5 NEW ANGELS

norm

THEN I"M STUPUID

Marple

It's a Labrador Retriever puppy.

norm

not sure where I was going with that,just yapin I guess...

               Well I guess its time for sleep................

                                T.F.L...norm

Marple

(((((Norm)))))

heymoose

Norm, I'm glad to hear you are making great strides in your life.  You have had a very tough go of it.  Glad to hear you quit smoking, it is not an easy thing to do.  I quit smoking cold turkey the day I went into the hospital for my bilateral mastectomy.  I still think about smoking and also dream about it once in awhile.  I hope this goes away soon, however it has only been 7 months.  Keep the faith, it does get easier. 

Wishing you a Very Safe and Happy New Year.  May many new and exciting things come your way.

Heymoose

faithandfifty

Congrats to Norm and Cheryl and anyone else quitting the smoking habit..... or anyone taking up the good habit of exercise. We are gonna be here to continue celebrating the progress on all things of a helath and well-being advantage.

We've had both daughters, their men and the 3 little grands under-foot all day. What a blessing.

Thinking of you Norm and how proud I am of your efforts.

footprintsangel

Norm, I am very proud that you are helping yourself to feel better. I wish you a very good New Years and may you remember that you are very important to alot of us. God bless you. Hugs to your happiness!

suz45

Hello my friends, just touching bases. The worst of the storms are done here and we are all fine. Had a most beautiful small Christmas as all three of us were out plowing through most of the Christmas season, lol my only son 18 now has his own plow truck. So I wish you all the best as you fight to quit smoking or get more exercise or try to better your life in any way!!

Norm am thinking of you as you fight the lighter (lol) you can do it. Was wondering where you were planning on moving..... if its close to Vancouver lets get together for a coffee or tea!

Big hugs everyone, love you all, Suz

Marple

Suz and Norm, I hope you get to meet.

(((((Norm)))))

faithandfifty

Suz. So glad that you've been kept safe and sound thru the storms..... what a joy to carve out a little Christmas spirit in the midst of the tending the weather, so everyone else is safe. Heroic work. Mostly unsung, but so critical.

The wind is howling here today. You must have sent it down south?

Norm. Check in with a chatty up-date. How's your progress? Still smoke free??

Feel free to prompt my exercising with such questions....... I've decided that my code-word/motivator for 2009 is going to be the word: SLOTH. I'm going to give it to my family and now here to my friends to keep me motivated. If they, or you, use the word SLOTH and I have not been up off my butt, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and "get moving" for a minimum of 20 minutes.

We're getting close to the New Year!! What possibilities exist, as we flip the next page on the calendar? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I wonder....................

Have a great day, Norm....... and all friends-of-Norm, too.

footprintsangel

To My Special Friend, Norm I have been thinking of all the wonderful friends you have on-line. God really keeps an caring family of friend watching out for you. Please remember that you are a very special person to alot of us and I want to thank you.  God bless you, Debbie

Marple

(((((Norm)))))

Marple

Hey (((((Norm)))))  How are you doing?  Our snow almost all melted.  The weather has been very strange.  Plus 10C and very VERY strong winds yesterday.  I still want to get a pair of snowshoes but may wait for a blizzard before I do.  I could hardly walk the dog through the deep snow a week ago and now the field is down to the grass.

faithandfifty

Norm. Thinking of you today. I wanted you to know that you inspire me.

I'm very grateful to you for that, Norm. I'm very grateful.

Hope that you're taking good care of yourself.

footprintsangel

 Hi Norm, Please take care and remember you are a very special person. I hope you have a good New Year. And that God love will guide you threw each mountain you climb. Hang on to your dreams, Debbie

norm

ALMIGHTY GOD;give our sister strength to endure what is before her,let her feel you near and to know that she isn't alone.Give her the courage to lean on all of us,as we've leaned on her .Amen.

SISKimberly

Norm, what a beautiful prayer for Debbie...Hi Footie.

Glad to hear you've quit the cig habit...and Carol, too...and wasn't Kelley going to quit as well? I've heard the patch is great help,but with it on 24-7, it must act like a stimulant as cigs do, and keep you up or your mind active when you are sleeping. Hope those side effects calm down soon. ((((HUGS)))) to all of you who are facing the withdrawals from cigarettes.

Christmas was quiet...enjoyed good food, family, and friends. A head cold caught me, but I don't care...it is nothing compared to last year at this time...I'm right there with you Suz regarding where I was this time last year...recovering from my bilateral mastectomy and thinking about starting chemo. What a difference a year makes,eh?

Faith, glad to hear that you were surrounded by your kids and grandkids. Kids just make the season so much more festive don't they? SLOTH...are you getting up now to go do something physical for 20 minutes?

Suz, glad you have a break in the weather and can take a breather before the next storm hits.

Sharon, thanks for always being a postive warm presence here since late November...and Celia, hope your head cold is better. No one expects you to be as eloquent as Faith, only to be yourself. You express yourself just fine.

Just a quick check in....finally got my New Year's letter sent out today...whew,it took a few hours just to address the envelopes, then I had to go pick out the paper and have it run off before I could fold, stuff, lick, seal, and attach the stamp.  Just in the knick of time  I got them to the post office, so I need to get to the kitchen and see what can be done about dinner.

Thinking of all our Angel Watchers tonight,

SIS Kimberly 

footprintsangel

Dear Norm, That was a beautiful prayer, I cant thank you enough. It made tears come to my eyes, I am very thankful for knowing you as a dear friend. When I read that it helped me to not worry as much, And remember we are never alone.  Knowing that God and friends are near.  Thank  you so much my friend. Debbie

Lord,  I am so lucky to have this family, Please bless them in their needs and help those that are sick or need a special  hug to help them keep on keeping on. Bless Norm and all the other wonderful people that help us threw our valleys. We love you Lord, AMEN

Marple

What lovely sentiments everyone.  I guess we are indeed a "family".

(((((Norm)))))

faithandfifty

"We are family. I've got all my sisters (a brother) and me."

(please sing along)

I love having extended family across the border and beyond.

KimberSIS so good to see a post with your smiling picture. Yes. What a difference a year makes! Or a day, for that matter.

Much love Norm.

Kimbers instigated the "SLOTH" rule, so I must get up and get moving. Thanks sweetie!

I need all the prodding I can get.

Marple

We are family..........get up everybody and sing.

(((((family)))))

norm

Yes we are a family in deed!Each one of us with our special talent to reach out to each other  and lift us when we're most needing it,A VERY SPECIAL FAMILY INDEED........

                Since I checked in this morning,I can't get that song out of my head,haven't heard it for year's...it's kept me distracted from not smoking(thank you).Got to be honest,I wasn't sure whether I'd make past the first day,but now each day seem's a "little" easier.Can't focuse on long term right now,be happy to make it smoke free for a week(which is tomorrow),then one more,etc.Setting my goal short term for now.....

         So is everybody set for the countdown tomorrow night,I'm gonna spend it at home here for the last time,maybe watch some home movies,sort out what I'm taking with me and what to put into storage.

        Hope you all had a pleasant day and a relaxing evening........

                                                                                             T/C;norm

celia088

hi Norm,

Sounds like you are making really good progress with your life changes.  That puts a big smile on my face for sure. :-)))))    Right now i am having big problems with pain in my shoulder and i will be having surgery sometime in the near future (in the next 6 months), but i had an MRI with a contrast dye shot in my shoulder joint yesterday and today i finally had my steroid shot in my shoulder which takes about 3 days to a week to work.  I am right handed and this is my right shoulder so i am having trouble writing, typing, drawing, and automatically reaching for things, etc.  I am in some really big pain, so on New Year's Eve i will be doing the countdown to the New Year, and also to the continuing lessening of shoulder pain!!!!!!

Happy New Year to you!!! Good luck to you with the stopping smoking.  That is how i did it--cold turkey, and I just set very small goals: one more hour, one more day, one more week, etc.  Now it has been 14 years for me. Did you know that smoking dulls ALL of the senses, like taste and like seeing colors.  So look forward to seeing colors brighter and happier!!!!

hugs, celia

coonie

Hi Norm---I agree with Celia. Now that you've quit smoking, you should be able to taste, smell and see better. My dad quit smoking after at least 50 years of smoking. BUT he quit, cold turkey, and felt sooooooooo much better after he did. Said he could breathe better, could walk without getting winded, enjoy the smell in the air, plus HE didn't smell like one big ashtray I'm praying for your success. I know you can do it........one day--no one hour--no one minute ---nope, one second at a time!!!! WAY TO GO

faithandfifty

Great report Norm..... you're so near to the one week mark now! Way to go.

I'll be happy to provide distractions, any way that I can!!

Worn myself out chasing the babeez tonight........... gonna go tuck myself in.

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Here's to the New Year ahead.

footprintsangel

Dear Norm, I had a lost my key day, I found them later, But it wore me out. I have those days every once in awhile and it makes me feel greatful. I will be going in this month to my throat Dr to check my 7 nodes and praying something will be done. I know we should not worry, But I think after having 2 cancers already I do want them out. I wish you the best in your life and all its changes. You are such a wonderful friend! God sends us many kinds of angels Norm and you are one. God bless you and hugs, Debbie

norm

Dear Footprint's(Debbie)thank you  for all the encouraging post's you made  and for receiving me as a friend.I to believe God sends us Angel's as he has sent me all of you.GOD work's in a way we're never understand.When we think we're at our lowest and can't take anymore,that we're all alone he wraps his arm's around us and comfort's us.....when we need him most he send's Angel's like you Debbie to let us know he would never leave us........

           Mar.28th/93 Brenda and I accepted the Lord at a Jack Jackson concert held by one of our local church's.We had been together since Dec.02/81(not married) but our lives changed that night.I think I alway's believed in God but I didn't live a life that I was proud of.Because I was alway's getting into trouble as a kid,I was sent to a foster home,my fosterparent's Elsie and Horace Hawes were christian's so I had to go to church.They gave me a King James version of the bible on Mar.28/71.I didn't really care for church at that time or the foster-home for that matter,so when I turned 16,I was gone.I spent the next 10 year's living My way of life(drug's,alcohol,jail),I moved around allot,never kept anything or anyone that cared about me.(so I thought)

          The next turn in my life came when I met BRENDA,for me it was love at first sight(my second ANGEL from GOD) Dec.02/81.My life took on meaning,I found that there was more to life than partying and screaming down the road at a 100+ mile's an hr.on my harley. June 20/84 my son Edward was born,on July 24/86 my daughter Sara was born,life was truly great,healthy children,a wife that loved me and not everything we wanted but everything we needed.......

         I think it was in Feb./93 Brenda started talking about marriage,that it was time we pleased the Lord(pleased the Lord),I hadn't thought about him for year's) I wasn't really big on the ideal,but what the heck,if it will make her happy,why not.There was an ad in the paper for a Jack Jackson concert Mar.28/93 at a local church(oh boy,cowboy music and God).

        We went to that concert and excepted the Lord as our savior,know what do we do?Is this a church or a cult,cathloci,prodisen,mennitite,etc,etc. I started thinking what are we gonna do and then I went and got my bible(that my foster parent's had given me King James version)There were people there that were supposed to help the new christian's in their walk of faith,we left......

 the next morning I phoned Ed Peters(the pastor of the church) to ask him question's,what question's,I don't know but I wasn't going to bring my wife and children to some cult,I stumbled through afew thing's and didn't really remmember the detail's til our wedding day when the pastor brought it up  in our wedding .He Said;Norm and Brenda are new to our church and I really don't know much about them or they're faith,as I remmember it was a difficult conversation on both of us,norm seemed like he had question's,but not sure how to ask.Norm had one question he had no problem asking,what bible do you use.I told him that I use the New King James Version and Norm said he used the old King James Version.I knew that Norm was reallly thinking and searching out the Lord and that it is my duty to help Norm and Brenda in their walk with the Lord.They insisted on being baptisted before they were married.........

    Before we we're married,we were batistied in a very cold lake (Ossta).Ed Peter's will alway's be my friend.He was a young pastor who knew how to reach out to the kind of people that were brought to him......which bring'sme back to the 28th.Lost with all the other sh*&^%$ I had over the year's,I never thought about my King James version,afew day's after the28th/93.I found my bible in inscripted was We give this bible to Norman Levick in hopes he will receive the Lord God  Mar.28/71.

 So do you see Debbie how GOD work's,in mystrery way's,as sure as the sun will rise,he'll send an angel to watch over us,to comfort us,to heal us......

       Don't worry about losing the key's,I do it  all the time,then find them right in front of me........

                    ps;I gave my KIng James Version to my son;eddie

       God Bless/and Keep you safe........your friend norm

Marple

(((((Norm)))))

So much news on this thread now.  It's wonderful and I feel blessed that I came here.  I have to say I'm not a really religious person but I find the posts here have been very inspiring and helpful in believing.

Celia, I hope your pain goes away or at the very least lessens to a point where it's tolerable.

Faith, aren't babies such a wonderful distraction?  Are they over their illness?  They must be on the mend if they were able to wear you out.

Foot, I lose things and find them in the oddest places........not a good sign I'm sure.  We moved a few months back and the only thing I can't seem to find are my two (new) potholders.  I'm trying to let it go.  I figure the moving men took them.

And Norm.  I can't believe how you are blossoming.  I'm glad I've been here to see it.  Lovely story about you, Brenda, your Pastor and your Bible.  I quit smoking too many years ago.  July 1st 1979.  I seem to remember the 13th day as being especially difficult.  I don't want to put the idea in your head.  But I did make it.  I still dream from time to time that I've had a cigarette although I can't stand them now in real life.  In my dream after I take that first drag I'm so angry at myself and think SHEESH, now I have to start all over again!

I want to wish you all a safe New Year's Eve and a blessed, healthful, happy, peaceful New Year.

We are family, I got all my sisters (family) with me, We are family, Get up everybody and sing.  I don't know the rest.  I love it when I get a tune in my head.  I had it all day yesterday too Norm.

Happy Day Family.

norm

Know what you mean Sharon,didn't mean to  give a testamoirly.......But shit.. when family need's,I'll gladly give..........norm

 We are family...................................................................................................................

Marple

Norm did you fall out of bed?  It's VERY early for you. 

By the way, I loved reading your post.