thanks

I want to say Thank you to all of you who joined us all for Prayer on sunday.

I am looking forward to May 8th, the end of the semester. There are quite a few projects I have been wanting to work on, but I keep telling myself not till May 9. I think I will make me a master list of projects to work on this summer.

I have changed my hours of availability at work for summer, but I did not ask for more hours.

I just got my school schedule for next semester (fall) I will have the same teacher all day that is four classes with the same teacher. with an hour lunch. plus an online computer class in excell.

Thomas has his interview today.

Thanks again for the prayers.

Help needed

Today my family is in need of some extra help that our extended seems very adept at providing. We are in need of some prayer time. Lillie is comming down to the wire in her school semester she is doing ok but she would like a little help in her Economics class and her accounting class. Jim is hoping to get a part time job at the school this summer and we are waiting to hear back if he gets the job or not. The girls are all doing well but who couldn't use an extra prayer or two. The little boys are doing really well but could use some help in speach therapy and having those skills generalize to everyday. I have several projects that I am actively working on at the moment. I am still studying for my EPPP retake, on Monday (04/20/2009) I have an interview for the executive director position at Aurora Plains Academy, I also have been working on weight loss (lost 23.5 lbs. since Jan 26th)one of the reasons, besides starting out at over 400 lbs, is that I have been diagnosed as prediabetic. I got word today that my A1C is at 6.7 which is not good hopefully the medication I just restarted will help but, since I have had difficulties with my kidneys the doctor is concerned about using this med. I am asking that the Lord magnigfy our efforts as we work toward our goals. In the slightly modified words of an old spiritual Lord please move that mountain, giveme the strength to climb it, or comfort me as it crashes down. to use a favorite quote of mine "not my will, but thine be done." Also Jim, Echo, and Carolyn have been talking about speaking with the Branch President about a recommend for Patriarchal Blessings. Just one last request. I know that this is an imposition but I would like to ask all those willing to stop what they are doing at 8:00 pm CDT tomorrow 04/19/2009 to pray together. This can be silently to yourself, with your family, vocally, or simply a prayer in your heart. While we are separated by distance we can be united in purpose and the scriptures tell us that "...where two or three are gathered together in my name, as touching one thing, there will I be in the midst of them..." D&C 6:32 This type of service for each other can only bring us closer as a family. Last, but not least, if anyone else needs a similar type of help just add a comment to this post and our family will check it befor we pray tomorrow to add in your needs. That goes for needs of friends, neighbors, or others that you know of. Please join with us in this effort.

What a day

Yesterday was a little busier with family than I am used to. I was able to arange time off to see Echo's 8th grade presentation. She would like to be a middle school or high school history/social studies teacher. For her project she actually taught a 7th grade history class. She then gave a presentation about that experience and the job qualifications and outlook for teaching professionals. She did a very good job with her presentation, she was however nervous. She was so nervous in fact that after answering a question about why she chose the 7th grade class (which was because they were younger and less educationally advanced than she is.) a teacher asked "Echo where is your sense of adventure?" Echo was so nervous that she did not see this as aretorical question, so she answered it "It was right there with me when I was teaching. I really feel that it is important to help students feel your passion for a subject." The teacher was impressed but remained quiet after that. I also got to go to speach therapy with the 2 little boys. I found that I have several things that I have done for years that are enabling the boys speach problems, gotta quit that. After that we went to an interview for Jim so that he can work over the summer at the high school. If he gets the job he will actually be a state employee. Then the girls were off to Young womens while Katie went babysitting. After all this Echo and I sat down and finalized her high school education plan. If that weren't enough to make me feel really old as I watch my kids grow up really fast Jim couldn't get off the subject of his "appointment" in Sioux Falls on the 13th of June. He refers to it as an appointment because he is not allowed to date until he is 16 so unitl the 12th of June he can't call it a date. Lillie and I decided that we are getting old as fast as the kids are growing up, go figure.

Echo's Speech

I am giving a speech on teaching and would like to open with a story. Do you have any interesting one's?
Echo

choir, plays and a baptism

Tonite was the middle school choir concert, Carie and Echo were both in it.
They sang Accidentaly in Love, Witch Dr. I enjoyed it.

Jims play is next week I am looking forward to it. The YW/YM are going to have a combined activity to watch him.

Janets Baptism is scheduled for saturday April 4, at 5:30, It will be at our friends home. Where Janet will be baptized in their hot tub. we will be having desert, and then, the men will all go to the priesthood session of conference.

Truth or ...?

Here you go Carrie:

Here are the rules: Copy and paste the whole questionnaire and replace my answers with yours. You have to state and create a link for the blogger who tagged you. Pass to 4 other bloggers. Remember to inform them by commenting on their recent post. Last, answer each question with truth and nothing but the truth since this is a confession tag.
Have Fun!
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1)What is your blogger name? Litowilk It is an amalgam of Lillie and Tom Wilkinson.
2) When is your birthday? December 17, strangely enough the same as Carrie, who tagged me.
3). How long have you been blogging? Since November 2007
4) Who tagged you? My lovely sister-in-law Carrie.
5) Tell me your 5 most favorite body parts? My wife's eyes, my children's smiles, my perfect abs (not currently available for display), and of course my my two favorites are my wife's lips and smile
6) What do you wish most for your birthday? That I can break 300 pounds (on the mins side).
7) What color are your nails now? Totally natural I am tryig to quit biting my nails too Carrie.
8) Any depressing thoughts lately? Only when I think about having to takete EPPP again.
9) What's your next 1 month's plan? Continue my weightloss plan, Apply for the Executive Director position at the treatment center where I work, catch up on paper work, and STUDY STUDY STUDY.
10) At what age did you have your 1st crush? Well, my mother would say about 5 or 6, but I don't remember. The first crush that I can remember was Nancy Newbry, I was 13.
11) Did you attend any school reunion after you graduated till now? Nope, I wasn't even invited to my 10 year. I didattend a mission reunion once but I don't know if I want to do that again.
12) Have you ever passed gas in public and pretended you didn't smell anything? You thought I wouldn't?
13) Are you a clean freak? nothing could be farther from the truth.
14) Which era do you wish you were born into? I always thought about being either medieval era or the old West.
15) Are you a vegetarian? I am a member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals).
16) How many pillows do you sleep with at night? 2 or 3 unless you count wife and or children (Mikel and Daniel still invite themselves).
17) Are you a light sleeper or an I-don't-care-if -there's-a-bomb-here sleeper? I can sleep through almost anything except a child crying, I even slept standing up on a moving bus.
18) Do you secretly wear comfortable granny panties when your man is not around? I can safely say that I have never worn granny panties.
19) What is your ultimate dream job? I want to run my own treatment program for adolescents.
20) What is it your hubby does that annoys you the most? I think that Lillie might object to being called my hubby. It always bothers me when we sit down to watch a movie together and she reads a book, it is especially bad when it is a fluff book.
21) What is your dream car? 67-72 Firebird, 66-71 GTO, Any Harley Davidson or a Dodge Dakota Quad Cab.
22) Do you easily wake up in the morning? I think that the best way to ruin a perfectly goodnights sleep is to get up in the morning.
23) Do you like hairy men? Hairy men have never been my thing. I can't say that hairy women turn me on either.
24) How about goatees on men? Well better on men than on women, I do like mine.
25) Which one would you prefer, 2 hour spa, 2 hour Thai Massage or 2 hour foot massage? The shooting range with my brothers or my kids.
26) Have you ever wished you had a different name other than your real name? yes when I was young.
27) What is the most extreme sport you have ever done? Rock climbing, even more extreme when you realize that I weighed more than 300 lbs when I was climbing, and competitive shooting.
28) Do you prefer traveling in Europe or Asia? I loved Europe, but I'd like to see Asia some day. (Ditto Carrie)
29) What is your favorite food? The kind you eat (Hoorah). I have too many favorites to name them all. I'd really like a good steak. (yes Carrie I plagiarized this one too)
30) What is the most embarrassing moment when you were out on a date? Here goes, Della you remember this: When Lillie and I were just dating she wanted to go skating and conned me into going. I thought we were going to drop Della and her friend at the rink and then go do something together. Lillie talked me into skating. To keep this brief Lillie was pulling me around the floor because I don't skate, in a moment of self-consciousness I flinched, planting my toe stop into the floor. Apparently the brakes worked well and I pitched forward and planted my shoulder in her face and we went down together. After I helped her back up and fixed her glasses she told me it was ok and that I could go sit down. Surprisingly, she married me, but never made me skate again. She even defended me when a friend tried to goad me into it.

If you enjoyed these responses please consider yourself tagged.

Your thoughts please!

Most of you know that I now work at Walmart. I decided when I started working that I would wear a skirt to work when I work on Sundays. I have since decided that if its below 0 degrees that is not wise. but I have a question, If I am already at work and my family finds out that we are out of milk, is it breaking the sabbath for me to buy milk before I go home?