A Quiet Little Woman

Needing prayers to " Be Still"......

" Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."      ~ Psalm 46:10 ~

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I awoke this beautiful morning with this passage of scripture on my heart.......

One of the most challenging things for me to do is to "be still".....it actually requires this mama of 10 to really have to "work at" being still......it takes a purposed effort for me to "be still and know that God is at work"..... you see I am a "doer" by nature and I love to do do do......that can be a good thing at times..... and not a good things at other times....

God is showing me that right now, for today I need to be "still".......

Would you please pray for me today my friends? I come to you for your prayers of faith that I will be "still and know that GOD , is in charge and that He WILL be exalted before those who do not know Him".......

This is something God has laid in my heart today.... to be still and oh if you only knew how hard that can be for me at times!

Thank you dear friends for taking a moment to pray for me today.

He is faithful,

~ gloria ~

Thurs Dec 4th

  Well today is a wonderful day!  I guess LOL  At least I have another day!  The kids are being ornery (well Rach & Ethan) and Issac is still a little sickly.  Lucas is being his sweet self  

  I ordered some new kniting needles and sock yarn last week...I'm going to knit children's socks to sell.  I'm trying to knit some "testing" socks for mamas to try out on a diapering/parenting forum that I frequent. I'm so excited about this new venture!  Finding the actual time to knit though can prove interesting.  I'll hafta hide all my stuff and install a wireless security system to keep everything safe away from Ethan...my nosy little goober.  I have several different sock yarn colors so I can make for boys and girls...I only have like 2 pairs for newborns made right now, but I'm hoping to get my stock nicely built up soon!

 Well better get going!

Blessings,

~*Becca*~

Coyotes, Deer and A Play

Wow! It's a COLD morning here in NC. The frost on the ground looks like snow. I sure wish it was snow. I envy all of your blogs that post all those pretty snow pictures. We just don't get snow around my neck of the woods very often. In fact, the last good snow we got was in 89'.

The snow we got in 89' was the most snow I have ever seen around here. We were living at the beach at the time and received 12 inches of snow. It was enough to build a snowman (about 2ft. high) on the beach. It was such a sight to see. The snow even stayed around for more than a day. If I recall right, it was on the ground for at least 2-3 days. That's very unusual for our neck of the woods.

Anyway, one of our chickens has disappeared. We fear she was eaten by a predator. There has been no sign of her for almost a week now. She was an old bird and had to be kept away from the others (the heathens that is.) They would peck her constantly and pluck every feather she had right out of her. She ended up being a "loner" so to speak just to keep her alive.

Another interesting thing happened a few weeks ago that I couldn't believe. We were on our way to evening service at church. While looking on the side of the road, I noticed what looked to be a coyote. Hubby saw it too. I didn't even know we had coyotes in our area. Then I get an e-mail from a church friend today. He was out deer hunting and ended up shooting 2 coyotes. Like I stated before, I had no idea our area had coyotes.

There have also been a lot of deer hanging around the area lately. ago. I heard the dogs going crazy one night recently and got up to see what the fuss was about. Dd (15) said she heard someone running around the house. The "someone" turned out to be a lot of deer. There were tracks all over the yard the next day. If Hubby  were a hunter, he would not have had far to go to get some venison.

Well, today's blog was just a hodge podge of daily happenings around the homestead lately. We are curently getting ready to go on a field trip with some other homeschoolers. We are going to see a play.

Need to get going! Have a bessed day in The Lord!

Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7

Seems like forever....

Since I posted a blog on here. I have been terribly busy..  With healing from the car wreck, chasing kids, and finishing up my first semester of college.. That is just the tip of the ice berg for what all has been going on in my part of the world. Oh yes and let's not forget thanksgiving and Josie's b-day.

So Friday night Jacob has invited several boys over to spend the night for his birthday which is Saturday and Joslyn is going to have a couple of girls over for her birthday. Our weekend should be fun.. We are going to make ornaments, homemade pizza's, decorate sugar cookies and have fun....

I am excited and am making out my list to go to the store tomorrow after class and get the last few things I need for the pizzas and such.. Wooohooo..

Well I just wanted to let you all know I am still around and feeling much better than I was a month ago after the car wreck.. I see the dr about my leg again next week along with finals.. I have a tes tomorrow, 2 on Friday 2 on Monday and 1 on Tuesday then I done for the semester..

God Bless,

Mars

Deliverance or determination?

" We often pray to be delivered from afflictions and even trust God that we will be.  But we do not pray for Him to make us what we should be while in the midst of the afflictions. Nor do we pray that we would be able to live within them, for however long they may last, in the complete awareness that we are held and sheltered by the Lord and can therefore continue within them without suffering any harm.

The Savior endured an especially difficult test in the wilderness while in the presense of Satan for forty days and nights. His human nature weakened by the need for food and rest. The three Hebrew young men were kept for a time in the flames of  "the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual" ( Dan 3:19).  In spite of being forced to endure the tyrant's last method of torture, they remained calm and composed as they waited for their time of deliverance to come. And after surviving an entire night sitting among the lions, "when Daniel was lifted from the dent, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God."  ( Daniel 6:23).

They were able to endure the presense of their enemies because they dwelt in the presense of their God. "

~ L.B.Cowman ~

my IRL BFF is here at HSB!!!!!

~Christmas Tree 2~

Well today our Christmas tree came today and we got too put it up as well, It look's so preatty....Well I think so :) We dont have what you would call fancy ordments but stuff we have collected over the years that we love, Jarred is just in love with the tree, He tells everyone that mommy put the tree up just for him, it's too cute! That poor boy keeps asking if Christmas is tomarrow and I just have too keep telling him in a few more day's boo-bear and he's like ok and off he go's...I got too wrap a couple of presents for them today, Jarred is a real craft kid, So I got him some marker kits and book's, So Im sure he will like those, I found some T-shirts for Jack from Sears and they were less then $4.00 eatch which is not a bad deal, I bought bigger sizes for him to grow into that kid is getting big fast hes 1 and a half now and almost in the same size clothing as Jarred and hes 3 and a half, There is only about a 6 pound diffrence between them. I'm so tired today, Havent been sleeping all that well lately...I get so stressed now and then and I guess I have really become a adult when I have been so stressed on all the stuff that's going on with the Candain goverment, Now I see why my grandfather used too get so up-set about it, I just hope thing's do not get too bad, Im just glad we will know what will happion by Monday then just maybe I will get some sleep but I will not count on it! Right now I just feel that my vote dosent count...Hummmm. and way's Im gonna post a picture of my Christmas tree....Hope you like it.

Free Stocking Filler for my Daughter

In my attempts to create a homemade Christmas I went looking on the internet for ideas.

Imagine how thrilled I was to discover these two websites with absolutely wonderful old-fashioned paper dolls! Paper Dolls do seem to be back in fashion here among the little girls of New Zealand at the moment. And I know my 7 year old daughter Meredith will get so much pleasure out of these. They are free to print. The first website is for Betsy and Barbara and their clothes. I'm sorry for the funny-coloured photo. I had to take the pictures clandestinely while my inquisitive daughter was hanging around.

And the following website was my favourite find. It is the Betsy McCall pages. I am especially thrilled with this. They follow Betsy from around 1950 through to the new millenium. Here is one of the first pages from the 1950's Betsy McCall.

They include little stories about Betsy and her family and her outings. Betsy goes to a wedding, Betsy goes on a picnic, Betsy goes to the Beach etc, etc and they all have the appropriate clothing. They're so cute! And I hope to combine all these into a bound little book (costs $4 at the stationary store to have done), and in a little plastic sleeve inside the cover put the Betsy and Barbara dolls from the first link. I can't wait for Meredith to open it up. I know she's going to love it!

Chicken Update

Jewel Blog????

Does anybody know if Jewel is ok? She hasn't posted on her blog for a while now. I hope she is ok and she is just taking a break from blogging..

Brenda