Love Languages. A wonderful Aniversary day

This Wonderful Husband/ friend/ lover of mine
spent the day giving to me many wonderful gifts.
Last night he got to hear the washer , appalled he said
"you have been putting up with that"?
The bearing has gone out again .
Two years back he had to replace it.
With all the overtime I had not mentioned it to him...

Then...

Thursday he drove the truck "he said Hun this thing is pulling!"
So we postponed the forest until the marrow.

Today He took the children with him and ran errands to get the parts and the buns for lunch burgers.
He removed the old parts and bought the part and replaced the bearing and the washer is as new. He even replaced a cosmetic part so it looked pretty as new. It now is so nice to see that the washer does not look like an old piece of junk unkempt and such. See he knew my heart. He knew these things hindered me and his priority is to make my life as wonderful as he is able.

We never hire these things for we research and do it our self.
Doing this has saved us tens of thousands over our years together.
We both happen though to be very machanically inclined.

We dropped off the Truck and the guarantee was still active.
They thought we may have hit a pot hole.
Steve and I both think they forgot to tighten a bolt

Last night he had to remove the toilet because I accidentally had my debit card fall out of my jeans back pocket...
:(
He got it, and it was no easy or pleasant task.
It got flushed...
Steve fixed it.
He NEVER once spoke any ridicule or resentment.
He even had a very good laugh.
He, after doing that horrible job made me feel better about it by bringing in humor where I was so sorry to have caused the issue (even though it was a simple accident) that and I was terribly embarrassed.

He set the tent up in the back yard and rigged a light for them.
for disappointed children for we put the trip north off for the morrow.
They camped out in it last night and will again tonight.
(The dogs are with them and guard them well)
The tent is just outside our bedroom door.

This morning the kids were bothered that Daddy did not give me a gift.
What one day I hope to help them, and others understand is that...

He is the gift.
His heart gives in his own voice.
This evening he replaced the seal on the glass shower door.
This was on a "to do" list that he never has a chance to tend too doing 10 hour days.

He gave an evening to a sister in need , loving her with the kindness that she so needed from a brother. She is my dear friend. Those I love ...he loves as well . Deeply caring about who and what I care about.

After this long day as he always does he defers to me..."Hun, Would you like the first shower to heat soak your back and make it feel better....Always concidering me before himself.


My gifts to him today...
He was thrilled to have the new shop layout. It worked out so well to be able to do the washer job.
I planted some more peas in the garden, gave all the veggie and flowers some fish emulsion to help set more buds = more crop and flowers. Harvested raddish and peas.
Fed the tomatoes. I centered and renewed my mind by making what was important to me priority. He loves it when I do that for then I thrive.
Then The sweet peas that were planted last month outside the kitchen window are now set to climb a trellis. Several Mammoth sunflowers now are planted and some Indian blanket flowers too. A few more 4 o'clock's are in (flowers).
The wonderful Iris now have a better view for I trimmed the Indian Paint brush.
Lunch/ dinner
The flower beds cleared of spent flowers and leaves.
Creating beauty around us.

I am the gift given to him.

This is our marriage.
This is a union.

It is not in what we expect from each other...no.

It is in who/what we recieve in/and from each other.
It is who we are to each other.
Love spoken and silent.
All around us and in us,
and trough us.

Thank you all for your prayers and well wishes.
It has been an awesome day!

Sisterhood Award

Karen from Homespun Simplicity
gifted we who enjoy her beautiful heart with the
cool Sisterhood Award.
Thank You.

..."who are my sisters...but those who do the will of the Father."
So I pass this to you who love...
For this is His will that we LOVE...
Receive this all of you.
So even if we Love imperfectly , it is in our hearts desire to do so, this is what We are known by.

I am my Beloveds!

And ...
He is mine!

His banner over me is love!
27 th year of
Happy Anniversary's!

Oh how fun your humor is
How endless your devotion
How compelling your generosity
How wonderfully your commitment to us excels us

I asked for a "Man that Loves God...not a religious man"
For a home of my own.

This union between us
This covenant cut
Witnessed and held in highest charge
is a union, a commencement of Love.

The best thing I cold ever tell another is
LOVE IS NOT A FEELING IT IS AN ACT OF YOUR WILL.

We are for each other.
Always even when we were fed up with each other as any couple will become occasionally...
We are for each other.

Our hearts are one.

March 20th 1982 My love for you is deathless.

Nine months later It was my first Christmas with you...

My Darling "it's Kissmass (the movie Glory) everyday"...

She is so young and full of promise.
Your the reason her potential was tapped.
HE used you darling to heal her.

We have fought out battles and won the war over the darkness...
He has won that war long ago for us, yet we endured the battle.

Now 27 years later...

You captured her my love...
As the Song of Salomon, you have embraced my soul.
You have taken away from me the things that hid me.
A safe haven have you are for me.
Your Love the first I had known...
Unconditional as any man would be able.
Yet you Love for God made you more than able.
Able you then became... because you first loved me.

It is to you who lay down your life for me daily
For our children...
My love for you is deathless...

This is our love letter of humility
That we remember who we are.

Solomon Ballou died on July 21, 1861- at the first battle of Bull Run.
My very dear Sarah:

The indications are very strong that we will move in a few days - perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.

Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure - or it may be one of sever conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine, O God, be done. If it is necessary that I should fall on the battlefield for my country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing - perfectly willing - to lay down all my joys in this life to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt.

But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows - when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children - is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country?

I cannot describe to you my feelings on this calm summer night, when two thousand men are sleeping around me, many of them enjoying the last, perhaps, before that of death - and I, suspicious that Death is creeping behind me with his fatal dart, am communing with God, my country, and thee.

I have sought most closely and diligently, and often in my breast, for a wrong motive in thus hazarding the happiness of those I loved, and I could not find one. A pure love of my country and the principles I have often advocated before the people and "the name of honor that I love more than I fear death" have called upon me, and I have obeyed.

Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on, with all these chains, to the battlefield.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And hard for me it is to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me - perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar - that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name.

Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often times been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But I cannot. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night - amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours - always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.

As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father's love and care. Little Willie is too young to remember me long, and my blue-eyed Edgar will keep my frolics with him among the dimmest memories of his childhood. Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters. Tell our mothers I call God's blessing upon them.

O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children.

- Sullivan

My Darling we are so blessed to live and love and to see our children grow into honorable young man and woman.
My love for you is deathless...
Your love gifts me with the happiest of anniversary's
May my love flood you the same/

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To whom much is given
My hands open to you.
Think of it as a thanksgiving offering

Thankful Thursday

We are free to live in

Unity

A gift so treasured every thing pales in compare to this
One Body,
One Mind, One Purpose.

I come easily to say...

My fellows please pray for my friends daughter .

Her daughter was battered by a former boyfriend,
She is in surgery this morning for a broken jaw.
We shall pray together for them ...yes?
She is there now undergoing having it wired together.


Please pray yet for my niece,
shall deliver and baby is breach.
That this baby boy will turn
so that c-section might be avoided.
Her Mothers wounded heart.
That freedom to find pure delight
in this terrible time of loss in her son.
My niece in her loss of her only big brother
Her only sibling.
That she would find strength to deliver in this time of sorrow.

In unity of purpose
To guard the week and wherry.

I am going to help out a single mom today and watch her daughter (Dove's friend).
It is spring break here.
A sweet soul offered to receive Dash for some boy time at her house.
One on one play date that he will attend today.
Our hearts come together for the children.
Doing and being one with a heart to offer them joy.

Tomorrow is our 27 th wedding anniversary.
When we in our Union come to recall the joy of Loving and of a single mind.
Steve to take the day off and we are going to the forest to do a geo cash for the kids. It is a treasure hunt where he will hike off into the forest and set a concordance with the GPS then come back.

Giving the kids the GPS they will have to go find a hidden treasure by the navigation alone.
It sounds so fun for them.
Oh the forest!

Unity of purpose.
There is a retreat of bloggers coming up in October 2009.
A time where eye meets eye face to face.
Souls come to overlook what eye sees and hearts prevail.
Where once strangers will come
set aside the veil that might of never allowed to have a friendship
were it not for this marvelous technology.

Unity
A place of belonging that is so innately needed
in our human condition as to be primary to desire.

One with God
One with each other
yes... within the unity under the offering of the final sacrifice
Christ Jesus.
Yet even in peace with my neighbors and enemies as far as it is possible .
To live on good terms with all persons.
One with my husband.
One with my children
May that always be...
One in purpose
Loving
Living
Delighting in each other.

For this , this day I am most thankful.

Hidden costs of living...frugality

It is often in the things we take for granted that we find the greatest waste.
The cost of Electric, water and phone/internet is added to find your expense in these areas
One way to get a good idea is to find if your utility offers a "balanced payment plan" our electric does so We pay the average of what our costs are in a calendar year. Of course your place of residency must be established for a year to do so.
This is the billing for each month
No look at your water costs
and so forth...Add these together and see what your daily cost is by dividing it by 30 days.

Study these things and target a goal.
Be creative at ways to bring each utility under your authority (so to speak)

Electric: call your electric company for a check on the average homeowner like you and see if you fall in line. Now insulate, use a time of use plan and so forth. Plant shade trees or cover glass with sun shades. Learn! Investigate what you can do to keep some of your hard earned money.

Water Treatment Plant
We use Reverse Osmosis under the kitchen sink for ingested water
Primary investment!
Wisdom gained after two trips to Russia

Water : this is my biggy, I want a water tank to harvest rain water so bad! Even here in the desert this could really make a difference. Not only in the volume consumed on the grid, but the quality of the chlorine free water for my garden. I am still in a bit of a battle with my husband on this on. Use care and use it wisely. I am not able to use my gray water in my set up. If you do use it take care that all cleaners are bio degradable. Fill your sink half way and the fill it up with the rinse water as your first load is rinced off. Think reuse and conserve. Not just for the dollar but for the respect of it.

check your phone bill

Phone and internet service. This is in a very primary way for us. I do not own a cell phone (however a friend confiscated a teenage daughters phone and lent it to me for emergency use) . We use a phone card not the long distance of the phone company. We therefore know the cost each month and have no surprises.
We have no bells or whistles, just basic service. Bare bone, no caller id, why? I can ask who it is if I do not know. If I am concerned I can just let the answering machine get it. I have done nothing wrong so nothing to hide and no one to be afraid of. If it is a telemarketer I kindly bid them no, and hang up. They are surprised when your kind to them. I was one for a month or two many years ago. It is a horrible job full of rejection. Accept them reject the marketing.
Regarding directory assistance the internet is faster and that is just what they do for you for $1.

No cable TV, try (HULU this is a hot link) on line for movies. They are free (except of course the internet charge) . This is included on our phone bill.

We have no car payment and have never done so. We drive high quality (by consumer reports standards) cars. do research on anything you purchase! Buy the very best you can afford. Buy for the long term of the item. Not just the bells and whistles of show off to your cronies. :) This reduces the tax and registration and Insurance fees. By having your home and auto insurance at one company. Caution (as a former licensed insurance agent) I will tell you... avoid anything other than a "standard" insurer. Auto Indemnity such as geico may be cheep but when you have one incident your rates will sky rocket and it will take 5 years to be able to switch back to a standard policy with a standard insurer. You will be grouped with "high risk" clientele for years.

We do not use a credit card and have become debt free! (except for the mortgage).
We use a zero balance budget sheet every month and account for each dollar of income before we ever see it. One -two months in advance. If we get hit we just transfer the category on the sheet and know right where we stand.

We have no flat screen. I was married 16 years before I had a micro. I did not suffer. I just kept a tea kettle on the stove for hot water.
study these things learn about what power you have to reduce your dependency.

I love my homemade laundry soap. Invest in the tools of the trade. A food mill and so forth.
Look at what you use... think before you toss it out. Can you use it for something you normally purchase new?

Compost. When you mow save the trimmings, the kitchen scrap research it.
Boil your bones and root scrap (then strain it) for soup stock. Soup stock is a basic ingredient of the very best kitchens.
Garden. Even if only in a pot. Study heirloom seeds (save your seeds) for the others are mules and can not be planted. This a ploy to stop us from the freedoms, so that we find dependency on the seed manufacturers.

Oh yes the work is hard , but that is the joy of life to find pleasure in the labor of our hands.
Consider it a free gym membership :)

I would rather do it for myself than to have to go out to earn the money and pay someone else to do it for me (at their standard). Now with so much unemployment these skills are essential.

Clothing...co-op with other families or thrift. Learn to sew! Mend rips and sew on a button when it falls off! Don't toss the garment (unless you want someone like me to find it for next to nothing) :) I do not mind sewing on a button...nice price

Make your own cosmetics TRY Blogs like this one for information.

Walk softly yet leave an impression that flatters the ground you walk on.

Morning Menu Daily Expense

Steve's lunch = $.81 cents
Bread (home ground home made is .34 cents a loaf) .03 cents
lunch meat .50 cents
Mao .02 cents
Organic corn chips .25 cents
Lemon Aid .o1 cent of sugar
lemons for free (glean the neighborhood) ask if they need a home rather than to see the food go to spoil. Many folks will be delighted to see it being used.

Steve's breakfast
In refer is kept plastic lidded cups, the kind saved from the restaurants over the years.
Orange juice .25 cents for 6 oz.
Lead in add I got it for 2.59 for 64 oz.

in a baggie .01 cent
Home made Breakfast cookies (I'll try to link to the post with the recipe) .16 cents for two plus the baggie
.17 cents a day
66 cookies =$5.45*66= apx .08 cents each
one pound butter $2.
oats .75 cents
flax .10 cents
eggs x4 $1.20
staple (soda,powder,cinnamon,clove, almond extract) .10 cents
(sugar, brn sugar, flours home ground) $1.10

Healthy Breakfast on the road .42 cents

Morning dog food is apx $40. bag for 40 pounds (often I can get it for $35.)
They eat about 2 pounds a day
$2. a day feeds the dogs a very healthy blend.
This can be home made , but after I investigated it my time costs more than it would be worth.

Coffee 2 cup .36 cents a day
.26 cents a pot of 2 cups
soy milk .10 cents
In bulk is $12. for 3 pounds Home Ground

Dove .45 cents
.15 cents
soy milk .30 cents
$1.50 a large box lead in add bought in bulk, watch dates.
Dove has this or bread
Dash .46 cents
3 eggs .45 cents
olive oil .01
Me a bowl of cereal and soy milk
Me .45
Chickens eat $1.25 a day in feed
cost of eggs calculated with it in mind.
Wild bird seed is .45 cents a day for 5 feeders (when I fill them) they are good pollinators for the garden and also for my soul.

Four people, two dogs and 6 chickens feed breakfast
Wild bird every other day or so.
and Steve off with lunch for
$6.65 a day
add to that lunch for the kids and I
Snacks for the kids and I through out the day
Dinner meal around $5. or under
Around $12. a day
for the feeding of everyone on the estate.

Once the garden gets along the evening meal and lunches will get real cheep.
We have melons and beans and all sorts of good foods out there.

The produce guy gives us the scrap that they put down the disposal normally
Glean your community.

Now add to that homemade Laundry soap and cleaners.

This is a great exercise in reality.
Check out a $5. Dinners
She is on the right track and leading others well on to it.

What Matters most...spring break

Creation
A book of life.
Today The kids and I took a trip to Gods Library.

In the spur of the moment I saw us at the park, the children given as long as they desired to visit the tree, "their tree".
A short 4 mile drive took us to a wonderful Public park.
I sat in the shade and stilled my sweet soul while they found it a time of ease and leisure to relax into creative play.
"can we stay a little while longer mom?"..." we will stay as long as you desire"...I told them
"REALLY!" exclaimed my two amazed little darlings.
"yes really" said I softly...
declaration! "SWEET!"
GLEE!
pure glee!
I sat there on a massive boulder and watched the life exude from them.
We pause to feed the duck some home made rolls.
Then they were back off to play while this fellow was close at peace with me.
I love the ripples in the water.

During this time here there was a group of 20 kids or so maybe 4-9 years of age from a nearby party. The children came over ripping off flowers and tossing it into the water with other things. My kids were up in the tree and the other children did not know they were there. They were stealth as they observed. I have taught them to observe and see what there is to learn. I observed them as they were becoming more and more appalled at the behaviors of the kids and the general disrespect they were showing nature. Dash comes over to me and tells me
"mom they don't even care about nature or the living things around them...they only care about them selves."
I asked him "how do you feel about that?"
"It is stupid Mom! They should respect the world around them mom."
"yes"... I agreed
It was going to be a teachable day...

When we had been there at least 30 minutes or an hour it was time for adventure.

I love seeing the world through a lens as well as my lens...
The kids were after the goal of mid air shot.

Yes!

Success!

"I want to do it "!

"alright!"
"cool mom"

This was a teachable day.
Yes, I know Steve will be stunned!
I told him that it was just right. I taught the children of the diameter of the tree limbs to the weight of their body to consider these things.
They climbed this tree almost 3/4 way up,
Dove expressed fear to do it, I told her of how fear is either a gift of wisdom or it is a tormentor only she can chose. Dash replied wisdom and halted his ascent. Too cool!
The repeated the climb three times then on the third I set boundary.
Telling them of the shaky fatigue in their arms how it is a sign to pay attention too.
To try to trust a fatigued arm is not wise.
It is a set up to a fall.
We spoke of these things that are signs to attend too.

This is one perfect Book of life!
I showed the children the white water and told them to hold hand in the current and then to pull against it.
Then taught them how it is like this to choose to do right...You will be pulling against the current. Do not let that current take you away form what is right.

They were told of the power of the white water and that it is a great force that can sweep them off their feet not to ever walk through it. This important knowledge for the monsoons will come again in a very few months.

Dash then found a Quarter on a large stone.
He told me of how he regretted the choice he made to spend his golden dollar on a toy...How he had wished for another coin..."and mom look ...now God made a way and I got another coin Mom, that he gave to me."

On our walk around the park there was a tall hill that they ran down and then walked...inched back up.
We then continued on to see children attended by parents who were sliding down a hill on large blocks of ice with a towel on them. The kind father gave my children turns on it. It looked so fun! He said $2. at the fast food store and there you have a hot day play time trick.

I took the children to the concession stand and there Dash spent his quarter and I had $4 to spent on pop cycles each, a matching treat for Dove. Also a ring pop for each. A candy sucker on a ring base. Dove tossed hers up into the air and missed it and shattered on the ground. There was enough left to replace it.
A woman was without .25 cent she needed and there was that left in change so I extended it to her. A simple act of kindness and she and her children were astonished. We speak often to our kids about how just doing the right thing has become so rare that it surprises people. I just told her to pass it on, to pay it forward. It really touched her. Folks kindness is so seldom offered that a simple .25 was a huge thing to her and her children. Perfect for mine too.

We returned to the original tree.

Here is another book of life.
(I did not say THEE book of life)
She sat near me in perfect peace as I taught Dash a wisdom.
Exampled to him peace and the flow of it to her.
Thoughts mattered for she would sense them.

Her beauty is the dappled sun light was astonishing!

A mallard mix I believe.
Teaching the children of fertility via a mating pair of duck...
I save our home a stench, for the kids had hidden eggs to try to hatch.
I did not let on that I knew , but ceased the moment.

Dash had found a gentle wisdom so few children are taught.
He even guarded her from other children.
At one point a (stupid) adult (term used loosely) said "GRAB HER!"
Dash said "No thanks, I am just enjoying her beauty"...
I was so proud of him.

He sat a long while. Then two little boys came to within sitting on my legs and began to feed her. I began to teach them as well of distance and respect. They were good boys. I was a bit startled at how at ease the boys were to even lean on me.

Now Dove wanted her playmate to return to the land of fiction.

When they were almost done I caught a spider web in the afternoon sun.

Returning to the truck Dove had stopped to set out her hand in peace to see if the duck would feel safe to approach.
The Mallards came near, yet as I told her the harlequins and the woo duck were wild on migration. The mallard did come close but she ran out of bread and then stood in exasperation...."they were so close!"

"Yes, I told her but standing frightened them. When you lost your peace it taught them fear"


One last view of the train.
Fiction...stealth so that the train riders do not see him:)One last photo as the sun melted their eyes!
Off we went.

We saw a horse that was starving to death. The children asked "what can we do Mom?"
so I turned around to take address and later called the police to take a visit and perhaps find a way to help the people if they can't afford hay.

We stopped to get the orange Juice on a lead in ad at half price. We entered and Dash said "Oh too bad Mom we could of called Victor and got the chickens scrap" I looked up as I was saying "I don't see him honny I have to call first"
Then right there in front of walks Victor!
We spoke of Jason for I have not been keeping up on my acquisition of scrap for a week or two now.
He said "I should of called you!", This the man who is doing me the favor of saving us scrap...
Then he got bright eyed "Oh wait!" he said! follow me...
He said that he has a new guy that asked him if he should save anything,
There in the produce refrigerator two bags of lettuce scrap for the birds!

The garden watered in the afternoon yielded radish, egg from the hens...oops dropped one.

We all went for a walk after Daddy Man got home.

There is an injustice that is hurting moral at his work.
It is a devisive thing. Indiscriminate and radom.
Please if you think of this Man of mine do pray for him.
Injustice is such an affront to him.

Well day is done and I have to do the linins on the big bed!
Good night.

by the way both kids silently without being asked came to me with their eggs an told of the experiment.

Establishing a point of view...

In Memory of a Man with a Strong Point of View
St Patrick

He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land.

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.

Doesn't have a point of view.
Knows not where hes going too.

Isn't he a bit like you and me.

Nowhere man please listen.
You don't know what your missing.
Nowhere man the world is at your command.

He's as blind as he can be.
Just sees what he wants to see.
Nowhere man can you see me at all?

Nowhere man don't worry.
Take your time don't hurry.
Leave it all for someone else lends you a hand.

Nowhere man please listen.
You don't know what your missing.
Nowhere man the world is at your command.

Hes a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
The Beatles

Establishing a point of view...

It is easy in blog land and also in the world we live in; to keep our point view silent in order not to offend. It is also a innate desire to be accepted by others.

This morning this song rang over my head as my Loving Creator Poppa God seamed to be asking me to establish my point of view. I see how often I veil my point of view. I see it as a process incomplete. Yet here I am nearing 50 years of age, and yet I still see myself as a child in so many ways. That is changing though moment by moment. I do have a point of view and it is time I own it with the power of who He is within me.

I do have a point of view. Often it is veiled yes...Humbly I effort to remain teachable.

Nowhere man please listen.
You don't know what your missing.
Nowhere man the world is at your command.

This is the message over me today. I am to listen to my own point of view, examine it and establish it.

He's as blind as he can be.
Just sees what he wants to see.
Nowhere man can you see me at all?

How many lives are at a loss of my effect. I see the hurting and dieing all around me and often keep my view silent. I do not want to offend or face the loss of acceptance, or cause an offence.
I just see what I want to see...but do not speak to it or about it.I watch people perish for a lack of knowledge. Error in choice for a lack of understanding. Yet I remain silent

Nowhere man don't worry.
Take your time don't hurry.
Leave it all for someone else lends you a hand.

This to me is both truth and sarcasm. I worry about those times when I have kept my point of view guarded or silent. Wondering if it could of made a difference in lives around me.Taking my time waiting for that right moment. Waiting for someone else more confident to share it, but then it would be their point of view not mine.

He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land.

Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.

This is somewhat convictions and somewhat condemnation depending on the "Point of View".
What is it I want to have as a legacy, what do I want to have achieved in my life. In my youth is was to "give myself a life someday, and to make everyone I ran in contact to, smile at least once in their lifetime.
In my youth I have accomplished these things and still do to this day. I have life and a home and a family. My Marriage will be cerebrating it's 27 Th year. It is beyond established it is thriving.
Now in this chapter, this coming passage it is time to establish my "point of view". Stand in it and be willing to declare it and stand up for it. I have walked softly on this earth and will continue to do so, but to walk on this earth without a trace of a foot fall is wrong. Yes He carries me and has done so all of my days. I am now to stand and walk tall. To establish my "point of view". and leave my mark in the sands of time.

Can you see your footfalls?
One day we will we miss you yet we may touch you through the mark you have left in the sand.

Yes I will walk softly but I will not be invisible.

Today is St Patrick's Day

see Annette's full post here

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. March 17 is celebrated in his honor every year, and by the Irish community worldwide.

St. Patrick was born in Britain around 385 A.D. At the age of 16 he was sold into slavery by Irish raiders and spent six years in captivity. It is during this time that he found religion and upon escaping went to Gaul monastery to study. He became convinced that his purpose was to convert people to Christianity and once a priest he spent 30 years traveling around Ireland establishing monasteries, schools and European culture after the fall of The Roman Empire. He died on March 17, 460 A.D.- a date which has been celebrated as St. Patrick's Day ever since.


According to one legend, St.Patrick used three leafed shamrock to explain the concept of Trinity, (What a very interesting way to explain the Trinity uh?) True or not, shamrock remains one of the most significant symbols visible on St. Patrick's Day.

He had a point of view established when he was in the worlds eyes a
"nowhere man",
a slave.


Taxes to do...
As far as the house work
The Laundry
The chores at hand
Cleaning up the sewing room
Finishing the projects in process

The Simple Womans Daybook

For Today...

Outside my window...It is night, dark and quiet. I hear a cricket cherp

I am thinking... I must finish taxes and rest and shop and water the warden...I think I will stop thinking! :)

From the learning rooms... The childrens books are back on the shelves and I could not be more happy about that! They were still in boxes in the garage from when we tried to sell the house last year. They are having so much fun with the math machines too. I love it! The multiplication charts are on the hall wall.

I am thankful for... everything

From the kitchen... lights out

I am wearing... tank top and stretch slacks so cumfy

I am reading... through old papers to sort and make into binders

I am hoping... a budget met with flying colors!

I am creating... a quilting binder

I am hearing... the click and clack of the dogs walking accross the hard floor.

Around the house... laundry........

One of my favorite things...eating my first strawberry today with the children and having them pick peas and eat them right off the plant.

A few plans for the rest of the week... enjoy spring break and the children home.

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

My quilt one day.
Designs are yet to be researched.

Free to be Me Bloggers retreat

To the very first Northwest Florida Bloggers Retreat!The Sisters of Faith is thrilled to offer an opportunity to hear an awesome speaker, Mary Snyder~as well as some eLboW ruBbiNg with our dear sisters of Blogville, USA --- We have got goosebumps we are so excited!We have hardly been able to keep quiet about this! Denise of Shortybears Place has been kind enough to tease you all a bit with some "questions" for about 2 weeks now!Looky-looky! A button crafted by my very own sweet friend, "Maddie" of "Sweet Designs by Me!" (be sure and visit these sweet friends with a big hug and thank you for helping!)

FREE TO BE ME! 2009 BLOGGERS RETREAT!
The conference is set for October 23-24, 2009 in Sneads Florida near beautiful Lake Seminole! We are currently working on prices of hotel accommodations for you! To further tempt you with this retreat...here's a bite of what you will find on the menu! (chomp-chomp!)
Mary Snyder! Friday night
Worship Services lead by Becky Knight
Saturday morning classes by
Lynn Donovan of Spiritually Unequal Marriage
Marsha Harwood of Marsha's Musings
and two surprise guest speakers! (Waiting on confirmation :) )Some of the topics will include:
~ How to lead an online Bible Study - meeting their needs, touching their hearts, growing up in Grace.
~ Being a Follower of Jesus and not falling into the Follower Button trap
~ Developing your blog into a women's ministry
~ Using personal video chats to reach out and minister in new ways.
~ How to write a compelling story, meaningful devotional.... hooking/captivating your audience.
~ How to market your blog/should you 'market' your blog?
~ Finding your niche - your special corner of blogworld - blogging your passion.
~ How to handle blog addiction - finding the balance between your personal relationships and your blogging relationships.
~ Copyrighting information.
GRAB the BUTTON and help us spread the word! We will be having a giveaway of one free registration! (details on that coming UP!)More class details forthcoming! So---save the date! Get the babysitter! Make plans now---most importantly---pray--pray--pray!

Retreat Investigation

It looks like for me air fair would be $350.
Well October is 7 months away???????
Beloved Hubby wants to see if we could make a way.
But then there is lodging???
Transport?
Foods and such???

Meal plan Monday

Chicken in Basmati rice
home grown peas and sugar snap peas stir fried in olive oil

Basmati rice must be rinsed in a calendar .30 cents I buy a 15 pound sack
This is boiled in organic chicken broth 2.50 can be homemade cheaper
The chicken breasts are boned and slivered into tenders $4.50 for 2 pounds
this was a lead in add a few weeks back purchased several and froze them
slice along the length of the breast
Boil and just before it is absorbed turn off keep lid on.
dehigerated diced onion and herb's De France .02 cent and .01 cent if so
pantry staples

heat pan = hot pan old oil
add olive oil just a little .05cent
The garden fresh peas added (free)
sprinkled with a bit of paprika .01 cent
then added a little Dijon honey mustard. .02 cents
flash fry very little on very high heat they are served crisp

$7.41 for 2 meals plus a lunch for two
$3.00 for a dinner for 4
$1.41 cents for a lunch for two
utilities used once
one pan for the chicken and rice and another for the snap peas
Left overs ...priceless:)