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Posted: Jan 09 2010 at 6:29pm | IP Logged
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I'm trying to quickly add a post before the board closes:
Please keep the state of Florida and its citizens in your prayers tonight. We are in the midst of a major cold spell and the state might actually see snow down to Central Florida.
There are a lot of people that do not have heat (us included) and a lot of people on the streets. The shelters are overflowing and imagine braving a 35 degree night with shorts and a t-shirt!
Please offer an extra Hail Mary for all those people so that Mary might cover them in her warm mantle.
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Thank you all. We kept warm, sleeping with hoods on and the like and last night a friend of the family lent us a space heater. We woke up to frost on the windows!
God bless you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers.
__________________ In Christ,
Mimi
Wife of 16 years to Tom, Mom of DD'00, DD'02, '04(in heaven) DS'05, DS'08 and DS '12
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Praying, Mimi!
__________________ God bless,
~~Nina
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sending prayers....
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Prayers!
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MarilynW Forum All-Star
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Dear Mimi - I am praying for. I shut down in the cold (and my heated house is toasty warm at 72° ) - I will be praying for you and all those suffering the Florida and the other Southern states which are not used to this Arctic spell.
Practical advice for you - hot water bottles if you have them, make sock rice baggies for hands and feet, this is the time to do a family sleepover in your bed with all the children!! Lots of hot tea or cocoa. I would imagine all the little heaters in places like Target etc are sold out.
__________________ Marilyn
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Brrrr.... praying for you all to keep warm!
__________________ Melinda, mom to ds ('02) and dd ('04)
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Praying.
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Offering up Hail Mary's throughout the night for everybody in Florida! What a good Floridian you are MimiP
__________________ I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. ~Bill Bryson
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Mimip Forum All-Star
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Posted: Jan 09 2010 at 9:33pm | IP Logged
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Marilyn,
THANK YOU!!!!
My rice bags, duh, of course! I'm off to heat them up right now!!!!!
I am on my 6th cup of tea of the night and and the kids are loving the chocolate caliente (hot chocolate) in the mornings!
Thanks Ladies!
__________________ In Christ,
Mimi
Wife of 16 years to Tom, Mom of DD'00, DD'02, '04(in heaven) DS'05, DS'08 and DS '12
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Sarah M Forum All-Star
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Oh my goodness- it did not even occur to me that of course many don't have heat. Praying that you all keep warm!
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Hi Mimi...I wasn't posting Saturday night, but I was reading and offered prayers that all of you would be able to stay warm. It's been CRAZY cold here as well, uncharacteristically cold with lows in the single digits and highs not going above freezing. Brrrr!!!!
Anyway, glad to read that you all bundled up and stayed warm!
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Wow, wow. Just reading this Tuesday, Mimi. Did you make it through or are the temps still dipping?
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Praying that you survived!
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Mimip Forum All-Star
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Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged
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We made it through the worst, Thank God!
Thank you all for your prayers and now back to bedschooling in the warm room
__________________ In Christ,
Mimi
Wife of 16 years to Tom, Mom of DD'00, DD'02, '04(in heaven) DS'05, DS'08 and DS '12
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