On the Horizon!

What is on the horizon for the Workentins?

I wrote a post Pondering (click on the word Pondering and it will take you to that post) 
about some things that we have been thinking about ~

~ job offers

~ having faith

~ trusting God in all situations

~ seeking counsel from others

~ praying and expectations to those prayers

and

we are happy to say God is leading us

each and every day

and each day the direction

becomes a little clearer.

Now that I've gotten your attention,
I just need to ask you to be patient with us
as we get things in order
and when we can
we will share all about our
upcoming adventures

Because everyone who knows us
every day of our lives is an adventure!

Stay tuned for more details
coming on the

Stories by Ali

One of the projects I have taken on is transferring all of my journals ~ they go back to 1977!! from the paper journals to the computer.  Yesterday I found this story I had written in April 2009 ~ it was during a time I was in therapy/healing from my past.  I hope you enjoy reading about this event in my life. 

Scariest Event in My Life

by Ali Workentin

written April 20, 2009

I was so excited and yet frustrated to be with my dad for the weekend. I was excited because it had been since Christmas since we had been together. I was frustrated because Marlene and her three kids were also going to be there and all I really wanted was some time with my dad, alone. Dad picked us upon Saturday morning and after stopping at the store for some groceries we headed out to the Pudge's where dad was living. Saturday was a typical day with my dad, with us just hanging around the place, playing and being kids.

Sunday, February 4, 1968, in the late afternoon Marlene's kids, my younger sister and I went out to play Hide-n-Go-Seek in the barn. The hay was still stacked as it had been for the Halloween Fun Night the previous October. We played in the barn till dinner. After dinner we asked my dad if we could go and play in the barn again. He said yes, just be careful. All of us kids except for Kathy trekked out to the barn, turning on the perimeter lights and started playing Hide-n-Go-Seek again. I don't remember who was IT, I just remember I was one of the kids who was supposed to hide. I remember someone beginning to count and me crawling down thru one tunnel of hay bales and then turned a corner into another tunnel. Shortly after turning down the second tunnel I felt something touch my eye and I screamed. I was just sure a spider had crawled on me. I started crying. I cried, “Go get my sister, go get my Daddy.” Eventually my sister came out to the barn to see what the ruckus was about. One of the boys told her I crawled into something or something hit me in the face. I remember just sitting in the tunnel, too scared to move, afraid that whatever had hit me in the face would hit me again. After much coaxing, I crawled out to where my sister was standing. I was holding my hand over my left eye and crying. I don't know if it was because it was hurting or because I was scared. I really don't remember it hurting.

My sister walked me back into the house. My dad asked me what was wrong. I told him a piece of baling wire had poked me from a bale of wire into my eye lid. He looked at it, put a cold rag on my face and gave me two aspirin. I laid on the couch until it was time to go home. We went home about 9:00 pm after taking Marlene and her three kids back to their house.

When we got home I told my mom what had happened. She told me to get ready for bed and go to bed. We would look at things in the morning. The next morning when I got up my whole face was swollen. My mom took one look at me and called the doctor. I could not get in till 4:15 in the afternoon. My face was all puffy and sore. Mom told me to get my blanket, pillow and some books to read and I would go to work with her for the day.

Arriving at the bowling alley, Mom told Don LaFontsee that she would be taking off work early to take me to the doctor to have my eye looked at. I went and got into one of the booths by the lanes, across from the front desk so mom could still see me. I don't remember much of the day, except for many people coming and looking at my face and commenting how swollen it was. I know that I slept quite a bit of the day too.

I remember that everything was blurry looking and I just wanted my eye to quit hurting. We got to the doctor's office and we checked in. I don't remember his name. The nurse looked into my eye with a flashlight, commenting to my mom that it was very puffy. Duh! The nurse had me get up on the table to wait for the doctor to walk into the room. The doctor was a really short and old man. When he walked in, he looked at me from afar, looked at my mom and said, “I won't touch her with a 10 foot pole. You need to take her to an eye specialist right away.”

I remember thinking “right away” ~ why wasn't it such an emergency when my mom called in that morning and told them what had happened! Back into the car we went. The sun was just going down as we drove from Rancho Cordova to Fair Oaks. We were going to see Dr. Gerber. I thought that was pretty funny since I had hurt myself at the Pudge's and they lived on Gerber Road!

We walked into Dr. Gerber's office, the nurse looked at me and ushered us right in. It was just a short time later and Dr. Gerber walked in. He asked my mom what happened. She told him I was playing in the barn with some friends and some how a piece of baling wire hit me in the eye. He walked over to where I was sitting, shined a light in my eye and turned to my mom and said, “I want her to go to the hospital immediately. We need to start treating her with antibiotics around the clock.” I thought, “the hospital ~ who is going to pay for that?” It seemed like mom muttered something about not having the money to pay for the two appointments already while we were driving to Dr. Gerber's office. Why did everything have to revolve around money or the lack there of?

I remember going to the hospital and being so afraid. Mom kept reassuring me that things were going to be okay, I would probably only be in the hospital for a couple of days. Boy was she wrong.

I was admitted and put into a bed with one other girl in the room. I don't remember what was wrong with her and I don't think she stayed the whole time I was in the hospital. I think there were two or three different girls in the hospital room with me during my stay. I remember crying a lot the first night as the nurses struggled to put eye drops in my eye, coming in and giving me shots every four hours and mom holding me down while the nurse would give me the shot. I remember screaming and crying, just stop!! It is hurting me, not helping me. Mom stayed the whole night with me. I remember hearing her on the phone to Patty to check on my two sisters.

The next morning mom stayed with me till the doctor came in. He looked at my eye, told my mom he could see some scratches on the iris and pupil and he would do his best to make it so I could see clearly again. I don't remember a whole lot during the time I was in the hospital. At first I was so sick to my stomach; I am sure it was from all the crying and fighting I did each time they tried to put the eye drops in or give me a shot. I remember being alone a lot of the time during the day as mom was working and Kathy and Joanie were at school. Mom came to the hospital every night after dinner and with me till morning. I remember crying a lot and being told not to cry, it wasn't helping anything and it definitely wasn't helping my eye to get better.

I don't remember my dad ever coming to the hospital to see me. I do remember the last day I was in the hospital a student nurse gave me my last shot ~ it hurt terribly. I had a total of 104 shots in 23 days while I was in the hospital. When I was released from the hospital, the doctor apologized to my mom, saying that he was sorry nothing could be done to get the vision back in my eye. The vision at that time was cloudy. I could see light/dark and shapes but nothing else.

Have you experienced a scary event in your life?

How did you deal with it?

Moved Back to Waco ~ for Now.

On Thursday, January 4th we moved from Lake Whitney Thousand Trails

back to Airport Park in Waco, TX.

This is our view for the next two weeks.

What's wonderful about this site is that no one will park in the site across from us as it has some power issues.  It also has a great shade tree over the picnic table.

One of the things I am doing for myself this year is identifying the small things that bring us joy ~ one thing here is that we get 10 TV Channels over the air!!!  It's nice to keep up with the news and some of our favorite TV shows.

Also, I want to say thanks for the prayers regarding my nasty cold ~ 

Wednesday morning I woke up feeling much better, 

Yesterday even a bit more better

and today I am still coughing but able to do everything I needed to do;

like going to 

and having coffee and pancakes with my hubby and friends,

stopping at the RV place to see about the repairs from this

 which caused this

Good news is our insurance is covering all the repairs

and we get to spend time with our friends, Jack & Donna!!!

Took some time to do this

for the wedding we are going to tomorrow.

I love my Jamberry Nail Wraps.  If you would like to see more 

or try them out, give my friend, Sandie, a shout out here.

I am wearing Gold Floral and Champagne Frost.

With the RV going in for some repairs we are on a quest to 

eat all the food in our freezer (won't have power for 5 days) and don't want to have to throw it out.  So tonight I made ghoulash

for dinner.  Ron said it was pretty tasty.

Not bad for mixing some ground venison, rotel tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, 

two partial packages of elbow macaroni & squirly q's, garlic

and onions all together in the pressure cooker and 

20 minutes later dinner was ready!!!

All in all it's been a great day!!

How has your day been?

Feeling a Bit Better

Have slept most of the past 2 1/2 days,

woke up at 12:41 pm today.

Thankful I was not 

Actually feeling much better!!

Still not the best,

but better.

Did three loads of laundry,

changed the sheets on our bed,

got caught up on our banking

and watched some TV with the hubs.

Tomorrow we move to 

COE Airport Park

in Waco, TX for two weeks.

We have lots going on over the next two weeks:

going to Houston for a wedding on Saturday,

continuing to look for work,

checking out what needs to happen to fix our trailer

from the blowout

and continue to get better.  

It has been so cold here

so we have spent a lot of time in the trailer.

So thankful we have our home on wheels

and a place to park her.

Happy New Year!

I wish I had as much energy as that picture expresses,

but alas, the crud is hanging on.

Yesterday I stayed hunkered down, all day,

sleeping and resting on the recliner,

not crocheting, not coloring,

not reading and not playing games on my phone.

I stayed curled up under my blanket, 

drinking lots of water, well lots for me anyway,

40 oz total all day!

Crawled into bed just after midnight,

wished Ron a Happy New Year 

and crashed on our bed.  

Woke up a few times in the night,

but each time just rolled over and fell back asleep.

Finally got out of bed about 12:30 this afternoon.

Even got dressed.

Still feel like crap,

still coughing up a storm,

still no energy.

Spent a little time going over notes from past sermons,

found I wasn't really concentrating so closed my Bible

and took another little snooze on the recliner.

Then went with Ron up to the Adult Lodge so

he could watch Football.  I've downloaded a few movies on Netflix,

read Facebook, dumped a glass of water,

ate some popcorn

and really just want to go back to sleep.

Read a few blog posts,

feeling inspired yet no energy

to follow through.

Thought about New Years Resolutions ~ nope, not making any as I know I won't follow through on them.  Clinging to the though shared by Pastor Jeromy two weeks ago,

clinging to my faith in Christ,

knowing I am a child of the King

and that through Him 

And so today I rest in His arms,

trusting Him for tomorrow

and knowing that 

with Him all things are possible.

What do you rest in today?

UGH!

That's how I woke up this morning.

So did Ron though he sounds like a 

Our day has consisted of filling the water tank

as we prepare for 

Temps have been cold all day and getting colder.

Freezing temps are expected every night for the next six nights.

Ron filled the water tank,

emptied our gray and black water tanks

and put the hoses away.

I made a pot of chili,

thought it was supper time

and then realized we were eating dinner at 2:30 pm.

Guess we will have chili for a snack later this evening.

We made our way to the Adult Lodge

to download some shows on Netflix.

We watched Season One

and our now recording Seasons Two & Three.

Binge watching to commence soon.

Tomorrow we plan to go to church at

unless we wake up feeling worse than we do right now.

All in all we have had a good day

and I give thanks for that.

What are you thankful for today?

2017 is almost gone!

As I sit here in our little home on wheels, 

football is playing on the TV,

Ron is checking emails and Facebook on his phone,

Christmas lights are on

and all is calm in our home.

My mind has been racing

the past few days and nights.

Sleep has been alluding me at times,

like last night ~ only got about 3 hours of sleep.

I'm feeling restless inside,

looking for work,

have an option in Utah,

dealing with insurance company due to tire blowout,

trying to figure when the work can be done,

but don't want to lose the two weeks we paid for

at Airport Park in Waco.

Put away most of the Christmas decorations,

house looks kine of bare.

left the Christmas lights up as we like the soft lights when the rest of the lights are off in the little house on wheels.

Thinking of changing up my blog ~

just not sure how to go about it

~ a page of recaps of the week

~ a page for my crafts ~ would love to make/sell just not sure how to go about that

~ a page for Bible Study ~ BUT wondering

if I can be honest to the core knowing others will  might read what I write

just not sure how to start or even where.

My body is tired today

but I don't want to give into a nap

I want to be able to sleep tonight.

On another note ~ did some surveys/lists on Facebook

Which Bible quote is for January?

Which word will support you in 2018?

Word for 2018

Which color will inspire me in 2018?

Orange

is the color of the sun

and it symbolizes hope, growth and change.

You have a big heart that

holds love for every being.

In 2018 you will spread positive peaceful vibes.

Which Changes will Happen in 2018?

Although there are exciting changes for you in 2018,

the biggest and most important change will

be your mindset.

After closing the door on a pretty tough

2017, you feel renewed and restored 

to live your best life!

Each of these things say something to me.

Now it's time for me to take 

hold of the reins and go for it!!!

What are you planning for yourself in 2018?