Well I went to the doctor again today. They gave me my b12 and then sent me to the hospital for blood work, a test on my  urin, and a  ct on my kidneys, gal balder, balder, and tummy.. I have not got the test results back from the ct yet. It will be in the am. However i did get the results back from my blood work. ALL Numbers are down.. They are LOW... And the Urin test came back and I have a infection that came back to high to count....  So i am now on meds for the infection again, on pain pills, on tummy pills, and iron still... We are waiting on the ct result and the doctor said he will go from there.  I am wiped out...  Bless my doctors heart. He called me back to his office while i was at the hospital after i finished the ct to talk to me about my blood work and urin test... I thanked him to listening to me about how i was feeling and not treating me like I was crazy.. He smiled and said there was NO need to thank him.. And that there is something wrong and that we WILL find out what it is and get me back in shape...  For me I have never been one that went to a doctor unless i had to.. So for me to go to the doctor i have to be sick.. I  MEAN SICK.. But i will be honest  with you.. This doctor has given me a new vision of doctors.. HE is wonderful.. He listens to me. HE takes the time to answer my questions. I am so thankful to God for that..

I want to thank all my friends out there for praying for me.. God is working.. He is good.

god bless

glenda

Oh dear Ikeep making resolutions to keep up with this and then I don't!

Let me see, what's been going on. Well, we are nearly done with school. Our garden is very overgrown, and we could do with spending more time out there. We are nearly done with girlguides, we have a sleepover, the village fete, and a party and then it's summer!

We had a visit from my friend Ali, and it was lovely to see her, and for her daughter to get to ride with ours, we look forward to having them back again soon.

And I am struggling with a lot of issues, which I will not go into here, but suffice it to say, anyone who feels like praying for me, I would be grateful!

oh yes and our sheep were sheared! I have photos, but photobucket is playing up, so I'll upload them another time.

Well the littles are all feeling much better thankfully!  But last night I started getting real sick.  I feel like I was smacked by a truck. LOL  I'm hoping this finishes quickly!!

I had planned to start our schooling back up next week.  The kids (and Momma  ) can't wait to dive into the new books!  But I would like to get somewhat caught up on the house work first.  Also get my lesson plans in order so we aren't just floating along.

We made it out to the Learning House homeschool store on Sat.  I've been wanting to visit there for a long time now and since they were having their yearly yard sale it was the perfect time! 

We arrived about mid morning and I found lots of great stuff on the clearance tables.  I had to be strong LOL.  I picked out the Five In A Row Holiday book and a human body activity booklet.  Then went on to get the other things on my list.  They had a nice play area set up for the kids and comfy chairs to.  So dh was happy to sit and play with the kids while I looked around. 

I made one change to my plans this year.  I'm going to use the Exploring Creation with Botany with Botany instead of God's Design.  I have been looking over the samples of them for a while and really liked it when I got to sit and peek through.   I wont need to supplement it at all unless I want to.  With the GD book I would have had to do all the lessons from supplemental books to fit my children's ages.   And I love the project ideas, it fits in well with our notebooking/lapbooking love.

I also picked up the following that were on our list:

• Christian Liberty Nature Reader 1
• Bob Books #1
• Leading Little ones to God
• FIAR Christian supplement
• Before FIAR
• Canada My Country
• Ecoutez! Parlez!  Book/cd 1

I also picked out some of the story books for B4 FIAR that we needed and dh picked out a really nice story bible for dd6.

After we were finished there we walked down to the big craft show that was going on that weekend.   It was huge!  We had to be really strong there were so many nice things LOL.  We did buy each of the girls a nice kerchief though as they all managed to forget their hats.  We had a nice lunch and lessoned to some of the music playing.

Well in the few weeks since I posted the last photos of our garden, things have really grown!

Our potatoes are flowering.  I always think they are so pretty!

Our potatoes are almost waist high on dh!

This is an later planting or potatoes from late June on dh right.   To the left is our 2nd planting of beans.

Our little corn patch has also really grown. 

DD's pumpkins are doing well and starting to get flower buds also.

I am not sure who wrote this.. But when i read it well honestly all I could think of is i need this on my blog and on my frig...

Hope it blesses you all...

glenda

LIVE YOUR LIFE IN SUCH A WAY THAT WHEN YOUR FEET HIT THE FLOOR IN THE MORNING, SATAN SHUDDERS AND SAYS " OH NO SHE'S AWAKE".

Ok well today is going to be a busy day.. I have not slept but maybe two or three hours in two nights.. Satan is really coming up against me again...  I want to get a few things done here around the little homestead.. It is going to take the children to help me.

So far today i have put up a 1/2 bag of okra this morning. I tell you for us to have such a little row of okra it is really producing..  So right now i have enough okra for a nice big meal, a meal of green beans, squash, and peas..That is just in the freezer. In the pantry we have put up plum jam, plum slices, all kinds of jellies, peaches, dill pickles, and mixed greens.. It is little jars quart/ pint size jars here and there that we are putting up but every jar is another jar of food for the winter time.

We still have pickles to put up today.. And I am going to go outside and pick the beans and anything else that needs to be picked. I would like to put up some more plums slices.

question for you all. Have you ever had a pain in your left side.. That hurts like a sharp pain..  I am going to call my doctor and let him know what is going on and see what he says.. Lord take this away from me.

God bless all

glenda

This is something I have had to learn first hand this past year. Not only me but my children. He will if we allow him still our peace, our health, our children, our animals, you name it he will if we allow him  he will still everything away from us...

For me this has been really on my heart these past few weeks.. It all started when I got sick again.. I was at deaths door. I prayed and prayed to God to help me.. He did he sent a wonderful person in my church that was a nurse.. She knew something was not right with me when she looked at me. She then set up a appoitment with a friend who is a doctor. The next day I was in the hospital. All I could do is lay in a  fetal shape and hold on to my bible. I could not hardly even stay awake.. It was one of those times when your mind is going in all directions and yet there is nothing you can do about anything.. I had to trust in the Lord that one i would live and two that my children would be taken care of..  Satan tried to take my health and honeslty he is still trying but I trust in the one who made me.. His word says that by my stripes you are healed.. That ends it.. I am healed... My body might take a little while to find that healing but it was already promised to me... So that makes it so.. PERIOD...

When i got home from the hospital I was worried about bills.. Again God showed me that he had it all under control to just trust him.. Money was there.. From friends, From people i did not even know.. People who do not want me or any one to know who they are... It has been taken care of.. Food has been taken care.. Everything that Satan would bring to my mind that well how are you going to do this.. Or YOU will never be able to do this.. And you know what he is right. I CAN NEVER.. But God can.. And honestly he has bigger shoulders than i do.. He can hold a whole lot more than i can.. So I have learned to just give it to him.. HE already knows  the out come anyway... He sees the big picture i see the small picture of today... So with that Satan LOST AGAIN...

Then as I was healing as God had promised our animals started dieing for no reason.. NONE.. They would be fine one minute and died the next..  I mean with in a few hours.. Everything from ducks, chickens, rabbits, and then finally the little kittens that were brought to us. We all even me had got so close to those kittens. All but one was doing great. WE were feeding them , takeing great care of them.. And one by one they died.. We had even got them meds from the store.. Everything one could do.. Our hearts were broken.. Again Satan was stealig our joy, something that we all loved.. With each of those animals it was like a piece of our dreams were dieing.. Then it hit me agian it is satan.. He is doing his best to steal our joy, our little homestead. Anything to make us think that God is not for us... So we say it and we went up agaist him..  So Satan LOST AGAIN..

As that was ending then came up my SS #... How in the world did someone like this man get my number.. After going to the layor I have done all  i can do at this point. I will go to the ss office on monday and see about getting a new ss number. Until then i have to just trust in the LORD with this one.. Again Satan tried to steal my peace.. HE LOST AGAIN...

Then last night.. I was not feeling well. I was hurting and well could not sleep all  night. I hurt from my head to my feet. Plus on top of it all my kidneys were hurting again.. And i feel as if i am trying to get a head cold again.. NO GOD SAID THAT BY HIS HIS STRIPES WE (I) am healed.. That is his promise... SATAN WILL NOT WIN.... HE WILL NOT TAKE MY HEALTH.. PERIOD... I have five people in this house that needs me.. I have a life that God wants me to live and I have much yet to do for God in this life.. So sorry SATAN YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY HEALTH.. So i am standing right now with you all to say.. I AM speaking my healing.. I know that God has other plans for me and it does not have anything to do with me being sick..  I am going to be healed and this sickness that Satan keeps putting on me will go away. period.

So Satan does still work here on this earth, He still does his best to steal our peace, our health, our families, our children, our animals, our property, anything that he can to make us not trust in our heavenly father..  It is up to us to stand and say NO I WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HE IS SAYING. HE IS A LIER..  I WILL BELIEVE WHAT MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS. HE WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO HAVE A LIFE OF PLENTY, A LIFE OF GOODNESS, A LIFE OF HEALTH.. 

God bless

glenda

I've just added a link to "Operation Birthday Cake".   Purchase one Freedom Cake and One Soldier will recieve a birthday cake of their own FREE while they're serving overseas.  Celebrate YOUR FREEDOM over the summer by splurging on a cake to make a soldiers day away from their families.

Each cake is gourmet made with the finest Ingrediants including a message made of belgian chocolate.

******If you can't afford to purchase a cake in full, please think about donating a dollar or two to the cause in honor of our veterans who have been fighting for our freedoms and whom could use some encouragement and joy on their birthday.

Happy Independence Day

Last week when we went shopping the library was having their annual book sale, it's by donation.  I stopped to look and picked out a nice box of children's books!  Some of them are for the Before Five in A Row and Five In A Row program we use.  I was so excited about that!  I also found some nice history story books.

We happened to be back in town a few days latter and they were still having the sale.  So I just had to peek again.  LOL  I found another book to go with the B4FIAR and some nice children's farming books!  I'm planning to do a farming unit this fall with the kids.  The International Plowing Match will be in our area and we are planning an all day field trip there.  Dh is really looking forward to that to.  I also picked up some wonderful animal videos for the kids and some documentaries for us.  Dh also picked out a encyclopedia set on natural history.

I'm hoping to get to a homeschool book store this weekend.  My shopping list has been gone over and over..I'm still tweaking it.  So far I'm thinking of getting this:

• Christian Liberty Nature Readers 1 & 2
• Bob Books #1
• Leading Little ones to God
• Canadian Colouring book
• FIAR Christian supplement
• Before FIAR
• Canada My Country
• Ecoutez! Parlez! (beginner French)

Our plans this year are:

2 year old.

I'm going to use B4FIAR with her at a slow pace.  Should be fun!

4 year old PreK

• Teach Your Child to Read 100 Easy Lessons
• Bob Books
• B4FIAR
• FIAR
• Leading Little Ones To God

6 year old, grade 1

• FIAR
• Math U See Beta
• SOTW 1 (we started this last year and put it on hold for a bit)
• God's Design for Science, The plant kingdom and human body
• Leading Little Ones To God
• Canada My Country
• Nature Study
• Copy Work
• CL Nature Readers

DD6 and 4 will also be starting on some hand crafts, keep working on crochet and maybe simple sewing.