Grace for every trial , Grace for every mile....
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 07:23 by FaithfulAcres - 0 Comments - Link
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and soberiety, not with broided hair , or gold , or pearls, or costly array;But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.I Timothy 2:9-10
As I walked arround Walmart this afternoon....That is right I said walked, for the first time in 7 weeks I walked arround the store to get what I needed. It was slow going but I did it !!!
God is good and His Grace is indeed a marvelous thing to exsperience in life...
I was thinking of all my Sisters out there who are striving to live a godly life and walk holy before the Lord. I was thinking that life could indeed be much harder then it is , as I know several sisters who are suffering things far worse then I have lately. After all, I had my leg damaged and I lost a baby.... But there are sisters out there who suffer with worse diseases, greater losses then my own. So, I prayed as I was thinking for each one that came to my mind. I was sorta going slow as Mark led the cart arround the store and the girls rode on the back for two to sit on. We went today to get a DVD/CD burner/player as my CD player died in my computer...PTL we found one for 50.00 that does it all...smile So I prayed and thought that God's Grace to me is sufficient, he extends it by the minute to me and I need not fear what tomorrow holds for me or my family. I know that he loves and cares for me and will see me through whatever is my way to walk in.
I have this Tape here by Mrs. Harold Leek with a song called " New Grace " I think it is called, it is just lovely. But the song speaks of " Grace for every hour, Grace to love and pray for sinners and there'll be New Grace when its my turn ...... well you get the idea. "
Every day is new, each morning is new and There is not anything that the Lord cannot do.
Alot of today I was praying for My Sisters Cindy, Lynne, Angie, all of whom are having trying times with health in their lives or trying times in marriage that I can relate to all too well. My heart cries for their pain.... (Ya today was your day girls) I want to tell you that back in 2001 I was in a car accident and it broke my left leg in three places and shattered my ankle. I was a single mom then, a SAHSM. I had met Mark but we weren't married yet. I spent 9 days in the hospital and then my Mom and Sister brought me home to my trailer. I couldnt walk, I couldnt bake , cook, I was stuck in bed for quite sometime. And after this I was stuck in a wheelchair for 10 months till I worked at getting well and regained strength in my leg ( my calf muscle had atrophed and I needed to heal and regain that muscle.) Well that was in July of 2001. In Sept 2001 Mark and I married and moved at the end of that month to his Moms and we were there for a week or so as we waited for the closing on our farm to happen.
Mark was such a sweetheart, pushing me arround everywhere we went and working a full-time job. Well I thought life couldnt get worse then it was for me... boy was I wrong.
I had gotten pregnant and didnt know it and about the time I learned I was, well The Lord called that first baby of ours home to be with him. I miscarried Oct 9th , 2001. This was the second time I had miscarried in my lifetime. The first time was in 1991 when I was in NH.
So my heart was hurting but my life was busy and my leg was not feeling to good. Have you ever tried to be a keeper at home from a wheelchair, be on Hydrocodone and Homeschool 3 children and a month later I found out I was pregnant with Faith... So here I am pregnant again in a wheelchair... We were newlyweds ya know!!! I wanted to be the perfect wife, the godly helpmeet , the wonderful mamma and homeschool teacher... All the while trying to live out my countrygirl dream on a farm in Central NY... Perhaps it was more like I was the bride who complained , got irritated with my children and they rebeled and I was a hormonal wreck and on prescription drugs, got off those fast, you know that stuff messes with your mind !!!!
OK life couldnt get worse.... LOL (Ya I can laugh about all of it now...) WE went on a honeymoon to Lancaster PA to Amish Country...Mark pushed me arround to see everything.
Then a week later...guess what ? I found out my DH was suffering from Mental Illness !!!!
not only that....He had what I call massive Debt in Credit Cards...
Do you ever get the hint that God is trying to teach you something, when all this stuff hits you with in a few months time ? I was pleading with the Lord to give me HELP!!!! I was Scared, I was hurt, I was homeschooling my kids and I was PREGNANT !!!! again, how could this be, I just lost a baby and hadnt had a monthly and well my mind couldnt take it all in... But you know what...God gave me Grace to deal with all of it, every single issue in my life, that doesn't mean I become the perfect wife or mother, but it means that I prayed a whole lot and I tried to make a go of it all.
After all I love the Lord, He surely loves me and I loved and still love Mark with all my heart... Life is so funny even when it is scarey....when we can look back and see that the Lord was right there the whole time, the whole way... we have to laugh at ourselves for being all to human and in the long haul we come out of it polished more holy, godly and better for what we suffered through...
So, did you ever get the feeling that is why the bible says " We suffer that we might know the sufferings of Christ" Is that why it says " Let Patience have its perfect work in you "....
So lets see... I had Faith Aug 2002, I had learned to walk again and drive, I was driving way before I was out of the wheelchair, I use to take my children to Walmart and even after I learned to walk they would say " Mom, could you go a bit faster ?" Why ? Mom there is an 80 year old man behind us who can walk faster then you !!!!" LOL, I didn't care, I was walking.... God had given me a wonderful Midwife and I had Faith and came home and what a JOY it was to have a baby after 9 years from having Michael and ending up divorced and thinking I would never have another baby again....But God had blessed me and I was on cloud nine.... OK so there were times I wish I was on cloud nine.... Mark had worked fulltime for a year and he burned out, wasn't working and we were living on SSD and my settlement from the accident....
Do you know God knows your needs and he will meet them in some way shape or form...you might not know from where, but he does.
Faith is 5 months old and I start to feel sick and So I go to the Dr and what do you know....
I was pregnant for Hope. Hey Did I tell you that I get massive Acid Reflux when pregnant !!!
I have to live on Zantac AM/PM doses... That was what tipped me off to being pregnant , mind ya I only have had this with mine and mark's children... couldnt eat, felt lousy, couldnt sleep and Mark was trying to work, but he wasnt feeling well... So Oct 2003 I have Hope and we are having marriage troubles and He is self medicating... some of you know what I am talking about. Now how can this be....after all i married a christian man, who is the most godly man I know, next to a few older men I know who are pastors... Lord how can this be ?
Hey, Life goes on.... You pick up yourself by your petticoats and you shake off the dust and you go on... You milk the goats, you teach the kids and you read good books and you seclude yourself from the outside world.... Well except for a few lists your on.... You meet a Sister who tries to encourage you, but she cannot understand what your going through...
You try and try harder to be the godly wife and mother...
So, Hope is 11 months old and I am feeling sick again...Guess what ???? Ya you got it... I am pregnant again... ( Now understand this...to a quiverful minded couple this is great) I was , Mark wasnt really then.... but this would only be our 4th baby...remember we lost one had two and this is #4.... Well my older teens are being rebellous, the two oldest move out to their Dads in NH and you know that all the blame for past is given to me as the horrible mother who cannot deal with the acholic/abusive spouse... So ya it is my fault after 14 years of marraige for doing what was best for Myself and my Children.... Trust me folks, I am over it...God has given me Grace and I strive very hard to extend that Grace even to my Ex. doesnt always work but I try... OK so I am pregnant , Wes is 15 and Mike is 11, Faith is 2 Hope is 1 almost.... and The Lord calls this child home to be with Him...
The boys were at my parents for a visit two hours away, Brittany is in Auburn and my oldest lives in Auburn at the time too. I hemorraged and I go to the hospital and Mark spazzed, He stays home to care for the girls with his mom and never comes to the hospital like he said he would till I am out of surgery and alone... wondering where he is....
So who do you call on.... I called out to the Lord...Save me, my little ones need me and I am
along Lord with no family or friends to be with me. My BP is 66/44 and I am not feeling to well at all, but surgery went well. So Mark shows up with his Mom and the girls and I
am so tired , happy to see my girls and want to go home... so we went as soon as my BP went up to 100/60. We get home and my MIL goes home and I have to exsplain to Faith that the baby is in heaven now....She had asked me of the baby was ok.....
Grace....to fogive, to speak the truth in love and to go on....
Two months later my boys come back home and we begin again to try to live our lives and go on...
Summer 2005
Mark's SSD is taken away due to overworking... someone needs to tell the government that Mental Illness doesnt just go away and that going 80 cents over the limit is no reason to cut your check totally... Mark is still sick and cannot work fulltime... nor is he allowed to on SSD. We have to put the farm up for sale or face loosing it... My heart dies inside as this is HOME, this is where my children are to grow up and were to do the country thing!!!!!
My goats, Lord not my goats, please say we don't have to sell my goats....
I sold the goats and all my goat stuff and we sold the farm and moved to my trailer Fall of 2005, actually closer to winter as we moved in October. We and all our stuff is packed into my 16x80 1997 Titan 3 bedroom/2 bath Home... 1200sq ft....after living in a double wide on our farm that was 1580 sq ft... no privacy, no place for kids to play and no animals allowed.
Nov 1st we put an offer on a house in Canastota NY, I bought that house for us to be closer to Mark's mom and family and so he would find work....
My heart was dying inside. Mark was getting sicker and he went into the hospital and he stayed at his moms for a time.... I found out I was pregnant November 7th and told Mark and he was still quite sick and on drugs that made him not well. So I try to relax, go shopping with my parents at SAMs and came home went in the bathroom and I was bleeding... I told Mom, she told Dad and I called Mark. Mom and Dad stayed till Mark got there and They took all 4 of my kids home with them. Mark stayed with me and I stayed home that night. Next day we went down to my Dr/Midwifes office and they want us to do hormone level tests... ok... we do them, we come back in couple days and we do them again...went up, but I was bleeding and sonogram shows no baby only a sack...so I misscarried but my hormone levels were going up.....Lord how can this be...? So I get scheduled for a DnC and they want to do a Laporoskpy to make sure I am not having a tubal pregnancy... surgery again...
Have you ever had to sit in the Dr office and write out your own words for what is to be done if they find a tubal pregnancy ... " I am giving my permission that if I am having a tubal pregnancy, this pregnancy is to be aborted" There is that horrible word.... and it had to be written by me to give my Dr permission to end my pregnancy, not the one I had already lost, but another one if it was in my tubes.... My heart is dying Lord, I need you to give me some peace here.... All I could do was cry....for the loss I already experienced and a possible second pregnancy loss , if there was one...
Grace.... to accept things I cannot change, to release alot of anger and to go on...
PTL , there wasnt one, but surgery wasnt fun and I got really sick and got a subderal hematoma in my left wrist and arm...Nurse pulled my IV too fast and made a mess.
So for weeks I was in pain and suffering after all that. We left, went home to the trailer and
That was Nov 9th 2005... week later Mark goes back to stay with his mom and look for work... I stay at my trailer with the kids... Closing on the house never happened till January 14th, 2006 and we all moved in on Jan 18th. Mark too, but he is still not feeling well.
Once again they try to take away his SSD and the girls SS benefits... So he gets a PT job at Walmart in Feb 2006 and we live on Route 31, louder then we thought it would be. Our yard is on a hill and though it is not in the city...it sure wasnt exactly country....but it was home for a time and we made due...
Grace to live in a place that isnt the most ideal home, but you do what you need to , to try to keep your family and DH going....
I spent alot of time praying...for some support, for a home in the country, for goats, for my children , for Mark's health and we had more hard times, but we finally got to the point that we knew we had to get the kids to the country and get to someplace with a church they could attend and my mothers church was where they wanted to be... Mind you it is not my church home, but my boys do go there quite a bit... IBYF for the kids and Youth Group.
Well I waited on the Lord my boys again take it upon themselves to rush the Lord, they wanted to leave and go to my Sisters in GA to live... so what do you do ? If you don't let them they rebell ...If you let them maybe they will learn to see that , the grass is not greener on the other side of the septic tank...... So they went... they complained and spent 3 months there...
The whole time I knew that the Lord wanted them home and learning to obey me... I was there God given mother and he said they were to obey their parents.... But I waited until the Lord said it was the right time...
Oct 2006 they came home to live with us...We had moved to RC, closer to my parents and I finally had the support i needed of family arround. We were blessed with goats when the Lord said to our friends " The Weeks Family" that they were to give me the three goats i liked.
One was born on our farm...I was so happy, so pleased to finally be in the country and near where I grew up... it wasnt manditory to move near my family, but it is nice to have someone to watch your children now and then that you trust. So , is life better....In alot of ways Yes.
Is it perfect...NO
Nov 4th 2006 to current...Mark has not found work here.
Jan 7th Mark is not feeling well and I end up taking him to his mothers.
Jan 14th I fall on icy steps and my right leg is damaged....
Jan 16th I have my neice take me to go pick Mark up so he can come home and help me.
Jan 29th I go to Dr and learn I am for sure pregnant.
Feb 12th I go to OB-GYN and get checked for normal bloodwork but I am spotting a little.
Feb 18th I miscarry again... for the 4th time in our marriage, my 11th pregnancy...
Feb 26th tomorrow, I go for sonogram and Lordwilling I have passed everything on my own...
GRACE....learning and growing in Grace....God's Grace
Today, I am walking, my DH is home and trying to get well ... tomorrow who knows what that brings...Its snowing here and I am going to head to bed....Praying that tomorrow God's Grace will be shed again in my life... Praying that my Sisters can know and exsperience that same Grace and know that There is new Grace for every trial, there is Grace for every mile and there'll be new Grace...for them in the morning....
If your reading this and you do not know of God's Grace and His Mercy... and you don't know how to go on in Him, Just ask me how to get there.... I can only tell you that if it wasnt for the Lord, I couldnt go on through all this and whatever else is to come in my life...
God is the answer to all your trials and issues in life... no matter what they are...
And if you are saved and you need someone to be friends with , to share with, to pray for you, to encourage you in your walk with the Lord... well you are more then welcome to join me and other ladies who will be there to pray for you at my group on yahoo.
The Country Homemakers Journal
Link on the right side of this blog to join...
We'd just love to have you come and share with us.
Blessings
Linda
Embrasing Children even in the later years...
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 07:17 by FaithfulAcres - 0 Comments - Link
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and soberiety, not with broided hair , or gold , or pearls, or costly array;But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.I Timothy 2:9-10
A very sweet freind named Patti said that seeing women like myself embracing children even at my age (43) as the Lord blesses my womb, was a blessing to her. Patti, the Lord has plans for each of us, the bible says " He makes the barren women the joyful mother of children". My children are DD 24, DD 20, DS 18, DS 14, DD 5 and DD 4 and our newest blessing due in January 2008 DS. Between DS 18 and DS 14 I miscarried in 1991. In 2001 we lost another to miscarriage and Again between DD 4 and the new blessing DS due in January, we lost 3 more to miscarriage.
You start to wonder if you will ever be able to carry babies to full term again, miscarriage and infertility are hard burdens to bare. I am the oldest of 7 in my family, having so many siblings and being from a large family made me desire whatever size family the Lord would give me. I wasn't always quiverful minded, as I was in an abusive marriage from 1986 to 2000.
So I kept saying when I am 30 I will be done having children... But the Lord changed something in my heart back then and well the desire for my blessings has never gone away. There are times I have set it aside and learned not to dwell on it.
Knowing that the whole time the Lord would have his will in my life, no matter how old I was. Well as I said, when you miscarry so many blessings and there is no apparent reason but Dr's keep telling you Oh it is natural as your getting older you know, your over 40 now..... It wasn't what I wanted to hear, nor was it what I believed to be true, as my own mother never miscarried once and she had 7 of us and my " little sister" was born when my mom was almost 45. Not to mention that she and my grandmother never went through menopause till 55 or so. So why would I think that what I was going through was normal for my life or any womans life. I questioned the validity of my Dr and midwife at the times statements. I asked for testing on my internal functions and this year after another miscarriage in February 2007, I asked for my hormone levels to be tested. All my OB said were within normal range to be able to get pregnant still, but you get that same old speech about the risk of having downs babies and the like. OK so if my hormones were ok , what was wrong ? Well about two years ago a friend suggested that I might be suffering from LPD Litunal phase defect...(spelling is off here) I guess that my body was not producing enough progestrone to carry a pregnancy. So I went out and searched for something on Hormone imbalance and balancing my hormones ect. Dr John Lee wrote this wonderful book or set of books. What your Dr may not tell you about peri-menopause: balancing your hormones between 30 and 50. What your Dr may not tell you about Menopause. He also wrote a book called What your Dr may not tell you about Breast Cancer. So I read the second one, then bought the first one mentioned here. I joined some groups on yahoo about Natural Hormone replacement therapy and the like. I learned alot I never knew, I mean about things as women we really need to know about our bodies and how they work. From my symptoms back then I surmized that I was low on progestrone and used Natural Progestrone Cream for 6 months, morning and night for 14
days between the time I ovulated and starting my next monthly. I can honestly say I felt better , was not as moody, didn't retain fluid as much and my asthma and allergies seemed non existant. I was also using Whey Protien shakes and taking good vitamins. (Shaklee) which I now am an independent distributor . I didn't get pregnant during that time, so I quit using the Progestrone Cream, thinking it wasnt the issue. www.emerita.com or look for it on www.amazon.com Emerita Paraben Free Pro-Gest natural progestrone cream. Well long about last December I again became pregnant, didn't use the cream and lost another baby to miscarriage February 28th. So I thought more on things I was doing and using and adjusted my vitamin intake and supplements and what I was eating...
and in May on my 43 birthday I felt rather sick that weak and thought I was suffering another virus, till acid reflux set in and I decided well since I get acid reflux when pregnant, I would call my Dr and go get a blood test as the nausea didnt seem to go away after a few days. Well the night before I was to hear back from the Dr I decided I am going to start using the cream again and did from that night on. That next day he called and said you are pregnant for sure and need to go to the OB Dr. 4 weeks later I was still using the cream went for my appointment and for the first time got to hear my DS Daniels heartbeat 164 beats per minute then. As I write he is awake within my womb and ever growing and getting bigger and expanding his territory in there... kicking as he goes. I truely feel that if I had not started using the cream, my own body wouldn't have made enough progestrone to carry Daniel to term. The Lord just impressed on me that I needed to be healthy and something was missing here that needed correcting.
So , here I am 43 and pregnant for Daniel Josiah Finn, Our first son together and so thankful to the Lord for showing me that I needed to educate myself in how my own body worked, listen to my own symptoms and do something about it. God is faithful.... Even when the wisdom of this world is foolishness to Him, we can count on him to guide us in the right way to go and what to do.
Embracing and loving my children is natural to me, it comes easily and is what God intended from the start.
To my sisters in the Lord I wish only to share my story so that maybe you can seek the Lord and overcome.
Linda
Faithful Acres
aka: The Country Homemaker
~Mini Nubians~
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 at 2:38 PM by FaithfulAcres - 2 Comments - Link
Well from my breeding Mini Nubians and milking them, I can tell you what we have experienced.
My does range from 26 to 28 inches at the withers.
My Bucks range from 26 to 32 inches at the withers.
We have breed Mini Nubians from the spring of 2002 to present. We started with 1st and 2nd generation stock. Now keep in mind that they are bred to begin with from a Nigerien buck bred to a Nubian Doe. That cross makes 1st generation mini nubians of a 50/50% . ie. half Nigerien /half Nubian. We started with goats of this cross. Some having ears that were shorter or not down like Nubians then. We worked with those first 5 goats and from that got our first 3rd gen stock born that summer. Ears were much improved !
My does milk between 4 to 9 qts per day , depending on what freshening it was and if they were from good milking stock.
in 2004 I bred for our first 75/25% 1st generation stock. ie. a mini nubian buck bred to purebred Nubian does or American Does. All registered stock, ie. ADGA and MDGA then. Again Ears were much improved as was breed character. We have had many nice goats born to us along the way in 6 years.
This year I had my 5th gen doe give birth to the first registered Purebred Mini Nubian Stock in the US that is of 6th generations. One buckling as you read on my blog went to OK to Good Goats near Tulsa. I retained a buck Faithful Acres Gad and his Sister Faithful Acres Asher, both are Purebred Mini Nubians and registered with The Miniature Dairy Goat Association . MDGA This kidding I have allowed Magnolia to raise her own kids and have not milked her as I believe she may be bred for February of this coming year. I bred her to my 2nd generation buck for 3rd gen kids, as he is very nice, shorter and from excellent milking mini nubian lines that have nice breed character and He himself won 1st place in intermediate bucks on MDGA's Virtual Show.
Mini Nubians have wonderful personalities. Magnoia my herd queen is rather talkative, but at times she is silent too. Each goat is different, as people are.
I will try to post pictures here soon so you all can see the mini nubians There is a picture of Faithful Acres Benjamin in my posts with his new owner Suriyah Fish of Good Goats in OK.
Blessings
Linda
Faithful Acres Fabric and Quilting Supplies
Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 7:13 PM by FaithfulAcres - 1 Comments - Link
Saturday, December 6th I took my fabric and quilting and craft supplies and some household things and went down to set up shop at the local flea market that some of the plain christians here set up at. We did very well. I paid 30 dollars for 2 spaces for one month and the first day I made 75.00, so I guess I made back my cost and then some. For now it was just suplus fabric and things I have had for years and hadn't gotten to using it.
Well after a few of the ladies had seen my "stash" they said perhaps I might like to set up and sell things I didnt need any longer. I am going to make a few double fleece blankets and perhaps some melt and pour soaps to take this Saturday.
The flea market is at the old school on Hwy 128 South of Linden , TN. It is open 8am - 4pm at the Old Cedar Creek School Building. Linden is located in Perry County , TN
If you happen to be going thru the area or live nearby, feel free to stop over, there is alot of nice things there. Tack, Canned Foods, Food to eat there and to take home. Quilts and Crafts and Pet items , books, homeschool books, beaded jewelry and well anything you might find unique for a special someone on your shopping list.
Blessings
Linda Finn
Faithful Acres Fabric and Quilting Supplies
Faithful Acres Mini Nubian Dairy Goats
Prayers for Jeanine Taylor and Family
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 6:56 PM by FaithfulAcres - 2 Comments - Link
Could you all pray for Jeanine and her family, they were so kind to us when we were expecting Daniel and they are experiencing a miscarriage. This is so hard on the children as well they were so excited as they had lost one baby stillborn in 2007. Their excitedness when we were expecting daniel was shown in pictures drawen and the gifts sent to us. I can only imagine how hard this is on the whole family. Please pray for her to be able to pass everything on her own and that all will be well physically and that the Lord would heal their hearts.
Jeanine, I am here praying if you read this know that I am so sorry and yet I am so thankful to you Sis.
Your loved and cared for....
Linda, Mark, Faith, Hope, Daniel Josiah...
Happy Thanksgiving !
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 9:18 AM by FaithfulAcres - 0 Comments - Link
I wanted to stop in this mornin and tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving !!!!
We have alot to be thankful for today, I hope that everyone has a blessed day filled with love and the company of family and friends. May the Lord bless you and keep you.
Blessings
Linda
For Sale or Trade: Faithful Acres Benjamin (purebred reg. MDGA) SOLD
Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM by FaithfulAcres - 0 Comments - Link
Faithful Acres Benjamin : 6th gen . reg. MDGA as one of the first Purebred Mini Nubians in the US. Born 9/23/08. He is eating grain and hay , drinking water so he is ready for his new home. He has excellent breed character , long pendulous ears and is not disbudded. Asking 250.00 with papers
Would trade him for the following :
LGDs, Fencing or stock panels, Reg. Nubian Does
All serious offers considered
Linda
931-589-3823
SOLD to Suriyah of Good Goats in NE Oklahoma
Praying for the Lord's Perfect Will
Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM by FaithfulAcres - 3 Comments - Link
Well after 2 weeks our landlord came and told us her son and daughter in law are seperated and getting divorced. One will get the land the trailer we are renting is on , so she wanted us to know , so if we wanted to we could look for another place to live or we could wait it out as she put it.... So here we are wondering why we feel that we should move soon , when we just got here. I can say that I have sorted through alot of stuff and gotten rid of much. Still going through thngs more today.
I am asking for prayers from all of you , that the Lord would show us where to go and what to do and I am asking that if any of you know of a place for rent that would allow us to keep my goats, well let us know ok...
We would like to stay in TN but that isnt manditory if the Lord shows us to go elsewhere to live.
My girls live in AL with my 4 grandchildren now being 4 hours from me finally, so I would like to stay in driving distance from them if I can.
We will the money to move, so just let us know if you know of a place and if you have contact info on it that we can call or go look if it is in TN, let us know.
Not stressed, just blessed to be His
Linda
Wishing I had more time to post here to ya'll
Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 11:28 AM by FaithfulAcres - 1 Comments - Link
We are living here in Linden, or should I say south of Linden. Its beautiful here in fall but boy it sure feels more like winter already. Tonights low is 15 and we have been 2 weeks with no furnace due to the electrical fire in it . We have rented a 14x60 2 bedroom 2 bath. Now imagine me trying to sort through all the stuff that we brought with us from our 2200 sq ft house, after getting rid of half of it. We only brought our beds and my sewing stuff and my soap stuff and my homeschool stuff, crib, changing table, porta crib, high chair, fold up tables and 2 folding chairs, 2 bins of toys that were left of the girls ( baby dolls and tea set, little people house and farm, noahs ark and play set.) All the bathroom, kithen stuff and what food I could bring with us. I am sorta set on baking supplies for a month maybe less and it seems that I only run low on milk and meat, potatoes and those things that come from a garden. Since we were moving we didnt really plant a huge garden as we wouldnt be there to can things. We left for TN Aug. 2nd. I did have meat in the freezer but it was not able to travel down with us , what I tried to bring spoiled on the way down though packed good. Yes I brought my electric sewing machine and serger and vacume and our computers. ( 2 desktops and one laptop with wifi capabilities)
Well the point is we thought we were coming down with less and yet in the RV and in this smaller home it seems like alot of stuff. So what is really needed anyways ? Well as I sort through it all much is going in boxes to be sold. To raise money for other needed things. ie. land, cabin or small home, wood cookstove. After all that was the idea, to move here and eventually get land and homestead more then we had been in NY. Somehow living the countrylife no longer seems like homesteading once you have visited many here that life off the grid and have built their own home, rustic as they are, they are home and boy they seem nice to me. What is life all about anyways ? Was it about nice rooms with painted and papered walls ? Was it about having a nice bathroom with all the fixtures and such ? No, it is nice to see an outhouse now with paper holder, a light in there and ya know what ? copies of countryside and a real toiet seat !!!! Fancy huh !!!!
Some here have solar, some are living no electric substitute at all and each encourages us to strive toward whatever the Lord tells us is for us to do and each gives "My use to be DH who said we will never go non-electric and we will never live like the Amish" A new vision for our lives. The first goal was to live on what money we do have or can make and live on less or with less. Unless it can make you more money or serves a purpose that is useful, it has no real value here. ( I will admit I have my country tins, crock, and rooster things with me, but they serve a purpose too. My rose bowl and pitcher and my tea set will be used not just sit on a shelf for looks anylonger. Here DH has a shed to keep his tools in and we can keep our goats here. All the new ways are blessings and those we meet are the best blessings in our new life here in Linden TN. The likemindedness is in the fact that Jesus died for each of us and though we are each different in our degree of living the life of plain and simple living, we are all sharing the fact that Jesus died for us to save our souls.
Wensday night we attended a local sing, the glorious sound of our blended voices while we blend our lives in friendship I am sure is the most wonderful thing to the Lord God.
Blessed to be in His Child
Love
Linda
Faithful Acres Homestead
We have a home !!!!
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 11:07 AM by FaithfulAcres - 3 Comments - Link
Well here we are...... Let me first say that moving or making the move does not come without trials....lol
Ya, now I can laugh about things but I can tell you that I wasn't laughing when they did happen.
Everyone is looking for thier perverbial " Garden of Eden" here on earth and or heaven on earth
to live peacably while we wait for the Lord's return. Perhaps if our little homestead was in heaven
we would all be happy and content right ?
While we found a 2 bedroom mobile home, 2 bathrooms 14 x 60. In the country of course.
The girls are happy the landlords daughter has 2 horses pastured out here behind our place.
They are ok with us having our goats and fencing in an area for them here. We have a nice sized
porch to sit out on , so that is good . Have to watch out for the fire ant hills but that is part of TN.
OK so for the trials.... The Second night we had a electrical fire in the furnace, house was filling with smoke
we got out and tried to wake up neighbours and no luck. Well the guy up the road was up shotting cyottes
so he called the landlord for us. We aired out the house and then slept well , after the landlord brought us space heaters to use.
What a House Warming !!!
Linda
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