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CindyM · 10-07-2007, 06:45 PM

Hey Al! Happy Thanksgivng to you and your family and all the rest of our Canadian PALS and CALS! Will you be having pumpkin pie with that turkey? Cindy

elisadasilva · 10-07-2007, 09:51 PM

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who have visited our site and added Baby Daniel to your prayer lists. If you'd like to help, you can help by spreading his story to others online, to people you know, etc. We are still trying to raise the money for his helmet and are hoping that if more people know about it perhaps they will start to donate.

Al · 10-07-2007, 09:54 PM

Yes I had pumpkin and apple. Small pieces of each though.
AL.

CindyM · 10-08-2007, 07:33 AM

ALl- now I have a craving for apple pie! How did the deep fried turkey turn out?

CindyM · 10-08-2007, 07:34 AM

Elissa- thanks for joining us. So nice to meet another member of your wonderful family. I hope you raise a lot of awareness (and funds!) for Daniel's needs! Cindy

Al · 10-08-2007, 01:20 PM

Turkey was great. Crispy skin not greasy but juicy white meat. !5 lb bird cooked in under an hour.
AL.

MtPockets · 10-08-2007, 01:36 PM

Just to be sure you know, elisadasilva, is my wonderful daughter I have talking to all of you about. Lil Daniel and the family will be going to New Orleans Children's Hospital for his surgery on Friday, October 12th.

Please again, remember Lil Daniel in your prayers and of course my daughter Elisa.

You can read a lot more details about this in my blog, by clicking on the blog entries 1 under my rainbow over there on the left.

God Bless
Capt AL

MtPockets · 10-14-2007, 11:58 AM

My grandson went through the surgery and did really well on Friday morning. After the surgery he had a problem with vomiting for awhile, but they were able to control it and sent him home this morning.

My daughter just left my house with him and he is real active and seems to be handling the pain well. I'm sure she will post updates on her web page for those wanting to follow Lil Daniel's progress.

I just want to thank everyone for your prayer and support during this time in our family. It's one thing to know I'm dying but quite another to think I might lose a grandson. Scary to say the least.

Please continue to pray for our family as there are still many needs associated with Lil Daniel's situation.

God Bless
Capt AL

MtPockets · 10-14-2007, 12:48 PM

Just wanted to share an after surgery picture with you. This was taken about 30 minutes ago.

God Bless
Capt AL

liz · 10-14-2007, 01:22 PM

Ooooh, I just wanna give those cheeks a big SMOOCH!

Frizzel · 10-15-2007, 09:20 AM

Liz! Our family uses that phrase as well for 'kisses'. That little guy looks like he's going to be alright. THanks for sharing your families progress with us Captain. Give him a smooch on those little cheeks from us, too....

CindyM · 10-15-2007, 03:48 PM

What a sweetie! He looks like he is taking everything in stride, too. CIndy

MtPockets · 10-16-2007, 07:04 AM

Thanks so much everyone. He is a blessing to us. I am about to go update my blog to give the link where you can view before and after pictures including an MRI to show what he faced during the surgery. Just click on the blog by my name.

God Bless
Capt AL

MtPockets · 11-29-2007, 10:32 AM

Do you need propping up?? I know I do. LORD, PROP US UP

Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon, who always prayed,

Lord, prop us up on our leanin’ side.’

After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.

He answered, ‘Well sir, you see, it’s like this....I got an old barn out back. It’s been there a long time, it’s withstood a lot of weather, it’s gone through a lot of storms, and it’s stood for many years. It’s still Standing, but one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn’t fall.

Then I got to thinking ‘bout that and how much I was like that old barn. I been around a long time, I’ve withstood a lot of life’s storms, I’ve Withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I’ve withstood a lot of hard times, And I’m still standing too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, ‘cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning, at times.’

Sometime we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that We shouldn’t, so we need to pray,
‘Lord, prop us up on our leaning side,’ so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.

God Bless
Capt AL

MtPockets · 11-29-2007, 10:43 AM

Quote from Ben Stein (God?)
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary
"Here with a few confessions from my beating heart:
I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife. Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?" In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.
I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW".
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.
Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards . honestly and respectfully.
Ben Stein"
He said it all for me
God Bless
Capt AL