40 quarts of pickles
50 quarts of saurkraut
40 quarts salsa
20 quarts hot peppers
40 quarts frozen corn
1 gallon dried corn
15 quarts frozen green peppers
125-150 quarts of frozen vegies (other than corn)
30 quarts apple pie filling
Dried apples and pears ?? how much
10 quarts of sun dried tomatoes
20 quarts apple sauce
25 pints of pizza sauce
50 quarts tomato sauce
Green salsa
Enchilada sauce
Blackberries
Dried potatoes AND stored potatoes
Squash
Diced onions
12 pints relish
Beets?
Apple cider in freezer? We need another freezer for this so we shall see.....
I am sure I am forgetting some things but I can add to this later!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Just because it isn't a struggle for you.....
does not mean that it isn't a struggle for the next person! I have been thinking alot on this lately.
Two different women get married to two different men.They are both sweet,good hearted,christian women BUT
The first woman has been trained her entire life to be a keeper of the home.She is at total ease in the kitchen,she has been taught how to manage a house,to garden,preserve food,sew,knit,train children,take care of her husband,she breezes right through everything when she gets married because she is confident and capable.She has a thankful,positive attitude which helps her tremendously with the stress of being a wife/mother.She knows how to train children and does it naturally.She lives her life for the Lord and strives to please him every day but she has her struggles too.She just keeps trying.She loves Him with all of her heart.
The second woman didn't have the privelege of being trained for marriage/motherhood.She can't cook,has no idea how to keep laundry/dishes/cleaning caught up,gardening is totally out as she can't even get a meal on the table, she has no clue how to do anything with a needle and even if she could,she has no idea how she would even have TIME.She is stressed out and finds it extremely hard to stay positive.Her children don't obey because she has no idea how to train them and also finds it totaly overwhelming to even think about training them along with keeping everything else up.She lives her life for the Lord and tries to please him every day but she struggles desperately.She just keeps trying.She loves him with all of her heart.
BOTH women have the same heart but their own definition of "easy" is so different because of their upbringing.They are no different in God's eyes because he looks at the heart.How sad if the first woman should look at the second and say "Whats the matter with HER? She can't even cook a good meal for her family and look at how messy her house is and how bratty her children are!" She can't be trying, I mean how hard is it to do those simple things?
Both women struggle but at totally different levels.It is crazy how human tendency is that when we learn something, and it becomes easy for us,we want to look back at those who haven't gotten there yet and say "Whats the matter with you? This is easy!" It's a TERRIBLE attitude,totally ungodly.I have been guilty of it myself.If I have learned anything,become good at anything,I should be thankful to GOD.I should always remember how hard it was before I became good at it and should be patient,helpful and encouraging to those who haven't learned it yet.Another thing to remember is that we learn at different speeds.You can't say that once you have been a christian for 1 year, you should know this and this and this.By 5 years you should know this and this and this etc.The Lord teaches everyone differently.There most certainly should be, and will be, GROWTH in Christ if a person truly *is* a christian but that growth looks different for different christians sometimes.
I am so thankful that the Lord loved me even when I was a brand new christian knowing very little.He doesn't love me anymore now that I know more.He loves the new,ignorant christian as much as he loves the 100 year old christian who is full of HIS wisdom.
Do I ? How worthless of me,who has been given this love to turn around and feel less love for the struggling,ignorant christian than the strong,wise christian!
It is so easy to think "Well thats just common sense!" or "There is no excuse for that,anyone should know that!"
Us who are blessed to have godly training,let us not be impatient and condemning to those who want to learn and change but struggle so much because they have such a long hard hill to climb! If you start climbing the hill 3/4 of the way up you aren't going to be near as tired when you get to the top as the person who starts from the bottom!
Two different women get married to two different men.They are both sweet,good hearted,christian women BUT
The first woman has been trained her entire life to be a keeper of the home.She is at total ease in the kitchen,she has been taught how to manage a house,to garden,preserve food,sew,knit,train children,take care of her husband,she breezes right through everything when she gets married because she is confident and capable.She has a thankful,positive attitude which helps her tremendously with the stress of being a wife/mother.She knows how to train children and does it naturally.She lives her life for the Lord and strives to please him every day but she has her struggles too.She just keeps trying.She loves Him with all of her heart.
The second woman didn't have the privelege of being trained for marriage/motherhood.She can't cook,has no idea how to keep laundry/dishes/cleaning caught up,gardening is totally out as she can't even get a meal on the table, she has no clue how to do anything with a needle and even if she could,she has no idea how she would even have TIME.She is stressed out and finds it extremely hard to stay positive.Her children don't obey because she has no idea how to train them and also finds it totaly overwhelming to even think about training them along with keeping everything else up.She lives her life for the Lord and tries to please him every day but she struggles desperately.She just keeps trying.She loves him with all of her heart.
BOTH women have the same heart but their own definition of "easy" is so different because of their upbringing.They are no different in God's eyes because he looks at the heart.How sad if the first woman should look at the second and say "Whats the matter with HER? She can't even cook a good meal for her family and look at how messy her house is and how bratty her children are!" She can't be trying, I mean how hard is it to do those simple things?
Both women struggle but at totally different levels.It is crazy how human tendency is that when we learn something, and it becomes easy for us,we want to look back at those who haven't gotten there yet and say "Whats the matter with you? This is easy!" It's a TERRIBLE attitude,totally ungodly.I have been guilty of it myself.If I have learned anything,become good at anything,I should be thankful to GOD.I should always remember how hard it was before I became good at it and should be patient,helpful and encouraging to those who haven't learned it yet.Another thing to remember is that we learn at different speeds.You can't say that once you have been a christian for 1 year, you should know this and this and this.By 5 years you should know this and this and this etc.The Lord teaches everyone differently.There most certainly should be, and will be, GROWTH in Christ if a person truly *is* a christian but that growth looks different for different christians sometimes.
I am so thankful that the Lord loved me even when I was a brand new christian knowing very little.He doesn't love me anymore now that I know more.He loves the new,ignorant christian as much as he loves the 100 year old christian who is full of HIS wisdom.
Do I ? How worthless of me,who has been given this love to turn around and feel less love for the struggling,ignorant christian than the strong,wise christian!
It is so easy to think "Well thats just common sense!" or "There is no excuse for that,anyone should know that!"
Us who are blessed to have godly training,let us not be impatient and condemning to those who want to learn and change but struggle so much because they have such a long hard hill to climb! If you start climbing the hill 3/4 of the way up you aren't going to be near as tired when you get to the top as the person who starts from the bottom!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A few gardening pictures from this year.
The first is my garden standing at the house,looking out to the garden,The 2nd is up against my house.You can see that it is only half way finished lol but the first part has comfrey and echinacea planted in it.Not sure what all else I am going to plant yet.The 3rd picture is standing on the other side of my tomato patch.I thought it was SO pretty!!I hope I get more tomatoes than I can handle.They were starting to get a little early blight after a bunch of rain but they are doing better it seems! I am so thankful! I was worried!
More gardening pictures
The first picture is the morning glories growing on the fence I have right when you walk into my garden.Then there is a close up of some of my green peppers.I have about 15 plants and I hope to get plenty in the freezer this year! The 3rd picture is a close up of my flowers that
are in the front of my garden and the 4th is the blossoms on some beautiful,heirloom,"dragon" beans that I am growing this year! I just thought they were so beautiful!
are in the front of my garden and the 4th is the blossoms on some beautiful,heirloom,"dragon" beans that I am growing this year! I just thought they were so beautiful!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Cleaning and organizing
That is what we have been doing around here for the past several months.I have gotten to the point in life where I need to simplify.I tend to take on way to much.We have been working on getting rid of things for a LONG time now and things are finally coming together! It is looking sooooo wonderful and it just lifts my spirits to have a clean,open,decluttered house.We no longer have a play room but have gotten rid of most of the toys.See,we had hundreds and hudreds of toys and 90% of them didn't get touched.So now the 10% we have are only the good ones.The ones that everyone plays with.We have a big box of blocks,farm toys(barns/tractors/animals etc),baby dolls and accessories,and one container of misc. toys.It is SO wonderful.SO much easier for the children to pick up! They would get overwhelmed at the amount of toys we had before and not even know where to *start* with picking them up!We are storing them upstairs and when they are done being played with they can get put right back into their containers.I don't like having them play in a room downstairs (that is where the play room was) because I couldn't hear or watch them which means that I couldn't correct any bad behaviour.So this is perfect!
Yesterday I cleaned out most of my cabinets and today I am wasing ALL of my windows.That is going to be a project! :) I have so many other things to do today too but it is just so nice that everything is starting to look so good and decluttered.It makes life so much easier.I am convinced that the most important step to having a clean and organized home is to GET RID OF STUFF.Most of us have so many things laying around that we never touch and just clutter up our lives.Get rid of it! It isn't worth the time and if you are a mamma like me,life just goes so much smoother with a clean home.Now as I said,I still have some ground to cover.I have not arrived at "organized" yet :) but we are definitely getting there! Horray!
Yesterday I cleaned out most of my cabinets and today I am wasing ALL of my windows.That is going to be a project! :) I have so many other things to do today too but it is just so nice that everything is starting to look so good and decluttered.It makes life so much easier.I am convinced that the most important step to having a clean and organized home is to GET RID OF STUFF.Most of us have so many things laying around that we never touch and just clutter up our lives.Get rid of it! It isn't worth the time and if you are a mamma like me,life just goes so much smoother with a clean home.Now as I said,I still have some ground to cover.I have not arrived at "organized" yet :) but we are definitely getting there! Horray!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Soft answers vs. grevious words
Proverbs 15:1
"A soft answer turneth away wrath:but grevious words stir up anger."
Such a simple,short verse that says so much.I have seen it proven true to many times to even count.I know how I feel when people use "grevious words" with me and I know how my children feel when I use "grevious words" with them.
I so badly want to raise my children with the right attitudes.I don't want them to be angry,frustrated and impatient.It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to get angry with them,use grevious words (or tones) and then turn around and correct them for being angry and impatient.That simply can't go on.We are stopping it around here.Our children are getting older and we are finding that lo and behold,while we have been teaching them so many good and godly things,we have also taught them our bad habits! Aren't the Lord's ways amazing? He blesses young,ignorant couples with children and while they train their children,HE uses the children to open the parents eyes on an unlimited amount of things that they need to change.So parents and children are learning together but there is one other wonderful thing that he has done.He instills this blind,forgiving love in children towards their parents.A love that says "Mamma,you are the best mother in the world" and "Mamma! You don't EVER treat us bad!" . My prayer and hope is that when my children lose the rose colored glasses that they will have received so much love and care from us that they will easily forgive our faults,knowing that we truly did devote our lives to them,that raising them in a godly home was our biggest priority and that we love them more than anything else in this world.
This is my verse for the day.I am going to concentrate on speaking softly.It works,of that I am positive.It has immediate effects on everyone.It is actually pretty amazing but I shouldn't be surprised as God's ways are perfect.I want to get them engraved into my heart and mind more and more and more.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath:but grevious words stir up anger."
Such a simple,short verse that says so much.I have seen it proven true to many times to even count.I know how I feel when people use "grevious words" with me and I know how my children feel when I use "grevious words" with them.
I so badly want to raise my children with the right attitudes.I don't want them to be angry,frustrated and impatient.It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to get angry with them,use grevious words (or tones) and then turn around and correct them for being angry and impatient.That simply can't go on.We are stopping it around here.Our children are getting older and we are finding that lo and behold,while we have been teaching them so many good and godly things,we have also taught them our bad habits! Aren't the Lord's ways amazing? He blesses young,ignorant couples with children and while they train their children,HE uses the children to open the parents eyes on an unlimited amount of things that they need to change.So parents and children are learning together but there is one other wonderful thing that he has done.He instills this blind,forgiving love in children towards their parents.A love that says "Mamma,you are the best mother in the world" and "Mamma! You don't EVER treat us bad!" . My prayer and hope is that when my children lose the rose colored glasses that they will have received so much love and care from us that they will easily forgive our faults,knowing that we truly did devote our lives to them,that raising them in a godly home was our biggest priority and that we love them more than anything else in this world.
This is my verse for the day.I am going to concentrate on speaking softly.It works,of that I am positive.It has immediate effects on everyone.It is actually pretty amazing but I shouldn't be surprised as God's ways are perfect.I want to get them engraved into my heart and mind more and more and more.
Monday, July 5, 2010
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 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!
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