Well,I am 14 weeks along in my pregnancy and my morning sickness is starting to go away.I am thrilled about that! I can't *wait* to be back to myself again.Cooking for my family has been especially challenging because the smell of almost everything (especially meat) makes me SO sick.I am convinced that I have been doing a terrible job of keeping them healthy because friends of ours just visited from out of state and ALL of my children got sick and none of theirs did! Which brings me to the topic that I wanted to write about.
Do you ever get frustrated withe the never ending energy and appetites that your children have? I know that it can be a challenge for me at times! When my children are sick though,it always reminds me to be SOOOOOO thankful for healthy,energetic,HUNGRY children! :)
Just imagine the parents out there who are dealing with terminally ill children! I look at my little children laying around with no appetites and energy and even though I feel bad for them,I know they will be back to their normal selves soon.I can't help but imagine how it would feel to have a child who very likely may NOT get better........May NEVER again have an appetite or race around the house full of energy..........and may be in pain that just might have no end in sight.
I take SO much forgranted!!!!!!!!! Thank you dear Lord for energetic,hungry children!!!!!!!! May I fully appreciate them and do my best to take care of them with love and patience because I never know what might happen tomorrow!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
SPRING!!!!!!!!!!
I had to change my blog to a more springy look because I am officially out of winter mode! :):) I got my seeds from Seed Savers Exchange and we will be starting some soon! Seed Savers Exchange is a wonderful place to get heirloom seeds.Most of what I need I will get from my local co-op.They carry alot of Seed Savers seeds amd I will just get it as I need it but I wanted to be sure to have the exact tomatoes and a few other things that I wanted.....These are the varieties that I got from my order to get us started! :)
Lettuce.......Seed Savers Lettuce Mixture
Brussels Sprouts......Long Island Improved
Cauliflower.....Early Snowball
Spinache......American
Broccoli.......Calabrese
Cabbage.....Mammoth Red Rock and Premium Late Flat Dutch
TOMATOES........:) The children all got to choose a kind and after a long time of debating we chose.....
Mamma.....Brandywine (Sudduths Strain),Hungarian Heart,Hillbilly Potato Leaf,Gold Medal,Juane Flame,Black From Tula,and Romas.
You can go to Seed Savers and read about them if you want.I can't WAIT to get them started!!! Hopefully this weekend! :):)
Lettuce.......Seed Savers Lettuce Mixture
Brussels Sprouts......Long Island Improved
Cauliflower.....Early Snowball
Spinache......American
Broccoli.......Calabrese
Cabbage.....Mammoth Red Rock and Premium Late Flat Dutch
TOMATOES........:) The children all got to choose a kind and after a long time of debating we chose.....
Mamma.....Brandywine (Sudduths Strain),Hungarian Heart,Hillbilly Potato Leaf,Gold Medal,Juane Flame,Black From Tula,and Romas.
You can go to Seed Savers and read about them if you want.I can't WAIT to get them started!!! Hopefully this weekend! :):)
Friday, February 11, 2011
How do we love?
Love for husbands,love for children,love for friends,love for family,and most importantly,love for the LORD.
In our culture love is all about *emotion*.It is how we feel in our hearts.Not what we DO.In scripture it is the opposite.
Now this is a topic that could go on forever and I will try not to do that :), but I wanted to write about it a little because a good friend and I were talking about it and I thought it was a great topic.
The most emotional people that I have ever seen concerning their "love" for the Lord are not even christian.They are the ones who live exactly like the world but they love to talk about how much they love the Lord. They will even cry.
I know that this isn't *always* so.It is just what I have seen.It is almost like they are trying to convince me that they love the Lord because they know their lives don't say so.
I have noticed the same thing from parents who don't take care of their children.You aren't into a conversation for 2 minutes and they are saying things like "I just love my kids so much.I would die for my kids." ????
The most loving parents I know rarely say such things.Of course they feel those things but for some reason they don't feel the need to go around telling everyone.
The most sincere christians I know aren't out telling everyone how much they "love God".They are to busy living for him and serving him that they don't need to go around telling everyone how much they love Him.Not that they wouldn't *ever* say that they love God of course but I think you get what I am trying to say? We see alot of "emotional" love going on but less and less REAL love.It is easy to feel an emotion about someone but it takes effort to REALLY love someone.
The Lord says here that we are to love him with ALL of our hearts.What does this mean? Does this mean that we should feel a strong emotion towards him? No,He says "He that hath my commandments,and keepeth the,he it is that loveth me." "For this is the love of God.....That we keep his commandments...." What if someone claims to love God but doesn't keep his commandments?
James 2 talks about true faith......
In our culture love is all about *emotion*.It is how we feel in our hearts.Not what we DO.In scripture it is the opposite.
Now this is a topic that could go on forever and I will try not to do that :), but I wanted to write about it a little because a good friend and I were talking about it and I thought it was a great topic.
The most emotional people that I have ever seen concerning their "love" for the Lord are not even christian.They are the ones who live exactly like the world but they love to talk about how much they love the Lord. They will even cry.
I know that this isn't *always* so.It is just what I have seen.It is almost like they are trying to convince me that they love the Lord because they know their lives don't say so.
I have noticed the same thing from parents who don't take care of their children.You aren't into a conversation for 2 minutes and they are saying things like "I just love my kids so much.I would die for my kids." ????
The most loving parents I know rarely say such things.Of course they feel those things but for some reason they don't feel the need to go around telling everyone.
The most sincere christians I know aren't out telling everyone how much they "love God".They are to busy living for him and serving him that they don't need to go around telling everyone how much they love Him.Not that they wouldn't *ever* say that they love God of course but I think you get what I am trying to say? We see alot of "emotional" love going on but less and less REAL love.It is easy to feel an emotion about someone but it takes effort to REALLY love someone.
Luke 10 :27 And he answering said,Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,and with all thy soul,and with all thy strength,and with all thy mind;and thy neighbor as thyself.
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,let him be Anathema Maranatha.
2 John 6 And this is love,that we walk after his commandments.this is the commandment,That,as ye have heard from the beginning,ye should walk in it.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God,that we keep his commandments:and his commandments are not grevious.
1 John 3:18,19 My little children,let us not love in word,neither in tongue;but in deed and in truth.
And hereby we know that we are of the truth,and shall assure our hearts before him.
John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments,ye shall abide in my love;even as I have kept my Father's commandments,and abide in his love.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments,and keepeth them,he it is that loveth me:and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,and I will love him,and will manistfy myself to him.
The Lord says here that we are to love him with ALL of our hearts.What does this mean? Does this mean that we should feel a strong emotion towards him? No,He says "He that hath my commandments,and keepeth the,he it is that loveth me." "For this is the love of God.....That we keep his commandments...." What if someone claims to love God but doesn't keep his commandments?
1 John 2:4 He that saith I know him,and keepeth not his commandments,is a liar,and the truth is not in him.
It is pretty clear that scripturally,to love God is to LIVE for him.It matters little how we FEEL if we aren't living those feelings.How can we tell another christian? There are millions of people who claim to being christian......
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
James 2 talks about true faith......
vs 18-Yea,a man may say,Thou hast faith and I have works:shew me thy faith without thy works,and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19-Thou believest that there is one God;thou doest well:the devils also believe,and tremble.
26-For as the body without the spirit is dead,so faith without works is dead also.
So I think it is pretty clear that to love God means that we LIVE for him.True love is an ACTION.Now I am am NOT saying that our works GET us to heaven! What we DO has nothing to DO with where we are in eternity.It is only by the wonderful grace and mercy of God that a christian is saved.We live for him because we love him.We love and believe his WORD and WANT to live by it *because* we love him and we are so thankful for gift he has given us.I also don't mean to imply that we will KNOW and KEEP all of his commandments.As we grow we learn and as we learn we grow.When we die we will *still* not know everything but a christian strives with all of their heart to live what they KNOW.
A few more examples.....Titus 2 tells the older women to teach the younger how to love their husbands,love their children and much more but think about it..........Love their husbands? Love their children? Can that possibly be an emotional love? When we hold that baby for the first time do we feel that overpowering love for it because someone taught us how to feel it? That strong emotional love that we feel for our men.....Did our mothers tell us before we married how to FEEL love?No.......but the older women CAN teach the younger women how to love their husbands and children in ACTION.
Scripture says that we HATE our children if we don't train them.
It really bothers me to hear SO OFTEN..... "It doesn't matter what we do.....the Lord looks on the heart." It is a lie.What we DO reveals the state of our heart.What we do does not save us but it DOES matter because it SHOWS what is IN our hearts!
Anyhow,I have not updated my blog forever due to morning sickness and being so TIRED! lol I am getting more sleep now though and feeling more energetic! I am SO thankful for this precious new baby! I hope everyone is doing wonderful!
I did not mean to make the bottom of this post white lol.I don't have time to fix it now though so it stays! :)
So I think it is pretty clear that to love God means that we LIVE for him.True love is an ACTION.Now I am am NOT saying that our works GET us to heaven! What we DO has nothing to DO with where we are in eternity.It is only by the wonderful grace and mercy of God that a christian is saved.We live for him because we love him.We love and believe his WORD and WANT to live by it *because* we love him and we are so thankful for gift he has given us.I also don't mean to imply that we will KNOW and KEEP all of his commandments.As we grow we learn and as we learn we grow.When we die we will *still* not know everything but a christian strives with all of their heart to live what they KNOW.
A few more examples.....Titus 2 tells the older women to teach the younger how to love their husbands,love their children and much more but think about it..........Love their husbands? Love their children? Can that possibly be an emotional love? When we hold that baby for the first time do we feel that overpowering love for it because someone taught us how to feel it? That strong emotional love that we feel for our men.....Did our mothers tell us before we married how to FEEL love?No.......but the older women CAN teach the younger women how to love their husbands and children in ACTION.
Scripture says that we HATE our children if we don't train them.
It really bothers me to hear SO OFTEN..... "It doesn't matter what we do.....the Lord looks on the heart." It is a lie.What we DO reveals the state of our heart.What we do does not save us but it DOES matter because it SHOWS what is IN our hearts!
Anyhow,I have not updated my blog forever due to morning sickness and being so TIRED! lol I am getting more sleep now though and feeling more energetic! I am SO thankful for this precious new baby! I hope everyone is doing wonderful!
I did not mean to make the bottom of this post white lol.I don't have time to fix it now though so it stays! :)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
hmmmmmm I can't think of a THING to blog about.....
That isn't going to take a bunch of time! I have one blog post in the making about how we love God but I keep on NOT finding the time to finish it.The other ideas I have take alot of time too lol! Since I don't want anyone to think that I have given up blogging I thought I would just write what we are up to around here!
We still have lots of snow! I am going grocery shopping tonight but since dh didn't have time to plow the driveway he suggested that I have ds put the chains on the van and make sure we would be able to get OUT! lol So we did that this morning and got stuck 3/4 of the way up....Ds to the rescue! He hooked a tow rope up and pulled me out with the truck! I am so proud of him! Anyhow,looks like we WILL be able to go shopping! :) The children are very excited as we have been keeping them home with Daddy when I shop to try and prevent any extra illnesses.....:) The van is safely parked at the top of our drive and when it is time to go we will all pile into the truck and drive up to the van! lol I hope that we don't have any sliding problems coming back DOWN our drive lol.I always hate that part.Sometimes I totally lose nerve and park at the top of the last hill and have dh drive down the rest of the way.Very seldom lol but it has happened!Anyhow,enough about that! :)
I am thrilled to be expecting baby # 7! Feeling pretty good so far but I am only 7 weeks.....Trying real hard to eat healthy and keep up my exercise.
I will be sending out my seed order within the next week! I am SO looking forward to spring and gardening! I have HUGE plans as always lol.I HAVE to make sure to be organized this year AND mulch alot as being due in September will be challenging! RIGHT in the middle of harvest!! :) As for now,I am going to have a blast starting all of my seeds and THEN..........
I am extremely excited about tapping season coming up in about 5 weeks! We will be tappping 100 trees and I am SO hoping for a good year!We will also be having special friends visiting and that makes it extra exciting! I look forward to making maple syrup,candy,cream and sugar! Delicious stuff and especially since we are OUT! Last year was not a good year......
We are hot and heavy in school work right now.I REALLY want to end the year ALL caught up! It helps that my children are crazy about reading.That makes a mothers life alot easier when it comes to teaching! Imagine trying to school a child who hated reading!
I have really been making effort to read to my *little* children.I want them to have the same love of reading that their big siblings do and I recently realized that I don't read to them nearly as much as I did my older children! I feel SOOOO bad! We are changing that though and I am thankful that I realized it!
We are continuing (much to Daddy's delight) to learn Latin this year and we are also learning Sign language! It is something that I never even had a desire to learn until a dear friend BRANDY introduced it to us! Now we are hooked and both my husband and I are amazed to see our 18 monther signing SO many things!
Hmmmmm what else? I am just thankful for the life I have! To think where I *could* be right now if I would have gotten the desires of my heart when I was 17!!!!!!!! (Insert a scared to death smiley) I am so thankful to God for withholding from me what I thought I wanted and giving me something else! I have the most wonderful husband,children and life! Thank you Lord for your many blessings on me!
We still have lots of snow! I am going grocery shopping tonight but since dh didn't have time to plow the driveway he suggested that I have ds put the chains on the van and make sure we would be able to get OUT! lol So we did that this morning and got stuck 3/4 of the way up....Ds to the rescue! He hooked a tow rope up and pulled me out with the truck! I am so proud of him! Anyhow,looks like we WILL be able to go shopping! :) The children are very excited as we have been keeping them home with Daddy when I shop to try and prevent any extra illnesses.....:) The van is safely parked at the top of our drive and when it is time to go we will all pile into the truck and drive up to the van! lol I hope that we don't have any sliding problems coming back DOWN our drive lol.I always hate that part.Sometimes I totally lose nerve and park at the top of the last hill and have dh drive down the rest of the way.Very seldom lol but it has happened!Anyhow,enough about that! :)
I am thrilled to be expecting baby # 7! Feeling pretty good so far but I am only 7 weeks.....Trying real hard to eat healthy and keep up my exercise.
I will be sending out my seed order within the next week! I am SO looking forward to spring and gardening! I have HUGE plans as always lol.I HAVE to make sure to be organized this year AND mulch alot as being due in September will be challenging! RIGHT in the middle of harvest!! :) As for now,I am going to have a blast starting all of my seeds and THEN..........
I am extremely excited about tapping season coming up in about 5 weeks! We will be tappping 100 trees and I am SO hoping for a good year!We will also be having special friends visiting and that makes it extra exciting! I look forward to making maple syrup,candy,cream and sugar! Delicious stuff and especially since we are OUT! Last year was not a good year......
We are hot and heavy in school work right now.I REALLY want to end the year ALL caught up! It helps that my children are crazy about reading.That makes a mothers life alot easier when it comes to teaching! Imagine trying to school a child who hated reading!
I have really been making effort to read to my *little* children.I want them to have the same love of reading that their big siblings do and I recently realized that I don't read to them nearly as much as I did my older children! I feel SOOOO bad! We are changing that though and I am thankful that I realized it!
We are continuing (much to Daddy's delight) to learn Latin this year and we are also learning Sign language! It is something that I never even had a desire to learn until a dear friend BRANDY introduced it to us! Now we are hooked and both my husband and I are amazed to see our 18 monther signing SO many things!
Hmmmmm what else? I am just thankful for the life I have! To think where I *could* be right now if I would have gotten the desires of my heart when I was 17!!!!!!!! (Insert a scared to death smiley) I am so thankful to God for withholding from me what I thought I wanted and giving me something else! I have the most wonderful husband,children and life! Thank you Lord for your many blessings on me!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Home improvement progress last pic!
This will be sanded and clear coated etc. but you can see how he is doing it............
Progress!
Gorgeous or what? See the end that my ds is working on? He had to build 3 little walls like that and he did them all while his Dad was at work! You can't see them all here but didn't he do a fantastic job!?Can you tell how the desk top is getting made with those thin pieces of wood?He got it partly done today but not all......It is all cherry by the way.....I am so excited about how this is going to look in the end....
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