Christian prayer thread- Easter on the way

[blackeyedsusan]

All welcome to join

Here is a list of all those who popped in or were regulars on the last thread. I hope I have not missed anyone!!

Amberlight- being treated for breast cancer. side effects may damage her heart.
Beatrice Primrose and cupoftea poorly baby and support for the family
Bluetinkerbell - ttc after losing the beloved Sterre during her second trimester
CaptainDippy- busy busy busy
Chairofthebored -dh has ms and ttc number1
Doodlealley -popped in to ask for prayer re breast cancer.
DutchOma- dh has a lung disease requiring regular trips to hospital/drs and lots of rest
Expat's dd suffering from leukaemia
Fink- recent single parent- husband left
FriendofDorothy- ttc -appointment soon. poorly cat.
Gingercurl - things are stressful at home, studying, high blood pressure
Issypeach - work situation insecure for h and Issy. Prayer requested for the dcs one of whom has gone awol and the other at uni
Jaffacakes ... when is/was your due date?
Jugglingwithsnowballs-job applications to work 1 to 1 with children
Lostmywellies - recently returned to the uk, currently freezing due to heating problems. frriendships for dd and ds to settle into nursery
Madhairday - reoccuring lung infections, dd with psoriasis/partial hearing and unhelpful school
MaryB - work and relationships at church. difficult situations socially for dc's
Notevenamousie - curently undergoing treatment as an inpatient. recently lost her mum.
PositiveAttitude- soon to be working abroad for 2 years. prayer also for current work situation and 3 jobs! (eek) pray for protection and continuing recovery of dd3 just out of hospital and battles for dla
SESthebrave -prayer for husbands stessful job situation and high blood pressure. pray for her quadraplegic friend suffering from pressure sores
Springydaffs-prayer for the truth to be known and a reconciliation with family
SweetestThing- just got the all clear from cancer and officially in remission. however, still has to deal with the after effects of surgery.
Teaandcakesplease - single parent to 2 young children. unsupportive parents re ds "being a toddler." prayer for new reliable friends.
Tuo -dd1 and dh to be more positive about her faith
Weegie atypical variant Guillain Barre syndrome has left her with no sensation in her legs below the knees or arms below the elbows, including hands and feet and the lower part of her face. she can do practically nothing for herself.
Welshcerys- family
ZipidiSoozi- things aren't so easy at the moment. we would love to hear from you.
and finally (I hope)
Blackeyedsusan - mad as a hatter! single parent to 2 youngish children, separated after dv. pray for friends and a new church. ds's behaviour and toddler diarrhoea. dd, niggling health problems.

Feeling more positive today now I am a bit more rested.
Off out this afternoon to an Afternoon Tea for a close friend's 40th birthday. It's going to be held in a house (House for an Art Lover) in Glasgow designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is awfully posh - I'm really looking forward to it though I an going to have to see some people I've not seen since I became disabled - but I know they will be very nice.

Then tomorrow the dreaded Mothers Day but somewhat helped by a trip to see the Pandas!!!! I love pandas, I was given my first one by my great grannie and great-great auntie on my first Christmas when I was 9 days old! Dh didn't know what to do to do better than last year when I got 2 baby guinea pigs (my other favourite animal) but pandas arrived an hour away! Next year is going to be tough for him! My friend Marc suggested next year they should throw me in to the panda enclosure!

Praying with a lighter heart for you all today, ESP for relief of pain for MHD and a great weekend for Amber after a crappy week.

Now off to wash my hair on my own before dh and kids get back from shopping/Build A Bear birthday party madness (dd2).

So glad to read your post today weegie - and see you have a lighter heart

Hope you have a lovely posh tea later, and a lovely outing with the family tomorrow to see the pandas.

Hope everyone has a nice day tomorrow. I have zero expectations - though wouldn't mind a card as my two are very artistic. My DS painted a beautiful picture of a vase of daffodils last week, so I may have to commandeer that !

Very, very tired but glad I made it to my friends tea- it was lush! Off to bed soon so I am on top form for panda-viewing tomorrow!

Yay!! Enjoy those Pandas!!

I took the children to Morrisons yesterday to buy mothers day cards. dd chose one for herself. ds just grabbed one that was appropriate-ish and I quickly popped it in the trolley. I have to get them to write them now. dd will write her own. ds will colour his at some point hen I have the em=negy to find some crayons.

oh dear, he has shown himself up a bit. h misheard and huffed when dd was making a picture for mil, thinking I had said dm! he had to do a rapid backtack when he realised. I was tempted not to make mil anything as h had been here all day and not thought to ask dcs to draw a picture/card but decided that it was not mils fault. he has been sent off with a lovingly crafted picture. dd had had enough of cards by then. I hope mil gets it.

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happy mothering sunday!

Thanks BES!

Having a middle of the night crisis hating everyone and everything for my disability. Just spent an hour yelling at dh (like it's his fault??

Struggling again. Can't get my head around "permanent" and I have to!

I have been praying for you all.

Weegie - Prayers that you have an amazing day today that will lift your spirit and comfort you too in your struggling.

MHD - Plenty of prayers for you, too. How long id DH away for? How are things today? I am sure your lovely DCs will enjoy spoiling you today.

Lovely flowers BES Have a lovely day.

Prayers for you - lost, juggling, DO, Amber SES and everyone else I have missed.

Ooh, thanks bes

• nice use of the shamrock for a stalk (that was well spotted as I think it's gone again now !)

Have a good day everyone, cards and/or outings or not.

If you have one small person who loves you then what a blessing is that !

And thinking of those who'd like to be mothers too.

Also thinking of you especially, weegie x - Love from us all

I as greeted with, "I think you are the best mummy in the world!" this morning. well, after there had been a shout of "I have done a poo," requiring help in the bottom wiping department

weegie. I hope your night was better after the cathartic shouting.

weegie - your post about 'Blessed be your name' is so true - sent shivers down my spine. I remember saying those words over and over again in hospital pg with ds with pneumonia. And many times since. Choosing to bless his name anyway - so hard, but so right....don't feel bad for getting angry with anyone and anything. Sending much love especially today.

Happy Mothering Sunday to everyone. Missing dh today but I got a huge bunch of flowers delivered on friday, beautiful, and the dcs presented me with breakfast in bed (limp toast and honey and lukewarm tea ) and homemade cards, cookies and various other items they had made at cubs, guides and school. Bless them. Off for lunch with a friend, haven't been to church, too much after feeling so poorly this week. A lot better now and the pain has subsided a lot.

love to you all today.

I got a beautiful card from dd this morning (which she'd made at Guides)

In line with the rest of the posts on this thread it wasn't all perfect though - as moment of presentation left something to be desired

• basically was thrown at me while I was trying to wash my hair in the bathroom whilst dd was in the middle of a small conflagration (wonders where that word came from ?!) with her father about tidying her room. She's 12 - 13 next month

Card is truly beautiful though, as is she !

Also very lovely hug from DS when I got back from my Quaker Meeting. Meeting was lovely this morning (I went on my own whilst DCs at home with DH)
Felt very blessed to be part of such a warm and supportive community.
Also picked up a nice jar of pear and apple chutney from a friend there, which will liven up my jacket potatoes for the forseeable future.

A day to appreciate small blessings ?!

Thankyou for your prayers everyone, I have had a lovely day! Pandas were awesome, weather fantastic, I managed to walk for a bit of the day, children (on the whole) behaved, no-one is too knackered and I have come home and built a medieval castle out of a shoe box and some felt, with dd2's help, though I'm sure it was supposed to be the other way round!!

Im calming down, mothers day is over and I've survived it again. And I got a DVD box set of Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley (who remembers?)and home made truffles that ds made at cubs!

Hope you all had good days too, I feel very blessed by mine, despite my middle of the night temper tantrum!

Glad you had such a good day, weegie.

So, I have made it through another weekend. Although there was a fair amount of gritting teeth in the last hour or two. Seem to have worries about all 4 dcs at the moment. dd1: attitude and behaviour; dd2: friendships and loneliness; ds: behaviour and attitude; dd3: getting away with stuff cos she's cute and the littlest! Yeah, the last one's a mini-problem, I can fix that - if I have the energy! I have just started an amazing book in which statement after statement describes dd1 exactly, so hoping that will be a help.

Please could you pray for dd2? For a number of reasons, she's not had many close friends up till now, and she seems to be a little awkward with her peers. She's very huggy, which I think is to hide insecurity, but it seems to put children off. She has one good friend at the moment, but often seems to be lonely at playtimes. I think she stays as long as possible in lunch (always has seconds of everything) to put off the moment of going and playing. :( I'm going to talk to the head this week to see if they can give her a little unobtrusive help. Hope I'm doing the right thing!

"pugh. pugh, barley, magrew, cuthbert, dibble grub... "

5 loads of washing now hanging on the airer after a trip to my mums. dd asleep, ds waiting to be taken upstairrs. he has opted to climb into his baby car seat and sleep there whilst I put dd to bed and hung washing and recovered fom carrying 5 loads of wet washing a rucksack, a big camera bag and a small boy across a car park and up 2 flights of stairs all at the same time. I thank my lucky stars that dd was awake enough to walk as that would have been one child too much!

weegie. it may take a while and plenty more raging and ranting. it is not fair and it is a massive thing to adjust to. glad you had a good day.

also a prayer of thanks for safety today.

Praying for you all, especially wellies children and very especially dd2 as she starts a new week at school. You are totally doing the right thing raising your concerns with the school and asking for a little help. How old is she?

I had a great nights sleep after a lovely day - feeling a bit more 'normal'!

Thanks, weegie. She's 6. I've spoken to the head and she's going to talk to the kids about being inclusive and get the teachers to keep an eye on her. She's such a lovely, sensitive kid, just is used to being under dd1's shadow and is a bit lost without her and a bit in her way when she tries to play with her at break. :( It's a lovely little school, though and all the big kids have a lovely way with the little ones, so I'm sure she'll get there. If we could stay here next school year and not move to Canada, that would give her more time to find her feet. There's a really big prayer request for you - I'm only just now daring to hope that it might happen, and might be good for other members of the family than just me, so please do pray for that!

The head also said that ds (4) is LOADS better behaved than he was when we arrived 4 months ago. Woohoo!

Wow, bes - you are actually Superwoman, you do realise that, don't you? :o

weegie - so glad you had a lovely day and a better night. Continuing praying, you're on my mind a lot.

Oh lost - praying for dd2, and knowing exactly how it feels having gone through this with dd, she is also huggy as you describe, she's calmed down a lot though as she's got older and has made more friends, but at 6 was just as you describe. Definitely keep talking with school, so important to let them know what is happening and get their view as well. So hard when your child goes through this, you just want to protect them and keep them from the horrible world :( Glad the school is nice and that ds is settling down :)

Wow BES, you are indeed amazing, do you ever stop!!

Please can you pray for dh, for protection in general in sudan but also he has a dodgy tummy, so please pray it doesn't get any worse, thanks so much. I am doing ok, felt crap last night after a lovely day (got too chilled sitting outside in the sunshine watching the kids play at my friends house) but ok this morning thankfully.

Mary, how is dd doing now, have been thinking of you and her.

oh no I never stop, don't sit on my backside ignoring housework, dinking coffee and mning at all... oh no! just don't check out the prolific posters thread

Afternoon, all.

Much prayer for everyone, especially weegie, who's been on my mind a lot over the past couple of weeks and bes, madhairday and amberlight, all dealing with such a lot of stuff and remaining so supportive of everyone else.

All fine here - it was a year on Saturday since I first noticed I had lumps on my neck, so it's a strange anniversary for me. This time last year, I had no idea what was going to happen and was blithely going about my business, totally unprepared for events. I'm thankful that I am still here and that my faith has never wavered at any point, even when I felt at my worst. This thread has been immensely supportive and I thank all you lovely ladies without reserve.

*Sweetestthing" it's been a pleasure medear.

Prayers for all.

Aye, a joy to be able to pray for others. And thank you also to all those who have been praying for us too.

mm tea

strange anniversary indeed. congratulations for getting through the last year! it has been a tough year. may next year bring bette things.

weegie, you are on my mind a lot too. been sending the odd prayer up fo you on and off through the day. how are you doing?

hey, I have finally been able to call the number on the washing machine re the engineer. last week I could not manage it. they are coming on friday, h is getting time off to cover if he is here when I need to do the school run.

now all I need to do is clear out the kitchen... which will probably mean dumping things down the side of the bed with the stuff that was dumped down the side of the bed last time I needed someone in.

please could you pray that I find the receipt for the washing machine. it was a bit of a panicky time last year and I am not sure I was thinking straight. and I am not the best at paperwork at the bestof times.