Wordless Wednesday

The Lion King, a symphony

My Daughter.
She amazes me!

Thank you Denise
That was a very thoughtful find in the mail box after a full day.

A day in the life

My second art masters class began at 11:30
Showing them The Spinner
by Maes 16oo's

The conversation steered into history.
We spoke of how in days gone by no electricity, running water.
Eyes closed they saw them selves doing chores before eating, including cleaning stalls and fetching heavy water.

They understand now a little better from where they came.
This forgotten to a generation lacking purpose.
It was so amazing, the teacher gave me full sway and asked for me to keep going.
At was nearing 2 p.m. and the intrigue of our conversations was not even dimmed.
They were eating it up!
We spoke of the Elders who have the skills that are disappearing.

The teacher saw me at the curb and thanked me so much.
she said Mrs. U. I am amazed you know second graders are often only interested in any thing for 20 minutes tops!
You know she said that we kept speaking of these things until the end of class.
There assignment is to go ask an Elder to tell them their story and if they would please share the knowledge they have with the child.
I told them they would "blow their minds to show that they actually cared to know".
I am so grateful that I was given the strength to do the classes today.
three classes of 28 or so kids each.
The first class was brief and the kids were having a wonderful time I showed them the "water Lilly" by Monet.
It was so awesome!
I am having so much fun.
It is a second gift to see the children's faces and hear the questions and to listen to each kids question or statement. All of the children will actually listen to each other.
One little girl asked if it had to only be Elders who they go to to ask for knowledge.
I thought a delightful statement.
Then I told them how each of them have a gift that is unlike an others. To go to each other to earn trust and share the gifts and knowledge you have.
I spoke about gaining an others trust and HIS STORY forgotten repeats itself.
I love days like this when HIS STORY of love comes through.
The teacher gained the floor and then told the kids of her own mother only having electric after she was a junior in high school.
I told them my own mom was without shoes and was not allowed to even go to school because of it. I shared of the changing times. How in their life time they may be Needing these skills to survive and to take care of them selves.

The spinning wheel reminded us of how our ease has left us without the knowledge we would need to live life and thrive.

It was just a ball!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those who have a song in your heart...

Dance.
U tube Sound of music

Thank you Michelle.
It just goes to show ya what can happen when we all get together.

The song over my head today

I awoke to this old song.

It reaches to the highest mountain
It flows to the lowers valley.

The blood that gives me strength from day to day it will never loose it's power.

Tackle it Tuesday

....But Teacher...
"my dog peed on it!"

Yep!
Dash said "well why did you have it on the floor?"
HA! Smartie!
Well I had dropped the heavy bags off my shoulder at the pillar and had another class to teach in the morrow. The crazy dog peed on the floor and the bag absorbed it as well as all the papers.
ARG!

Well after all the documents were scanned and re printed...
Thank you my dear loving husband!

The envelopes were acquired and then I had them laminated.
Now the packages must be reassembled for today I teach.

So all you teachers out there
It really does happen!

6a.m. wake feed dogs, make husbands lunch, feed kids and love on them.
7:25 cup of coffee (half cup it is left over from yesterday YUK
8 a.m. kids to the stop
8:05 walk around the block
I checked the garden when I got back, fed the chickens and glory!
I got to have strawberries with my cherrieos!
I must say the berries are like nothing I have ever taste it is like they have mega flavor.
A very little ges a long way.

Dash gave me the 11 cents and the two washers last night.
A penny and a dime. life is funny that way.
I guess you would need to know why a penny and a dime is significant.
8:15 do art packages
make a new pot of coffee
8:45 Bible study Oh yikes today is a brunch!
(?????left over Cole slaw) pays to cook in the large batch style!
11 a.m prepair at the elementary to present at 11:55, 12:30 then spend lunch with Dove.
1 p.m.
Go get chicken scrap
go back to the school to present again at 2:30:
Then the afternoon awaits until Dove is done with Student Council, she also has her first concert tonight! She is a bit nervous today. She plays the viola.
DADDY MAN HEADS UP

3:15 snacks for the kids and then we have our gab session and devotions are set aside till next Monday so we can get readied for the trip.
busy day.

Have a great day!
off on the fly
Remember NEVER TRUST A DOG!!!!!!!!

Menu Plan Monday

menu based on clearing out the refrigerator

Good Morning!
This a day late....But now my camera is back in hand with an empty memory card.
The kids flipped over the pan seared salmon.
It was wild caught. I never buy the farm raised.
Farm raised salmon is doing some nasty things to our wild salmon.
It in itself is pretty nasty too.
They use dye to color it after the crowding in the net ponds and a life of parasites.

WILD SALMON!
the only way to go. We found a good buy on it at Costco, frozen in individual sized cuts.
I pan seared it HOT PAN , Cold Oil.
a little dill on it.
skin side first, half way through flip it over.
The Cole Slaw was made the way my MILove makes it.
rice vinegar and sugar, with a bit of celery salt.
Dash helps make it.
Dove set the table.

We got someone here at the house so it will not be unattended.
Plus the dogs are pretty vicious when they need to be.
That Godlen she is one might defender when we go for a walk, she even scares me.

We are so excited.

A full memory card...

Well....I have a full memory card.
Have you ever felt that way.
The things you recall...

Perhaps better said my camera has a full memory card.
Not that the image is worth much, It is of Dash in his true to name way.
Dashing across a living room looking for Easter eggs.
A muddy yard prevented us the outdoor hunt at the Grand Parents.
I think next year I will find a real Easter egg hunt in a park or an event of some kind for them to go to.
They have never really known the joy of that.

Speaking of my MILove...
She made a very nice, thoughtful Easter meal for all of us.
A nice turkey breast and sliced veggies, baked beans that the kids devoured!
She makes a good baked bean!
Oh her peach pie! It was so good.
S. I will just have to go get some of those peaches.
Thank you for the nice Easter Meal!
Thank you also for the chocolate and stuffed bunnies for the kids.

Being I was a bit unprepared due to time and energy constraints I presented a lousy dish of creamed corn with fried onions on it.
It dove down the disposal at meals end.
I suppose it was all but an insult to the meal.
I had little warning of the meal and was not sure if or what to bring.
I saw the most lovely flowers, but thought better of it.
For some, it is just not something enjoyed.

The kids had a nice ride home in the Chevy.
It is a stunning thing to be in it.

I had the most amazing thing happen when we returned.
I went to check on the hens and one was crowding the nesting box with another. Assuming that the eggs had been laid by late day I reached under. Found one egg under Prissy and then as I reached under Tarin she was in the process of laying and I froze....I was perfectly still and calm.
She laid that egg right in my hand!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was safe with me. I was stunned and found it hard to speak of until a quiet moment.
It was too holy to tell under distracted conversations. When I told my Lovin' Man he was startled I had not told him yet.
He understood though why I had not when I explained it.

In the midnight hours my hand held an old hymnal.
worship in silence...i sang those songs of old.
Remembering the LOVE HE has for me.
I cried and took in all the spender of the silent hour.
Silent alone with my Abba Papa God.
He who knew me before the foundations of time.
He who formed me.
I am in the calm of that even now in the evening of the next day.

Well it is eventide and the evening meal awaits me.
Fondly
Slow Dancing on the inside.

Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009

God sees us for who we are. Man looks through the eyes that part the heart of another with judgments.

U tube treat

Here are the Lyrics(Thanks to NewHotdox) -

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used
And wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted.

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame.

And still
I dream he'll come to me
That we will live our lives together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather...

I had a dream my life would be
So different form this hell I'm living
so different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

Consider the pain of her wound folks when you assume or judge another. When your quick to dismiss someone. Humbly walk softer for your feet stomp hard upon hearts when you don't.

God always knew she shined!!!!!!!

John 20:15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."

as was life restored in a garden

Happy Easter!

The kids all just thrived on the story's at bed time.
Steve told me that the little guest was just riveted.
Dove watched to see if she needed to be embarrassed to be read to by her daddy.
Thank God the opposite was true.
She has the coolest Daddy!
Like the old tale of "stone Soup" there is always a way to extend the pot...
Up in the attic I found another basket. Shared something from my kids collection and we were set.
The children saw a bag on the laundry room door with these eggs in it.
They were so excited that the Easter Bunny had come.
Especially my little guest.
I told them , "no that is just the eggs to take to Granma's..." then I walked into the kitchen with them in tow...
Then I exclaimed and they looked to find these.

Oh the giddy glee!

They were so happy!
The little guest was so surprized the Bunny found her at my house.
Her and Dove are in the same class, Dove 2 years behind and little bit, well she is just a little bitty child.

She showed great grace and poise. Happy to receive, even though my two had a more abundant basket.
Little bit would be having this from her family later in the day.

How fun!!!!!!

Dove got her dalmatian puppy, she loves that breed.
Dash a very plush bunny.

I gathered seed off of the flowers out front and scattered those I collected yesterday.
I did a post over at BEE BLISS GARDENS.

Love one another

I awoke to the words in my spirit
"Just keep dancing with your umbrella"
It was raining when I woke up. It was wonderful!
The dogs had thrashed the floors , the kids did not let them out again!
So...My darling was fit to be tied over it and I had some doing to patiently let him have his anger over it.

Spring sung broom, mop and vacuum here today.
We each grabbed a corner and took off into a cleaning marathon.
My sweet beloved swept and mopped the kitchen, living room, dining room, hallway and the kids bath. He mopped the landing and got on hands and knees to scrub the spots where the dog lays and licks her paws. It was so bad and now it is wonderful.
I detailed the master bathroom and attacked all laundry and hung the last of ours.

I also was able to have an amazing gentle patience and had the children take a piece of pie at a time until the whole of it was tended in each of their bedrooms.
I told them about the woman who had lost the gold coin and how she swept out her whole house and found the treasure.
Off and on Dash would come tag me with a "wow mom look at this treasure...(a Lego or coin or baseball card) I found. I would acknowledge. So when the ill attitudes were tried on me. I remembered a thing I saw on a James Dobson video. I told the kids....

" remember how I told you that I was going to love you so much that I was going to stand up to you if you were too try me. I will not just blow it off if I am tired or upset. I will not get angry because your wanting me to either...I will stand up to you to support you to do what is required of you. I know your not going to like it but I will do this for you because I care enough about you to help you have a good work ethic."

Dash actually said...
"Thank you Mom"...

Of course I almost had to grab my chin off the floor!

Steve fixed hot dogs and fed the kids as I scrubbed the tub.
We all worked hard until 2 p.m.
We were all just worn out!
The shower stall in the master bath is rather a difficult task for me.
It was wonderful afterward to treat myself to a shower in a clean shower stall.

We all took off and went for our first drive in the new truck.
Look at this truck it does not look like a 10 year old truck!

He just looks so right in it.
The 4 runner well...his head hit the roof!
He is 6'4"

The gas gauge is funky...It has a short or a loose connection because when we started out the LOW FUEL warning light came on. I thought it had a half tank in it, but it showed empty we took it to gas it up but it only took 15 gallons.
I looked in the owners Manuel and it hold 28 gallons.
The kids fit great in the back seat.
They really were out growing the 4 runner.

They were really full of the volume
How do you locate the off switch!
You know your tired when happy children get on your nerves.

We were enjoying the beautiful weather, so a stop at a bird sanctuary was in order.
It is a wonderful public park not too many miles from home.
It is a water reclamation sight.

Can you believe that is a 10 year old truck!

Steve and I walked and talked as the children stayed close and wandered very little . We insisted they NOT climb that wall (hahah). They finally relaxed and climbed around and had fun.
Sometimes we just forget that they are special needs kids. I like that :)
The newness of the truck was stressing them. Any thing new stresses them.
I do hope that we are able to have them relax at Disney Land.
I must remember to do the preventatives and the little bag of tricks I learned.
I will accidentally :) add some cloth to cover faces if overwhelm hits them.

It sprinkled off and on on us today.
Cool and the air was sweet with acacia and wildflowers.

They flood this area off and on to reclaim the water to the water table and have a refuge for the migratory birds.
Steve and I are both birders. We were much so before the kids.
Now we are able to reawaken that passion and to teach the beauty to the children.
They can name a many a bird to you if you were to ask them to.

The distant mountain ranges were nice to see. With the rain the air was clear.

This is a look out Ramada.

Just look at that sky!
It was around 68* I think, just a little nip in the air.

I thought to capture some wildflower seed. Steve remarked at it. He said ...
"look at you, most folks just go spend a lot of money and get them grown in a bucket at a nursery.
I think it is so cool how you even think to collect the seeds."

He reminded me to take pictures of them to be able to know what I have growing.
I do hope they take off.

We returned and I took a CD and a book that was the neighbors to them.
I told his daughter of the dash short and asked her if she would tell him so that if we needed to know anything else in order to make a solve of the issue he could please tell us.
Well a ring of the door bell...here he was to tell us about the alarm system secret.

About then my charge for the evening arrived and we all had a spaghetti dinner.
Steve and I watched some HULU shows while the kids had a children s table only supper.:)
Afterward the guest had some crafts and we set up the paints. Daddy Man put together some little bird houses I had set aside for this weekend. I did up the dinner dishes.
The children painted and talked, having a wonderful time of encouraging each others artistic charms. I was really a delight to see.

The time was good for them. The little guest was for the FIRST TIME EVER SAFE SHE SAID to sleep somewhere else. She said my tummy does not hurt here. ;} sweet baby.
I do not do sleep overs. My children will not be doing them, this made perfectly clear to her mother. I allowed her to sleep here because I would not have the house stirred so late in the evening for her to return tonight. She will come for her at 8 a.m.

children

have

an amazing eye for beauty!

Well all kisses and hugs have been had, giggling girls and a tired boy next door.
When they finally sleep I have baskets to make. It is 9:30!
Wow I am so ready to sleep.

Up from the grave he arose!!!!!!!!!!
It is so true to note here that this is life
Life more abundantly.
That is the whole purpose, he did that we might all have LIFE>>>

This is the Love of the FATHER
that HE would give
that He would give....
His Son too gave
He gave it all...
The final ounce He gave.

So let us then love one another with a love that is not hindered.
Fervent to obey the law of kindness as it alone rules our hearts.

Walking on holy ground.

This week I have found myself walking on holy ground.
Thinking on the things I have witnesses and heard and have known. I have just been to full for words much. Just a lot of laughter, good humor and delight in all that I am watching come to our family via answered prayers and spoken desires. Many of the things are many long years in the coming. I am standing amazed at how I let go of so many of the things that are now returning into my charge.
My home, a truck to tow the camper, the camper and a wheel barrow, wheeled barrel to put potting soil and my compost to protect my back. A vacation in just 8 days. A rest with the children and the time with each other to thrill in our lives together. I have played and walked with Dash.
Kept an extra child today, and will do so again tomorrow overnight for a single mom.

I watched last night as my husbands heart was gently turned able to accept the offering and make the choice that was for our good behalf. We saw no way, then we chose NO DEBT...a way was made today. It will be a wash (even in 6 months) with all things met. Not only the savings goal met, no debt , but a truck replacing the other one. Lower insurance payments and a very low registration. The new truck is a 1999 that looks so beautiful, not old at all. A few minor body dings, that will be just enough to let us relax with it. In essence we will only be extending $1500.

Now after 6 very full, long, hard years we once again get to have a holiday. Not an extravagant one by some measure, but for us a privilege to be sure. My children and I have something to look forward too. You see when I work so hard without anything to look forward too it has been grueling...I am refreshed to keep it up now. That is such a wonderful thing in itself.

The kitchen drawers were finished on Thursday.

The little trays were a $.999 cent store find 3 for a $1
I was finally able to have it fixed nice.

These were displaced , but found a good home.

I had so much fun yesterday with the "happy little working song" humor while I set to task.
The slap stick of the humor of it.
"NOW WASN'T THIS FUN"...
I kept laughing so hard. It was divine to laugh aloud so much.
Denise kept me in stitches with her comments.


With summer break coming I decided to move the children s games to the low landing cupboards so the kids can see what they have and play more games.
I played two with Dash just today.
Games are so good for fellowship with our kids.

Steve came home at lunch and I went to the bank and withdrew the funds for the truck. We borrowed from the kids savings until the tax checks come in.
We have a new (to us ) truck! Steve finally has his White Truck :)

I had it in the driveway when he came home.
I did the exchange and receipt , the elders brought over so it would be in the driveway when he pulled up.
Pictures tomorrow

I had to go to the DMV after he got home from work.

It is a full day of amazing things.
I removed the sign off the pop up camper, and gave each kid a scissor we all cut it up!
I think we are going to go for a drive tomorrow.

I think the little ones were not sure of me. I was almost in a joyous sob as at last! I have a truck to pull my cabin to the forest!
We get to cut up the sign.
Dash told me he cried every time it was almost to sell it.

Oh BOY HOWDY!!!!!!!!!!
That felt good!
We get to go camping this summer.
The extra little girl hopes to join us...well I don't know?

After the DMV I went to go get the dent out of my ring.
I had called a place that had sent out coupons to eye how much it would cost me.
They did it for free with the ring in see shot the whole time.
Then this sweet young woman, who loved the joy of the story of my car wreck and the Indian wedding just sweet as can be. I looked at books they had of settings and findings that I could order from them.
I felt safe and took her up on a free cleaning.
My ring looks NEW!
Now I am hard on my ring because I work so hard with my hands.


It was burnished looking before no luster, it shines!
When she handed it to me I cried. I thought that the stone would be clean, but she polished the platinum too.
It glistens.

I have been working hard for three weeks now to stop biting my nails.
I had started up with all the medical stress.
my hands are back now and so is this beautiful ring.
Like the Lord retuning everything the worm ate.

Annette I am so touched by your concern over the lack of post today.
I drove that truck to the DMV and the old man had left a CD in it.
It was very old time country.
A Johnny Cash tune on it.
It was just hilariously Holy.

The presence entered the store with me, the young woman was gifted with it we both felt it without word of explanation. She gave me unmeasured favor.
It was so palpably clear of the presence of my Abba Father loving on me these last two days that I am just on
Holy Ground.