Living the Simple Life
and a broken foot.....
I came home this AM as usual, nothing out of the ordinary, everything calm. So, same as every other morning, I sit down at my computer, check my email and eat some breakfast (dinner?).As I had kicked off my shoes and was readying myself for bed, here come the dogs, wanting to go out, and I oblige. I figure surely my DH isn't far behind, since the dogs sleep in our room too.....
I wait.... no DH....... is he in the bathroom? I wait.... no DH.....
I hear a voice coming from the living room... "Ju? Ju? Will you c'mere?"
So I get up and go to the living room, to see my precious babydoll leaning on the TV stand, holding his left foot slightly in front of him, and he has an awful grimace of pain on his face.....
I help him to his chair and he tells me that Riley, our Great Dane, was "freaked" by the fireworks that folks in our neighborhood had last night, and ran out the back door, past my husband, knocking him down. He said it happened about 10:30 last night, and it is now, 8:30 in the morning!
He said he didn't want to tell me cause he knew what I'd make him do..... that's right, go to the hospital and get it checked. Which we did, and it is broken. In the words of the ER doc, my precious husband has an "acute left 5th metatarsal bone fracture"
We"ve just spent the past 3 hours in ER, 2 hours and 50 minutes were spent waiting.
I think... yes, I do think...... it's time to relax.
Our Weekend
We have been very busy this weekend. On Friday, Harold had to go get some car parts that he ordered. He took his Dad and his nephew with him. Harold's sister, Emily, Josie, and I drove into Savers. RaeAnne and the rest of the cousins went for a drive. I needed to find some shoes for Josie. This child goes through shoes real quick. I was able to find some shoes that have leather uppers. Maybe these will last. I also got to spend my birthday money. I found a nice skirt and top that go with it.We spent the rest of the day here doing things. We did lose one of the calves. Our company went to visit Daddy's brother and wife. They had a good visit with them. We let Rudi out into the pasture again. He likes being out in the grass.
On Saturday we went to Notus for the parade. The youth group had decorated a float on Friday evening. Harold pulled the float with his truck.
We just spent the evening here at home. The kids and I picked raspberries. I think we got close to a flat. Maybe we will have some for supper. Daddy's brother and his wife will be coming over. She wanted to have us all over for a meal, but just can't manage it. She is cooking a few things to bring over. I am cooking some roasts and we will have BBQ beef sandwiches, veggies, scalloped potatoes, cake, and homemade vanilla ice cream.
4th of July!!!
What a grand place to live!!!
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I do love my co workers, and I do love my job, but I miss being at home so very much. Being at home for my children and grandchildren. DH and I discussed it, and after this year, we are both slowing down. Taking time to "smell the roses" per say. I have absolutely NO free time this summer, due to school, work and other obligations, and DH has been trying to work extra to keep the house going, prepare for winter, and work a bit of overtime himself to get us out of a financial bind we've gotten ourselves into....
One exciting breakthrough is that...... although the financial *crash* time is almost here, we have enough money to pay the bill that is owed and we won't be garnisheed! YIPEE! God is soooo good.....
He does certainly provide us with what we need whenever the time arises, and we also have to trust in Him to provide understanding in yet another delimma. (We're full of 'em here!)
A friend of the family (friend... I use that term loosely) decided last night to verbally attack our daughter and son in law. Simply because our son in law did not agree with this person's political views.
I have personally been attacked twice by this person, and choose not to have any further dealings with him based on this fact, but now to have my child attacked too? I am angry to say the least, and wonder what kind of venom is going to be spewed forth this time? How long until he comes crawling back begging forgiveness and promising to never do it again this time? Will our daughter accept an apology (I don't think so)? Will this person MEAN it IF he does apologize?
Isn't there a verse, "For out of the mouth the heart speaketh?"
Mat 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Huh.
Guess now we know how he really feels (and has felt) about us all the while..... but that's ok. We still have each other, and always will. We're a family. A true family.
And again..... as we celebrate the unity of America on this day (One nation, under GOD, indivisible).... we can also celebrate the unity of a family (One nation, under GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.)
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I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation
under God
indivisible
with liberty
and justice for all....
Cute Children and pets pictures
My Mom sends me some cute e-mails. I love these one and had to share with you all.
Who is walking who?
I look like you or is it you look like me?
Ah, can I keep him? (the dog is asking):
Um mom, why am I wearing clothes and his is not??
Look Mom at what I learned :
Just one little bite that's all:
Are you sure they taste like chicken??
Are you sure they are in here???
That's all for now, Blessings,Mj
3 July 2009.
Well, the decision has been made about our son wanting to live here. The answer is no.However, we are going to ask him to come here (maybe in a hotel) for a few days to a week to "get his feet wet" and to look for a job. We will put out the offer for meals and maybe even laundry to wash their clothes for awhile.... and we will even help buy baby things, but they cannot stay here.
We have too much in our lives right now, too much with still raising 2 teenage girls and trying to keep our own lives on an even keel....
And as a few folks have said, "Not allowing him to live here will show IF he has changed like he said he has..."
We'll see....
Germs and The Days Plans
Today and everyday!
Good Friday afternoon Friends and Family~
I pray this day finds you all well and healthy. We are doing well today but some of us are not so healthy. This has been a *germy* week around our house. There is a nasty cold going around and it all of the kids have it.
DD (18) picked it up from the camp she is working at. She said that there were A LOT of sick staff there last week. Some so sick that they couldn't get out of bed. She just managed to to get the sore throat and cold symptoms from it. She was able to keep going the rest of week with it and did a good job of not complaining.
The other 2 kids have had a harder time with it. Dd (15) has been really tired and just wore out from it. DS (10) had a really bad night of it last night with his asthma. All head colds always end up in his chest and it just brings on the asthma.I took him to the Dr. this morning and they gave him some antibiotics for it. Prayerfully he will be better soon as well as DD (15).
Hubby is off today. A good thing and a bad thing at the same time. It means less money for next weeks paycheck, but more time with his family. I'll take the time with us over the hours lost. GOD will take care of our needs and always does.
Hubby is also out visiting with some shut ins from our church. He took them some butter and milk. The lady he is visiting is about 80 years old and always had a cow when she was able to get out and about. He thought she might like some *old fashioned* milk and butter. Nothing is better than that in my opinion.
I've had to change my plans for the 4th. We were to go to the beach tomorrow (a 4th tradition.) With 2 sick kids, we will have to forgo the beach for the weekend. We are blessed though in the fact that we can go when they are feeling better, seeing we live about an hour away.
We'll just stay home and take care of some *undone business* around the house (there is ALWAYS UNDONE BUSINESS AROUND HERE.)
Here is what the rest of the day holds for me:
~Cook and debone chicken for Sundays dinner
~ Make a dessert for tomorrows dinner
~Make butter
~ Cut grass and weed eat
~ Make a Homemade pizza for dinner tonight
~ Then there are the *usual* days activities to deal with
Have a blessed day in THE LORD! Stay safe this July 4th weekend! Pray for our country and for our President's salvation!
7-2-09 Up-date
Kristi was board earlier today and decided to play wii. She played monopoly with Hope! Hope is our soon to be 10 year old golden medical alert service dog. We train the dog to all kinds of stuff some funny and silly but this is too much!
Titus is doing great in his service dog training. We took him out for the first time to go shopping and he was wonderful. If we stopped and looked or spoke to someone he would lay down with out being told to. I thought it was odd, so I kept testing him. I would walk and stop not look at him he would just lay down . That is amazing for a six month old puppy to do on his first outing in stores. I wonder if Kristi is going to teach Titus to play monopoly??
We start training them as soon as they are born. Also having good parents helps too. It took me two years to find his parents, to find the lines I was looking for. Now we need one more female golden. We might get one from Alex's breeder.
Blessings, Mj
Thursday
This morning we were up early. Harold and I were outside by 7:00. I got the beans planted while he finished hoeing the rows were we were going to plant corn. Emily and Josie planted the corn. They did almost 3 full rows. The end of the third row is where the green onions, leeks, lettuce, and cabbage are. I came in and fixed pancakes and sausage gravy for breakfast. I did a double batch and we will freeze the rest of them.Once breakfast was done, and dishes were done, RaeAnne helped me can 6 quarts of raspberries. 2 of the quarts didn't seal. I made a batch of strawberry/raspberry jam. I used the Pomona pectin that I bought last week. I figure that was a great deal. I used 4 cups of raspberries and 2 cups of sugar. It set fine. I may keep buying this pectin. I don't like using all the sugar in Certo's recipes and I don't like buying the low sugar pectin (it is to expensive). I ended up with three pints instead of the 4 pints with Certo. We will see how it tastes later.
I picked some Kohlrabi today for lunch. We peeled it and sliced it up. We ate it raw with other veggies. It was very good. I think we will keep planting that each year.
After lunch, all the company and our three girls went to visit Harold's aunt. A couple of his other aunts came over to visit as well. Harold and I worked around the house and yard. I made creamy chicken and noodles for supper. We also had a salad (made with lettuce from the garden), peaches, and garlic bread. The girls finished their scarecrow today. Emily got it put in the garden by the corn.
June 2, 2009
I'm in a bit of a quandry here.... our 25 year old son wants to bring him and his pregnant girlfriend to this city, and stay with us until he finds work.Here's my delimma...
He has virtually ignored me the past 10 years of his life, choosing to bad mouth me and talk horrid things behind my back, never once giving a second thought to a phone call or acknowledgement of a birthday, Mothers day or Christmas... even with a card.
He had moved in with us a few years ago, was fed, clothes were kept clean, we took him back and forth to work without a problem, and right before Thanksgiving, he left. Didn't even tell me he was leaving, actually. He just called his dad, who came and picked him up, and he left. It would have been my first holiday with him in 7 years.
Now, he called me the other night to tell me that I am going to be a Grandma again, sometime in January. He tells me that he cannot find work where he is, and he needs to work to support his family. He tells me that he has done alot of growing up the past few years, and he knows he has done many things wrong and hurt many people.
Then of course, pops off with the question..... can we stay with you til we get on our feet there?
What I'm seeing is 2 more mouths to feed, more laundry to do, an unmarried couple living in my house, and tension as we ask him NOT to have the video games set up all night and them staying up all night. Who will help with the housework?
I do not know this girl from Adam, been told she's quite the know-it-all, (but I don't know her, so I shouldn't say that). And if he cannot find a job, then we're supporting them. What if no job is found after the baby is born? Who's buying diapers? Who's buying clothes? and Formula?
I feel guilty because my Mom let me move back home several times until I got my mess together, and I'm sure I was never a joy to have around... but my Mom, being a Mom.. allowed me, and I was always welcome.
I'm not sure I want to.
I am back in school again, need to study. Need to have quiet time with my children I still have at home. Need to keep bills down. I need my homelife.
Do tell....... what would you do in a situation like this?
Kristi and Mya's new adventure in pictures
Okay, Janet is in trouble she let Kristi and Mya run free on the mountain. Worse yet with a camera 
. Here are some pictures of the adventure.
1. Is Kristi finding out there are more than one of her:
2. Mya discover pine cones, do pine nuts come from pine cones??:
3. Is Kristi playing cars (she is the car)
4. Maybe I will be a better car sitting down??
5. Better yet I will play speed bump!! Did I send Kristi with her insuance card???
6. Mya discovers a cow and gives it a kiss !!
7. Milk comes from here ???? I know the poor thing , will she ever get over the shock???
8. Then they made friends with the locals:
JANET!!!!, we do not let the girls play speed bump in the middle of the Road!!! 
/. We need to let the girls out of the house once in a while. Poor Mya was so lost as to where milk comes from!! And did not know what a pine cone was!!! Poor Kristi she thought there was more than one of her!! Look at the locals nails on that local, see how long they are?? They could hurt the girls!!
Sorry but I had to write and show the pictures , they are so cute. I will show more latter.
Blessings Mj
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