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A Copybook of Thanksgiving

Posted by Ginny
8:38 PM, Monday, November 23, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

I have been absent from most of the internet world because I have been recuperating from an appendectomy. Before I went into the hospital I had told some of my Facebook/work buddies that I would make some copywork pages about thanks. I know these are probably late, but I am posting them anyways. There are actually copybooks with 31 pages of Scriptures and a blank page to have your child write their own prayer of thanksgiving. Even though Thanksgiving is only a few days away, giving thanks is timeless.
You may choose which style you need for your family:

A Copybook of Thanksgiving-Manuscript

A Copybook of Thanksgiving-Transitional Manuscript

A Copybook of Thanksgiving-Cursive

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #54 ~ 11/23/09

Posted by Kim Wolf<><
5:00 PM, Nov. 23, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

For Today...

Outside my window...grey, dreary day. Looks like it could even snow.

I am thinking...how blessed I am to live in America. Even though we have lost the ability to do so much, so quickly, we still have so much more than people in most other countries.

I am thankful for...still having a home, cars & not going hungry. And for our precious DD#2 who is taking it upon her sweet, young shoulders to volunteer her paycheck to buy Thanksgiving dinner for us! God bless her richly!

From the kitchen...Baked a new loaf of flaxseed bread. Where would we be w/o it? :-)

I am wearing...jeans, black turtleneck.

I am remembering…that this too, shall pass.

I am going…to pick up DD#2 from work & stop by my Dr's office for some med samples to tide me over 'til I can make an appointment w/him. PTL for free samples!!

I am reading...Habbukuk. Short & oh, so powerful.

I am hoping...for miracles!

On my mind…the generousity & love of our sweet DD#2 (DD#1 ain't bad, either!)

I am creating...a peaceful home.

I am hearing...radio.

Noticing that…my attitude effects everyone in our home; a smile to a stranger can change an outcome.

Pondering these words…"Encourage each other, as long as it is called 'Today.'"

Around the house...the Monday routine ~ laundry, bread baking, errands, taking DD#2 to/from work...

One of my favorite things...winning a contest! I was so shocked, last week, to have found out that I was blessed to have won a contest at www.teenytinycabin.com!! I received my beautiful homemade, primitive-style gifts from Claudia today!!!!!! PTL!! Made my day!

A Scripture thought...II Cor. 1:3-4 ~ "Praise be to the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion & the God of all comfort, Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble w/the same comfort we ourselves have received from God."

A few plans for the rest of the week...maintain the peace & sanity of our home. Having my mom & brother over to share Thanksgiving w/our family. HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

Maggie alwayse makes me smile.

Enjoy other Daybooks at: http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/
Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by KayinMaine
1:51 PM, Nov. 23, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Lord, behold our family here assembled.
We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell;
for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day;
for the hope with which we expect the morrow;
for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies, that make our lives delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this place.

... Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends,
soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours.
If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come,
that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune,
and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Festive Beverage Suggestion

Posted by Toby
4:25 PM, Sunday, November 22, 2009 .. 2 comments .. Link

Miss Dog Lover has developed a festive, somewhat non-traditional beverage just in time for you to be able to serve it to your guests at Thanksgiving Dinner. That is, if you are bold enough to be first.

Last evening at snack time I walked in the kitchen to hear the iced tea she was pouring for herself making odd, non iced tea, sounds. I asked what she was doing and of course she said, "Just getting some tea." Hmmm.

My maternal instincts went immediately to red alert. I took a closer look and listen and noticed the empty poprocks packet.

The somewhat noisy and unpredictable combination of iced Mandarin Orange Celestial Seasonings and Strawberry Poprocks was such a hit Miss Dog Lover chugged it and made herself a second.

Let me know how it goes over with your guests if you give it a go. Me? I'm wondering how it would work to add poprocks into the stuffing of the big bird before baking. Could be an explosively good Thanksgiving at our place.

Awesome giveaway!

Posted by MrsIncredible
9:46 PM, Nov. 21, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

5 Minutes for Mom is giving away an INCREDIBLE HP TouchSmart 600 computer for Christmas! Check it out here!

I get to host the Homesteading Carnival again!

Posted by Suzanne
3:31 PM, Saturday, November 21, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

I hosted the 101st Homesteading Carnival back in June, and I'll be hosting the 123rd edition of the Homesteading Carnival coming up on November 30th!

If you have an article/blog entry for the November 23rd Homesteading Carnival, please use this form before tomorrow afternoon. It's being hosted by The Homesteading Carnival themselves!

This week's Carnival was hosted by Catherine at Seeds of Love.

Please let me know your thoughts! Thanks!

Posted by ~Christian Country Mama~
10:19 PM, Nov. 20, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

~Christian Country Mama~

Evil Looms

Posted by babymakers
8:47 PM, Nov. 20, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

Let's see if the system works....

My mother is taking me to court.

She had left her landlord/roomate's house. They were lovers at one point but for many years they have had seperate bedrooms and were basically just roomates. He was around through my childhood and was like my dad.

She left and then stole his things- multiple times. And why she would stop by and take things that she then tried to give away, I don't know. Why everything was suddenly hers, I don't know that either.

I DO know that somehow I got stuck as mediator. Probably because she tried to get me to lie and say the neighbor stole part of his belongings. Or when she tried to get me to spy on him... and I wouldn't do it. That kind of got me involved to.

Long story short- I took his stuff back more than once. I never did get it all back. One of the things I took back she is really mad about. It is an old civil war letter. It was only appraised at $125 or $150 but they think it might be worth more than that.

So she is taking me to court for theft. Even though she KNEW she needed to give his stuff back. And even though she had given me permission to be in her home to get his things back. The day I took his letter back (it would of been considered his) I was using her computer. The letter was beside the computer so I took it back. How simple is that???

Now I go to court on the 3rd at 2:30. I am not being charged for everything. Just the letter. This is so pathetic. It is slowing down our trip down south. Oh wells. Let's just hope the magistrate is level headed. :)

And to make it worse, she and my brother can break into my home while I am gone on vacation and the police can't do anything because they don't have forensics. And they can break into our other house, that used to be her lover/landlord/roomates because the house deed wasn't in our name yet. It doesn't matter if WE were the ones that paid all the years of back taxes on it. Whatever.

63% Asleep

Posted by Toby
7:04 PM, Thursday, November 19, 2009 .. 4 comments .. Link

This entry has an apologetic tone. That is because I am such a doofus.

I lay in bed this morning trying to decide if it really was warm enough to get out from under the blankets or not. During that time of semi-wakefulness, I composed three great blog entries. As soon as I got up, I jotted down enough of each idea that I'd be able to post the entry. Wonderful - I figured I was set for posts for the next week or two. As I count, that was my first mistake.

I wanted to link to my Miss Language's blog and also to her friend's. So I dutifully sent off an e-mail, making sure that was OK. There was my second mistake.

So now, they are reminding me I have not posted yet. So I went and grabbed the list so I could spout off with this wonderful post, first of three. (Yep, third mistake and here I shall quit counting.)

I grab the list and what does it say:

black holes/FB

Outwitted/Fort Knox

type-O angels/HS

and I have almost no idea what it means. Now, I know I should quit while I am behind, as the saying goes, but as I say, I have quit counting mistakes so here goes.

The first part (black holes/FB) had something to do with a comment I saw on Devastatingly Handsome's FB about FB being one of the biggest black holes in the universe, and then there was a comment about "what do you mean, 'one of'?" And I know that somehow I then had hold (in my semi-waking state) of a brilliant insight about the nature of black holes and I am pretty sure about whether or not relative sizes comparisons are, well, relative or not. And I think it had a tie-in with Francis Bacon. But beyond that... no idea. My great blog post was sucked away as by a black hole.

And then part two, the Outwitted/Fort Knox was going to be something beautiful and inspiring about Edwin Markham's poem "Outwitted"
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!

and how it applies to some people we know, in particular one whose heart has been locked down tighter than Fort Knox since toddlerdom. However I know nothing about the brilliance of this post whatsoever.

And the final thing on my list (type-O angels/HS) was from a chat I had with Miss L's friend. We were talking about a matter for prayer and I thought I had the name wrong. She told me it would be ok, something like there were angels who correct type-Os (is that spelled right?) in prayers. It occurred to me that the Holy Spirit does that on a major level, not a spell checker so much as a prayer checker. But, again, I have No Idea where I was going to go with any sort of insight.

So, today's moral: my first thoughts of the day are probably not the best. Let's hope not. And even if they are, I can't hold onto them.

Here's a Thought...

Posted by Kim Wolf<><
11:31 AM, Nov. 19, 2009 .. 0 comments .. Link

Constitution = 17 printed pages to run the entire country.

"Health Care" bill = 2,074 (unread) printed pages to ruin - eh hemmm - run 1/6 of our economy.

What's wrong w/this picture?

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"Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life." Proverbs 4:13

A Copybook of Thanksgiving

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #54 ~ 11/23/09

Happy Thanksgiving

Festive Beverage Suggestion

Awesome giveaway!

I get to host the Homesteading Carnival again!

Evil Looms

63% Asleep

Here's a Thought...

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