Tackle it Tuesday *Flight Center

On Monday we had a wonderful field trip to a flight center

I had the thrill of being one of five volunteers that made the trip able to happen

We had four groups we were group four. We were on a rotation. My group got to have lunch first.

My young friend just sat alone.

The other boy in my group had left ill and the others were all girls.

He shared with me that he was embarrassed when I gave him the picture I painted in class last year, it gave me a change to apologize for his discomfort.

 We received our training as the children were being lectured on flight

The teacher of the class is in the gray to the left.

She made this happen.

 

 This is the class as they were in training

The cock pit seats were so cool

They used them first

 

 The information and science coverage was awesome!

 

 I had another child but as the lecture was occurring he did not look right to me.

I asked the child to come to me.

The teacher took him to the nurse just in time for him to repeatedly vomit!

Sweet boy missed out. I gathered him all of the experiment supplies and his flight Manuel and sent it on quickly with the teacher to the nurse.

 

 Dove did real well

 

This is so cool!

This is all on a volunteer basis.

 

This is a flight simulator program they used..

I got to take a turn and landed!

 

 

 

 As the kids who were training for the plane simulator part of my group was doing a study in night vision.

Using a grid system they had to identify the items on the field through the night goggles.

While the other part of my group shifted over and these guys went to the plane

 

 

 

 This fellow was a retired flight instructor as was one of the guardians who came with us a grandpa who was a retired flight instructor.

 

 

 We had a odd man out so I got to give it a try.

This is the same boy who I painted the dream catcher for last year.

This child keeps getting placed under my charge year after year.

I pray for him.

 

 

 

 

 

 This little girl is named Diamond. She is a real sweet heart.

The project only works if a class has enough adults to assist

So today I got to go do a little shopping.

That is where I have been folks .

Have a wonderful pause to give thanks for all the many many kindnesses God affords you day to day.

Wow, Dash does not HAVE to use hearing aides.

My boy has healed a hearing loss.

God has always given me so many reasons to give thanks.

Meal Plan Menu

Thank God For Dirty Dishes

They have a tale to tell.

While others may go hungry

we're eating very well.

For by the stock of evidence

I shouldn't want to fuss

with home and health and happiness

God's been good to us.

Order is being restored around here some.

I got a sweet hug and a thank you from my beloved "for all the work you do around here" he said.

Well that just fuels my fires, dries up those old damp logs a smoldering.

I hope that all of you who are doing the big meal at your homes ask for help if not offer it freely if your a guest.

We have the privileged of answered prayers in that we are guest twice.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Yucatan Gold Potato

Veggie tray

and if energy prevails...

stuffed creamini mushrooms with sage sausage and Asian bread crumbs.

32 days 

til Christmas!

A busy week end

Little Grunt Play,Mr Mister, bread sticks and miners dinner, garage and garden shed all during two days of children here with mine playing.

Hello, I have a moment to breath!

Dash is barley to be seen behind the orange paper.

He took his role VERY seriously.

He was the very end of the dinosaurs tail.

 

 It was a nice evening, the same day of all the treats stuff, it was the evening the Mother of the boy came and apologized.A very full day it was. That was Thursday.

Friday was full of grocery shopping.

Yesterday was full of garage cleaning and the garden shed.

But this was too funny.

My Mr Mister hung the scroll work up in the kitchen.

Above the sink you can just see one of the corner brackets.

 

 this was fun...

 

 His t shirt say Life is Good.

funny man

 

on Thursday night we had some bread sticks

I drizzled olive oil on the pan and then garlic salt.

The dough was left to rise while did errands and tasks 

 

 This is miners dinner it was one of the meals I prepared earlier in the week.

The meat was frozen here.

It has chopped root veggie, normally some cabbage but I had none.

Sprinkle some mixed frozen veggies.

By the day after it is thawed and ready to just toss in the oven

 

 Snug in heavy duty foil, or you can use a pan covered.

When ready place in oven at 350* for an hour and dinner is served.

Clean up a breeze.

We used this when we camped often as well if you make a rock oven under the campfire pit.

 

 Saturday the garage took to a transformation.

note the stack of papers in the gray file cabinet, they all got filed today.

My husband cut down a tall shelf and made a corner unit for the garden shed.

We reloaded the tool cabinet and the automotive shelve unit.

Doing all your own repair work calls to have the supplies you might need.

We have collected things that we saw good use for over the years and also keep motor oil when it is at a good price and the like.

 

Now that the tailor is to be garaged we removed the land locked cabinet and shelve to the other side of the garage and reloaded it. All the electric tools have the cords coiled and set in like things on the individual shelve. I just love order. So this task will often fall to me while he does all the heavy lifting and such.

 

All of the discarded things are now separated into like things to sell or give.

That stack of files on the gray hay-worth are filed

 

 My neighbor got into the grow and she was out working all day as well.

It was fun to have our garages opened up and talk back and forth across the street while the children and their friends rode bikes and plays in the driveway.

 

 She gifted the kids with this old set of books.

Dash loved them.

She gave Dove a blue light for her bedroom once I get it finished.

 This will be the new shop and a place for the bikes.

 

Now all the thing are accessible and the space on the other side of the tailor is for dead storage of wood scraps and those types of things that one only needs seldom.

My neighbor had a motel and sold the land.

She cleared out the hotel and was left with several wall unit a/c heaters.

She has offered us 25% of sells if Steve sells them for her.

He will look into it.

She has a garage full of things to sell and would give Steve a % if he helps her.

An afternoon play date with a new kid to me.

The mother and I sat in the garden, a very lovely single mom.

She left to do errands and I told her to take an extra hour if she used it just for her.

The scarlet runner is running and It is so pretty.

 My new garden shed.

:)

That is the corner unit Steve made for me.

I emptied the shed and then set it up.

The bins are dog, chicken and wild bird foods.

Now I will have all the needed tools of the trade and foods of the earth at my access and easily handled.

 

 I'll give you a little peak...

I'll post some images on the Bee Bliss blog

 

 A few flowers 

 

I laughed so hard when I saw this sign last week.

My other neighbor took me to a little decor store.

I love this.

The kids get $5. a week when we are able to pay it for doing their chores.

It is a family understanding that it is a privileged to get allowance.

We also impart that a workman is worthy of his hire.

That a family is a team too.

So there ya have it.

Here are a few of the layouts I have been creating.

The findings are yet to be attached.

I am coming to visit all of you.

Friends, garage and the childrens adventure.

We have a full pantry now for I spent 4 hours Friday morning going over the lead in adds and gathering the coupons. Then making the list in the color code for the store to decipher the best deals.

So the first trip to the large Costco and got supplies in bulk to do the roasted garlic mashed Yucatan gold potato, and the veggie trays for the two Thanksgiving suppers next week.
The snack items and the freezer stock too a good $200.
Got home and unloaded into the garage and the freezer and headed off to the Fry's store.
I spent a good $240? 
and came home with $180. Free. 
and another 100? approximately that did not show in the $$ amounts as deductions.
6 hours worth of work.

Ladies stock your pantries this week it is the best time of year to do staples and some of the can goods.
Many good root veggies too and stored properly you can do a two month supply.

The bag man at the store has a cokuler implant and I sign with him.
I told him about God restoring Dash's hearing he was amazed and over joyed for him.
He helped me load up and we embraced at the joy of a child not having the journey that the fellow had to go through and is going through.
So few people will stop and effort to interact with the deaf community and like a wheel chair just turn a blind awkward eye.
It is such a gift to have the ease to hold conversation.
This young man was so refreshed just being able to interact eye to eye with another.
I felt really blessed to see that joy on his face.

When I got in with that huge load it was a real task to get it all into the house and put aside to unbag as the afternoon evening continued.

Dash went home with my girlfriend and her son to play after school on Friday.

Dove got off the school bus in a panic , I yelled hello to her  she calmed.

 I there just a few houses away stood on the sidewalk and waited for her. 

I sat and watched her kids tv and fell asleep for a few moments. 

If I watch tv for any time I just fall asleep. 

Sweet child went in and watch her computer game after covering me with her jacket.

I wish I could of just been more alert for her but the work load of a good almost $600+ worth of grocery shopping just left me wiped out.

I had not shopped in a long while and the storehouse was nicely emptied and dated items used up.
It was time.
Every quarter I do this.
Now coming into early harvest with the hens I will not need to be in the markets until after Christmas, after the crowds, after the flu season is over.

Next big sales are just before Christmas, but this week the buying power is at it's height.

My Dear friend had a jewelry catalog party last evening.
I had the pleasure of meeting a few new ladies.
Wonderful women two of them had adoption and/or special needs kids in common.

Trisha did a wonderful gathering and Our Dear Lisa was there the three of us stayed and lingered in the pleasantness of each others company.

When I got home I stayed up late just enjoying the quiet of the late night hours. 

In the middle of the night I had an asthma attack.
I think from exposure to candles both at the play date and last evening.
Sound asleep I awoke coughing unable to breath.
I used the inhaler over and over and then got up and brushed my teeth in the dead of night and used some Listerine too.
It finally eased up.
So I slept until 10 a.m.
Awoke to have to do a breathing treatment first thing to get my chest to open up.
I so love that the beauty of those candles sent nicely unfortunately my lungs just put up such a fuss when I get exposed.

We spent This Saturday here cleaning our garage and the garden shed.
We worked hard and long into the eve from late morning.

Now we have a nice garden shed set up and the garage has become more user friendly.
We were forced to move the camper into the garage where we were assembling a nice little work shop for Steve.
Now it is all redone, with the shelving and metal cabinet with the power tools moved over to the accessible side.
A lot of work.

I made a simple supper and we were watching a second half of the Muppets in Space? or something like that and the CIA type folk were torturing the puppets and that awful feeling hit me.
I got real sick to the soul and my heart began to beat hard.
The PTSD was lighting up! Over a stinking puppet!

No one knows here, I just left the room.
I am too tender to try to tell Steve for the embarrassment factor is no fun and painful.
So tonight I sit feeling rather lonely in it.

He and I had a hard day and tempers flew. Cleaning a garage can do that. :)

We work so differently. I see the plan and walk into the organization to get the maximum efficiency with the least effort and safe. He sees a job and just wants to get it over with so sometimes I leave him feeling like I must think he can do nothing right. My heart and motive misunderstood. That leave me with hurt feelings and him too. It was just too much work for two folks but we got the foundations met and I ordered his power tools for him and got the shed empty.

He made a real nice "L" shape shelving unit and so I assembled a wonderful garden shed for myself.

Two different neighbors came for garden tours.
One who has some seeds from Asia to share and I share the knowledge of our zone with her. She offered up a "have you ever had loofa?" Ha!

Did you know you can eat that stuff when it is very young. She knows how to grow it (an answer to my requests in prayers).

We did a first and let our two kids go to the park a few blocks away on their bikes with two other children. They all stayed togeather with a 30 minute return time and a watch on Dash's wrist.

They returned 15 minutes early just my two. Dove told Dash she wanted to come home because there was someone drinking in the park. He came right home with her and they were so happy to be home. This was a huge step for me. I prayed for them.

As they were a house away I looked up and saw The Lab! he had gotten out of the gate! I did not even see him and he came running up to the kids right when they came toward the house.

The kids came home just as the dog had gotten out just in time to meet him two doors down and call him into the garage.

That is so amazing!

So many little miracles.

Then Dash concerned of the other two boys went around the corner on bikes with Dove and told the boys father who had no car to go get them. Dash concerned went on bike with the Daddy Man to fetch the other two children home for the parent.

All the kids then played in the front as we worked on the garage till dark. I walked the last child to the corner after he had returned. Four kids went together and mine back from the end of the street then this one boy came back. I saw the parent of this other kid eye to eye and he thanked me for chaperoning him home.

My kids did not really like the adventure so much as to yearn for it as they have...but it was good to give them an once of adventure withing the company and firm boundaries of what to do and where to go. Not to go or do anything else and to get here within a short time line. This was a big step in trusting God for me and trusting the kids to do what was right. They really impressed me with the good sense to come home together and stay together.

Well a day.

Day is done.

Good night.

Thankful Thrusday *life*

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This is the day that the Lord has made.

I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Perseverance...

it brings hope.

When hope is deferred the heart can become sick.

This day I walked and moped floors

I helped another mother who loves God.

Her son threatened my son with a shot gun and said he would blow out his brains.

I got the call form a dear friend whose son overheard the report and called me.

Dash had chosen a higher road.

Trying to avoid any further strife.

Trying to also understand I think a different way to keep himself safe.

When his teacher asked of it she began..."I know your mother has raised you to speak truth...give me a yes or no answer if this...happened"...in regards to the confirmed statement Dash said.

"I can't remember"

He did remember.

I lashed out at the principle that I did not hear this from him.

I later apologized and owned that momma bear reaction.

Tonight Dash had his play.

I saw both children s mothers.

There was no strife.

That boys mom came to me to apologize, and to my friend.

Explaining her sons poor behavior and lack of skill at dealing with his frustrations that lead to such drastic words.

There was peace.

With His teacher there is peace and a better understanding of things.

With the principle there is peace.

With my friend I trust there is peace.

On another note.

We got a citation in the mail from the city.

We have to remove our trailer from our driveway for it is a city code violation

We were not aware of the violation and the letter dated 11-10 was giving us until the 11-17 date to comply.

Note this is over due 

I just opened the letter today.

Today

the first day I could walk and work and tend to the tasks.

The driveway swept clear the garage cleared and Steve came home early to back it in.

He has lost the shop we were setting up for him in large part.

There is peace.

It was troubling him to see it in the drive and even though it caused a loss of work time and a possible fine to come...there is peace.

The front is so pretty all swept.

The trailer is in the garage within inches of fit for the tools have been moved.

My son was in his play.

The kitchen is mopped

Dishes caught up with an empty dishwasher

The paper work is in better stead with a 8 inch stack to be filed of work accomplished.

Chickens watered.

I am back.

Speaking of back it really hurts but the joy of all of the peace and accomplishment is a prize worth the cost.

My daughter is at peace asleep

My husband at peace.

Saddened by the layoffs of 4 men this week in his department alone.

Yet

there is peace.

I have a wonderful Thanksgiving at his folks...the stress of the day is gone and there is peace.

It has become doable.

Then a call came in from a niece my brother's child

We have a second Thanksgiving we have been welcomed into.

There is peace.

Thanksgiving was this year a real challenge to wrap my brain around knowing physically I would be really pushing it.

The trial that I was to testify in was postponed until 12-17

I was able to take care of our home and the trailer, garage, meal, play, mop and do a lot of paperwork.

My son will no longer have over his head that he could have Ushers Syndrome.

I now longer have to fear that he may go deaf or blind.

I have carried this for 8 years.

there is peace, shock a bit yet it is still sinking in.

my son will not go deaf or blind with ushers

God has actually done the impossible in mans eyes.

His hearing has all but been restored.

Without the finacial coverage I was stressed for his medical care.

There is now peace.

There is peace.

All those threats that come upon us are set to rob that peace.

a thousand may fall at my right hand and ten thousand at my right hand

and it shall not come nigh

for I have made my God even the most high my dwelling place

He has covered me with His wing

He has set His angles charge over me

Over mine

I have set my ove upon him and I am so amazed at how very much He enjoys my love.

He enjoys me

loving Him.

my daughter is sleeping

my husband has peace

my son does not have to ware hearing aides unless he wants to

my chickens give 3 eggs a day (Dash eats 3 eggs a day)

The garden is thriving

My children are thriving.

 I can walk again and continue to improve in that ability.

My dentist deferred payment until 1-5-10

The dogs are peaceful and happy

The front door is secure

We have all our needs met.

no illness under my roof

NO I WILL NOT KNOCK ON WOOD

I will declare with praise what GOD HAS DONE

No weapon formed against me.

I have endured for the night

now it is morning

morning joy has come to me wrapped in her garment of peace

Good news Dash's hearing has improved!

In an amazing turn of events...

We went to ASU to take part in a study that is underway for children with hearing aides to better filter the back ground noise.

The woman was awesome. Dash earned $30 to participate in a 2 hour length of tests.

he is now an official employee for a two hour day :)

the news

She performed a hearing test....

DASH's hearing has improved and even though he does have hearing loss he no loner really needs hearing aides!!!!!!!!

They may use a type of head phone if needed.

HE DOES NOT NEED HEARING AIDES ANYMORE! unless he chooses to use them.

This is so uncommon, only normally in cases where the hearing is long term rising and falling into deafness. She does not see that in this pattern.

It is actually improved.

God is even healing my boys hearing loss.

I was so stunned at the university.

We have lost all benefits from the children s clinic due to the federal funding but now...he will not even need it anyway. I still need to test yearly. At this time he does not need hearing aids. He is hearing fine. He has marked loss in a high rang as if he was exposed to a load noise she said. But the other ranges have come to within a normal mark. I am amazed.

hope came

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