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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/7/2008 6:35:56 PM
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(((((Maggie)))))) Just popping in to do that. I have had you all on my mind.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/7/2008 7:19:41 PM
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Thanks, Sharon.
Hi Ginny!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 2:32:03 AM
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Maggie, I woke up and thought of you and said a prayer.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 6:50:06 AM
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She's gonna cringe even more when I tell her what I need from her! Oh well! That's why she gets paid what she does. It's cringe insurance. ;-)quote:
Maggie, I woke up and thought of you and said a prayer. Thank you, Pengie! I had a good sleep last night. It's good to have all my sons together under one roof again, even if it's only for a week.
Ds4 arrived yesterday from Vancouver. He told his boss there is a family emergency and he had to come. His presence is definitely beneficial to ds3 and I am tempted to write a note to ds4's boss to thank him for giving him the time off. He's been working there for only a month. This is the son who spent 3 months in Hong Kong and Malaysia so he brought with him gifts he bought for everyone. For ds3 he brought a gun that shoots elastic bands. Dh happens to have an elastic band "collection" (he can't bear to throw them out) and so ds3 is in his glory, shooting these things all over the place. He brought me a beautiful windchime made of sea shells of various sorts. Every individual shell was carefully wrapped so they wouldn't break. I think it took longer for me to unwrap it than it took for the artisan to make the thing!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 9:02:19 AM
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Oh Maggie, I'm so jealous!! I'd love to see that seashell windchime . . . well, I'd really love to own one, but I'd settle for seeing it for now 
I'm glad you have all your sons home and things are going smoothly. Hope the birthday dinners go well, and you don't wear yourself out too badly.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 11:11:09 AM
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Hi Maggie, everybody.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 11:50:13 AM
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Hi Trish!
Well Linda, it's here, whenever you come to see it.
The plan is to NOT wear myself out. Though I sure wish I was getting more than six hours of sleep each night. It seems as though my body thinks it's time to get up somewhere around 5:00 or 5:30. How did that happen? I've never been an early bird. Well, I have a bit of an idea. The meds I take have a wake-up quality to them. Not that I take them to wake up, but I have to take them early enough so that they don't keep me awake at night. To do that, I take them around 5:00 or 5:30, whenever I get up for the washroom. While I'm up, if it looks like I might not fall asleep right away again, I'll eat my 50 grams of chocolate (I'm using it as medicine). Usually, by the time I'm done, I can't sleep.
I was hoping to go back to bed this morning after my prayer time, but it was coming close to 10:00, so I've stayed up. I'm going to shower and dress shortly and then go to do the shopping for our various weekend meals and a birthday present for ds2. If I'm exhausted after that and there's time before we go out for dinner, I can nap.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 11:53:00 AM
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Chocolate is a stimulant. Not good when you're trying to get to sleep.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/10/2008 2:44:38 PM
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Yeah, that's the point. If I have it too late in the morning, I won't sleep that night.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/12/2008 1:34:07 PM
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Dark chocolate supposedly has quite a few health benefits including being a natural anti-depressant and I think it's helping. Oddly enough, it supposedly is beneficial in oral health too. A friend of mine who's using a more expensive kind that I do went to the dentist recently and her gum pockets were drastically smaller than before. She told the dentist why and he ordered a case of the chocolate she sells for his staff.
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Glad things are going a little better for you Maggie. (I've been praying.) Enjoy the time you have with all your family together!
It sure is nice having all the boys home together. It is so wonderfully good. It fills me up with joy, peace and happiness. Thank you for praying. Ds3 continues to have psychotic episodes and that takes a lot of emotional energy. It generally takes a full two hours before he's completely out of one. Yesterday he thanked me several times for helping him to stay calm.
He picked a great menu for his birthday dinner last night and it turned out to be not too demanding. He helped a lot with preparation too, allowing me to take a two hour nap, which I needed. We had a fresh pea creamed soup, mango/avacado/spinach salad, baked beans (that were too spicy for me), ham and mango cheesecake (which I bought). So good! He had wanted a different dessert, which he wanted to make, but I forgot about that when shopping. Samples were being given out of this cheesecake and I suddenly "remembered" that we needed a birthday cake so I bought one (mango is his favourite fruit). so he'll make the fancy one he had planned on Tuesday.
I missed church again because I'm so tired. I think I'm going to make sure that the next few Saturdays are calm, quiet, peaceful ones so I can be sure to go to church. I really miss going.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I will use bought stuffing to fill the turkey, and cook the turkey and a squash I bought. That will be my only cooking jobs for the meal. Everything else is either purchased or my mom is making to bring. Oh! No! I forgot! There is the vegetarian entrée to make since my mom doesn't eat meat. Sigh. I always make a "meat"ball that my family loves. It's made with bread crumbs, eggs, cheese and ground nuts, shaped into balls, deep fried and then put in the oven with mushroom soup (which will be the gravy). Maybe some of that can be done today if I have the energy. Ds3 is making whole wheat bread right now.
I'm off to get some sleep meds that I ran out of yesterday and will probably stay out and work on my homework for my Tuesday night class.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 2:00:08 AM
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Dark chocolate supposedly has quite a few health benefits including being a natural anti-depressant and I think it's helping. Yuppers! I love dark quality chocolate and have really lost the taste for cheaper varieties now.
Maggie, you're sounding better about things and I'm so pleased. Keep taking each day as it comes ~ make plans but don't stress if things get in the way to stop you doing them.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 6:17:19 AM
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Maggie, you're sounding better about things and I'm so pleased. Keep taking each day as it comes ~ make plans but don't stress if things get in the way to stop you doing them.
Thanks. I do so appreciate your encouragement. I'm trying to do what you suggest. I had 6 1/2 hours of unbroken sleep last night. Amazing! And two hours before that so I'm about to go down to my prayer room. I don't start the turkey for another four hours. Thanks for the Thanksgiving blessing.
Happy Thanksgiving,
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 7:24:00 AM
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It's good advice, regardless of the source.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 7:35:32 AM
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We do our best and let the doctors and company worry about the rest.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 12:29:29 PM
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happy thanksgiving, maggie.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 12:30:47 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving Maggie and fellow Canadians!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 2:28:18 PM
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Thanks, Marsha and Mike!
We plan to eat in an hour and a half. I just got up from a nap. There may be two more coming for dinner than we had originally planned, but I think I can handle that. I hope I can.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 2:46:11 PM
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((((((((((Maggie)))))))))
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 3:27:44 PM
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Thanks, Mike. The extra two aren't coming. And now I must tend to the last bits of dinner. We eat in half an hour.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 3:31:18 PM
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I will say a quick prayer for you Maggie!
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Have had a couple of good nights sleep this week though and am hoping for the same tonight. Have family coming down tomorrow and we're going to the theatre. Hopefully I won't fall asleep! 
