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He has numbered my days...

“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb
I chose you.
Before you were born I set you apart..."



Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother

I will make you a fisher of men...
Suffer the little children to come unto me,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.







When I was a child I thought as a child...

I will restore the years the wormwood has eaten.
The two shall become one...

I will create in you a new heart and a new mind the former things will all pass away...






You shall be called Mother of many...
For this thing He has promised you, he is faithful in fulfilling...I will bring you into a new land....

I have come that you might have life...
and have life abundantly...

I am Glad I was born...
Today is my 48th birthday.

Like a vapor it passes
If by reason of strength 4 score and 20...
And yet it fades like the grass...

I have known you
I have called you by mane.

I have given you a new name...

Tenacious Vivacious White Raven.

Tackle it Tuesday

Good Morning!
Now here was a huge tackle
That the Daddy Man did this week end.
He deserves some recognition on this one!

My Morning tackle of hand stitching
(details on "A Place to Create), later.
This done while having some wonderful fellowship on the telephone.
Down loading images all the while.

The knit squares a gift form my MILove
(Thank you...)
She gave me sets and I love them stitched together to use at the stove.

I found a nice Asian $1 store yesterday is my quest to fine some bar laundry soap.
I got a few things
The knives needed a good steel wooling.
The little pads in the bag are nice.
Big pads of steel wool can get nasty and they are often then tossed and wasted these are a nice small job size
Keep your steel wool dry after use.

before, then with a bit of elbow grease (hand strength) alone walla!Much better. These are fine steal Japanese hardened steel knifes.
Cheep knives well do not do this with them.
The metal will just get all scratched.

Picture removed showed several frames awaiting to be finished.


While at that little shop I found inexpensive frames for the kids honors.
I have been wanting to acknowledge them for the efforts.
I will frame and hang them.

Found the bar soap.
Laundry soap just ran out from that last run I made.
This clear soap is a better choice.
It has a coconut oil base.
$1.29 a bar, I grabbed 5 of them and that is a 6-8 months supply of staple for laundry soap making.
The other items have many more jobs to do than that per box.

This the remnant of the last box unpacked.
Things yet to hang and to put away.

Found these little purses to put the coin in for the kids skate party.
They each get a few tokens with the deal we purchased.

Found these $2 each.
The job with these is to put the tax information for the required 7 years into.
This job is long over due and I will enjoy the efficiency of it.
Each year just shed the oldest year and replace current finished tax documents in it.
This is important to have at hand if your needing the most important things to grab and run.
Like a fire, or natural disaster.
I am just doing it for duty sake for the wisdom of it.

Found signs for the 4 runner one each side back window and one in the very back window...
I need to fill these out.

My first takle of the day was Doves education.
Math homework to do...
Measurement is a very abstract thing.
I was inspired to give her the resorses to use as a tangable reference.
The information entered in.
We all learn differently.
Dyslexics are often left uneducated because teachers are forced and often refuse too, think outside of the box.
I love that I still do homeschooling in my own fashion.

Parents are the first teachers.
Home is the first school.

Well off to set to the next task.
Enjoy your day.

I wish you could of watched the light come on in her eyes.
It was pure delight.
Like chains off her wrists.

Marriage Monday, Seasons of Marriage

Seasons
Passages from old to anew

Gains and letting go
wounds that will heal
These are the days of a union

Hours take flight in an instant, linger never to fade
Days to await never seem as if they will arrive
Flash in time, shadow yesterday gone

One thing always remains the same
A word spoken
Never recalled, nor forgotten

Kindness, rule of our lives
Hours of memory, days of gentle rain
Embrace by tender words in crisis, harmonious day too.

Spoken, takes flight into journey of days
Life or death power, will always remain
good times or bad

Spring,winter... it remains the seed
In soil to emerge one day
Fruit or a Poison, Healing or Pain

So guard me my tongue
Let it be ruled to refrain
Seasons will roll joy will remain

In youth of Spring
Summers heated anger
Those harvesting days of middle year

This I am sure of
the winter years approach
love is the great gain

By Donetta
2009
Married March of 1982

“We all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies. Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!” (James 3:2-5).


“A good tree does not produce decayed fruit any more than a decayed tree produces good fruit. . . . A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil. Each man speaks from his heart’s abundance” (Luke 6:43-45).

Let us ask God to bring conversion to our speech! Let us all strive, by God’s grace, to be like-minded, sympathetic, loving toward one another, kindly disposed, and humble. Let us not return evil for evil or insult for insult. We should return a blessing instead. This we have been called to do, that we may receive a blessing for our inheritance. If we want to enter into life and see prosperous days, then we must keep our tongue from evil and our lips from uttering deceit (cf. 1 Pet. 3:8-10).

“I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Mt. 12:36-37).


comment from Amrita
Hi Donetta read this about marriage in a devotional

"Marriage comes with a built in abhorrence
of self centeredness.In the dream world of mankind 's
complacent separateness, amidst all our pleasant little fantasies
of omnipotence and blamelessness and self-sufficiency,marriage explodes like a bomb.
It runs an aggravating interference pattern,
an unrelenting guerrilla warfare against selfishness.
It attacks people 's vanity and lonely pride
in a way that a few other things can,
tirelessly exposing the necessity
of giving and sharing,
the absurdity of blame.
Angering,humiliating,melting,
chastening, purifying, it touches us
where we hurt most, in the place of
our lovelessness.
Dragging us into lifelong encounters
which at times may be full of boredom,
tension,unpleasantness or grief,
marriage challenges us to abandon
everything for the sake of love."
(Mike Mason - The Mystery of Marriage-
As Iron Sharpens Iron)

Wow loved that!

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Originator of the MM meme, Christine has volunteered to be our guest hostess in May, June, July, and August. Monday's topic is "Seasons of Marriage." I encourage you to get involved!

Life becomes super-busy for us during the warmer months, so I'll be off until September. See you back at Chrysalis for Marriage Monday when the weather begins to cool. Ciao for now!

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20 Of My Favorite Things

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1. Color-Summer shades I find myself stumped. I think I need time to think about me?
2. Dessert-Pecan Pie
3. Smell-clean fragrance free
4. Flower-white rose
5. Animal-wolf
6. Month- April
7. Beverage-organic carrot juice
8. Pair of shoes- Merrels, any thing by them. They must have good arch support. My arches are very high. So a sensible show protects my knee.
9. Snack-candy
10. Song-How Great thou Art
11. Book- I am a reference reader. Non Fiction
12. Fruit- Navel Orange
13. Hairstyle- Natural no hair spray
14. Piece of clothing- satin and lace panties (blush)
15. Store to clothes shop- I don't clothes shop ????? I have been given so many things. Maybe Ross?
16. Season-Spring
17. Hobby- Gardening
18. Thing to collect- Beading supplies
19. Movie- Epics...I often thrive in the soundtracks of the picture
20. Restaurant- Pei Wei Asian (fresh veggies and well prepared)

The Simple Woman's Daybook

For Today...

Outside my window... Afternoon shadows, swinging in the slight breeze the feeders tell me of my neglect. Tomato needs to be picked and the evening hour promises the temperature to reduce. A few hours later...

I am thinking... How fun was that...A neighbor was out front, Steve called to me to come. When I attended it was a neighbor who is from Turkey...she had i tow a friend who was also from Turkey who was an educator in Turkey teaching that language. The neighbor asked if she could show her my garden. She told her about my "beautiful" back yard...Perspective comes in here I guess. I see it as a mess of dried grass and such.
What a small world we gardener live in.
I gave her a copy of some Arizona tips, some flower seed and some tomato.

From the learning rooms... Study of soil composition, fertilization and essential elements. Research to prepare for fall gardens. The Meal Plan needs also to be done.

I am thankful for... my Husband's endurance. He helped Dash with his room all weekend. then he took a trip to the folks coming home with an old metal arbor. Grapes in the fall:)

From the kitchen... Lemon aide set up in recycled bottles for the week for lunches and the counters cleared except for the apples to be washed. Caught up a bit now. Light load of dishes to finish in the morning. Strawberry Jam, bread, yogurt, and laundry soap to make this week.

I am wearing...A turquoise fitted knit top, caprie Jeans and no shoes. Two rings on a finger and no bells on my toes. I did find a very nice head band that holds my hair back. My bangs have grown past the end of my nose now. It is nice to have it held back. I am not trying to grow it out, just have yet to budget it in. There is also a nasty burn on my forearm that is making itself well known.

I am reading... Craft article of the 1950's, gardening sites and many new interest I am gaining knowledge on.

I am hoping...To go camping at months end. I have a funeral to go to at weeks end and I am hoping to have a balanced emote. That does not exhaust me. To be able to do my duties and care well for my family.

I am creating...a clutter free space to create in.

I am praying...My husband, A friend who knows of a 13 yr old who has now lost both of his parents. That my kids can stay well. Two schools now have shut down a few miles south of me.

Around the house... My head is above water! At last I am getting caught up a bit. Reasonable tasks that I will accomplish with time and energy to do some art and creating. Some self care would be in order as well.

One of my favorite things... serving and eating of the plants I grow.

A few plans for the rest of the week... kids have a dentist apt. in the morning, Baby shower Tuesday next. Funeral next Saturday for my nephew who took his own life in March. It needs closure, I need it to have closure. Bible study, Moms in Touch, Baking, jam making and such. Crafting. I want to do another topical study I really enjoyed it.
Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...
It helps me
"Get a Grip"
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All in a Day...

Hello, I have started another Blog

A Place To Create...
I worked hard on this project, I'll talk more about it over there.

I hope your all having a nice weekend.
I am getting ready for a new week.
My Darling used his last Gatorade so...
Lemon aide was in order.
This task awaited his help to pour the new bag of sugar for me.
I buy it in a 25 pound bag.
GASP!
Yes but think about what you consume...
Now although sugar is not "good " for you. It is processed by use of animal bone to whiten it...interesting tip:)
If you look at what is being consumed...
HIGH FRUCTOSE Corn Syrup...it is in everything.
It is processed as a by product, from Genetically Modified Corn!
So now the sugar looks a bit better :)

So remember cooking from scratch means buying in bulk the best you can acquire.
A 25 pound bag will last a long time. It does not spoil and it is often cheaper per pound to buy. Be sure your storage is ready to receive it.

Remember those winter Lemons from the neighbor I gleaned, juiced, and froze
It is now summertime. I wish I would have juiced more.
By the end of that I was very tired of juicing. :)Lemon aide for lunches for Steve and the kids.
Real lemon juice, sugar and reverse osmosis water...
that is all...
nothing else...but love mixed in it.

Speaking of Love, not perhaps agape but non the less a pleasing part of life.
Simple Syrup is a great source of many things one of them being my own homemade flavoring/sweetener for my coffee.
This bottle "butter scotch",
a half of that little jar made a nice concentrated flavor, more flavor use less.

Now the soy milk is organic.
Oh that butterscotch oh...oh... that is a good cup of Joe!

To the last drop friends!

Well we all went up to Costco for the monthly stock pile shop.
I found something for the skin of our darlings, and for myself to have in my purse.
Summer is coming fast this is a must in the desert.
I have to remember to make good use of it now.
I put it on a shelf by the back door.
I think the other will go on a shelf by the front door.

Look what I splurged on!
I know me...splurge it does happen from time to time.
This is a gift for all my hard work and good service:)
It was really a great deal. Under $6. for 10 pods.
I look forward to using it.
Make my own extract from recycling them.
Make use of the pods for baking and such.

They are beautiful!
At least 6' long!

Now we know the U.N. is is trouble ,but really Russia is going to get in some bad press if they do not make a better vehicle. :)
This was given to Dash on an adoption day. I found it for him when we were in Russia. I gave it to him a little too early I think.
It took well to the gluing.

Used a few cups of vinegar in the dishwasher to remove the hard water build up.
Just run it on a soak cycle.
Vinegar!
Good stuff!
I watched a show that in Europe they even have shops with many different flavors/strains of it.
It can be very costly.
Over at Down to Earth she has a nice tutorial on making the "mother of vinegar" sounds nasty, but it does have many health benefits.

Well Daddy man finished Dash's room.
He deserves a trophy!

I worked hard in the garden.
Spent time working on
"A Place to Create",
in more ways than one.
On to other things....

Posted over at Bee Bliss Gardens tonight

I have compiled several basic soil preparations and know how of essential soil elements how too for getting your garden ready to plant.
We had a busy day today.
I spent time over at my sisters.
They moved back here to take over the house that their son was managing.
His funeral will be on the 9 th, Saturday.
At 1:00 at Messengers Mortuary in Scottsdale if you wish to attend.
Some concern here with the flu and my niece coming with the new baby.
We helped her with some furniture and unpacking of dished for they will be having a get together at her home after the services.
My nephew for those of you who may not know lost his life to suicide at the end of March.
His sister being weeks away from her first birth.
We waited for baby so she could fly home for closure.
I was pretty shook up to share her pain, she just must be suffering so badly.
We sat and looked at photographs from birth to well too the last days of his life.

She went to a sewing meeting where she was very beloved today, and they all stood up to applaud her when she walked into the door.
It sounded like it must have been perfect!
How wonderful for her to receive a welcome like that at this time.
She had been house bound due to winter in Connecticut.
Not knowing anyone there.

I came home to a call from my dear friend Trisha, (hi baby) an invitation to go out with us four "captivating sisters of the heart" who have gathered for each others birthdays for years.
I had totally forgot of it.
She called and left a message.
Girls I just started crying it just felt like a big warm hug!

I took a nap to shake off the sorrow.
The afternoon evening is low key and the kids down to bed.
Dash got his room cleaned up by the Daddy Man while I tended to the garden care.
I had a drain hole plugged on the tomato in the garden,.
I fed the melons some phosphorous, cut down some more of the pea vine.
I now better understand my delemia in the garden and will be much more ready for the fall crops.
I will work to have good melons, onion, beans,strawberries,lettuce, carrots, and tomato's.
Pulled my first carrot and it was amazing like the flavor was on steroids just so carrot tasting!
I thought perhaps the absence of flavor in our store bought foods make us eat much more than we need to feel sate.
Well I worked hard over at bee bliss tonight and I am tired .
I am coming to visit.
Trisha thank you, and you too Lisa and Michelle.
I would love to get together on the 16th.
I look forward to it.
It will have to be in the evening for Dove has her party until oh 1:30 before I could be available.
Love all of you dear souls out there.
Shine
take all that light of yours and just blow out that darkness!

Alert recieved by the Mesa Public School District

Swine Flu
It is here
A school in Chandler Arizona is closed.
A recorded alert call came from the health department this afternoon.

Mesa Public School District
www.mpsaz.org
click on news

Oh man just 14 days of school left.
Doves little friend kept home yesterday throwing up at school today...
(was vomiting in the school bathroom)
I called the school, Dove said that the girl got a nurses pass and then the nurse said she was a no show...
No,NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

The kids and I all had a flu shot this year and so far the virus is mild.

Look for
Excessive High Fever
excessive vomiting
and breathing difficulties.

Dash and I both have asthma...guess we won't see the folks either this weekend.
MILove has asthma too.

Art Master Piece...the conclusion

conclusions...

All that energy of darkness needed light to be shined on it...
So here is what I did.

I just called her back...
"hello S-----, say I

"On hi Donetta" said she

"I have been racking my mind to think of how it might have been interpreted an issue of assignment to the kids and this is what I came up with. ..."
I told her of a packet on pointillism where a master of a blank flower is...
I suggested that she get into that packet and remove that so that this does not repeat itself.
"I think that when I handed this out to the one teacher she may of thought it an assignment for it was returned to me. I gave it to the kids to do on their own time."

She said that she would remove it.

I told her regarding the time thing that I could put a timer in my bag for the next year to help me kept better track, for with 28 kids in my face time is hard to keep track of.

She thought both of those were good ideas, then her voice softened...

" S---- , I began a little choked up. When you called me with no salutation or greeting, and told me all I had done wrong, with a curt tone..., and yet never thanked me for what I had done..."

She interrupted with..."I thought I did thank you...perhaps you don't remember it..."

I said" if you did the other rang much louder in my ear. It really hurt" voice shaking

She softer said..."wow, my life is so full personally that I just wanted to get it over with...When the district office called me to complain that the guidelines were at issue, I really did not like having to deal with it. I don't think I will do this again next year. It has been a really hard year with all the stress of the budget cuts and Art Master is an expensive program to offer and the big wigs are finding any fault they can with it.....

"That sounds very stressful" say I
I asked " was the complaint about me singly..."

said she that it was general, and when she went around and asked it was then that I was the one complained about.

I told her that I understood challenges at home. That I am raising two special needs kids and I fully understood how hard it can be...

She softened and she spoke of her fatigue of serving in the capacity she was in. She spoke of how she hated to have to even call me. That she just wanted to get it over with. She acknowledged that she was far less compassionate than she normally would have been.
Then she apologized for the fact that she did pour out those feeling of frustration and fatigue on me on me.

I told her that I accepted her apology and forgave her.

When in conversation she brought it up again, I reiterated that I had forgiven her.
I told her however if any other of us received a call like that she may want to consider if any further action should be taken regarding it.

One thing that continues to bother me is the lack of respect that I was shown by whoever decided to call district on me instead of setting a boundary that I could of easily found a solution to.

I do understand that it is her role to be the intermediary to confront the issue. I was not offended by it I was stunned. It was the tone and lack of kindness of the call that hurt.
It was embarrassing, it came off so shaming.

OH CLEAN HANDS
IT IS FINISHED

Art Master Piece

A bit of a vent here.
I am so...struggling with the shades of anger here.
I just got a call from the lead over me in the volunteer service from the public school. She too just a person a mom of a student.

She began The call with ...."I will be picking up all the art prints next week...This will be the last week." no greeting or salutation at all!

I Said "oh hi S----, how are you? I did leave those in the class rooms and the material is in the box in the copy room... Oh, I will be interested in serving next year"

she then continued with " well I had an issue that you need to stick to the guide lines...no art projects...and the time limit must be adhered too." I never did an in class room art project. I did encourage them to explore art on there own time and passed out a paper one day of a flower. The one teacher gave them back to me, I did not expect her to and was surprised. Now Dash's teacher she was only ever Not hostile feeling on the very last visit".

"oh, say I, was there a problem?...Who had an issue?"
Wanting to apologize to the offended. Perhaps problem solve would be a timer next year?

She said "that is not important the important thing is that you stick to the guide lines that is why they are in place."..........

I told her..."I am not offend it is just that I was unaware there was any issue. The teachers have asked of me to continue and to stay"

She said "That's fine for those teachers. Well there was a issue , and that is why the guide lines are in place.

"All right well thanks for letting me know...See you next year..." say I

good by..was her reply!

Not a thank you or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have gone out of my way to offer service for several months at the sacrifice of my own family and home by choice and the lack of acknowledgment...well I guess that is my issue that it is an offense to me...I am human.

Makes me wonder 1) either I am her kicking dog 2) perhaps someone used her for a kicking dog.
3) she is a well shall we say...a dark soul! (cant see her soul) all right to be fair...her behavior was dark!

The children and the fondness they show is thanks in full true, but really!

How well can you keep volunteers if you treat them like that!
Oh that's right I was the very last hold out, perhaps only one other person had prints in class rooms last week...That might just explain that.

I was so angry!!!!, and ya know that is alright I was just treated with rudeness and offensively. Now I have some work to do not to allow this hostile feeling to germinate. I want to just tell those two teachers off for not telling me if there was an issue.
I am humiliated and embarrassed too. I think she shamed me...Interesting I see it now. Well shame on her. That is not right to treat anyone with that as your power tool.

Did I error so badly because it is hard for me to keep time and talk to 28 kids at the same time.
I think I am hurt. I think I need to get a really good grip:}

I called Dash's teacher and left a message declining to demonstrate the painting with oils next week. I said it was not part of the Art Master piece and that I would not want to use up her valuable class time.

Now watch it was probably that other teacher who had an issue. You know what though I am not going to even put myself in that position. I wish I would of pulled my son from her room like I wanted to at the first of the year. I am sure there must be some grater purpose here but I am not enjoying it and neither is Dash.
I better shut up and cool off.
:}
Wow how hard it is to accept critique when given so poorly.
I am working through to keep my hands clean and my heart pure.

Friday Funnies

Have you ever had a problem staring staring you right in the nose.
So I Worked the three hour morning with/for the family,
tended the garden
(come visit the garden at BEE BLISS)
watering,and the animals. I came in here to cool down and have a cup of coffee. The pot prepped I sat down here a moment. Funny thing is I was waiting and waiting well I did not turn it on. So I humored myself, and went over and clicked the switch and sat back down to task. Kept thinking wow, I must be congested this morning for the coffee is hardly leaving the room with an aroma...
I got up ...the pot was not pluged in :}
Oh me.

Happy May Day!

One of my innocent sweet pure memories of my childhood was the dance around the May pole in elementary school. Yes some of the historical traditions are rooted in Pagan worship....
Here I am just simply saying it was a memory that is rare of my childhood.
It feels free, joyous and innocent.
It is a dusting of beauty in a cloudy existence of this woman's childhood.



The maypole is augmentative of other things not so complimentary yes,
BUT TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.

That is how I recall it.
For me the celebration of life meant that in a few days I would celebrate my birth.
I remember feeling that May Day was a part of me, a celebration of life.
I saw beauty around me the days preceding the day that marked the beginning of many years of death and destruction.
Mayday however reminded me that somewhere there was life.
Somewhere beauty, innocence and joy rebounded and then...then I was born.
Flowers and the beauty around me in nature is Gods May Day Basket to me.
I catch Him as give him a holy kiss for the gift.
His gift to me...being surrounded with beauty.

May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to the Haymarket affair or any of several public holidays.^[1] In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labour movement. As a day of celebration the holiday has ancient origins, and it can relate to many customs that have survived into modern times.

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The day was a traditional summer holiday in many pre-Christian European pagan cultures. While February 1 was the first day of Spring, May 1 was the first day of summer; hence, the summer solstice on June 25 (now June 21) was Midsummer. In the Roman Catholic tradition, May is observed as Mary's month, and in these circles May Day is usually a celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this connection, in works of art, school skits, and so forth, Mary's head will often be adorned with flowers. Fading in popularity since the late 20th century is the giving of "May baskets," small baskets of sweets and/or flowers, usually left anonymously on neighbours' doorsteps.

May Day Baskets
Make a flower-filled basket for a friend
The tradition of the ancient Roman and Druid holiday of May Day has endured for centuries. It has been a celebration of spring turning into the pleasures of summer. Traditionally, a "Maypole" was the focus of the festivals. Even today the Maypole is used in the replications of old-time festivals. The Maypole is a tall pole in which ribbons are woven around by groups of dancers to make unique designs and patterns. Gathering flowers and branches became a tradition and "bringing in the May" became a popular activity on May 1. The giving of baskets became part of the festivities later in the evolution of May Day. Today baskets are often made by little children, filled with candy or flowers and then placed on people's doorsteps or tied to the door handle, as they ring the doorbell and dash away before they are caught. You can participate in this activity yourself by making a special May Day basket or using any small basket to fill with flowers to give to a friend. Fill a small basket with freshly gathered Spring blossoms. Tuck a small vase or something that will hold water into the bottom of the basket and fill the basket with a selection of flowers. Tie a bow or ribbon streamers onto the handle and fasten it to the door handle of a friend.