bdloved geting me to bed im holding walls toniite
rejoyce i win it hutrs gor dash tooooceit y
thank you i do rjoyce in you intercession
i win iwin iwin iwin i nw
it hurts Good night
shower ved meds sunglassed and ear plugs
enemy firering behind my lines tonight
I win
So... I am in the door all of 2 minutes heading for my bathroom with some urgency: Dash stops me at the couch... "
Mom, I got something to offer you, (he begins, so serious that I pause to hear him) Mom if you let me work for you this is what I'll offer you... You see Mom I have $5 well a little more I will work for you one hour and you can give me $1, and if you'll let me work for you two hours you can give me $2...(This goes on and at ten he said)... and if I work for you for ten hours...he paused, well no maybe not thats a lot of hours.I don't think I'd be wanting to do all that( I cover my mouth cause the cute factor had a way of pulling up on my cheeks), but what you think Mom will you accept my offer? So what work do you have to offer Me Mom? I'd be willing to start right now if you have a mind too. :) "he smiles like you know you want me...:)
So all you praying friends... we spent the next hour at it. Dash said sorry your head was hurting you today Mom.
Dove gets an ear full of encouragement and he presented his case, and she joins in. They meet me in the master bath and hauled all the laundry out to the couch and Dove lifted it up (wow I wish I'd of thought of that long ago it was so easy to sort. I usually sit on a stool and do it) on the couch it did not hurt my back so bad. Then Dash carried all the trash cans to the kitchen and played with the dog. Dove vacuumed the master bedroom. We separated their two loads and the kids turned them out. Dove separated my kitchen load. We all folded the laundry kids putting theirs away without being asked !!!!!
They each cleaned their bedrooms and the received $1.50 each for a good hours work. When it was time and they thought to go to the store they choose to wait for if they do more tomorrow(!), they gain more money toward the $10 toy Dash has his eye on. HE knew he did not have enough yet. Dove complied and agreed to get more earnings after school toward a better toy! NO BRIBE just fact presented.
Thank you.
Kids are home soon and the sound HURTS really like a stabbing knife. I do not want them to ever think of them selves with a knife for a voice. It is so hard. I am so hoping that "I" can be enjoyed, and enjoy them this afternoon. They are such great little people and they need me.
Annie
Is hosting this week.
You're 21.
What's going on in your life?
Who are you spending most of your time with?
What's favorite things to do? eat? hobby?
I am newly married only three months. I am settling into nesting into my very first home. All of a glorious 900 square feet of paradise on earth. I am being loved like I could have never known was possible. I am being taken all over Arizona for camping and week end trips, My new husband plays the guitar for me every night and sings to me when he returns from his night shift job.
I planted daffodils under the two baby trees out front after I dug out the dirt. I am washing my clothing in the new (used) washer my new brother and lister-in-law gave us for our wedding. I hang them out to dry. The home is now no longer a bachelor pad so there is a lot of elbow grease poured out to make it nice.
I pack lunches and cook home cooked meals with joy. I am so very humbled to have a man that loves God that I am in shock.
I eat . I eat foods that fatten up my rail frame. I like it! We have popcorn the way I make it in the oven under the broiler I brown the buttered and salted kernels.
I have a large new family all around me. I see myself as gutter trash in the new family that, I believed I was accepted into, only because, "he" choose me.
I learned that the boyfriend I had left months before is dead.
I spend all the time with my new Husband, or with a sweet kitten named "Jasper". I work hard on the land and inside the home to create the very best out of it. I have plants hung from the ceiling and growing out like a sun burst across the sky. I Quilt a blanket for our bed out of the fabric scraps of my youth and of his youth. My new Mother-in-law gave them to me. Life was amazing. I had little to no contact with my family it was good. I was safe. It was Christmas everyday!
Two cans say it all!
I wiped it out once. I sprayed the bottom again to let stand another 2 hours. It is actually a blue/slate gray interior! Ha! It is a self cleaning oven so being in the desert and not having ventilation I have not tried to use the self cleaner again after the first time (I thought the house was going to burn down).
Now they have this product said "safe for self cleaning ovens". I waited many years for this oven so I am sorta cautious about what I use on it.
5:30 Well it sure was not "FUME FREE"
Hubby walked up and shot me in a bit of pain trying to finish,my knee and back were not to happy with me, but I'm stubborn. Beloved made the famous oatmeal dinner of his.
Part way done.... Paper work is a long, time consuming job.
The last of the studio mess to be sorted and deposited around the house.
My aprons have full pockets to sort and deposit into various places.
So now , When I posted this I was committed,
or maybe you should commit me for posting it! HA!
Paper work to fill out and also a few bills for utilities to pay. (have yet to get to this)
SEE what a great
motivator!!!!!!!
Come join the motivated fun over at...
5 Minutes for Mom
Hubby came home with this it had been sent to his folks house for him by mistake. Well I recently looked at a new razor and discovered how very expensive they are. I was delighted that day to find razer blades for my old personal touch. They were the last ones on the shelf and they were very cheep. However God just gave me this very fancy new one FREE! Beloved uses an electric shaver.
California King 360 thread count set for $15.,
A wonderful new Huge Mortar and Pestal $8. I have always dreamed of having one,
My very BIG splurge/ investment ...an 8 qt. aluminum clad Calphalon (made in America) soup pot (no more burned bottom) that matches my old set, that I collected, (I waited for so many years for) for $58. This is a $180.-$200. pot!! It has stainless steel handles that are beefy and high quality> YE PEE!!!!!
Tell me what God has done for you like this recently? How many ways have you been blessed with provision? Tell about it. It is said that this is what we are to be speaking about. The things that we have heard and seen and experienced in HIM.
I keep images of WHY I DO IT above the machines.
Sorry side ways image here,
I purchased a large pour spout dispenser and refill it.
By pulling it out slightly All that needs be done is to open the washer soap door, push a button.
This is a ergonomic approach. Save all energy you can to do the things you love to do.
By keeping an old cloth diaper under it all drips are absorbed.
The cloth gets washed every now and then.
Arm and Hammer (I can find lead in adds for this item half price) is a purchase I make usually at least 6 ( this week 2.99 for 32 oz.) of them at a time that is three/four months laundry. I have a storage outside for extra soaps, light bulbs pantry papers/foil.
A & H has no perfume or harsh ingredients (we all have sensitive skin).
After many years they now have a Downy that is fragrance free ( try to find it on sale it is not often so however). With allergies and Asthma under our roof we live preventively.
Show us your dishwasher!
I think it would be cool to learn from each other.
I was tagged by Corey
If I won a million Dollars, first I would be a little skeptical.
This Sunday night we watched an old Walton's DVD on just this very issue. Of course it was during the depression so it was a $250. bequest. Grandma Walton promised $50. for the church roof, $3. per kid and then $100. to John Boys Education. Mean while the hot water heater was on the fritz. So they spent The education fund on th Hot Water heater and took gram pa's old watch in for repair. The bequeathing was not met due to medical debt on the estate and so all was lost. Gram pa sold the watch to get less than half the Education fund back. It was the TIME that grams spent at the university that was the saving grace.
So having had that in mind I think I would do nothing until all was throughly investigated and taxes paid. Then when the monies were in the bank after I changed my phone number and address :) I would consider it and only then.
A million dollars is not very much. It will not go very far after taxes.
I would pay off all debt on my home.
Get beloved a nice truck a white one that could pull the trailer and we could all go camping in. Set aside a fund to pay for Insurance and registration for many years. Set aside a cash fund to be available as needed.
I would place a large amount in low risk investments to bone up our retirement. Including large 529's for the kids educations.
I would pray for wisdom in a praise offering to give back to others, I would take my time and be wise here. It would be toward Widows and Orphans Health I think. True widows.
We would travel as a family and explore the world around us.
Move to the forest somewhere or live there seasonally.
debt free. Set for retirement.
Now if They feel like playing....I tag.
Michelle G.
Trishia
Christine
Kailani
Ametra
What They Do With Their $1 Million.
1. SYH will spend for Family
2. Miche will give to the needy
3. Montessorimum will keepsake
4. Lovely Mummy will spend & save
5. MummyInVain will fully utilise
6. Babyfiona will buy house and open business
7. MonkeyWong will go for a long vacation
8. Emila Yusof will realise her dream
9. Mariuca will open a Perfume Gallery
10.Janice Ng will upgrade house and go for long vacation
11.Hin will blog to donate for charity
12.Bobo will invest in property and let her parents go on a holiday.
13. Adrian will spend it all!
14. Brad will spend all of his money on foolish gadgets
15.Danielle will buy a cottage in the woods and never look back
16. Brown Baron will hold a $17,500 blog contest.
17. Bobby will be on a World vacation forever.
18. Wolfgang will try to live, fix the things that can be fixed with what money can buy, and (hopefully) live happily ever after (feel free to shorten to include only the linked part when you repost please).
19. Ingrid would do the sensible thing financially, then take her family with her and become a globetrotter for six months.
20. Corey, Remain debt free,Dream Home,Jeep for Hubby,Local Charities,investments both short and long tern, Gifts for friends.
21. Donetta Pay off my home. Get Beloved a nice truck. Large amount in low risk investments, Give a praise offering, Travel, Move to a forest somewhere.
1- Tell what you would do.
2- Tag 5 people
3- Reproduce the list of bloggers who have already done this challenge and add your name at the end.
fruit in Season is our Hostess.
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue...Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
How wonderful it is to be Married to a good friend. My friend knows me so intimately that he understands where words fail me.
His Embrace says it all. He honors me. It was he who saw me for who I am before it ever became the real fruit in mine own eyes. Now that I see me as he has always viewed me I am stunned I did not frustrate him beyond measure with the low view I had of my own self for so many many years. Never really believing his words over me and just thinking he must just be bias. He must have been so hurt so many times not to be believed when he spoke such love, such truths over me.
Listen to your husbands . What do they say about you? Is it true, I mean is it? If so receive what they have to say when they give edification to your soul. You will honor them. (likewise if it is a lie don't buy it!) Do you hope one day to see yourself through your own eyes the way they see you? Then even if you have to pretend believe them. Try it on. Hope that they never get to exhausted to tell us how beautiful we truly are.
How patient a love he has over me.
...You pull into your garage after you drop your children off for school, turn off the car (thank God), pause for a moment of gratitude in prayer and then wake up 1 1/2 hours later in your car in your garage. I missed my walk at the mall with my dear friend over at Photo Daughter of the King. I just had a real day overcoming my challenge of the night before. It is amazing how much energy courage and kindness can take.
Come test your talent and spin a pen .
It is the greatest blog in cyber space!
Come one, came all!
It is the one,
The ONLY!!!!!!!!
Carnival of Family Life
"Why Home school" is hosting this week. Come read a varied selection of wonderful blog writers.
Come explore the venue of the week!
Each event one of a kind.
Your wildest pen in hand.
For it is you who will make it grand.
Join the fun, pour a cup or brew some tea sit a spell, It will be just swell
Tell your story or pen something new.
This week we celebrate with this wonderful host at... Why Home School?
Each week a new Host displays it all for us in a wonderful list with links and categorized by topic.
All you do is write a post, then click on the time at the bottom of your post and make a page link, highlight the http line, use control "c" then go to the carnival page use your control "V" fill out the lines and your in!!!!!!
Its a fun ride and you'll get to meet great writers and wonderful new friends.
This message a kindness to Kailani of Island Life who is a wonderful blogging friend.
Good Morning! I began my day with a wonderful child who had ended his day before writing.
Last night our family time was enjoyed watching DVD's of the Old Series "The Walton's". We have over the years collected several of the yearly series. If you know the old T.V. show you may remember it is based as the memories of an author. John Boy Walton, his family held values and character with education a high priority.
They held fast the amazing power of the word, spoken and written. It was understood that there was power; weather the words themselves were understood or not.
Today I am impressed as my children are both pretending to be like John Boy Walton. They are playing with the written word. I teach my kids that there is the power of life or death is the words we speak. That within our tongue we have the power to express Life or Death. I have also understood how it can be turned and twisted and become a force that the speaker may not have intended.
We as writers we have a great responsibility to use our power wisely. We all have the responsibility to use our spoken word to give life. I teach my children to speak as if kindness were the rule of your heart. Our hearts are all intertwined. May my words reflect my heart in such a way that I bring little or no shame to those around me. That I never be an embarrassment or hurtful intentionally or innocently.
Our words are also a mirror a reflection into our hearts. I often marvel at how very wounded we all must be to have so many scabs faking off and such oozing. How very much I desire my words to bring a balm a life of their own. I hope with all that I am that this be the gain to anything and all things I am.
My children are awaiting my words and touch .
Ya all have a great morning and today season your words from above for tomorrow you may have to eat them. Ha! :) If you do wind up gnawing on them I hope that they taste marvelous and that you can savor every bite.
:)
I am in a lot of pain tonight.
I had a post to write for the other blog and it left my heart hurting.
We took the kids to a wave pool and that left my knee and back hurting too.
I'm sad and sorry for the hurt in the world.
I wax human, mortal and clay.
My Beloved rests He needs it, so do I but I need to wait for the Advil to kick in and lighten the pain. I had asthma bite me at the pool today. I had swam a long lap, I felt so free and so strong. I reached the pool edge and I had a truck on my chest . I was sucking air so bad I felt sorta afraid. I held the edge and walked into the shallows. When the wave pool was on I stayed with Dash in the shallow while Daddy Man and Dove went to the depths, Oh she is so athletic and loves the intense play. Dove is so amazingly beautiful and jollies in her Daddies attention. Kids both wear vests so I am O.K. with it. I wear a inner tube because I just can not trust my knee if someone knocks into me or if I have to grab Dash. Dash is not O.K. in the deeps so I keep him close with me. It was a lot of fun watching him glory in his boyhood. I feel sad my bones won't do what my mind thinks they should (wishes they could). I must loose some weight and try to get a strengthening(maybe the insurance will cover the shots) , and continue to come to terms with my physical limitations. It pulls a vacuum! (sucks!) pg blog :)
I miss my Mom (or the role of one for me) tonight and all the others who have passed on. I am sad. I miss my good friend Mary Margret she passed way too soon. Marjorie my sweet Sister in Christ is a sweet memory now, so many years gone by. Maybe they are up there at His right hand praying for me now cause I'm crying. I only cry when I am feeling loved. I'm just having a good "rip the gut" cry. When I was in my bed just laying there before I came back in here, I just ask God to read me scripture in my head. They flowed like pink lemon aide I love the scripture His voice within me. I love who it has caused me to become. I just can't believe that I was once so different, but I am. I am .
I am so loved so endowed with every good thing around me. I have everything I could of ever dreamed of surrounding me in persons and possessions. I am so blessed, so whole, so loved.
My weeping pours out of me it physically hurts.
Oh Dear Anonymous you have touched something so deep within me that I heal in its weeping, its pain.
I won.
Thank you.
As early as 2000 I had a class room set up in the family room. I taught Dove pre-k. some of K and then because we ere going to Russia to get Dash, we placed her into a public K., She attended some of 1st grade in public ,but the school was a charter and they did not have to follow government access to special needs for kids, she was being pulled out of class twice a week. an aide would work with her, although I appreciated it; well, it was not someone with the skill set that she should have worked under. The school was very accelerated and it damaged Doves esteem. I watched her decline and pulled her out mid 1st grade. Only to find out that be had been being targeted by a bully. I taught her 1st grade and second grade yet we had a lot going on. Our Son came home VERY ill. I had a radical hip-hip hysterectomy 6 weeks later. Dash had two surgeries within his first 6 months home.
Dove thrived loving to learn and help. Dad found her one day mopping, too sweet. Well we brought her baby brother home from Russia when he was a very ill 10 month old who needed a lot of medical attention. I taught full year round. Very intentional of all the base foundational topics. I placed a hight emphasis on character development. I taught them why our family held our beliefs, health, science , math, geography with a strong emphasis on culture and societal belief systems. Reading and Art being two we really celebrated with gusto. I was so busy teaching that I am grieved to find very little photo records. I never just got to be "mom"
My children know the continents and the socio economic characteristics of nations and peoples. They understand them selves in space and on the earth even down in to the communities they live in.
We loved school and a school it was.I have supplied all aspects with everything imaginable to equip them with the wonder of education. Behind them is the widow that is in the studio. Each child is computer literate and they understand hardware and software of the mainframes. I subscribed to some wonderful home schooling providers and we used A Beka, and many other recourses. We made a A huge investment in the future.
In the spring of 2007 we had our 25th wedding anniversary. It was the first time Beloved and I had a rest in some time. All the while we home schooled we also kept pace with a multitude of therapy for Occupation, speech, physical, Psychologist and psychiatrist for medication to be maintained. I was worn out!
The academic and social aspects were needing a greater focus (we did do a lot of play dates as well). It was time for me to let go of a life long dream and a mission I had worked so hard at being competent in. I was over my head. When Beloved lost a career (the plant closed down) that then also called my other skills into a greater need. Mind you I have always been a professional homemaker but my skills had become in greater demand
I waited 16 years before we finally had adopted Dove, We were married 20 years before I had Dash as my Son. All the while facing the battles and trials of life. Surgeries to many to count.
It was time to let go.
After a big fight with God a let go. I have overcome and learned a lot about trusting HIM with my children . Home school was not a mistake! It set them up very well with strong foundations and a greater understanding than most children, then even most adults :)
So now here is the new, After obeying God I have received a new sewing machine worth over $8000. (that I returned so that the giver would know that they were loved unconditionally) It came back to me and now I have a woman who knows I love her and a new machine ( my other was a 1957 phaff), Fabric galore, A "dream" of a beading center that I longed for since childhood. (several people gave me beads) I also invested in some estate sales on e-bay (hours of sorting).
Just this week I received a gift, a new professional cutting table. My sister who also recently moved gave me threads for embroidery, and many other tools, fabrics and supplies.
This weekend The STUDIO became the focus for attention.
I turned this big job into what is to follow
The embroidery machine is covered foreground.
I also just received a whole new wardrobe from a woman who passed away.
Her daughter and I stayed up late into the night recently speaking of the things of the spirit.
With the loss of my husbands former career we lost 2/3 of our income and if it were not for that we would not be qualifying for federal aide for our son who may have Ushers Syndrome ( a condition where total blindness/deafness is at threat).
You see God has His eye on the sparrow!
This is one of the tops that was given to me.
I altered it and added a little more pizazz.
I am a little embarrassed to show you my Studio. It is a culmination of so many gifts that I am crying now to show it to you.
LOVE is one of the only things that will bring me to tears.
I learned in childhood never to cry. I have been given so much.
This is what I was able to do with it this weekend.
A messy beading table. I placed the fold out table collapsed behind it to add a little depth. I can fold out the wing if I do several lay outs at a time. For mass production to sell things at craft shows and up at the Pine Gallery.
Well, cleaned up it looked like this. Following the lead of one of New Chelse Morning, I started a nice journal of images, I am inspired by. I have studied color for wardrobe and make up extensively. I use this knowledge in clothing and jewelry design.
It looked like this afterward.
In another image below Beloved put up a photo shelf over the left side.
I had all this yet to sort out, and many small jobs are represented here. My sewing table gets to be a family catch all. Under the table I stored the tempura and paint supplies, the bin is full of batting and quilting supplies. Under the sewing wing are bins sorted by textiles and various findings and such. The home school papers are yet to be sorted in this image. A bitter sweet job.
Looking up, in by inch.
I hung the stained glass quilt blocks above the four corner windows. They are so beautiful (they too, were a sweet gift)
After a long day of little jobs and fun creative expression.
The scraping job of our Indian wedding is in a few bins under the table too.
For years I have kept little storage bins of findings, buttons, zippers, items separated by like things, tubing, keys and key bobs, cutting tools, leather working tools, rulers/protractors,you get the idea. I have the big binders divided into year/months for the scrapping I have yet to do. My study books, bible references. Parenting books are here, with hazardous things up high. This still needs a good work out. This once was all the teaching resources, so I have not gotten it all the way it needs to be. I created a little home office off to the left. We made a private room for Hubby so he has his space. He has the mens support group there weekly.
See the pink shelf he put up.
This corner is still wanting.
Beloved gave me the jewelers desk for my birthday two years ago.
That big stack to the sky is sewing and repair jobs in the cue. You'll see them as I get to it.
This is my nitch. Beloved turned my study table into a monitor stand. The blue basket on the floor is all the work to be done to our master address list. As I told you I was poured out. So many things were neglected due to just nothing of me left for so long.
This is the rocker I raised both children in. Under the desk wing are the storage bins of supplies. Almost all of them acquired over the years off of clearance racks or thing retired and given to me by fellows. Many elders have honored me with the things they once held so dear.
I look forward to the months ahead. Where now I have learned that it does matter that I pursue the arts. That is who I am an artist . A Mother is who I get to be now, that I have more time to just be with the kids. I will always be their first and primary teacher. I receive the privilege to have others help me give them an academic education. I just get to be what I always waited for and longed to be "a Mother". An "artist" , "writer" and a "home maker" who is a very loved "friend" and "Wife" to a man who loves God.
Equipped with all the necessary drinks, snacks and
binoculars we awaited the sighting.
"Daddy Man" mounted this for us today.
Now I can have a place just for the back packs and lunches.
I have collected shelves like this one over the years and have a few around and one or two in the attic. They always come in useful.
That is one of the paintings his mother did, It is oil on canvas.A view of Sadona's Oak Creak Canyon. She is a well established artist .
This is just off the kitchen on the way to the kids rooms.
After some effort this Morning Dash retrieved the note from the tooth fairy that had fallen out from under his pillow and onto the floor. He lost his tooth in the play ground.( it fell out at recess) AT LAST!!!!!!!!! Poor kid has been suffering for a week!
He was hoping for a transformer... The tooth fairy had a late night. 
See all gone!
Thank You Annette
Autism Awareness 
Total Egg count to date 4000 apx
February 2011 they are averaging 3-5 eggs a day
Only 5 birds since Prissy died.
Hens began laying again a few weeks back. The count is approximate
Winter of 2008/2009
Lemon Curd from the neighbors gift of fruit off her tree.
strawberry jam
sour dough bread from scratch
Laundry Soap a 1/2 cent per oz
I found the bar soap in an Asian $1 store, if you find it grab several
spring 2010
