The face behind the blog. Meme

Married one year 1983 gown is snug because I was fed. :)

Camping trip 1984. I don't hunt the gun was for protection. We were in the wilderness. Hubby probably was going off to do his business.

Biking trip 1984. I was raised on two wheel motorcycles. Bet you didn't know that.

Our "race car" dun buggy the first one we owned taken in 1984.
In my Glory Days :) Before the kids we had a lot of fun this way. Due to funds being tight we have had to let go of these things. It is too bad we had so much fun. I would love to do these things with the kids.


Taken this year.


Cory from "Living and Loving Every Minute" posted a new meme

The Rules, to quote Wolfgang:
The usual rules apply. Post a short article and include your photograph (or more if you want). If you already have a picture online somewhere, then get creative with a new one.Blog Title:

Name of Blog: A Life Uncommon

Description:
A place to live life with the affiliation of others who share their lives and their lessons. A place to think on the things that I have experienced,witnessed and heard and seen. That We all might focus on the marvelous and the seemingly mundane becomes appreciated.

Name:
Donetta
It means Dawn=Lady, Etta=Lady of the home

Country: USA.

Originally from: Washington State

Occupation: I have been a Bank Teller, Gas Station Attendant, Elderly Care Provider, Insurance Agent, Extended Care Provider for Elementary Children.
By and far my hearts desire fulfilled I am a Full Time Wife, homemaker, and Mother

Email: Should be listed in my profile


Birthday: In May

Favorite Colors: Blue and purple

Favorite Drink: I love pineapple juice, green tea, good coffee, Reverse Osmosis Water

Favorite Fruit: Rainer Cherries

Favorite Desert: It varies, anything non dairy and real I don't like fake (processed) foods.

Hobbies: Anything art, Sewing, beading, scrap booking, painting, writing, cooking, creating.

Some of the blogs I know that have posted pictures of me: Pretty sure NONE.


Next, include the link to the others who have displayed their pix, or even include their pix in your post, adding a reference to it.
That is too much work...but I'll add a few. :)
Wolfgang
Ingrid
Karen
Corey

Corey wrote:Now I'd like to ask anyone else who is in the mood to go ahead and participate. I know many people like to stay anonymous, so I don't want to force anyone out. :)
I agree.

Update on Denise from Shorty bears Place

I just spoke to Denise's (from Shorty Bears place) husband Eddie, Denise was placed into the hospital. They were not able to do her procedure yesterday . She tested with a blood sugar level over 600. They have her now inpatient. Eddie asks for prayer. Please also pray for him. His employer is not understanding and will not give him time off to be with her. He just got off work returned my call and will be off to go be with her. He has not spoken to her since yesterday. This is a terrible thing not to be able to be his mate. Just think how hard it must be for her.

Wordless Wedensday, HEAVY

1999 Little Dove helped Daddy.

Mother of Many.

Momma Bloga Writing Contest
The theme for the September Group Writing Project is “What is motherhood?” We’re writing about how we define motherhood. Feel free to go in any direction that appeals to you. Even if you don’t choose to participate, you can encourage others to participate!

Mother of Many

Will you adopt me?...was the recent comment of one who had already grown within our hearts.

What is Motherhood to me?
Oh Mother of Many Am I.
And if one day I see all their faces I would spin and dance with glee. Hundreds before me, young and old. All of my life I have surrounded myself with a chosen family. I am blessed with my own family true. My Sisters and Brothers and nieces and nephews. My own children... two.They are now saplings around me as once I watered there tender seeds.
Friends are the family one finds along the way.
So many many faces flash in my minds eye.
Oh Mother of many, who as a child herself, tended the gas station store years and years before. I saw children , sometimes slipping them a candy and a smile of course. I loved the children peering from the back seat windows. They would smile and wave excited to see if a candy would be theirs for the day. Little finger waves, gleeful, then a nod of good day as the car would pull away. Years ago now so many have passed by my way.
Oh Mother of many, the children, while I was in school, seventh grade duty in the reading room. Never shaming those who could not read from my kindness they seamed to feed. Then those in the special ed department, the young man who typed with his toes. He walked up to me that last day to say good bye. I will always remember how hard each step for him as he tried.
Oh Mother of many throughout high school all the varied click members would come to me there on the greens and open their hearts and pour out their dreams. Often I was their only confidant and I would weep with them there and pretend we had no more care.

You Are a Blue Crayon

Your world is colored in calm, understated, deep colors. You are a loyal person, and the truest friend anyone could hope to find. On the inside, you tend to be emotional and even a bit moody. However, you know that people depend on you. So you put on a strong front. Your color wheel opposite is orange. Orange people may be opinionated, but you feel they lack the depth to truly understand what they're saying.

What Color Crayon Are You?

At my house we had a play room though barren my womb, it was filled always with children from all around. Coloring books and crayons were a staple at Aunt Donetta's house. Kids on the street were brought there by friends. Parents often, not even caring where they were.
Oh Mother of many I was and have always been.
Dear sweet Heather flew far too soon from a 140 foot cliff. She was a hard one to loose from down the street, three doors yet, so far. Your kittens and laughter still ring in my ear how you had only days before accepted Jesus on my living room floor.
All the neighborhood children began to leave, some moved away. I remember the day I was given two dozen rosed by the little boy down the street . His father had been given them and he wanted them to go to me. Oh the trees that we planted at the front door. The boys digging with the shovel so a Lady could rest. The children would come and tell me their stories and just sit and stare. As I pulled of dried petals and dead headed the roses.
As an extended care provider at the private Christian school. I'll always remember the little boy who at 9 years old and 75 pounds would mess his pants daily until the day I wept, compassion stunned him and ever day after he would say "Teacher! Teacher, I didn't mess my pants!" I would praise his kind nature and thank him too. Although he was retarded, no one had ever expected that he was able to offer anything more.
Oh Mother of many the women would come and sit and spill sorrows of all they had known. Saying never before was there a safe place to tell. I held them and loved them. Two have gone on before to short their lives were.
My children have often been only for a day, week, months or a few years. They reached into my heart and took away all the barren years.
Oh mother of many,who is it all for?
All the glee and the loss and the struggles in life. So many sisters in Christ who have needed the care of a Mother, without children of my own. Non were ever belonging to me and then 16 years later the prophecy came true.
Now mother of many has just but her two. Without knowing how many were mothered before. These two I have charge of. Unlike the so many before to lift up and carry through life's troubled door. A good foundation and a stable home, a refuge to last past night fall.
I am a Mother of many who could ever want more than the privilege to give all to another hearts store. I watch as they each one grows and matures . Little baby buggies, toddling into youth. All of my many children who I taught in the Sunday School Rooms, holding them telling them that God is Love, God loves you and I love you.
I remember the little Navajo boy who would not look me in the eye, only to learn that Elders and those who are respected were to be honored with a bowed brow and this it was so . What lessons they have all taught to me. I have grown.
Young men now and young women raised up around me with children of their own. I , I have my two... I waited a lifetime for this honor to come. How privileged a role is Motherhood honored. We have a great high calling to be a living testimony of love.
Now my children never have to go home. I know that their nights are safe and they have their needs met. The joys of each moment is all I could ever desire. It is in many tasks but rather in the relationships with my Son an Daughter that Motherhood is realized. I have the role Mother it is an office if highest responsibility. It is the joy of a lifetime!. If I succeed then they will become independent lovers of God who can shake the world with compassion, wit and Wisdom.

Tackle It Tuesday

So far I have been able to tackle a bottle of pain pills and my Pillow.
It is now 12:30 I have a 1 o clock appointment with the dentist for another Packing of the dry socket, and hopefully another nerve block. The pain is so sever that I just feel as if I faint if I bend over. I am shaking. I am going to go get some help now.

I had hoped to grind grain this morning and grocery shop, perhaps when I return numb and happy :)
Post script.
Oh boy to I have one that will not be topped!
I went to the dentist a half an hour early oops. Sat in the lobby a mom and her kid came in I sat up straight and put on a better face (no easy task).
They called me back only to pull the other dentist who did the extraction over from the other office. He then told me how rare this complication was.
He proceeded to give me a nerve block (that would not take hold) and and three other injections into the area. He told me my bone is exposed and that he has to scrape it and clean off all the goo from it. He has to make it bleed to form a clot! He thought I was wise to choose the injections.
Folks after all those shots he scraped that bone and I just curled up and wimpered like a dieing dog. He then rinsed it with a strong stream of saline solution that cause my eyes to to over turn the flood gates. I just had enough!, but he was not finished yet! He then packed it while I wondered if that pup was gonna make it to the end.
I drove myself home. and I sit now having to go get my kids.

If any body can top that tackle my porcelain crown is off to ya!

Kids are home and the shots finally blocked the pain ya!

Good Mornig Mother I made your breakfast for you.

Dash greeted me with this wonderful set table (at 6:30 ). It was just perfect. He even used care as to find a soft cereal so it wound not hurt my mouth. I am so blessed. My son is thoughtful and I am just so grateful to have him. We had a game and a nice visit in the hammock. He showed me his library book. It had 17th century realism for the illustrations. This kid is something else. I am so happy to see him love art so much.
Beloved awoke to me gasping in pain around 1a.m. this morning that sweet heart drove to the pharmacy to get my third refill for pain. This dry socket it a challenge to say it mildly.
I held Miss Fiction while she enjoyed her morning show before school. She really did fall into the tub last night. That must of been a sight! They were off to a good start. I dropped them off at school.
I have a dentist appointment at 1 pm . I need to take another pain pill and rest. I might try to get in sooner if I can.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Another good friend, Amy, has tagged me for a fun new meme...well, new to me anyway.

1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.

2. Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of their middle name. If you don’t have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.

3. When you are tagged you need to write your own blog-post containing your own middle name game facts.

4. At the end of your blog-post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

M married at 20 I waited 16 years for my first (daughter) child and 20 years for my Son.
A Art is in my blood, I am all over anything creative. One of my favorite things is to visit little shops that have hand crafted items. I feel alive in them. It is like a room full of friends expressing their inner most ideas.
R rice is one of my favorite grains. I do not eat wheat unless in a position where I am unable to avoid it. Wheat does not like me. I grind a type of wheat called Spelt that I like or at least it likes me.
I I can not eat ice cream. I am allergic to milk and any thing made of it. Now though they have wonderful soy ice cream and Rice dream that is very good.
E Enjoying life is very essential to me . I treasure every moment and do not lay down to trial if I can help it. I fought to hard for this life. I am tenacious that way.

So now to tag others...

Michelle for "Life in the midst of writing"

Amy from "the knightly news"

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Well Amy I'll work on this tomorrow, My beloved awaits me right now.

Please pray for Denise she has a procedure on her heart tomorrow. Thank you.

Denise over at "Shorty Bears"

Daddy Man's Hair Cut

Little Miss Fiction wanted to help me cut Her Daddy's Hair tonight

Oh so serious. Our shaver was malfunctioning so good Ol' sport Dad took to a buzz job. He is a very good sport. I think it is sorta sexy like that guy from the old E.R. series.

She was so intense. We were just tickled how grown up she felt. She has been wanting to help me out in every way today.

I overheard Dash in the tub and Miss Fictions voice in the bathroom. She had fallen clothes and all into the tub, they were laughing. So I being THE MOTHER had to correct them, while Dad and I just shook our heads later thinking how funny that must have been. Still we found it a little far fetched to believe.

Dash made a bar graph (Yes he is 6 yrs old!) to discover how good dinner was the categories were smell while cooking, how it looked (presentation) and taste. Well I got rave reviews. He thinks it is too cool to graph something out. So much power in math. I tell them it is a language of it's own. Few can speak it and fewer understand it. So if he learns it he will have a lot of ability few others have. He has a mind for higher education. His IQ was tested and they stopped at a 6th grade level because he was annoyed with them, he was 5 at the time.

The house has hushed Daddy Man is reading to them for the next 45 minutes or so. This is a magical hour for me. I get tender good night kisses while listening to the wonderfully animated voice of such characters as old men and young boys. I hear children giggle and add their own animated responses to the narrator. Lately he has been reading several of the old Hardy Boys mysteries. I found 30 of them at a thrift store for 50-75 cents each a while back. Both our kids have an extended vocabulary.
I loved homeschooling and still do school them. I just let them go to school for the vocational stuff. Beloved and I teach a lot of character, science, natural history, global understanding, social understand, cultural understanding too. I love to understand WHY people are who they are. I enjoy passing this on to the kids. Beloved and I both like History SO much!
We have some very strong feelings about knowing ones own history, HIStoy (Bible Knowledge), World History and our favorite I think is Early American History even before the colonial period. We are a very patriotic Family.
Does any one out there enjoy History?
I'm going to close now . The history Detective is going to come onto our local P.B.S. channel. We don't buy cable so this is our favorite show to enjoy together.

Beading Break from the blog :)

After being inspired by Jaye over at "Just a Mom"
You have got to see what she has been creating this weekend! Amazingly beautiful! She saved this from a thrift store!
So...While listening to the sound track from "Cold Mountain"...
Today is our day of rest and reflection. We always try to remember to keep a day of rest and rejuvenation. It can be hard while raising a family but we want to live an example of the good principles set out in our guide book.
One way that I rejuvenate my spirit is to create something. So today I chose to bead.
I had a special order last time I was at the clinic with Dash. I laid out all the black beads I had and came up with this.
I have a third hand in the vice. Most folks need some kind of vice or another ;)
When I make lanyards I often use elastic cording for the safety of the person wearing it. This lanyard will be exposed to Special Needs Kids, I want it to be very strong. Gluing the knot is a very important step.

I use a lay out board to set the pattern and measure the length. I chose a progressive (size of beads) due to the client not wanting a rosary looking lanyard. Her husband was kidding her about the other one. She said..." I am Catholic but I don't want it to look like it". So I avoided a counted pattern. She wanted a neutral clear and black and told me to use my skills to create what I saw in my minds eye.

The center piece is a button I thought beautiful for the project. It reminded me of her. I used Silver lined clear glass spacers. Jet black vintage glass ellipticals in progressive sizes.

The clip is used for an I.D. badge.

I think the butterfly is so sweet. Hubby said it looks much more like a piece of jewelery.

When I finished it I got on a roll. I wanted to handle some color. It makes me feel good inside. I LOVE color and use seasonal color pallet for my designs. This keeps clashing away and all the pieces flow automatically into the metal group. Summer/Winter into the silvers. Fall/Spring into the golds. Copper is a fun thing to play with. It can go many ways.

This lay out was so healing in the range I chose. Sky Blue and Light Lemon Yellow were colors used. I was in an imperfect, ha!, mood ;} today so the smaller beads were used randomly.
I ware mostly all summer range medium value (depth of color) The real pastels are to soft for me and they disappear into my olive skin tones.

I used a floating Stirling Silver finding to attach the clasps and the sun medallion.

Dangling earrings are my choice in this design.

I might just keep this set for myself. I need another necklace set like a gravel pit needs a stone, but they are just so pretty to look at. I liken it to playing in a candy store. Only less fattening and easier on the teeth :)

Miss Fiction received a bracelet. The findings were so cute. She likes Non-Disney Princesses.

Sunday Smiles

Willy Wonka found under Dash's fort. That wonderful instinct to den. The princess sat upon her throne.

Miss Fiction entered my room this morning with a china cup and saucer filled with brewed tea. "Good Morning Momma" she chimed as she set the tray upon my lap. She smiled and they both dance happily away. What a smile to awaken too.
I hope you all find wonderful moments in your day today to SMILE. Look for the beauty in the simple pleasures. :)

Dear Readers what would you like to see me post about?

Crafts
beading
sewing
cooking
homemaking
parenting
Marriage
pet care
things of the spirit
writing
projects
shared knowledge of some topic
or any other things you desire? (within discretion of course)

I want to get distracted from my tooth and I need your ideas.
Your thoughts matter. I don't want to be boring you. A lot of blogs do give aways but that would consume to much of me right now and it is not much my style. What do you look for when you come to visit. Is there something I offer you that you think of.

Dancing in the streets!

I did a little research...Oil of clove! Yes I had some and ... I put two drops on the packing in the socket and after it absorbed the pain went from a 10 down to a 4-5 Yep pee~!

I Seized The Day!

This Quilt is for a baby of a vetern.

Reverse

Gwedo ( I dont know where he got this name but it is so cool when he says it) ,and Baba Fet. Mr fet is in the other room. Or course they are fit for battle with their warrior dog.

These are the princesses. Miss Fiction used perma markers to color them.

The kids are playing fort. They need Names and passports to enter each others forts. The princesses each have a throne and the battle druids each have their position as well. They are cooperation so sweetly helping to create extensions to the forts with the dining room chairs. They have furnished them like nomadic tents, with pillows and blankets.

Beloved went over tho a friend house to pray with him. He was asked to come.
We had great fun this morning! I pushed through and we all got in the car. We headed to a "Bass Pro Shop". It was like an amusement park. We had so much fun! The family had been there before without me.
Miss Fiction and I talked with the large bass, trout and cat fish in the massive aquarium. I showed her how to woo them with her spirit. She got it! She too was able to draw them to her. I am a fish whisperer as well as other creatures. I have always had the gift. It is like living inside oneself calm quiet and just being with the creature. They have intelligence and can sense your spirit and know your intent. She was able to achieve a call to four different fish who came to her from across the aquarium. I had one in my call and handed him over to her and she experienced it. It was so HOLY and FUN!
We played boating with the several display boats that even have a dock to walk on. Wow, ducks hanging from the ceiling and taxidermy everywhere. I don't rather like taxidermy so much but the creature were passed so I just looked to the beauty. I was able to watch God provide a bear (it was the last one without a price tag and she let us have it for $10. we both felt a good fair deal) for Miss Fiction, and a pop cork gun for Dash Hawk. We got a little fudge too for later.
We went to a cracker barrel and we given two caramel apples (for later) splurged on supper. The kids had a root bear in a bottle. They were so impressed. We each took turns with a kid and each a game. The kids had a great time independent with each parent taking turns. Each person had there favorite meal it was so fun! Fun, fun, fun ,I had fun! We felt like we had gone on a vacation. We had so much fun. We enjoyed each other so much. I just pressed through.
Now I rest as they play fort and I'll enjoy the show of imagination. I took a pain med and am working on keeping my focus off the terrible pain and on those fish coming to us. It was so cool!
What a wonderful day so far. Beloved will come home later. Then I'll probobly sleep a while. I fell asleep for an instant when we first got home but unknowingly Hubby come into the room full voice, and I need to wrap the quilt I had made for the baby that came a while back. A long while back the kids going to out grow it soon!
The kids and the Daddy Man went to the grandparents I have a quiet house. Ice and pain medication who could ask for anything more, Ha!

Good Morning!

Hello All you Dear Hearted Folks so full of loving kindness. I need your prayers. The pain is real bad. I just read up on dry socket. This healing is going to take some time and I am in for a test of my metal. I know I have overcome some things that were tough and painful, I just feel a little overwhelmed here. This really hurts!
I am going to pull up and just muscle through. I will use care but it is taking me down a bit.
I want to not complain. That sounds like a challenge and it will be but my complaining is not helping anyone.

Thankful list
I am thankful that this will not last forever.
Gods love
My husbands love
My children love
your love
friendships with so many wonderful people
The Word to guide me
the sun to shine upon me
the night to calm me
This breath to sustain me
This summer heat to remind me of the blessings of ac
the green of life on the earth
children's laughter
dog hair on the floor to show we have pets
laundry to show we have clothing
pain to show I am alive
comfort to ease the pain
trials to teach me
character to direct my ways
all the cool stuff I have and get to use.
This awesome home
All my needs provided and knowing the source of all provision
My bones, teeth flesh and all this vessel is made up of
my mind
my spirit
tenacity and determination.
The ability to overcome temptation
A mind to fight! and not get depressed or discouraged.

The last of a day.

I went to go visit with my beloved while he showered. He is so kind to me. He and I took turns napping and playing with the kids. I rested a lot today and blogged a fair amount. Dash and I played "go fish". Dove colored a prince and princess and Dash two star war fighters, life size. They also helped Dad clean the house up. I just held my head against the rocker all day and played on the blog. It got so boring after a while. I got up and cleaned out the refrigerator and paid for it dearly with throbbing so I sat back down with ice.
We all watched "Fried green Tomatoes"($5, at Wal-Mart) editing a few parts. Hubby fetched Chinese food. We are over budget just to have life but we let it go. I was able to eat it tonight! What a feast after days of soft and liquid. I am bleeding a lot and it is really gross. I just got up out of bet to brush and do another pain pill. My ambition and energy have been so low lately. I hope its just this infection in my bone and that I'll feel up to pep soon. I want to be more interested in playing and teaching the children. Sewing and crafting too. I hope that this blogging is not spoiling my balance. I do enjoy it. I just get to lazy I think sitting here and not being up giving the kids more attention, doing chores and art stuff. Considering my health I 'll give myself some slack. I really need to exercise. I am still awaiting the insurance query about the shots for my knee. Oh fun...NOT.
So I laid there and listened to Beloveds voice tell of the things on his mind. We remembered years ago a fluke we visited a church one day and happened to see Alice Cooper get baptized. Our lives have taken so many turns.
I want to have my kids see our life as good. Beloved shared our daughter said that she was sorry I was having such a hard life. Oh man, that mortified me. I want to give such a different picture to her of life. I must watch my words more carefully and not let her see life in a negative light. They have watched me suffer through so many painful health things I feel sad that it must wear on them. I have so many wonderful things in my life, the children being two of them. They have piers that have much younger parents strong of health and vigor. My bones are tired and sore and I feel so worn out all the time. Maybe this tooth thing is a big part of it. Without walking I cant get much exercise. The bone on bone with my knee is a real pain.
I gave Dove a nice leg massage and joint compressions tonight. and Cuddled Dash during the Movie. They are "camping out" in Dash's room tonight. They are such a delightful part of each day. They have become more independent and Dove is really stepping up as an active participant to help around the house more without being asked. Dash is a helper by nature. They both are being very considerate. They both however need some real good attention tomorrow. I think I'll do a girls thing with Miss Fiction and a board game with Dash. I hope I feel a lot less pain with the dry socket tomorrow tipping my head forward is unpleasant to say the least.
I want to want to sew, play , craft. finish up odd jobs. Be interested and accomplish. The Pain medication is keeping me in a lull too. I guess I'm rambling. processing the flow of thought a woman has late in the night. Thanks for being forbearing.
oh funny i just saw the scripture snip it for the new day... scroll down.

Our Family Ways.

Our family is made up of love.
My beloved told our Son how Mother came before the children,then he will care for the children. Mother is first then you.
Our family is set up under codes of conduct that surrounds it with security of purpose. With a strong sense of self we are each affiliated and have a mutual mission that we as a family unit are competent to keep.
When I home schooled, We taught some of these principles through the curriculum from Whole Hearted Ministries.I do not find the book on their the list, and I can not find my copy right now. It is based on character principals. I have the colored sheets on the wall that the kids colored some time ago. This was some of the best foundational training I could have ever done. It is so much of who they are. It was a type of Bible study for children. This also applies to us as adults if you simply alter the wording . Although I fall short, this is our goal for living well.
I lost a few of the sheet off of the wall ,if I find them I'll list them later. Some of them fell off the wall. My home school books are such a mess for it is still hard to address them having to let go of teaching the children was difficult. I am still their first teacher and for ever will be.
My husband and I put a sticker on our refrigerator... "What is the Christianity we want to show our children?" We are not legalistic about this.

OUR FAMILY WAYS

1. We Love and obey our Lord Jesus Christ with wholehearted devotion.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Godliness) Matt22:39-38
2. We read the Bible and pray to God everyday with an open heart.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Trust in God)2 Tim3:16-17
3. We honor and obey our parents in the Lord with a respectful attitude.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Reverence)Eph6:1-3
4. We listen to correction and accept discipline with a submissive spirit.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Submissive)Heb12:11
5. We love one another, treating others with kindness, gentleness and respect.
(Character Quality or virtue: Love)1John4:11-12
6. We serve one another, humbly thinking of the needs of others first.
( Character quality or Virtue: Service)Mark10:43-44
7. We encourage one another, using only words that build up and bless others.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Encouragement)Eph4:29
8. We forgive one another, covering on offense with love when wronged or hurt.
(Character Quality or Virtue:Forgiveness)Col3:13
9. We are thankful to God for what we have, whether it is a little or a lot.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Thankfulness)1Thes5:16-18
10. We are content with what we have, not coveting what others have.
( Character quality or Virtue: Contentment)1Tim6:6-8
11. We are generous with what we have sharing freely with others.
( Character Quality or Virtue: Generosity)2Cor9:7
12.We take care of what we have using it wisely and responsibly.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Stewardship)Luke16:10
13.We are diligent to complete a task promptly and thoroughly when asked.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Diligence)Pro13:4
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15.We work with a cooperative spirit , freely giving and receiving help.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Cooperation)Ecc4:9-10
16 We take personal Responsibility to keep our home neat and clean at all times.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Responsibility)Pro12:24
17 We choose to be joyful, even when we feel like complaining.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Joyfulness)Phil4:4-5
18.We choose to be peacemakers, even when we feel like arguing.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Peacemaker)James3:17-18
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20.We choose to be gracious, even when we don't feel like it.
(Character Quality or Virtue: Graciousness)Heb13:1-2
21.We do what we know is right ,regardless what others do or say
(Character Quality or Virtue: Integrity)Psalm1:1-2
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This is not to denie the things we experience, but to not let them define us. I have taught them that we have choice, to choose the right and it will go well for you. We believe that Character is trained into us (often the hard way),and must be intentionally taught to our children.

Photo Scavengers Hunt (dirty) hands.

My beloved put the new motor in the air conditioner tonight.
We were given it at cost via my sweet nephew.
Kind hands, loving hands.
That touch my face with love.

Bummer Dry Socket! can you say ouch!

It is 1 pm here I just woke up from going back to the dentist after I dropped the kids off, i had to buy some batteries for Dash's hearing aids and than them and the hearing aides (he forgot to put them in) to the school. I could not bear the pain in my jaw.
The sweet lady Margret (our age) found me in the lobby resting my head on the wall I fell almost asleep, she so kindly took me back and we spoke a little. I told her of my morning she asked of the kids special needs. The dentist examined my pulled tooth socket. I had a dry socket.
He said they needed to pack it, then he paused and said you know lets numb you up for the day. SO sweet, then this Margret lovingly touched my hand she stroked it while he did another nerve block (it really hurt bad) but I have been numb since 9am They were so sweet! charged me nothing! I need to go back in on Tuesday to get it packed again if I need too. I came home and slept. I need to eat something and get the anti biotic in me.
Ouch!
I am still numb. I feel like a truck hit me.

The Tooth Fairy

Yesterday at the dentist I was struck momentarily with humor as I visualized the children as the tooth fairy for me. When I got home I told Beloved and he laughed too. beloved asked me "what I wished the tooth fairy would give me", with his sweet smile , I asked for some beads. He took Dash to hunt for the evening meal and they stopped at the store.
This morning we were lying in bed and I heard Dash enter I pretended to be asleep . He gently placed something under my pillow expecting that it would be from the store, I was SO surprised to find all of Dash's allowance change from the other day. I was so touched by his kind generosity. I told Beloved the bag from the night before was on the sofa that I did not open at because Miss Fiction cried out not too when Dash had handed it to me.
So when beloved went in to fix something to ease my tummy He reminded Dash. Again I fained sleep so cute! He snuck in and pushed it under the pillows I pretended to stir a little and he (living up to his nick name ) Dashed out the door. It really brought a lot of simple joy to me. He later came in with Dad and then I 'awoke' to find some beads from the tooth fairy.
I made the mistake of thanking Miss Fiction... she replied "what present, oh did the tooth fairy bring you something". I said "oh yes wasn't that nice of her". She said"it sure was Mom"

Couragous Bloger Award

I just found this sweet gift over at Living and Loving every minute of it. Thank you Corey
2. A Courageous Blogger award goes to Donetta over at A Life Uncommon and A Life Restored.

Donetta is a very courageous woman. Her bloggings of her journey through life is heart touching. Her fierce love of her family is inspiring. She strives to live the life she so deserves. I admire her very much. I am sure she also has one of these awards, but when I think of courage...I think of Donetta.

I want to pass this on to some wonderful Ladies.

Just a mom
Sometimes life takes great courage to face. My dear friend has three teen girls and one is not going so well. It takes courage to face a child who is more than challenging. She faces health issue that are scary too. This woman fostered over 30 infants adopting the sibling set she in now raising and two biological grown daughters as well. She faces things that we never dream of.

Gumbo Lilly
In a fast pace city life we often forget the courage once shown here in wild America. The Land, sky and all of life once met with courage those who honored it and live among it in harmony. Courageously herding cattle, a few sheep, raising chickens and canning jam. I live vicarious through her beauty.

Spiritually Unequal Marriage
It takes great courage to do what is right, to watch ones ways and live ones life to example love to a spouse who is not as you in faith. Strengthen community and exposing ones own limitations all in effort to have clean hands and a pure heart. Courage, humility and grace.

Laughing through the Tears
This endearing woman is a real courageous soul. She has kindly befriended me keeping me and my family close to her heart. She has a wonderful husband and children who are her arms and legs. While living full of tenacity she struggles with life long arthritis that has caused her to be a real example of faith, courage and hope. Suffering with character is a hard virtue to gain. It is in each moment of choice. She chooses well. Courage is a laurel upon her head.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for alligators, and towels on the floor
For pantry light left on and the open door
The little messes all over the floor.
I am tankful for my daughters kisses and best wishes
For Dash the tooth fairy and loving hands.
For Beloveds kisses all over my head
His instant oatmeal that got me out of my bed
For powerful drugs to ease my pain
and antibiotics to regain heath
I am thankful for all of your prayers
for getting the kids to school and back home safe once more.
Gratitude surrounds me in all that I am .
I am thankful for you kind comments that ring in my ear
REST, REST, REST.

Good Morning!

I hope you all have a great day. I'll keep the pain med going. and Rest Rest Rest.