Heads or Tails? 13 *V*

The prompt is for "vote" or "V"

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Today Dash told me they "Voted" at in his class at school for a new President.

The candidates were

Mickey Mouse

Goofy

Donald Duck

He assures me that "Goofy" will be our next President. Boy talk about "from the mouths of babes"! :)

Well if it is going to be a goofy president it sure beats one that could be "Mickey Mouse"

A two apron day!

I bought a $18. roast for under $9 as a lead in add. The roast was on special.
I cut it down into some nice 1/2 steaks and used a ginger/garlic sauce on them. I'll do a marinade and make another meal. I had left over cooked meat for a lunch for myself.
I lost a jar of garlic that I put up in olive oil. I used the garlic already husked that time when I put it up. Never again, I'll husk it myself. I have never had that happen before . I think that it had a preservative on it,

Well Good Evening!

This has been a two apron day. I am tired!
The cortisone is begining to wear off and I am feeling the exhaustion. This hamster has run the wheel hot again. I am such a funny girl. I love everything I have been able to accomplish this week. Well the day has been full and I am ready to just sit back and go for a visit to all of your wonderful abodes (blogs). I thought of a lot of things this week that impress me about life.

Have you ever just stopped and felt the love of your maker just surround you and embrace you. I love the feel of my face in Gods hands Him just lovin' on me and resting my mind.
Today Beauty is missing being called (or being little ) Little Dove. I held her for over an hour on the sofa and watched kids public T.V. with her. She is so long on my lap now. I just adored her and thought about how fast the years are flying by. I am so glad to have the perspective to savor each moment. I saw every one else with the kids growing up fast and learned from it. I love the moments with the kids. Dash comes in from out side while I was holding Dove and says.."Mom ...Did you know that where ever you can go God is right there and I can talk to him when ever I want?"

Apron Exchange

Apron Exchange
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Tackle It Tuesday

I think I might add this job in, I have a man coming tomorrow to help me with the tree out front and if I get this done perhaps he will offer the kindness to haul off the trimmings.

Wow , I just did that in 15 minutes. My time is being redeemed! I am going to have a little lunch and rest a while.

I have to find an immunologist and go through the process of getting an insurance extension for out of area exception.
Lisa B. I got the beads I needed yesterday at a specialty shop. I just have not been happy with the lanyard. I look forward to get to do it today. Sorry for the delay.

Good Morning!
I have a smooth day today not to many hard things to do. The laundry needs to be put away and sorted for Dash has clothing here that I have to clear out. Some of it is out grown.

Not to bad a few loads to do> I got our stuff hung up this morning. I awoke and showered and hung out in my closet to hang the few things up there.
Got three now going

I gifted the home with flowers. So I want to get them in.
DONE in just under $40.

I have dirt under my nails and I feel Alive!

I had some from two days ago I found a good price on and then last night the kids had a play date and I was able to rush off to Scottsdale to do errands. After a wrong turn on the freeway that gave me a lovely drive east I got turned around again. I was able to get an Rx, drop off the Christmas stockings for the Sewing Guild and had a parking spot not 20 feet from a Home Depot cash register and the extra flowers on sale very cheep. So I took the 10 minutes and grabbed them made the purchase and was off through the wonderful reservation view on the way to retrieve the children. It was so beautiful the cotton is in pickin' time. The fields were white with "Arizona snow" White Cotton as far as my eye could see. I t was glorious. I got to see a sunset with mauve that was so plum you could just take a bite out of it. The fields that had been picked were soft plowed open earth with a haze of dusk that just set the soft clouds inches above the Earth. Now mind you if I were breathing that earthen cloud I would have a lesser pleasure , but alas I was in my white Honda just cruising along watching the day just fade to dusk. The kids had a great time and I was refreshed. Thank you Michelle. I hope it gave you a few moments to write.

Rena STINKS!!!!! She has a Vet visit at 1:45
WE need to do "Dung Duty" the yard needs to be readied for next week.

Kitchen is not to bad


Gel Glossing the counters
This Building is 10 years old now. The counters are tho originals we are the second owners.
This really keeps the daily maintenance easier, for the messes wipe up fast. It also masks scratches a bit.


Oh next week!
My Sister will be in town and on the 17th I will be hosting a large "Thanksgiving" Event for my siblings kids and their children, to get together. One of my sisters is going to move to Europe and so I'll get her son (it will be his birthday) and his cousins (My next eldest brothers kids) all together. As the last child of 8, my siblings children all have kids that are a little younger ( like mine) so I am an Aunt to people not too much younger than myself. Most of these kids however are the younger crowd that have very small children. So I will be doing some entertaining posts soon.
I will also be getting up into the attic for the decorations.
Then on Thanksgiving Day I will do for my Husbands parents and his brother.

Welcome new readers. Nan it was nice to visit with you. Dee I'll have that apron on the way. It was nice to meet you.

Mother and Daughter Blog Carnival

I love my daughter!
I love her laughter
Her kindness
her silliness too
her advancing developmental ways
her efforts
her knowing and humor

Manic Monday *Earth*

Manic Monday at "miles to go before I sleep"

Menu Plan Monday

Check out "Organizing Junkie"
For great Ideas for meal plans.

I will substitute beef I have in the freezer for the veal.
I will use some salmon I have for the monk fish.
I have some ground turkey in the deep freeze as well.
This is my "Eating for your Blood type" meal plan.

From the Mouth of a Babe

"Daddy Man" is out in the garage having a temper fit over a day under the sink when Dash comes into the garage and approaches him...and said "Dad your not the only one having a bad day, There are lots of people all over the world having a worse day than you"...
Hubby tells me he just had to laugh. This has been a very frustrating day for hubs his head hurts from all of yesterdays dust and well he has just been a challenge to be around to be kind.
We are able to laugh about it, but I'll tell you it was wearing very thin.
It is three o.k. and after four trips to the stores (three different stores) and less than $15. we have a new R.O. lines and the facet is repaired (if hired over $400. easy).

Make a simple Apron

As posted earlier today I have these scraps that were given to me.
I found matching mini-bias binding in my Stash o' Plenty.

After using the rotary cutter to achieve perfect match I pinned the bias binding. Looking through my Stash o' Plenty I found complimentary solids for the sashes. I cut two 4 inch strips for sash, and two 3 inch strips for neck.

Use care to be exact on this point to have a nice finished edge.

One finished with large buttons for the fun of color. The sash loops can hold a towel. I left the sashes long for the fancy effect. It just slips over the head.

Got this one done too.

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Abundant Fabric gifts and purchace.

Sandi gave me that beautiful pastel block print fabric many yards in it. It is rather heavy fabric calls for some special project. I have pants to make for Dash. My skinny tall boy. Beauty had prayed for some cow print back when we made that puppy. See the monkey socks. I'll make the kids some monkeys for Christmas. The stripe I got for $1 yard for t shirts for the kids. That yummy Pink in the background calls for an Apron for me! :).. The plaids will be great for a winter dress for Beauty. It has a nice matching solid blue. Thank you Jaye.

The Pastel green and print are so perfect altogether $1. yard. For a quilt maybe or a nice PJ.
The beautiful blue (upper left for dresses for me:)

There is a Ginger bread house, and several of the house blocks and fish blocks. The o'ld school house sacks are too cute! I might make some new kitchen towels.

Wow! the fabric you see here is mostly gifted to me by "Just a mom" Jaye. She and her buddy Sandi have been quilting up a storm. I went over for a visit and came home with a large part of this. Some of it I got at Wal-,mart for $1-$2 per yard. Put the greatest of it came home from Jaye's. See the pretty picture she gave me too.

Jaye had cut out pads for high chairs I see aprons!
Well I am off to a hot iron and a fun time sewing.
Enjoy your day.

Impromptu foot soak

Good Morning!

A 6:30 a.m. impromptu cool water foot bath.
Our IO system had a failing this morning. Thank the Lord it did not reach the Laminate wood floor!

I made eggs for Dash.
Then for myself I made some too but my way.
Look at the size of that beautiful Mushroom.

I scooped up the waters and secured under the cabinet. I then had to get beloved up to shut off the water (it was a slow leek).
Poor guy is suffering a bad sinus head ache for m all the dusting yesterday, Dash is coughing a lot too. I love Sunday mornings at my home they are so relaxed. :)
Even with all of this.

Sunday Smiles

One year ago.
Beloved feels this way about Willy on a daily basis.
Latest provocation.
Willy ate 1 pound of butter thawing on counter.
I think you can imagine what might happen when a big dog eats butter.

Attack the dust!

Hello! Good Saturday Morning to all of you.
It has been over a year that the dust build up in my home has been a problem. I had knee surgery over a year ago now. The upper shelves needed attention back then but I was not allowed to climb ladders. I still need to use high caution. My beloved attacked the dust on all the high places in the great room today. It is my hope that with both Dash and I having asthma,this will help us. It has been a real concern to me. With the allergic/hereditary emergency swelling happening so often and steroids keeping it at bay I had to push the priority of getting the dust knocked out!.Beloved worked all morning on it and I am so encouraged. It has bothered me for so long that I just almost got up on a ladder myself to tend to it.

I awoke late at 11:30 today. I sure needed the rest. My Love was at task for us. I am so appreciative that he just got after it. I have asked for several weekends and it just kept getting put off due to other events. Today was the day. Man all the stuff was just black. Dash is having breathing difficulties and coughing a bit. I am somewhat winded I know it had to really stir up the air in hear. I am resting a while while My Love goes on a couple of errands. He took down the left over decorations from Beauties birthday (in July!).

The items were all black with dust. I washed the fine things and "Love" took the others out doors to keep the dust down.

These are all some of the favorite things I have. The "tree of life" quilt and such. I love the children's poem print.

He vacuumed all the upper window frames. These are real dust holders. For living in the desert it is very dry and very dusty. I love the light that comes in these duel pain windows. I think they would be so lovely as stained glass.

"Love" even vacuumed the curtains and they are white again! It is so encouraging. I have been keeping the dust managed on the blinds only to have to redo it over and over because the upper levels just made a mess of all my work. It has been a very frustrating year of dust for me. knowing that my work was being sabotaged over and over again.

He is even removing everything above the TV and the dining hutch. It has been a lot of work for him. I am so happy to have this chance to have a really clean home again. It is such a beautiful building that it just seams a crime to let it get so bad. I know once all this dust is removed that we will all breath better. It is my hope that it will improve the problems I am having with the allergic swelling/inflammation stuff that has been hitting me so hard.

Once I get to feeling better I will be all set to decorate for the holidays to come.

I hope you are all having a great day!.

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When you have a family life comes at you.

Carnival of Family Life

Carnival of family life.

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When you have a family and life comes at you.

You manage it.

Last night ,once again we had the opportunity's to manage it.
We had bedded the children and were going to our own slumber early for us. Showered and in bed before 10 P.M.
Enjoying sleep is such a pleasure.The children learn much better and many studies affirm the importance of good rest. They slept well again now two nights in a row. We dim the lights early and have the routine running smoothing. We too are shutting down the bright lights including the monitors to help our system shift into a mode to rest. It is a bio-chemical bio-logical process we are learning how to respect.
Last night asleep early , showered and in my bed sleeping ,I awoke to my woven gown tight on me and got up to use the commode and shift my gown that would not fix into the normally loose fitted white cotton gown that is my favorite. Sleeping I noted the strange fit and laid down to shortly realized that I could not breath right. I noticed that funny feeling (on the left this time) of my face. It was swelling fast! OH MAN! NOT AGAIN!
So awaking my very sweet husband I reached over to an empty bed. I was groggy and felt again. So rarely in my 25 yrs of marriage had I ever felt him missing from beside me.
I made it to the bathroom and found the bathroom door shut. He was on the commode ill with an upset tummy. I asked over him and then told him of my present danger with the face swelling again. We tried to consider calling on friends. We live a long way from all of those who are so sweet to offer. It was of course midnight. For a moment I felt afraid that the ill will of those I had exposed were spiritually attacking us. I shared that fear with beloved who promptly shot it down. So after much consideration of waking the children to take them to the ER that hubby would either sit with them or have to take leave to take them home.We shot that down too.
Being a Family really pulls on all that is within you to do what ever it is that you are able . Even if you don't want too. So off again, Alone I drove the 21 miles to the ER. The nearby hospital is really bad. I had the same procedures and injections.
It happens in families that a hardness, a protective callus can cover the (what would be thought of as normal) so called normal panic and response. We have watched so many illnesses play out over 25 years that we just don't hardly even panic at all any more. This calm demeanor was once not so. Now it is however. I think there may be mercy in it. It could seem a little heartless. But life is about the other guy too. Beloved has a heart that feels and bleeds and is saddened when illness strikes. It is,as a family guard around our hearts protect us from unhealthy stress. Mothers must function when babies are sick, we can't afford to just fall apart. I see it like a safety valve for family's
Safety valves that protect us from stress overloads. What is truly marvelous is when we face these things and we have become desensitized to the point of a reassurance of faith. That faith is that God has us, each on of use in his protection. I know many of the early years, as a wife, hold the healing of those fears that can threaten the loss of your spouse. Fears of a traffic accident or some crime when they deviate 10 minutes from schedule. Cell phone stopped some of this for the last generation. When I was a newly wed it was not so. We had to trust through those silent hours, without a voice and a face so longed for. It was easier for us however then our forefathers and fore mothers who lived so far into a wilderness that weeks sometimes could separate hunting husbands from families.
This is a big part of maturing as a couple and as a family.
Learning to manage. Management is a processes of knowledge gained and implemented. Understanding is the begining of that. Understand your family members. Look into the lives of each one. Learn how they tick and you will see how best to serve them and to manage the surroundings, stresses and crisis.
It has been a remarkably full day of management. All is good. Hard times are stealing my mettle (my resolve) to manage my family and my life.
Be Embraced all.
I am back on cortisone and will gain an immunologist next week as I am able, to address these inflammatory events. I know God has me in the palm of his hand.

Making a Volcano, Enjoying your family.

Beauty has her third grade science project due tomorrow! YIKES

So in lieu of paper mache' I am going to use up some old Elmer's glue from our home schooling and party dates. It is working great for a hurry up job of it.
Make your foundations. I use duct tape on cardboard. It has two pieces of brown construction paper taped together then make a slanted tube of it. Tape it over a water bottle (empty).


So generously we poured and painted the glue layered the newspaper and so on.
Dash needed to get in on it so after I got Beauty on a role, I got him set up. I'll let them dry a bit. We all know they will not be dry by morning :) !
We will paint them this evening and let the paint dry...(thinking hair dryer)

It is 4:30 pm
O.K. I'm icing my back and my knee(with all I have done today the pain is minimal)... Chillin' out a few before the "Daddy Man" comes home. I hope with news of a bonus or raise... He works so hard for our family. I just stopped at 2pm and prayed for him during his meeting. I am so eager to see if his heart is up after work. It can be hard on him to overcome when they disappoint him. This company has been VERY stingy with raises across board.

Well now it is 7:30 and bed time story is under way Via the "Daddy man".
Tomorrow the world will feel the effects of Volcanic eruptions on the continents:)

Hubby caught me in the middle of thought.
How funny it looks like I'm asleep on my feet.

Jurassic period in Africa

Antarctic