Eliminating anger.

My response is my responsibility,my response is my responsibility,my response is my responsibility...............................

I have been trying to memorize those words and keep them in my head.I recently read them in a book called "Love and Respect" and boy,it is quite hard to remember when the anger starts creeping in..It is much easier to blame my bad attitude on someone else.That is wrong though.The way that we respond to any situation is OUR responsibility.No matter how in the wrong our husbands are or how difficult our children are being.

It is late and I would be in bed by now if it weren't for a certain fussy,teething baby.:) I am so thankful for him but as he was fussing I found myself feeling  irritated. I just wanted to go to bed! But........my response is my responsibility! I can't become impatient because my precious little baby is fussing.I need to be patient,kind and loving because it is RIGHT.I need to do everything as unto Christ!

Our circumstances are not to *blame* for the way we act.They reveal who we really are inside.When the pressure is put on,the true colors/scents are revealed.

It is easy to be a loving wife to a husband who brings home flowers every night,washes the dishes and tells you to go take a nice hot bath ALONE.:)

Not so easy to be loving to one who comes home in a bad mood because of problems at work and starts snapping at everyone.

It is easy to be thankful when everything is perfect but how thankful are we when things don't go as planned or things just go downright BAD?

It is easy to be full of faith when life is grand but when tragedies happen how is our faith?

The author of "Love and Respect" gives an example of a rose and a skunk.If you step on either of them,they reveal their "fragrance".Why do they smell the ways they do? Did stepping on them make them smell that way? No,they already had the smell within but when you put the pressure on,it caused the smell to be released.

When the pressure is put on do you smell like a skunk or a rose? I thought this was so excellent I just had to share it!

Well,off to bed!

I am going to try to attempt this again :)

I really want to try and blog again :).I loved blogging but I just didn't take the time to keep it up.SO...I am going to try it again and hopefully with better results than last time!

Much better picture of my gardens...JUNE

You can see garden #1 ,#2 and #3.......#1 starts right in front and curves to the left and goes down to the end of garden #2....Garden #2 is the one you see right to the left of garden #1 and garden #3 is behind garden #2 but you can barely see it..... If you click on the picture you can see it enlarged......

Potato hills

They are not up yet but any day they will be! There are 25 potato plants in each hill so that gives us a total of 200 plants....They are heirloom blue potatoes.I really,really hope they do good!

This is a small section of one of our gardens......It is hard to get the whole thing in the picture......Here you can see the cabbage,some of the onions,a few tomatoes and some cauliflower.......My children each have a garden of their own this year and they are on the left side starting at the tiller and they go on down a ways....That overhead trellis you see is my little girls to grow her pole beans on....She also has morning glories planted around it.....

Garlic

My garlic patch this year.......Garlic is one of the best natural antibiotics there is.I should have about 100 heads of garlic at the end of this year if it does good.I am excited as I have never grown it before.....I don't know WHY because we love garlic!

Gardening!

I love it...! Here when it warms up a little I will be going outside and putting the rest of my tomatoes in.....I also want to plant more beans,peppers,popcorn and FLOWERS of course:) I LOVE gardening.I do alot of canning,dehydrating etc.This year we planted 200 strawberry plants! I have NEVER had that many strawberries and I am so excited.They are my favorite! We are also planting a bunch of heirloom corn (bloody butcher....I do NOT like the name! lol) for grinding! That will be a new experience for us.With all of the genetically modified corn in just about EVERY corn product you can buy.....it is a big push for us to just grow our own.If you don't know much about genetically modified foods and their dangers I highly suggest you research it.It is a very serious/scary issue!

POPCORN.....We are growing a bunch of that this year too! I have never grown it and I can't wait to see how it does.....

POLE BEANS....Usually I grow bush beans but after growing a few pole beans last year I am excited to grow alot more this year.....My husband is building me trellisis for them to grow up that I can walk underneath! They are SO beautiful!! My garden is much more to me that a place where food grows! ....I LOVE to make it pretty! Anyhow, I am very excited about these pole beans....It would be so much easier picking beans standing up!! SO that is another fairly new thing for us this year.....

My children all have their own gardens this year....That is SO fun and they just love it.We have such a wonderful time outside in the garden.They are very serious little gardeners and get so excited about growing things.My girls just love to go and gather herbs to preserve.They were given their very own dehydrator to dry flowers/herbs in .They love that.....They love to make things with herbs....

I am so thankful to live in the country and be able to grow all of this good food....have animals....fresh air....good water....It is such an excellent place to raise a family!