Mother's Ring & general family ramblings

Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 02:29

My Holiday gift, mother's ring. (oops, lost picture)  It took a lot of effort to find one to fit what all I wanted.  The middle stone is a white saphire for God as center of our family.  The two on each side are mine and hubby's birthstones, a ruby and topaz (or whatever they use for Nov now...).  Then we have two in Jan, garnet, and two in Aug, peridot, which I offset cattycorner from eachother.  Then the two babies are Feb, Amethyst, and October, pink stone, which I put at the points.  I'm proud of the results, I think it turned out really pretty...

  I've been drinking far too much coffee lately (yeah no way mom!)...  Okay, I had to change a diaper and the 17yodd got to the keyboard...  Well anyway.  She filled in at the Chiropractor's office twice this last week, which made our week pretty busy.  On top of that, Hubby ended up working on plumbing outside, and Papa's trailor got resold and moved.  We ended up making a trip, as a family to get plumbing parts and spending some time in Walmart (yuck) one day before picking up 17yodd, then the other day, after dropping her off, the other children and I popped on down another hour south to visit a darling family with 10 blessings.  We had so much fun.  I'm always so encouraged and inspired after visiting another homeschooling home.  The creativity in which a limited income inspires in housekeeping and decorating is always so neat to see.  It always helps me to see the different ideas families will have for education and discipleship of their precious ones.  They are just a darling family and we really enjoyed the visit, and I've come home with lots of great ideas (and even some convictions...).  

We stopped at the dreaded Walmart again before picking her up so the littlen's could use their holiday gift cards.  They picked out lego-type (I think it's mega-blocks..) King Arthur sets.  They have so much fun with the legos.  These have a ship and castle peices and lots of knights.  We also got PhisherPrice Loving Family people.  We had a baby with a car seat that Baby just loves, so she really likes having more members for the family.  We're considering making a dollhouse for them...

Another thing we've been doing is updating our website.  I got oldest-dd involved in this.  I'm trying to get her blog thingy so that it's a little more controlable.  I'm hoping to kinda create our own.  So far it's looking really good.  Her individuality is amazing...

Unfortunately I'm really tired now.  Even after trying to get a nap every day that we have been home this week.  I have a Dr appointment next week, so maybe we can get me back on track real soon.