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Were Back!

Good evening all!
Wow that was a nice time in the forest with each other. We had a lot of challenges that we had to overcome however.
Sweet Beauty my Miss Fiction fell car sick on the road up. Sweet baby had no moderation and when we pulled over to check on her let her out a moment. I massaged her a bit with a hug and moved out of the way in the nick of time and then held her road side while all that she had in her removed itself. After cleaning her up and letting her sit up front we continued another hour to the high rim country. She was ill with dry heaves all afternoon and into the early evening. Dramamine finally kicked it in time for her to join the camp fire hour with us. So sweet baby ill. I just thought of Jackelyn and prayed for her momma and her . One afternoon of my daughter ill and I was a helpless wreck. Daddy man was so good with her too. He really helped with the pan emptying and such finally she slept. I got so mad at the enemy for hassling my child a had a bit of a fit! I was just frustrated. I thought about Job wondered if he must of got angry when he watched his family suffer . I guess I was feeling a bit sorry for all the battle at hand and the effects of stress it was causing all of us. So for the first several hours I was not sure if we would be packing up and heading home. She was too sick to travel.
Like my beloved said this will pass, it did.
We had a nice fire and marshmallows too. The milky way was right over the top of us where the canopy opened to a starlit night that just put living in the city to shame. Oh it was breath taking!
The kids set up a "Teribithia" encampment near by. Oh what wonder.
I watched as my family went to go visit W>W> (walk wall) This was a spot discovered in the summer past. Our campsite was deeper in the woods this time nearby the last one we stayed at. Then it dawned on me... If I was careful I might join them. So silently I followed far behind with care and ease I found myself HIKING! YES! hiking on this sweet new found freedom of a knee I am recapturing. JOY! I made it to the top> Oh but Miss Fiction was not so pleased she was worried over me. I am so glad that this can end. My child should be freed of worry over her Mother injuring herself. So we were able to address this fear. It was beautiful up on the rim looking North. On the top of the world. My beloved helped me down using switch back maneuver I very carefully slowly climbed down. Muscle still week and sore but the joint was like a well oiled cog. It worked effortlessly and without that tormenting pain I have lived under for so long. It was awesome! Yet another worm that was denied the right to rob me any more!
Oh so much to tell.
I am waiting on the down load for the pictures.
I have the last shot tomarrow in my knee. So I will have a lot of post fodder this week, while I lay low for three more days.

Sunday Smiles

Hello, I'm home.
Thank you all for your well wishes. I'll post more on the trip ,this one just got me.
Dash Hawk and I were picking dandelions in the forest. He hurried ahead of me and just picked almost all of them. I started to say , "hay wait!" , when he came running over to me and said
"Here Mom You can have all of my wishes!"

Challenged tonight. Refreshed tomorrow.

To the woods yonder
My heart doth wander
Heal me with thy beauty
sooth me with they silence
Until all that is clatter departs from my mind
In your forest embrace
my center and peace I find
absent of distraction attune to His voice
With all this hard work
It is why this is my choice
My forest repose

It has been so hard to get ready for this trip.
Hello, all day (week) I have faced one obstacle after another and have just watched them be swept out of the way. I did well with attitude, but when the lights turned green. This hamster had to get off and running with one knee tied behind my back.
Beauty my Miss fiction gets a new nick name. She is transforming into an outwardly expressed inner beauty that is stunning! She was a huge help. Everyone pitched in. The camper is getting closed up as I type. Hubby is out doing it. They just finished story time while I loaded all the bags they carried out into the cupboards. The ice chest are loaded. I have stepped away and sat down to rest my leg.
The kids are growing up. Wow what a difference even three months have made. They see how essential they are. And how we are all a team. This is a real transformation in them. Independence and the joy of self discovery is so impressive to see.

Thankful Thursday

Hear I am just a woman, one soul of many wherry...yet he lifts me up.
Hope deferred yet heart excited at the knowledge of His will being the best thing for me...the peace of just walking into that.
Tired yet refreshed in the promise of a success at the end of each battle.
Saddened
Flawed and yet fleeing from self condemnation
How many Words the "Word" that transforms every trial into a transformation
Every battle into a skilled sword to wield better in the next skirmish
Pained in bone yet comforted in healing

Hear I am ready momentarily rested, iced to move onto the nest phase of preparation
How the ice does numb the pain.
I have every resource all needs met all promise filled
Just one woman of many who live love work and see the fruit of their labor.
Smiling at the future
Renewed like the dawn ready to begin again
Refusing to lay down my weapons and retreat, I am standing at the ready.
Strengthened in spirit. Bring it on!

Hear, I am just one woman. With One mighty God in three looking after me.
Hear. I am...

Waxing poetic :)

Tooth fairy news

Miss Fiction lost her tooth! wahoo!
So Mr Dash Hawk comes to me and says...
"I know who you are...( he is face to face fixed gaze) Tell me where you keep the teeth and I will not tell her who you are(determined and very serious). I promise not to tell her where you keep the teeth... Oh please... I just got to know... Pretty please with PURPLE on it!."
My favorite color is ...purple :)

"A Camping we will go" , Hi Ho the merry oh....

Well it is a Go!!!! We are heading out in the early A.M. I think my beloved will be like this by mid afternoon.

We could not get the truck to malfunction for the mechanic. Not only that the mechanic WAVED THE $89. diagnostic charge!!!!!!!!!
So Daddy man said we will just go. A man from the small mens group Beloved runs will be watching the dogs. He really enjoys them. I know he will do a great job watching over them and the house. We have been very blessed with help with the dogs twice now. Thank you Sis.
So I walked into this not knowing until just a few moments ago if it was to go or not. It has been so cool that I have not been upset over the not knowing. I just felt like God's will be done.
I have four large bags of groceries from the pantry and the clothes are spinning in the washer. I set our stuff out just got to do the kids still. I am off for a weekend of forest crisp air. The fall does not show well here but we might get to see some color.

It will get cold at night, but Miss Fiction LOVES the cold! I got a farmers jump suit size 6 at the thrift store for $2.50! for the Dash who chills easily. It is well insulated. Daddy Man is so skinny he is afraid of the cold because it hurts for him to be cold, so I grabbed his Russia gear. Should work out fine. We have a furnace in the camp tailor.

Wordless Wedensday

"5 Minutes for Mom" is hosting a Weekly Wordless Wednesday

Tales from the scales challenge and group. Wk #2

Hello all, Well...NO LOSS NO Gain. I did see a glimpse of 189 on Friday before I had the second shot in my knee, but after the shot I over did and have been laid low all week end and all week. So I had lost 2 more than the first two. The BBQ ribs my sweet heart brought home so lovingly to encourage my painful days flat on my back with knee held high returned the favor for eating them! You all know that it did not stop at the ribs...I eat comfort when I am in physical pain. Got to stop that!

193 starting

191 week one

191 week two (at 189 on Friday)

I get to go camping this week end, I will get to walk some. I have the third shot on Monday. I will not be physically active then for three more days. I will how ever try to activate some other measure of self comfort than food! I have lessoned my portions significantly.

Our Son.

Our Son

This morning on the hammock all the cuddling and sweetness of my little boy. He wanted attention so after I dressed , I came out of my room and asked him if he might like to sit down a moment together on the couch. SMILE, he did and wide! We Reposed and then with the seriousness of all that is earnest he began...
"Mom I am very concerned about my friends..."
I reply "oh why is that son?"...
"Well mom I got Dog Pee on my hand and I tried to wash it off, but It still smells bad...I think I can not risk going to school Mom. They might get the germs...Then I would be responsible for getting them sick. So, Mom I think it best if I just stay home from school today!."
Holding to the level of his conversation, I inquired..."Son may I ask just how did you get dog pee on your hand?"
"Well Mom.. I was sliding down the slide and I accidentally put my hand in it and it smells"
Diligent mother I am out of a curiosity that doubted the story. Thinking the child was creating a marvel of "get out of school fiction"... SMELLED HIS little boy hand! YEP! Dog pee eeew!
He with strained face said "mom I don't want to give my friends the germs and get them sick!"
"Lets go wash them off together, we'll kill all those old germs and then it will be alright for you to go to school" Endeared to the core was I.

So I took him in and lathered his sweet baby boy hands (6 years is still a baby!) and scrubbed them in mine. His eyes lit up and he was a three year old in my arms all over again. He was watching my face in the mirror with such admiration I thought I would just melt!

On another not. I told him that I miss him looking back when I drop him off in the morning. This morning off he raced out of the car, to the school doors. Then he was bolted in his step looked over his shoulder and smiled that "holy little boyish smile".
I have a wonderful Son who brings so much joy into our lives.