Wednesday, July 23, 2008
IT's the final countdown

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I am getting so excited about seeing my dear friend Laurie this weekend. We will be attending Anne Abgott's "Daring Color" class together and then having the weekend to do a sketch crawl, draw in the gardens, visit art museums and so much more. (Let's see how much we can cram in a weekend hehee)  Anyway, I was making my packing list and checking it twice and as I was thinking of other things to write on the list I started doodling and this is what I came up with. ..

1 Day 15 hours until I leave

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
44 and still kickin

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Well not that today is much different than any other but my children and my friends blessed me. I turned 44 today and here is what we did.... here is a cake made from scratch..... Thank you Destiny and Josh Here is the card they made for me (yes that is me in the center of the 100 dollar bill) thank you Mariah, Destiny, and Josh. These are the two e-cards I received from my dearest friend. I just had to draw them to preserve them in my memory. (Thank you Laurie)

I love you all very much thank you for making my Birthday a special day.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I went for a walk today

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For some that may not seem like a big deal but thanks to my health lately it has been a struggle for me to walk from one room to the other inside the house.

Well I have been staring at these daisies and black eyed susans long enough. I was determined to go out and pick them. Soooo I grabbed my little flower basket (and my inhaler) and put on my shoes and went outside. When I reached the flowers, to my dismay, they were all wiltted and covered in bugs and surrounded by thorny bushes.  So instead of picking them I decided to photograph them. Here is what I came up with..

I added the frame to this one using photobucket. Here are some blackberries almost ready for the pickin.  more lil wild flowersthen I spied the brightest lil red lady bug I have ever seen. She was BIG and Bright! Then there were these homey looking beetles flying EVERYWHERE. Ewwwww Well that was the extent of my walk. A short one but a walk none the less. Thank you Lord for giving me the strength to enjoy your creation today. I pray that you will continue to make me stronger and stronger each day.

 

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Kindred Heart Pen Pals

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Hello everyone It is now time to sign up for the Kindred Heart Pen Pals. If you would like to know more about stop by http://www.joyoushome.com/ and click on the Kindred Heart Pen Pals tab at the top of the screen. Sign up Today., there is someone out there ready to be encouraged by you and ready to encourage you in return.

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just leave a message here and I will sign you up and send you your new pen pal.

Hope to hear from you all

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Just poppin in to say hello

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Hello everybody

It has been awhile since I have just blogged to blog so I thought I would do so today.  It has been a busy time here with the starting of our summer curriculum, preparing for the Girl Scout bridging ceremony, writing more Unit Studies for the homeschool group, and just the norm of living on a farm. I have to say though that I don't mind being a little busy it helps keep my mind off things less desireable,. like my health. hehhe

Today is such a beautiful day outside I think Hubby and I are going to start the raised bed box. I can't wait to get the garden going. I really want to succeed at it this year.

Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers (what out for those allergies though)

Love to all

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Friday, January 18, 2008
WE GOT SNOWWWWW!!!!

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Ahhh finally., the winter snow has fallen. We haven't had much snow around here the past two years and I was just talking to a friend yesterday saying how wonderful it would be to just get enough to allow the children a SLED DAY!!

And isn't God wonderful., he gave us just that. We woke up this morning to about four inches. The children were sledding for about two hours today and just had a great time.

Tomorrow it will most likely melt as they are calling for temps in the mid 40's. So YES the Lord answers prayers.

Thank you Lord.

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Monday, December 3, 2007
Holiday Open House 2007

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For those of you who haven't been by Tiany's blog lately. She is hosting a Holiday Open House for 2007. It is open to anyone, homeschoolers, non-homeschoolers. All you have to do is... Share a post about Christmas or Thanksgiving in your home, as elaborate as you like with pictures or without.  If you are new to Homeschool Open House you can view the original carnival HERE.

I am adding my Christmas Wishes. ...

The reason I say Christmas Wishes is that we have not 'accomplished' them just yet. This week I pray we can pull this all together. STAY TUNED FOR PICTURES GALORE!!!

  Tonight (Dec 3rd) we will finish preparing our Advent wreath. I have taken a small amount of Hay (with these rib-be horses I can't afford to take much from them) and I have tied it together to make a circle. Then we cut out leaf shapes from our Salt dough and shaped them over the hay. We are now cooking them to harden them. Tonight we will paint them and glue them in place. We will enjoy singing Deck the halls as we assemble our wreath. We will then read from Jotham’s Journey and light our Candle of Hope again. Before retiring for the night we will hang all of our wreaths in the windows of our home and light our battery operated candles.

And remember if you would like to join us just stop by and  post a comment at Tiany's blog  “Less Of Me ~ More Of Him” The open house starts on Monday December 3^rd and will run through Monday December 10^th. She has writen a few questions that you may want to use to post a 'seasonal' message on your blog. .....  

 IF you are doing a Thanksgiving post, you can share what you did, share some pics, what crafts or projects did you do with the children. Did you incorporate any activities or traditions centered around our Lord?

 How do you keep Christ in Christmas?

 Share some fun things you do with your family, traditions, is there  a new tradition you want to start?

 Share fun activities, projects, crafts, unit studies or websites you might incorporate into your homeschool/home.

 Gifts~ Share gifts that you will be making, gifts from your kitchen, gifts that you have sewn., frugal ideas etc…

 Mister Linky will be up on the 3^rd, on Tiany's blog,  when you link to mister Linky  you must link directly to your Open House post.  I have had ladies linking that are not participating and it becomes too difficult to find your post.

Hope to see some of you join us. It will be great fun.

 

  Tomorrow we will enjoy a day of cookie baking. We have adopted the peppermint cookie recipe from Proverbs Family and the Spritz Cookie recipe from 2 Peas in a pod. Then of course we will be making the famous Sugar cut out cookies we make each year. We are looking forward to sharing this time new friends from our Horse Riding Lessons. We will then attend lessons in the evening and share our homemade cookies and Hot Chocolate Cocoa Mix from Susan Branch. Oh how I love her website, recipes, EVERYTHING. Once we get home we will read day four of Jotham’s Journey and retire to our warm cozy beds.

  Wednesday I have set aside to make Christmas-Cards-a-plenty. We will be using some photo’s I took from our past Christmas seasons and making cards to share with family and friends. We will also be packaging some up for our local elderly residents. It has been on our hearts to share the love of the Lord with them so we are making cards and ornaments to share.

You can also read my other post about some of our newest traditions.

This is just the beginning of our Season of Blessing so be sure to stop by again soon to see the pictures and other ideas we have come up with.

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Monday, December 3, 2007
Homeschool Buyers Co-op

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Some of you may have noticed that I put this Icon in my sidebar.

For all of us that homeschool this is an AWESOME resource center. The Homeschool Buyers co-op is the nation's largest purchasing cooperative for homeschooling families.
IF there is something you need. something you have you would like to sell, then just stop on over and see how they can help.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone.

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Monday, December 3, 2007
Thank you Gina

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Gina has honored me with the Spirit of Christmas Award.

You will not know what this means to me after a week like I have had. Gina, Thank you so much.

I would like to pass this award onto a few of my friends that have touched my heart with Christmas poems, stories, or just plain Holiday Joy.

First would go to Laurie (LakeLady) who has shared a few beautiful Christmas stories. She just posted a Letter from Jesus that is just beautiful .. be sure to go by and check it out.

To Kim for a Christmassy Blog., I just love the new Graphics she has.

ToRebekah for her 'special Christmas Story"., be sure to read this one.

May you all have a very Merry Christmas and remember Jesus is the reason for the Season.

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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Our Christmas Parade

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Today was the beginning of our Christmas Season and what better way to start it off then a PARADE

I hope you enjoy the slide show...

Please click  here   and enjoy the show.

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!!

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