on his PS2 and I've got some of my detective shows on so think I'll get Jim to bed and go to sleep myself. Tomorrow will be a very different day.
God Bless!
Diane
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RE: Diane's Thoughts both deep and not so deep! - 11/16/2005 3:40:55 PM
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dianetavegia
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Welcome to Diane's thoughts,
both deep and not so deep!
Good Afternoon all!
It's been one of those CRAZY days around here! First, the infant who is so very ill began bleeding from his mouth. The information on Cystic Fibrosis warned to watch for bleeding when coughing, etc. Well, it turned out he'd slit his gum right where his lip and gum meet so that was good news.
A guy showed up to give us an estimate on repairing an area on our front door frame that has crumbled. Jim had spoken to him many months ago. Nick answered the front door and this fella just comes right in and starts up the stairs. It scared me! Thankfully, Scooter chose this time to bark at the 'intruder'. Once I got him outside, the guy proceeded to take measurements and was quite nice.
We'd listed things on Ebay to compensate for the loss of salary and sold half of what we got around to listing right away. The other items all have 'watchers' and a lot of views. Also, I think we've sold Jim's laptop at a really good price. He's got a lot of add on's for burning CD's and DVD's plus some fancy software. The guy will have to split the payment over 2 weeks. I've got more items to list tonight after church because I haven't been able to find the info and pictures online. This is from Jim's recording studio. The church will not be happy ........ as they use his stuff often. We can't help it tho.
I found a really good story about Thanksgiving for tonight's AWANA lesson in Counsel Time. I need 5 pieces of dried corn but think I can find some in the church kitchen.
I'm still having communication problems with the mother of the Vietnamese baby. Mom claims she doesn't understand when I tell her I will not do part time child care. She also keeps trying to force me to keep the baby on Saturday. I feel sure, from her questions and remarks, that she does understand but doesn't want to accept my 'rules'.
Wow, it's to get really cold tonight. I love the cold weather and our house is insulated very well so it stays warm easily. Also, we have gas heat and that heats up really fast. Maybe I'll light a fire after church.
Hubby has gone to a local dept. store and applied for some Christmas hours. We're hoping he can pick up some evenings or weekend work to help us get some bills caught up. We'll file our taxes just as early as we can and will get back all we've paid, if not more. LOL. That's always a good time for catching up!
Well....... I hope everyone has had a lovely day and is enjoying their weather. If you have any spare snow, send it to MY house!
God Bless!
Diane Tavegia
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RE: Diane's Thoughts both deep and not so deep! - 11/19/2005 6:40:03 PM
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dianetavegia
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Welcome to Diane's thoughts
this chilly evening in Georgia! 
Good evening everyone!
Hope everyone has had a great Saturday! Jim had to work today and then had a lot of paperwork when he got home. I did some housework and then had a family come over with their 7 week old. They want me to do daycare beginning in January for their little girl. Mom is a social worker with the state and it's their first child. She has so many worries because of all she's seen!
Tomorrow I'll have both four year old classes. The other teacher and her husband, co teacher, are going out of town for a family honor at another church. Rachell and I will still only have probably 10 kids. Last year I'd have 17- 21 all by myself every week.
I'm finally adjusting to the time change! It takes me a few weeks. With it getting dark so early, I keep thinking it's much later than it is and I do things at the wrong time. I start trying to get Nick in the shower at 6:00. I look for shows on t.v. that come on at 9 when it's only 7!
Well the sale of the Dell Laptop fell through. The young fella decided he'd rather save toward a motorcycle of something else. We've had two other people contact us about it but some want it for giveaway pricing. That won't help or make sense. Waiting it out.... patiently! God is an On Time God!
Psalm 19:9-11 "The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether. They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Thy servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward."
God Bless, 
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A tear jerker Christmas Story - 11/19/2005 11:57:33 PM
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dianetavegia
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 Drunk Driver
On the last day before Christmas, I hurried to go to the supermarket to buy the remaining of the gift I didn't manage to buy earlier. When I saw all the people there, I started to complain to myself, "It is going to take forever here and I still have so many other places to go.
Christmas really is getting more and more annoying every year. How I wish I could just lie down, go to sleep and only wake up after it..."
Nonetheless, I made my way to the toy section, and there I started to curse the prices, wondering if after all kids really play with such expensive toys.
While looking in the toy section, I noticed a small boy of about 5 years old, pressing a doll against his chest. He kept on touching the hair of the doll and looked so sad. I wondered who this doll was for. Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him, "Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?"
The old lady replied, "You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear." Then she asked him to stay here for 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly.
The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.
Finally, I started to walk toward him and I asked him who he wanted to give this doll to. "It is the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for this Christmas. She was so sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her."
I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus will bring it to her, after all, and not to worry. But he replied to me sadly. "No, Santa Claus can not bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mother so that she can give it to her when she goes there." His eyes were so sad while saying
this. "My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mummy will also go to see God very soon, so I thought that she could bring the doll with her to give it to my sister."
My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said, "I told daddy to tell mummy not to go yet. I asked him to wait until I come back from the supermarket."
Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing. He then told me, "I also want mummy to take this photo with her so that she will not forget me." I love my mummy and I wish she doesn't have to leave me but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister."
Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
I quickly reached for my wallet and took a few notes and said to the boy, "What if we checked again, just in case if you have enough money?"
"Ok," he said. "I hope that I have enough."
I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll, and even some spare money. The
little boy said, "Thank you God for giving me enough money."
Then he looked at me and added, "I asked yesterday before I slept for God to make sure I have enough money to buy this doll so that mummy can give it to my sister. He heard me." "I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mummy, but I didn't dare to ask God too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and the white rose." "You know, my mummy loves white rose." A few minutes later, the old lady came again and I left with my trolley. I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind.
Then I remembered a local newspaper article 2 days ago, which mentioned of a drunk man in a truck who hit a car where there was one young lady and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-assisting machine, because the young lady would not be able to get out of the coma.
Was this the family of the little boy?
Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young lady had passed away. I couldn't stop myself and went to buy a bunch of white roses and I went to the mortuary where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wish before burial.
She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.
I left the place crying, feeling that my life had been changed forever.
The love that this little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to that day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunken man had taken all this away from him.
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A Lovely Christmas Poem - 11/20/2005 8:11:14 PM
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dianetavegia
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"Before the Paling of the Stars"
Before the paling of the stars,
Before the winter morn,
Before the earliest cock-crow
Jesus Christ was born:
Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands had made
Born a stranger.
Priest and King lay fast asleep
In Jerusalem,
Young and old lay fast asleep
In crowded Bethlehem:
Saint and Angel, ox and ass,
Kept a watch together,
Before the Christmas daybreak
In the winter weather.
Jesus on his mother's breast
In the stable cold,
Spotless Lamb of God was He
Shepherd of the fold:
Let us kneel with Mary Maid,
With Joseph bent and hoary,
With Saint and Angel, ox and ass,
To hail the King of Glory.
Christina Rossetti published by the Macmillan Company
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The Legend of the Christmas Spider - 11/20/2005 8:15:41 PM
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dianetavegia
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The Legend of the Christmas Spider
or How the Tree Got its Tinsel
Once upon a time, a little old woman was busily cleaning her little old house, for that night it would be Christmas Eve and Father Christmas was to come with his bag of gifts. She worked and worked until not a speck of dust was left. Even the spiders had been swept from their webs and forced to take refuge in the farthest corner of the forgotten attic.
Night had fallen and at last the little old woman's work was done. The house was spotless, the Christmas pies were cooling, and the Christmas tree was decorated and waiting for Father Christmas to come admire it. But up in the attic the spiders were sad, for they too wished to see the tree. After much thought, the oldest and wisest spider suggested they wait till the little old woman slept and slip downstairs through a crack in the trapdoor.
When all was silent, they crawled down through the crack and crept across the parlor floor. The tree was so beautiful, standing by the moonlit window, they couldn't resist scurrying up the trunk and out amongst the branches. But upon each branch they crawled to a trail of cobwebs was left behind. When at last they'd inspected every bit of the tree, the whole thing was covered in a shroud of spider webs.
It was almost midnight when Father Christmas trudged into the parlor with his sack. He smiled when he saw the cobweb tree for he knew this was the work of Christmas spiders. But he also knew the old woman would be broken-hearted to see her beautiful tree wrapped in this dusty gray cocoon. So reaching out his hand, he touched the webs and, in a twinkling, turned them to shimmering silver and gold.
Christmas morning, when the little old woman came down and saw her tree sparkling in the sunlight, she was so delighted she danced circles around it, never noticing that within the silver branches spiders danced as well.
Ever since that time tinsel has been hung on Christmas trees with a silver or gold spider among the decorations.
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Wishing You All a Happy Thanksgiving! - 11/23/2005 10:57:05 PM
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dianetavegia
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Wishing you all
a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
God Bless Us Every One!
Diane Tavegia
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