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Well, not much to report about today.  I had to work outside the home today,    (whine, whine, whine, fuss, fuss, fuss!) so I didn't actually do much of the homeschooling!  My hubby did what he could, and we are missing a key book, so I plan to spend the evening looking for it!  (I was "supposed to" go out to eat with a fellow homeschool mom tonight, but she canceled on me!  Thanks Lisa! )

One quick prayer request!  I clean houses, and one woman I have been cleaning for could really use some prayer!  I started cleaning house for her and her husband about 2 or 2 1/2 years ago.  Well, a few months ago her husband died.  Now when I go to her house I find things in terrible disarray!  Clothes everywhere, shoes scattered over the whole bedroom floor, rotten food, old stinky milk containers, trash not appearing to have been taken out since my last visit (I come every two weeks).   I have found used Attends on the floor, before her husband passed away she never used Attends. I used to be able to clean her whole house (upstairs and down) in 4 hours, now I barely clean the upstairs in that time, even though I no longer have to clean one of the bedrooms or bathrooms. 

She also had been a car wreck recently, and is now taking an Access bus to a Senior center nearby.  She obsesses about the bus all morning, they are not due until 10:30 but she parks herself by the door waiting at 9:00 and is afraid to even go to the restroom because "They might come, and I'll miss them."    (Now, I used to work at a nursing home, and I know the access drivers would honk or come to the door if she didn't come out).  She says she doesn't sleep at night because she is worried that she will oversleep and miss the bus.

She also asked me if I knew a seamstress, because as she said,  "all of my pants have gotten too big".  She has lost weight, and is starting to resemble a skeleton.  She told me she weighs 85 pounds.   She has Ensure, but she rarely finishes a bottle, (I know this because all of the containers are still on her counter when I come, and I have to throw out about 20 containers 2/3 full of rotten Ensure). 

I don't know what I should do to help her, what she NEEDS to do, in my opinion, is to fire me and hire live-in help!  I have even suggested to her that she would be better off with someone living in now, instead of just having my help one day every other week.  But she hasn't done it.

So anyway, I ask that you pray for her.  I care a lot about her, she isn't just a "customer" to me, she was my first customer when I started my housecleaning business, and I consider her a friend.  I wish there was more I could do for her.  It makes me feel a little helpless to see her deteriorate like that.  I guess you could pray for me too, that I would know how to best help her.

Vicki