The girls are playing a joke on dad, the poor guy.  They just left to go to the fresh food market to go see about getting a catfish or a carp to put into our natural swimming pool.   Last night dad said he wants to go fishing , so our smart butt daughters are make sure he can go fishing.  

They plan on giving him a fishing pole when he gets home and tell him to go fishing , then they will take him to the back yard and show him the pool.

The only thing is the fish is going to be a pet, No Dinner!!!

I will let you know if they do it and how it goes if they do.  They can only do it if the fish will live in our natural pool.

God Bless all , mj

I am debating if I should move our kitchen table or just take it down.  We have the grand-babies here so much I want to make a play room for them.  Our dinning room is half a family room.  We put the computer in there for the girls.  I have a large kitchen and I am thinking of putting the table in there.  But we do not eat at the kitchen table, we eat at our coffee table, so should I just take it down??

So I am thinking of putting in the tv and it's entertainment unit in the dinning room and adding the babies toy box and a couch in there.  What do you guys think ? 

God bless you all and thank you for your prayers for Michelle and the grand-babies.   Mj

Michelle came over this morning to talk to dad and I.  She told us that she is 3 weeks pregnant.  We are not shocked, but then again we are.  Michelle has been dating Gill for 4 and 1/2 weeks now.  They live with his parents.  Michelle told us that she and Gill will get married soon, but her divorce needs to be done 1st.   She also told us she is going to keep looking for a job and try to go to school too.   We will see.  Michelle has not worked a day since she has moved back down here months ago.  Everyone has been supporting her and the babies.  We will love and welcome any grandchild, we just wish she was on her feet taking care of the babies she has now before adding more.     Michelle's sisters are upset and disappointed in her because they have raised Jeffie and Maddie as much as Michelle has.   We need to keep this in prayer and Gods hands where they belong. 

God Bless, mj

WOW! I haven't written an entry in like 2 months!!! It has been really hot and humid. I can handle the heat but........I dont' like humidity! Today was nice it was overcast at not to hot!!!! The flies and gnats are soooo bad in the barn. Today they weren't too bad.  I have been at the barn the whole afternoon! Here is what I did-

11:30 Got to the barn, said hi to all the horses and cleaned my tack.

12:00 Ceaned out Leo's stall and put new shavings in it.

1:00 I Brought in Leo and My friend Breanna brought in her horse Burting and bushed and tacked them up.

2:00  Rode Leo and Burting!!!!!

3:30 Untacked and put the horses in th pasture.

After that we rode the 4 wheeler for a while. It was soooo awesome!

I am going to be in a horse show August 2 and 3!!!! On the 2, I am doing  hunter jumper classes and on the 3rd, I am doing equitation. I'm not riding Leo, he is not experienced enough I am riding my riding teachers horse Sargon. Well I got to go!

This up coming week  I am going to try to get 3 rooms all cleaned out.  I need to go through every thing and find a new home for the items we do not use any more.   I am going to start in the kitchen and then move to the family room and the girls bathroom last.   I also want to go through the garage and start un-packing some of the boxes.  Most of the item will be going to a new home.  I have sooo many boxes of homeschooling books and item that I did not use or will not use again, I will be selling them on ebay.  I am giving my self a month to empty out our small rented storage unit and keep what is needed and find a new home for the rest.  On the farm/ranch we have a huge storage unit that we keep our tack and supplies in.  I have filled it up half way with item we no longer use or need, they will be sold at a huge yard sell once I have it filled with sale items.   I will let you all know when I will list all the home school books and stuff on ebay.

We ordered new windows for the house!  We are soo excited!!!  We have been wanting to get them for years but always did some other project instead.   But this year we did it.  They will be here in 3-4 weeks.  The house will be sooo much cooler and then the air will not be on 24 hours a day.   I will take pictures after they are in.

Today was the last day of vbs.  I had so much fun teaching this week. We had sooo many kids give their hearts to the Lord, it was amazing. I can't wait until Christmas vbs!  

God Bless, mj

I am teaching 2nd grade this week at our churches vbs.  It is a blast!  They are so much fun.  Today we were teaching about being thankful.  I told the story of the leper's and Jesus.  To make it more real to them I put spotted stickers on them and quarantined them with caution tape.   When I pretended I was Jesus and healed them I waited to see if any one said thank you.  Only 2 did out of the 4 classes I taught.  So then we talked about being thankful.

We had 16 chicks hatch and 3 have been killed by some thing so we brought them in the house.  At this moment I have 13 chicks running around my kitchen.  We have a hen on a nest due to hatch any day and Sweet Pea a goose sitting on a egg due to hatch in a few days also.

It did no good telling the girls to not let the hens make a nest, we are trying to cut down on the animals!  We were down to like 30ish birds from 80, now they added more!!!   I must night speak good english. 

God Bless all,  mj

Some one left a rude comment on my last post.  I wrote about Michelle our daughter and how she is lost in a valley.  Shame on you said I was bashing my daughter.  I am not. I was/am telling the truth about what is going on with her.  Many of my friends have been praying for Michelle and the grand babies and giving me advice, thank you so much for that, I love it!!!!!  We all need prayer and we all can use advice from people who have been there or who are out side the picture and can see things those of us in the picture can not, when we ask for it or share about it.  The blog is where we all can share our hopes, families, trouble, or what ever.  We can ask for help, prayer or what ever.   We as bloggers we can offer advice, prayers to all who need it.  

Shame on you , you are in my prayers.  I never said I did not love Michelle, you judged me on that.  We are not to judge others. 

To my friends thank you for your kind words and prayers.  Please keep them coming it helps during this hard time. God Bless you all.  mj

This is an up date on our daughter Michelle.  I am not bashing her just telling the truth about what is going on with her.

Michelle moved back down here a few months ago.  She got back together with Maddies dad.   After a few weeks she broke up with him.  She left Maddie with us (Jeffie was already here as he did not want to leave us, so she dropped off Maddie)  she took off up north to her boyfriend Ryan she just left a few weeks before.

History here:  Michelle left Matt Maddies dad to date Ryan, she left Ryan to date Matt.  When she broke up with Matt she went back to Ryan for the few days she was up there.

Michelle came home picked up Maddie and was long distance dating Ryan.  While doing this she met Gill staying at her friends house.   They started dating and 2 weeks after dating she moved in with him and his parents!   They have been together 3 weeks now.

She says she has a job at a bar and is getting another.  We will see. But she says Gill is going to watch the kids while she works.  She lost her car by not paying for it.  So she is using one of Gills.

Are 2 cents:   Michelle what are you doing????   To us we see her looking for the easy ride.  She puts all she has into each new guy.  We want her to put all she has into her and the kids.    She does not need a guy, she needs to be a good mom.  Not give the kids a new daddy every few weeks.    Michelle needs to go to school and the state will help her do it, to get her life on the right track.  

We have told her we will help her and the babies.   But we will only help her when she is on the right track, meaning trying on her own not with a new guy every few weeks!    We always take care of the kids, we clothe and feed them and baby sit them a lot.

I must say though we do not watch Maddie as much the last few weeks.  Jeffie has pretty much moved back in her, until Michelle took him to go visit his dad in Vegas.   Michelle is not training Maddie she lets her run WILD.  Maddie does not listen at all! she bites, hits, get into everything.   Maddie is only 2, but is a hand full.  Jeffie 3 is at home in our house, it is his home.  Michelle called and told me Jeffie wants to come home so she brought him back here.   We are going to start watching Maddie with Jeffie and training her.

It was just hard to watch her while we were getting ready for the horse and dogs shows we had last week.  At the ranch Maddie just runs wild and under , around all the animals horse included.  Jeffie he stays in the kids play area and gets naked and plays in a water bucket.   

So I guess we will see how long this boyfriend last.   Right now Gill is giving Michelle what she needs a place to live, a car, money and paying for her and the kids keep.

That all for now, it makes me sad.

God Bless, mj

Hubby told me tonight that he wishes I fell asleep when he does.  I did start to got to bed at the same time as him around 11pm  but I stay up and read for hours.    I am a night owl always have been.  Hubby changed his work hours after I broke my leg.  He used to get up a 4:30 am and leave at 5am then get off at 3:30pm.  When he would get home from work it was our time.  We would go work out and just be together time for us all, the babies too.

But his new hours are 9am to 7 pm.  I just plan can not sleep at night.  My Dr. has given me medicine to try , natural stuff, ideas and it just does not work.  I take enough antihistamine at night to put most people to sleep for12  hours!  When I have a bad allergic reaction and the ambulance people give me some and then the hospital gives me more they are all shocked when it does not knock me out out.   But that is just me.  I have a HIGH tolerance to all medicine.   I just can not sleep at night.  I sleep in the morning.  I would like to change it and have tried soooo mannnyyy things it just does not work.   Some times I get only a few hours of sleep to no sleep or 9 hours of sleep but not sound sleep.   I am still trying to go to sleep at semi normal hours.

God Bless, mj