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Saturday, June 27, 2009
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Naucious
| So, I've been thinking too much about why I'm NOT naucious and just now, I...................Feel Naucious. Yup! Not a whole lot...but I feel pretty sick to my stomach. So there I go. :O) |
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Friday, June 26, 2009
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moving past the broker issues to get a home of our own to "nest"
Well, alot has been going on around here. Dougs brothers started packing out back to their home states. Dan and Heidi left on Thursday afternoon with the twins to PA for a picnic and on back to MN they went safe and sound. Charles and Diane left with their kids friday morning after a fun-filled wii game here with Aunt Becky and Uncle Doug. It was really fun! We miss them ALL.
We've been having problems with mortgage brokers. We were pre-approved, but the broker our realtor suggested was trying to swindle us. Praise God for catching it early, but she recommended another one who ran my husbands credit without really asking us and declined us....for a rediculous reason. Anyways, back to the mortgage broker we origionally had last year. I'm praying these last two brokers from our realtor didn't cost us a pre-approval from the origional broker for our bank. I've heard the more your report is pulled, the lower your score. We can't afford NOT to be approved right now. I'm pregnant and REALLY in need of stability. While I'm grateful to everyone who is allowing us to stay with them, I really need a place of my own to "nest". Please pray for favor that we'll be approved next week for a home and that we'll find a home right for us in a good location.
We've decided to put our homesteading plans on hold and get a fixer upper so we can deal with the mortgage payments and be able to live life with our new little one on the way. If the preapproval doesn't happen, then I suppose we go back to renting for another year. I think I'm just jumpy because there's so much going on...but good grief, I didn't think buying a house could be so stressful. I'll be sharing the "bad brokers" name once this is all finished. Thank goodness I read fine print and get everything in writing. Not to mention the guy doesn't know an FHA from any other loan. VERY SCAREY!
We're getting ready to move to our friends house tomorrow. They offered a room to rent while we work out the kinks in the housing plans. We're hoping we don't put them out, but know this is only temporary and pray we may be of some help. Thats if I can get through the tired feelings I've been having lately. I'm exhausted! I guess this is normal for a pregnancy.
So we're still busy. I'll continue to keep you all posted as time goes on. I laugh because Gods plans are so funny. He KNOWS I need to fully trust Him for anything to work out. I'm all discombobulated and out of my comfort zone. But I feel His peace surrounding me. Praise be to God!
I pray you all have a lovely weekend.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
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June 26th, 2009
Today I'm longing for the appointment next friday. Right now, I should be 5 or 6 weeks. I'm not having the naucious feeling I had a week ago. Still have the lower back cramps and anal pressure (sorry for the timi). I also have tender breasts and sligtly light headed when I walk outside with Doug or sometimes when I stand. Nothing bad..just kinda like an imbalance of sort.
I'm not sure at this stage exactly what I'm supposed to feel. It will be good to actually see our dear baby in a sonogram and I'm told I'll start to feel fluttering around 16 to 20 weeks or so. This is all surreal. Praise God for this little miracle! |
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Friday, June 26, 2009
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June 19th, 2009
After much trial, we FINALLY got the High Risk Dr.'s office to answer us. We took an HCG lab and were called back. Labs were good and our numbers were 340. We're on track for a 4 or 5 week pregnancy.
Later, we find it was in fact our mini-vacay to the Adirondacks where our little one was conceived. Praise God!
An appointment is scheduled with the high risk OB for Friday July 3rd. Please pray they give me an early sonogram so we can see our little one and know he or she is doing well. Also pray we can hear a heartbeat this early.
God created this little miracle, I know he/she/they are in HIS hands.
Glory be to God!
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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June 16th, 2009
Dr. Aziz calls to let me know in fact tests came back normal. I didn't have cancer as suspected, of course, it wasn't "just stress" either. I am in fact pregnant.
Today starts a new journey. Dr.s said we couldn't have a baby. God spoke, and said it wasn't so. I was told I couldn't ovulate. I don't even remember my last period. God breathed life into my womb and so starts this unknown blessed journey.
I shall jot down my thoughts, concerns and prayer requests as this type II diabetic works to carry this little miracle God helped create.
Today I was told not only that I was pregnant, but that I could lose the baby. numbers are 14. I need to contact High Risk OB for an appointment. It's the greatest day and most scarriest day of our lives. |
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Fri 26 Jun 2009
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Time stand still for no one
It has been over a year since I've blogged here. I can't believe its been that long. I see several of my friends no longer have blogs and I'll need to do some housekeeping. I've missed the community but can't say I've been blogging a whole lot in general. I've been keeping up with my knitting but blogging fell by the wayside unitl recently.
I'm off to tidy up some around this blog-o-sphere and see who is left that I know. Then I'll hunt around to make new friends. I'm sure there are several of you out there that I'd love to meet. ;) |
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2009-Jun-23
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We're At Triple Digits~~~~
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The Farmer's Daughter
Oh my gosh, is it ever HOT in our neck of the woods! This afternoon we hit triple digits and while tomorrow is suppose to be a few degrees cooler, it doesn't show any sign of letting up for over a week. Normally by this time of day our little ones would have been in the pool at least once but not today. While our pool gets a little shade early of a morning by afternoon we're in full sun. No way can they go out there now.
So, at this point we are all stuck in the house....Or the "cave" as Keith prefers to call it since he think it's that dark in here. To bad, there is no way I'm having those blinds open and the sun pouring in. That poor air conditioner verily shuts off the way it is, if the sun was streaming in it never would! ~~~ Not to mention I would have an electric bill I'd never be able to pay.
Yesterday while in town I picked up a couple of six packs of flowers that had been marked down to $1.00 each and they were really needing planted. I knew I could never take the heat so I decided they were going in pots and I'd plant them in the coolness of this house. I covered the kitchen table with newspapers and while I had dirt everywhere, my plants are now planted and I didn't die planting them!HA
Girls, if there is one thing I could talk each of you into buying it would be one of the little toaster ovens. Not the super small ones but one that is big enough to actually bake in. We bought ours last Summer when it was so hot and I swear I have almost wore it out with use.~~ This morning I let Jeni take a Chocolate Cake Mix and make it into two small cakes. (A large pan is to big for the oven.) One will be used tonight for supper with vanilla ice cream and a chocolate sauce and the other one will be for tomorrow nights supper. { We'll probably frost it.} We are now baking Lasagna in it. I really hated the thought of doing something so 'heavy' on such a hot night but Keith loves it and that's what he wanted so I said I'd do it.
Jeni and I have spent the better part of our day pouring over recipes. It's so nice to have a daughter who likes to cook and she sure has her own ideas about what we should fix....The cake and chocolate sauce were her idea! HA Tomorrow we're planning on Spinach Parmesan Linguine. For some reason that really sounds good to me.
Well, it's time to do our family reading and then I'll finish supper up....I love eating early so the evening is free. Everyone please stay as cool as possible...People are dying from this heat! Hugs, Sher |
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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family reunion weekend
Posted By
Jill
50 things everyone should know how to do
fruit roll-up recipes
We went to family reunion last weekend. On Sunday we had a home tour of family places, some with houses still there, some not, some had been moved to another location. Here is my grandparent's place, old and new. Other people own it now.
They made a really nice hobby farm out of it, with calves, sheep, goats and horses. Didn't see any chickens. Of course lots of kitties.
This house my great Uncle Jesse lived for 70 years, until he died of cancer. Aunt Mildred lived there another 20+ years; she died of cancer this last March. Now they are getting it ready to sell. I always saw it like this.
Walking around the house you can see the different add-ons. The original house was the one on the left, the 3rd section to the left. My great-grandparents bought that and then built on. They raised 8 children here, plus my grandma was the oldest and my mom is 2 months older than her aunt, great-grandma's last child.
Where I grew up from age 7-18. The house is not there, sadly, and now someone farms it and put cattle in here. The corncrib is here still though up the road.
Me and my daughter in the car.
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2009-Jun-22
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Lessons of Life
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The Farmer's Daughter
Yesterday on my way home from my parents, Jeni and I picked up our local newspaper. ( We live in a small town so this little paper only comes out twice a week.) Last night after my young'uns were all in bed I finally had the time to sit down and read it.
There was a small article how our local food pantry/clothing store was in need of food now that Summer is here and children are out of school. I'm ashamed to admit this~~~ While I have gave both food and money to this store I have never been in it. (I always gave when others were collecting.) While we certainly aren't rich we have been Blessed more than we deserve and we have always had a full pantry. I decided it was time to pay back some of these Blessings.
Bright and early this morning before the heat rolled in, Jeni and I went shopping. I explained to her how others weren't as fortunate as we are and how we needed to buy things that a Mother/Father could use to feed their family. Within minutes of being in that store she caught on and together we quickly filled up a grocery cart, buying everything from food to paper products.
We then went down to the store and had a humbling experience. The store building has been donated from one of our local banks (God Bless Johnny!) and I was amazed how it was laid out. Not only was it neat and clean but clothing was divided into "sizes" so a person knew just where to go to find what their family needed. You honestly felt as though you were in a real clothing store!
The food part was right behind the counter and my heart sank when I saw how little was on the shelf. Years ago I worked for an agency that provided food for those in need and we always just filled up bags with food according to the number in the family. My sister had been in this store at Christmas when a family came in and she said they first checked to see if they had gotten anything in the last six months and then they were given a choice of a few canned goods. Now I'm not sure it's still ran this way but with as many people out of work and on unemployment it probably is. And for no more food than they had on hand, I can see why they have to do this.
I'm sure the twenty plus sacks we brought in helped but I also know it didn't make near the dent that was needed. Coming home Keith and I sat down and discussed what we can do to help. From now on, each time we go to Topeka, we'll be buying for us and others. If everyone would just spend a few dollars a week, in no time at all the shelves would be full and families would have the help they so desperately need in these trying times. I urge you to check your food banks to see what you too can do. Hugs, Sher |
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2009-Jun-22
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Father's Day 2009
Posted By
The Farmer's Daughter
Yesterday was Father's Day and my day started off early getting a roast in the crock pot so Keith could have his favorite meal for lunch. Once I got it started, Jeni & I loaded up and headed to my parents farm.
Driving along we had the radio playing and there was a little commentary for Fathers...."A father heard his little boy praying that he would be just like his Daddy when he grew up. That evening the father prayed he'd be half the man his little boy thought he was." I was reminded of my father. While not a dad to show emotion to us girls, he's Daddy. Solid, strong, always there and always fair and honest. At 83 (He'll be 84 in August) his health is failing. It was so noticeable when we arrived at the farm. Once he would have bound out of his chair and came into the kitchen to talk. Now he verily lifts his head to acknowledge we're there. While I know he doesn't feel good I feel part of his problem is depression. Always one to be out and going he's now stuck at home. It breaks my heart and we can only pray with rest and the right diet (Found Mom wasn't giving him enough water....He's down to 1500 cc's and the poor guy was getting less than 500....Again, she's elderly and didn't understand.) he'll some how or other be able to regain some of his strength.
As the morning wore on he did kind of perk up and even came out to the table so he could hear the story I was telling about the "Trooper" who called wanting a donation for the widow of police officers. Dad rolled when he heard how I gave that stupid man a tongue lashing for starting his call out, "Mrs. So-So, this is Trooper So-So. Now I'm sure you know that nothing is wrong!".....Nothing WRONG....I have elderly parents, eight kids, five grand kids and you start a phone call of with "This is Trooper So-So"???? I'll bet that man never calls again. Daddy said I got worked up just telling the story, he can imagine what I must have been like to the man! HA It was so to see him laugh and act like his old self.
Tomorrow my Mom has an appointment to have her hair done. If Dad friend Bob doesn't come out, either Keith or I will be going over to stay with him. I know he hates us being there (A sign that we don't want to leave him alone) but he never left us girls home alone when we were young and we're not going to leave him or Mom either.
As hard as this is on my parents (It's hard on Mom trying to take care of him) it's not near as hard as the thought of giving him up. So today we'll be thankful Father's Day 2009 found Daddy still with us and we'll continue to pray we'll have many more years with him and Mom. Sher |
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