(Long, Sad) Update on my Dad and FREEBIE

First, a quick update on my Dad and a thanks to those who have been praying…PLEASE don’t stop!!  We saw the neurologist last Monday.  He took dad off Sinemet (the parkinsons med) b/c he doesn’t think he has parkinsons now.  He wants to send him to Emory in Atlanta for cognitive and neurological testing.  He is suspicious that Dad may have Frontotemporal Degeneration (an early onset dementia).  My world crashed at that moment.  My Dad is 64, sold his pharmacy a year and a half ago, and was ready to retire in September from the chain store that bought his pharmacy.  As if I weren’t devastated enough about my Dad, there is a strong possibility that it is hereditary since both of his parents had Alzheimers, so my brother, sister, and I would each have a 50% chance of having it too.  Age of onset is 40-65.  I was so sick I could not eat last week.  Absolutely devastated…for him, for my mom, for us.  His spirits are good.  He said, “It is what it is.”  Thankfully, my parents are very spiritually grounded, and we all know that we will be together in eternity, in Heaven, healthy and whole one day.  That alleviates some of the fear.

My mom was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 3.  I have never known a healthy, normal mom.  I lived in fear my entire childhood that my mom might die (there were several times my Dad wondered the same thing).  I am sad and bitter that now I have to worry the same thing about my Dad.  Y’all pray for me…please.  I am doing some better.  I am seeing a counselor tomorrow to talk through some of these fears.  I am reading Joyce Meyer’s Battlefield of the Mind book, and I am trying to claim all of God’s scriptural promises for my Dad and my family instead of focusing on the negative.  Today’s scripture I am claiming is Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord.  “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  Please pray that verse for my Dad and my family as well.  Thanks for letting me get this off my shoulders.  I refuse to live my life in fear….I will get there slowly but surely!!

Sorry that was so long!  Now, your freebie:

I created a number book to use for beginning of the year number review (since I am moving down to first grade).  I wanted something that could be copied front/back using as little paper as possible, so here goes.  I hope some of you can use it!!

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