Days of my life - favorites of the last week

It's been another week of trying to get well, so I am doing my Friday Fave Five update on Monday night.

I went back to the doctor last Friday morning and got a stronger antibiotic to kill the sinus infection that seems to linger on and on...the good news is that my lungs are now clear and the pneumonia is gone. I've now been on the stronger meds since Friday and am finally starting to feel like they are working.

Since I had to go out to the doctor anyway, I decided to get the latest box for Josh in Mexico all packaged up and mailed. Mailing anything to Mexico is quite an undertaking. A detailed customs form has to be filled out listing all of the contents and the cost and weight of each item. It is also quite expensive to mail anything to Mexico. This box, weighing just over 8 lbs. cost over $60 to mail, but I happy to be able to afford the cost of postage and I was grateful the extra time to stand in line at the post office to get the box mailed.

Some of the other things I have enjoyed this week include fresh berries for breakfast...

...and a new Amish "comfort read" book, which I will be reviewing before too long.

I have continued my daily walks, even though I have been sick, and was very grateful for cloudy and cooler walking weather, especially over the weekend and tonight.

A few minutes after this picture was taken, the clouds opened up and I got quite wet before I got home.

I have been able to walk at least two miles once or twice a day. I am so grateful to be able to walk outside and enjoy the fresh air and lovely surroundings of my neighborhood.

I am grate for a wonderful General Conference of our church this past weekend. You can read more about Mormon General Conference here. Suffice it to say that the talks and sermons presented both Saturday and Sunday were a veritable spiritual feast and I loved it!

While I listened to Conference on Saturday, I worked on this blanket which I plan to send Josh in his Christmas box. It will need to be mailed to Mexico next month!

Here is the completed blanket. It will help keep Josh warm on cold Mexican nights.

I also made this poster for Josh. I'll be emailing him a picture of it next week as he celebrates his "Hump Day" or one year anniversary on his mission. My how time flies! We are so proud of him for serving God for a year. One more year to go to complete his two-year mission!

One of my favorite talks from General Conference was this one about "Ponderizing" the scriptures. "Ponderizing," as the graphic above explains, is 80% pondering the scriptures and 20% memorization. The challenge was given to "ponderize" a new verse of scripture each week.

I am taking the challenge, and here is my scripture to "ponderize" this week:

My scripture for this week is Romans 8:37-39. To me this scripture says that we can overcome all things with the love of God and nothing can keep us from that love, which is Christ Jesus. I have been reading, memorizing and thinking about this scripture all day today and plan to do so all week.

Still feeling under the weather last night, I decided to take another sick day today, and spent most of today grading essays at my computer and kitchen table, I also took a little time out to write to a missionary and "ponderize" my scripture for the week. Another day at home and a short nap this afternoon has made feel much better and ready to go back to school tomorrow.

Since I was home today, I took a few minutes to get Charly's birthday gifts all ready for him because his birthday is tomorrow!

All he wanted for his birthday were books and DVDs. The book Capital, is an economics textbook that he asked for. Go figure, my man likes to read economics textbooks. I've got myself a pretty smart husband, I think.

Finally, in my last post, I wrote about this lovely collage blanket that I ordered for my mother-in-law for Christmas. here is a picture of the real thing. I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. Several people asked for the link to the company that made it so here it is - collage.com. They actually have a pretty good deal this week, and a blanket this size is less expensive than I got mine for, so check it out.

At last, I will close with a thought from a very touching General Conference talk about Mothers. If you are a mother, you will want to listen to this one. Warning - have some tissue handy.